So… I tried to explain a little of what society and the population structure that I imagined are; sorry if it's a bit boring J English isn't my native language so I may have mix a little of European with American English. I know usually the narratives I read in the fics are structured differently (use of "" for speech and '' for thoughts) but I learned this way. Basically the speeches begin with hyphen and I use "" to emphasize a word(s).
Also use many "!" and "…". It depends how I imagine the char saying the line.
Disclaimer: I do not own pride and prejudice (I wish).
OCs till now: Ella Baker and Mr.T (tried to give this man a name for a villain and mysterious as well)
Hope you like it!
CH1
Lizzy POV
- GIRLS! WAKE UP! YOU HAVE WORK AND SCHOOL!
Really, hearing screams right in the morning must not be good for us… Aish! Doesn't our mother care for our own ears?
-Alright, alright! We already heard you, mom. – It's asking too much for one silent morning? Every single morning waking up to mom's screams do not do well for my health and mood. Can't she just order the human servants to wake us? Is it really asking too much?
My door opens letting my sister Jane enter.
-Lizzie dear, are you awake? You do remember that we have a reunion to attend, don't you? We promise father we would go with him to the elders' conclave meeting and stand in for mother. She really can't handle all the politics in those reunions.
-Ya, unfortunately mom already woke me up with her voice… what do we expect for today's conclave anyway? Wasting 2 hours with a bunch of prejudiced and jealous old farts… not something I'm looking for. – As always my sister looks outrageous with the things I say about the elders.
-Lizzie! You can't talk about the elders like that! You should respect them. They are so good to us. – Jane simply is an angel. What she sees as kindness and goodness, it should be insults and backstabbing sarcasm the elders throw at us. All implied and disguised as niceties and good intentions. All pretenses! They are just jealous of our family history, importance and above all inner power. Magical power that they can never have at our level.
You see, our society, to prevent unilateral dominance and preserve equality for the 3 main classes, each class nominates 3 seats of 3 different clans to represent them and their rights in the conclave. Our family has kept the head clan seat for over 20 generations, unlike some of the conclave.
They are only there thanks to bribes and conspiracies between them. Although usually is fun watching them all squirming with rage at the meetings. They try to discredit papa but they are so stupid that reject good plans; great plans and ideas and give off a bad image of themselves, making all the conclave see them as complete idiots.
Just because they can't be a level 7 mage (like papa), they shouldn't let that overthrow their sense.
We represent the magical class: those that have magic in their inner core. Till now there are 12 levels of magic. 1~6 levels, we call the men wizards and the women witches. 7~12 levels, we call the men mages and the women circes. Don't know why there is this distinction between the levels but over the years, the magical people established that way. I suppose is because of appearances…
Anyway, the other two classes are the shifters (those with animal or creature traits/blood) and the spirituals (those with energy as the inner core; different but also similar to magic). The shifters have 7 grades going from poor, low, so-so, medium-low, medium-high, high and ultra, based on their strength and agility. For those that can't be quantified or classified, either for being too low or too high, a special grade was created and they are called unidentified. The spirituals rank themselves in 5 classes: class 1 for those with energy between 0 and 1000; class 2 for those between 1001 and 2000, and so on… There are no records of anyone higher than class 5 so is considered impossible, though it's possible to raise the energy with the help of stones or artifacts.
This are the 3 main classes but each class has their own subclasses and of course hybrids.
There are still humans but only about 5% of the world's population is in fact human and the majority, for not having neither magic nor other traits from creature inheritance, are kept as lower servants and are treated like slaves. Among the human, there are also the priests. Not like the priests of religion. No… these are special humans that learn many arts too protect themselves and other humans against the magical people. Kind like hunters but more knowledgeable. For what I know, they have their own code and society and hunt the bad guys.
-Lizzie are you hearing me? - Jane asks concerned. It seems like I spent too much time think about our society that didn't even heard her call. – Dress up and go downstairs. Papa is already waiting for us.
Slowly I get up but still remain sited in the bed. I'm still tired from yesterday's night training session and only slept 4hours.
-Hurry! Or do you want me to call mama? – Jane knows me so well…
-Low blow, low blow Jane. I think I already heard mama screams enough for the whole week. – Even after 21 years I'm still amazed how I'm not Jane's twin. We have this connection between us that we don't have with our other 3 sisters. From what we heard from our parents, when Jane was a child and I was still in mom's womb, we unknowing establish this link with our magic… The healers couldn't really explain what succeeded but apparently from that day on we could share magic. Why and how we learn that is still unknown…
-LIZZY! JANE! IF YOU DON'T HURRY, KITTY AND I WILL EAT YOUR FOOD! HA HA HA! – And I present you our 2 (evil?) young sisters, Lydia and Kitty. The two evil spawns that look and think more like mannequins than young women.
Let's talk about the Bennet family…
So… there 5 daughters:
Jane, the angel like level 7 circe. Age of 22 years. She's all kindness and sweetness and goodness in person. No seriously, she's all that. Always taking care of others instead of her, always worrying about us and our friends… She graduated school – the magical school for witches, circes, wizards and mages that all magical people must attend too – being the best in her grade. She was also popular and loved by all. Now she has her own shop; a small herbal shop for aromatherapy, teas, potions… I think she also has massages… her magic comes from water.
I, the other circe in the family, am a level 7 circe with magic linked to emotions and fire. I have 21 years and currently unemployed. Still don't know what to do with my life. I like to think I'm good and maybe kind to others but that is a lie. There are only a few people that I genuinely I'm good to and they are Jane, papa, Charlotte and sometimes Mary. The rest gets on my nerves (oh god I'm sounding like mother "my poor nerves~~"). I'm a little rebel but also responsible. I know when to be serious and when to let go. I enjoy reading and writing my own stories. Also love to make pointless debates only to irritate the other part.
Mary, the middle daughter, 17 years and currently in 6th grade of the 8 grades curriculum in the magical school. Her magic is from the earth, being at level 4 but can go till level 5. She's a little introverted and quiet but is an awesome person (when she wants). Deep interest in music but can't sing nr play. She has only a few friends and I only know one of them: Alex Coltir. It's so cute watching all that dancing about their feelings. If only each could see how deep the crush the other has… What I know from Alex is that he has a huge crush in Mary, helps her in almost anything, is a mage of level 8 and has an IQ of 160.
Catherine or Kitty as she likes to be called is the 4th daughter of 16 years. She's a witch capable of level 6 but because she only follows Lydia and doesn't care about training, at all, she's only level 3. Her magic is linked to air. Doesn't have self-esteem; one more reason for her current level – lacks control of own magic. Kitty doesn't want to be a witch; wants to be like mother and Lydia and be a succubus. Wants to study art but is manipulated by Lydia because Lydia doesn't want to be left alone.
And for last Lydia, the youngest daughter with 15 years. She's a little*coughcompletecough* slutty because of her succubus inheritance from our mother (her dominant creature is succubus unlike her sisters but they are all hybrids). Spiritual of class 2. Seems super full of herself but sometimes I have this idea she has an inferiority complex against Jane and I. Likes parties and plans to work for fashion or with makeup. Next year she will receive a clue about her mate in her birthday.
Now our mother: Fanny Bennet. Succubus of class 3. Age 42. Found out her mate in Thomas (our papa) when she was 19. Her hobby is matchmaking us and get incantations to level up our magic. Very proud of Jane for her beauty and magic and of Lydia for being a mini her. Her personality is strong so we don't get that well nowadays.
Our father, Thomas Bennet, is a level 7 mage with magic related to electricity. For his knowledge, he was part of a special squad of mages connected to the national security for 10 years but retired due to a curse that hit him in the leg. Now, his job is lecturing magic history over the times in the Magical school. Loves books and chess and stays almost all time at the library we have at home. Him being 5 years older the mom.
Then we have our aunt Mary married to John Philips and uncle Edward married to Celine Gardiner plus their 4 children. I swear mom and aunt Philips have an ongoing competing for being the biggest gossiper since I remember.
I should hurry up and go downstairs if I want to have my breakfast…
-So papa, what's the meeting of today about?
-It's a small open meeting to present the new rep for the shifters and for the spirituals. If I'm not mistaken, I think one its Mr. Bingley… you know... the new big shot in that new hotel chain "Paradise". The other I only know that's a woman and it's a nymph.
-Thomas do you know more news? It's been a week since I told something new to Mary. You know how she gets when she gets nice new juicy gossip before me. – Seriously, watching my mother pout at her age is a bit discomforting. – Oh do you know some rich young man? It's been a while since Jane or Lizzie been on a date…
Good gracious mom started again. It's not enough trying matchmaking us with her friends' sons and now she is going to papa! We are not that old! Jane's only 22 and I 21..
-Try to see if that man Bingley is single… Being a wife for a representative in the conclave is a great honor… Jane dear do try meeting him and maybe get a date? You may be beautiful but beauty isn't forever you know.
Wow great pep talk!
-Mom really? Must you talk about that now? It's not like we are 50 years with no future!
-Hush Lizzie! You're not doing that great either… Why won't you meet a nice young man or woman? It's been forever since I saw you going on a date!
-It's been 3 months not an eternity…
-Whatever, you didn't even go on a 2nd date! Men like nice and calm women. If only you were more like Jane, you would have men lining up for you. – that sarcastic and judgmental face mother is making… sometimes I wonder if she hates me… then I remember we are alike and that's why we argue.
-Fanny love? The girls and I must be going if we want to arrive on time. Talk to them about their lack of love lives later ok?
-Aish Thomas, sometimes I ask myself if you even care about our daughters? Don't you want grandchildren? Don't you want them nice and settle with rich men with a big house and babies?
-Of course I want love! But that's up to them. They are the ones getting married, are they not? – As usual my father takes great pleasure in aggravating mom just to agitate her. – Now we must go. Girls go prepare the stones while I get my stuff.
We should get a flying car. It's terrible teleporting using the stones. Every time I feel my stomach rejecting all the food and my head all fuzzy. Not so quick or cheap but certainly less disagreeable if we get a car.
We prepare the stones in a triangle near the hall as custom and get inside waiting for dad. 10 min till the meeting and we are still home. Again we'll hear reprimands for being late from the elders. I think is already a tradition from our family; even when dad went with mom, they still arrived late.
-Girls let's go. I'm ready.
The stones are activated by spell and all we need to do is think about the drop location we want to teleport. It's really convenient and fast but really unsettling after the travel. Maybe for once we are not going to be late. Nice!
-Bennet! It's a miracle! You are actually on time today. – This petty hater by name Ella Baker is one of the shifters reps and her creature is fury. She not powerful, only a so-so in strength scale and thinks is above the others because she's a rep (though the seat was bought and not earned).
-Morning Baker. I see you presented ourselves with your delightful person – Sarcastic tone on. Bring it! – Bribed anyone yet? I think your money is tired staying in your bank account – And finishes with a smirk. Got to love this "talks" between papa and some of the elders.
-Ha ha very funny! At least I have money to spend unlike you. A measly man with only his past recognition of the name to recommend. Do you even have money to eat? I guess not – How much I want to have claws to use on that sneer... going to control myself; we are at a public venue… Give good examples… Lizzie even if she serves, you can't use a spell or nails to mess with her face… this is the mantra I talk myself to every time I see her face.
-Wow you learn some big words. Congratulations! Must be so proud of yourself! Finally evolving to a high school level knowledge. You're finally proving right that diploma your father bought, aren't you?
Dad's on fire today.
-Well, do you plan on wasting more of our time? Some of us do have a job and work. – Mr.T, one of the spirituals reps. He's so creepy. No one knows his real name, age or even where he lives and what he does. What I know is that he has a nephew but even that is just a rumor.
-Yes yes we're coming. Mr.T, you need to learn how to relax so you can enjoy life. Being so uptight isn't very good for your health.
-Whatever Bennet! Hurry up that I have work to do.
- Ok ok, are we all here? Yes? Then let's begin the meeting…
TBC
Note: I may take some time to update as I don't usually write fanfics. I'm more of a reader (just see my favorite stories :P) I'm in college and only use one of my subjects to write this fic so it takes time.
I'm not happy with how I ended but I'm not seeing how to proceed from here so I'll change the POV for the next chapter.
Oh and I don't have a beta so any reviews with constructive critics are so welcome….
