BLAZE

TRAITOR

Abria

There is one thing that will always bother me to the core, a relationship. How can someone risk themselves to save another in name of a relationship? How can someone fall in love with another person, knowing very well that that person won’t give you the love back which you have delivered to them?. What is the point in all that? Why be so selfless and think about their well-being than yours?

How delicate a relationship could be? No one knows but everyone is afraid of. Handle it with care or it will get cracked. Once it cracked, it will be futile and no longer desire to be in a hold. That's exactly what a relationship is like? Delicate, fragile, and handled carefully… but why give so much effort in the first place when it is going to be in vain?

They said only one relation is above everything which is a mother and his child’s relation. A mother can go to the extent for his child, without thinking twice about herself and never expecting the same from his child either.

A mother holding his child like it was everything she had and now it will be lost. For a child, her mother is everything he could ask for but sometimes, the world is cruel and God is cruelest.

I have no idea what came over me and I was so lost in the battle that I did not care about the life of the person who was fighting opposite to me. It was just a game for me, and If it wasn't his mother’s scream that distracted me, I might have penetrated the sword in Igor's chest… I could have split him into halves, but… I was glad that his mother came in time to stop me. I might have done something I would regret my life.

She was holding his son in her lap and kept rubbing his cold palms. She was crying when he did not respond to her words. There was this bond between them that blessed them to survive or I could have ruined it forever…

"Someone calls the healers… he is not responding well… he needs medical attention.." she screamed at the top of her lungs. Her beautiful face was stained with tears and her eyes were red as fury, similar to her hair.

The crowd started to discrete and went to call the healers from the infirmary. Most of them dismissed and ran away, leaving a few of us behind. Dwyn came running to Daphne's side and he was still in shock at what just happened. I felt guilty for putting everyone in such a state… it wasn’t my fault either… I was provoked first and the b***h living inside of me got pissed, taking control… still, i am glad that i got the control of my body back in time..

"You…." She turned to look at me like she would swallow me whole.. Her voice was thrilled and it was clear that she is not going to let me stay in peace.

"What the heck do you think you were doing? You almost killed him…" she yelled at me while grabbing his son's shirt securely. Her eyes were red and glaring at me as if they would penetrate through me, killing me instantly.

"But, he is alive… just in a state of shock but he will be fine… he was so proud of his skills, actually, to be said overconfident in his skills… poor prince, he lost so badly… it would be really embarrassing for him when he wakes up." I pressed my lips in a flat line while shrugging my shoulders down. I know what I was saying is wrong but I have to defend my actions.

Daphne was furious to see my reaction. She wasn't expecting this behaviour but hey, she needs to prepare to face all of my colours. They set me on fire and now they are afraid to watch the fire show? Uhh… why am i entertaining them in first place?

"How could you say that? Don't you feel hesitant saying such things after a brutal attempt to murder on my son? If you weren't the Queen's daughter, I would have decapitated you…" the anger was dripping from her eyes. The lioness was hurt but bounded… the way she reacted, i assumed that her weakness is her son.

"Relax… he isn't dead, not yet… but keep your son in control… he was the one who provoked me first… and I just finished what he started. So what's the big deal… people die in battles or wars, so you will fight them who killed your son because he jumped into a battle? That's stupid…" I chuckled while stepping back and dusting the dirt from my shoulders. They better face this truth before they come to know about it on their own.

She got up angrily and desperately, she was about to attack me when Dwyn interrupted and pushed her far from me. He dragged her a little further and got a tight hold of her bursting anger.

"Stop it, aunt Daphne… you need to calm down… Igor will be fine and the healers have arrived…" he held her long until she was breathing long breaths.

"Once a traitor, always a traitor… it won't wash off from generations to generations but will pass down. I Have heard of this earlier but today, I saw it and now I believe it. Unfortunately, the traitor was no one but my own brother… and now you, his daughter… you proved that you are his blood indeed…" her eyes were stripping me for a blood war.

The way she looked at me, I couldn't take it and I really wanted to rip those green eyes off of hers. From that moment, I knew that this wouldn't be going to any conclusion but remorse. It will be either her or me. Till that day, I will wait for it patiently.

I had words to destroy her ego but i kept them to myself. My heart was aching as her sharp words penetrated through it and the pain of lacerations was too much to bear for now. There was no point in standing there and increasing their pain, so i left. I ran away while crying. I was wiping my tears and i heard Dwyn calling me. I wasn’t really expecting him to be here but it felt good that he still stood by my side. Still, i have hurt him too.. I have hurt almost everyone.

I turned around to leave when Dwyn grabbed my hand and asked me to stay for a while

"I am sorry, Dwyn but I almost killed your brother… I wasn't meant to but I had to… in fact, I could have fought that woman, Daphne, because she targeted me with my father's past…. It's too much for me to handle with a broken past." I grit my teeth while spitting the venom. Sobbing loudly when i did not want to shed a tear.

"It's not true… trust me.. she didn't mean those words for you… she is way too sensitive. She had been in post traumatic stress because of Elijah. Her trauma does get triggered when she sees someone beloved to her in danger. You almost killed Igor, which was a strong point for her trauma to get triggered." Dwyn tried to sort out everything which might work in his favour.

I frowned deeply at him, "I wasn't the one who started the s**t… then why am I the one to be moral? Why don't you go back to your family and console them for the inconveniences…"

"They are your family too…" he said and suddenly I snapped back..

"No… they are not my family… They called me a traitor and everything… My family is my father… at least he was the only one who accepted when knowing that he was raising a monster…" i was at the verge of a mental breakdown.

"All this discrimination, it hurts… and still you say that they are my family? Please, consider what you say…" the tear fell out and I rushed back to my room.

I ignored all the calls and everyone was like a plague. I did not spare a look behind and rushed from the place.