Timpani ran through the wood, searching for the path to Castle Variado. If only she could speak to the Count, maybe she could change his mind about humans. As she ran she heard a soft moan and sniff from the right side of the wood.
Timpani stopped running and walked toward the sound, she saw a figure on the ground crying. Slowly walking Timpani stood over the figure and knelt down to it…it was Blumiere!
"Lord Blumiere!" Timpani exclaimed.
"Lady Timpani!" Blumiere yelled as he suddenly jumped to his feet to bow to her, but Timpani grabbed his arms to stop him.
Blumiere looked into her eyes and blushed slightly, Timpani did the same and they both broke their gaze as another flash of lighting was heard far away. The storm had gotten worse.
"Timpani…why are you here?" asked Blumiere as he turned away from her.
"……..I wanted to see you…is that so wrong?" Timpani asked as she walked up behind him.
Blumiere sighed and walked to a large stone on the ground. He tapped it with his cane and uttered a few words in a language that Timpani didn't recognize. The stone flashed with purple light and shifted into the form of a stone bench, a simple one, but a place to sit no less.
Blumiere sat and Timpani walked to his side.
"…May I sit next to you Blumiere?"
Blumiere paused…sighed…smiled and gestured for her to sit.
"I would be honored to have your company." Blumiere said as Timpani sat next to him.
The two began to talk a great length but they were cut short by a bellow of yells from the castle.
"What was that?" Timpani asked, as fear ran rampant through her body.
"…Timpani…run…"
"What?"
"RUN! GO HOME! NOW!"
Two guards were seen marching down the hill, with what seemed to be hounds, at their feet.
"But Blumiere!"
"Run! If Father learns that you where hear he would kill you! GO!"
Blumiere pushed Timpani hard, knocking her backward onto the ground. Timpani sighed and gasped before she ran again, the guards were getting closer.
Timpani vanished into a sea of trees, just in time, for the guards had just now reached Blumiere.
"Lord Blumiere! What are you doing out here?"
Blumiere was sitting on the stone bench reading the book that he had brought with him. The guards looked confused.
"What? Can I not read in privacy?" asked the young lord. The guards scratched their heads and looked at their lord confused.
"We thought we heard a voice…a female voice…"
"Tis something that happens with one runs through the wood on such dark a night, you hear things. Shall it make you feel better if I was to walk back to the castle with you all?"
"…Your father wishes you safe, so you are to come with us."
Blumiere smiled and shut his book.
"Then let us go…"
He said walking with the guards.
Timpani…I hope you got away…
But standing in the forest, unknown to Blumiere or Timpani was a man clad in black.
"….So…this….is the Count…….hmhmhmhm…."
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The Count sat in his throne waiting for his son to arrive.
"That boy has defied me…."
"Sun Moon, Star, Shine, all things light shall now be mine! Darkness seethes and you shall fall! You have made a monster, he shall call! The darkness of the book shall be held, and you will be the first in the tale to be fell…"
The Count looked over at the Satures and cursed them with many profane words before returning his glance to the doorway.
Blumiere slowly pushed through the doors, his father did not look happy…
"And just where were you?" asked the Count.
"I was in the woods, reading if you must know."
The Count stood slowly, his cape was torn…
"…Blumiere…why are you acting this way? First you spend your time with that human, then you run from me, and now you lie!"
Blumiere sighed and turned away from his father.
"Clearly you have gone mad; I have done no such thing. I told you where I was and that is that."
The Count growled and stood; out of nowhere a man in black appeared.
The Count gestured to the man that now stood before Blumiere.
"Blumiere I would like you to meet Nolrem, he is a wise man from the land of Flopside, he has came here as a seer, to show me what shall happen to the Dark Prognosticus…"
Nolrem bowed to the young lord and walked over to the Counts side.
"Blumiere…Nolrem has showed me the future……you have betrayed us…"
Blumiere suddenly shot around. "WHAT!?"
"We know of a heart, we know of a love, we know of you and your little friend, and soon a curse shall be sent."
"NO!"
"I will give you one last chance Blumiere…leave Timpani alone! Leave all the humans alone, or I will destroy the girl!"
Blumiere ran at his father, trying to kill him with blast of magic from his cane, screaming.
"WHY!?"
"…Blumiere…humans are corrupt…dangerous…humans and our tribe shall never mix! IT IS LAW!"
"THEN CHANGE IT!" Blumiere yelled as he now stood nose to nose with his father.
Nolrem shook his head and walked away.
"Death comes swiftly if you dare, and now it shall fall like rain…"
The Count chuckled and looked his son in the eye with the darkest daggers he had ever shot him with.
"…Blumiere…"
"Father…she is kind…no one else, not even you, have been kind to me the way she has been! You never helped me! You never played with me! You never read me stories! YOU NEVER EVEN CARED IF I GOT HURT! BUT SHE DID! SHE TOOK CARE OF ME! SHE IS MY FRIEND! AND I WILL DO WHATEVER IT TAKES TO PROTECT HER!"
The Count simply shrugged.
"…Then may death be brought upon you and that wretched girl!"
This was the moment where Blumiere decided…he must get rid of his father…