Abandoned Tear -The Elementals Saga - hima vemula (best books for 20 year olds .TXT) 📗

Nadia paced around the hall apprehensively, she tensed as she heard the light patter of the feet on the floor. Her heart pounding as the footsteps grew closer. In a swift motion she was beside the crib, and scooped the toddler into her arms. She knew it was her time, a stopper to her reign but she never wanted it to be the end for her daughter who barely lived to see this mystical world. She was counting on her friend to save her child but it was too late to await for the listed help. 

 Nadia sighed and closed her eyes, determination swift in her eyes. Deciding on all the possibilities of tricks that would avert threat.  

“Queen Nadia.” Aiden laughed notoriously as he saw the water figurine of Nadia, “You and your tricks can’t save you and…” his gaze fixated on the Lila.

 Realization hit her, she was planning on ways to avert the threat while there is no point, and the threat as she was thinking was here. She had to save her child if that would mean sacrificing herself.

 Nadia snapped her fingers, her entire frame along with little Lila transformed into an ice sculpture. The sound of water gurgling sounds brought a cackle from the toddler, for a second she memorized every bit of her loving daughter. She knew it was going to be her last memory of her.

Aiden enjoyed the show, he would give a minute to the losing queen. After all her sister deserves a moment, before he crushed her legendary powers to nothing. She broke into million pieces of water droplets, re-forming into a stream of water and started to seep through the gaps between the doors. “Not so fast…”  He conjured the trident and threw it in her direction. The walls echoed with her scream, the trident sucked all the water, every last tiny droplet of it. In a flutter of eyelids, the mighty queen was brought down and the evil brother won.

 The trident fell down with a rattling sound as it sucked in the last of the water droplets. Aiden open his palm, and bent his fingers in a moment of gesturing to come to him. The trident appeared in his hands surprisingly not wet at all.  The deep sea blue diamond flickered off with a bright light. Aiden peered at it, tapping the diamond and said “I hope you like your new home, Sister.”

“Now… The world is rid of your filthy elementals. My children will have a great life in ruling the world that you took away from us.”

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Lila slammed the door with a thud, the pictures on the wall rattled at the force. She slumped on the bed, hitting the bed to showing her frustration.  She heard her mother hollering, plugged her ears and buried her head in the pillows.  After a few timed, long breaths, she calmed down.  “I’m going no matter what.”

“Lila, you are here?” Exclaimed Erin. She pinched herself, she couldn’t believe that Lila made it. “I could’ve done that for you.” Lila said slightly pinching her on the arm. “It’s just that you always had a last minute excuse to…”she stumbled.

Lila wrapped her arms around her friend’s shoulders and dragged her to the group gathered around the vehicles. She was greeted by exclamations and shrugs from her classmates.  “What’s the plan?”

“Lila, you made it.” Lila startled as she didn’t see him approach.  “You are going to enjoy every moment I promise.” He pulled her towards his car.

“Why cars?” “We’re going through a real world territory, my magic will exhaust if I have to glamour you all. Besides, I’m longing for a long drive.” He grinned opening the car door for her. She was cut off before she could ask for more, like from whom he borrowed the cars, when he learnt driving, what about license. Erin like an excited child squeezed in, watching everything with eager eyes.

 Kyle cast a spell and the car surged forward as if it is driven without manual intervention that explained one of her many questions. “You ask too many questions…”Erin scowled when she heard her questions.

“Everything is taken care of … with a few spells...” Kyle assured but he knew that didn’t stop her from worrying about the details. Thankfully, Erin grabbed her attention by saying something about a sale in merchant’s street of Madira.

Lila couldn’t keep her eyes open, the cold breeze and the music lulled her to sleep. “Really? How can you even doze off?” Erin said throwing her arms in disapproval. “Kyle, change the music, you are sending her to sleep.” He changed to punk rock, Erin started to sing along and nudged Lila encouraging her to sing. This was the only thing that the regulars and the mystics had in common. The children of Maya appreciated the regular music but not in the open, they were not gracious in accepting that the regulars are good at something.

The ride was fun, after few minutes of singing at the top of her voice, she felt more awake.   As the orange lights splattered across the dark night skies. She enjoyed the view as they plunged and raised on the roads. It was a roller coaster ride only in the sense of exaggerating. “There…” she followed the pointing finger of Erin and found something glimmering in the distance, beach she realized. The sun’s golden rays reflected on the blue waters. She leaned forward to take a good look at the beach, which she dreamed and saw in the movies.

She saw excited faces all around, a boat docked at the bay. “How?”

“Kyle is a class 3 warrior now, he can conjure up anything as long as it’s existing.” Erin boasted. Lila nodded disapprovingly not because Kyle is class 3 warrior now but because Erin is being so obvious about her love.

“Yeah! Yeah! your Kyle is one of the strongest and bravest warriors now.”  Stressing the “your” part to let Erin know that she understood. She blushed and pointed “The youngest.”  Kyle was talking about the arrangements, flashing a smile lovingly at Lila and Erin.

Erin sighed. “Hope, he feels the same way someday.” Lila brushed off the comment, she knew Kyle likes her. They were always together, whispering all the time. If only, Lila knew what Kyle liked to talk about was ‘Lila’ maybe she could’ve thought otherwise.

“You should talk to her.” Erin had insisted when Kyle talked about this plan. Though she meant it sincerely, deep down her heart she knew Lila would say ‘no’ and if that were the case he would fall back to her. That’s a big ‘maybe’ and she knew her mind was conniving.

“Come on, girls we don’t have much time before some other warlock conjures it up. We should be on the island.” Lila nudged her friend, who was staring at Kyle, non-responsive.

“Tell me again, how does this work?” Kyle’s face lit up. Lila always knew how to draw his attention. Erin liked to pretend that she is interested in Kyle’s work but she never got to the part where she should ask right things to spark his interest in the conversation. She was not excellent in academics, she was only a class 1 warrior. “Lila too.” Her wicked mind pointed it out to her. “Lila has no interest in learning things that were taught. She is always searching for something new to explore, I doubt she would be in class 1 if she had any interest in the academics. She has always been a quick learner.” She snapped that thought across her mind, trying to keep the wicked thoughts at bay.

 “Before you conjure up, class 3 objects. You have to check their existence and do a hold spell on the object for the time you wanted to use it and until another warlock requests a hold on it. “

“It works like the public library system of the regulars,” observed Lila. Kyle and Lila were part of the regulars before they were moved into Madira. They were friends since childhood, they went to the same school and lived in the same building. Things were different back then, Kyle had parents and he was a regular in all sense. It wasn’t until he was involved in a car accident that things started to take a dramatic turn, his parent’s death, the keepers of Madira practically dragging him away from Lila and his regular life. Lila moved into Madira a year after that when she was discovered by a keeper.

 Erin remembered the day very well. That was the very first time that she realized that he loved someone else. Kyle running to her, sweeping her up off her feet while she gaped at him unwilling to believe. He escorted her to the table where they were sitting. It took him more than an hour to realize that Erin was still here. He gushed over every word that she uttered, holding her hands all the time, stroking them gently. They shared their insane childhood stories and many regular’s adventures that only they were privy to.

“What if we are still in it when the other warlock conjures it?” She asked, bringing back Erin into the conversation.

“You’ll be right where you are except for the boat.” He smiled. “I don’t know how to swim.” Lila glared at him. “Don’t worry, I have a hold on it for enough time.” That didn’t assure her from thinking of the tragedy that would befall her if something to happen.

“Besides, your best friend is an awesomely talented warlock just like Harry Potter.” He winked. “Who is this Potter guy that you always talk about?” Erin had never been to a regular world. Though their existence was known, the pretension was mutual. The regulars brought up their children portraying the magical world as myths and bed time stories for children. The children of Maya however ignored their existence treating them as petty and cursed ones.

Kyle launched into a full length explanation of his favorite author while Lila averted her eyes towards the orange sky, mom would be seething, crumpling the note she left and taunting dad for making this bad choice of bringing them here. Mother was a regular while dad was a class 3 warlock before he decided to move to the regular world. He fell in love with Anna and decided to start his life anew. Through years, he learned how much he missed his old life, the love he had for his wife wasn’t sufficient for him to fight the endearing callings of his old life. And when the opportunity knocked in the form of his daughter. They were in Madira, before her mother could even comprehend the idea of her husband being a man whom she considered as myth, moreover her daughter being a prospective witch.

Anna was counting on her daughter to move out into the regular world and she never blamed her for that. She knew how much she hated it during the first days of her life in Madira and then Kyle came along. In a couple of days she began to love everything about Madira,

  Lila’s flickering gaze fell upon a white cloth that waved in the early morning breeze, the blurry vision from watching the sun cleared up and it’s a white shirt that caught her attention. She gasped as her eyes trailed on the wearer of the shirt.  She could feel the presence of toned abs as the breeze stuck the fabric to his body, chiseled jaw, sun kissed complexion, Roman nose, full lips, hooded eyes. He flashed a half smile as he walked towards her. Lila’s heart thrummed against her chest, in all her life, she could swear that she never saw a guy looking like that.

“Lila…” she was broke from her reverie when Kyle decided to break the spell by shaking her shoulders.