He stopped, and my eyes opened underneath the water. I pleaded and hoped, but somehow, those things had always eluded me, and I knew they weren’t going to be there for me now.
One bad apple, make sure to stay away from him.
Don’t let him touch you.
Bad, bad, he is.
Six are still hopeful,
Within their sins.
Make sure to take them all,
They’ll thank you in the end.
My body thrashed one last time, then silence.
When my body rose, I was in search of sins.
Light has no place here. Dark has its own shine.
Remember, there are seven, but only six are fruitful.
One bad apple.
Six to go.
“Six, six, six,”I chanted as I wrapped a towel around my wet body. “To go.”
This time, you won’t escape me.
“No escape.”I murmured a lonely tune.
Twenty-Two
Sebastian
Agut feeling was a sixth sense that either you were overthinking something or something was very wrong.
In my case, my gut was so fucking late.
Between my thoughts still lost on Isabella’s body as she came for me, and the disturbance outside with the dragons, which was weird as hell itself, I left her alone to get dressed while I checked outside. Putting on clothes only took a couple of minutes and then she’d be with me again.
The dragons were restlessly flying overhead. Something wasn’t right about it, but when they started butting heads and tearing into each other with their teeth, it had my full attention.
The breed of dragons that roamed our skies could be vicious creatures, but it wasn’t often that they went at each other, unless it was mating season. But it wasn’t males against males, or males chasing females, it was all against all.
“River!” I yelled at one of the twin dragons when he bit into Ruby’s neck, who was his twin. She squawked at him, then her reptilian eyes slid over to me and she called out. I couldn’t understand her, but I recognized her distress. Something was wrong with a good portion of the dragons.
I rushed to them, knowing this wasn’t typical behavior for River. “Get the fuck off your sister!” I hissed at him as I gripped him by the scales on his side and tried pulling him away from her. Even with slightly inhuman strength, dragons were too big for that to go smoothly. River was twice the size of me. Any other given day you could get the giant beast to flop on his back so you could pet his belly. But today, he turned around and snapped at me. Materializing my scythe, I pointed it toward his neck. The moment the blue essence swirling around my blade hit his eyes, he shook his head and tilted it at me, then looked down at his sister who he pinned to the ground. He stepped off her chest and did a full body shake.
“What’s wrong with you?” I said harshly. When River tipped his nose down, I knew whatever had been wrong was clearly over. The giant dragon sat on his butt and hunkered down completely. Ruby moved close and nuzzled his face, checking on him.
What the fuck just happened?
The sound of ongoing fights throughout the air had me looking up.
What the fuck was still going on?
