Phwoar and Peace Page 12

  After unrolling the scroll, I read it.

  To one there will be a blessing. And from this shall come forth a child of the angels. This child shall hold immense supernatural power, and at the time of the Great War, will inherit her celestial inheritance.

  The balance shall be restored.

  I stared at Sophia.

  “Charlie.”

  She nodded.

  “Charlie.”

  Charlie

  It all happened so fast. One minute I’d been dealing with my father. Then the next Ebony was passed out on the floor, and the devil walked in and shot fire at my mum. She fell to the floor, smoke pouring from her eyes, ears, mouth, and nostrils.

  “Muuuuuuuummmm,” I screamed.

  Satan spun around.

  “Charlie, babes. We’ve not met. I’m Satan. Not the one whose body I currently inhabit, although I have to say it's not bad. Not bad at all. But the one who had a bit of beef with your mother. Think that beef is well cooked now, don’t you?”

  My father ran to my mother’s side.

  “Oh look, how sweet. Little Theo running to his newly barbecued wife’s side. Probably too late, Theo, mate. I can do a two-for-one deal if you like?” Flames threatened at his fingertips.

  That was it. The coffee shop erupted and every single person in the room began to surge towards Satan. Using my wyvern powers I froze them all in place, looking at them in mid-step: my family and friends. Every single one of them, with the exception of Ebony and my mother, were prepared to battle on my behalf. I felt the power surge through my veins as I embraced all of their battle cries and powers. Every single species, supe and human alike was joining the battle and their power sang in my veins. I waited to turn into my wyvern, but instead a brilliant white light sank into me, and white feathers fell as if from the sky, falling to the coffee shop floor like a carpet of snow.

  Satan’s eyes widened. “Nice party trick." He shot out flames at me.

  I caught them, turning them to ice with the power of the sea. Then the sirens call came through me as I sang a melody that brought Satan to his knees, his hands over his ears. “Stop, stop it.”

  A clawed fist, a gift from the shifters appeared, and I walked over to Satan and swiped across his abdomen. He screamed a gutteral unearthly scream as a slash appeared in his skin. It filled with the bright, white light.

  Words appeared in my mind, a spell, my witchcraft heritage. I began to speak them.

  “Oh son of darkness

  Creator of destruction

  Now it is time to heed my instruction

  Every atom

  Every cell

  Come to me as I weave my spell.”

  Satan’s mouth opened and with a silent scream he began to disintegrate from the inside out. I continued.

  “Each single particle

  Travel far and wide

  Never again to assemble side by side

  One in each kingdom

  One in each realm

  Locked within the bark of an enchanted elm.”

  The red cells he had broken into danced before me and turned white and then they shot through the walls. One small cell remained and although it should not have been visible to my eye, it was suspended in the air and magnified so I could see it.

  “The last of you

  The evil one

  Shall stay in heaven until time is done

  You will never escape

  Your time here is ended

  Now balance will restore

  As Fate intended.”

  With that the feathers swirled up from the ground, wrapping around the final cell and they disappeared through the ceiling. He was gone. It was done.

  The freeze on the room lifted as people surged forward before realising that he was no longer there. Then they looked at me and dropped to their knees.

  As I looked down at myself I saw that I was glowing with a white light from the inside out. I heard the words ‘My Queen’ fall from everyone’s lips.

  Then the white light slowly dimmed until it was no more, and Ebony and my mum came around with large intakes of air.

  My father took my mum straight to the caves. Frankie, who used to be a physician, checked over Ebony to make sure she was okay. My grandparents, Dylan and Margret, came rushing towards me, Kai not far behind.

  “Charlie. Are you okay? My goodness. It was so strange. We came to help you and then it was like we froze. I could see and hear what was happening but I couldn’t move a muscle.” My grandma said.

  “Granddaughter, you were simply amazing. You must conserve your powers for the next couple of days, let Kai look after you. Come, we will drop you off at the farmhouse as I’m sure your parents will wish to see you soon as your mum is discharged from the caves.”

  The door opening made us all jump. Samara stomped through, a fawn coloured whippet at her heels. The dog immediately ran up to Maisie and barked its head off.

  “Oh my god, every time we see a cat it’s the same. Johnny, you are driving me insane. I’ll have to put you in a kennel if you can’t behave.”

  “You could try putting it on that lead you’ve got in your hand. That might be a start in getting him to behave.” I told her. “Anyway, why have you called your dog the same name as your husband? That’s got to be confusing.”

  “That’s because it is my husband.” Samara yelled. “It’s part of my stupid punishment for not being a good Cupid. Apparently, the managers don’t believe I should have a happy love life when I’m not working hard enough to make sure anyone else is. Therefore, they have turned Johnny into a whippet and he won’t turn back into my husband until I have done their stupid training. Now, what does a girl have to do to get a drink around here because I’ve had a really difficult day.”

  I couldn’t help it. I burst into laughter, and within a minute the whole cafe was laughing along with me.

  Shelley

  Six weeks later

  We gathered outside Withernsea church. Charlie and Kai had already had a wedding ceremony under the sea and now they were having another on dry land. Things had been pretty settled for the last month. We had said goodbye to Samara temporarily, who had gone to begin her training.

  I looked at the crowd gathered in the pews. Kim sat with her husband and Alyssa, a baby on each lap. Bartholomew sat at the other side of Alyssa. She had him eating out of her hand, and Darius had accepted they were dating after Alyssa had reassured him that she was taking it slow and that she wasn’t even sure Bartholomew was the one for her.

  Frankie and Lucy were getting ready to set off travelling again. Ebony had decided to expand into the menswear line, and so now had reemployed my daughter as the business was so busy.

  My adoptive father had been taken to the caves where his mind had been wiped of all the trauma. My adoptive mother had decided that it was time for them to start afresh and they were looking for a new place to live. She apologised that the places they were looking at were a plane journey away such as the south of France, Spain, and Florida. The truth was, neither Polly or I would mind too much that they were further away. It left us to get on with our lives. Drake had taken a page out of Kai’s book and had proposed to Polly. They were getting married next year.

  Theo had got the bed-and-breakfast ready at last and was having an official opening on Halloween. His mum and Alistair had proved a great help around the place when they weren’t trying out each of the new bedrooms much to Theo’s disgust.

  When Satan had been destroyed, it had unfortunately destroyed his replacement too. There was therefore a brand-new Satan employed, and after discussion with the Angels it had been officially agreed that I was no longer bound by my deal with the devil and could matchmake both humans and supernaturals alike. This was welcome, given that Lucy was about to travel again and Kim was still on maternity leave. My real mum had offered to come and help with the agency for a while, saying that it would be nice for us to spend more time together.

  I didn’t know what the future held
, but I knew one thing for sure.

  I was pregnant.

  It would appear that Cupid himself could consult Fate and ask for favours where he felt them to be deserved. He had gone into battle on mine and Theo’s behalf. Therefore, when I had felt recovered from my ordeal at the cafe, and we had had an evening with no one else home, we’d ended up gaining more than a few love bites that night.

  I watched our daughter walk down the aisle in her fairytale white dress, beaming with happiness that Kai stood at the end of the altar. She had her arm through Theo's and I saw her have to use her strength to pull away from him to move to Kai's side. I shook my head smiling at his over-protectiveness. Later tonight, when we were alone, I would tell him our news. But this dusky late afternoon belonged to my daughter and her new husband.

  Charlie had refused point-blank to have a wedding reception.

  I couldn’t think why…

  Fate

  People thought that good and evil battled for control of the earth. But ultimately everything that happened in life was my call. Shelley and Theo had endured so much in their first year together. Charlie was a beautiful daughter that they could be proud of, but they had missed out on a lot of the delights of having a baby and watching it grow up. Therefore, when Cupid had asked if Shelley could be blessed with another child before one hundred and one years had passed, I had agreed and set the ball in motion, or as Cupid cheekily said, the balls in motion.

  It was very early days in Shelley’s pregnancy, but I knew that in seven-and-a-half months she would give birth to a son. He would not have an accelerated aging, and the witch part of Shelley would be strong in him, meaning that he would age as a human. Poor Louisa would have overprotective were-brothers and a part vampire/part wizard bodyguard.

  When I threw down the dice for good versus evil in Withernsea, Charlie had embraced her destiny and won. Withernsea would be peaceful now for some time. Had Satan won, Withernsea would have been destroyed by his greed. Though I could engineer largely what I wanted to happen, sometimes I got bored and left things to my brother, Chance. He was most disgruntled that Satan had lost. He had to serve me now for the next ten years.

  So now, it was time for me to take my leave of Withernsea. Whether I'd ever return, I wasn't sure. For now I had other projects- including that of a certain Samara Leighton.

  She was a crazy, stupid, lazy, Cupid. But there was a saying:

  Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling.

  Either way I’d win.

  THE END

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