~Oriella & Caswyn; The Maze~

Oriella; "You will be judge for your crimes; it seems that even though you have found yourselves placed on this Isle you have failed to understand why and I think it’s time that you are taught a very important lesson" Balthazar's word's are the last thing I hear before Arabella's hand is torn from mine, I hear the sound of hear screaming as I feel myself hurtling through space.

Landing hard on the ground I know without being told that I'm in Balthazar's Maze of Redemption, I've heard enough stories about this place to know it. Opening my eyes I see nothing through the darkness, whipping my head around I look for my cousin Arabella. "FUCK!" I yell out when I realize that she's not her with me, "BALTHAZAR I WILL KILL YOU IF YOU'VE HURT HER!".

Pushing myself to my feet I feel around for the wall, frowning when I feel cold stone beneath my hands, "Fuck" I breathe out before I slam my palm's against the wall using all the strength I possess. I feel a few small rocks fall on me, the size of pea's no bigger, makes me hiss out before slamming my hands against the wall again. The sound of thunder rumbles through the air just before i feel the roof starting to cave in on me "FUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK" I scream as the rocks cover me over...

"FUKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK" I scream out when the rocks start to fall down on top of me. Dropping to the ground I curl up into a ball, just the way my instincts have taught me to in the past i blink several times as I cough trying to get the dust out of my lungs, something hits my temple making the darkness spin around me before everything goes black...

Awakening quickly as the pain courses through me, I feel as if the weight of the world is on my shoulders. No it's on my back, no fuck it's on my entire body. I'm buried, beneath the stone wall's of the Maze, coughing I say as a rasp "Fuck youBalthazar! This is your fault". Coughing again, I can't help but breathe in the dust from the stones.

Placing my palm's on the ground I push myself to my feet, well try to anyway, I try to make the stone's fall off of me. Using all my strength I push up before growling out as I let myself drop to the ground when I realize that I can't move, I can't get out alone.

Feeling the cold stone beneath my face, I close my eyes and try to reach out to my cousin Arabella, sighing when I don't sense her anywhere around. taking another slow deep breath I think to myself. So this is how you're going to die hmm Ori? I guess it's nothing less than I deserve. I laugh out bitterly before I feel the weight getting lighter on my back, Frowning I whisper to myself "What the fuck?"

Caswyn; "Oriella, you are a sad lost little girl, your mummy lied to you boo hoo, you never had your daddy, boo fricken hoo. You kill innocent people. You will spend the rest of your immortal life alone, because you are a worthless being, you always have been and you always will be. And You Oriella EI Fallonwill NEVER hear me say the words 'i regret my decision', never.Aidan EI D'Angelo is mine forever" The words leave my mouth, and I'm shocked by how strong they are, how much meaning there is behind them. Turning my head slightly I look at Aidan, knowing he can't see it not with the hold Oriella's got on him, but I try to show him with my eye's that I forgive him, that no matter what happen's I want him to be happy, I keep looking at him, even when I feel the cold steel of Oriella's dagger as it plunges into my heart, looking at Aidan, I watch him until everything goes black...

Opening my eye's I look around me, confused I'm in a dark hallway, there's nothing here just darkness. Reaching out I try to feel for a wall, raising my eyebrow when my hand brushes against cold stone. "Hmm" I say to myself "We're not in Kansas any more".

I hear the sound of someone coughing, just off in the distance without thinking about it I rush toward the sound, hissing out in pain when I run straight into an avalanche of stones. Dropping to my knees I feel around in the darkness for a few minutes before I start to pull the rocks free one by one, until I can feel the soft warm flesh of the body trapped beneath...

Caswyn; With the stones on my back becoming lighter I stay still not wanting to alert whoever it is here helping me, when I feel someone touching my lower back, I feel a shiver run up my spine. I know who it is, it's Caswyn. But how can that be? I killed him, and I watched from the shadow's as Aidan D'Angelo buried his body, his soul is in my locket, trapped, safe from Balthazar Kane's reach. It's safe so that neither he nor Arden Khaldun can ever resurrect him.

"Here take my hand" I hear him say as he reaches his hand out to me, I hesitate for a moment before reaching out and taking his hand. "thank you kind sir" I say in a low and sultry voice, grinning to myself when it clicks that he has no idea who i am. He help's me to my feet and I smile to myself. "What's your name?" I hear a soft chuckle as he say's "My name's Caswyn, but call me Cas. What's yours?" I bit my lip and think about giving him my real name, just to see what he does about it.

Sighing to myself I decide that i want to play with him a little longer "My name's Emilia, but you can call me Em" I say to him as I lean forward and brush a soft kiss on his cheek, before leaning back and saying "Do you know how to get out of here?"
Caswyn; Hearing the soft sound of the females voice as she say's "thank you kind sir...What's you name?" I frown slightly, there's something about her that feels familiar, almost as if I've met her before, shrugging i chuckle softly before saying "My name's Caswyn, but call me Cas. What's yours?" I ask her as I breathe in deeply, trying to catch her scent. I know that scent, but from where I just can't tell, I hear her make a small sigh before she say's "My name's Emilia, but you can call me Em" then leans forward brushing a soft kiss on my cheek. Raising my hand I place it over the spot as she say's "Do you know how to get out of here?"

Even though it's dark and she can't see me, i shrug at her and say "I don't know, but i think i'm hear for a reason" She say's to me "Oh? A reason? What do you think that could be?" Shrugging again, I keep hold of her hand as I tug on it gently and say "I don't know, but I think i'm here to watch over you" I hear her laugh softly before saying "Why do you think that?". Frowning to myself I say "I'm not sure, but you feel so familia, and i want to help you. I think I need to help you".

Oriella; Even though it's dark I can see the ripple of muscle when he shrug's before saying "I don't know, but i think i'm hear for a reason" She say's to me. I raise my eyebrow before saying softly "Oh? A reason? What do you think that could be?" I feel him tug on our joined hands gently before he say's "I don't know, but I think i'm here to watch over you" I laugh softly at the irony of it, he thinks he's here to protect me?, I grin and say "Why do you think that?" I sense more then see him as he frowns before saying "I'm not sure, but you feel so familia, and i want to help you. I think I need to help you" I raise my eyebrow's at his word's before saying "okay. so you're like m spirit guide or something?". I hear him laugh before saying "I think I'm more solid than a spirit, but yeah that's the gist of it"

Shaking my head I laugh softly and nod before saying "okay, I can deal with that" Grinning I think to myself, Caswyn must be delusional or something, he thinks I need HIS help. like fuck I need his help, I don't need anyone's help, in fact I don't need anyone. Turning toward him, I feel my eye's blazing red with my hatred of him, his lover Aidan EI D'Angelo, and more than anyone elseBalthazar EI Kane. Balthazar, he put me here, I am going to fucking kill him. Growling out, i feel a pull on my hand when when Caswyn takes a step backwards. I grasp his hand tighter as I say "please don't leave me here alone" I say it as softly and whiny as I can, playing on his need to protect me.

He pull's me into his embrace, holding me tight to him as his hand runs down my hair while he whispers "It's okay, i wont leave you, I'll stay here with you". I grin to myself as i think, This is going to be fun...

When Caswyn releases me from his embrace I take a deep breath and look up at him with a small smile on my face before I reach out and take his hand as we walk hand in hand down the corridor. Smiling to myself I wonder what Caswyn would do if he knew not only that he was dead but that I was the one who swung the knife and decapitated him, shrugging slightly I turn down the left path and frown when I see a light at the end of the corridor, Turning back to look at Caswyn I say "You think that's the way out?"

Caswyn; With Emilia's (Oriella's) hand in mine I grin to myself strangely liking the warmth I feel in her hand as she hold's tight to mine. I look down at her as we walk not being able to see much in the aching darkness, but when I focus I can see the lines of worry on her forehead. I sigh out softly and think for a moment about asking her what's wrong, I stop the thought mid sentence. If she wanted me to know what was wrong i'm sure she'd tell me.

I don't know why i'm here, or why I don't remember anything. I have no idea where i am how I got here or much of anything really. The last thing I remember was killing the latest witch I found; that was back in New Orleans, I remember it as if it was yesterday, but somehow I know it's been a lot longer then that.

I turn toward Emilia (Oriella) when I hear her say "You think that's the way out?" Pulling myself out of my daze I raise my eyes and look down the corridor raising my eyebrow when I see a light at the end of the corridor. Shrugging at her I say "I have no idea, stay back I'll go first" I hear a snort before she say's...

Oriella; Hearing Caswyn say "I have no idea, stay back I'll go first" I snort at him before growling out and saying "I don't need you to protect me" Hearing his quick intake of breath I realize that my damsel in distress routine wont hold up if I act like my usual self.

I take a quick breath and allow my body to shake for a moment before I say "Maybe... Maybe you're right... You.... You should go first" I stammer out, before holding tight to his hand squeezing it once more before letting go and watching with a grin on my face as he walk's toward the end of the corridor.

Caswyn; Leaving Emilia (Oriella) Standing in the corridor I slowly walk toward the light at the end, frowning when it doesn't seem to get any closer, I speed up into a light jog smiling wide when the end seem's ti finally be getting closer.

I let out a small laugh when I burst through the archway into the sunlight before freezing when the sound of laughter fill's the air. Whipping my head around I try to find where it's coming from, my eyes go wide when I see a portal before several beautiful women step through, all their eyes on me. I swallow a breath before stumbling backwards as I call out to Emilia "RUN EM!!!" I stumble back a few more feet before I fall to the ground...

Oriella; I lean back against the wall folding my arms across my chest as I smile thinking about how much I like havingCaswyn with me right now, not that I like him at all I just like the idea of him finally doing whatever I say, just the way he was meant to before that male got in the way.

Shrugging I look at him walking down the hall slowly, I raise my eyebrow when I see him speed up into a light jog. I shake my head when i hear him let out a small laugh as he walks through the archway into the sunlight. Sighing I push myself off from the wall when i head Caswyn yell out "RUN EM!!!" Frowning to myself I run toward the sunlight, not knowing why I need to head out there, only knowing that that's where I need to go.

I stop dead in my tracks when I come face to face with a woman, She's tall slender, with long dark hair, I swallow and look to her right my mouth dropping when I see the blonde woman beside her, my sister's Valkyries, sister's I killed. I look between the two women before taking a step toward Caswyn as I breathe out saying "Ashilyn, Karleah. You're dead"...

“Ashlyn, Karleah You’re dead” I breathe out the words, hardly believing that they are here now. How did they get here? Do they know that they’re dead? SHIT! Do they know that I killed them? Is that why they’re here? for revenge? I shake my head to clear the thoughts before plastering a smile on my face as I say.

“Ash Leah, It’s great to see you both”

I can tell that by the look on their face that they know what I did to them. Twin grins cross their faces as I breathe out “Shit” and take another step toward Caswyn. “You have been a very bad girl Oriella” Ashlyn says as she takes a step toward me “Indeed you have” Karleah says with a nod as she moves up to stand by Ashlyn. I tilt my head to the side as I grin and say “Well let’s get the party started then”

Caswyn; When I hear Emilia (Oriella) say “Ashlyn, Karleah You’re dead” before she takes a step toward me, a mired of emotions play across her face before she say’s “Ash Leah it’s great to see you both”. I see a twin grin that spread out on their faces just moments before Em whispers “shit” and takes another step toward me.

I push myself to my feel standing tall beside Emilia as I hear the blonde woman, Ashilyn I think her name is says “You have been a very bad girl Oriella” as she takes a threatening step toward Em and I. That name ‘Oriella’, it rings a bell, as If I’ve heard it before, perhaps a long time ago. Did I know her before I lost my memory? Were we friends? Were we lovers? Is that why I feel the overwhelming need to protect her, but on the other hand if that were true why did she lie to me about her name? Just who is this female? And who the fuck just hit her!?!

Oriella; I stagger back a step when Ashlyn's fist connects with the side of my face, the slight pain hitting instantly. I raise my hand and rub my jaw as i try to sooth the ache before flashing her a grin and saying “You still hit like a fucking girl Ash” before I swing at her, laughing bitterly when she hits the ground just moments after my fist makes contact. I growl out in warning to Karleah as she advances on Caswyn, she ignores my warning and engages with him. I stand there frozen for a moment when I see that Caswyn can fight, “fuck me” I say softly before turning my attention back to Ashlyn as she hisses out at me “We were sisters and you” she swings at me and I block it forcing her to take a step backwards “and you fucking killed me!” she continues to say as she throws her swings at me, I growl back at her as her next blow makes contact with my cheek.

“You fucking deserved it you shallow bitch!”

Unable to hold back I push forward, now fully immersed in attack mode as I say “You sided with her! You voted along-side her and exiled me, from my own home!” I hiss out at her pulling my mermaid power to the surface as I hiss out “You deserved everything I did to you” turning I focus on Karleah as she advances on Caswyn who’s now laying on his back “STOP!” I yell to her, I don’t know if it’s the strength of my mermaid power stopping her from making her killing blow or if it’s the power in my voice.

I hear Ashlyn as she takes a step toward me creeping up from behind and I whip my head around “STAY” I growl at her, grinning at the shocked look on her face as her motion’s freeze. I turn back toward Karleah and look deep into her gaze as I say sweetly “Come here” I smile at the look of horror on her face as she walk’s toward me to stand beside Ashlyn, they now both wear twin looks of horror on their faces. I reach behind me to the base of my spine and remove the dagger that’s always there, pulling it out I run the blade along the side of Ashlyn’s face, grinning when a tear roll’s down her cheek.

“Ori stop” The word’s hit me like a blow to the chest, a chill runs through me as I hear him repeat the words….

Caswyn; I hear the exchange between Emilia (Oriella) and the blonde female Ashlyn not paying a lot of attention to what’s going on around me other than watching the two female’s sparing. Part of me want’s to jump in there and save Emilia (Oriella) from the fight, while the other more sane part of me knows that it would do more harm than good if I did.

“what the fuck!”

I growl out when the brunette female’s I’d forgotten about hit’s me hard across the face, hard enough to make me stagger back a few feet before I gain my footing and take a step toward her growling out the words between my blows “who the fuck do you think you are?” My own question is answered when I hear the words “We were sisters, and you fucking killed me” I shake my head and think to myself, no it can’t be possible not Emilia, she’s been nothing but sweet and kind to me, but I can’t deny the truth when I hear the words that flow from her (Oriella’s) mouth “You fucking deserved it you shallow bitch! You sided with her! You voted along-side her and exiled me, from my own home! You deserved everything I did to you”

Those few words, my distraction lost for a moment, and that’s all it takes for the brunette bitch to get the jump on me, and before I even know what’s happening I’m on my back looking up at her as she stalks toward me, freezing when Emilia yells “STOP!” her eye’s locked with the females for a moment before she turns to the woman creeping up behind her “STAY!” she yells at her, and she stop’s moving instantly, as if just her words alone froze the women in place. “Come here” she say’s to the brunette woman standing over me, I can see by the look in her eyes that she want’s nothing more than to ignore Emilia’s (Oriella’s) words, but some force makes it impossible for her and she walks toward Emilia (Oriella) until she’s standing frozen to the spot beside the blonde female.
Emilia’s (Oriella’s) movements are too quick for me to follow as she reaches into the back of her jeans pulling out a dagger, there’s something I recognize about it. I’ve seen it before, I don’t know where but I’ve definitely seen it before.

“Ori stop” I whisper the words softly, they’re foreign to my mouth but they seem to fit with this firecracker of a woman standing in-front of me, facing off with these two women without fear. I take a step toward her as I repeat the words “Ori stop, you can’t do this. It’s not right” She frowns at me for a moment then say’s “You have no fucking idea what’s right and what’s not” just before a cold looks covers her face and she turns back to the females, thrusting the blade into the brunette’s heart, her eye’s go wide but no sound escapes them…

Oriella; “Ori stop, you can’t do this. It’s not right” I hear Caswyn say to me, his entire focus seems to be on me, and the dagger in my hand. I frown at him when I realize that this didn’t used to be me. When I was younger I never hurt a fly, and I was always punished for disobeying my mother’s orders and letting the males go, I never felt right about killing. I never liked it one bit, not until I felt the pain of my cousin (Arabella) and what was done to her, by her own mother, it made things clear to me, and I knew at that moment that what my mother and sister’s had taught me growing up, was right, it was what I had to do. But when I returned home, they threw me out, exiled me as if I was last week’s news. And Caswyn is telling me that it’s not right to kill these women standing before us, how wrong he is.

“You have no fucking idea what’s right and what’s not”

I say to him in a cold emotionless voice as my face grows cold and I turn back to Ashlyn and Karleah, I raise the dagger and in one quick motion I thrust it into her heart. Her eyes go wide but no sound comes from her lips, my will alone keeping her silent. I pull the blade from her chest and watch as her limp body falls to the ground before vanishing as if it never was.

“What am I going to do with you?”

I say to Ashlyn, as I tilt my head to the side and pretend to think about it, I raise the dagger to my mouth and lick the blood before growling low in my chest and saying “Just how I remembered” I raise the blade ready to strike, ready to kill Ashlyn just like I did the last time, but as I’m about to plunge it in I feel Caswyn tackle me from the side as he yell’s out “RUN NOW!” to Ashlyn, my concentration broken by him and I’m unable to hold her in my thrall. I struggle against him trying to throw him off, but what he does next shocks me more than anything ever has before.

Caswyn; I watch from the sidelines as the brunette’s body falls to the ground before vanishing, my mind whirling with what I’ve just witnessed.

“What am I going to do with you?” I hear Oriella say to Ashlyn just before she raises the dagger and licks a bit of the blood off saying “Just how I remembered it”. I know in that moment that’s why I’m here, to help her to stop her killing her family, I need to save this blonde woman, it’ll be the first step for her.

I run at Oriella and tackle her to the ground as I yell out to Ashlyn “RUN NOW!”. I watch as she turn’s and run’s away back into the dark tunnel. I feel Oriella struggling beneath me, she’s got the strength to throw me off her, I know that, it would be stupid of me to not know. But she doesn’t and that makes me think that a part of her doesn’t want to hurt the female, unable to think of anything else to do to stop her struggling against me, I lower my mouth to hers and take her lips in a fierce kiss, her movements stilling beneath me in an instant before she starts to respond...

Oriella; I freeze my movements when I realize that I'm kissing Caswyn back. No...No this can not be happening, not after how he betrayed me for that male. I growl out and throw him off me, Smiling when he hits the wall before slumping down to the ground, I get to my feet and walk over to him, Standing over him I say

"Do not EVER do that again! I will kill you slowly and painfully if you EVER do that again!"

I stay standing above him hurling insults as they come, not noticing the weird mired of emotions flashing across his face.

Caswyn; I can't help but smile when I feel Oriellaresponding to me as she kisses me back for a moment, just before she freezes and throws me off of her, my head slamming into the wall as I hit the ground. She walks up to me and stands over me as she say's "Do not EVER do that again! I will kill you slowly and painfully if you EVER do that again!". That voice, such anger and pain and that position she's standing in it's something I recognize. "slowly and painfully" I mumble softly to myself just as memories come crashing down on me.

Me standing in my kitchen talking with Aidan and then a crashing noise as you (Oriella) come crashing through the window, doing...no saying something to Aidan that makes him attach me, weakening me before you walk up to me as I'm sprawled out on the ground, you standing above me as you say you're going to kill me...And then a blinding pain in my chest as you do just as you threatened. I growl out at you and push myself to my feet, my hands instantly going around your throat as I growl out the words

"YOU...KILLED...ME!"

Oriella; I continue to stand over Caswyn not noticing the change in his expression until he leaps up and his hands go around my throat while he growls out the words "YOU...KILLED...ME!" I feel a grin spread across my lips.

"You deserved it"

I say in a strangled voice, making him tighten his grip on my neck, I continue to grin at him when he slams my head against the wall before saying;

"WHY!?!"

I laugh softly, well as much of a laugh as I could muster in this state, "You pissed me off! you chose HIM over ME. and I would do it again in a heart beat" I let him continue to hold onto me for a few more moments before I tire of it, and I raise my knee up catching him in between his leg's and making him release me as he falls to the ground. I walk over to him, glaring down at him as I say "Don't fuck with me Caswyn, I've killed you once and I wont hesitate to do it again"

Caswyn; I growl out when I see the grin spread across her now cruel looking mouth as she say's "You deserved it", I pull her back from the wall before slamming her head against it, smiling when I see the momentarily confused look cross her lips.

"WHY!?!"

I growl out at her, wanting, no needing more than anything else for her to tell me why she took my life, why she ended my existence, just when I was finally happy, I was content I may not have found my parents but I did find something that was going to help me through my long years of existence and now that's gone forever. When she laughs I feel my hand tighten around her neck as she say's "You pissed me off! you chose HIM over ME. and I would do it again in a heart beat" I don't need to ask her who the 'him' was I know she's talking about Aidan. I hold tight to her neck as my breathing speeds up the fury running through my veins, I could end this right now, I could squeeze a little tighter and watch as the breath leaves her lungs, I could---

My thought is but off mid way as I feel her knee making contact with my groin, making me groan out and instantly drop my hold on her neck as I fall to the ground, my hand's going to cup my groin, rubbing to try and sooth the ache, I barely take notice of her as she stands over my again saying "Don't fuck with me Caswyn, I've killed you once and I wont hesitate to do it again" before she turns and walks away from me.

I don't even bother to get up, I just lay on my back...