I Am The Luna

ZAIA.

Pain sears through my waist, spreading like fire through my entire body.

I look down, realising I’ve been shot. In my shock at Agatha’s words, I ended up lowering my guard and losing control of the barrier on the door.

My ears ring with a shrill whistling sound just as Agatha lunges at me. In a flash I react, kicking Agatha back and sending her flying.

I raise my gun and shoot at the three guards who are almost on top of me, the one on the left who had shot me raising the gun again, but I pull the trigger, firing a shot square through his head.

My eyes blaze as he drops to the floor, dead.

The other two are alive, but they won’t be getting up for a while. I kick the gun into the corner of the room just as I spot Agatha running to the door. She isn’t getting away, not when I need answers.

I see the butler’s body slumped on the ground in the hall and I don’t sense a heartbeat… did one of the guards kill him?

“Agatha!” I shout as I chase after her. She’s fast but not faster than me. I reach her just as she reaches the stairs and I grab her shoulder. “We aren’t done!” I growl.

“I am!” Agatha hisses as she grabs my arm and yanks me roughly, trying to push me down the stairs. The tug makes a sharp spasm of pain rush through me again and I feel nauseous. I grab the bannister, yanking free from her hold as I grab her arm.

“Enough!” I shout, glaring at the woman I have a hold on. My aura flares around me, rushing off me like a tidal wave, making the chandeliers.

tremble and the lights flicker.

She tenses as she looks around and I think I see a glimmer of fear in her eyes as I regain my balance fully and yank her closer.

“I am not the woman you knew. I am ready to fill the rivers of the underworld with the souls of your people. Push me further, Agatha, and I swear on the lives of my beloved children that I will kill you.” I snarl, my heart thundering hard.

I can smell the fear from her and it’s as if she’s seeing me for the first time.

“I never believed it, but I see it now…” she murmurs to herself, but there’s an understanding in her eyes.

“Believed what?”

“Someone once was adamant that you would choose Sable because you had the fire within you to wreak havoc upon this earth… I see it now ” she says quietly.

have the fire to wreak havoc upon those who have done nothing but cause discord.” I correct her, my

knows I’m

She says, her jaws

my command burning through my voice as I press the

to turn back time and give

doesn’t make full sense, but it’s clear he holds the power of something that the Sable did not want to

so you tried to kill

clearly failed to make sure you were taking the correct dose of drugs to stop you from conceiving!” she snarls, trying to free herself, but her

revelation hits me

pregnant, I was being poisoned “So, all that about loving me like a daughter was all fake, was it?” I ask

smile that no longer

I have sacrificed so much in life for the right cause, so much! We are doing this for the world! I wanted you to choose

process exactly how

also part of the Sable. She tenses at

“The truth, Agatha.”

blaze as my command

to contemplate what I asked,

gone, and I pull the trigger, making her scream as the bullet zooms past her ear, grazing her cheek in the process. It didn’t touch her, but it was millimetres away. The extreme proximity making her

am not playing,” I answer the unspoken question that

stairs, almost as if she wants to scream for help, but I can already hear the sound of backup

wondering if my sudden assumption might be true. After all, the rest of us were full

on Aran if that is what you are

the answer is yes. Does Aran know? Or is he part of

King…for I knew that I would be the one blessed to birth two

have not heard anywhere that she had ever been pregnant aside from with

frown. “Are you and Gerard mates?” I ask, narrowing my

hisses, her gaze dipping to

mates can birth the members

I hold power here…” she says quietly before her eyes brim with tears just as the front

to prove anything

standing behind us. Agatha’s heart thumps as she begins shaking; this woman was an

come to a halt, looking

don’t believe her!” she whispers, but despite her best efforts, she’s unable to hide the fear in her voice. “She

one who is bleeding. What is