26: Start of the 3rd Great Caster War
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Elias returns back into his hideout: Sabrina rises as she has managed to bring in a coffin inside of the room.
"Is his body there?" He asks when she nods
"Everything is complete, just waiting for you to revive him and we'll attack at midnight." He kneels down and puts his hand over the surface of the coffin. It glows a faint green aura as the coffin starts shaking. He steps away as the lid pops open, the dead body opens its eyes, it rises from the coffin revealing the dead body of Lucas Graves,
"What? You couldn't have let me sleep?!" He asks as he tosses his hair back, his skin looks like if it was a peach colored rock with cracks and his eyes instead of the beautiful green eyes, it's black with a green outline around his iris;
"We're moving ahead with our plans, do the Reanimation," Lucas grins as he draws his hands together, there's a swoosh of sorcery around them;
5 caskets rise from the ground and the lids fall off, 5 people lie in there as they're standing,
"Who did you bring?" Elias asks, Lucas walks in front of them to explain,
"You said you wanted to do the most damage tonight right? Well we couldn't have risked reviving all 5 of the 5 Caster Saints because they would have gotten out of control, so I revived just one, and the next best thing; I present to you, Natalia Mustang," he points to a flame red-haired female, she opens her eyes but instead of the happy full of life eyes she used to have, they look dull and dead. "Alejandro Reyes," he opens his eyes as he was the Head Caster during Elias' early childhood. "Edward Jarred," the former House Master from the House of Terra, "and my personal favorites, Juan Cortez and Katherine Winters-Cortez." Vanessa's parents look up with lifeless eyes. Elias grins,
"Let the fun begin, the Elders are having a conference with the Magic Community so we'll attack in 3 hours. Be ready,"
POV of Vanessa Cortez
"We can't afford to go into war!" An Elder proclaims as we're in a All Class Caster meeting; I sit next to James as the Elders are arguing with each other about what we should do about the Rogue Magic Community with Elias;
"But if we simply just do not do anything then they'll surely attack us in the Winter Solstice," James reasons, he stands up and glances around the room. "Elias claims to be the Child of Prophecy and if we just stand there, he'll be able to advance on with his plans;" the one of the Elders shakes his head,
"Have you ever been in a Great Caster War James? No you haven't, let us decided." That's when I get feed up with the stubbornness of the Elders, I stand up and slam my hands down against the table,
"Are you seriously this thick?! Elias is a Male Siren! Imagine what he's capable of!" I try out when the Elder rises
"More of a reason why not to! If the House of Shiren tries to get involve, all he has to do is enchant you all and your House has many powerful Casters," he states, Courtney shouts out over to him
"I agree with James! We have to act! Remember the last time we had a Child of Prophecy?! You Elders just let him continue on with his plans and the Dark Ages happened! That's not even to mention the Salem Witch Trails! If you don't want to see the end to all Caster kind then we have to go into another Great Caster War! You know it's the only way!" The Elder looks back to the others for their opinion, Kizuna nods (Well she's an Elder due to her years of living)
"I agree with the House Masters, Isaac if we stand by, who knows what this Elias man is capable of. How much time do we have left before the Winter Solstice?"
"Less than a week and counting," Nathanael confirms, she sighs
"James, you know that if we lose the Caster War and somehow there's survivors, that you'll be blamed for it right?" James nods
"I understand what it means to be Head Caster but if I let them destroy us because I didn't make any plans to stop them, then I'll be a coward for the rest of my life. I will not allow Elias Michealis to cast the whole world into another Dark Ages; the Rogue Magic Community will not come into power again." Kizuna and the Elders rise,
"It's settle then, we will attack the Rogue Magic Community then," I follow James over to the Caster Mansion. We sit down next to each other at a desk looking over some scrolls,
"Something's telling me that Elias has his plans in motion already," he states he takes the scroll up to his face.
"Why?" He points to a text,
"There's been an increase in Magic Energy," Victoria follows me into the House Shiren as I have to tell the House about the possible war we will be locked into. I set my hand over Victoria's ribs to help heal them up, she claims that one of the Trancy horses threw her off and kicked her in the ribs by an accident but I have strong suspicions that it was the bastard of a fiancé,
"You okay Vanessa?" She asks, I shake my head as I react back into the real world,
"Eh, I don't want to get into a Great Caster War but there's no other way to avoid it, let's go," we're heading over to the House of Shiren when there's an explosion. We duck, I look back and bombs are exploding all over the Houses; a war siren wails into the sky,
"Vanessa!" I turn around and it's James, he runs over to us and we stand on guard. "Get everyone evacuated! All lower ranking Casters are to leave except the Wizards and House Masters!" James orders as he tells the other Casters, I grab onto Victoria's arm
"Go! Here, if your attacked use any Alchemy you can!" I take off a bracelet and latch over her wrist as it's a Transmutation Circle device, "I'll see you later!" I kiss her cheek and she runs off with one of James' little brothers. I draw my attention to the skies and it's a small group of Rogue Casters are attacking us. I clench my jaw, "Damn it! Let's go!" James and I take off to go fight against the Rogue Casters that are trying to destroy us.
POV of Victoria Lockwood
The boy who looks around my age, James' little brother drags me behind him as we're trying to flee from the attack. "Don't you think that we should help?!" I try to keep up with him but the explosions nearly knock me off of my feet as they explode.
"I wish there was something we could do but, I know James, he won't let us, come on!" We pass by a building when a swirl of shadows appear in front of us. We stop as they form into a person causing me to let out a startled cry. The face smirks as it turns human,
"It's been a while hasn't it Victoria?" The man asks as he's a few years older than me, my knees shake as I try to keep calm.
"You're a Demon...Stefan?" I swallow at the former love interest of mine when I was attending an all ladies boarding school. He smiles a bit, he tosses his raw golden hair behind his ear,
"Nephilim. And I hate to just come back into your life out of the blue but I, you see, I've been wanting to consume your soul for a while. Back then, I couldn't do much." He steps closer to me and smirks. I push James' little brother behind me, protecting him. Stefan pulls me close and sighs, "Your soul was so damn tempting then and still is now. How is it that you can be so innocent for a person with a not-so-innocent mind?" I smack his hand away from my face and stand on guard,
"I'm not the same little girl you knew Stefan, now there's no way in hell I'm letting you get my soul without a fight." I blurt out, he smirks and there's a swirl of wind around us,
"Bring it." I narrow my eyes and clap my hands together, fire burns from my fingers. He lunges out at me, I arch my back trying to punch him but he laughs, he falls back. "You're so cute when you're trying to attack me. But you don't have what it takes to truly fight me Victoria," I narrow my eyes at him, James' brother attacks trying to help even the odds when Stefan grabs him by the face, and there's a flash of lightning jolting through him, he falls against the ground. Something inside of me snaps just like with Elizabitch and Lucas. Stefan narrowly avoids my attack but I manage to slash him across his chest, he presses his hand against the open wound. "I wasn't supposed to get injured.." he takes his hand away, someone grabs me from behind holding me in a choke hold.
"Now now, just relax..." A familiar voice whispers as my eyes drop.
POV of Vanessa Cortez
I push the other Caster off of me as he tried to overpower me, I glance over and see my allies dropping dead like flies, I clench my jaw. The Rogue Magic Community's to dwindle our numbers... There's a fog that rolls in obscuring my vision and I can't see anything near or in front of me. I glance around trying to make sense of this fog when there's screams and the sound of blood gushing out from the fog.
"Hija!" I turn around as I'm in shock by the next series of events. I turn around to the source of the voice and I'm kicked in the chest. I crash against the House of Storms causing it to break underneath me. I stand up and I'm instantly shocked,
"Get out-of-the-way!" Dad yells as he throws out a punch to my back, I duck and fall back.
"Jump!" Mom yells, I jump into the air as she tries sweeping me off of my feet. I jump away and I can't believe this at all. I narrowly avoid their attacks because my parents were one of the most powerful tag team in battle. I draw up my arms trying to not to attack back, there's a glob in the fog running its way towards me and it separates into two, they come into view and it's Sebastian with Pryalis. He stands next to me with a handful of knives ready,
"I apologize for being late my lady," he keeps his eyes locked on my parents as they stand in front of us, Pryalis raises her bard tail and the barbs are ready to launch, "Let's go my lady," he's about to lunge out at them but I wrap my arms over him to stop him from attacking them,
"I can't let you!" I barely get out as tears are evident in my voice. I look over to my parents and it makes the tears worse, their skins cracking as their eyes look dead, Mom advances towards me making her simple dark red cloak to move a bit, she pulls me away from Sebastian and hugs me.
"It's fine Vanessa, you have to fight against us. We're not us, we're just hollow forms of ourselves when we were living; we're being controlled and we don't have much time before they catch on that we're not fighting." she mumbles into my hair as I stare at Dad through my tears, he offers a weak smile, Mom pulls away from me and smiles at me too, "When you fight us, we won't hate you Vanessa, because no matter what you do we'll love you forever." I'm about to say something when there's these alarmed look on their faces and they look possessed, I wipe the water out of my eyes and glance over at Sebastian, I nod and we lunge out.