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' Thinking to oneself '
" Talking "
Chapter 6
Eldus
The King and Queen of Domino both turned to look toward the shrine and noticed that the dust from the explosion was starting to clear up. Just then they heard an evil laughter and a tall man walking out of the clearing dust.
"Well, well, well... looks like Jeanne's eternal seal wasn't so eternal after all…"
The King and Queen gasped in shock at the sight of a tall man dressed in all black with deathly black eyes walking toward them with an evil grin on his face. They couldn't believe that there was a being in the whole magical dimension that was able to have such cold emotionless eyes and have such a powerful evil aura surrounding him.
Brushing some dust off his shoulder Eldus looked around the clearing "hmm... what do we have here?" he said as he spotted the King and Queen. He took a moment to carefully look at them. "Woman, you are a descendent of Jeanne aren't you?" Eldus said as he glared at Queen Marion. King Oritel stood in front of his wife and held out his sword defensively "You don't belong here demon. You will be returned to your seal before long so don't get comfortable." Eldus scoffed at the King's words "Looking at your current state I do not believe that you are one to make such bluffs." he said with a smirk when he saw how weak the King and Queen looked. The King scoffed at the slightly transparent demon in front of them. "Well, you don't look any better." Eldus frowned at what the King noted "It may be true that I do not have all my powers at this current time, but I am still much stronger than you. All I need is good stretch to get the dark magic flowing" Eldus said as he stretched his arms behind is back, then suddenly threw a dark and powerful blast at King Oritel.
Instinctively, the king brought up his sword to block the attack, but blinked to see that Queen Marion placed a protective barrier around them. "I'm surprised that you were able to block that attack and still have your barrier intact." The evil sorcerer said slightly impressed. "Well, someone of Jeanne's blood should have at least some talent in them, I suppose." Eldus shrugged "You were sealed once, you will be sealed again!" Queen Marion remarked "O I hardly think so, foolish queen. I know that Jeanne was a rare powerful fairy to ever be born to Domino let alone the magical universe, and even she couldn't fully get rid of me. All she managed to do just seal me away to prolong the inevitable, and died for it. She pretty much washed her hands of her failure and left the future unprotected" He shook his head with a matter-of-factly grin. "And from what I can tell right now, your majesties…" he remarked sarcastically. "…there is no one who even matches relatively close to her power in this universe let alone this planet. Meaning I will easily take over the magical dimension soon enough." His evil smile sent chills down the King and Queen's spine.
"What should we do Oritel?" Whispered the Queen. "Let's try to stop him here. We may be weak right now, but so is he. There's a chance that we can at least injure him enough to prolong his full revival, giving the royal guard enough time to arrive and subdue him." the King whispered back "Yes, your right let's do it." With that Queen Marion placed a barrier around Eldus to restrict his movements and to block his vision, while King Oritel charged while building up energy in his sword to attack Eldus.
"You think that this weak barrier of yours will even slow me down?!" With a dark laugh Eldus sent out a burst of energy from his body and easily broke through the barrier. He broke it just in time for him to see King Oritel's enchanted sword go through his chest. "You made a big mistake your majesty." King Oritel gasped "What? How? My enchanted sword is able to cut anything with magic." he felt a sharp pain on his back when Eldus hit him with a small dark blast. "In this form I can cut off the magic flow in the area that you aimed at, foolish King." Eldus remarked with a laugh as he punched the King's torso with a powerful dark blast and he was sent flying and landed a couple of feet away from his Queen. "Oritel!" Queen Marion ran to her beloved and crouched down to check on him "Are you ok Oritel? Please, open your eyes!"
Queen Marion looked up to see that King Oritel's sword was lying on the ground by Eldus' feet. 'I need to get Oritel's sword back we are going to need it to defend the universe.' The Queen slowly stood up thinking of a plan to get the sword back without using up all her magic. "O do you think that you can take me on all by yourself, even after you saw what I did to your King?" Eldus said with a smirk. Queen Marion looked down at her love and placed a protective barrier around him "You have no idea what I am capable of Eldus!" with that the Queen shot multiple fire blasts at the evil sorcerer while running towards him. Eldus kept easily blocking each blast sent to him with a bored look on his face. As soon as Queen Marion was close enough to the sword she sent a huge fire blast at Eldus followed by a huge gust of wind to make the blast even stronger. Eldus crossed his arms in front of his face to protect himself from the blast and he was forced back a few feet. He lowered his hands to see that Queen Marion had grabbed Oritel's sword and was running back towards her King. "Not so fast!" Eldus shot one of his dark blasts and it hit the Queen's left shoulder sending her falling face first right next to her husband. She slowly got up and grabbed her injured shoulder and glared back at Eldus to see him walking closer to her.
Eldus approached the Queen slowly and looked down at her with his black emotionless eyes. "Now it's your turn to burn, Queen, but since you are blood of the fairy that sealed me away I will make you suffer greatly for what she did to me. And I think I have an idea of how to make you suffer without receiving any physical pain yourself" Eldus smiled as he looked down at the unconscious King. Queen Marion had tears forming in her eyes as she looked at Eldus with hatred and disgust "Heed my words Eldus you will be stopped. For now, you will not have a chance to touch either of us." with that Queen Marion casted a teleportation spell and escaped the Valley of Darkness with her love.
Meditrina and Daphne had just placed Bloom in a bed in the next room from Sky's to rest. Meditrina was looking her over to make sure that she was fine before stepping out of the room with Daphne. "Don't worry Princess Daphne, Princess Bloom will be perfectly fine after she rests and recovers her strength. In the meantime we just need to keep a close eye on her, she should wake up in a day or two." 'Sigh' "I'm happy Bloom will be fine, and I am so thankful you are here to care for her. But now I'm worried about my parents." "Why would you be worried for the King and Queen?" Meditrina asked "surely they are powerful enough to deal with any trouble that they come across, they did defeat the ancestral witches after all."
"I know but you never know when they could be caught off guard, and the ones that they are currently fighting might turn out stronger then my parents." Daphne sighed as they walked into the sitting room. Meditrina closed the door behind them after telling one of the maids to bring some tea while they waited for the return of the King and Queen. 'The eclipse is over they should be back by now… If they don't return soon I am going to go look for them. I should probably call Thoren I don't like feeling so alone and useless…" Daphne thought as she stated to reach for her phone to call her husband.
Suddenly a bright light blasted a few feet in front of Daphne, at the end of room by the balcony doors. "Princess!" Meditrina exclaimed and ran towards the princess in an attempt to shield her from whatever was going to happen. "What the-?" Daphne exclaimed as the light started to fade away. Daphne and Meditrina looked up and saw Queen Marion holding the unconscious King on her lap. The crown princess was shocked to see her strong parents bruised and weak; their clothes ripped and torn while one lay, hopefully just, unconscious. "Mom? Dad?!" / "Your Majesties!" Daphne and Meditrina both said as they ran to the King and Queen "What happened?!"
"O Daphne… it's terrible… we need to… to prepare dear…" Queen Marion said in-between breaths "Prepare? Prepare for what?" "Your majesty you mustn't speak so much, you have completely exhausted all your magic. You need to take it easy." The healer stated as she started to treat the King's more serious injuries "Our greatest fears …have happened Daphne…" Daphne paled in fear of what her mother was going to say next "… the Trix… released Eldus…" the crown princess gasped in horror as her mother fell backwards into Daphne's arms, unconscious.
"Hmm... well that was boring. Now let's see who is left." Eldus turned around and saw Stormy and Darcy on the floor next to a slowly waking Icy. They were still by the area where his shrine once stood. "Let's see, I guess I should assume that you three are the ones who freed me?" he asked as he walked over to them. Rubbing her head, Icy slowly stood up to confront the sorcerer in front of them. "Yes, we are. But you weren't supposed to be alive, only your power should have remained." "Oo so you thought that if you released the seal my power would have no choice but to go into you three, resulting in infinite power. Is that correct?" "Well, yea no one should be able to survive 3,000 years sealed or not, let alone be as young as you look." Stormy remarked
"You would be correct, if I wasn't an immortal." "That's impossible!" stated Darcy "And yet here I am..." Eldus glared at Darcy for speaking back at him. Darcy looked away since his glare sent chills down her spine.
Eldus straighten up and waved off the animosity growing between them. "How rude of me, I have forgotten to properly introduce myself." With a small bow Eldus introduced himself. "I am Eldus the immortal dark sorcerer of curses" he looked up and extended a hand towards the Trix "…and who do I owe the pleasure?" The Trix looked up confidently and returned the introduction starting with Icy "Call me Icy, the Witch of Ice." "I am Darcy, the Witch of Darkness." "Stormy, the Witch of Storms." "And we are the Trix!" Eldus looked at them in wonder "I have never know witches to ever come together in a coven…hmm… interesting. And since your names are self explanatory of your powers it should be easy enough to remember them." "Why you stuck up -!" Stormy said as she started to charge up her lightening attack.
"Now now calm down there… Stormy, was it?" Eldus said while holding up his hands. "Well I should thank you three Witches for releasing me. I was getting tired of my tiny living conditions." Eldus said as he stretched out his limbs. "I do believe that I should reward you for your valiant efforts…" he thought out loud with a hand on his chin, pondering on how to reward them, he turned to the Trix. "What would you like as a reward? Wealth? Love? Someone's death?…" With a grin he added "…Or perhaps you would like to taste infinite power?" "Power!" The Trix responded in unison "Hmm… I thought so. I would more than happy to grant you more power than you can even imagine, but right now I cannot." "What? Why not?! We should be rewarded for all the work we did to get you out of your stupid little rock!" retorted Stormy
"You are so correct my dear, but you see, you only released one of the two seals that were placed on me. You only released my mind, but not my body. Without my body I am incomplete, I don't have the control to properly grant your wish." "You had enough control to take care of Marion and Oritel easily enough." Remarked Icy "Of course I did, Icy, causing someone bodily harm is easy for anyone to do. You don't need proper focus and stability for that. If I aim for one's head but hit their heart instead, I'm not concerned the result will be the same. But if I try to give you powers I need your new powers to slowly and properly merge and become one with your old powers or the consequences could be dire…" "What kind of consequences?" Darcy asked
Eldus took a moment to think about that "Well, it could be anything: from you just permanently losing your powers to you suffering excruciating pain for days or even weeks before inevitable death." Eldus said as he raised his arms and shrugged his shoulders. The Trix were shocked and speechless at what Eldus had just said.
"Fine, if that's the case how do we go about releasing your body so we can be rewarded?" Asked Icy as she started to walk towards the relic. "Well, my dear we will need to get somewhere safe for you three to recover first. You will need all your power in order to release the second seal and in the meantime I will teach you the spell required to undo it easier." Eldus responded with a sweet smile. Icy thought of where they could go that would be easy to shield their powers.
"Let's go to Lord Darkar's underground castle. No one will think to look for us there and our dark powers will be disguised by the castle's dark power." Icy stated with an evil grin. "Lead the way my dear." Eldus said as he stepped aside and holding his arm out indicating to Icy to proceed.
"Sisters." Icy said as the Trix gathered up their remaining power to open up a portal that led to Darkar's castle. The sisters were about to walk through the portal when Eldus stopped them "Wait my dears…aren't you forgetting something…" He said as he pointed to the relic on the ground "Why don't you pick it up yourself?" remarked Stormy "I would but currently I don't have any physical hands to do so." Eldus said as he bent down and waved his hands through the relic a few times proving his point that currently he is the equivalent of a simple ghost. 'Sigh' "Stromy go grab the rock." Icy commanded "Ugh but Icy…" "Hurry up. The faster to grab it the faster we can get out of here. Or do you want to face the royal guards?" Icy remarked.
Crossing her arms Stormy stomped toward the relic and bent down to pick it up. "Wait! Don't pick it up…" Eldus warned a little too late "What? Why?" Stormy interrupted before grabbing hold of the relic "…bare handed…" Eldus finished and slapping his left hand on his forehead. "Stormy!" Icy and Darcy exclaimed when they saw their sister sent a couple of feet away from the relic. "Owww. What the HELL Eldus?!" Stormy screamed at the sorcerer while rubbing her head.
"I thought you guys studied up on this…" "We never found the details of your seals." Icy responded. 'Sigh' "Jeanne's husband, King Leonard, wanted to make sure no one of the Dark Arts were able to set me free, and if they did manage to release one seal he made had a 'back-up plan', so to speak. He knew that it would take an immense power to undo the first seal, so they would be too weak to undo the second seal. So he made it so the relic could not be removed by evil, from this spot, leaving enough time for the royal guard to come and seal my mind away again before my body was released." Eldus told the Trix.
"Well now what are we supposed to do? We practice dark arts so of course we can't touch it!" Darcy stated in frustration. Eldus turned to point towards the trees where Queen Marion and King Oritel were earlier "Use the ripped cloth from Jeanne's descendant's dress, which she so generously left us. It is still covered in her positive energy so it should be fine for you to use it to pick up the relic." This time Icy got up and flew over to the cloth left at the edge of the clearing and picked it up. She flew back and over to the relic and carefully placed the cloth over the rock and folded the cloth underneath with a stick before standing up. She held the cloth like a hammock with the relic hanging in the middle. "Ok good. Let's go." Icy said as she headed towards the portal keeping the relic at arm's length in fear it might touch her. Her sisters follow soon after.
Eldus started to follow them but stopped to look back at the clearing. 'Well, Jeanne looks like the game begins anew and this time I will be victorious.' Eldus giggled before following the Trix through the portal.
