As chaos ensues I move forward but Kaz grabs me by the wrists and I turn to face him "get your friends out of here, stay out of sight until you need to be found" I nod not bothering to say anything before disappearing into the crowd. I find Genya in the sea of people and make my way towards her, she waves me over and we all rush for the door. "This is quite exciting isn't it?" Nikolai asks and Zoya just shakes her head muttering something that sounds like prayers making a smile dance on my lips, we push through the crowd "let's just get out of here yes? then we can talk about how exciting it all is" I say eyeing the streets up ahead.

Crossing streets after streets, doors are closing and locking behind people hoping to not catch the plague. A plague that doesn't exists, at least not in the way they might think. Nina is using her new power over the dead to create a plague like mark that doesn't actually do any harm but appears as one. Pretty clever actually. Spying our next turning I signal the others before heading down a deserted street, the other three stumble past me "are you coming?" Zoya asks as they stop at the other end, I nod thinking I saw someone behind us "yeah I am just coming" I mutter.

I turn back to my friends watching as Genya goes to shout something but it is too late. Someone grabs me around the waist catching me off guard dragging me further from the others. Zoya moves to come after me but I shake my head "go just go! I'll be fine" they go hesitantly before I switch.

I twist loosening the mans grip on me, I manage to face him hands now free I bring them up and grab his shoulders. I shoot electricity into him and he screams letting me go. When he falls down I see the Dime Lion tattoo and I snort "of course you are one of Pekka's men" the man stands up and glares at me "you are going to regret that bitch" he spits and I smile unhooking my weapons "lets play kitty" I taunt.

He launches at me and I dodge, swinging my leg out and trips him over. He lands on his back with a thud wincing, I stand over him keeping my axe at his throat "I'll give you a quick death but if any of Pekka's other men come after me I will make their death painful" and with that I send a bolt of lightning into his temple sending him to his death. Looking up I wipe my hair back from my face and head down the street to catch up with my friends.

I turn road after road until finally I see them "Genya!" I call "Zoya!" they turn and all three see me Strumhond sighs and waves me over, I move through the crowd as quickly as I can wanting to get to my friends and to safety. My heart is hammering against my chest at the pure suspense of everything that is currently going down, the things me and my friends have set in motion. I just pray it all works. I am a few paces from my fellow Ravkans now, I can see the different scars on Genya with detail, which I now know is from Aleksander when she betrayed him. When she told me I felt sick to my stomach at the thought of her going through all of that and I even cried a few tears but she said to me 'Salem, don't shed tears for something that happened in the past. These are the reminders that I can over come anything in life. Even crazy shadow monsters' then we laughed about it.

I am not laughing now.

Now there is a knife at my throat and everything seems to be going in slow motion. The knife is cold almost ice, my eyes are wide and so are my friends. Zoya steps forward hands out "stop" the man holding me warns "stop or I will kill her" my pulse is erratic and I feel sick. I try to summon lightning but its like there is a block, like I am normal again. The man leans forward and whispers in my ear "game over" before slashing the knife across my throat. I can hear my friends shouting my name before everything finally goes blank.

I wake up in a field, the field I know like the back of my hand. The weather is warm and I am wearing a bright yellow dress to match. I touch my throat, nothing, like there wasn't a knife pressed against it a few seconds ago. "oh good you are here" I hear a familiar deep voice say, I look up and above me stands "Matthias?" I ask and he nods "what- what are you doing here?" i say and he shrugs "the same as you I suppose, I thought I was going to be alone but at least we have each other" he pauses "my queen" he helps me up and he pulls me into his arms. He smells like the woods and burnt ash, comfort. "At least we are together" I mutter closing my eyes.

A/N: anddddddddd we are done! it's been an amazing journey and I love Salem with all of my heart (even though I killed her off) I hope you guys are as upset by it as I am because I know it was hard to right! I also hope you guys have liked this story and that you will check out my other ones.