A month later, Feliciano alighted his carriages. He blows out a breath of cold air.
"Its sure is cold here," Feliciano said as he rubbed his palm.
"Welcome, Jack of Hearts," Roderich walked towards Feliciano as he puts his hand forward.
"Nice to meet you, Jack of Clubs," Feliciano said with a polite smile as he firmly shakes Roderich's hand.
"We've been anticipating your arrival," Roderich said politely as he led Feliciano into the palace.
While they are walking towards Feliciano guest quarter, they bump into Yao and Basch who are discussing some issues.
"Hello, Jack of Spades, Jack of Diamonds. Nice to meet you." Feliciano said as he greeted the two while Roderich simply does a formal bowed towards them.
"Nice to meets you." Basch and Yao said in unison as they do a half-bow.
"Since all of the Jacks from four Kingdoms are here, we'll be having the gathering in two days' time," Roderich said politely towards the other three Jacks.
"We understand, thanks for hosting us." The other three Jacks said politely.
"I thank you for giving us this opportunity to host the Jacks gathering," Roderich said towards the other three Jacks.
The four bowed at each other before Roderich led Feliciano towards his destination while Yao says his farewell with Basch.
After Yao returned to his room, he throws his broadsword towards the bed and sighed.
"I almost forgot this level of formalities," Yao said as he sits in defeat on his chairs. Compares to the level of formalities in Jacks Gathering, the formalities between the royals in Spades is nothing.
"Just hope everything will go according to plan." Yao sighed as he flipped through the documents to check for any mistakes it might be in the documents.
…
"Eriva!" Basch called out towards a white dove.
The white dove flew towards Basch and landed softly on Basch's shoulder.
Basch looked at the white dove and sighed.
"Sometimes I wonder why one of my royal symbols is a bird, a living one even," Basch said as he tickled the dove chest.
The royal symbols for the Jack of Diamonds is a bit special. The Jack of Diamonds has two different royal symbols, one is the rod while another is a sort of immortal bird. Basch has heard this bird has been around ever since the first Jack of Diamonds.
Basch does not have any grudge about the bird, but… the bird is extremely hard to take care! It has been pampered by generations of the Jack of Diamonds, because of it, it is extremely picky and would often request attention from Basch.
"I really wish that I don't have to take care of this bird." Basch sighed.
Little did Basch knows, he would not be able to take care of the dove in the near future thanks to an annoying Joker.
Also, thanks to that annoying and reckless Joker of the four Kingdoms, the four Kingdoms are facing a looming threat by the very Joker they trusted.
Two days later in the meeting room at the palace of Clubs.
Yao, Basch and Feliciano have settled down, but Roderich is nowhere to be found.
"Where's Jack of Clubs?" Feliciano asked Yao politely.
"I don't know where's he," Yao replied shaking his head lightly.
Basch just sits down quietly as if he is a masquerade.
Unknown to the three Jacks in the meeting room, Roderich is rushing towards the Joker's room in the Club's palace.
"What do you mean that abnormal waves of magic are detected in the Joker's room," Roderich asked a Clubs magician who is following him.
"I'm not sure your Highness, but the magic sensors have become berserk and the sources of magic have pointed towards the Joker's room." The Clubs magician replied.
"The Joker's room only emit waves signal on special occasions or when it's under attack. Hopefully, it's the later as we can't afford any uncontrollable variable now." Roderich said as he increases his speed.
When they reached the Joker's room, they widened their eyes by the sight of it. The door was open, and a blood trail was outside the Joker's room, leading into it.
The Joker's room is pitched black, so they are unable to see what is in the room.
"You stay back, I'll be checking in the room," Roderich said towards the magician only to widen his eyes in surprise when the magician suddenly stabbed him.
"Kesesese, you ought to be careful about your servants after the assassination of the Queen of Spades." A voice echo inside the Joker's room.
Roderich found the voice sort of familiar, but before he can think further, he immediately fell unconscious.
Usually, such a wound would lead Roderich to scream in pain to attract other people's attention. However, the knife was glazed with drugs that prevented him from speaking and causing him to fell unconscious.
While in the meeting room, the other three Jacks are struggling to keep themselves away with Yao even cutting himself with his broadsword to let the pain keep him awake.
"Bastard, you're literally causing trouble for Clubs," Yao said weakly while looking at the servants who are standing while looking at them emotionlessly.
Basch fell down first, followed by Feliciano. After they fell, one of the servants just walk up and smack the back of the neck of Yao's causing Yao to faint.
Meanwhile, at the Joker's room, a pair of blood red eyes glow in the pitch-black room.
"Well, I feel sorry for causing them so much trouble, but they've to be distracted for a while before realising their Jacks are gone," Gilbert said as he clapped his hand.
The four Jacks bodies disappeared on the spot while the servants who have been assisting Gilbert, fall dead onto the ground.
…
Back in the Kingdom of Spades, Vladimir is conducting an experiment with magic in an academic lab in Spades. Suddenly, the table starts to tremble which broke his concentration. He looked around for the source of tremor and widened his eyes by it.
"This magic…" Vladimir widened his eyes as the magic stones when into berserk.
The magic sensors have gone berserk with high pitched sound echo throughout the palace.
Back at Spade palace, Arthur is having a hard time controlling the magic running in the palace.
"What's going on!" Lukas exclaimed as he runs towards Arthur.
"I don't know! But the magic is getting out of control." Arthur exclaimed which suddenly a phone ring that makes the whole situation worse as the phone is emitting magic waves which disrupt
"Hello!" Lukas exclaimed as he quickly controls the phone. The magic wave cannot get anymore worst through uncontrol magic disruption.
"It was the same magic used to control the servant when your Majesty was going to Diamonds!" Vladimir exclaimed as he is using the phone while suppressing the magic at his place.
"So! We can discuss this later! The whole magic is getting way disrupted!" Lukas exclaimed as he let out a huge amount of ice magic to freeze the magic disruption.
But the disruption energy is too great that is gotten out of Lukas control in seconds.
Meanwhile, Vladimir is trying to integrate the magic into his fire magic, but the magic is too great that he quickly reached his limit. Whereas Arthur quickly convert the magic into other stationary objects, but he soon reaches his limit as well.
"Where're the magicians!" Lukas exclaimed towards Vladimir.
"They fainted," Vladimir said while panting heavily. The magicians that are weaker than them reached their limits very quickly that they fainted.
"What exactly is going on!" Arthur said in frustration.
In Diamond.
"Have you contacted the Spades!" Francis exclaimed while panting heavily. There has been a sudden outburst of illusions and clashing of objects in Diamonds. The countryside was better off since they are away from the country magic core-the capital, Mine.
But the people in the capital is worst off with the palace is currently in complete chaos.
"We can't seem to contact them." A servant said while panting heavily by trying to not sink into the illusion and dodged objects flying towards them.
"What are they even doing!" Francis exclaimed.
In Heart.
"Everybody grabbed onto a pillar or anything stable!" Ludwig exclaimed as he hugged onto a pillar while the surrounding objects were floating.
"Have you contacted the Spades?" Ludwig asked Kiku who is floating around gracefully while using a phone.
"I can't contact them," Kiku said apologetically.
"Are you serious!" Ludwig exclaimed which suddenly a loud thunderstorm was heard.
The Hearts is currently having magic disruption where gravity seems out of control.
In Clubs, they are currently having the worst natural disasters in their entire history.
"I can't believe we have blizzard when it's still summer." Ivan sighed.
"Reports are filling fast. From heavy floods in the villages staying near the rivers to avalanches in the south and east." Elizabeth sighed as reports keep coming towards her.
"Did Roderich set up any preventive measures?" Ivan asked which Elizabeth shake her head.
"He probably never thought that the disasters could be this bad," Elizabeth said.
"Maybe he was slacking off too much," Ivan said.
"Maybe not. Anyway, I've been feeling sort of uneasy for a while." Elizabeth said.
"Now you mentioned it, there seems to be some sort of waves floating around," Ivan said as he looks around to see some colourful waves dancing in the air.
Just when the four kingdoms are busy trying to settle down their respective disasters, none of them realised that their Jacks are gone.
…
In a strange dimension, Roderich open his eyes weakly as he tries to sit up, making sense of what is happening.
"You shouldn't be moving much!" Feliciano exclaimed as he put Roderich back down into the bed.
Roderich looked at Feliciano in a daze before recalling what has happened.
"What has happened when I've gone out!" Roderich exclaimed as he sits up suddenly but shivered in pain when his wound opened up again.
"Don't move too much!" Feliciano exclaimed as he wipes off Roderich sweat and gently put him back down on the bed.
"What has happened!" Roderich demanded while swallowing down his moans from his pain.
"I'm not sure, but we're bring summon to this dimension and was introduced to a person who claims himself as the Joker," Feliciano explained.
"Joker?" Roderich said in surprised.
"Yes, he told us he would explain everything once all four of us are awake. Jack of Diamonds is still unconscious while Jack of Spades is clearing his wounds." Feliciano explained.
"That's absurd. Why would the Joker suddenly summon us out of no reason! Also, if he would want to summon us, can't he do it the normal way? I was stabbed by my own servant." Roderich exclaimed angrily.
"I'm not sure the reason he summons us. But I'm sure he has his own reasons." Feliciano said politely.
Roderich sighed as he looks defeated. He just hopes that Joker of theirs have a good reason why he summons them in such an abnormal way and hopes that they would get this over quickly.
