The Unwanted Luna

Xavier

"How is she doing?" I asked Sophie, my eyes not leaving the still form of Amelia.

"She still is unconscious, I don't know what's wrong because this has never happened before, not after she ascended anyway" she replied her voice barely a murmur.

I could tell she was worried because I was too. I take a seat on her opposite side next to Amelia's bed then proceed to hold her hand in mine.

It has been almost a week since we stormed into hell to retrieve them and she hasn't woken up since then.

I almost broke out of my skin when we realized that Amelia and Sophie had been missing since I sent Soph to check on her.

The possibility that they could have been kidnapped hadn't even crossed my mind.

I mean Fuck! She was a damn goddess and a powerful one at that so who could be dumb enough to kidnap her and her best friend.

It took us hours searching for them before I conceded to the fact that they were missing and most probably kidnapped.

We couldn't catch their scent anywhere and there were literally no traces of them at all. It was like one minute they were there and the next they were not.

We had absolutely nothing to work with, no starting point. It honestly worried me because if they had managed to kidnap her then it meant they did something to her rendering her powerless.

There was also the matter of Sophie, she was pregnant for goodness sake and we were worried about what they would do to them with Amelia out of commission and not being able to protect both of them.

Everything was in disarray, Jayden was a mess, and the children kept asking for their moms, Bianca was scared shitless, afraid that something bad would happen to her sister and she would never get the chance to reconcile with her. Among all of them I was the only one holding on, the one thinking straight because I knew if I let my fears get to me we would never be able to help them.

It was after the third day that I finally came up with an idea after trying all we could to find them with absolutely no luck.

It was a big shot but it was the only one that I had and the only that would probably get us to our goal.

So I took Tristan into my office and gently explained that his mother had been taken, then I asked him to reach out to the moon goddess.

I was afraid of it not working because I had exhausted all possible routes in finding them.

So I sat there heart pounding as Tristan closed his eyes slowly breathing in then out.

"Uncle Nolan will be here in a few" that was what he had said to me immediately his eyes opened and just as he had said, seconds later the Nolan guy appeared.

I stared at him almost menacingly because this guy has been fucking Amelia and I don't even want to think for how long he has been doing it.

The fact is he has been there for her since she was ten years old, even though I didn't want to admit it, is what bothered me more.

I had asked Tristan through our mind link why he had called Nolan instead of the moon goddess and he had said it was because his uncle Nolan unlike his aunt Selene was a warrior and that was what we needed.

It had surprised me at first but I had been so damn proud of him. His leadership mentality and thinking was starting to show even in his young age.

He was already strategic, looking at all the angles. After that I had told him to go outside and play while I called Jayden and my warrior.

I could still remember the conversation and tension as clearly as if it had happened yesterday.

"Why the hell did you have Tristan summon me?" Nolan has asked his voice gravelly, "Or did you want to warn me away from Lia and you needed your buddies to back you up"

He had been arrogant but then again I was guilty of the same thing and as much as I wanted to beat him to a pulp god or not for touching what was mine, I knew my priorities and right now they were on finding Amelia and Sophie so I had ignored his comment. "Amelia and Sophie are missing"

"What did you just say? Since when and why the fuck am I just hearing about this now?" he had asked completely pissed off.

I really didn't take a genius to figure out that he genuinely cared about them and I respected him for that.

"We believe they were taken, it has been three days and we still haven't been able to find them. There was no track for us to even start with"

"If you can't find them then that is probably because they aren't in this realm" he had said after a while.

"What do you mean by realm?" Jayden had asked.

"I mean exactly that. There are different realms in the world and this is the human realm. Most gods and goddesses have their own realm but some of them share. For example Amelia's realm is known as the dark kingdom and it is home to most creatures of the dark" he had explained, then had continued.

"If you can't find a trace it only means they were whisked to another realm and if by now she hasn't returned then it only means that obsidian has been used against her"

I had hated that he knew so much but I had put that aside because we had to find them first.

"What does obsidian have to do with all this?" I had asked because like I had mentioned we needed to know all that we could.

"Obsidian is her weakness. It negates her powers thus making sure she can't use them...Every deity has their kryptonite"

"Any idea which realm they would be taken to?" Asher had asked.

"Is there anything fundamental that happened before she was taken?" he had replied so we filled him in on all that happened from the moment Agron had appeared.

"Well given what you have told me, my best bet would be that she is in hell and that Agron's appearance had been used as a means to throw her out of balance making it easier for them to catch her off guard. My guess is that Amelia had been the main target and Sophie collateral, she had been in the wrong place at the wrong time."

"Why hell specifically?" I had asked curiously.

"Because it's Hades realm and the god of the underworld is Agron's brother...plus there is the simple fact that most of hell's foundation is pure black obsidian, enough obsidian to temporarily render her powerless" "Fuck! How do we get to hell?" Jayden had asked.

"There are a few gates scattered around the world. But I would have to ask around if anyone has heard anything and also about the location of the gates." He had said.

It took us another three days to come up with a war plan and to also locate the gates of hell.

There really wasn't much of a plan no matter how we went about it. The only one we had was to use the element of surprise.

Hades probably thought that we wouldn't figure it out and on our own we wouldn't have, so he wouldn't be expecting anyone to bust through the gates to his realm.

There was also the problem of trying to locate Amelia and Sophie once we were there but we had agreed on crossing that bridge when we got there.

When we got there, Nolan used his powers to destroy the gate. We had thought that we were there to rescue them without knowing that Amelia had already been busy trying to rescue them.

We entered the gates ready for the fight of our lives but the sight that had greeted me would forever be burned in my mind.

"Who am I? Who am I? I am the fucking dark goddess and you will pay for what you have done" Amelia had said her voice almost unnatural. Standing a few meters from who I assumed was Hades because of his aura.

"This is bad, really really bad...she is about to transform into her dark state and trust me neither of us wants that because she will destroy anything and everything, including us" I heard Nolan say and the fear in his voice had me worried.

If he fears this dark state I didn't want to imagine what she was capable of.

Sophie had been on the left side of the gate near a huge three headed dog trying to call out to Amelia who had begun changing right before our eyes and when it was over a different Amelia was before us.

She was levitated on the ground. She had a black gown and runes were all over her body, moving as if they were alive. She had a small crescent moon mark on her forehead.

Her eyes and lips were completely black, with equally black veins around her eyes. She had a black beautiful crown and I could see glistening fangs peeping from her mouth. As much as she looked scary she was also enthralling.

She was like nothing I had ever seen. otherworldly and beautiful but deadly at the same time. Standing before us was a queen, a goddess and a siren all wrapped in one. Not even the moon goddess could compare to her.

The wind picked up and her hair whipped around her as if each tendril had a mind of its own. She opened her hands and as insane as it sounds she pulled all the darkness to her leaving hell in only grey colors.

I had thought that I had seen her power the night she rescued Tristan but I guess she was holding back because what I saw was out of this world. Her energy was so strong that it forced everyone to the ground including Nolan and Hades.

She used the darkness surrounding her as an extension of her body, using her mind to control it. She then wrapped a dark tendril around Hades' neck and squeezed the daylights out of him. I could see he was struggling to get it off him and he was even starting to bleed.

"We need to do something to interrupt her focus. This state she is in doesn't recognize friend or foe and once she is done with Hades she will come after us next and once she finishes us off she will destroy the underworld, that includes paradise and the souls there enjoying their afterlife" the urgency in his had been clear and the picture he had painted had shaken me to the core.

After he said that he used his hands and clapped them together but instead of producing the normal clap sound, it produced a big banging sound that made everyone including me cover their ears.

Whatever he did worked because Amelia shuddered a little before she went still then collapsed but before any of us could react and before she could hit the ground, the three headed dog caught her. Hades was released and fell to the ground trying to gasp in as much as he could. The dog brought Amelia to us and then gently laid her down. Her appearance had already gone back to the one we were used to and there were no lingering traces of the badass dark goddess she truly was.

By the time we were leaving, Hades had recovered and he had sent us back with a message for Amelia.

We took her home but she hasn't woken up since then, which has everyone including Nolan and the moon goddess worried.

"Xavier are you listening?" Sophie asked me and I looked up,only to find that more people had joined us and I was still holding Amelia's hand, something that I could tell didn't sit well with Nolan. Apart from Nolan, Jayden, Selene and Bianca were also there. Sophie had told us everything that happened from when they were kidnapped to how brave Amelia had been even without her powers.

How she had thought of an idea to get them out of hell, getting beaten up by hades in order to get the key and how despite being wounded, she had fought around twenty of Hades men single handedly and defeated all of them.

The more she had told us about what happened more I became amazed at the woman Amelia had become even after everything she had gone through.

Tristan had come to visit her each and every single day and for the first time in a very long time I had witnessed him crying when he saw the bruises on his mom and also the state she was in.

It bothered me seeing her like that because it reminded me of that time long ago when she had passed out in her room while pregnant.

It had also taken her days to gain consciousness. She didn't know it then because the doctor never told her, but she had been so close to losing Tristan and it had been my burden to bea. That I had pushed her to a point that her body wanted to miscarry our baby. The other thing that bothered me is that while I was trying to reach her I felt a glimmer of our mate bond.

It bothers me not because I don't want it but because I am afraid to hope only for those hopes to be dashed to the ground.

Someone shakes me from my musings bringing me back to the present.

"I'm sorry Soph, what did you say?" I replied because I had no idea what she had asked me.

Just before she could answer, the monitors started going haywire and beeping loudly and Amelia let out a gasp before sitting ramrod on the bed, her hand squeezing the shit out of me. Her eyes were open but only the whites could be seen. They may have been open but they were unseeing. "Amelia?" Selene asked in her usual sweet and calming voice.

"The dark one will fall, the dead will rise and the realms will be destroyed, brother will be against brother, sister against sister, children against parent and in the midst chaos will reign, a being undefeated with a soul as dark as the abyss and darkness will cover the world...it has been set in time, it has been put in motion, there is no stopping the path that has already been carved into stone" Amelia said, her voice unnatural, sending chills down my spine.

She repeated the words about two more times before she collapsed on the bed. She lay there undisturbed just as she had been a few minutes ago.

Her breathing went back to normal and she continued sleeping peacefully as if she hadn't scared the shit out of us just a few minutes back.

I looked at everyone else in the room and they were all shaken and confused including the two deities present but the only thing running through my mind was;

What the fuck just happened and what did her words mean?