Angel studied hard, did the written work that her father had written for her then went to bed, after what had happened earlier with Rito they were all to just go to bed without dessert. Rito had gotten another whipping for back talking and Rita had near gotten whipped when she moaned. Angel just nodded her head, she was disappointed in the missed dessert but she knew better. So, after studying and getting the work her father had written for her graded, it had gotten an exceptional grade and her a sticker of a purple skull holding a rose between its yellow teeth, she had gone off to bed. She had watched the crack underneath the door right after slipping between the sheets, she knew that once the torches along the hallway that her bedroom chamber was on, which also had her father's bedroom chamber on the far right and her siblings sandwiched between hers and his, that her father was in his bedroom chamber. It didn't take long, after the antique clock on the wall tolled eleven the lights went out and the footfalls of Lynster who was extinguishing all the torches faded. Once the footfalls of Lynster faded, she swung out of bed and dropped to the floor, slipping her feet into the purple skull slippers as she did so. Before she left her bedroom chamber she grabbed her purple night robe and slipped that over herself. When she opened the bedroom door a gust of chilly air hit her face, waking her up some.
"Okay, where is this place that daddy has set up for me to practice magic?" she asked her conscience.
"Got to the stairs." her conscience told her.
Angel did as her conscience told her, she walked down the hallway to the stairs then she descended them, slowly as she was tired. When she was down on the first floor she and her conscience had a slight fight; her conscience wanted her to go into her father's Throne Room, the actual one not the one that he went when she and her siblings were there. She remembered that when she was four her father had spanked her for going in, and disrupting a meeting, she didn't want the same punishment. In the end, her conscience won, she went to the Throne Room. She followed the directions fully then, although she was yawning quite a bit as she lifted the trapdoor up and walked down the four steps to the corridor that was underneath the Throne Room. She pressed her hands against the cold and wet walls and walked on, turning a the last minute to avoid walking into the wall. When she entered the Chamber of Special Magic Studies she was about out. She was very tired and wanted to sleep, it made her angry that her conscience kept telling her to keep going.
"Do you see that blue crystal sphere up on the shelf?" her conscience asked her.
"Yeeeessh..." Angel replied, slurring her speech some.
"Climb up to it." her conscience said.
"I... I can't!" Angel exclaimed. "I'm too tired and daddy won't like it."
"This is part of your special assignment though." Angel's conscience said after a second or two of silence. "Do you want to disappoint your father?"
That won the argument, Angel slowly reached up her hands to the shelf above her and pulled herself up, she used the muscle in her legs to push herself from the floor. She climbed slowly, tiringly, until, finally she was underneath the crystal sphere. She almost fell asleep sitting on the shelf, but her conscience suddenly rang out. It told her to get the crystal sphere, she struggled up to her knees and reached up, her hand wrapped around the crystal ball after she groped around twice. When she pulled her hand down, the crystal neatly tucked inside of it, she stared at it. She saw the light cloud-like blue mists drift apart after a while. A lady was inside the crystal, a lovely looking lady with long flowing red hair almost the same color as hers only brighter, it almost looked like it was on fire. The lady was sleeping, it looked, a thin blue sheet was over her. The skin of the lady's neck and shoulders were bare.
"Daddy wants you to read your fortune." her conscience told her. "Do you know how to do that?"
"No." Angel replied, she yawned and pulled the hand with the crystal sphere in it to her mouth, covering it as her father had taught her.
"You smash it." her conscience replied. "You can either smash it or you could drop it from here. The fortune, your fortune, will drift up to you."
"Are you crazy!" Angel shrieked at her conscience. "This is my daddy's crystal ball, he would be very angry at me if I smashed it!"
"I guess you are going to disappoint your father." her conscience sighed. "You cannot do his special assignment without getting your fortune."
"He'll be mad at me." Angel said, still arguing.
"How could he become mad at you when he wants you to do it?" her conscience said to her. "Such a shame, your daddy had such high hopes for you to accomplish your first special assignment."
That made Angel feel sad, she felt cold all over, she shivered and felt the hair on her arms stand up, she was sure she had goose-flesh but she didn't want to check. She felt tears fall down her cheeks, no, she didn't want to disappoint her father and no she didn't want to fail her first assignment. She held her hand out, it shook greatly, then she released the crystal. She watched, as in slow motion, the crystal fall. Watching the crystal fall almost made her cry out no, she went down one shelf then another, trying to catch up to it to catch it and save it from smashing to bits on the floor below. Her conscience was silent, she felt sweat pour down into her eyes, she was just one shelf from the floor when she held her hand out, the crystal passed just beyond reach, it touched her fingertips but that was all. Down to the ground it went, smash and crash, into a tiny pieces. A mist of blue swirled up from the blue liquid that surrounded the area were it had fallen, she heard voices. A crack, a pop, and then she dropped to the floor with a shuddery yell.
Master Vile's eyes shot open wide, an hour earlier he had taken in a good breath of vaporized water and spice and he was still a bit woozy from it. A few days ago he had done a spell to make his youngest daughter retract her disobedience, her stubbornness and her defiance, he had made it so that she would act as a five-year old who knew nothing, even giving her false memories, and not as an adult. Sitting upright, he clawed the canopy curtain to the side and looked out. That energy, he didn't like it. Fumbling around, he grabbed his under robe and slip it on, tying the strings as he slipped on his black slippers. He stood up and walked out of his room, down the hallway to the first staircase, something told him to head down and check the Magic Chamber. Shaking his head, trying to rid himself of the fussiness of his mind, he walked down the stairs.
The smashing of the blue crystal sphere had not only broken her father's spell over her to think and act as a child, it had also changed her appearance. No more was she a five-year old with red hair that wasn't as bright as her adult forms, no more did she had painfully short arms and legs and no longer did she think and act as a child. Now, she was the full-grown adult that she had been before her father had worked his charm on her, now she was an adult who had her own mind and body back to the way it should. She was naked, as when she had transformed from her father's forced spell on her to be five-years old her silk gown of light purple had stretched and ripped, there were a few ribbons here and there that hung on her but that was all. She stood up, stretching her arms and legs which were stiff, she walked around the chamber until a sudden bang made her look at the door to the chamber. Someone, she heard, was coming and that someone was in a hurry.
Master Vile had walked into his Throne Room calmly, but his calm had ended after he had seen the trapdoor that led to his Magic Chamber swung fully open, mist flowing into it. He raced through his Throne Room, the mist dissipating as he ran across the black marble flooring, to the trapdoor, he didn't wait to see if anyone was down there he just went down the stairs and walked quickly down the corridor, the torches lighting as he went past them. He saw the door to his Magic Chamber, it was opened slightly, the light inside the chamber illuminating the corridor around it by about five feet on each side. Rushing forward, he wrapped his hand around the doorknob, his long nails scraping the stone door and making a loud squealing sound. He swung the door open and took a step inside before stopping fully. Staring eye-to-eye, no more than ten feet apart, was his daughter, Angel Irene.
"Angel..." Master Vile said in stunned disbelief.
"Well well well," Angel sang. "looky who we got here. My dear old pop."
"You should be in bed child." Master Vile said, his disbelief was being replaced now by anger and he had yet to see that his daughter was no longer a child but an adult.
"I am over two hundred years of age," Angel said, a hand on the flesh of her hip. "I don't take orders from you."
Master Vile took one step closer, the anger was now boiling inside of him and was about to erupt. Angel took a step closer as well, into the full light. It was then that he saw her, he truly saw her. His daughter, no longer a five-year old child but a fully grown adult as she had been before he had transformed her. His daughter naked as a jaybird, her nipples hard pointing out at him and a light pink in color, her breasts perky and unscarred, her belly smooth and well muscled for a female, her legs athletic and her trim arms. She still had the wounds on her face that had not yet fully healed, but that was all that he could see. It was like his and her fight near a month ago had never happened. His anger now exploded at this new defiance, this new disrespect.
"How dare you go against your father and break his spell!" he roared at her. "You shame yourself by wearing nothing..."
"Sorry, but I think you forgot to give me transforming clothing." Angel sneered. "No matter, I have no plans to stay here."
Master Vile rushed forward with a speed that belied his age and his size, he roared at his daughter and hand his hand held out ready to snatch her the moment he came near. Angel, just as fast as her father, raced around the table then threw her arms back, her hands held at 180 degree angles, when she shoved them forward the liquids that were in the vials, tubes and in the cauldron on the fire in the fireplace that was set in the wall shot forward, they created a wave and splashed on her father, making him stop his charge. He sputtered, coughed, sneezed then shook his head, Angel had no idea what the chemicals were that were in the vials, tubes or the cauldron, whatever they were they were burning her father. Smoke rose from her father's body where the water had hit. The shoulders of his under robe burned away and smoke billowed up from his shoulders, smoke rose from around his neck and smoke rose from his ear-like appendages. He started wiping his face with the back of his arms and that made the sleeves of his under robe burn away, the skin underneath burned slightly with it. Angel fought the laugh that wanted to escape, with one of her arms held behind her back at a ninety degree angle and the other held around her in the same angle, she twirled. Her father wiped the liquid that his daughter had used as a weapon against him from his face and rushed forward, reaching his hand out to grab her. It was too late, she teleported out. He took a step back then he walked forward, swinging his arms all over the place, hoping that she hadn't teleported out but just went invisible. When his arms didn't hit anything solid he stopped, his face was smoldering in his rage, the smoke that flowed around him from the wave of liquid from the vials, tubes and cauldron making him look even more angry. He hitched in breath after breath until he threw his head back, the veins in his neck standing out prominently against both the gold part of his neck and the dark blue, the roar that he ushered that night made not only his two still in child-form offspring wake with a start, but Lynster, Glog the Pig Chef, Galong and Kelso and could be heard all the way to the village of Dooshunka which was some ten miles away.
Evil in Reverse is now complete, this story that I wrote some years ago is rather long and will probably take another 2 maybe 3 sequel to complete. Hope ya'll like it! Next sequel arriving soon!