Venus sighed and collapsed into a large armchair. Her long burgundy hair draped across her clashing with her snow-white skin. She closed her mahogany brown eyes and sighed again. She didn't need this, she thought, what she needed now was to relax. She stretched her arm to the left of the armchair and a reached out her palm then tightened it, then stretched it out again, but this time in her hand with a small but wide stick. Glowing a deep blood red colour before elongating to become a slender wooden staff. At the end of the staff a black light glowed forming a solid black orb. She pointed it forward with no care and the large royal fireplace lit. But the flames weren't a usual red and gold, but deep red and black. They licked across the wood emitting a dark red light against the large dark room. The light showed more detail in the room. Large, royally painted. A magnifying bookcase held largely untouched books. Paintings of men and women from Venus' family all showed beautiful women, clothed in red and black with long glorious burgundy hair and deep emerald eyes which seemed to sparkle against there pale skin. The men, handsome and tall. Jet black hair sat glamorously on their heads while there brilliant blues eyes seemed to entrance you. They were all people born with the gift of magic. A boy and girl were always born on the same date, January the first at the stroke of midnight. Except the last time twins were not born, just a girl. The boy died at birth. This was the first sign that the family line was weakening, the second was that the girl was born with mahogany brown eyes, instead of the usual emerald green. The green eyes in the girls was a sign of there magical lineage. They named the girl Venus and hoped that she would have the magic blood she needed to carry on the family line. Thankfully for them, she did. Not only that but she had some of the powers that usually the men got. The women usually had a very persuasive power over men, They were able to help things grow and they could create things out of nothing. They also had amazing healing powers. They were also amazingly smart, there intelligence could never be matched. While the men, they were strong and of more logical and tactical thinking. They had powers to harm and to destroy and a hypnotic power that could convince nearly every non-magic user to do anything. But Venus was different, she was born with all of these powers. Making her an unstoppable force, the problem was that the women and men's powers were created to balance out each other and Venus had no-one to balance out her powers. The theory was that as the boy died, he passed on his powers to her. The line was still breaking though and in all probability she was the last chance of keeping the line going. She just needed a new fresh magical blood line to help.