The Original Hybrid

Betrayal

The next night

It was now the night of Xandrax and Luna wedding ceremony and every single one of the Magoi were gathered. Except for Kaerus and Neela. They had been disinvited for obvious reasons.

"Who comes before the Gods?" the priest officiated.

"Luna, a woman grown and flowered comes seeking the favour of the Gods," Luna's father said.

"And who claims her?" the priest officiated.

"Xandrax of clan Nova claims her." Xandrax said with a loud clear voice.

"Lady Luna," the priest said. "Do you take this man?"

"Yes," Luna said as she smiled. "I take this man."

"And you Xandrax of clan Nova, will you take this woman, and honour her and provide for her as long as you both shall live?"

"I will," Xandrax said.

"Well, we can't have that now." Interrupted a voice he did not want to hear. Xandrax turned from Luna to see Kaerus and Neela casually walking toward the altar.

"Kaerus," Xandrax growled. "What are you doing here? You were not invited to attend the ceremony."

"Well, isn't it obvious, old pal?" Kaerus questioned. "I'm crashing the party." Just then, Xandrax felt a blade slip into his stomach, he turned to see the priest with his hand on the blade. Xandrax pushed the priest away and pulled the blade out, using his magic to heal himself.

"You wretched vile monster! Xandrax convinced me to spare your lives when you betrayed me and this how you repay me!? By ruining my wedding, again, and trying to kill the man I love!?" Luna shouted in anger. "Well, not this time." Luna raised her hand and Neela and Kaerus doubled over in pain.

"You can't kill us. We are immortal." Kaerus groaned.

"I don't have to kill you. I just have to stop your heart from working." Luna said as Kaerus, to his horror, saw Neela turning gray.

"No, Neela!" Kaerus shouted as his love turned into a statue. "Kill that b***h!" 5 compelled witches were forced to obey him.

Xandrax, still healing his wound, clenched his hand and roots sprung up from the ground, wrapping themselves around the compelled witches, draining away the compulsion.

"I will make your blood stop flowing in your veins, I will make your veins dry up, until you rot from the inside out. And the world will see you exactly as you are. A cold, gray, hideous monster." Luna growled as Kaerus fully desiccated and flopped to the ground.

"Next time I want to kill someone," Luna says.

"I won't stop you, I promise." Xandrax said before he felt weak and hacked up black blood, falling unconscious and to the ground as Luna and the Magoies, now free of Kaerus's control, rushed to help him.

Later

The witches examining Xandrax left the room of the home that Xandrax and Luna were planning on living in together. "How is he?" Luna's father asked.

"He's dying. He's been poisoned by a very special poison that is immune to treatment through magical means. All of our attempts to treat him have failed. I know this poison. I've seen it used once by Kaerus's grandfather. It's a recipe his family jealously guarded." The medical witch said.

"What can be done? Surely there must be an antidote?" Luna asked.

"There is, but the recipe was destroyed, likely by Kaerus. He clearly wanted Xandrax to suffer and ensure he died. Normally, the poison kills within hours, but Xandrax has managed to survive a full week, thanks to his great power, but he can't last. He can no longer move or speak, he's in so much pain. I'm sorry, he only has a few days." The medical witch then left them alone.

"No." Luna vowed with tears in her eyes. "I won't let Kaerus take him from me." With that she headed to a separate room of her new home with Xandrax and began preparing an elixir. A few minutes later, her father walked in on her.

"Daughter what are you doing?" he asked.

"I'm not losing the man I love. Kaerus will not take him from me." Luna said to her father.

"I know daughter, but you can't save him, not in hi-"He stopped himself when he realized what her plan was as the elixir now held an ethereal blue liquid. "You're going to make him immortal."

"It's the only way to save him." Luna said as she wove further magic into the spell.

"You can't break the laws of nature again." Her father was vehemently against that sort of thing.

"Father, the whole coven needs him. The Lycan's have started to make incursions past the tree's protective barrier. It's only a matter of time before they reach us. We need him." Luna said and her father stilled at that. The Lycan's were large bipedal wolf-men that were dangerous, infectious and savage beasts seemingly incapable of thought or reason. They were vicious animals that lived for the hunt. They possess enhanced senses of smell, hearing, and sight that are superior even to those of wolves, not just humans. Lycans also possess physical strength, durability, reflexes, and speed superior to those of humans, and can break through thick stone walls with relative ease.

It had been Xandrax that created the thick dense forest that the Magoi resided in that kept the Lycan's from hurting the coven, but it was starting to fail.

"How would that help him?" Her father asked, as he watched the liquid turn a brilliant golden yellow.

"I'm not going to make him immortal, there is no such thing as immortal, he will live for thousands of years, if he didn’t die. I'm going to make him stronger and faster than the Lycans. He will also be allowed to keep his magic." Luna informed him as she finished the elixir, after weaving a powerful protection spell into the elixir so that he would live a very long life.

Luna's father let her go, as while he didn't believe witches should mess with nature, they needed Xandrax to continue defending the coven from the attacks. And he loved his daughter too much to let Xandrax die.