Chained (The Siren Series #2) by L.A.Griffiths Page A

anything
that came to mind was thrown from my mouth.
    “ Watch your words, child.” she
warned.
    “ Or what you’ll try to kill me again?”
    “ Try! If you want to die, just say the
word?”
    “ Naaz, you touch her and you’ll have me
to deal with!” Rhea said.
    “ Uh Ellie, the orb, it’s getting
brighter.” Marcus said.
    I looked down at the glowing ball, it was
glowing an angry red and I could feel the heat growing stronger
from it but my anger blocked it out.
    Rhea turned back to me, she tried to calm
down the situation.
    “ Ellie please understand, that’s not
who I am anymore.”
    “ She’s changed now Ellie, she’s good.”
Sophia said.
    My anger was now redirected. “What would you
know, you just follow whatever she says, for all I know you could
have been by her side when she did it!”
    “ That’s lies and you know it is, she
has changed and I know she feels guilty for even doing
it!”
    “ You’re lying!” I yelled.
    “ Ellie, that’s enough!” Marcus
said.
    “ You can shut it, always following
Ellie like a love sick puppy, you make me sick!” Sophia was now
caught up with my anger.
    “ Now that’s enough!” Rhea asked for
peace but she wasn’t getting it.
    “ This is all your fault, you dragged me
into this. I didn’t ask for any of this crap!”
    “ I saved you from those leaches and you
were in danger and still are.” She said.
    “ I bet you sent those leaches after me,
just so you could save the day!” I said.
    “ Lies, I saved you.” Rhea
replied.
    “ So you keep saying, but I bet you just
wanted a Siren all for yourself, is that what I am to you people, a
prize to be won?” I yelled.
    “ Prize! You think so highly of yourself
don’t you?” Naaz added.
    “ That’s enough!” Rhea
yelled.
    I could trust no one anymore, they were all
against me. Using me for their own selfish needs. The orb in my
hands burned with heat, my hatred was feeding the orb. I screamed
in pain and dropped down to my knees. The orb was slowly burning
into my flesh.
    “ Drop it, Ellie!” Rhea called
out.
    I couldn’t it let go. The heat flowed inside
my body and made my blood boil. The orb released a wave of power
that sent the others flying off their feet. The fierce wind was
back and I was in the eye of the storm. I was trapped while the orb
burned into my skin. Horrible voices screamed at me from the orb,
telling me that I had killed them. The voices picked up and more
screaming pierced my ears. The screams now mimicked each other.
    “ Stop it, stop it!” I
screamed.
    The wind grew faster around me and I was
scared. “R-rhea!” I tried to shout.
    The voice gathered in the air and screamed
with their wailing voices. The orb grew uncontrollably hot and
shattered in my hands releasing more tortured cries for help. The
tiny white orbs of light flew into the air and circled around me
with the wind while still calling for help.
    Rhea scrambled to her feet. “Ellie!” she
screamed.
    “ It’s the Sirens, they’ve escaped!”
Naaz called out.
    Rhea brought her hand forward and tried to
blast it with her own light but the wailing barrier of Sirens
absorbed Rhea’s failed attack.
    “ Protect the Siren, protect her.” The
words of the souls echoed each other.
    The screaming had stopped, but the wind
around began to pick up speed, and a blur of white had surrounded
me. The bright balls of light had stopped in mid-air, one at a time
they came closer towards me and I tried to bat them away but my
hand would go straight through them.
    “ We have to do something!” Marcus tried
to say over the wailing winds.
    Each orb passed into my body and I felt the
agony and the pain that they felt while living. Each filled with a
soul, giving me feelings of doubt, anger, doubt, fear, and sorrow.
Their own memories blurred into one and I could not tell between
mine and theirs. I could not take the pain anymore, I screamed out
and the wind around me disappeared. I could feel the souls each
fighting for