REBORN UNDER THE FULL MOON
Chapter 37: The Dark Consequences

"For the next part of the ritual, one of you have to be sacrificed," the priest said.

"I will be the sacrifice for the good a my people," A poater stepped forward.

"Good now, we can begin the ritual," The priest nodded to the king and motioned for the poater to come forward.

The priest held the poater by his neck and said some indecipherable things then slashed his neck and a black liquid rained everywhere.

Everyone laughed and smiled at each other then, a weird drum started playing and everyone jubilated and danced to it.

After about two hours of moving around and dancing, the priest came forward and spoke.

"Finally, it is time to complete the ritual. I will speak and everyone will repeat after me and the ritual would be complete." The priest said and everyone cheered.

The priest moved towards me and slit my hand with a silver knife and it burned but I kept mute. I won't give them the satisfaction of seeing me scream. I looked at their king and I saw a glint in his eyes. "Psycho," I muttered.

The priest started to move around me chanting strange words.

"Repeat over me!" He shouted to the poaters and started to scream words I didn't understand and they repeated it.

"The ritual is complete. Now all of you have to take a drop of her blood and you will get her powers." The priest said to all of them while the doctor's assistant carried me away to a recovery room where they healed my hand and left me to continue with the rest of their ritual.

KYLE'S POV

"What is going on there? Why are they gathered outside around the camp fire?" Aria whispered to me.

"I guess the ritual takes place today." I responded to her as we hid in the clouds.

"So, what is the plan? How will we rescue Lyra?" Aria asked.

"I know where she is. I can feel her. I will go get her while you will stay here and watch," I told her and she nodded.

I went down to the laboratory where they were keeping Lyra and I heard everything the priest said to the king.

I spotted the blood and formulated a plan of my own. I looked to see that Lyra was still asleep and I waited for all of them to leave the room before I did anything.

"This will show you power," I smiled as I slit my hand and my blood fell into the bowl where Lyra's blood was placed then I went back to meet Aria.

"We will get her out tonight." I said to her.

Night fell and I observed them carry out their sick ritual and I waited for them to receive the surprise I kept for them.

I watched them take Lyra into the recovery room and I waited till they went back to the party before I walked in. "Lyra," I rushed towards her and unchained her.

"Kyle?" she questioned looking weak.

This showed that they have started taking her blood. I held her tight and carried her with me.

"It's time to go home," I whispered to her as I floated to the sky with her and Aria started chanting her spell.

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"Since the ritual is complete, I will be the first to test it out." An elder proclaimed and the king gave him the go ahead.

The poater put his hand into the bowl filled with blood and brought it up to his blue tongue.

"Hmm," he breathed as he closed his eyes.

When he opened his eyes, it shone gold and he grew suddenly looking graceful.

He walked towards a tree and uprooted it from here it stood. Then he pointed his hand towards water and carried up balls of water.

"Yayyyyyy!" Everyone jubilated as they praise him and rushed forward to collect a drop of blood too.

Suddenly he started running at super speed they almost couldn't see him and the crowd cheered on.

"He is like a machine. I can't see him anymore. This is amazing!" Someone exclaimed.

"Yes, I need to take the blood now," Another rushed forward.

"It's alright now stop moving around," The king commanded but the man continued to move around going faster than he was going before. "This is great! He tripled his speed!" A poater shouted in excitement.

"He is disobeying the king," another whispered.

"Derekee, I said stop now!" The king said again this time in a firmer tone.

"I.. I.. I can't! I am not in control!" Derekee shouted as his speed tripped again.

More people got excited and rushed to take part of the blood.

The king looked towards the priest who shrugged not knowing what was going on.

More than half of the poater's population had already ingested Lyra's blood. Derekee finally started to slow down and people continued to cheer him.

"He was overly excited that is why he couldn't stop. But now I am sure that he has gotten the excitement out of his system," An elder said.

The other people who had ingested the blood started to show a display of strength to their friends and families who cheered them on.

"There is something wrong with Derekee look at his face," someone gasped pointing to Derekee.

His eyes had begun to turn green and his usually pale skin started getting tan.

"What is going on?" people whispered amongst themselves.

Derekee started getting slower as his skin got darker. Soon his eyes turned blood shot red and the people became alarmed.

Dark liquid started coming out from his eyes, nose and ears and his skin turned darker like he was getting burned.

Derekee started to scream but looked like he was chocking as black liquid came out from his mouth too. He fell to the ground and started to convulse and everywhere got unusually quiet. The people who had ingested the blood started to move back in fear and Derekee was trying to say something which sounded like "Do not take the blood," but he suddenly turned to ashes. Chaos broke out as everyone panicked they turned to look to their king and found out he had disappeared.