Ayra stepped out of her room sadly. Right before going for the bed, Cedric informed her that Isabella was going for her labour in Richalwolf Land. Honestly, she liked and admired Isabella a lot. She was one kind of woman who spreads an aura of home. Staying by her side, her heart always filled with warmth. Thus she became sad to know that Isabella wouldn't be staying in Dixon Palace for months approximately.

Ayra clutched the Auspicious stone in her palm tightly. Athena sent the rare stone for Isabella to keep it with her to avoid any ominous eyes on her baby. Back in the history, pregnant women used to carry this stone for the wellbeing of their unborn child. Knowing that Isabella had a complicated pregnancy, Athena collected it personally and sent it for Isabella through Elizabeth. They were so busy in gossiping that Ayra forgot to deliver the stone. Since Isabella would be leaving tomorrow, she thought of passing the stone to her right away.

Ayra walked through the corridor slowly. Thinking that everything had fallen asleep, she delibaretly took slow steps on the way. Stopping right in front of Isabella's room,she decided to step in without bothering about knocking.

Ayra pushed open the door slightly, cautious about not making any extra noise and entered after closing the door behind. Turning around, she lifted up her feet to walk in but her track halted abruptly. Her dark eyes widened apart in astonishment when she spotted the black snake right after Isabella's feet who was asleep over the bed.

A gasp came through her lips when she realized that one move, the snake would bite down on Isabella's feet. The snake who came to complete its order heard the slight movement inside the room. His venomous eyes shifted on Ayra who was standing near the doorway unmoved. His attention was distracted by her presence. The snake kept hissing beside Isabella's feet, ready to give his death bite but was pausing because of Ayra's presence.

Ayra was completely in bizarre state. If she made any sound, there was a huge possiblity that the snake would bite down on Isabella's feet at her movements. On the other hand, if she tried to approach the snake, it would be alerted definitely and would bite down on Isabella's feet undoubtedly. The situation was a total mascara and Ayra had only one thought in her mind that was to use her own powerful fast magics but Cedric had prohibited others magic in this palace. At this moment, she only wished to chop Cedric into pieces.

Her breathing came out shakingly. Every hiss that came out from the snake made her heart racing like a violent turbulent. She couldn't tolerate the fact that Isabella would be pushing near the edge of death under her watchful eyes. Worst of all, she had an innocent child inside her womb.

The snake let out a provocative hiss towards Ayra as if it was warning her that one step closer to the bed, he would end the life of this sleeping woman. Ayra squeezed the corner of her clothes tightly. Helpless tears began to gather in her eyes as she watched the snake and Isabella in terror.

Could anyone feel more helpless than this?

Ayra managed to calm down herself momentarily. Breathing out two times heavily, she kept chanting inside her mind that she could save Isabella from this danger. Soon a desperation of saving Isabella became strong inside her mind. Her eyes turned dark eventually and an impulsive thought of killing that snake run across her mind impatiently.

She no longer feared the snake anymore. Her helplessness turned into power inside and a glutaric growl came through her parted lips out of her consent. Ayra's fists clenched aside so hardly that the stone was on the verge of collapsing. Lucky, she unfisted her palms on time but one thing didn't change in her body. The mark on her hand kept moving fast on her skin, made a rhythmic circle and increased its speed with the anger that unleashed from Ayra's body.

Then her dark eyes squeezed shut tightly and the last thing that she could remember was a wave of heat spurted out from her body along with few unknown words that came out through her lips subconsciously.

A painful hissing sound broke in the air after her heat came out. By the time, Ayra opened up her eyes to see what just happened, her heart shuddered in astonishment. She spotted a burning snake on the ground.

She swallowed looking down at her own hands strangely. Her lips trembled together in confusion. Looking up at Isabella, she saw that Isabella had been woken up too since the heat was too much and brushed past against her body.

Ayra's thoughts became blank momentarily.

How could she use magic? Which magic that left from her body? Why didn't she realize anything?

Ayra kept standing over there blankheadedly. The snake's body looked pathetic that it scared Isabella. The snake looked like a burnt flesh which they used to eat for dinners.

Isabella couldn't help from gasping and muttered shifting her astounded eyes between Ayra and that snake,

" Ayra, what just happened? How did a snake

come here?"

Cedric who was inside his room sensed an external power running through his palace. Since he personally put a restricted barrier of magic in this palace, he realized that his barrier had been broken down by some unknown powers. The first thing that came in his mind was Isabella's safety. Since Davina was behind her life desperately, Cedric was always worried for her.

He rushed out from his room and yelled wakening up everyone from the palace,

" Guards! Maids! Wake up! Someone has barged into the palace. Come on! "

Cedric thunderous voice rang throughout the entire palace as an urging alarm. All the maids including guards barged inside hastily and ran from here to there in search of intruder.

Cedric went straight inside Isabella's room to check on both of them. He stopped at the door abruptly and muttered staring down at the snake,

" Trained Black Mamba. How did it come here?"