A loving family

Chapter 1

Pain… everything hurt so badly… she was so tired. She groaned gently… where was she… what happened? Oh right… she had preformed that spell when that bastard… shit this wasn't good.

That bastard must have fucked up her spell… Wait… she sensed magic. Looking around with heavy eyes she spotted the figure giving off a pretty strong magical aura.

She looked at herself and realized that she needed help. Forcing her legs along the path she got to the figure's side and called out as loud as she could.

"Help me."

Rachel looked up from where she sat in her garden…

'What was that?'

Looking around she saw no one… and yet she had heard a small whisper. Frowning gently she closed her eyes and concentrated… and for a small second she felt magic… magic that wasn't hers.

"A spell gone wrong I take it" she spoke out to the silence of her garden, smiling gently as she felt a small breeze.

"And I suppose you need my help to fix the mess you made?"

Another gentle breeze.

Rachel sighed. "If this turns out to be a waste of my time you will not like the outcome. Valkenhayn."

Her butler stood at her side in an instant.

"Yes Madam Rachel?"

"Would you get me my black spell book please?"

"Of course milady."

Valkenhayn bowed gently and disappeared and just as quickly came back with a book, placing it gently on the table in front of Rachel. Rachel nodded gently before turning to the emptiness again.

"I can't help you if I don't know what you did."

She had barely closed her mouth before a strong gust of wind flipped the pages through the book before settling down on a page.

Rachel looked at the page, and her face changed from bored to astonished.

"Valkenhayn."

Valkenhayn frowned, noticing that Rachel's voice had gone from bored and aloof to serious and worried.

"Milady?"

"Get me 5 scarlet candles, 10 gemstones, and my finest cauldron. Make sure to fill it with boiling water. As quickly as you can."

"Yes milady."

As he disappeared Rachel's red eyes frowned gently.

"Well now… maybe this isn't such a big waste of time after all."

About 5 minutes later a cauldron stood in the center of the garden. Gii and Nago had been sent to draw up a magical circle with magical chalk, 5 candles with a dark blue flame placed in a pentagram, the 10 gemstones placed around it in a perfect circle. In the middle of the pentagram a magical fire was lit under a cauldron. Rachel nodded gently sighing as she looked through the spell.

"Right then… Nago, Gii."

The two familiars were at her side.

"Yes princ… urgh." Nago winched as Rachel stretched out a hand and plucked a whisker from his face throwing it out in the cauldron, frowning into the book.

"Whiskers of a cat she muttered. Bl…" Rachel sighed. "Gii, I need a knife."

Gii flew gently over to the table, picking up a knife that laid there and gave it to Rachel who sighed before gently pricking her own finger, letting 5 drops fall into the cauldron.

"Vampire blood… how barbaric. Now then all I need is… Valkenhayn?"

The butler appeared next to her in a flash, gently bowing.

"Yes Madam Rachel?"

"I need werewolf hair."

Valkenhayn nodded gently, before gently tugging at his beard, holding out a few white straws.

Rachel took them gently and threw them into the cauldron, the last addition making a hiss and a green mushroom cloud appear from it.

"Right then… I need you three to stand over there and be quiet… this is a complicated spell and any interruptions are likely to make both me and the person I am trying to help go to the otherworld… am I clear?"

"Yes milady"

"Yes princess"

"Yessir."

Rachel nodded gently, and raised her hands over the cauldron before starting to chant. As soon as Rachel started chanting the wind started blowing. The sky was soon covered in clouds, the air humid.

From his point of view, Nago could swear that he saw a white figure flicking in and out from nowhere, right opposite Rachel and her cauldron.

After 5 minutes the white figure could be seen as an outline, with white orbs for eyes and a mouth that seemed to be speaking but not being heard.

After 10 minutes a female voice was heard chanting the same line as Rachel, Valkenhayn frowning gently as he was sure he had heard the voice before.

After 15 minutes the white figure started taking shape. Long hair, a witch hat, cape, boots. They were all starting to show gently.

Finally after 20 minutes of chanting the witch stood before them all. No further had the white light that surrounded her disappeared before she fell to her knees and to the ground exhausted.

Rachel stopped to and sunk her hands to her sides sighing. Walking around the cauldron she looked down on her new guest and blinked in surprise.

"Valkenhayn" she called gently, her voice and body feeling tired and heavy.

"Yes milady?" Valkenhayn was at her side in a moment.

Rachel smiled. "I am going to go take a long relaxing bath, why don't you look after your old friend in the meantime?"

Valkenhayn frowned gently at Rachel's words, before looking down at the feminine figure. His eyes widened in shock, seeing a woman with long pink hair, a purple witch's hat, and a familiar white shirt.

"Madam Nine? How is that possible? Terumi killed her a few years after the black beast was killed."

"I had a small suspicion" Rachel said gently.

"The spell she cast was one used by many witches back when they were forced into hiding. A spell that made your soul temporary leave your body before reappearing after a few days in a completely new body unhurt. It was mostly used as a way to not feel getting burned or drowned or any of the sort… I suspect that she meant to use it to hide from Terumi… but he killed her while she was in the middle of the spell casting… it's a miracle she was able to pull herself together and get help as she wandered in between the worlds."

"Now then… Nago, Gii, go and pour me a bath… Valkenhayn… tend to our guest, and let me know when she wakes up."

"Yes milady… as you wish."