Chapter 38: Chapter 38

Betrayal

CATALAYA'S POV

"So Catalaya, I'm sure you have questions" Aphrodite says snapping me form my thoughts

"Yes i do"

"What the fuck did you do to my mate" i growl.

"Your mate?" She says with a grin

"Your obviously mistaken because he belongs to me now"

"You're crazy if you actually believe that" i say

"Oh really you want me to prove it, i will"

Turning to dre she says

"Andreas i want you to sever you're link with lucifer, do what has never been done. Betray hell"

My eyes grew wide as saucers at her request, whatever spell she has Dre under i don't care, she's a fool if she thinks she can sever his bond with hell just like that. As I'm about to voice my thoughts i see a blade appear in Dre's hand and i gasp. With cold black eyes he takes his first step forward. He walks up to dad who's still being held at sword point by Gabriel, his face displaying zero emotions.

Andreas stands before dad and slits his own wrist using the blood pouring from him to make a circle around him and dad. Gabriel steps back as the circle begins to glow. I rush up to it trying to stop Dre from whatever he's about to do but I'm thrown back by the force of the spell. I look up to see dad standing completely still with big yellow glowing chains holding him down but he doesn't fight against them.

Dre begins chanting as he rips his own shirt off revealing his very muscular back. I mentally scold myself since this is not the time to be admiring him. Andreas continues to chant and the two tattoos on his back starts glowing. The one that's his symbol marking him as the sin of wrath and the other an ouroboros tattoo, the image of a dragon eating its own tail. As the chanting grew the tattoos glows brighter and soon they both start to disappear. As the tattoos are erased i feel a surging pain course through my body more painful than anything I've ever felt in my life. The metallic taste of blood fills my mouth as i cough up the red substance in buckets.

"Dre please, stop" i say weakly falling to my knees due to the pain

However my pleas fell on deaf ears as he continues to relinquish any ties he had with us. Aphrodite grins triumphantly watching the scene before us. Anger blares through me momentarily overshadowing the pain and i rush towards her. Gabriel sees me and tries to step between us but i stab him with one of my ring daggers and used the other to stab Aphrodite in the stomach. She gasps in surprise looking down at the handle sticking out of her. Gabriel quickly grabs me as i held the handle of the dagger pulling it out of Aphrodite. I make a quick slash at her neck but my aim was too high and i ended up cutting her cheek before Gabriel throws me to the ground, the impact causing blood to pool in my mouth.

Aphrodite screams in horror as the mark quickly heals but left an ugly scar due to the poison on the blade. She turns furious eyes on me. Stretching out her hand i feel myself being pulled by an invisible force until I'm in front Aphrodite with her hands around my neck.

"You little slut do you know how long it took me to heal after what that bitch of a moon goddess did to my face" she screams at me

Being this close to her i realized something which brought a gigantic smile to my lips. Glowing red my devil eyes revealed something to me

"Heal you say? That's funny since i can still see your real face and its anything but. Damn, the moon goddess really did a number on you, some goddess of beauty you are with a hideous face like that"

Her eyes went wide for a second before she threw me like a rag doll causing me to hit the ground with a loud thud. The good thing about it was i fell next to Andreas and dad. Mustering all my strength i pushed through the barrier around them and gripped my claws into Dre's shoulder the pulled him away from dad. As soon as i throw him out the glow dissipates and dad falls face first into my arms.

Gabriel comes at me once more sword in hand, i gently rest dad in the ground and summoned my death scythe. Before he could get in close range i swing my scythe at him. He managed to dodge but the impact ripped through the space fabric of the astral plane. Soon our surroundings started to shake.

"I think it's about time we took our leave Gabriel" Aphrodite says creating a portal

Chanting i cast a spell i like to call dark nebula which basically nullifies magic but its hard to cast. I manage to chant the words in time which caused the portal to be destroyed leaving Gabriel and Aphrodite looking at me in ultimate shock. However, I'm stil in training and the one who taught me that spell disappeared since i killed jasmine so i hadn't realized I'd done something wrong until i heard dad say

"Cat what did you do?"

My spell not only nullified the magic used to create the portal but also started to nullify the magic surrounding us aka the astral plane. The space around us started falling apart even faster and by now i was exhausted since my body isn't use to channelling so much of my magic power at once.

"Dad are you ok?" I asked kneeling at his side

"Yes princessa. I'm sorry i didn't protect you they caught me off guard. I had no idea Gabriel had a soul stone" he says

"A what? I asked confused

"I'll explain later" he says before standing up and ripping off the glowing chains

"We have to go sweetheart this place is about to fall apart any second now"

"But what about Dre? I ask

"I'm sorry baby girl but he's gone"

"What no he isn't"

"Look at his back" he tells me

I looked over at the trio seeing Dre had transformed into his third form the gigantic horrifying form he'd taken the day i went to his faction of hell. But the difference this time he looked way more monstrous than he did that day and the two tattoos on his back had completely disappeared as if they'd never been there in the first place.

"Come on Cat" dad says

I turned around to see him with a giant wing in his hand, to be exact a giant angel wing.

"I thought you said you only took one" i accuse

"I may have ripped off the other because i wasn't satisfied" he shrugs

Dad drips some of his blood on the wing and it begins to glow before a portal appeared where the wing once was on the ground. Holding my hand dad drags us inside, it felt like we were falling from the sky but we're surrounded by darkness. Astonished at my surroundings i stared into the darkness, my eyes glued to the void. I feel myself being pulled but at the same time its like I'm not in my body all i feel is this force calling me towards the darkness.

"Cat no!" I hear dad yells but his voice sounds so far away

The last thing i remember before everything went black is pressure being applied to the side of my neck and someone swearing.

Two days later

Consciousness slowly slips in as i begin to wake up. I feel something soft yet firm under my head which i assume is a pillow. Not wanting to wake up as yet i turn in the bed. My arm hits something or rather someone and my eyes immediately flew open. Siting up in a dash i take in my surroundings. I'm in a beautifully decorated room, my room to be exact. Not the one on earth but the one i occupied in hell. The next thing i see is I'm surrounded by Harley, Aqua, Freya, Brooke, Lucy and Merlin who's chest i was laying on. Then on two chairs near the door sat a sleeping Sam and Adonis, the rest of the sins all laid on the floor, on the little bench near my window is Nic and dad laid on the couch.

Completely and utterly confused the words

"What the hell" left my lips

Lucy who had been away on a mission and i have no idea how she got here all of a sudden, was the first to wake up.

"Cat?" She says rubbing the sleep from her eyes

"Hey luce" i smile at her bur wince in pain when i tried to move

"Oh Cat you're finally awake" she yells confusing me and starling everyone else in the room

It was like everyone woke up at the same time and suddenly i had sixteen pair of eyes on me.

"CAT!" They all yelled at the same time and the next thing i know I'm buried under a pile of bodies as each person tries to hug me at the same time

After i manage to pry them all off me i turned to lucy to ask her a question

"What did you mean by I'm finally awake?" I ask

Everyone looked at me as if I just grew a second head

"Uh am i missing something here?" My confusion now at an all time high

"Princessa don't you remember what happened?" Dad asks

"What are you talking about?"

"You've been unconscious for two days Cat you're whole body shut down it was as if you were dead" Adonis tells me

"Cat what's the last thing you remember?" Nic asks

"Uhm i remember coming back from the lake with Dre-"

"Oh my gosh Andreas" i yelled suddenly as realization hits me

Looking up at them with tears in my eyes

"Where is Andreas" i ask though a part of me already knew the answer

"Dad?" I say when no one says anything

"I'm sorry baby" dad says with guilt all over his face

"No no please tell me its not true tell me this is all just a bad dream" i beg

"I'm sorry baby girl i wish it was" dad says pulling me into his arms

"NO!" I yell

Why was this happening to me why am i always the one to get hurt. Is this my fate is this how I'm suppose to live constantly being betrayed and hurt by the people around me.

I continue to cry in dad's arms as my heart aches more than it ever has in my entire life. I'd rather feel any amount of physical pain than the emotional ones that plagues me right now. I closed my eyes trying to sense the bond between Dre and i it was still there but it was as if there was this thick wall blocking us. I guess he doesn't want anything to do with me since he's blocking me out.

I just don't get it though, what happened? Everything was fine we'd just been together this morning. Well, more like two mornings ago and everything was fine he had been hanging with his siblings when dad and i left to have our day out and all of a sudden he shows up with Aphrodite and betrays hell after she tells him to do it.

How could he do that, how could he just throw away everything we had like it was nothing all his bonds, his friendships, his relationships, all gone like they never happened. Except they did but now those bonds have been broken and we're left to pick up the pieces.

"We're so sorry Cat we had no idea he was gonna do something like that" Jace says

"Yeah if we had we'd have killed him before his stupid ass even fully conjured the thought" Eric spat his anger displayed on his face

"Do you think he was probably being controlled by Aphrodite dad?" Sam asks

"You did say Gabriel had a soul stone they could have used it on him"

"It is possible to control him with the stone but-" dad says with a thoughtful look on his face

"He wasn't" i say cutting him off

"What?" Brooke says

"Andreas, he wasn't being controlled. I- i don't know how i know i just i could feel it through our bond i hadn't realize at first because of the heat of the moment but he wasn't i remember sensing a small bit of regret before it vanished. A person being controlled doesn't feel regret, Andreas chose to betray hell"

"Cat's right" a voice from the door way says startling us

We all turned to see Levi abbadon and lilith at the door

"What do you mean?" Nic asks

"There's a reason why no demon has ever betrayed hell before and that's because they never had a reason to" Levi says

"I mean who'd want to betray a home where they had everything they'd ever want and need. To betrayal is a choice only you can make and that is why unless a demon chooses with its whole being to betray hell it can never be done. Countless have tried to manipulate us into doing it but have failed but that idiot dragon has finally broken that streak"

"So what does that mean for hell?" I ask

"Well not only has the idiot betrayed us but he's left us vulnerable. Lucifer not only lost a powerful officer he lost a part of him for it was lucifer who had taken on Adonis when he fell into the pits of his own wrath. Your father stretched his hands down and pulled him out granted him the title and took him as a son. We have yet to see any consequences of Andreas' actions but now that one of the factions of hell are without a master those souls will go haywire and some if not all may be able to escape. Now imagine a soul being tortured for years escaping hell and going back to earth. The natural order is already unbalance this will only tip the scales more"

"You're forgetting one more thing" abbadon says to Levi

"What's that?" I ask

"Lucifer you said that both the tattoos had disappeared from Andreas' back right?"

"Yes" dad sighs

"That fucking idiot?" Lucy curses

"What, what does that mean?" I ask

"Do you know what an ouroboros is Cat?" Abbadon asks

"Yes an ouroboros is an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or from what i saw in Dre's case a dragon eating its own tail. It symbolizes the cycle of life death and rebirth"

"Good you know your stuff. Well that tattoo Andreas had was not for show it was for exactly what you just explained, life death and rebirth. This symbol was given to him and all demons by you're father. We are all linked to him and as long as lucifer lives so shall we. This is why if a demon is exercised it doesn't disappear it comes back to hell, it is reborn. But in Andreas' case since he has removed not only his title but his ouroboros tattoo, his link to lucifer. If he's killed he will die permanently"

I gasp in shock and disbelief at what Abbadon just said

"S-so there's a chance Dre could die like die die" i say

"Exactly"

I hadn't realized when the tears had started falling again or if they'd even stopped in the first place but the further this conversation went the more my heart is ripped to shreds

"But i don't get it Andreas had everything he would ever want and need even as of late since he and Cat mated so what would compel him to betray hell?" Merlin voices

"Andreas is as loyal as they come but hes not just loyal hes rational. He only do something like this only if he felt there was no other choice" lilith says

"That's true" Levi agrees

"And what would be rational enough to make him betray his king home people and most importantly his mate" Aqua asks

"Love" Dad sighs

"Huh?" My friends and i say turning to him

"What do you mean?" I ask

"There are only a few reasons why Andreas would betray us. One if i ordered it. Two, if it was the only way to protect hell and Three, love. Now i didn't order him to and hell is not in danger at the moment so that only leaves one thing or rather one person"

"Me" i say finishing dads sentence

"Yes. If he felt like it was the only way to protect you he would give up even his dragon to stop it" dad explains

"But i don't understand I'm not in any danger"

"You may not have been in the moment but he must have seen something a highly possible scenario where you'd die and he nor i couldn't stop it"

"So he betrays us?"

"Yes because he loves you. You matter to him more than anything. More than his siblings his life even more than me and that's why i was glad that you too got together because you were with someone who valued you above all else the same way i value you Sam Adonis and Nic above all else"

"So I'm suppose to disregard what he's done because he thought it was the only way to save my life?"

"No baby girl am not saying that and trust me when i get my hands on him and get back that tattoo on his stupid ass amma kill him a couple times myself. I just want you to understand his perspective because i know how much this hurts you right now and i know you love him but when it comes to us and betrayal we don't handle it well and the most intense feelings of love can turn into eternal hatred"

"This would make the second time you're being betrayed dad how come you seem so unfazed" i say

"Trust me I'm not but because i know that there's still apart of us in him as there's still apart of him in us i don't really consider it betrayal more like a stupid mistake. You know like a prodigal son kind of thing but with way more severe consequences"

I see-" i say but am suddenly cut off by an immense pain that suddenly flows through my body

"AHHHHH" I scream

"Cat what's wrong?" Everyone asks

"I- i don't, I don't know"

"The pain make it stop" i plead

"Where are you feeling it? Nic asks

"In my chest, it feels like I'm being stabbed by a thousand daggers"

"Ok I'm gonna take some of the pain" he tells me

"Wait no!" Adonis says stopping him

"What, why?" Nic asks

"Because the pain she's feeling isn't just any regular pain its the pain of a mates betrayal" he says in the saddest voice I've ever heard come from his mouth

"What?" My friends and i gasp at the same time

"I'm sorry Cat but Andreas is having sexual physical contact with someone else"

At this point i didn't even think i had any more tears left as the last pieces of my heart shattered in my chest. Betraying hell was one thing but i never thought in a million years Dre would do this to me. He's no different, no different from all the assholes from the hybrid pack, no different from Noah. How could i have not seen it i guess i was too blind falling in love-

"AHHHHHHH" i screamed on top of my lungs a second time as another wave of pain wash over me

Not only was my whole body now in pain my head felt like it is being hit repeatedly with a mallet and it burned as if something was being branded onto my brain. I close my eyes and held my head as i let out an ear splitting scream. Suddenly i could see something in the eyes if my mind.

If i wasn't speechless before i sure as hell am now. The scene playing in my head was beyond words and something i didn't know I'd ever had the displeasure to see. Aphrodite and Andreas were lip locked in a heated kiss.

I see the bitch open one eye as if looking at something behind her but then when she spoke i realized she was looking at me

"Can you see me Catalaya?" She asks

"Oh I'm sure you can and i hope you're enjoying the view. You know if I'd known Andreas was this good of a kisser I'd have taken him from you before y'all even met"

"You bitch I'm so gonna enjoy ripping your ugly face from that head of yours" i growl

"Oh hush with your threats little girl the adult is speaking. Now i don't know how you were able to see behind my mask or how your able to use anti magic spells but it doesn't matter because now that hell is at the most vulnerable its ever been since created I'm coming for you"

And with that she along with Andreas disappeared from my mind. Unfortunately the pain was still very much present.

"Please daddy make it stop i can't take it anymore" i beg as more pain rockets through me

"Breathe princessa" he tells me

"Please I-i i can't do it its too painful"

"I can't stop it sweetheart it's too dangerous"

"I don't care make the pain go away like you did with Noah"

"No baby girl i can't"

"Why not?" I ask hurt displayed on my face

"Because despite Andreas leaving and doing whatever he's doing now he didn't reject you so your bond with him is still very much in place plus its new and still at its most vulnerable so if i were to attack it now in an attempt to break or seal it i would undoubtedly not only kill Andreas but also you"

"Isn't there anything else you can do Mr Morningstar" harley asks as she holds me close

"There is one thing, sweetie i want you to give legacy control of your body. I know she probably doesn't want to cone out now because she's hurting but she's the stronger of you two in this situation to handle the pain" dad tells me

Nodding my head i close my eyes reaching into my bond with my demon.

"Legacy?" I call

No answer

"Legacy i know you're there" i say

Immediately she appears but the demon I'm looking at isn't the one i knew. She no longer had that ever present grin on her face she didn't greet me with any witty banter she looked fucking pissed.

"H-hey" i stutter

"Hey"

"Uhm-"

"Yeah i know just hand over control whenever you're ready" she says cutting me off

"Are you sure you look like you're about to blow a gasket"

"I know and i promise to try my best to keep my anger in control but i just need to let off some steam"

"Ok just give me a minute" i tell her before cutting our link

"Well?" Nic asks when i open my eyes

"She's angry" i sigh

"Well that's understandable" lilith says

"Yeah i know i just don't want to burden her"

"Trust me princessa the best thing for her right now is to get out and it'll give you a chance to rest don't think i didn't see what that bitch did" dad tells me

Not even surprised that he saw i just nod my head.

Releasing a sigh i say

"Well i guess I'll see you guys when i wake up"

"Yes you will, get some rest both of you and then come down stairs ok" dad says pressing a kiss to my forehead

I could tell what happened was really weighing down on him but it's not his fault he may be powerful but he's not invincible and he's definitely not God.

"I love you dad" i tell him

"And i you princessa"

"Ok come on everyone lets leave her to get some rest" lilith announces

After waving a bye to me they all left the room one bye one

"See you when you wake up baby sis" Nic says before leaving and closing the door

"Sigh"

"Ok legacy its your turn but please get some rest before you go out i don't think my body can handle anything more for the day"

"You got it babe" she tells me

Closing my eyes i lay back on the pillow as i slowly slip into the back seat of my subconscious allowing legacy to rise to the surface. As she was about to gain full control i felt something pierce the side if my neck blocking our link and pulling me back to the front of my mind. The pain caused a scream to slip past my lips however, there was no sound and my body felt paralyzed from the neck down.

"Oh no you don't little demon" a sinister voice says as the creepiest creature I've ever seen appears at my bedside

"Who are you? I manage to ask

"That's not important" he tells me

"But what is, is that my mistress has requested your presence. Now go to sleep" he grins at me

Despite my efforts to fight against whatever was happening to me i still felt my eyelids closing down as this thing lifted me from the bed.

Here we go a-fucking-gain.