Okay, so real short and mean considering I haven't uploaded in a while, but as always, something is better than nothing!

And everything is planned out for the next chapters, so I should write sooner next time..

And we're going back to Jasmine's POV now.

Probably won't have anyone's else POV till the end..

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"Because your parents are dead..."

When Basil said those words I felt like the ground was going to fall under my feet. I couldn't find my breath and my vision became blurry as I stumbled to the ground.

Mom...

Dad...

Dead?

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no...

This couldn't be true... No this simply couldn't be...

My sweet sweet mother with her warm smiles and loving eyes... My mom complaining about the flowers, my mom grounding me for staying up too late, my mom hugging me in her arms before I left for school... My mom... With her sweet smell and her warm arms, her homemade meals and her shiny blue eyes... Mom... No... She couldn't...

And my dad... my patient dad with his caring stares and knowing grins... My dad who was always patient and kind, my father who seemed to forgive everything and always say the right thing... My father the anchor of our family...

My family who wasn't one anymore... Because of me... Because of what I was... Because I had called for help!!

This was my fault... but it was their fault too; the fault of the Spirits who had attacked my house, the fault of the Immortals that had taken me away, and it was Baron's fault for forcing me to call for help, because he attacked me... but then again it was my fault because I was the one who had been avoiding him, avoiding sleep...

So it was my fault, it was all my fault, because of what I was, of what I did, my parents were dead.

Dead, dead, DEAD!!!

I was on the ground, clutching my hair, almost pulling them out, my face soaked with tears, and I could hear a distant screaming, though I realized quickly it was mine, and I just rocked myself on my knees.

Someone tried to pat my back but I slapped their hands away shrieking, and then cried and cried...

Cried my parents, who should have never paid for what I was... a monstrosity... yes that was it, I wasn't human, I was a freak of nature, something that shouldn't even exist, and if I hadn't my parents would be alive and happy right now.

Mom and dad...

Dad and mom...

No, no, no, no, NO!!!

It was impossible! They couldn't be dead! They were lying, they simply couldn't be!!

IMPOSSIBLE!!

My blurry vision was becoming red.

I hated them! I hated all of them!

Those Immortals and those Spirits! They killed my parents! My REAL parents! The ones who cared for me, that were there for me, that raised me and loved me and knew me!

The only ones I who could ever truly hold that position in my heart!

And now they were dead?

I wouldn't see them anymore?

I was crying, uncontrollable sobs, so much that I couldn't breath, I was choking. My hands clutched to my throat, but I couldn't stop, couldn't stop crying and screaming.

But even through this I heard them.

"What's going on Basil?" one asked scared.

"Look at that!!! The trees!!! RUN!!" someone else screamed.

"It can't be... it cannot be..." I heard Basil's voice, as clearly as if it was my own, in my head and then I heard a sound, a great rumbling sound, crashing and thrashing.

I heard other screams then my own.

But throw all this I could feel something else.

An energy, almost like a light, deep within me, somewhere I didn't even knew existed. A bright light that was almost tangible, a light calling all around me, attracting and pulling and commanding.

And as this was happening, something else began to form in my thoughts, an anger, a fury... for them, towards all of them, and for him... Baron.

I would kill him, I would kill him for doing this to me... to my parents.

He would pay for all his kind, for the ones that took my parents away from me...

And then I collapsed.