Dangerous Gift

I tried to break free, but something changed.

I felt his hands gently squeezing me.

“Wait for me.” He whispered so low that only an ant could hear. But since I had adopted his keen senses, I heard his voice.

I froze, acting normal and not letting the queen notice it as Ace broke free and tried to cover it up with another punch to me.

No, Ace is awake….He is awake!

I am not wrong! There is still hope.

I wanted to cry right there and then, my tears forming but I remained neutral and faced the queen.

“Don’t you dare put your back to your enemy child, you’ll get killed like that.” The queen mumbled, and her hands suddenly felt like fainting. slowly, my eyesight seems to be stolen and I fell on the floor, fainting.

The last thing I could see was Ace’s neutral face and the queen smirking at me.

It felt like a long time, but I woke up in a field of green grass.

A lady about the same height as me was standing admiring the view and I could only see her back..she was wearing a white dress that suits her pale skin.

I looked around, it seemed that I was brought into another universe…

“My child, if you are seeing this, you are seeing my spirit.”’

I heard a delicate voice in my ear and I gasped calling out for the woman in front of me, “Mom?”

The woman turned around and I stood there gawking at her.

she looks so beautiful, much like the same woman I saw in my dreams.

Her brown hair was flowing freely as her gentle red orbs stared at me.

Her soft plump lips smiled at me, “Kira.”

The same voice that I have been hearing in my head for the past few days called out to me.

I didn’t know what to do or act, nor to say.

so I just stood there and admired her beauty.

“How are you? Has life been rough for you? I apologize for having to make you go through all that. If only I was stronger and protected you more.”’

that question alone, tears falling from me and she sat in front of me. she pointed to her lap and made me lay my head there.

I did as she was motioning me and listened carefully for what she was about to speak.”

“Before I left the world, I made sure to put my remaining spirit into you. I was watching you grow, my dear. I have always been here inside you.”

I blinked at that, if she has been watching me, where was she when I was on the brink of death? When I was fighting for my life?

“and you just let me experience pain and suffering…”

she sighed, “I couldn't do anything. That was the limit of my power.” she then paused, “Do you hate me?’

I nodded, “Yes.”

“Understandable. use that rage inside you to be the next queen.”

that made me pause, “They said you are a traitor for leaving the realm, everyone hates you for what you did, mom. so why are you asking me to be the queen?” It feels strange to call her mom…but something about her is giving me a motherly presence.

And I felt serene…at pace with myself.

as if this who, the place is a haven.

“Because what is right, and my mistake,” she said.

“you’re willing to save them even though they had hated you their whole life?”

“My dear, life is all about giving love to everyone, if I have to be the villain in their story, then so be it. I can’t rest properly knowing that I left this world in chaos.”

“What is this place mom?”

“This is where I had envisioned living peacefully with you and your father.”

I suddenly felt tears pouring down and wetting her white dress. I sat upright, stared into her eyes had memorized every crease on her face.

she looks like her younger self..about my age and youthful.

She must have stayed at this age when she died…

this place... I could feel her presence. So much like her.

And it feels like home for the first time in my whole life. with no worries about anything.

I just want to live here…

“Can i..just live here with you here?” I asked the impossible, and her lips suddenly formed into a sad smile.

Her hands then caressed my cheeks softly, “We can…but not now…You still have a purpose in the world, while my time ended...You have to perform what you are fated to do.”

“And what is that?”

“To be the rightful queen of the Witch Realm. Queen Kira of the Witch Realm has a nice ring to it, don’t you think?”

I couldn't help but laugh at that, never in my life did I imagined to be a princess, and what more to being a queen.

I still can't believe how I am facing her, talking to her like this as if she is still existing…

Her relaxed face suddenly turned serious, “I want to send you a message. When I die, part f my power is sealed inside you and can only be unleashed once I experience an emotional awakening. we don't only create fire, Kira. We can control time, my love.”

‘What?” At this point on, I don’t understand what my mother is saying to me.

“you have the most dangerous gift of all time. The power to enter the past and future.”

I gulped at her revelation.

Having a fire as my magic is one thing, which I still couldn't control fully, what more to carrying that burden.”

“How can I…no, it is impossible, I am the weakest among the witches in the realm. I couldn't even control my fire, mom.” I wanted to believe that she was merely joking and messing with me, but she was not…

My mom was serious as she looked at me. “I made sure of that to not draw attention. if by chance they knew of it, then they’ll make you their weapons, Wrose, everyone including the other realms will look for you, and will start a war.”

My mouth widened at that.

“Make sure to use it properly. Our power creates chaos…and I am afraid you are far more powerful than me…”