Chapter 29

Emerald P.O.V

I was staring at the ceiling, my mind was blank. I just wanted to have this moment for myself because after that my life will take a turn for good or worst, its depends on fate. After the talk with Chase, he let me have some privacy which I was craving. I have packed my things for this journey, Alex and Alyssa will be joining us with some of the soldiers from Midnight. I never thought I would go to Baruna with these people. It was journey of mine, Caleb and Kyle to get away from the same King who is going to be with me. Fate has played very well, changing the situation unexpectedly.

How much I miss my family and friends, I am feeling alone among these strangers. I need my mother to give me a tight hug, I need my father to tell me that everything will be fine, I need my brother who will complain to me about Sarah, I need my best friend who will joke around me to lighten up my mood. I want my old life back where only problem was how I am going to complete the task my father gave me. This situation where I am stuck now is completely different, the person who I have to fight is my mate which I never thought I will get in my life but now I have him, it would be better if I never have met him. All of my problems started because of him, he is the root of it. He doesn't deserved to call a mate.

I always wished for a love like my parents have. I always smiled watching them together thinking some day I will get this. Now I laugh at my cruel fate who gave me monster as a mate who only want me for breeding after that I will useless to him. But I won't let this happen, this is my life, I will make the decisions of what I want. And I want to get away from this Kingdom, get away from Chase and every one around here even if some of them are nice to me but I don't want any reminder of this time. After we will find the Gem, I will part away from these people and if they tried to stop me, they will have to answer to my powers.

"I will be fine" I murmured to this silent room making a vow to myself that I will get out of this mess whatever it takes.

***

We were standing in front of the enormous door, the same door I destroyed months ago to get away from here and now I am here again going to walk out of this Kingdom without creating any havoc. I smiled remembering the time "Finally a smile" Alex nudged me, he was trying to talk to me for a while but I am in no mood to start a conversation with anybody. I talked to Alyssa for a bit about my condition. She told me its nothing to worry about, we will find the Gem and everything will be fine but I could see uncertainty in her eyes. There is something they are not telling me by the way Chase is acting around me but I will find out soon.

Chase came towards us in his fighting gears, two swords attached to his back and twin dagger hanging to his hips. He looked regal in the attire, I shook my head to get the image out of my head, he is just helping me for his selfish purpose. He stand in front of us staring at everyone, I looked down when his eyes met mine avoiding eye contact. "You all know why we are here, everyone here is best fighter in their field because we are trespassing in unknown territory, there will be danger we are not trained for but we have to fight it, We have to find the Gem" he said in his authority voice making everyone nodded in response and yelled 'yes'.

"But why do we need to find the Gem?" One of the soldier asked walking forward, he was muscular in size with short hair. He was bold to ask question to his King but soldiers should know why they are risking their life for.

Chase looked at the soldier and smirked "Because We need it to build out power more, its time to get revenge on Sabriya" he yelled and crowd started cheering, I growled lowly What is he saying, I thought we were going there to save me. I looked at Alex, he looked confused as well but didn't say a word.

"Its time, we shall depart" he said and soldiers started marching when the door opened, just then I heard the clicking of heels. I turned around and sighed in annoyance.

Is she going with us now?

She looked directly at me and glared, I guess she is all healed up now. "Chase, you are not leaving me here, are you?" She asked standing in front of him closely, I can see Chase sighing and pulled a smile on his face. Every time he looked at her, he smiled and when we talked, its always in glare and scowls. "I am afraid yes Annalise, you are not fully healed yet and I can't let you in any danger" he said making her huff.

Finally, I don't want her to go with us.

"I am all healed up and ready to go besides I cannot leave you with the bitches who want to throw themselves at you at any given opportunity" she said looking at me discreetly, I scoffed, Please like my taste is that bad.

I walked away from there not interesting in listening to their useless conversation. "Are you ready for the adventure!" Alex said excitedly, I don't know what he is all excited about. We are going in dangerous territory where different creatures lives, I don't know how we are going to find the Gem. "I don't know, I feels like something bad is going to happen" I said, I don't know why but my stomach is churning whenever I am thinking about Baruna. Alex shook his head "Nothing is going to happen to you as long as Chase is with us" he said smiling, I rolled my eyes looking at the scene where Chase was kissing Annalise. I don't think he will have any time to help us when he will be busy in his other work. "I doubt that" which made him snicker.

I was in the carriage with Alex, Chase and his soon to be Queen, there were only four people in one carriage and just my luck I am sitting with these people. Well Alex will keep me company. As soon as we sat in the carriage, Annalise was sitting opposite of me, she was scowling at me to which I smirked back.Her hand was still bandaged up from the beating I gave her. I feel proud on Rose, at least she did one good thing. Alex was sitting beside me, he wasn't happy with the seating arrangement either because Annalise was blabbing about her fighting experience "Ann, if you are that good in fighting then how come you have lost against Emerald" he asked acting all confused which made me laugh but I controlled it. Annalise openly glare at Alex and opened her mouth to reply some nasty comment by the look on her face but before she could do that Chase stopped her "We are not here to banter about past, if you all just sit here quietly that would be nice" he said fake smiling but his voice has a edge to it, Alex huffed and muttered something inaudibly and looked out the window while the bitch glared at me again, I raised my eyebrow.

I didn't do anything to her except beating her sorry ass.

If I get the opportunity, I will do that again.

***

"I am getting bored"

"I need to stretch my arms"

"I am getting bored"

"When will we be there?"

"I am getting bored!"

I sighed in annoyance, Alex is fooling around for almost an hour now. Chase stopped telling him to stop a while ago when he wasn't listening. Annalise was sleeping, her head was rested on Chase shoulder and her hand intertwined with him. I was tired myself but I don't want to sleep here because the path we are taking is very jagged and I don't want a sore neck when I will be fighting for my life. "Alex, will you stop, it will take some time before we reached our destination" I told him so that he will stop pestering me. "How would you know, Did you ever go there?" he asked curiously, I never went there really but only in my dreams but I can't tell him that. I shook my head "No, I never went there but I was going to before I was being kidnapped" I said dryly not looking in Chase direction knowing he is starting at me. Alex raised his eyebrow "Why did you wanted to go there?"

"Because no magic worked in that place and I thought we would be safe there" I said remembering the time when we were about to enter Baruna but because of Kyle we were unable to go there. Alex made a 'hmm' sound and stopped asking questions when he saw the look on my face. I was sad being away from my friends and family and it's showing on my face. I looked out the window when I feel a hand intertwining with mine, surprised I looked at the source, Alex was giving me reassuring smile "I am your friend and I will be there for you whenever you need " he said in soft voice squeezing my hand, I smiled and squeezed back in response, a tiny smile appeared on my face.

Maybe I am not alone after all.

My eyes went in front of me where I saw Chase looking at our intertwined hand with a hard look on his face, then his eyes meet mine and this time I didn't look away from him like last time. He frowned and looked away first.

I am not understanding his behavior, one time he is smirking and in next he is frowning. He will surely give me whiplash with his attitude.

Just then our carriage stopped moving, I tried to look outside the window to see what the cause of stopping, when Chase pushed me back "Stay here, I will check what's happening?" he said sending me a 'look' to which I rolled my eyes, he didn't need to push me to say that, with that said, he and Alex exit the carriage.

I lay my head back and sighed, "Where are everyone?" Annalise shrill voice came into my ear, I slowly opened my eyes not really in the mood to talk to her. "I asked where are everyone?" she said in her snotty voice, How I wanted to kick her ass again. She never learn from her mistakes, I guess.

"I don't know" I shrugged and again close my eyes in exhaustion, my body need rest and I have been sitting like this for hours now without any rest. "What do you mean, you don't know?" she snapped, I don't have enough energy to deal with her, "Go check outside, maybe you will find them" I muttered casually still not opening my eyes, I can feel her glare on my face "I will show you your place soon" she said with underlying threatening tone. I didn't reply to her comment and with one last glare she walked out of the carriage, I chuckled after her, she think so highly of herself, this attitude of hers will be her downfall.

I was alone in the carriage, I lie down for a bit, feeling dizzy. I was resting of merely fifteen minutes when I heard some one shaking me "Wake up, we have to go" Alex said urgently, I groggily opened my eyes, "What happened?" I said, my voice hoarse from the nap "Lets go, we don't have time" with that he hauled me towards him, I groaned due to the sudden moment but walked with him when I heard footsteps, too big for a normal being.

Oh shit! We are in Giants territory!

My eyes widened and I woke up fully when I realized which situation we are in right now. I quickly followed Alex, he was supporting my body as we exited from the carriage, sight that awaited me was bewildered, Our other carriages were destroyed, soldiers were running every where, I saw one Giant walking towards us with angry scowl on his face. We tried to back away as fast as we could "How the hell we entered in Giants territory?" I asked frantic, he can plum me to ground easily in this condition.

"How would I know?" he said, his voice raising octate when Giant in front of me starting growling. We started running, my dizziness long gone in the panicked situation,

"Do something!" I yelled running away from the Giant.

"What would I do?" he yelled back running beside me, I groaned, he is a fighter, he should know what have to be done in this situation. "Fight him!" I said in 'duh' tone, he suddenly stopped and looked at me raising his eye brow "You peg me as fool, I have already tried fighting them, its not working" he snapped to which I scoffed , "Did you use lightning?" I asked when we hide behind a big stone which covered both of us, "Yeah, I am God of Thunder, I can easily manipulate electricity" he said in sarcastic tone to which I rolled my eyes.

If I had my powers, that would be so much easy.

"Where is Chase?" I said when I saw Giant searching for us, he scoffed beside me "We are in danger and you are still worried for him" he muttered, I made a face at this , I am not worried, he might help us in this situation, "He is fighting the Giants" he said and we ducked further behind the stone when the Giant take a sweep at us, his red eyes met mine and he growled swing his arm destroying the stone from behind we were hiding, we tried to run away but there wasn't any way for us. We slowly walked back to the further wall , "Now what!" I yelled panic rising in my vein, I din't get any reply from Alex, Giant swing his big fist towards us again.

We are so dead.

My eye widened ready for the upcoming pain, but it didn't came, the Giant body shook and he fell few distance away from us with a thud, I was both relieved and confused at the same time.

"Miss me".