19: Time is of the essence
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In Madrid, Spain inside of the Royal Castle
King Ferdinand and Queen Maria Luisa are sitting in their thrones as they wait for their guest to come in, "This better be good." Queen Maria says as their Wizards put the auto translator on their voices to speak in the same language as their guest. The female walks in and stands in front of the monarchs.
"What brings you here Victoria?" King Ferdinand barks towards the female so she removes her head-dress and reveals the face of Queen Victoria of Britain. (A/N: Not Vickie Lockwood. XD Confusing, I know.)
"Your Siren killed my butler." she answers and King Ferdinand laughs
"Why should it concern me? My Siren is simply doing her job, and maybe your butler shouldn't have tried killing her because of his so-called quota. Don't think I haven't caught on but your Netherworld business. And what are you going to do about it hm?" He taunts as he rises and circles around her. She narrows her eyes at him then declares
"I'll use my Netherworld creatures against you and will declare war on you Ferdinand; get rid of your Siren before I do. And I will expose your little Magic Community to the world without considering the one inside my country. I give you a month, do not try me Ferdinand." and on that note she gets one of the Wizards in Spain's Magic Counsel to send her back to her kingdom. She disappears so Queen Maria Luisa looks over to King Ferdinand.
"Don't kill her Ferdinand." she pleads but Ferdinand clenches his fist into a ball.
"I have to Maria. It's for the safety of the whole world; if we go into war now then it marks the end to everything. And that's not even to consider the Magic Community in the US how they're locked inside warfare. I don't want to do this either," he extends his arm to the side and one of his Wizards comes next to him. "Bring me Wizard Media." the Wizard summons the Wizard. She slithers her way towards Ferdinand and Maria Luisa.
"You've summoned me my Lord?" Ferdinand reaches into his drawer and pulls out a picture of Vanessa and shows it to her,
"I need you to kill this Witch. I'll give you half my gold in my personal accounts if you do this swiftly and quietly." Media (pronounced meh-de-ya) grabs it and her snake eyes scan over the image as she memorizes it.
"What do you want me to do with the body?" Ferdinand turns his back towards her then shrugs
"Let Dark Crow and Night Crawler find it. I'm sure they'll appreciate it." and on that note they all go their separate ways.
Victoria's POV
I sit in my room, still in shock of what happened earlier. My birth father was murdered right before my eyes...I don't know if I should be sad. I mean, I barely knew the man...so how should I feel?
I hear a knock at my door and see Vanessa come in with Ciel and Sebastian. What could they possibly want at the moment?
"Victoria...about that conversation we were having...I think it'd be best if you explain it to Ciel as well," she says to me. Uh oh, this is the last thing I wanted.
Ciel raises an eyebrow to me. "What conversation?"
Oh dear God...well, here it goes. He's probably going to hate me. "Ciel...my parents informed me that I'm getting married," I tell him.
His eyes widen and he walks up to me. "What?! Why?! And to who?"
I take a deep breath and start to say, "I don't know why. All they did was send me a letter telling me that I was getting engaged...to Alois Trancy."
Silence overcomes the room. I put my head down to cover my shame. But it's not my fault! I never wanted this in the first place. Why did this have to happen?
I look back up at Ciel and he stares at me with soft eyes. He cups my cheeks in his hands and lifts my head up fully to look at him. "Do you know what's going to happen?"
"My parents want me to move in with him, Ciel. B-But I don't want to..." I say, hugging him. He sighs and pulls me closer. "I know, love. I know you don't. I don't want you to either, but you must follow your parents' orders. We have to accept it as much as we hate it."
I nuzzle my face into his chest and sigh as well. "I still love you..." I say to him. His grip around me gets tighter. "I...I love you too, Victoria..." he says. I sigh and look at eveyone, "I leave in 2 days time."
POV of Vanessa Cortez
Sebastian, Pryalis, and I are heading towards London's outer rim (where the Cast Offs are held) because there's rumors that there was another battle in the Immortal War there. I grab some other Start Shots that I find along the way. "I have some business to attend to in London. I'll see you later at the Estate." he nods so he disappears into a shadow so Pryalis walks over to London. We're finishing some trade for some things that I need for certain spells I plan to cast later when I'm attacked.
I'm sent flying but I regain my footing as there's a slash on my arm. Pryalis attacks the attacker but then she's thrown to the wall of the alley. The bricks fall on her and dust forms. "PRYALIS!" I screech but drawn my attention to the enemy. Wizard Media's snake tail retracts back to her and it hovers around her back.
"What do you want Media?!" I demand as Pryalis limps her way towards me. She snarls towards Media; Media draws her face towards us and slithers her way towards us,
"Your King Ferdinand has asked me to dispose of you; you're no longer in need for service as his Siren." she states as a startled cry escape from my throat. She snickers as she hears my confusion "Queen Victoria has made an ultimatum against King Ferdinand; she's very angry that you murdered her butler and said if you're not killed she will expose all of the Magic Communities in England and in Europe, she'll plague the whole world into war. You're lucky that I'll be the eliminate you. Any last words Witch?" she informs and asks as the end of her snake tail morphs into a snake head with large fangs. I narrow my eyes at Wizard Media because even though I think she's disgusting and the House of Snakes always have tended to lie, I know there's some truth to it. I clench my jaw as I slam my hands to the ground. Magic rips around me as my summoning activates, I fall back as 5 black figures with masks on appear. Media snickers
"The 5 Black Blood Nightmares eh? I didn't think the House of Shiren could summon just Netherworld beasts." I send them to attack her and she destroys them instantly. "You're underestimating me Siren. If I was still a Witch that surely would have killed me but I'm a Wizard." she closes the space between us and I dispense into mist before she can harm me. She comes back at me once when I return back to a physical body. I evade her attacks as she strikes me at my face and chest; I fall back and we just stand there looking at each other.
"I'm sure Katherine didn't raise you just not to fight against Wizards." She taunts and I nod
"You're absolutely right but I was raised not to involve myself with Netherworld creatures either." I reply and she laughs
"I guess you were the more rebellious one out of my fellow Witches and Warlocks in the Houses!" We start making hand signs needed to cast much more powerful sorcery. She finishes as I'm at the last segment of my cast and her cast activate. "Venom Rain!" She yells as multiple snakes slither their way out of her tail and come together to make an enormous one and it's a Spitting Cobra. It releases its venom at me so I cast a last-minute shield over Pryalis and I to keep the venom out. It eats away at our shields but leave us unharmed. I activate my cast from earlier and scream out
"Artic Winds and Snow!" the extreme coldness envelopes the area as her snakes begin to hiss and scrim around trying to find heat; Wizard Media screeches as her body starts shutting down. I make another set of hand signs then state "Solar Flare Explosion." there's a sudden explosion of heat and it scorches the whole place. (Pryalis is very happy on the other hand, she loves super hot weather.) Her snakes one by one start exploding due to the extreme temperature change. Her Wizard abilities begin to melt off of her restoring her back to her human body. She drops to her knees trying to breathe when I stand in front of her. She looks up at me as she's panting
"YOU!" she hisses her displeasure of me, a Caster(Witch) below her was able to beat the 3rd most powerfulness Caster(Wizard) in the House of Snakes. "How did you manage to defeat me?" she coughs out Magic Slime and I take a step back
"Snakes can't regulate their body heat, if they get too cold, they'll die; get too hot they'll die. Just because you're human you had more of an edge about that you can regulate your body heat but, when since you're a Wizard, your body morphs into the Magic that your House uses, hence why you have more Snake abilities. I used that to my advantage and destroying all your Snake Magic Cells." I explain to her so she nods
"I underestimated you Siren Vanessa, may the Will be in your favor. But I will tell you one thing, there's an amulet inside the House of All, if worn by a lower Caster it'll make you turn into a higher Caster. In other words you'll become a Wizard without consuming a soul. It has its own pulse you'll feel it. I'll warn you though, if you have dark intentions it'll destroy you. It's named the Kizuna's Heart after the first Siren," I nod
"Thank you Media. I didn't destroy your Witch Magic Cells but keep in mind that if you're not seen by a Wizard in the House of Hikari (means light in Japanese and they're the medical House) you will remain as a human and never cast again." she nods and rises then pulls out a piece of paper from her jacket. She hands it to me
"Here, it's a map in which chambers it's hidden in. But only a Creature of Venom can reach it due to its traps set to protect it. Again may the Will be favorable to you." I slip the paper inside my corset. I grab her and send her off to the House of Hikari to be treated. Once when she's gone, I start treating Pryalis' and my wounds. They're good to go so I sigh, he's going to be very angry with me once when he finds out...
I tap my foot against the ground as daylight begins to fade. There's a swirl of shadows and then they form to reveal a very familiar Demon.
"What did you summon me for Vanessa?" Claude asks as he steps out of the shadows. I cross my arms over my chest
"I have favor to ask you." he smirks.
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