Disclaimer: read the last chapters disclaimer because i really don't want to write another one


Chapter 7: The Black Witches Story

Four days after Kika arrived, Macie, Chessur, and Mallymkun were on the balcony of the palace in Marmoreal staring out at the landscape when Macie asked Chessur a question she had been dying to ask "What is the story of the black witch anyway? Who is she?"

Chessur looked into Macie's eyes (he was in his human form) and sighed "It's not a happy story Macie"

"I need to know Chessur, because I can't fight her if I don't know what she did"

Chessur closed his eyes and said "no one is exactly sure what happened, Mirana and Melaina, the black witch, used to be as close as sisters, then…" Chessur sighed heavily "then Melaina's mother hid the lily blade and that sparked a tension between Melaina's mother and Mirana's mother… Mirana accused Melaina's mother of stealing it and… Melaina got angry… Melaina stopped talking to Mirana and then… after a few years Melaina suddenly started to work with Iracebeth and helped dethrone Mirana, then one day… Melaina just left, she went to live in the upper world, and when she came back, Iracebeth had been dethroned and banished."

Macie frowned, she was almost positive that something major was missing from the story, some crucial piece of information that was not known to many, something that she had to figure out.

"People don't just go from ignoring somebody to wanting to dethrone them." Macie said calmly "What did Mirana do that caused the witch to suddenly hate her cousin?"

Chessur sighed "your right, but I don't know what happened, no one does."

Mallymkun jumped off Macie's shoulder and onto the stone of the balcony rail, she had been hanging around with Chessur and Macie a lot more since the black witch hadn't attacked yet. "What are you thinking about Macie?"

Macie bit her lower lip then sighed "I'm not exactly sure… I'm trying to figure out the riddle of the lily blade while at the same time trying to figure out what the black witch is planning."

Macie then groaned and started to pace "that riddle makes no sense! How would that tell somebody where the blade was?! It's completely illogical!! The answer wouldn't give directions anywhere!!! So what exactly am I supposed to be looking for?!" Macie sighed and her shoulders slumped "I don't know what to do and its driving me nuts!"

Chessur put a hand on her shoulder and said "there is no hurry Macie, we have plenty of-"

Just then a trumpet played and a cold feeling washed over all three of them.

The news was bad; Kika had disappeared, she had slipped off into the night and gone back to the black witch. the black witch was now assembling her armies to prepare for battle the next day.

Macie glared at Chessur "you were going to say that we had plenty of time, weren't you?"

Chessur's face told her that, yes that was what he had been going to say.


Mirana was preparing for battle the next day as fast as she could, and Alice made it clear to Macie that she was to stay away from the battle when the fighting started. Alice was helping Mirana get ready for the battle the next day.

That night Macie had the dream again, she was standing in the middle of a forest and, suddenly she saw a glint of light up ahead, she followed the light and found herself standing before a small glade and in the center of that glade was the source of the glint of light, a sword that was bouncing sunlight off of its blade. Then Macie hear noises in the woods noises that sounded almost like… Ravens.

When Macie woke up she quickly grabbed for a piece of paper and pencil, and wrote down what she had figured out.

Macie found Chessur and Mallymkun easily the next day and asked them to meet her on the balcony again.

When the human Chessur and Mallymkun got there they found Macie pacing with a piece of paper in her hand.

"Macie…" Mallymkun asked in a worried voice "are you-?"

Macie stopped pacing and said "I'm fine Mally," she looked all around so that no one would hear her say what she was going to say. "I think I figured it out."

Chessur's and Mallymkun's eyes widened Macie held up a hand "I think that I figured it out but I'm not one hundred percent sure." Macie took a deep breath and then asked "is there a place where ravens sing in Underland?"

Chessur and Mallymkun frowned and then Chessur said slowly "yes, a forest, it's near the outlands but not in them. What does that have to do with-?"

Macie cut him off quickly "the clue was in the riddle and the answer; I thought that the clue was just in the answer, but if you take ravens and the fact that they sing flat notes…"

Chessur's eyes widened "of course!! That forest is the only place in Underland where ravens sing, you see them all around Underland if you look, but none of them sing anywhere except that forest!"

Mallymkun's eyes widened and she said "but no one has ever come out from that forest before!!

Macie smiled, "that was the whole idea, the witches' mother didn't want the blades power to be used, so she took it to a place where no one would look for it."

"But how are we going to get it?" Chessur asked

"We're not, I am" Macie said

Chessur's eyes hardened "Not a Chance!!" he hissed "Mally is right no one has come out of that forest before! It's easy to get lost in there because there are no paths!! I'm going with you!"

Macie glared right back at Chessur "that's the very reason I need to go alone!!"

"No way Macie it's too dangerous!"

Macie sighed "you're expected to be there Chessur, you can't back out now!"

"But I'm not!" Mallymkun suddenly said

Macie and Chessur turned to look at Mallymkun with wide eyes and said together "your not?!"

Mallymkun shook her head "the queen wants me to stay with you!"

Macie thought this over for a minute and agreed then she turned to Chessur; Chessur looked like he was going to argue some more but Macie beat him to it. "Chess you have to go with everyone else, your one of the best advantages that the queen has, I need to do this and it's not likely that I can lose Mally if she is sitting on my shoulder." Macie stared right into Chessur's eyes "we don't have the time to argue about this Chess, you need to go with the queens' army, I need to go look for the blade, we don't have time to think of a better plan and you know I'm right! Please Chess this is our only option so please don't fight me on it!"

They heard a trumpet calling the army to get ready and Chessur knew that Macie was right, they were out of time.

Chessur hugged Macie tightly and said "You'd better come back you hear me?!"

Macie hugged him back and said in a voice that made it clear that she was grinning "of course! Who will beat you at chess if I don't?!"

As Chessur pulled away he gave her a small glare. Macie smiled softly and said "I'll bring both of us back safely Chessur, I promise."

The trumpet sounded again and Chessur turned to look at Mallymkun "fairfarren" then he turned to Macie again "both of you… and good luck."

Macie and Mallymkun watched from a window as the queens' army went to meet the witches' army.

Macie suddenly picked Mallymkun up in one hand and hurried down to the stables.

"Where are we going?" Mallymkun asked

"To get a horse so that we can ride to the forest." Macie said "we don't have much time to waste to run there and I doubt it's in convenient walking distance anyway."

After Macie had saddled a young white mare and told her where they needed to go they were off at a gallop in the opposite direction that the queens army was heading, in about an hour's time they were at the beginning of the forest. Macie thanked the mare and asked her to wait there for them, then, with Mallymkun on her shoulder, Macie headed off into the forest.


As the white queens' army met the black witches' army everyone was surprised that the witch only had about a hundred people with her, until they saw the balls of fire that almost all of them were forming in their hands, every single person in the black witches' army, was a mage.

Chessur cursed under his breath, one hundred mages meant big trouble for them.

The black witch stepped forward and held up a hand to the mages behind her. The balls of fire disappeared in an instant.

Melaina held her hands out to Mirana and said "Mirana this doesn't have to happen, please, don't throw your peoples' lives away in a war that they can't win. Mirana I don't want bloodshed I just want what is rightfully mine"

Mirana glared at Melaina "the crown is not rightfully yours!"

Melaina's eyes hardened "my mother's crown was my birthright! As your mothers crown was yours!"

Mirana said nothing and Melaina sneered at her "so you will sentence people to death because you will not harm any living creature?! Take a look Mirana! I have a hundred mages on my side! You don't stand a chance!!"

Kika then stepped in place next to Melaina and she held her palm open and up and a ball of fire appeared in her hand. Many people from the white queens' army gasped at the fact that Kika was a mage.

Melaina took a deep breath and said "Mira please! Is fighting me really worth your life?!"

Mirana's eyes softened for a second and then hardened again "I do not trust you with Underland"

Melaina scoffed in disbelief "says the woman who can't fight because she swore not to!"

Mirana glared at Melaina "you helped Iracebeth dethrone me."

Melaina's eyes widened and then she choked out "Excuse me?! Why would I help that idiot become queen?!"

Mirana was startled for a minute and then Melaina went on "I would never have given that idiot power over Underland! This is my home! I swore to defend it as did you! Why would I help Iracebeth?!"

Kika looked as outraged as Melaina was, her eyes were a bright orange and the flame in her hand grew bigger.

Melaina shook her head "fine if this is what you really want then you leave me no choice."

Melaina raised her hand again and a hundred balls of fire were flying through the air towards the queens' army, the fight was on.

Kika ran for Mirana only to be stopped by Hatter "Get out of my way Tarrant or I will make you" she snarled

"Make me then" Hatter said.

Kika threw balls of pure magic at her cousin and he deflected them off of his sword.

Chessur saw Alice run for the black witch only to be stopped by two mages. Alice drew a sword and swiped at them.

Chessur himself disappeared and reappeared behind enemies knocking them out.


Macie and Mallymkun struggled through the forest and Mallymkun finally asked "so what's the plan exactly?"

After a moment Macie said "I don't have one really"

"What?!"

"I'm kind of making this up as I go okay?!"

Mallymkun groaned "we're doomed

Macie glared at Mallymkun and was about to retort when they walked into a glade and siting on top of a stone, was a sword sheathed into a scabbard which had a lily with white petals and a black stem.

"we found it" Mallymkun said in awe

Macie nodded, unable to speak from the fact that they had succeeded.

In the background both girls could hear the ravens singing.


So... what do you think? two chapters in one day!!! the next chapter should be up before sunday