Elizaveta paced in a private room, awaiting for Duece to speak to her. The room consisted off sound proof walls, two double doors and one large window with blue stained glass. A table was in the room, as well as chairs, and some documents on the table. Sitting down was Gilbert.
"Ya sure you wanna do this Liz?" Gilbert asked, as Elizaveta nodded for the fiftieth time. Gilbert wasn't sure he could summon up the Dark God, but he could try. "You really really sure?" He asked once more
"Goddammit! Gil!" Elizaveta cried out, "I am! The parliament and nobles are willing to chew my head off! I need his help now!"
Gilbert sighed and brought out the sword that Duece had given him. Gilbert un shielded the sword and summoned forward the great Dark Lord. He appeared sitting down near Elizaveta.
"And why was I summoned?" He asked in a smooth deep voice as he cracked his neck and stretched his arms. It appeared as though she had awoken him from slumber,
"I need your help-" Liz began saying when Duece stood up and shushed her.
"What kingdom is the problem?" He asked her as he stood up, getting right to the point.
"Well...Orange...is..but right now, I'm about to be exiled. I'll be taking with me 3 people, very loyal and trustworthy. I have the grimoire safe-" Elizaveta began saying as she grabbed the book from a bag she was carrying. Duece smiled.
"Nice magic spell you got in it" Duece said as he placed a finger on the book and was burned by it. "Pretty strong, and stable. So...exile huh? And you need me.. Because?" He asked as Liz passed the book to Gilbert. He was the only one she trusted to hold the Grimoire.
"Protect Feleciano while I'm gone, My king he is-"
"We discussed this." deuce spoke, in a strict tone. It almost seemed like a father scolding his daughter. Gilbert only looked back and forth between the God and The Queen. " I will only protect him during the Games-"
"No! You don't understand!" Elizaveta yelled, as she looked desperate. Deuce stayed quiet, feeling compelled to listen to her...he felt as though he were connected to her in a way. "Feli...will be harassed and tried to be persuaded by the nobles and parliament members to choose Green to declare war on...but I don't have anymore loyal trusted pawns with me to trust Feleciano with. Ludwig may protect him...and Kiku too but they won't be around forever, I need you to cast a spell that keeps Feleciano safe from those nobles, and those people who will interfere with our plan" Elizaveta informed as Duece sat back down. He seemed to wager his position in the game and the plan, as he breathed in and finally spoke.
"And...what about orange?" Duece asked, Elizaveta looked confused, "the orange King has gone insane. He's angry because they took his Knight, so...what will you do about King Alfred?" Deuce asked as he lifted an eyebrow at her. Elizaveta looked at Gilbert and back at Duece. She hesitated to speak,
"...the plan is to get all the Kings to win the game at once...so...Alfred will need to not fight...meaning...the only way to stop him is to get Arthur back to Alfred" Liz said as she lifted a hand and pinched the bridge of her nose. "And right now we don't and can't even get to Arthur"
"We could..make an anti love potion?" Gilbert suggested, "alfred drinks it and bam! He forgets Arthur exists-"
"I agreed with him" Duece stated, as he pointed at Gilbert. "That's a genuine plan. But King Alfred will be focused on killing the Black King...out of anger...but he won't understand the reason as to why he's angry, which we all know is because King Ivan insulted his precious Knight" Duece said with a Smirk. "Love is a dangerous force" he commented with a chuckle.
"Says the one who's going to kill a God for his Goddess" Liz retorted back as Deuce chuckled.
"True. But...we don't know if she's alive"
"She has to be" Liz replied, "she told me when I was little that she'd come back for me...whatever that meant, but can you or can you not do a spell?" Liz asked, Duece smiled and cracked his knuckles.
"I can. Your king will be safe from any perpetrating tongues of filthy nobles, and Alfred will get his drink of anti love potion" Duece spoke as Liz stopped him.
"No..I don't know how to undo it" Liz said as Gilbert was flipping through the grimoire and stopped on a page.
"Liz, it says here, that an anti love potion will only be undone by true love, but..ya sure Alfred loves Arthur?" Gilbert asked as his red eyes gazed upon the Queen with a questioningly look. Elizaveta looked at the page and began reading, it was true. "You sure you want to risk...Alfred hating Arthur forever?"
"Okay...so we won't make an anti love potion...but that doesn't mean The Board may not think about it." Liz said as Duece stood up and took the book. But it burned his hands.
"Dammit!" He yelled as he dropped the grimoire back on the table. "Okay, fine! I get it, you don't trust me yet. Well...Gilbert, flip the pages to the beginning, there should be information on the Gods" Duece said as Gilbert began flipping pages. Until they landed on The Joker, also known as The Board.
"Yes! Exactly...he is the Joker, meaning he can manipulate a persons mind with illusions and fake memories. It's a way he can activate the deadliest side of a person" Duece informed as he read from afar.
"You're saying.." Liz trailed off as the puzzle pieces were sticking.
"He will figure out Arthur is a traitor in no time" Duece finished off for her, "we need to get Arthur back. I don't really know where he stays, all I know is that it's some type of Underworld" Duece informed as Gilbert began eagerly reading passages.
"Liz...he can bring out the deadly side of a person through torture and mind manipulation..." Gil spoke as he was reading, "do you think he may...turn the pieces into Pyschos? Or murderers? I mean constant torture will tire a persons soul and body" Gilbert informed his Queen. Elizaveta seemed to hesitate to speak, everything was not going the way she planned. But this was part of the Game, and worst of all. They had a time limit, two days max, before the Games.
"Gilbert. We are going to the Green Kingdom. We Need Mathias" Liz said as she turned her back on the boys and walked over to a book shelf. For some weird reason she wanted to take a book with her. Elizaveta took out a known book she used to learn magic, when she was younger. It was a green book, full of fairytales and encryptions. With pictures and stories.
"Liz...why did you grab THAT book?" Gil asked as he stood up, taking the grimoire with him. Duece looked irritated to not be trusted but he hid it behind a stone hard expression. Elizavéta looked at the old book. The Dark God walked over as well, his eyes widening in surprise to see a familiar book from his past, but he kept quiet.
"Remember...when you found me, and brought me into the Blue kingdom? I had this book with me, or so...my mom told me" liz said as she opened the book and looked at the images and the words, they seemed to glow in her presence. "Mom always said that...this book would lead me into a fantastic world full of wonderful dangers and so on-"
"Where did you get that book?" Duece asked quickly as he looked at the familiar pages and words, they were all handwritten by his loved one.
"Well...I don't know, I think Sophie gave it to me when I was younger, but I can't remember why I have it"
"This is Sophie's book...this was a story she had created, as a way to tease me. She said I would be her prince..saving her" Duece said as his voice trailed off. It was a joking tone but it slowly had trailed off and gotten quiet. his eyes looked saddened. "The man who took the princess, took her to an underworld. But it's just a cave that leads deeper into a magical realm, and the only way the prince can save his princess is with the help of other friends, three brave Knights, one woman and two men. So...the prince goes in, with a string tied to his wrist, one that could open the magical barrier when you entered and could lead him to the exit, because the castle was actually a labyrinth. But she never fully ended the book..." Deuce informed as he took the fairytale book in his hands. He seemed to cherish the object as he held it in his hands, as thought it could break.
"Yeah, I learned magic from it, cause the princess casted a magical spell on her kingdom before she was taken, she did it protect her people"
"That explains" Duece began saying as he flipped through the book, "it explains why Green Kingdom is un-penetrated. Even I can't enter, nor any other God. It's really hard to explain, but it's a shield that has been up for 21 years and only green enters and leaves." Deuce informed.
"But doesn't that mean that if the shield is still up...the one who casted it is alive?" Gilbert asked as he held his chin, in concentration. Elizaveta smiled,
"It does! Well...I guess we need to get into Green now" Liz said with a smile, it was mischievous. As if she were planning something. Gilbert raised a brow to look at his Queen.
"Liz?"
"I think we got a plan" she told him with a smile. Duece smirked, and sat on a chair,
"What's your plan Miss Queen?"
"It's a tactic, more or less...to test the waters. So, We still need to find Arthur, we will. But first...lets send a threatening message to Alfred. Tell him, 'we have what The Board needs, but you contact him. And we give it to you' something along those lines. So we can lure out The Board. I know Every king can contact The Board, I know that. But I can't risk Feli doing that. Deuce you're protecting Feli and King Berwald for sure during the games. I need to figure out where Eduard is and send him a message. We also need to figure out how we time looped from our future to past, and why." Liz said as Gilbert stopped her.
"But for that time loop you need four piece of different ranks and different kingdoms. Without Arthur...you can't complete the spell, Liz"
"I know. That's why I'm going to test the waters, he has to bring Arthur to us...the rest will have to wait-"
"But you only have 2days to find The Board, what if he doesn't appear?" Deuce asked.
"Then...we plan for the worst. I will have my faithful pieces fight along my side, and I will fight King Alfred and King Ivan if needed to." Elizaveta spoke, as her green eyes looked determined. Deuce seemed rather surprised to see her focus. "I'm betting The Board will appear...and if not, his mother will, Rowena? Right?" She asked Duece, the God nodded.
"She's worse than The Board, but she needs him because he owns this Universe more than she does" Duece spoke, "you can't kill her...she's a demon from The depths of Hell"
"Well...we could send her to Hell. Seal the entrances into Hell and so on." Liz said as Gil seemed rather thinkative about her plan. "You have something to say?" She asked Gilbert.
"...but...The Board kills any Traitors once he knows...so, if the kingdom exiles you...that means he will know immediately" Gil said as he looked at Elizaveta with worry. "He will kill Feleciano"
"No. He won't. He won't because the Games are too close to do something about it" Deuce said, "and besides, The Board loves Sophie...so he will want to see her. She only appears during the Games"
"Well...we need to get to Green, and we will explain everything to Mathias." Elizaveta said as Gilbert took his Queens hand.
"Liz...how will we even get in?"
"We will figure it out" Elizaveta said as there were knocks on the double doors of the room, "enter!" She yelled. Laura entered, behind her, her two brothers.
"The Black Bishop has been exiled from his kingdom" Laura informed, "Elizaveta...is this the season to do exile?" She asked, with a confused face, as she met Deuces gaze. "He's not Blue...Liz, who is he?" Laura asked as she reached for her blade.
"Laura, you trust me don't you?" Liz asked calmly as she stood Infront of Deuce. Laura nodded slowly as she still kept her blade out. "This man is actually a messenger of The Black King, telling me if Feleciano finally accepted someone as his target" Liz said as Deuce chuckled.
"Indeed, Your Majesty" he said with a laugh, Laura looked at The Dark God with hesitation to believe.
"My Queen..." Laura began saying, "you know you're my friend, and I trust you, and I will definitely follow you, but no secrets"
"And if I have them..." Liz began saying as she stood Infront of the belgian girl, "I will tell you in due time"
"Liz...you okay?" Laura asked, as Elizaveta hugged her closest girl friend.
"Yes I'm okay, I'm just...tired"
"Excuse me, your majesty. I will return to my Kingdom. If you need me...you know how to call upon me" deuce said as he began to walk out of the room. Elizaveta nodded as she let go of Laura. Gilbert hid the grimoire in a bag. The fairytale book was also hidden as well in the bag. Laura hid her blade and smiled at her Queen.
"So where we going?" She asked,
"Visiting the Greens" Liz answered.
((Sorry about the rather short chapter, I'll be writing about Arthur soon enough))