Revenge

Dear Imena,

About six months after dealing with that human group, Andrew appeared in my throne room. He burst through all the doors, broke through all my guards without issue, and walked up to me.

"This is your fault, isn't it? You did this!" he yelled at me.

Confused, I asked, "What? What's wrong?"

He threw a piece of paper at me which landed on the floor. I picked it up, it was a note, terrible hand writing. The note read:

"ᒍᑌᔕT ᗩ ᒪITTᒪE ᑭᗩYᗷᗩᑕK ᖴOᖇ ᗩTTᗩᑕKIᑎG ᗰY ᖴᖇIEᑎᗪᔕ ᗩᑎᗪ I. YOᑌ ᔕᗩIᗪ YOᑌ ᗯOᑎ'T ᗷE ᑎIᑕE ᑎE᙭T TIᗰE? ᗪO YOᑌᖇ ᗯOᖇᔕT."

I put the note down and looked at Andrew.

"What did they do?" I asked him. Andrew turned red with anger.

"You mean you know who this psycho is?!" he screamed.

"Yeah, I think I do." I said, and I told him about the job involving the group of humans and the hybrid they captured. "So what did they do, Andrew?" I asked again.

He was quiet for a moment, then he spoke.

"Spirit, they killed my mom. I think they were after you, and they somehow ended up coming after me instead."

• • •

I felt awful for weeks. Why would I just assume those humans wouldn't try to come after me? They weren't afraid to go after a hybrid, what made me think they would be afraid to come after me whether they knew I'm not a hybrid or not? Andrew left my castle after I couldn't form a response to the information he dropped, and I called a council meeting. At the meeting, I told everyone what happened, and we all agreed that these humans needed to be arrested and brought to serve their jail sentence in the Vail. We came up with a plan on how to catch them.

Rhys and Yvette tracked the group down to an abandoned warehouse it the middle of nowhere and kept tabs on them from a control room in the Vail to make sure they weren't going anywhere. James and I volunteered to go in and arrest the humans. Adam, Lionel, Luna, and Moira went along with us but set up a base a short distance away from the warehouse so they could help us if we needed it, treat wounds if necessary, and help transport the humans to the Vail. Cosmia, Gaden, Clyde, and Rhea were waiting for us back at the Vail, alert, in case any of us needed help. That, and someone still needed to watch over the divisions of the Kingdom.

Our little group made it to the area where our base was going to be, we set up, then James and I crept off to the warehouse. It was night, and the warehouse was the only source of light in the area. We made it to a window, and James lifted me up so I could see what was going on inside. The group was there, and they were obviously working on something, but I couldn't tell what. James and I were discussing what our next move was going to be when we heard rustling in the bushes behind us. We grabbed our weapons and prepared for a fight and...

It was Andrew.

"Andrew what I you doing here?!" I whisper screamed at him.

"What do you think genius? I'm here to avenge my mom!" he whispered back.

"Andrew, James and I are going on to arrest the group, you can go back to our base with the other council members over there and wait for us, but I don't think it's a good idea you come with us. We can't afford any impulsive actions right now." I said, but he wouldn't listen, he refused to hear it. In fact, he ran through the doors right after that and started fighting anyone he cane into contact with him. James and I chased after him and had to fight off all the oncoming humans. In all the chaos, we lost sight of Andrew for a bit. It wasn't until a majority of the humans had been fought off and tied up, that we found him again.

He was fighting the leader of the group. As James and I were trying to him quickly, Andrew overshot a jump attack and ended up hitting the wall hard and passing out. I saw this, grabbed James's hand and flew over to them. When we got there, the leader was sawing off Andrew's wings. I attacked the leader, knocking him off of Andrew. While I fought with the leader, James helped Andrew up and got him out of there.

I was trying not to hurt him too badly, but he kicked me in the face and grabbed my wings, as if he was going to saw them off. So my powers took over, I used my wings to knock him back, he got up off the floor and took off running. I grabbed my trident, and threw it straight at him, it caught his shirt perfectly and prevented him form going anywhere. He tried his best to pull the trident out of the wall or break free, but it didn't work. I walked up to him and placed my finger tips on his temples, and with a bit of magic, put him to sleep.

I pulled my trident out of the wall and half dragged/half carried the leader back to the base. I passed Adam, Moira, Lionel, and Luna on the way there, they were going to collect the other tied up humans and take them to the Vail. When I got to the base, the others that stayed in the Vail were there. Rhea was healing Andrew's wing. Gaden and Clyde took the leader from me and took him to the Vail right away, while Cosmia, Yvette, and Rhys went to help gather the rest of the humans.

"How are you holding up Andrew?" I asked.

He looked up at me blankly, but said nothing. He didn't say anything until we got back to the Vail. He was staying in the hospital wing in my castle, when I went to visit him I told him everyone involved in that group was locked up and would be locked up for a very long time. But he didn't care.

He looked up at me, and said, "I hate you." then he disappeared suddenly. I didn't see him until a year later.

- 𝒮. 𝑅𝑜𝓈𝑒