The Throne ? Book Two

Chapter 9- The Mistress

Angel's POV

Lauren appears in front of Nia, and I gasp at the sight before me.

It really is her.

My long lost sister, who was banished from the heavens, and who I was told was dead after years of searching for her and not finding her. But I've always had a feeling that she was alive. I am so glad that my intuition was correct.

She stands up and turns, seeing me. Lauren freezes as our eyes lock in shock. I feel tears stinging my eyes at the sight of my sister.

I walk forward and hug her, breaking away when she asks why I am here.

"I am here because Nia and her twin sister, one of the people that is missing, are my charges and my good friends." I explain

"Wow, really? That's awesome! Well I'm glad I can help find one of your charges then. It's great to see you again, sister." Lauren smiles at me, and I widely grin back.

"It's great to see you too. But, why were you actually banished? I've only heard rumors, and why would they tell me that you are dead?"

"I was banished for breaking the rules of my powers and experimenting on making the perfect beast: strong, quick, powerful, deadly. It wasn't supposed to be a permanent banishment, but it soon became that way when the gods found out why I was creating the perfect beast. It also became a secret mission for me to die. So I had to fake my own death to escape and hide. The bounty hunters sent after me thought they killed me, when really it was just one of my creations." Lauren elaborates, looking down and not at me, speaking very quietly.

"But why did you want to make the perfect beast?" I question, eager to know the reasoning behind such serious action against my sister.

"For the rebellion that was quickly growing at the time."

"What rebellion?"

"The rebellion against the gods."

Ivy's POV

I wake up and see that I am in a small cage. In the opposite corner to me, there is a bowl of food and water. The food is meat, just meat. I look at the surroundings outside of the metal bars surrounding me and only see plain grey walls, a massive metal locker with two doors, and a wooden door that must be the way out of the room.

"Hello?" I shout out, hoping that someone will hear me.

"Ivy, is that you?" I hear Wolf shout back from behind one of the walls

"Wolf!" I exclaim "Are you in a cage as well?"

"Yeah!" He replies loudly. I look around me again and question

"What happened to us in the library?"

"I don't know, but I'm going to rip Alicia to shreds when we get out of here. She obviously has something to do with this." An all too familiar feminine voice interrupts mine and Wolf's conversation, shouting

"Shut up! Don't talk to each other, or you will be punished!" Alicia.

"Wolf, that's definitely Alicia." I say to him quieter than before, hoping he hears me.

"I can tell." He answers, indicating that he can hear me. I squeak in surprise when the door to my room flies open in anger and slams against the wall

"What did I say about talking to each other?" Alicia roars, and stomps angrily over to the locker, pulling the doors open and smirking as she strokes the instruments lining one of the doors.

I gulp as I stare at the array of knives, wire, weights and other instruments of pain.

"Time to test out my toys on my new playthings!" Alicia says in a creepy singsong voice, carefully looking over the weapons. "Hmmmm, which will be the best toy to use, the whip, the stone, the knife, the wire, so many to choose from!"

"Don't you dare hurt Ivy!" Wolf yells, growling loudly.

"Don't yell at me!" Alicia screeches, banging her fist on the wall "Jared, deal with the mutt." She commands through the door, shouting loudly to a man that I'm guessing is standing outside of the room, but in hearing distance.

"Yes master." He robotically replies, and I hear a door open and close, then the metallic sound of the locker being opened. No, not Wolf too.

"Why are you doing this?" I ask, enraged. Tears fall from my eyes as I glare at Alicia through the bars of my cage.

"You want to give Antonia her memory back, so then she'll remember her life before being the Dark Earth Queen, and she'll start missing that life, and she will leave! I will not allow it! You can not take Antonia from me!" Alicia screams at me, flinging a knife in my direction. It flies through a gap in the bars and embeds into my thigh, making me cry out loudly in pain.

"I won't take Antonia from you, I just want her to remember her friends and family!"

"We are her friends and family, she doesn't need anyone else but us!" Alicia throws another knife, and it hits my other thigh. I scream again, and I try to pull the deeply embedded knives from my legs. "Oh, no no no. You can't do that, naughty girl!" She notices what I am trying to do and grabs the wire from the locker, strides angrily over to my spot in the corner of the cage and grabs my hands.

I try to break out of her hold and move away, but it hurts my legs too much to try and escape. She sharply pulls my hand back, tying it to the pole with the wire. Alicia does the same with my other hand, and the tightly pulled wire rubs against my skin, cutting it open if I move them.

The scent of my own blood soon fills the room as my wrists and thighs steadily bleed. My blood gathers together in pools, and I start to silently cry as the sounds of Alicia looking over all of her 'toys' seems to fill the room, putting dread into my heart. Alicia is insane.

"What do you think I should use on you, a whip, knife or hammer?" Alicia asks. I ignore her and continue just staring at the growing pools of blood surrounding me. "I asked a question, I expect an answer!" She screeches at me, stomping over to me like a spoiled brat and grabs my hair, pulling my head back. It painfully slams into one of the bars of the cage, and I feel blood start to trickle down my head as the pain increases.

"H-hammer." I stutter out, just saying whatever came into my head.

"Good choice." Alicia hisses in my ear, and walks away to get the hammer. Someone knocks on the door, halting Alicia's search for the perfect hammer. She groans and strides over to the door, flinging it open and snapping at the person who's there "What do you want?"

I don't hear the person's response because it was so quiet, but Alicia groans again and walks out of the room. Once I'm sure she's gone, I breathe a sigh of relief.

The silence mocks me, allowing my brain to run away with its thoughts of the torture that is soon to come. Why is she doing this?

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Author's Note:
Hey kittens, I know the second part of this chapter is quite dark. From what I am planning in my head, this whole book is going to be kind of dark, but I hope you enjoy it anyways. It's going to be a bunch of twists and turns, and hopefully it'll be interesting for you guys. But also, enjoy the sweet parts of the story while you can.

Question:
Do you think the Dark Hounds will be able to find Ivy and Wolf?

~Cat Queen