Across The Border - Book I 14 Chapter - 14

Nina gave a yellow potion which she took from one of her pockets to Peter and informed James that,

"I gave him a potion which could freeze his body and it will slowly stop the spread of the poison. You do not have enough time, the old witch would have realized now that there are intruders in her, so you need to hurry."

Before she could even finish her sentence properly, Nina spat out blood and it turned black immediately when it was exposed in the air. She took Asher's water and sprayed on it.

"If you do not leave now, then everyone will be infected. Hurry! Go away", Nina shouted.

James left with no option signaled two of his men, once they reached, he ordered then to place Peter on the leaves left in that corner. They left with Peter while Robert went along with them.

Elly kept on crying and said, "I won't leave you behind. You too come with us, we will find a cure for the poison. Please, princess Nina! I beg you!"

Elly ran towards Nina but James held her back and stopped her. Elly struggled to get out his grasp while wailing even louder. Ella felt too guilty, it was because of her carelessness that both Nina and her brother got affected. James got worried as it might alert the witch, that they have not only infiltrated the boundary but also entered her chamber.

"Do not worry, nothing will happen to me. We will meet again", Saying that Nina closed her eyes.

James picked Elly in one hand and the things which they got in the other hand and flew towards the exit. But before he could reach, he saw the witch come into the prison but she did not do anything to stop them, other than smiling as her plan worked.

Her clone entered the team and even Peter is poisoned. She finally had a great victory, she just pushed Linda into another cage and she ordered her slaves to rebuild the broken wall.

James wondered and felt that something was wrong when the witch did not do anything at all even when they rescued the kids. He thought she let them go because Elly might have become one of her kind. He stared at Elly who was still crying her eyes out but James could not just believe her yet.

When Linda was pushed inside, she saw Nina disappearing into thin air. Just a speck of dust moved upwards. Nina's soul traveled to Asher where she will be reborn again.

A Yunacel has the power to be reborn fifteen times, since her life ended tragically and also very young, Nina's soul would travel back to Asher and she would begin her life once again from where it ended.

But even though she was reborn again, she would forget everything that had happened to her in this life.

As James noticed, Linda, coming from the west, he became alert. He questioned Linda, "Did you not go east to check the perimeters? What were you doing for so long? Where did you go?"

"Chief relax, I first went to eat and then to the west, just to be sure that everything is alright and we were not discovered. Once it is done, I flew directly here." Linda said cooly.

At that time someone shouted, "The portal is closing outside, we need to rus.h.!.+"

They all flew towards the exit in a hurry, so they failed to notice that Linda's eyes changed. But Elly saw this change and tried to question her aunt Linda about it but before she could even open the mouth, Linda pressed her hand on her forehead and made her sleep.

While everyone was rus.h.i.+ng forward, Linda went slowly and once everyone entered the portal, her head alone turned back and smirked at the Old witch who was watching them from afar. She jumped into the portal and disappeared.

Once they reached the camp, they sent the children into a tent while they carried Peter into a restricted area. When Robert tried to stick around, James held him back. When he tried to struggle out of his hands, James whispered into Robert's ears, "Keep an eye on Elly! She may not be one of us"

"Oh! Shut up! Why are you now trying to drive a wedge between us?", Robert pushed him back.

"I am not doing anything. Our operation had only a ten percent chance of success. Even though we were not fully prepared, we came expecting a fight. But everything went smoothly and even though the witch could have interfered, she did not! It is not very usual as per her character"

Robert understood what his father said made sense! when they came searching for Elly, even though they used the magic to find her, he surely did not expect that Elly would just appear before them so easily.

As James saw that Robert is actually getting him and he waited for him to share his opinion but being stubborn Robert did not open his mouth even after a long time. So James continued to say his own thoughts,

"Elly may not be the one but the witch had enough time to infiltrate our team easily. I have my eyes on one more person but I would not tell you now! Just make sure to keep an eye on Elly"

When James finished, he turned his head towards Linda. Linda, who was listening to their conversation till now, just jolted awake and rushed to the other side.

Linda, once little away from everyone, started making plans to change James's distrust completely towards Elly. Before she could think of a full plan someone hugged her from behind.

"Lin, darling, my wife! I missed you! Why don't you turn your head and give me a kiss?" Draven in a drunken state, leaning even more towards Linda!

Linda just turned her head alone and kissed him. Being kissed by Linda, Draven almost became sober! But before he could realize what happened, Linda put her hand on his head and made him sleep!