Chapter 65


    Melinda POV,


    Ugh all of this is so messed up. My sister is even more crazy than before. Perhaps it’s because she


    never had a magic core herself or perhaps it’s because she is just crazy. I don’t get it. We have never


    been close to each other, Maya and me. But people oftenpared us. Maya was a good girl, she did


    everything that people asked her to do while I stayed in her shadow.


    I helped her ovee magical troubles so no one would suspect that my mom had a powerless witch


    for a daughter. didn’t mind staying out of sight, people thought I was shy just because I didn’t say


    anything.


    But then Maya and I turned 16 and Maya moved out and she was gone for four years when she


    suddenly came back with a newborn baby girl in her arms. She was devastated, told us that she almost


    killed her daughter to get her magical core and that she wanted help.


    I took Mia and raised her as my own daughter while mom took Maya into some sort of self help thing. It


    is a very closed thing and those who don’t know they don’t need to know either.


    Mia was a gifted child but I could see that she was very much like Maya except Mia’s magical core was


    strong. Her magic was a dark color so I started to suspect that Maya had done something stu pid while


    being pregnant.


    Perhaps she thought she had discovered her magical core and borrowed magic from Mia when she


    was s still inside her mothers womb. It’s pretty disgusting and sad to think about. Maya’s daughter gave


    her energy and magic and then when she was born and Maya became depraved enough that she


    considered killing her own daughter just to get that little re of magic back.


    I taught Mia to never hold anything back, no secrets and to always tell us how she felt and if there were


    any difficulties. She oftenined that I was boring, I didn’t take her to parties and such stuff that


    children at her age would go to but I guess I never was that kind of girl to start with.


    I tried to exin to her that I didn’t like that and that she would need some friends to discover things


    with so I met some of the other witches that had children around Mia’s age. and Mia got herself three


    best friends in a matter of 10


    minutes.


    Mia used to go over to them and sometimes they woulde over to us but as Mia came up in her


    teens the interest for boys started and she had a clear goal. She told us that she had seen him on the


    castle walls and she had felt him attractive but he never looked at her.


    I thought it was a childish crush on one of the guards so T chuckled and told her to try harder. A few


    weekster one of the castle guards knocked on our door and he told me to go to the castle with him.


    At the castle I was furious, Mia’s childish crush was the prince. Helios, She had tried to make contact


    with him but he didn’t care for her and she wanted to make him see her so hard that the spell she sent


    him went a bit wrong.


    The spell clearly said “you will see none other than me” and


    then the spell took effect and blinded the prince It was a


    petty spell and I forced her down on her knees while I took away the spell.


    Her punishment from the king was lenient, she wasn’t allowed to speak for a month and she wasn’t


    allowed near the castle for another month at that. Then she met prince Ares when he had shifted and


    ran through the forest.


    Then the real troubles started. Ares and Helios are identical twins and Mia fell in love again kind of.


    Ares took Helios ce and the bad boy he was, he had no problem ying around with Mia. But one


    good thing came from Mia, she drove other girls away from the twins.


    So here we stand now, Mia’s mother and my crazy sister are on her way to start a war between her and


    the kingdom. But I suspect that she has some alliances with another kingdom and this kingdom has a


    traitor or two.


    This Tristan boy that mom was suspicious of, his father was not a banned prince, more like a pl ayboy


    prince. He knocked Tristan’s mother up and left herter on, bas tar d. This is the fun part now, he


    came from the same kingdom that Nora’s grandparents did, the ze kingdom.


    Tristan and Nora are cousins on his fathers side. I wonder what she will think of thatter on. I don’t


    think he is a traitor though, it’s impossible for him to lie and he can spot a lie from a mile away.


    So while I was talking with the king and mother I watched Tristan walking toward the back garden but


    turned around and looked pale and nauseous. I walked up to him and


    touched his shoulder to heal him before he threw up.


    “Thanks” he said but still he looked pale.


    “Don’t like blood?” I ask and he shakes his head.


    “Nope, I even have a hard time with my lycan when he is hunting” Tristan says and shivers.


    “Go take a hot shower and if you want I can make some calming tea?” I say to him and he nods.


    Contentt bel0ngs to N0ve/lDra/ma.O(r)g!


    “Oh I would like to try your tea but please not the same tea as the one you made during the oath” he


    laughs and I snicker as well


    “No, I promise,” I say and smile. I watch him walk away


    towards the castle and then I turn towards my mother who


    looks concerned.


    “I should head back to Mia, she isn’t doing well,e visit your niece soon, Melinda.” mom say and I


    frown at her


    “She is my daughter, mom. I raised her” I say and red a bit


    at her.


    “I know but technically” Mom begins to say but she doesn’t finish the sentence when she sees my face.


    I watch as my mom disappears in the sun and I turn to speak with the king when I feel it. Maya’s magic


    and I look up at the castle with a tilt of my head. I look at the king and notice that he is mindlinking


    someone now.


    “We need to go now. Helios thinks that there’s something wrong in Ares’ room. His lycan is warning him


    from going inside. But Tristan is there with him now but I would like it if


    you came along with me” he says and I nod.


    I was going to find Ares tonight to perform the spell by linking his mind to Nora’s anyway. We walk


    rather fast through the castle and towards Ares’ room but I stop the king as I feel my sister’s magic. It is


    strong here.


    “Magic” I whisper to the king and he nods.


    But as we stand in the doorway and look inside the room we are shocked at the scene itself. Ares has


    shifted and is attacking a bleeding Helios thatys on the floor so I send out my magic to stop Ares


    from hurting his brother even more and I fling him into the wall while I throw myself onto the floor next


    to Helios.