Chapter 42: The Knight’s Dark Energy

Akasha, the vampire mate of Jefferson just gave him an assuring and understanding smile. But when her eyes turned violet, she saw how calm Jefferson's fallen side made her teary eyes. Jefferson smiled and kissed her forehead. He understands how thankful his mate was for what changes happened to him.

"Gwen, thank you for helping him." Askasha smiled and thanked Gwen personally.

"It's okay, I just heard his fallen wolf that's all." Gwen just shrugged her shoulders as her zone was fading like smoke.

"Gwen, listen carefully to what I'm going to say to you. It will help you understand what kind of awakening you turning into. I could see spirits which can be noticed whenever my eyes turned shades of violet." Akasha seriously said since she could see the spirit around Gwen.

The spirit that was wrapping around Gwen was different from her own. It was mixed with an ancestral spirit which made her glance over Wlima's spot and she gave a nod to Akasha who sighed. It was just a sign that Wilma was clarifying Akasha's guess about what she could see around Gwen's spirit.

"I could see that since my blues could tell the flows of the energies surrounding me." Gwen nodded as she understood what Akasha was telling her.

"Like Alysia but the spirit that I am seeing from you was your ancestor." Akasha smiled as she recalled Alys also can see the energy flow of her surroundings.

"Ancestor?" she wondered because she had never thought about having an ancestor's spirit around her.

"Your mother's bloodline was from amazon shaman tribe where Wilma was the chief but since the fallen rogue epidemic happened, they went on separate ways to keep each other safe." Akasha cleared that part and Gwen took a mental note about what she was informing her. It was connected to her biological mother that's why she took them into consideration.

"So that's why I could easily sense Wilma's presence even though we just met once." Gwen realized and Akasha nodded to it.

"True but the spirit from that tribe blessed you with taming ability and at the same time you are chosen to wield the blades of the brightest star that came from your father. But I'll honestly warn you about using the gift from your father. It could be either good or bad, so you have to be careful whenever you are using them." She explained more to Gwen about what she was seeing around Gwen's spirit and even warned her about the ability that she inherited from her biological father.

"Ah, you mean that heat that I release too much that can burn and suffocate anyone that I intend to be threatened?" Gwen guessed since she noticed that effect on the vampires earlier when she used her energy that way.

"It was not just that. Like I said, blades of the brightest star. You bring the direct heat from the sun and from what I could see, Slavica was the one who's balancing that burning heat to just make it warm." Akasha added to her guess another thing and even smiled when she mentioned Slavica because she could see their bond was getting stronger than the other couple around the quarters.

"You shouldn't tell her anything like that, Lady Akasha." Irina suddenly said while smirking.

"And why is that?" Akasha confusedly asked.

"Well, knowing Gwen around Slavica, she'll go to test that." Yui chuckled but still answered.

"What?" she was still confused about what they were saying.

"Just watch." Tucker smirked and they all looked over at Gwen.

"Gwen…" Slavica said that Gwen's power was getting excited when Akasha mentioned what Slavica can do for her. She wanted to test it out as soon as possible.

"Oh c'mon, Vica. please. Just one head-to-head…pretty please…" Gwen pleaded like a pouting kid that made Slavica scoff.

"Stop pouting then." Slavica was trying not to give in to Gwen's cute pouting.

"Nope, just say yes." Gwen still pouted as she insist.

"No." She firmly declines. Gwen glared at her before she say something that made Slavica think carefully.

"You promise to train me and that I'll be in your surveillance and care. So, don't even decline. I remember what you told me before I come along with you." She reminded Slavica what she told her before when they were still at the hospital.

Slavica quietly thinks while the DIP founders gasped since they had never thought that Slavica will offer that kind of help. She never offered anything to any creature that they were assigned to. It was the first time they heard it and it was with Gwen.

"Fine." Slavica released a defeated sigh that made Gwen does her happy dance. Everyone was amused by how Gwen acted freely around them, particularly with Slavica. Slavica smiled lovingly at her happiness.

"Don't hesitate on killing me." Gwen smirked at her but Slavica's smile faded when she heard it.

"Gwen." She didn't like what Gwen was aiming for over their head-to-head training. Gwen went on stretching before turning to Slavica.

"I'm warning you, Vica. Don't hold back. I don't care if you release your fallen side. Just don't hold back since it's me your dealing with." Gwen turned serious at her as she started once again to be wrapped with her imperious power.

"Remind me again, why I'm assigned to you?" Slavica sighed once again in defeat when she said them with a smirk on her lips. It was warming her heart to the point she wanted to kick her again in their head-to-head training.

"Mate." Gwen winked at her then went to the training field again since Jefferson immediately took Akasha into his arms and went to the bench where the others stayed.

"Right." Slavica just agreed and quickly dashed toward her.

Slavica was about to tackle her but Gwen sensed it and immediately flipped her. But Slavica was not making it any easy for her because she balanced her feet and landed on the ground before twisting her body to make them both twirl. They both landed on the ground like a spider.

"That's new." Gwen commented since Slavica never do it in their combat training.

"I know you like it." Slavica smirked as she was readying herself on how to deal with Gwen since she was a fast learner.

"Indeed, I do." She smirked and from the ground, Gwen pulled out the first sword that she desired to use as she charge her.

It was the black sword and in low attack but fast counter, Slavica almost didn't see it coming but she managed to sense the power coming out from it. Yet, it was just a decoy since behind Slavica there's the bloody flame formed into spikes. She was almost hit by it when she dodged the black sword in front of her but gladly, she managed to dodge by doing a backflip.

"Nice try." Slavica reacted while smirking but there was something else she did there that Gwen didn't realize yet.

"Don't worry, there's more." Gwen smirked and immediately her bloody flames began to burst as she spread wildly all over the training field. It was not aiming at Slavica but she have to dodge because once she was hit, it could be a severe hit.

As the bloody flame was spreading everywhere, Slavica managed to balance herself over the bloody strings around the area. But she also knew that she couldn't stay there for too long because Gwen was the master of it. She went on moving around the bloody strings but Gwen's grin never left her lips until she stopped from her spot. She raised her hands and make a slamming motion that hit the ground.

"Fuck!" Slavica muttered but she quickly used the colorless sword that she pulled out from her back and made a slashing motion aiming at Gwen.

Gwen sensed it and immediately dodged the wave that had been released through the slashing motion that Slavica sent her way. One dodge was not enough because Slavica rained her with it and Gwen had to move faster to block and dodged them until she noticed something. Gwen was pinned on her spot.

"So, what's your plan." Gwen muttered to herself when she noticed that she couldn't move around. She have to block them all and decided to make her bloody flame make Slavica dance around.

Gwen's bloody flames began striking and following Slavica wherever she goes which pissed her off a little. It was making Slavica stopped from pinning Gwen on her spot but she secretly made a hand gesture on her left. She commanded the energy that she recklessly threw around Gwen and do the same trick.

"What the?!" Gwen moved to dodge the slashing waves that came from the ground as soon as she sensed them coming at her. She already could tell what Slavica did there which impressed her.

As they were doing long-range manipulation of their powers, Gwen added something different around her bloody flames. She added a very thin needle within the bloody flames that cannot be sensed and whenever it managed to hit Slavica, she was stunned and if not, she loses her balance at every landing that she did.

"She's using what she learned from me." Slavica muttered when she could feel her body tingling from within when those bloody flames managed to hit her body.

"I better upbeat my game as well." She added that when she stopped from her ground, everything around the training field turned heavy and the temperature drop drastically that making the bloody flames to be frozen in their motion.

When Gwen sensed the sudden change around the training field, she immediately dashed straight to Slavica, and without hesitation, she swing her sword. From the motion Gwen, Slavica managed to swing hers but when her sword hits Gwen's body, she vanished. She just hit an illusion.

"Checkmate." Gwen whispered and stabbed Slavica from behind.

"You think?" Slavica asked and countered Gwen as she let her back become like a hedgehog because of her energy.

"I know it's not." Gwen sensed it coming even before she stab Slavica from behind, that's why she was not being hit. Instead, she grabbed Slavica's neck and her hand burst into bloody flame.

Slavica used her dark energy and vanished from Gwen's grip. Gwen made a dusting motion and looked over Slavica's. Both of them looked at each other as if they were not using enough energy and with one crack of their stiff body, they both released their dangerous powers. Then the next thing that was only can be seen as their swords hitting each other followed by a strong wave. It was making the entire training field vibrate in such power.

"Do you think you can kill me?" Slavica whispered but it was very clear enough for Gwen to hear.

"Do you think you can kill me by being easy on me? I don't think so, Vica. you've been training and you're not giving it all." Gwen said back as she appeared in front of Slavica and with a heavy and strong punch to her face that made her strongly land near the bench area.

But Slavica was standing still since she was already covered with dark energy. Her fallen side was showing up and Gwen was not stopping. She did another hit that made Slavica land over the wall but she was still covered with darkness.

"Finally." Gwen thought as she watched Slavica's darkness take over her and she immediately shifted into her bright star. Her eyes were white again but there was something else mixing int them, gold-yellow.

"You really wanted to meet it, then so be it." Slavica's voice turned deep and cold then she quickly vanished before she reappeared again in front of Gwen. But before Gwen could react, she was already sent to the other end of the training field wall.

Gwen landed smoothly with her feet and just bounced back to strike Slavica head-on. But Gwen did not just strike her to counter, she used the bloody flame to be wrapped around the black sword. It was strong but Slavica just swings her sword which made Gwen's motion fall back a little. Yet, it was Gwen that she was facing. Meaning, there was no backing down and Gwen quickly swing her as she threw something at Slavica.

"You're asking for it, Gwen." Slavica's dark energy was getting deep and deadly dangerous but something suddenly made her halt from releasing them.

"What the…" she muttered because she suddenly dropped her sword and the invincible bloody strings were now showing up around her body. To add on what suddenly made her immobilized was the bloody flames that began flaming all over her body and making her dark energy subside.

"Dark Knight." Gwen said that Slavica immediately fell down from her knees.

"How…" she looked at Gwen in disbelief at how Gwen knew about that.

"Guinevere whispered it once to me. Plus, I could tell ever since I understood my dreams about your fall." Gwen smiled genuinely as she approached her.

"Then…" Slavica was about to say something when Gwen cupped her face into her hands.

"Hush, Vica. I'm not gonna do anything. It's a part of your being and I just wanted to meet it because I really want to accept the flaws that you're hiding." She told her the reason for forcing the dark side or the flaw that Slavica has been keeping from Gwen.

"THIS SIDE OF MINE IS DANGEROUS AND DEADLY. A NIGHTMARE. Always be a nightmare…" Slavica shouted but slowly softened as her tears fall down from her eyes. Gwen smiled and wiped them off her.

"I know that's why I am here with you." Gwen asked which made Slavica's eyes widen.

"What are you saying?" she was confused because she was totally a broken person even though she kept trying to get up, it was still there.