The Crystal 2 by Jones M (top ten books to read txt) 📖

on you? You know, things like magic mirrors?"

I felt shocked and incredibly disgusted. There had to be a lot of things that the erwiches must have watched. Private conversations, meal conversations, parties, secret meetings...

Oh no.

I hated to think that they listened to the talk I had with the Queen. I also hated to think they also watched us get undressed. Something told me that they did, and that made me both worried and more revolted.

"We see everything you do, and we have outsmarted you once again."

Selena was thrown back to us. She screamed before she landed onto Erick and Justin. They almost toppled on the ground had they not outstretched their arms to catch her.

"How do you think we sent you that dream, Erick?"

There was a moment of silence from our side. I looked at everyone on my sides, noticing the shocked looks etched on their faces.

"Seriously? You still doubted what I told you guys?" I couldn't stop myself from speaking out loud. Tevix just watched with an evil grin.

"You, my dear king, were so eager to protect and defend your witches. We knew you were jealous that Emery had killed Eva."

Wait, what? Erick was what?

"Oh, you didn't know, Emery? Erick had been feeling envious after you had killed our queen."

"Emery--" Erick went to speak, but Tevix cut him off.

"He wanted to look like the main hero, and so we just couldn't let the chance pass."

"You bastards!" Erick yelled, itching to get closer to Tevix, but an erwich stopped him by grabbing his shoulder and dragging him back to the group.

Tevix just laughed, and that made me more infuriated.

"That dream made it easier for everything that followed. The lack of trust in you, the sudden dislike towards you... Emery, why else do you think everyone blamed you for stuff you didn't do?"

I had thought about it, but hearing Tevix say it had confirmed it. I felt hurt, but I decided to push the feeling away. I was not willing to show weakness in front of him.

"Why did you do that?" I asked him.

"That, my dear, was revenge for what you did to Eva." Tevix pretended to be thoughtful. "But you deserve more."

In an instant, I was thrown upwards. 

It took a second for my view of Tevix and the rest of the erwiches to be replaced with that of the sky. My heart beat fast as I tried not to scream. I was met with the wonderful yet scary view of the forest behind the Crystalia mountains. The castle below me seemed to be getting smaller as I kept going up.

I had underestimated Tevix' power, and that scared me for a moment. Could he be more powerful than Eva?

Then I began falling down. I couldn't hold back a scream then. The bricks of the castle courtyard were quickly meeting my view. My mouth opened, ready to release it, only to stop when I was close to hitting the gray floors of Eva's courtyard.

"I could kill you. In fact, I wanted to, but then, someone told us about your struggle of remaining good. We would like to help you bring out your inner evil," Tevix said. 

Gotcha.

My eyes widened in pretend shock, a skill I had mastered from Josh. Just then, the ground below me trembled. I looked behind just as a large rock protruded from it. Tevix used his powers to flip me and place me against it.

My limbs were spread out, and I couldn't move.

Oh crap.

 

Logan' s P.O.V

I could not believe what I was seeing.

"Let me go!" Emery yelled as she struggled to move away from the gray rock, but she couldn't. Tevix laughed at that.

It was not how I expected my morning to start.

"What do you plan to do to me?" Emery asked, and I felt extremely worried for her. From what Tevix had said, I was frightened for the guys and me. If he could convince Emery to accept her dark side, her evil side...

"What are you waiting for? How the hell are you possibly going to turn me evil?" Emery sneered at Tevix.

I stood shocked by what she said. 

She did not just taunt the enemy.

"Is she crazy?" Ethan whispered to me. I thought so too. 

Didn't Emery realize that we were in the presence of numerous erwiches who were capable of killing us all?

Tevix just laughed.

"I was actually thinking along the lines of making Erick's dream a reality."

No.

"And how are you going to do that?" Emery questioned with a confused look. "You have me tied up!"

"Tell me, Emery. Why are you still with them?" Tevix asked.

That was not what I expected. I thought he would use spells and potions, but I was proven wrong.

Emery did not reply, staring ahead without showing any emotion on her face.

"I know it is to defend your precious friends from our kind, but what is the true reason?"

"I think you know," Emery replied, staring daggers at Tevix.

"Oh, I don't. These guys betrayed you— blamed you for something you didn't do, and that has not changed."

"It has--" Liam went to speak.

"Shut up!" Tevix yelled at him before turning his attention back to Emery.

"Someone stabbed you, and they thought we did that." Tevix turned to face the rest of us, pointing at us.

"Idiots."

Wait. The erwiches didn't do it?

"You were almost raped..."

"SHUT UP!" Emery snapped at Tevix who smiled in return.

"Oh, I'm getting somewhere. How did it feel, Emery? How did it feel to have two guys grope you without your consent? Don't you remember their fingers in your poor vagina, their teeth on your breasts..."

Tevix was an unapologetic pervert. I was angry as I looked at him, noticing that he was sizing up Emery with his eyes.

"Stop!" Emery yelled out in a sob. 

"Not the way you were expecting your first time to be now, was it?" he continued. "And I wonder, why?" Tevix faced the rest of us with a knowing smirk.

"That was in the past," Emery stated.

"Sure it was," Tevix spoke as fingered his nose and flicked off the dried mucus.

"After the attempted rape, your day couldn't have gotten worse, now could it?" Tevix said while walking around Emery. "But wait. It did."

What? How could it get worse?

"It wasn't even an hour when you went to these people," he spoke, motioning to us, "only to find out there were policemen with them."

What was he talking about?

"They didn't hear whatever it was that you wanted to say. They thought you tried to kill Liam, and that lead to you being arrested."

For a moment, I heard nothing but static as shock and disbelief threatened to weaken my form. I looked at my side, noticing that Liam had also tensed.

"Why was that again, hmm? They said you tried to kill Liam when we both know you didn't."

"STOP!" Emery yelled out loud as she thrashed on the stone. "I don't want to remember it!"

"I will force you to remember it!" Tevix yelled as a green fireball formed on his hand. "Don't you remember the humiliation you felt when everyone saw you being arrested? Don't you remember the hell you went through in that prison? Your life was ruined! The people who you trusted betrayed you! Tell me again. Why are you still with them?"

Emery's thrashing stopped. She closed her eyes as more tears flowed from her eyes. 

"All that pain. All that hurt... for what?" Tevix kept coaxing Emery, stroking her cheek and wiping off a stray tear.

"Join us, Emery," he said gently. "Be our leader, and make everyone who ever caused you pain suffer!"

Erwiches began to yell in agreement to what Tevix said. 

A couple of seconds later, Emery blinked her eyes open.

"You're right," she spoke with a calm yet eerie voice. "Why am I still with them?" she spoke as she turned to face us. She levitated up from the stone, the invisible hold on her released. 

It seemed that her powers were back. I tried to use mine to break the chains, but they didn't work.

The way that Emery was staring at us was frightening. She looked angry.

"Why do I still let them treat me like a carpet?" she levitated towards us, and weirdly, her hair was floating as if it was in water.

"Yes! Yes!" Tevix encouraged her with a sinister smile. Emery turned to me, and I tensed in fear.

Her eyes had turned completely black, just like in Erick's dream.

"I could have left them to deal with their problems."

I felt a sudden force pushing me and the rest of us up the air. I gasped at the sudden loss of footing, feeling frightened.

"Emery--"

"Shut up!" she yelled at Erick, and her voice had taken an echo-y effect.

"You caused me so much pain. You caused me a lot of pain! I thought you cared and trusted me, but you didn't. None of you did."

We stopped being taken upward. Emery levitated next to us.

"You have no idea how mad I am at you guys!" Emery shouted at us. "You have ruined my life! I can't even go outside anymore without being attacked by crazy fangirls! I can't even go to college or get a decent job! Everyone hates me, and it's all because of you!"

None of us replied. I was still processing what Emery was saying, and I hated myself. I did not know that her situation was that worse. I knew about the fangirls, having witnessed the spectacle that almost got a fangirl shot, but college? She couldn't go to college?

"I should just kill you all right here and right now!"

Emery summoned fireballs on the palms of her hands.

"Emery, we are sorry!" Liam pleaded while the rest of us tried to move away from her. But then, we couldn't since we were still in the air.

Emery remained silent before throwing the fireballs at us. We all screamed as the flames encompassed around us. They completely blocked our view, and for a moment, I thought I was dying.

It was a couple of seconds later that I noticed the flames were just around us. They weren't causing any harm.

"The hell?" Justin muttered beside me.

"I would be happy to know that the ones who brought me so much pain are dead," I heard Emery speak just as the flames began to change color. They turned an ocean blue right before disappearing.

"And that is you guys," Emery was facing Tevix and the erwiches.

What?

"What?" Tevix asked, dropping the evil smirk that had been on his face. Emery levitated towards the ground as white stardust appeared around the guys and me to form a clear glistening ball. We stopped floating on air as our feet landed on the ball's floor.

"Is she going to kill us?" Zane asked, but I had a feeling Emery wouldn't.

"I would love to be with your kind, Tevix," Emery spoke. "That way, we will all work towards one goal and not doubt each other."

Tevix looked confused.

"But," Emery said. "There is one problem."

Tevix frowned before asking: "What is it?"

From where I stood, I spotted Emery's eyebrows furrowing in anger.

"You killed my mother!"

Emery banged her fist on the ground. In an instant, yellow stardust appeared like waves of an ocean as the went towards every direction and then disappear on the ground.

"NOW!" Emery shouted, and it sounded like she used a microphone.

I was baffled as to why she had shouted.

I got my answer when I saw green stardust fly from every corner of my surroundings like rain falling towards the sky. They seemed to be coming from outside the castle. They flew and soon met at a point above us. Once they touched, they formed a green transparent dome around the lands of the erwiches. Surprisingly, some erboons were also trapped.

"What is happening?" Tevix asked in disbelief.

Emery levitated high in the air. The rest of us watched in amazement as the blackness in her eyes was wiped to reveal a brightly-glowing blue. In an instant, blue fireballs with stardust lit her palms. She spun in the air, hurling the fireballs towards each and every direction. 

Then things escalated quickly from that point.

Emery's hair floated in the air as more fireballs came out from her hands. She stopped spinning for a moment, spreading the fireballs to every