Fire & Fangs (GXG)

Chapter 31 - Aftermath (Round Two)

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I had just fought Karl

I had just fought Karl and won.

Everyone had raced to where the fight was happening when the Lycans dispersed to see a bruised, bloody, and beaten Karl Heisenberg. He had transformed back because his slow healing took too much of his energy so he had to transform back into his human form.

The girls had gasped when they saw him.

Donna and Salvatore looked at him with pity.

Alcina tsked at her beaten 'brother.'

And Mamă?

Mamă scooped him up, shielded him with her wings, and walked back to the castle while muttering apologies.

I even heard sniffles and I assumed she was crying.

I felt bad.

I felt bad for making Mamă cry, but Alcina hugged me from behind and said that it needed to be done. That he had been getting angrier and angrier ever since that first fight. She said she knew he would toppled over the edge at some point, but knew that I would do what I thought right and would stand by my side.

Alcina said I should talk to Miranda and clear the air of my guilt because she thought Miranda wasn't mad at me for what happened, but mad at herself for the events that played out. She said that Miranda had a problem of blaming herself for all of what went wrong in her life and it ended up turning her into a bitter woman for a while who had a heart of ice.

"Miranda told me once that the snowstorm she had endured after her transformation into the Black gods prophet had frozen over her heart for all eternity... She confessed that she wanted nothing to do with the living anymore, but admitted that when I came to be... that when I came to be she felt her heart's warmth once again." Alcina explained while looking in the castle's direction, holding me tighter to her body. "Miranda is many things, but she is a woman who cares immensely for the beings she cares about. I know this to be true by what she had told me that day and believed those words on a certain day when I had felt at my lowest. I had raged in the castle. Killing, massacring anything that was within my path because I could not bear my own existence." Alcina said, a lone tear falling from her eye and onto me

"Sugar?" I asked, feeling her tremble and not from the cold.

"It is all right now, but then... I perceived my existence to be monsterly. I was a monster. I had overheard some of the maids talking and some vile words were thrown out without care. They vented about the girls and I. Something in me broke with their words. I only stopped my rampage when I looked down at my clawed hands and noticed them covered in blood. My hands shook, I trembled with immense grief, and I fled the castle. I felt the castle to Miranda's and she greeted me with open arms. I told her off what had happened and she said I was not a monster. That monsters did not feel remorse for the actions they have done and that they certainly did not feel love. She said I had a loving soul that sung when she listened to it. She said it was the loveliest melody she had ever heard... I broke down after hearing those words, but I believed the prophet. I heard the sincerity in her voice and the truth of her words."

"I..." I tried to say, but couldn't get the words out

"I say all of this because I want you to believe that you are not a monster for your actions. You feel remorse, you feel grief and... you feel love. All of those things show that you are not the monster you perceive yourself as. What you are is a protector. A steadfast knight whose courage and bravery shine like the moon's light, encompassing all with your soft glow and your healing presence." Alcina said warmly.