If my mother tried to get a hold of me, I could lead the world to end? I don't understand. I'm not that powerful.
"You're the child of The Hollow King and The Hollow Queen. Basically the product resulting to a God. You're not in control of your abilities yet. If your mother were to take control over you, you could wipe out the world, let alone the Kingdom or Valarium. Not even I, The Oracle, would be able to stop you." Sera explained.
A God?
My father chose the wrong person to become Queen. Would she really take control of her own child just for something she desires?
I already knew the answer to that.
"Would that mean, I need to learn how to control my abilities? No more sword practice?" I raised an eyebrow.
"Yes."
How would I learn? With her in my mind. I needed to take her out of my mind.
And so, for weeks, Sera had been with me from the moment the Sun had risen, till the stars appeared in the sky.
I think I made progress? I wasn't hearing her anymore. That was a good sign. Or what if she was in my mind, lurking, waiting for an opportunity to strike me down? What if she got powerful with Sera's training?
Sera made sure that she wasn't there.
Sometimes I was with Kairos, and we would practice. Apparently that red stone on the hilt of my sword was made from magic or something. It was designed to kill either The King or The Queen. One of the Hollow's.
Would that make me The Hollow Princess?
Weeks past, and Sera decided it was finally time for me to fight the Queen. Wasn't it too soon? She was powerful. My parents were powerful. That resulted in me being even more powerful, right?
Seraphine placed her hand on my forehead and my hair started floating back as if it was the wind blowing it. A golden bubble around me, and she started chanting something.
"Back then, I sealed off most of your powers. I unlocked them. You're ready."
I didn't feel like I was ready though. What if I get stabbed again? There was no way for that to happen though, right? It was my ex-fiancé who stabbed me. There's no way he's alive right now.
How did I find out it was him?
The dream memory thingy.
Everyone else looked ready to fight. Shouldn't I have practice first? I don't even know how brutal the palace guards would be in fighting. Or how ruthless my own mother would be towards me.
"Wait, shouldn't I have practice first? I don't think I'm ready."
"Fight against me." Sera suggested.
I gulped.
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Lira didn't have much of a choice when Seraphine told her that she should practice on her. No one else would be compatible enough to fight Lira.
So, they went to the grounds, and in the center of it, they fight. Not with swords, but with their auras.
Seraphine didn't hold back. Swords in the sky pointed towards Lira in every direction ready to attack her.
The only thing that Lira was able to do was dodge them, but even she knew that one of them would eventually pierce her through. Defense was not working, she needed to attack back.
She used the wind to point them all in the opposite direction. Towards Seraphine.
Seraphine melted the swords, until they were lava and shot it back at Lira.
Water
Water beats fire, right? Where do I get water from?
Water was in a human body, right? What if I could.... I could bend the blood of Seraphine's body, to make her command the lava towards her?
That's what Lira did.
Everyone around her terrified as she controlled Seraphine's body. Was that possible? Apparently it was.
What terrified them more was the look on Lira's face.
The entire atmosphere went black, her eyes turned red with blood streaming out of her eyes.
She laughed manically, laughed and laughed till her voice was booming the entire city. Everyone's ears started hurting with that same ringing noise that Lira heard when she picked up that sword.
Terror on everyone's face.
It wasn't only Sera's body that she took control over, but everyone else's. She wasn't trying to divert the lava anymore. She was trying to suck the blood out of everyone.
Everyone screamed and cried in agony while she laughed.
"LL▀░A"
HER MOTHER'S VOICE
SHE
WAS
CONTROLLING
HER.
Or was she really? Was it just the thought?
Why was she sucking everyone's blood out? She thought they were her mother.
What was she doing?
What could she do? What else could she do, this was just the minimal of the power she used. She could tear worlds apart. Cause destruction.
What about the Kingdom? She wanted to free them, not torture them.
BU T THE PO█ER, tH█ POWE▐, EVERYONE ░E▒R▓ Y▄U. YOU WERE W RONG▌D , N▐W T HEY fEAR YOU! ▒HY WOuLD yOU GIVE THAT █wAY?
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I could feel my mother trying to take control of me. I could see the destruction that I'm causing.
I tried to take control of my own mind back, but more red tears streamed my eyes as I tried.
I could.. slap myself?
I tried it, and just for a moment, I regained control. I stopped the blood bending and focused more on getting this bitch out of my head.
I think Sera was able to do it.
Which meant if I was going to go raid the palace, I would have to go with Sera.
I fell to the ground, sweating and panting. I almost killed the entire world. This had to end quick.
I looked up. "When do we go to the palace?"