A New Anti Reality

Chapter 4

A scowl came to Cedric's face. For all of his life he was told witches were not to be trusted. In fact, after what had happened years ago with his great-great grandfather the man knew he couldn't trust the woman in front of him. Of course,with a lead about the queen's whereabouts being handed to him, how could he not pass this up? The sorcerer needed to test this woman.

"CEDRIC!" Sofia called worriedly as she ran into the ally. " What is going on here?" Getting a glimpse of the red clad witch, the princess feared the worst.

"Relax princess, I'm not here to hurt your precious fiance. I just came to deliver a message." The stranger said with a smirk as she crossed her arms.

"How can we know you can be trusted?" Cedric asked." For all we know this could be a trap." The sorcerer said as he pulled our his wand and aimed it at the woman. "If you are merely here to give us information than spill it. How do you know where she is?"

"Because, King Roland told us to look after her."

"Why would Roland ask you to look after my mother? While he may have been in love with her I-I thought he wouldn't want anything to do wither her after he found out about me"

"Because, King Roland wanted complete control over this kingdom. After he had wiped the queen's memory clean he wanted to make sure no one found her. So he had made a deal with Lucinda's mother that if she looked after Miranda...pieces of land would be given to us as a bargain and considering there were magical properties in those lands the king was offering up. We agreed but later found that all the magical resources there were drained completely."

"I see,"Cedric muttered. "He must have absorbed those magical resources for his own use. And now that it is completely drained of magic the witches can't go there as a safe haven when their magic is useless."

"Correct." The female witch answered. "We want to restore our land's magic but we would need a powerful person to do it.

"You want us to do it?" asked Sofia.

"Well, you two are the most powerful in the kingdom so who else can we ask. The population of witches have dwindled down to a low number and none of us are powerful enough to do it. So after we got word that you both had defeated him we thought maybe you could help us. So please...help us." The woman pleaded.

After a moment Sofia smiled. "We'll help you as long as you hold up the end of the bargain of giving me my mother." The princess informed.

"Okay,Queen Miranda is being kept on the top of that mountain village up there." The red clad witch said as she pointed to big hill. "We'll be waiting for you there."

Before anything else could be said the witch quickly got on her broom and zoomed off. Leaving the couple behind. While Sofia was glad to finally know where her mother was, Cedric on the other hand felt differently.

"Let's go back to the castle and start packing. There's so much we need to do before we can get on the road." The brunette said as she took the sorcerer's hand to lead him back to the carriage


Once the couple got back to the castle they had gathered the others together in the parlor room to discuss about the lead that was given to them.

After the whole story was told Cedric wasn't surprised by his family's reactions. "You shouldn't believe a word of it!" Cordelia said angrily.

"Why?" Sofia asked in shock as she was surprised to see all the angered expressions on the sorcerers' faces. "What's so bad about looking into this lead? I've lived my whole life without my mother but now that we finally get told by one person where she is, I can finally meet her and bring her back home! Why stop me now?"

Seeing how upset she was Cedric sat the princess down on the couch next to him with her hands in his. "We don't want to stop you from finding your mother, Sofia. It's just we can't believe what this witch told us." After giving a sigh the dark-haired man decided to continue. "A long time ago my family was betrayed by witches. In the result of that betrayal I lost my great-great grandfather..."

"What happened?"

"At the time, my great-great grandfather was helping an ill elf. To help the elf get well he had to use a spell that required blood to to be extracted. Back then those type of spells were put under the category of dark magic."

"Dark magic?" asked Sofia.

"Yes," Winifred picked up for her son."But those weren't really dark magic spells. So after he had used that spell to heal the elf. A witch clan who had their connection to your great-great grandfather,Sofia. Told on him. The king then punished him by execution."

"It always goes back to our family feud..." Sofia trialed off in sadness."I'm sorry, I-"

"It's okay dear, you didn't know." Winifred interrupted as she conjured a tissue for the girl.

"So what do we do? It's not like we can ignore this lead. I need to find my mother."

"We're not going to ignore it. We just need to be cautious," Cedric said then looked back over to his family. "Sofia and I will check out this lead. Can I count on the rest of you to take care of things here?"

"Of course Cedy, just leave it to me and Cordelia. W'll make sure everything is fine here." Winifred assured them.

"Don't forget about me!" Calista whined. "I can be helpful too, you know..." The little girl trailed off with a grin.

"Yeah right,how about you leave everything to the grown-ups,kid." Cedric said as he rolled his eyes and smirked which did not please the little blue clad sorceress of her uncle's answer.

With the arrangements settled the couple had their luggage packed and were on yet another trip.


A/N:Well, we have more information about the past and know where the queen is. Let's see where else my imagination will take this. Oh, and that witch we met is Indigo. Please review!