Chapter 10: The dark castle of Nol
Malchior awaited his soul servant on his throne. He tapped his fingers against the black arm, his eyes narrowed as he watched the sun go down by the mountains. The picture was shown from the crystal ball he held in his other hand.
He growled. "This was not supposed to happen!" He yelled in anger as he saw Raven and the mortal boy kiss on top of the cliff.
The mad king threw the crystal ball to the ground, it bounced two or three times before starting to roll.
An old woman with white hair walked into the room. The woman wore a long white dress that covered most of her body. Her eyes shone with a bright light gray colour. The old woman picked up the crystal ball and rubbed it with her long sleeve.
"My dear lord…" The old woman's voice cracked, making it sound like she was over a hundred years old. "... The crystal ball will break with not many more hits." She said low.
"I do not care! We will get a new one." The king yelled at the old woman.
"Crystal balls are not easy to come by." She put the crystal into her sleeve and it just vanished. The old woman walked up to Malchior's throne. "Lady Raven will fight you no matter what you do, my lord."
"I do not need guidance from an old lady!" He roared.
"Your mother told me to be your guardian, and I have done my job so far." The woman said, she lifted her old shaky hand to the huge room. "Marti, el, courys." She chanted.
An image appeared in the middle of the room. The image started out in a blur before forming, the image showed… Raven.
She was hanging by the arms against a wall. Golden chains held her up, the chankels around her wrists held two ruby gems, each glowing deadly red. Raven herself was dressed in what seemed like a slave dress. Tears streamed down her face.
She suddenly moved, she jerked sharply in the chakles.
"Why are you showing me this, Victoria?" Malchior asked.
"This is her future, and I do not wish it upon her. Even for you, this would be cruel." She said.
"How do you know?" He hissed, somehow he wanted this to be the future and at the same not.
"I am showing you this for you to make a choice. You let her be and take the power you have or you could give her the torture you see here." The image stopped as the woman walked away.
She stopped in the dark doorway when Malchior called to her. "What will happen if I let her be?" He asked.
"She will live her life with Logan. And yet, Logan is not human. He's a beast. I'm sure you remember them." The woman smiled, showing her loss of teeth.
"Yes, one of them killed my brother in the war." Malchior hissed. "Not that I liked him, but they speared me the pleasure of killing him." He growled.
"Please my lord, Lady Raven and Lord Aaron are innocent in the rights eye." She walked into the darkness of the doorway, leaving Malchior to his thoughts.
He rose from his throne in anger. Walking over to a flaming standing chandelier and pushed it over, letting the glowing coal fall to the dark stone floor.
He roared in anger, his inner dragon showing hard. His wings flared and his eyes turned pure red, the whiteness in his hair vanished. He took out his hand and summoned the crystal ball.
A picture of Raven appeared, she was sleeping in what seemed like a moving car.
"You will be mine Raven… No matter where you hide, I will find you." His voice changed into a grave deep and angry voice. "And I will not stop until you are my queen."
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Raven was fast asleep in the moving car, she was laying on top of Garfield in the back seat. She snuggled up to his chest feeling safe in the danger the three were in.
Aaron sat in the front seat, from time to time glaring at the couple in the back seat. He smiled from time to time, it was nice seeing Raven smile in her sleep.
For so many years she had been crying in her sleep, asking for his protection and he was never able to give it. Even when she was with him at night, she would still cry. It made him happy, that someone was able to give her the protection he couldn't.
It also made him a little jealous, Garfield, who hadn't known Raven for such a long time, was able to give her the comfort she had ever wanted.
Aaron turned back to the road and sighed. Letting a smile cross his face he thought. I can't be mad at them, she deserve it. And if he is the only one who can give it, so be it.
A few hours later the car stopped. Raven woke softly as she lifted her eyelid. The bright light quickly made her shut them. She groaned and lifted herself from Garfield's warm chest.
Looking out the window she saw Aaron standing with his back to the car talking to some people. The people seemed friendly as they were hugging each other. They were only about five people, but they could be more inside the house behind them. Aaron turned around and saw Raven looking at them, he smiled and waved his hand for her to come closer.
Raven climber out of the car, closing it gently as Garfield was still sleeping. She walked carefully over to her brother, holding onto his upper arm.
"Raven I want you to meet, Ulric. He's a good friend of mine and is not human." An old man gave out his hand and Raven gently shook it. The old man was bent with a wooden staff in his hand, he wore a worn blue cloak and long white beard. Small glasses placed on his big nose, his green eyes showing brightly behind the glass.
"It's a pleasure to meet you, Lady Raven." He kissed her hand gently.
"It's a pleasure to meet you too, sir." Raven said.
"Oh don't be so formal, we're all friends here." Ulric laughed. "And who is your friend in the car?" Ulric asked as he peeked over their shoulder.
They turned around and saw Garfield peek over the edge of the window. Raven smiled and waved for him to come. He did, walked out to them.
"Garfield, Ulric, Ulric, Garfield." Aaron waved between the two of them.
The two shook their hands and nodded.
"Anyway, let's go meet the family." Ulric gathered the tree inside the house. There they were meet with the four people Raven had seen earlier. An old woman, a middle aged man, a middle aged woman and a child girl.
The old woman was known as Alice. The man, Leo. The woman, Marie. And the little girl, Rose. The three young, were all blond with green eyes.
"They helped me when I was in need, they're trusted." Aaron said as he chewed down on a carrot.
"Aaron said you weren't human, you were like us." Raven said.
"Indeed, we may not be immortal, but we have was a power switcher, that meant he could switch power with whoever he wanted. Alice was a healer, Leo a invisibility user, Marie a potion maker and Rose was a in training Aura magician. Aura magic was a strong ability, but also a dangerous one.
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Raven was sitting with Rose outside, the two went really well together. "Your magic is about aura's?" Rave asked with a smile.
"Yes, I've been training a lot, but there's not many auras around to train on." Raven nodded to the little girl.
"How strong are you?"
"I don't know, mom said I came to a level of choking an aura." Raven looked at her shocked.
"That's a powerful move, I bet you'll grow up to be a powerful magician."
"I wish, in these days magic isn't noticed." Rose looked at the ground, playing with the flower in her hand. "My ability isn't a good one, my dad says if I'm not careful I'll get taken to the king for him to use." Rose looked away from the flower.
"That won't happen, Rose I may not have known you for such a long time, but I know that you will be able to use your power when you need to. You just don't have to be afraid to use it." Raven placed her hand on the girl's shoulder.
"Thank you, Raven." The little girl hugged her before running off.
"I see you two got along very well." Raven turned and saw Aaron stand in the shadow of the house.
"So?" She asked and turned away, Aaron sat down next to her after a few seconds.
"You might want to check your boyfriend, I think Ulric is trying to unlock his animal." Aaron laughed.
"What's so funny about that?"
"Ulric is using dog methods." Aaron and Raven laughed.
"Really?"
"Yeah, when I went out he was trying to lure the animal out with dog treat."
Seconds later Garfield bursted out the door, with a dog treat in his mouth. "Guys! You have to try this!" He gave them a treat each. "They're surprisingly good."
"You have a dog, have you never tried them?" Raven asked.
"No." He took another bite.
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Victoria watched the three laugh in her crystal ball, the dark castle was never fun to be in and she would get little pleasure to see people laugh.
Victoria smiled softly, before smirking evilly. "So the little girl can choke an aura?" She asked herself.
"No!" She yelled. "I will not allow such a young girl fall into my lord's hands." She shook her head.
She waved her hand in front of the crystal, making the picture fade. It soon appeared as a new form.
Raven.
She was sitting alone in the forest, leaning against a branch. Victoria knew what this was, the future. She leaned in, Raven had been crying.
Changing the viewpoint she pointed it down. The two boys were sitting under the tree, she quickly guessed what had happened, but kept it to herself.
She changed the image again.
This time a old picture of Nol. Before Malchior was born.
The land of the sun as it was often called. Nol had been such a beautiful place, but when the two twins were born, they knew of their fate. When Victoria told the king and queen about their son's future they wanted to stop the land that were to kill their son.
They attacked Azarath, Jump village. many were lost in the battle, but in the attack. The family witness Malachi's death.
Malachi was Malchior's older brother, born minutes before him. Malachi was 'the nice twin' as many said, but he died that day. Victoria was sent to guard their remaining son with her life, and so she did.
But Malchior became corrupt, not of the loss of his brother, but the pain of not getting to kill him himself. Malchior knew of his fate of becoming king, but Malachi was in the way.
The dark prince grew darker and darker, victoria tried to help him, but couldn't. The prince became corrupted by dark magic and was taken over by an old dragon soul who wanted nothing more than power.
He wished to marry Raven, to use her powers for his own gain. He knew she was powerful, even more powerful than him and Trigon.
Victoria sighed and let the once white kingdom fade into black. It was a sad sight, but she'd been there. Unable to stop him, nothing could stop him.
But maybe...
… Raven could…
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I can't put this story down now! Even I can't wait for the next chapter.