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Trinity
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"Come now, Trinity, let us continue." The other me looked back at the screen and the frozen images started to move again. My sperm donor, the man that I would never think of as my father, was laughing almost hysterically for what I had said.
"How many of your children have you killed, Edmond? How many women did you destroy to get those children? Don't you feel anything for the flesh and blood that you lost?" I screamed the words at him, my fury boiling over.
"If they're not strong enough to survive, then that's on them. I feel nothing for the loss of them or their mothers. They were tools and vessels, and they were all broken. I have no need for broken things."
"Did you ever think that you were the broken thing, you asshole? Did you ever think that they would have grown up powerful and strong if you didn't torment or torture them all to death?" The wind around me and Edmond on the screen started to stir and I saw a lot of phantom eyes staring at us. Those were my dead siblings. So many children were lost to the horrors of my father. At least the other me wasn't blaming me for their deaths.
"Nonsense. They were weak and needed to be plucked from the pool. You had potential, so much potential. But your body chose wolf over warlock so you're no longer of use to me."
"You're the one no longer needed." I yelled at him. "And that's why I am going to kill you."
"Ha, you kill me. That's the funniest thing I have heard in a long time."
"Do you hear me laughing, asshole?" I snarled at him. "You're one piece of trash this world never needed, and it's time to clean things up."
"I told you to watch what you said about me, you useless little mongrel slut. I will make you wish you'd never met that mate of yours. That would have been the only way for you to have survived, you know. But now you're a tainted piece of mongrel scum."
"You're going to rue the day you decided to experiment on unborn children, you crazy fuck."
A lot of tense seconds passed as the two of us stared at each other.
"Fuck you, Edmond." I spoke one last time before I curled myself into a fighting stance.
From there the fighting started. We insulted each other several times during the fight. He called me an animal and I called him an asshole. To be honest, neither one of those were insults, they were the truth. I am an animal since I am part wolf and he truly was an asshole.
In the beginning of the battle between us, Edmond had been winning. I was still learning my powers and the changes that had been happening inside of me. Still, after a little while I had the advantage. I was pinning him to the ground, and he was glaring at me.
"If you had just left me alone, just ignored my existence, I probably wouldn't be what I am today. So, in a way, I should thank you." I laughed in his angry face.
"And what exactly are you?"
"I am the Luna of my pack, the daughter of Wesley, Eve, and Lily. I am the mate of the Alpha, the leader of the Red Springs Wolf Pack. But above all that, more than anything else, I am the Luna Queen, the new incarnate of the Goddess Nehalennia, and I have been given the title of Warlock Queen, the chosen child of Thoth. I am so far above you and your paltry little antics that I do not need to justify anything to you, Edmond."
"That's impossible. There is no way that any of that is true." He spat the words into my face with a vehemence that was all too clear. "There is no way that a worthless little girl like you would be anything, let alone chosen by any of the celestials. You're lying to me."
"You only wish I was lying to you. Do these bindings not speak for themselves?"
"But how? How did you get to be granted so much power? How did you get what it is that all we warlocks want? How?" He was hyperventilating now, angrier than ever before.
"Because of you, Edmond. If it hadn't been for you playing at being a god, then there would never have been a need for me. So, as you see, I only exist because of you. You made me into what I am today. Aren't you just so proud of me?" I held a note of laughter in my voice as I spoke, knowing that it would make him angrier the longer I spoke.
"That's impossible. You should have been just a wolf or a witch, it's inconceivable that you would be so equally balanced in both. How did you manage to learn magic?" He was grasping at straws, trying to keep me talking more and more to buy him just a little more time.
"You may have destroyed the Aerie Convento, but you did not destroy the magic council. They accompanied me to train and teach me about my other side. I know all the histories of your people Edmond, because they are my people as well. I was granted the mark by Thoth himself." With those words I pointed to where the ankh mark was on my right shoulder.
"Thoth was a stupid man and is an even more stupid god, he is too sentimental and naive, that is why he was unable to accept Hekate's true nature." Edmond seemed to be rambling now, talking would buy him more time after all.
"Thoth was a kind and generous man, and a father that cared for his children, but the loss of his wife nearly destroyed him. Hekate was the one who caused it all, she should have been punished further for her actions, but Thoth loved her too much for that."
"Shut up, you don't know what you're talking about. You're an idiotic little child, you know nothing."
"No, Edmond, you don't know what you're talking about, and I grow weary of your antics. It's time for me to end this."
"This will end when I say it does!" Edmond screamed at me. "And not a fucking minute sooner, you ungrateful whelp. If it wasn't for me and my experimentations, you wouldn't fucking exist. Remember that. Remember that it's all thanks to me that you even have a chance at life. And you need to remember that it's me that can take all of that away from you. I gave you your life, and I am more than capable, and definitely more than willing, to take it from you." His ranting finally came to an end, along with the holier than thou tone he always used.
"If you think you're a match for someone chosen by a god and a goddess, then bring it on you psychopathic freak. I don't think you have it in you to beat me. That's the problem with you. You always let other people do the real fighting, the real dirty work, all while you sit there and threaten them like you're someone special." I watched as Edmond's face blanched, he obviously couldn't handle the truth.
"Watch that fucking mouth of yours, you little bitch. Shut it, before I shut it for you."
"Oh no, I'm quaking in my boots. Someone help me please." I pretended to shake and shiver like I was afraid, deliberately overplaying the action for comical effect.
"I regret ever making you. You're the most useless of all my creations. You've been nothing but a damn thorn in my side since day one. The mere sight of you even killed your mother. If she hadn't been destroyed just by the idea of you then I could have used her as a way to control you. She would have been the remote control for me to use wherever I might have needed to. But no, no one wanted you when you were born, not even your good for nothing mother."
"You know nothing about families, Edmond."
"Families are for the weak and simple. Families hold you down and stop you from reaching your potential. What need would I have for a family? What good would they do for me? I am too ambitious and powerful for a family."
While Edmond rambled on, the children around us solidified and became more real. They had taken form. And it wasn't just the eyes, I could see faces and bodies forming as well.. They were the ghosts of the kids he had killed, and this was where they stepped in to help me.
