Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
I saw another flash of green. There was a woman right by the broken boulder that had hair that looked just like Solanum’s. This was taking me closer to the enemy territory than any of the other times had before. I would literally be behind enemy lines while searching this one out.
I had to do it, though. I had to go and see if it was her. It was the only way to start putting an end to all of this. I wasn’t all that hopeful though. The chances of it actually being her was slim to-.
“Wait a minute!” I gasped in shock as I ran toward the woman that I saw.
This woman was using her magic to send out beast after beast. She had that same green hair and pale purple complexion that Solanum had. And when the women looked up to see me running toward her, I saw the same plum colored eyes that Solanum has.
“It’s her.”
I didn’t wait for my guards. I didn’t care about my army. In that moment all I cared about was catching up to Solanum who was retreating back inside the dark Fae realm. I wasn’t going to let her get away.
I put on a burst of speed and ran past every monster, Fae, and soldier between me and that opening in the barrier.
“Riviana! Wait!” I heard Vincent yelling after me.
“Hold up, Riviana!” David was trying to follow me as well.
‘Stay here and fight.’ I told them mentally. If I was thinking properly I would have sent a message to Joaquin too, but I wasn’t, so I didn’t.
“STOP HER!” I heard Solanum’s shrill voice boom out and echo to those that we were fighting. At that moment all the monsters and Fae around me started to turn their attention toward me instead of the others.
“Riviana!” Vincent called out again as he leapt forward to block an attack that I didn’t see coming. I was a little too singularly focused to see everyone else. “Be a little more observant, please.” He scolded me.
“I will, Vincent.” I nodded at him, but I had started to run again. “Now I am going to go kill my great great great grandmother.” I laughed as I ran off once more.
I know that they all wanted to follow me, but they were needed here. I was going to take care of this problem because it was personal for me. This was my family and I would deal with it myself.
I ran past outstretched hands, hurled weapons, and snapping beasts. I managed to get past all of them and to the barrier. Solanum was nowhere to be seen, which I expected. I was going to need to follow her inside the dark realm and search for her there.
I didn’t even think twice about it. Once I was next to that barrier I leapt inside and felt myself dropping for what felt like a long time.
It was pure darkness as I fell. There was no light to tell me where I was or what my surroundings looked like. I knew it was travelling through a sort of cave though. I could smell the water on the stone walls as I moved past them.
Something that was odd about my fall though, was that I was moving slow. I wasn’t falling so fast that I thought I would hurt when I hit the ground, it was more like a controlled descent that would let me land easily on my feet when I got there. It was also like time was slowing down because I didn’t actually feel like I was falling a long distance, more that I was just moving slow.
Soon, I was able to see the light at the end of the tunnel so to speak. There was light starting near my feet and moving up toward my face. The fall was almost over.. At least I think it was.
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Riviana
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Is it bad that I literally felt like Alice as I fell through the passageway to the dark Fae realm? And I was literally going into a strange and unknown land. As long as I didn’t need to eat some messed up mushrooms and desserts, or drink the tea, then I would be fine. I most definitely wouldn’t be eating anything down here.
Not to mention that the bitch I was after was loonier than the hatter and that fucking cat combined. And there was also the fact that this was bound to be a horror land instead of a wonderland.
I needed to stop thinking these stupid thoughts, though. I was heading into the belly of the beast to face the truest of monsters in this battle. I needed to focus, still, it was too easy to make the jokes as a way to break the tension that I was feeling, so I understood why I was doing it.
I tried to stop joking and focus on that light that was steadily getting brighter at my feet. It wasn’t an actual bright light. It wasn’t white or yellow or pure light of any kind.
In all actuality, the light that I could see was a sickly greenish and purple mix. It was like? a special effects light that was being filtered through some hazy fog or something. It was definitely not normal, that’s for sure.
Finally, I landed lightly on my feet at the bottom of the large, stony tunnel. I felt like I had been set down gently on my feet by someone who had been carrying me the whole time. It hadn’t been a dangerous fall at all, and yet, that fact alone kind of creeped me out.
I took a moment to look around me, where it was that I had landed. The tunnel had literally been hollowed out of the stone in this underground cavern. It was made of dark gray stone that was covered in dirt and growing vines. In front of me there was a hazy fog that just stood there. It wasn’t swirling, it wasn’t moving, it was just there.
The fog was a light green in color, and I could tell that it wasn’t normal in any way. To me, this was a barrier meant to keep out people, or other things, that weren’t supposed to be in here. It didn’t seem like it was here to keep things in, it was specifically meant to keep things out. Most likely things like non Fae and non magical beings. I should, hopefully, have no trouble passing through it.
“Well, let’s see if I can make it past this stupid thing.” I said to myself as I tried to move past that last barrier to the dark Fae realm. I stepped forward quickly, not wanting to draw out the motion any more than I needed to.
Moving forward felt like I was passing through a thick, sticky cloud. Not that I have ever moved through a cloud, but I didn’t know what else to call it. It was soft to the touch, but it was hard to move through and felt like it was clinging to me. I just wanted to make the sensation of the fog go away.
Finally, I passed through it. The moment that I was past the strange fog, all feeling and sensation from that thick, sticky substance just disappeared with it. It was still there behind me but it wasn’t clinging to me anymore.
When I first saw the hazy fog, I hadn’t been able to tell how big of an area it took up to begin with, but it filled at least ten feet worth of the tunnel’s length. And it felt like it had taken me forever just to walk that ten feet through it. Whatever magic it was that had made that haze accepted me through it, but it felt like it had done so begrudgingly.
Now that I was past it, I was able to see what was around me. I was finally able to see the dark Fae realm and it wasn’t pleasant.
I had a feeling that when the lands of Fae split, all that was left behind was the hideous, ugly places that no one wanted. Not even the dark Fae would want to be here. This place was truly hell.
There were large, black, jagged, volcanic looking rocks that shot up out of seemingly nowhere. There were trees, but they looked scorched and burned, like there was no life in them, yet they still bore fruit. The fruits that were on the trees that I could see were red, gray, or black. They looked like blood, ash, and rotten things. The leaves on those trees looked like they were already shriveled even as they bore new buds for its fruit. The tree and everything on it looked like it was born dead and decayed.
The lands here actually mirrored the clearing where the battle was taking place. It was the same place only backwards and more evil looking. Even the ocean that I could see past those large rocks looked disgusting and evil. It was blood red and seemed to reflect the black sky that was above it.
