Chapter Twelve

"ELSA!" I call out to her again.

This time my voice comes out a little louder than a whisper.

She is on her knees. Legs and hands tied with a rope so tight it is already bruising her skin. Her entire face is badly bruised. There is a purple splash of color on her left eye which is swollen and a cut across her lips with a trail of blood running from her hair down her jaw. Her clothes are torn in too many places for me to count.

The sight of my Elsa in front of me, brings tears to my eyes and I try to get to her but the ever alert guards by my side hold me down. I scream and trash around but the hold they have on me is too strong.

All the while Elsa keeps her one good eye on me. Her bashed lips seem to be moving but all I can hear is a constant ringing and my own heart beat.

My protests cause everyone to turn their attention on me and I am forced to zone back into the situation.

"Lies! You are lying!"

As he turns to look at me, that's when I realise that he can hear me from up there. Before I can say more, the guard at my back gags me with a clothe to prevent me from saying anything more. They apply more pressure on their hold on me, to keep me from struggling.

I only widen my eyes at the accusations Silas keeps throwing at Elsa who seem to be going in and out of consciousness.

What can I do? Elsa is the one who is good at handling situations like this. What can I do?

My mind tries to think of ways to help us out of this situation but it comes back empty. Again.

Through out our childhood, she has always been like a mother and elder sister. She makes all the decisions, got into fights and everything. All for me.

Now that she is stuck up there in pain....I am helpless.

I open my eyes so wide in disbelief that it feels like they will pop out of their sockets!

My vision becomes blurred, thanks to my tears. I squeeze my eyes shot and drop my head in order to clear it.

When I look at Silas again, he is no longer on the podium but Bellman is and just like his boss he confirms the accusations. Saying Elsa used black magic to bury them so no human could find them. He goes on and on about his bravery and how they caught her.

But I know it's all a lie. Elsa can never kill anybody. She might be a little aggressive but she will never kill anyone. Not Samuel. Not Ruth. Not anyone or anything.

Bellman goes down and Silas comes up to pronounce the punishment and I keep zoning out getting only bits of it.

At that moment everything starts happening like I am watching it from someone else's eyes. I increase my struggles to get free.

They start to drag her to the pole and I continue struggling and screaming stuffs that are inaudible thanks to the gag between my lips.

My legs go weak and I slump on my knees watching as Elsa is pulled up so they can pass the hoop from the pole unto her neck.

At that moment our eyes lock again and I make out what she has been mumbling since she saw me.

"....I....a...m......s....o.....r...r...y....."

There are tears in her eyes and that breaks the remaining bones in my body that my own pain has not broken already.

My heart starts constricting in pain just seeing her so helpless. My bones start aching like I am the one being hanged and I restart my fruitless objective of getting free from the multiple hands trying to keep me away from the podium. The gag loosens from my mouth and my screams escapes.

"Let me go!.....Elsa!"

I try stretching my hands towards her, my voice breaking into sobs when I see that they have dropped the rope and Elsa- my Elsa is choking.

Elsa is dangling, her hands still tied.

Her face becomes red from the flow of blood into her head caused by the rope stealing her life away from her.

Stealing her away from me.

Her brown eyes look three times bigger than their usual size and her tongue is out of her mouth as she keeps struggling to survive, all the while looking at me like she has one more thing to tell me.

She is dying.

"NO!" I scream.

I feel something stir from deep within my core.

I am sorry Mamie! I can't let her die...

The ground immediately starts shaking violently. The guards holding me down starts loosing their grip but still, they linger on me.

The vibrations increase causing the ground to crack, people start screaming and running for safety. Running away from the podium, away from the administration building. Away from Elsa.

The guards holding me down lose their hold on me and I race towards Elsa but just before I can climb up to the podium, someone pulls me from my ankle and I hit the ground roughly.

I spit out blood and turn around to see who my assailant is...

"Where do you think you are going Darhk?" Bellman's shadow falls on me and I see the guard who pulled me down grinning like he just got a promotion.

The guard comes at me but he stops dead on his tracks and starts shaking like a lone plant in the middle of a storm.

"What do you think you are doing!" Bellman shouts, his voice wavering a little at the end. The earthquake intensifies.

But the guard keeps staring at me in shock his body still in the trance. Cracking sounds emerge from where the guard stands, yet he still did not move.

"GRAB THE GIRL AND LET'S GET OUT OF HERE!!" Bellman screams above the crackling sounds.

But the guard still doesn't move.

He comes forward to push the guard aside so he can reach me himself.

Just as his finger stretches forward, the ground opens up and swallows the guard, leaving a shocked Bellman staring into my now glowing green eyes.