This chapter is in Christoph's point of view, showing a better glimpse of his plan and how he treats those that work for him, as well as showing the witches and a few others he orders around.

Hope this chapter is okay.

Disclaimer: I don't own 'VicTORious' or its characters. I own Christoph and a few OC's seen in this chapter, and maybe later chapters. The witches who work for Christoph are named after, and based partially on, a few WWE Divas. Natalie is based on Natalya, Beth is Beth Phoenix, Michelle is Michelle McCool, and Amanda is based off A.J. Lee. I don't own their influence, just the witch counterparts of them.

Christoph POV

"Anything new?" I ask Ryder, staring at a picture of Victoria when she was still a Mermaid, during one of her meetings with Katrina.

"From what we've seen, no." Ryder answers, sitting across from me in my office at the house I made mine when I started frequenting the land years ago.

"What do you mean, from what you've seen? Did you forget your orders?" I ask him, turning to send him a fierce glare.

"No, I remember the orders clearly." Ryder says, looking away. "But I can't get close to her without Jade getting in my face." He says, attempting to defend himself.

"UNIMPORTANT!" I yell, standing up and leaning towards him. "Your orders are to stick close to her and learn everything you possibly can. And you can't do that if you're keeping your distance." I tell him, walking around the mahogany desk.

"Her friends watch her like a hawk. Any attempt me make at getting within ten feet of her, they get in the way and force us back. We can't listen in on them because they refuse to let us within range." Ryder says, looking at my feet.

"I had my witches turn you human while still allowing you to keep you strength and allure ability." I tell him, stopping less than a foot in front of him. "Use your Allure on the girls, even Katrina and Victoria will be affected because they lost the majority of their powers. As for the guys, use your strength to send them flying, if need me." I tell him, my voice turning into a growl. "Now get the hell back out there, and watch her. I will not have my plan fail because you are afraid of her stupid human friends." I tell him, making my way back to my chair. "Dismissed. Send in the witches." I say, waving my hand at him as I sit down.

"Of course." Ryder says, standing up and heading out. A short moment later, the doors open again, this time, four witches, all in their mid twenties and gorgeous, walk in and stand a few feet away from my desk.

"You asked for us?" Natalie, her older sister Beth, to her right.

"Yes. How is the spell and ritual coming? I need it ready in less than a month." I ask her, staring at her.

"The spell is taking time, trying to find the right one isn't easy. Any Grimoire we find doesn't have the one you want." Michelle, the newest witch to join, says from Natalie's left.

"There's more. What else?" I ask, my impatience short because of Ryder.

"The ingredients for the potion are harder to find than me thought." Amanda, the only brunette and the youngest of the four, says from Beth's right.

"What do you mean?" I ask, cutting off whatever she was about to add to her sentence.

"No Occult shop, in the world, has the rest of the ingredients. Most of them were surprisingly easy to find." Amanda says, continuing her sentence.

"Which ones are you still missing?" I ask, glaring at the four.

"The ones you need the most." Beth says, finally speaking. "We have some people hypnotized, keeping their eyes and ears open in case anyone in the Wicca community finds them." She says, not effected by my glare and tone.

"And how long have you had this hypnotizing spell out?" I ask, looking at her.

"Since Victoria first accepted the deal to be human." Michelle answers, staring at me.

"And for all this time, there has not been one word about them?" I ask, getting frustrated.

"No sir." Natalie says, nodding slightly.

"And what of the ritual? Is that any better?" I ask, glaring at them.

"The location is easy. The underwater caves where the Mermaid Elder's convene is where Atlantis once laid, from what the legends you showed us say." Amanda answers, arms crossed behind her. "From what we've read, the ritual needs to take place on the first full moon of the same month where Atlantis is rumored to have been sunk, which as you pointed out, as in three weeks time."

"Is that it? I knew all of this already." I say, glaring at the four of them.

"What is not known, is that you need a direct descendent of one of the original Elder's to help. We don't know which blood lines are still alive." Michelle says, staring at me with a cautious look in her eyes.

"And I don't count?" I ask sarcastically. "I am a direct descendent of them, after all." I ask, looking between them.

"Since you are the one who the ritual is for, no. The one we need is to be a blood sacrifice, they are to die during the ritual." Natalie says.

"Then do whatever magic you need to find a descendent then." I snarl out, glaring. "Go. I tire of your incompetence." I dismiss them, turning the chair around, facing the window that leads to where Hollywood Arts, the school Victoria attends, in the distance.

After I hear all four sets of footprints heading away, and the door closes, I turn back around, staring at the picture of Victoria I had Ryder take all those months ago.

'You will be mine, Victoria.' I think to myself as I stare at the picture, my thoughts shifting to the plan. 'On the full moon of the month of Atlantis' end, will I rise the land and claim it as mine.' I think, smirking at the thought.

"Christoph." I hear. When I look up, I see Steven walking in, Hayley and Tara behind him. "We have news on Victoria. She is going to the beach with Katrina, Jade, and Katrina's mate." Steven says as they stop a few feet from the desk.

"And you are here because...?" I ask, staring at him.

"We wanted to see if there were any specific orders for us to do while we watch her." Ryder asks, staring at me.

"The orders remain the same. Listen to anything and everything she says. Find out anything that could help me get her on my side." I tell them. "Anything that could get that human bitch Jade out of the way without messing anything up." I say, waving my hands dismissively. "Report anything you hear and see to me as soon as possible. Understood?" I ask them as they leave the office.

"Of course." Steven says, looking back quickly before leaving the room.

"I want something, not nothing." I call out when the door closes. "Imbeciles." I groan out.

Within the next few hours, I get various texts from Ryder and Steven about what's happening, the majority of which is constant trash. Nothing they tell me makes sense to me. Except for what they send after over three hours.

-Jade is going away with family over the weekend. Victoria will be alone Saturday night while Katrina is with her mate.- Ryder D.

-Good. Find out when Katrina leaves and where Victoria will be.- Christoph

-Understood-. Ryder D.

"She'll be alone this weekend. I didn't think this Jade would be stupid enough to leave her alone." I say out loud, smirking. "This will be fun, won't it." I add with a small laugh.

"What exactly is your plan, if I may ask, sir?" Meredith, a girl Ryder met at Hollywood Arts that I hired as my personal assistant, asks from beside me, walking into the room from a hidden door few know about.

"I need Victoria's powers of empathy for my plan. She is a truly pure, innocent soul, and she is needed for the ritual. Her having that, Jade, so much, ruins my plans of getting her for myself. I need her to care for me, no one else, because caring that much for another ruins the ritual. Her love must be on me, or I cannot get her powers." I start, turning to face her. "The plan, in short, is to bring Atlantis back and claim the power in the island for my own, making my able to influence any and all Mermaids and Mermen with a thought." I say, smiling.

"Essentially, becoming the true ruler of your kind." Meredith asks for clarification.

"Of course." I say, smirking.

"What is the ritual supposed to do, if I may ask?" She asks, looking slightly afraid.

"The ritual strips her of her powers and gives them to me. In turn, her blood plus the blood of a royal, or member of an Elder's bloodline in this case, must spill over the ground of a surviving group of land of Atlantis." I say, smirking.

"And how does that bring you home back?" Meredith asks, staring at me.

"With the help of the spell and potion, with the ritual, the blood will awaken the spirits of dead Mermaids and Mermen, and somehow, I don't understand it myself, Atlantis returns. And with it, my greatest power." I smirk, turning back to face the double doors.

"What does Victoria have to do with it?" She asks, staring at me in confusion.

"As I said, she is a truly pure, innocent, soul." I say, again turning to face her. "Her soul is exactly what I need to bring Atlantis back. Atlantis was once nicknames 'The Land of Purity', for the water that flows through it was known to purify a person, and cure any illness. Because of that, only a pure should is able to bring Atlantis back. No other. There are very few souls like that in the Mermaid would anymore. They are all in other parts of the world, too complicated to get here under proper circumstances. Victoria is the only one." I say, smirk widening.

"And what of Ryder, Steven, Hayley, Tara, and me?" She asks, fear clear in her eyes and voice.

"They are all pawns, sacrificial pawns for everything. You, you are lucky. I will simply have your mind erased of what has happened since you met Ryder, and release you. You will live." I assure her, turning back to the front.

Sorry this was shorter than the last chapter by a bit.

Hope there were a couple of interesting twists in this chapter, especially what Christoph plans to do with those that work for him.

Thank you for reading, hope you liked this chapter. Please review.

Blessed Be.