Forever Destined To The Silver Shadow

Celestia's POV: 

The evil spirit of the Drude has possessed her! The Drude is a demonic entity that completely takes control of the mind of a victim. In the beginning stages, the evil spirit is said to give nightmares. 

And in the later stages, it can completely take over the body of its victims. I began to pity the young girl Marilyn. She must have suffered a lot at her early stages. And now she is not even herself! 

I almost forgot that I was bleeding from my midriff where the arrow hit me. It began to hurt like hell. I tried to place my hand on the wound to heal myself, but a sturdy Vampire got hold of my hand. 

Then Marilyn cuffed my hands together with iron restraints. Since I was wounded, I wasn't able to free myself from the restraints. 

This is not going well! I already lost a lot of blood in the past few days. Now I can't afford to lose even more. My powers will get drained soon, and I won't be able to heal my wound.

Marilyn was standing in front of me and flashed her bright red eyes at me. I didn't know what was in those eyes, but after I stared at them, I began to feel so low of myself. 

"I managed to bring Dawn on her knees twice," Marilyn screamed out. That insult hurt me more than my wound. 

But I realized that Marilyn was right. I am the Dawn! No one is more powerful than me. That is what people told me my whole life. Even Theo said more than twice that I am more powerful than him. 

If that is the truth, then why do I get defeated every time? Why am I failing in everything? I looked up at the starry dark sky hopelessly. If I am an Angel, then I must be able to unleash my Angelic powers!

Why am I weak? Holy Aiden must give me an answer now. Am I really the Dawn? Or am I an imposter? Maybe I have been fooling myself for this long that I am an Angel.

I am just an ordinary Fae warrior. A lot of people mistook me for someone else and treated me like a deity my whole life. I let down my father, and today I let down Theo. I am a terrible warrior in this realm. 

But as I kept staring at her eyes, I realized that it doesn't matter anymore because her eyes told me that I would perish soon! And these people around me will perish with me too. I was their last hope. And I have let everyone down once again. 

After a while, Alaric knelt on the ground in front of me and faced me. "Tell me, where is the Icebreaker?" he asked me in his usual cold voice. 

"I really don't know," I responded weakly. 

"Dawn….," Alaric stressed out. "Stop lying to me now. I am giving you another chance. Tell me, where is the Icebreaker?"

I didn't know what to do. I was already hopeless and pathetic that everyone in this valley is going to perish soon. I broke eye contact with Marilyn and turned to Alaric. 

"You don't have to nag me anymore. I am already...."

I stopped speaking when I realized that I was not in my right mind for the past few minutes. That wicked Drude was manipulating my mind and made me feel so low about myself. That is it! I should not look into her eyes or even her face. 

"Even if I knew where the Icebreaker was, I wouldn't say it to you," I replied fiercely. 

Alaric was astonished by my reply. He then turned to Marilyn and scowled at her. "You are not even capable of controlling her mind for a while. And you call yourself a Drude?"

"It is not my fault," Marilyn shouted back at Alaric. "Her mental shield is strong, and I am not able to penetrate through her mind. I won't be able to control her unless she doesn't look directly into my eyes."

Alaric grunted and got up from the ground. My mental shield is still strong! I was glad that my friends hit me with the arrow dipped in Unicorn's blood. Or else I would have lost my mind to this Drude!

My wound got worse as the minutes went by. I will probably lose consciousness soon. But I want another chance to prove myself. One chance is all I need to save myself and the rest of them. I don't think that I will get any tonight. But I can't accept defeat either.

Two of the Vampires were carrying Theo's unconscious body from the cottage, and they placed him on the ground in front of me. My eyes welled up as I saw him. 

If only he were awake now, then he would have defeated all of them in a second. I never really understood the game of the fates. Well, no one really does. 

But my father used to tell me that everything happens for a reason. All the worst occurrences are fate's way of proclaiming us something about ourselves. So what is the meaning of this?

Marilyn was holding Theo's silver dagger in her hand. How dare she even touch that weapon? But I did not confront her as I didn't want to get manipulated by the Drude again. 

She then hovered the tip of the blade above Theo's neck.

"No," I cried out. "Please don't hurt him."

"If you don't want me to hurt him, tell us where the Icebreaker is?" Marilyn growled at me. 

"I really don't know about that. Please believe me," I pleaded with her. 

"Fine," Marilyn said. "It looks like you don't love him anymore. That's why you are not giving up the information."

"I wish that Icebreaker was with me," I sighed. If I had the Icebreaker, then none of you Vampires would have been standing alive here." 

Marilyn then smirked at me and traced the tip of the silver blade on Theo's neck. 

My whole body began to burn in anger after that.