Hello everyone hope all of you are enjoying this story. Here is chapter eight, enjoy.
"Talking"
'thinking'
'reading books/thoughts'
Chapter Eight
"That's five done." I looked at Edith and Lorina. I could tell Edith was starting to sweat a little. This was more magic then Lorina had used in a while too. 'Seems we need some work as well.'
"That's insulting my lady" Nickolas was waiting on who was next.
"In general. They are fighting off mind magic very well though. Else they would be totally screwed against a witch or royal. Let's do Nightmare next. I'm curious how he will hold up since he has some mind power as well." Nickolas bowed his head and left the room. "Nightmare will try to fight with his mind, you will fight him Lorina. Edith can take a break."
"Very well."
Nightmare walked in and the test began all over again. Nightmare avoid any attack by floating to the ceiling. Sadly for him, Lorina could float too. After a while, Nightmare tried to attack her mind. It seemed that Lorina barely held him off. 'He'll be good when everyone sleeps.' I felt a small plan started to form but pushed it aside for now. Nightmare started coughing up blood and his test was over. 'Got to get that healed.'
"You might want to bring Gray next. He is about to start something."
'Thank you for your suggestion we will take it into consideration.'
Nickolas lead him out to join the others. 'Let's go ahead and do Gray'
"Of course my lady."
"I'm missing out on all the fun"
"You would obliterate them Alice no real test would be done." Lorina laughed at me.
"Gray fights with speed so this should be interesting."
"He will still have to learn to keep up with us." Edith grinned. A short break was definitely all she needed.
Gray walked in and it began again. 'number seven' Gray grabbed his knifes and waited for the first move. Edith attacked trying to punch him in the face. He dodged and her fist went into the wall. 'Oh shit' I almost laughed at his thoughts. He tried to stab her with one of his knifes. She went on all fours and kicked her foot in his stomach. He slid backwards into the opposite wall. It didn't keep him down for more than a second as he was going right back at her. For a while all that seemed to be happening was them dodging each other. Edith did a spin kick but he ducked and came up, pushing his knife into her stomach. She back off. She kept her eye on him as she tried to pull it out. Finally she decided to leave it alone because Gray was coming back at her. She spun under his arm and away from him. She began turning. I wasn't completely sure what stood before me any more than Gray did. It had the build of a dog except no fur. It had brown scales instead. It stood at seven feet and about ten feet from head to tail, the tail was half that by itself. It's tail went into a spike and two horns came out of its head. 'She's combining animals. I haven't seen this very often.' She roared at Gray in a challenge. All her teeth were pointed and sharp. Her tail swished as she lowered her head to pounce. The knife was still in her stomach. She started pawing the ground. 'Now she's just scratching up the floor.' I could tell Gray was a little nervous and trying to figure this out. She ran forward at him. He wait a second and charged as well. He slid between her legs and grabbed the knife and pulled it with him. It left a nice gash in her stomach. She growled and turned her head towards him. She swished her tail and landed a mark across his face. She lowered her head and charged, aiming her horns at him. He jump up and onto her back. A shard of ice flew past his face. 'Lorina has joined now.' Gray stabbed Edith in the back before she reared and he fell. She threw her head about and buck for a minute trying to dislodge the knife. Lorina threw more shard of ice at Gray. Gray became too focused on Lorina and Edith threw her head at him throwing him to the ceiling. He fell on the floor. I could tell he had hit his limit. I walked forward. He kept whispering enough. I could tell many of the bones in his body were broken. I gently placed my hand on his shoulder and started healing the bones. Lorina came over and helped. 'that was a little harsh Edith'
'Sorry'
After about a few minutes he was healed.
'We will see you again to make sure everything is healed later. You are done.'
Nickolas helped him out of the room. We continued.
Time Skip
Nickolas finally brought in the final role holder, Pierce. He was thoroughly shaking.
'you expect him to fight.'
'no he will go around to all the dead and make sure they are dead, by chopping their heads off. Set them up as a warning so that maybe they will leave quicker.'
Here is a fast summary, Edith changed into a tiger and he ran. That was the end of that. We took him to the rest. I changed my eyes back to their original color. I add back my fox ears and tail with the wings.
"Hello everyone, I know you are all anxious to meet the new role holder." We all took off our mask and I stepped forward.
"I am the new role holder here." I waited patiently for a reaction. The Peter jumped up.
"Alice my dear, you are here." He jumped at me but I put my hand up with a small force blast. He went flying and went into the wall. Everyone looked with their jaw dropped. Nickolas leaned over and not so quietly whispered in my ear.
"My lady was that absolutely necessary."
"I didn't mean to. I only put in a drop of power" I looked at my hand. "We are the supernatural, each of us are technically and not a role holder. I am the royal the only one that is in everyway a role holder. Return to the ball if you wish. After it is over we will have our meeting and decide who joins my territory and who doesn't" I walked out with my sister's and Nickolas.
Hope everyone enjoys. Opinions about pairing is still up for debate and I would love to see who you think will join Alice's territory. Please review.
