The five remaining guys are now looking at me wearily. I call my magic to me and visualize lightning bolts shooting outwards and hitting them. I slowly raise my hands as the magic builds up. Thrusting it outwards, I watch as bolts shoot out and hit the men. Four of them fall to the ground. They aren’t dead...just stunned. I don’t want to kill anyone, just send a warning.
The one that I didn’t hit looks to be the youngest of all of them. He looks close to my age. I slowly walk over to him. He stands his ground, but I can tell that he is scared. I did just take out eight guys on my own. He stares at me as I stop in front of him. I call magic into my finger and lightly touch him on the chest. “Boo.” His eyes widen when he feels my magic, and he quickly turns around and flees.
I brush the dirt off my clothes and start walking out of the clearing, smiling as I make my way into the darkness of the forest.
Opening my eyes, I find myself lying on my back on the couch in the living room with everyone sitting around me waiting for me to wake up. I brush my hair out of my face as I push myself into a seated position. “Wow, I’m kind of scary,” I say. My statement is met by a bunch of confused stares. Moving the collar of my shirt, I check for the bruise. Yep, it’s there. Despite the pain, I smile and start laughing.
“What the heck did you see?” Emma asks me as Logan reaches out and starts healing me. I don’t know if he will see the whole vision or just the part where the guy hit me on the shoulder. I shake my head. Did I really do that?
Logan holds onto my shoulder even after the bruise is healed which tells me that he is seeing the whole vision. When he opens his eyes, he looks at me and laughs. “Holy crap, girl.”
“I know. I don’t know what got into me, but I was freaking scary in a totally awesome way, right?”
“Will someone please explain what happened in that vision?” Emma asks again. I start explaining the vision to everyone. When I leave out details, Logan adds them in.
“So you took on nine guys by yourself?” Liam asks me. I can tell that he doesn’t like that he wasn’t able to help. He is my protector after all, and he hasn’t been given many opportunities to…protect.
“Well, technically I only took on eight guys. I scared the last one away.”
“Where were we?” I turn toward Colton. He seems upset that I fought all the guys alone too.
“I don’t know. I don’t even know how I got there. The vision started as I was running away from them. Maybe you guys were fighting off others. Maybe I was the only one there. I don’t know.” I turn toward Liam. “It was the same field where we were attacked by the gorgoths. I think that might mean that Valdus will become involved again.” Livid expressions cross both Bragden’s and Liam’s expressions. “Look, despite being attacked, this is a good sign. I’m able to successfully defend myself. I only got hit once!”
“Ryanne, you were just—” I stop listening to what Liam is saying. Something isn’t adding up. Besides the gorgoths, I’ve seen that field recently. I’ve seen something very similar to that before…but where?
I turn toward Logan. “Did that look like the same field from the other vision I had where I was attacked by Adam and Dravin? I was wearing the same outfit.”
“Hmm, Well…yeah, I actually think it was the same location. What does that mean?”
“It means that either I did something or Dravin did something to change that vision.” I look down at the carpet. The vision changed. “It means I could stand a chance.”
Colton
I can understand why she’d be happy that she is able to successfully fight nine of Dravin’s men, but why did she have to? Why was she alone? Where was I? Liam? I have so many questions after hearing about this vision. Something changed, but what? I can tell that Liam is just as confused as I am.
Ryanne stares at the floor with a small smile on her face. I can tell that she is thinking. I just hope that this vision doesn’t make her think that she’s invincible. I can’t stand the thought of losing her again. She starts shaking her head. Laughing dryly, she says to Logan, “Who am I kidding? I’ll never be that girl. I’m not that fearless. Dravin’s proven it countless times…” She bites her lip, and her eyes water a little.
“Ryanne, that’s not—”
“Can we just go train now?” she quietly asks me. I nod and put my hand out. She grabs onto my hand and lets me guide her upstairs. I pull her into our room, and she closes the door. Leaning back against it, she crosses her arms and looks down at the floor. Her lip quivers a little.