Not much to state but enjoy the chapter, but this does have my own touch to things.
A weapon, however, was requested to also be used from a PM for Helena to use, and I figured why not as I liked the designs the "Weapon" has, and also a certain race for specific reasons as such.
(Fixed on 4/2/2020)
A few weeks later (December 14th, 2014, also in real-time)
A few certain people came out of the pub since it was closing. One being Bean, another Elfo, and lastly Lucifer or Luci for short.
Helena would have joined them for some fun, but she needed to take care of her child since she ended up getting a twelve-hour cold bug of sorts, as back at the castle and also each time she sneezed, something odd occurred that either was left to be, or taken care off, quickly.
"What a naughty night we had," Elfo states in honesty to his two friends with Bean wordlessly agreeing while she handed Elfo her spare lager bottle, "I drank so much, I can't even remember if I drank anything, Bean." Then he looked to be in half-thought while stating to them still, "I might not have."
"You know it's a great night when we're still up to see the plague patrol," Luci states while gesturing at the man himself placing a dead body into his cart, and winked at them, "I just got winked by a corpse shoveler," Bean tells them while drunk, still, "I don't want this night to ever end." She jumped though from a familiar slap on her back and turned to glare playfully at her cousin landing while showing up, sheepishly, as Lucy held in a snort along with Elfo, and rubbed the back of her head in quick apology, "Hey… Sorry for missing things. I just got Little Dee to pass out and stuff, and I decided to try and see what we could do now before it gets any later."
Seeing their looks at her and realized what time it was, she shrugged while covering up a yawn, "She was somewhat hectic until the final part of the Magical Flu kicked in to finally make her well, and let's say Uncle was chased by a polar bear and other things while you guys were out." They blinked again with Bean groaning while Helena just looked at her drunk cousin in amusement, "I missed your child's first Chaos Sneezing… Damn it!"
For you see, Chaos Sneezing (to what Helena was alongside her child), was a serious event of sorts by knowing how powerful a person truly was as the crazier the sneezes, the more knowledgeable how powerful they were, especially since the royals were told what to expect from what little Helena knew about them.
"There is always next time Bean," Helena sympathized while gently patting her shoulder before looking at them all then, "So… What should we do?" Hearing a chuckle as they turned to said person, "Well, then, madams, I have just the thing," Luci began while he pointed with his tail and heard the carriage horse snorted to itself next to the other, "May I interest you in a joyride?"
"Joyride? Is that like a jolly trolley, or a fun run, or even a tingle mingle?" Elfo asked them all in both interest and confusion, and before Bean could say anything to him on that, Helena for once states with her also having mirth in her orbs, "Oh, he means that we steal it," and Bean states after her then, "And that's a bad idea." At the end of her words she looked at her Personal Demon while continuing her words, "If my Dad found out, he'd kill me."
"Ohh, boo-hoo. Baby doesn't want to get killed by her Daddy. I'm a chicken," Luci taunted Bean then while acting like a chicken to prove his point and also not seeing a determined look on her face yet blinked as she already saw her cousin wave her over and she grinned, and joins her on the carriage seat for the driver, and made both Elfo and Luci be stunned for once at her surprising them both (mostly Luci though), "Hop on, boys. Unless you're chickens."
The two males looked at each other with a matching grin, and hopped on with Luci oddly sitting on Helena's lap while she gave him a silent look from his tail going somewhere it wasn't supposed to be (by his hesitant brief laugh), and Elfo next to Bean.
Helena turned to see like Luci while hiding a chuckle as a random guy stated to them in an accusing tone and, at the same time, was admiring things from seeing he was in the outhouse since the stage coach was nearby, "Hey, that's Lady Lingonberry's carriage! I was stealing it!" Man people in this time can either be smart or dumb, Helena thought while enjoying herself as she decided to see if Bean knew how to drive these things.
They did pass by a Police Officer after passing him that was riding a carriage and was attached to a donkey that once he lit the odd item on his head, the mule's item glowed like a police light, "Not on my watch!"
Leaving the Kingdom Gates and seeing Elfo handed Bean the alcohol while chugging it down, Helena was amused and wonders if it was true or not by what she stated to them all then, "I'm actually a more way careful driver when I'm drunk," she handed the bottle of what remained to Helena who finished it off, and continued, "I assume that just 'cause I've never… I've never driven before." Elfo only chuckled at them while admitting in honesty again to them, "I'm having so much fun right now." Luci states then with his own chuckle while telling them, at the same time, and making Helena easily digest the liquor in her system into food for herself while also raising an eyebrow as if thinking if they can get away with it or not, "Get ready then, as next week: We're gonna try arson."
Behind them, Helena perked up at hearing someone mimic police static and looked behind them to frown by easily hearing what he was saying in a old-fashioned megaphone of sorts, "We got a 619 in progress. Suspects headed West on the Royal Highway. Requesting backup." As back at the Police Station in Dreamland, they let loose the backup that was merely braying donkeys, along with the same lights on their head.
"Bean… You need to either pull over or something," Helena tells her cousin to have Elfo look and stated to them as well while sitting back, quickly, and also looked disappointed (mixed with hints of worry), "Oh, foo. We're going to get arrested."
Bean briefly stood up and narrowed her eyes at the Police as when she sat down, she gave a glance at Luci stating a fact she knew was true, to them during this age, "You know they prey on the weak in prison? At least I intend to." Helena paused as she heard a woman gasp, and Bean sped the stage couch up after seeing a perfect obstacle: A traveling caravan of sorts.
After seeing they were able to make it while briefly looking back, they were relieved before they all widen their eyes at seeing the backup was blocking the road ahead with braying donkeys, "Hang on. I got a bad idea…" Bean states to confuse them all as Elfo asked curiously, "What's bad about it?" Helena saw a sign stating words that amused her while holding in her fear as well, and Elfo stated then, in relation, "Oh, never mind, I see."
They then moved fast while Bean forced the horses to jump over the bridge, once they safely landed on the other side with the front part of the carriage broke as the two horses fled, as they also jumped off while, easily, landing on their feet... The carriage, however, floated before going on its left side, fully.
Grunting, Bean states in excitement, "I just love driving!" Helena cheered along with them while they high-five each other as once they turned their backs, Helena paused mid-step and saw Elfo do the same thing as they saw an old woman looking at them, desperately, while also at the same time, waving her left-hand way up on the air ss it was Mrs. Lingonberry herself, "I'm drowning!" Helena would have thought it funny if she wasn't aware of the situation as Elfo only waved back and stated, before catching up with Bean and Luci, "I'm Elfo!"
Helena felt her 'saving-people thing' kick in, and leaped into the water while aiding the poor old lady, who then coughed up some water while holding onto a bag, and gave her a grateful look, "Thank you, Miss." Helena only nodded at her while using her magic to dry off her clothes, which she was also grateful as she did the same to herself, and asked her while getting a quick look in the old lady's orbs to see where she lived, "Do you want a shortcut to your home? I just want you safe is all?"
Seeing her nod while knowing who she was from rumors of the castle and townsfolk, Helena concentrated as she practiced, and then made them both jump in place as a vortex shown itself and saw it was the Lingonberry Home while seeing it was safe, the old lady thanked her again and went into it, and it closed up.
Sighing to herself before still feeling the thrill of the joyride she was part of, she vanished before appearing right in front of Bean and Co. on the Castle Bridge as dawn was slowly approaching while then seeing they must have talked on the way here, "Holy crap Hel, warn me when you do that?!" Bean states with Helena looking sheepish, and paused as they did at realizing that the bridge was raised.
"Oh no, we're locked out," Elfo states while Bean looked at the river, and to the waterfall that was a long drop into the ocean below, and explained things to them with Helena going wide-eyed as she only jumped into the river as it was somewhat shallow enough, but by Beans words, "Okay, the trick is to not get swept over the waterfall while swimming upstream," she climbed down the side-steps and easily began to do so with Luci being smart, hopped onto her head and acted as an explorer as they made it to the other side.
"Got it… Uh, what's swimming?" Elfo asked after looking to Helena and saw her freeze in place while staring at the water with fear developing, and Elfo shrugged while going down into the water and began to state to himself, "Okay, Elfo. You can do anything if you believe in yourself." He stepped in the water to try and swim… Only to flow easily down the river, screaming, and landed into the ocean water.
An hour later within the kitchen, Elfo was in a lavender blanket while being given a warm drink by Bean as he stated to her as the claw from a dead crab was on his right ear, still, as proof, "It was so nice of that swarm of crabs to drag me ashore." Bean picked up her warm drink while seeing Helena look away at her with shame as she knew she could easily gotten Elfo, and yet… Why did those Dursley's have to get me to fear deep water from rivers or oceans? Especially since I can swim somewhat... I mostly ignored that while having fun on that Party Barge, but… "You ok there Hel?" Bean asked then as she was aware of seeing the fear in her cousins face, earlier.
Blinking at herself, she waved it off while laughing in a way the three knew it was fake while Luci just grabbed a mallet for cooking and smashing food, and started cracking the crabs that were dead, "I'm, uh… I'm fine Bean, just dandy." Seeing they didn't believe her, she decided to change the subject and asked Luci from seeing him cracking the crab shell, "Do you eat the meat raw?" Her question was answered without words as he took the meat out and was eating the shell of the crab, and he stated to them in a question of his own, "Anyone wants the meat?"
Helena took it and easily ate the meat offered, and Bean held up her cup and stated to them then as Helena grabbed her drink she gotten while then changing it into hot chocolate, "The perfect end to a night of Grand Theft Carriage." Even though they cheered, Helena snorted as if it was funny, and Bean gave her a look for later before they turned to Elfo as in a glass cage on one of the columns, in a fancy way, was a fruit Helena was surprised to see here as she hardly saw them from the markets. "Whoa… That looks damn delicious. What the hell is it?"
"It's a super-rare fruit the knights brought back from their crusades. A lot of people died for it… It's like my Dad's prized possession," Bean states while seeing Helena knew what it was yet was intrigued by her words, since her eyes held with shame yet also leaving her to curiosity, "Sometimes he just stares at it longingly while he drinks vodka sodas."
Elfo slurps at this hungrily while Luci then admits before Helena could yet she only shrugged at him for, "It's a lemon, guys. It's what we feed my kind's children in Hell." He then looked at them all with a challenging look as he was sitting on top of the fancy container, "Come on, I dare you to try it."
Bean and Elfo looked at each other, and Helena grabbed the mallet before she did as they thought she was going to tell them no or something, but she grinned while handing it to Bean while stating to her, "I actually want the seeds it has if this is true… Luci could have some, along with me making something I have been craving for some time." Blinking at her while grinning, and smashing the glass gently while also grabbing the fruit, she handed it to Helena as she grabbed a small knife and made them blink as she was cutting it like an expert chef.
"You seem to know your way around the kitchen Hel," Bean states while being impressed, and that made Helena pause while getting the last seed out and sighed while giving them a look, "It's… Complicated, mostly, in which also explains the incident earlier."
Shrugging as she gave them each a slice while saving the juice for later as well, they didn't know they were being watched, in secret, by both King Zøg and Odval, and the King looking on in a mix of upset and intrigued by what his Step-Niece was doing, "Have they no respect for the Lemon Crusades?" They began walking away as he continued to rant at Odval at this, "Civilizations were decimated. History rewritten. Maps were redrawn…" King Zøg sighed while Odval stated then to him in knowing while he was hunched over and his arms also behind his back as they were passing paintings of the King's ancestry, "To be fair, Sire, you were going to eat it."
"Yeah, I heard it was Sour. I don't care for the sour stuff." King Zøg admitted while looking at the paintings, "I care about Bean yet she's out of control, and I tried everything. Yelling, screaming, everything." He sighed before telling Odval then as he stood up, "Ah, to think all the classy old bats in this family led to Bean… Carousing, taking her clothes off every chance she gets-" King Zøg ignored the interruption from Odval as he resumed his pose again as they continued, "Doing God knows what with that Elf."
King Zøg groaned before stopping near the painting of his wife, and sighed while telling Odval, "Bean hasn't been the same since she lost her mother." He then touched the painting while stating to it as if it was alive, "Ah, Dagmar, you were my Perfect Queen. Regal. Kind. Talk all good and stuff… Not like Reptilicus." If they were paying attention, they would have seen Queen Oona heard them talking to each other and eavesdropped, and states to herself; getting angry, "Huh. He thinks I am reptile?"
She sighed then while sitting near one of the comfy zones within the hallways, and gotten into her robes and pulled out a pouch, and digging into it, "I need some Snakeroot to soothe my nerves." She crunches up the roots easily into her hand, and used her tongue to get them all then into her mouth, and within moments… her eyes dilated before roaring to herself and took off.
"Momma, I better!" Delphi states to amuse Helena nearly twenty minutes later, in Bean's Room. as Hermione was teaching someone magic, currently, and both Daphne and Kisara were planning something, for once, behind her back while Little Delphi was being escorted by Bunti to Bean's Room. With Bean, Elfo, and Luci, they were lying on the bed watching things, and Helena made Delphi giggle as she was then tickled by her.
Though she gave her cousin an agreeing look as she did try to nap earlier, but it was not working like she stated, "You use your curtains to escape one time, and your Dad's all like: 'No more curtains.'." As when Bean spoke, she moved her hands to her face to keep the sunshine away.
"You know," Luci began to tell Bean then with Helena knowing what he said was true, and the demon being near her on the bed, "If you don't sleep for seventy-two hours, you become clinically insane." He made Delphi giggle as he kicked a surprised Bean off the bed while stating to her then, in both amusement and telling her, "So wakey-wakey, nutbag."
Bean sighed to herself as she got up, and told them all as Elfo sat up while looking at her as well, and only made Little Delphi confused, "Fine, but I'll need something to put the edge on." Once she was at the window she saw her Stepmother was running around while also yelling at the fountain, and gave her an idea, "I need 'Oona's Little Helper'."
"Oh, does she have a friend like me?" Elfo innocently asked in excitement before Luci states plainly back to him, "No, she has no friends… She has nothing in her life except a drug that makes her happy." They all froze and looked at a help-me looking Helena as Delphi tilts her head to the right, and innocently while asking her mother, "Mama, what drugs?"
"Um, they are for… Ah," Helena hesitates before giving them a 'Help me' look, "Their for adults that need some happy-time sometimes, and only makes adults feel good," Bean states with Helena looking relieved as Delphi bought it before she added to her child (from her cousin's words), "And I don't want you to try any unless you are thirty, and stressed." That amuses her two friends and cousin as they had a look Helena knew all to well, "Go ahead without us, I'll be here with Delphi for a little bit more." They nodded as they took off, and Delphi looked up to her mother as Helena sighed before nodding, "Playtime?"
In the Kingdom of Maru, at this time witnessing things:
"It seems both Princesses are in relation to Darkness and Chaos," Enchantress states in a pleased tone to the Ruler of Maru, before seeing, currently, Bean steal the drugs from Oona's robes and heard what they were saying, "And also our little emissary for Tiabeanie is doing his task well so far. And from the looks, is successfully corrupting her mind and soul."
"Oh, is this the one where the Cat and the Elf are friends?" A voice states as he came over to see the fire; making both individuals move slightly while giving him looks. The man was a fat, bald, and wore a collar with a vest, and basic baggy pants with a rope for a belt. "Jerry, leave the highballs and.., I don't know, feed the peacocks." Emperor Cloyd orders him while looking annoyed, "But they don't like me," he told them, and took the drinks out of the silver platter from his hands and left to do as ordered.
They then switched it to Helena and was touched at seeing that she was playing with her child, and ducked as her child sneezed, to their surprise, black lightning that instantly bounced all over the castle and struck (oddly enough) Oona as she was still hyped on her drugs, and made her cough some smoke before passing out.
Then then saw Helena grab her child while oddly in dragon-like behavior, rubbed her face against her own child's to then make her giggle as if congratulating her, "It seems despite her wanting to do things the right way, she is into Chaos and also encouraging her own offspring to do the same, secretly," Emperor Cloyd admits at witnessing things, "Indeed and more," a random voice states to get the two to jump, and turn to see a cloaked figure within the room, and the cloak having an odd energy, secretly, to conceal the man fully within, and could only see his glowing ocean-like eyes.
"Who the Hell are you and how did you get into this place?" Emperor Cloyd firmly ordered. "I can go and come to where I please," the person stated while glancing at the image of Helena and her daughter, "But what you should be concerned about is the eventual fact that Helena is, in fact, a child that survived the embodiment of Death herself, for a reason."
"You state as if Death is an actual person?" Enchantress states then to get a half-amused chuckle from the person, and made them both go stiff in shock by his words then, "Correct, and Lady Death has eyed this girl fully as she was dubbed as the 'Chosen One' within her birthed time… And yes she is indeed from the future, but in one where a common enemy between her past life and beyond is waiting. But do note your plans will fail near the end or when they do occur, as an agreement with Death said I can interfere in interest, and among other things."
He then paused before handing them a medallion of sorts that showed two mythical creatures: A Phoenix and a Dragon, and they both held swords while roaring in agreed peace, "If you so desire to know whom I am... Know that symbol is the start to seek your answers as I have been involved. In secret, several parts of history already has, and even more than you truly know for the Lost Kingdom's inhabitants."
That made them look away briefly at that before widening their eyes at what Kingdom the person referred to, and before they could say anything, they blinked as he was gone.
"It seems we have double the tasks if we want to find out who that person was, Enchantress," Emperor Cloyd tells her as she held the medallion that oddly felt not only cold, but a soothing-like warmth as well, and only nodded while seeing it was late somehow, and saw Helena tucking in her child to bed with a glass of some odd yellow liquid she picked up.
"Hey," Daphne states while making Helena jump from drinking her successful glass of lemonade she shared with everyone, later on, and was grabbing her heart area on her chest as she only giggled by her glare Helena then gave her, "Daph, I told you to not do that!" Though when she spoke, she said it quietly as to not wake Delphi.
"Sorry, but I just wanted to get you to show you something," Daphne gently told her to make Helena blink and looked at Delphi, and to have her reluctantly nod after setting her empty glass down, "Kisara volunteered to watch her while we go somewhere I found recently to show you, ok?"
Helena hesitated ye she gently kissed her child's head before doing so, and then saw Kisara nod at Daphne to confuse her as to why while leaving their room, and out of the Kingdom for the next ten minutes or so, and came to a clearing before seeing a large rock.
"That isn't impressive at the least, My Ice," Helena states to get Daphne to give her a wait-a-moment look, and saw her channeling magic from her hand into the large boulder, and blinked, as the ground gently shook before seeing the center move inwards and a cave leading downwards showed with glowing, rune-like walls.
Daphne then led her by hand gently down as eventually, she was surprised at seeing a bedroom of sorts was placed here, and other things a date would have for couples, "I had help secretly from both Hermione and Kisara to make this private grotto of sorts for mostly just wanting to be ourselves, without anyone judging us, and maybe more... If or when you're ready."
Daphne was then hugged right into Helena's cleavage (getting a blush from the blonde) while loving the feeling from her "Perverted Side" liking the fluffy cushion her face was in for a few moments, before Helena pulled away, and moved around while looking at the room while also feeling many things, and for a few days, she was deciding by Bean's advice about her fear of sorts (well few fears) and one is serious about her relationship, and decided to follow through it.
Daphne expected a lot of things like 'I love it', or even a 'Thank you', but she didn't expect for Helena to deeply, and lovingly kiss her right on the lips while holding her gently then, and pulled away slightly while then looking nervous at her, "Daphne… I… I want to try at least." That made Daphne had a sudden gleam in her eyes at what Helena meant, and also looked at her in concern as well, "Are you sure? Are you sure you're-" Helena responded with a gentle kiss before only nodding as they kept kissing before slowly touching their bodies, and laid on the bed with hesitant yet loving looks in their eyes.
Daphne saw (to make Helena blush), she was hard and decided to do something about it while telling her Soulmate, as secretly, this would be her first time as well, "Since you agreed, this is just the start, Helena."
In the late morning, in the Throne Room (December 15th, 2014 in real-time):
Helena sighed in contempt as Daphne and she had a great night last night, and she secretly had a limp as they went at it for five and a half hours.
The three; Daphne, Hermione, and Kisara, took Delphi for some bonding time alongside Hermione's Apprentice, Marabelle Lila Zimmons, and decided to let her bond with Bean for a while… If she ever showed up.
Derek went with them as well, since they offered the boy as such.
She currently was eating mutton as she wanted to try some, and it was just her, her Uncle, and Queen Oona among with Odval beside her as she tinted while they all gave her knowing looks, "You got some last night, did ya?" King Zøg bluntly tells her as he had the same type of meat as Helena, but his was carved from the bone itself while she was eating it by the bone, and Helena ducked at this while he only chuckled at her before stating then, "It's alright as such Hel. Since it was your Soulmate, I have no problems with it."
"Yes, and Soulmate Binding is a sacred thing to oneself," Queen Oona agreed to make Helena blush further.
After breakfast, they saw two policemen come with three figures to know who they were, and making Helena inwardly sigh as she figured their drugs must have caused trouble even more, and The Shouter (what Helena called the announcer, mostly), declared to them all, "Hear ye, hear ye. Royal Court is now in session."
"Ah… Let's have a look at this no-good pile of scum," King Zøg states while getting off his throne and setting his observations, "Mud-covered crime boots. Legs muscled by years on the run. Obviously stolen belt. Nondescript torso. Moving up to the face area… Uh, weak chin, buck teeth, and… Whoa!" King Zøg was stunned slightly at seeing his eldest child looking somewhat guilty, once her face was revealed as she merely stated softly to him, "Hi Dad."
"What the… You tryin' to tell me my little girl is this guy?" King Zøg states with Bean seeing Helena trying to hold back a laugh as she did somewhat agree yet didn't even think her father was this dense, saw her image with a small lined handlebar mustache on it, with both Luci and Elfo being revealed as well, "There is no way you're gonna convince me my daughter is a criminal." He told the officer, yet Shouter then states to make him groan and seeing them come in as well, "Presenting victims one through nine!"
Helena gave Bean a look along with secretly Queen Oona at seeing that one church-like Gothic Girl, a chicken, a friar, two nights, a puppet person, Mrs. Londonderry (with her wondering why they thought puppets were people as well as she only counted one animal), some objects, and four people
"Look, I know I went a tad wild," Bean began to state to her father as he did not looked amused, "But what do you expect from someone who's got no control over her own destiny? So I turned to booze, drugs, and my evil little friend." At that Luci looked worried while speaking through his teeth, "Oh, my God, shut up."
Realization then crossed King Zøg's face as he then stated while trying to hold back his anger; but failing, to his child, "Your weird cat? I'll pulverize him. I'll pet him in the wrong direction, and I'll put a cucumber beside him… That drives them crazy." He gave his Ex-Wife's Niece a look as if she thought seeing Luci being scared of cucumber would be hilarious (and so did Elfo), who quickly shut up from chuckling by his look, to them.
"No, no, no, not him. I meant…" Bean began to dissuade her father from Luci, yet made her and Luci, along with Helena and everyone blink in slight surprise as Elfo took a few steps and began to state while gesturing to himself, "She meant me. I'm so bad. Oh, I'm bad."
King Zøg's mood lifted only slightly while explaining to him the facts as well, "No, you're not. You're a marshmallow with legs." He oddly poked Elfo in the stomach like Helena knew the Pillsbury Dough-boy would do as he indeed giggled while he also babbled to the Half-Elf a few moments before looking serious to the King while telling him to stop, and he did (with a shrug) as he thought he pushed the little guy too far, and then admitted with Helena and Bean raising an eyebrow by his words, along with a sigh, "Well, I got into some shenanigans in my day, but my Mom never lost her head."
"We recovered this," the leading officer states while showing to get Helena to look quickly at Bean in small shock while she sheepishly shrugged quickly back to her with a look of later, and they saw King Zøg held the skull without its jaw, "Oh, that's Mom's Head…" he gasped quickly at seeing it in sudden realization as well, "Mom's Head?!"
"Your Daughter was caught ransacking the Royal Tomb," the Gothic Woman states to the King, and King Zøg states in utter disbelief and made Bean hide her wince at seeing utter betrayal in his orbs, mixed with anger, "You stole stuff from our dead family?" Seeing Bean's look, he then sighed while admitting for once to mostly her while everyone heard it, "Oh, I don't even know what to yell at you… You take it," he told Shouter as he nodded while having his arms crossed behind his back, and began to state loudly, "Why you… I Oughta… If I weren't so fat, I'd-" King Zøg quickly gave him a sharp look at that while telling him off then, "Shut up! She gets the point."
Though he gave a look to Helena who shrugged as she found it funny, and seeing amusement in Queen Oona and Odval, it was funny to them too.
"Bean, go to your room while we decide what to do with you… And take Elfo, so I know your not having any fun." King Zøg tells her firmly as the three then left to her room while everyone was looking at them, and Helena decided to go to her cousin's room while seeing her Uncle, at the moment, angry, and the reason why she did so was her being inwardly scared from Vernon's time with her, and that look on the King's face reminded her of Vernon, slightly.
Later on with Bean looking depressed in front of her bed, Luci behind on it, and Elfo having a lollipop in his mouth while just pacing (for the hell of it), and Helena looking at her cousin in worry while stating her then as she only nodded in agreement, "I figured you would be in more trouble than unusual by taking Oona's Stress Roots," That made them all look to her in astonishment at that, and she shrugged while telling them in honesty, "That's what Snakeroot is for, as it would be mostly to perk someone out of their depressing state and stuff, before the effects of being, well… Drugged, and the reason I know this as it is a few key ingredients in Potions from that school I told ya guys about."
A few days ago, she did tell them about her school as Bean wondered where she learned to do stuff at, and well... let's just say Bean was mixed at how she was placed in said school.
Nodding before Bean's mood shifted back to a depressing state, and Helena giving Luci a look to possibly say something, and he was going to until Bean stated to them all while looking mostly out the window, "This has got to stop."
At that, Luci chuckled to her while not helping his own situation, and laying on his stomach and his arms were also crossed while looking at her, "Oh, come on, you know you enjoyed it." Bean did chuckle to that before keeping to her own words, "Yeah… But it's gotta stop."
Telling her in honesty then, and hopping down while getting in front of her, "What? Nuh-Uh. I'm your demon, baby. We're magically linked, like…" he saw Elfo come over and made Helena shake her head at the odd comparison yet was secretly repulsed by Elfo's actions after, "Like Lollipops and Rug Fuzz," he took Elfo's candy, rubbed it a few times in the carpet, and Elfo shrugged while placing it into his mouth, "It's fine."
Bean then told him to stun Luci for once by Bean's upset tone and words, to him, "Listen... Just stay away from me for a while, okay? Go ruin someone else's life." Though while she spoke, Elfo rubbed his candy into the same rug and was eating it again.
Helena seeing Luci was hurt, truly this time as she knew familiars as such as they were would do so, and he sniffles by stating to her, "Huh… Okay, maybe I will." He then accidentally whacked Elfo with his tail while behind his back, making the Half-Elf state an 'ow' to them, and then making Luci only halfway feeling better about himself, "Now I feel better," he lied to them while placing an act up.
Though they saw Helena wince and Bean's mood though shifted to a sudden knowing one, along with Luci, and only confused Elfo until Luci whispered it into his ears while getting up, and Bean exclaimed to her, in astonishment, "No way! You gotten laid for the first time, at last?"
Seeing Helena not admitting she was wrong, she decided maybe this would be both fun for her, and get her mind off things by grabbing her and stated to then make Helena sigh yet guessed as she did, by the change of topic, "How was it?" Seeing Helena's dreamy look then, she chuckled slightly and told her while ignoring Luci while he winced at this yet looked at Helena, expectantly, alongside Elfo (after understanding things), "It was that good?"
"It was…" Helena sighed pleasantly to them, before shaking her head and told then in honesty, "I was reluctant at first… But from the what Daphne and Kisara mostly did for me as Mia only found the perfect spot, I just… I wanted to thank her differently than I usually do. As I told you girls I'm not a Virgin from my female part, right?" Seeing them nod while looking away, and also not seeing Bean looked angered at this along with (secretly) Luci, and Elfo gave her a brief look of sympathy, "Well ever since I was raped and stuff from my memories coming back, I have a few fears, and well... That was one of them. Most were due to my upbringing in my former family, and well… I just hope you won't see me in the bad light from it."
Seeing her cousin didn't want to say anymore yet figured out like they did, what she meant, made Helena look to her in surprised gratefulness after Bean's words as she just placed a hand on her shoulder, "Hey, when your ready to fully tell me or anyone, I won't judge you at all Hel. As after all, family sticks together, right?"
Helena nodded while softly smiling at her then, "Yeah, family does stick together... No matter what." She although looked at both Elfo and Luci at this to stun them she was secretly counting them as a family as well.
In a room that had in the sign, at this point and time, stated these words: "King's Council in Session: Eavesdroppers will be dropped from eaves", was a meeting going on.
The room was small enough to hold meetings as such with a open castle window, a bookshelf containing a few books, an old oak table with wooden chairs, maps along with the Map of Dreamland, scrolls, a ladder going upwards to have more books and scrolls, a full floor carpet on a white cross, blue rug design, were four people.
Sorcerio, Odval, King Zøg, and the Leading Knight of the Zøg Table, to be precise.
"What the hell's wrong with my Daughter?" King Zøg began to state to them on complaint, "She's like a one-man wrecking woman." The Knight has his arms crossed while closing his one eye to explain to his King, recalling what he read, "According to the Holy Books, your first mistake was educating her." And Odval gave him a look at that before adding his own words to the King as he had his hands on the table to think and listen, at the same time, "The sheer defiance of reason and decorum leads me to believe that Tiabeanie is what they now call amongst the crowds, a Teenager, like your Niece from Former Queen Dagmar and her allies she came with."
The King gave his advisor a look before stating after some thought, "That doesn't exactly explain why she desecrated sacred remains," he went over to his Mother's Skull that has yet to be returned to the crypt, and picked it up while secretly talking to it as if it or she was still alive, "Don't worry, Ma. I won't let her get away with it." He gently tossed it back into the wooden bucket.
They all then turned to Sorcerio as he looked to have an idea of sorts, "Oh, we can spout crazy theories all day, but science suggests a more logical explanation: That Bean is possessed by a Demon!" At this, they gasped while Odval, as usual, had his arms behind his back.
"Oh no, their onto us." Emperor Cloyd states to Enchantress as they were checking up on the King and seeing them still talk about things as well, he turned at seeing their servant was putting peacock feathers in a vase while stating mostly about them all, "They'll know exactly what we're up to."
Enchantress groaned before stating to him in utter honesty while also giving him a look, "You don't even know what we're up to." Yet she held the bridge of her nose, temporarily, while Emperor Cloyd held back a snort as it was oddly agreeing what Jerry stated to them in a pose as he was on his side, "Oh, every day you say you'll tell me and you never do."
Though they heard a odd jingle coming from Enchantress' robes and she decided to take this while whispering into an odd Voodoo Talisman that looked like a dragon's head, "Yes, what is it?" She got irritated by the answer from the female on her end, and held the bridge of her nose once again to confuse the two others, "I may have been captured by that Demon hating man, in chains, and he has a partner now… I don't know who he is, but he calls himself 'The Eradicator'. He's mostly a black and green, full-bodied skull-armored-like Knight."
"How in the name…" she paused as a vision came to her, and grinned before telling her then while at the same time, getting a what-like sound from the female, "Just stay put as this person would also seek your Assignment as well." Hearing a sigh from the woman on her end, heard her state quietly then, "Alright, but I hope whatever you have seen does help my situation, Enchantress, as I'm using the necklace you gave me to speak."
Hearing the connection end, Enchantress sighed while hearing Emperor Cloyd ask her curiously, "Who was that?" She only responded while making him irritated yet only nodded at the end of her words, "Someone that would further aid 'Plan B' into tuition, and leave it at that."
At night with Helena and Bean following King Zøg somewhere:
Helena was thankful that she tucked in Delphi to bed before her Uncle asked her to come with him, fetches Bean, and was leading then up to a familiar location that she knew was Sorcerio's Wizard-like Chambers. Odval joined them nearly ten minutes later, however, and from what Helena guessed, was to keep them from running off.
"Where you taking me?" Bean asked her father while looking irritated and merely gave her cousin a weirded out look after hearing King Zøg's words to mostly her, "A real nice place with ponies, or whatever crap you like."
Once the door opened, it was Sorcerio's Chambers alright as he turned while setting up his lab table, and looked at them all expectantly, "Oh, come in. Come in. Make yourself comfortable on the dissection table."
"What are you talking about? And why are you here?" Bean asked while accusing Sorcerio as she knew he was mostly a man of science of sorts, and they saw Elfo was in this Room as well (Helena getting ticked off, slightly) at seeing Elfo was in that cage once again, eating a cookie, and also was hooked to a blood-pump to extract his blood once again, and Elfo only shrugged while admitting to them while gesturing as well, "Having a cookie, making blood."
"You'll be fine sweetie… Strap her down," King Zøg tells Bean before stating to Odval and Sorcerio as she was forced to be strapped onto the table itself, and Helena made King Zøg turn to her by her own words of being bewildered, "What are you doing to my cousin, Uncle?"
"Nothing much for you worry about, Hel. You're only here for moral support for your cousin," King Zøg tells her while patting her back a few times due to her height, and left with Odval while closing the door, and saw Sorcerio was doing the last bit of straps on Bean while telling her on explaining things… however, Helena rolled her eyes at the end as Bean did in wordless agreement, by his words, "Now, don't worry. The straps are just for my safety as I flush out your Demon." That made them go wide-eyed with them briefly giving each other a look as if to wordlessly state to each other, how did they find out?
"You know about the demon?" Bean asked warily to Sorcerio as he only nodded once while telling her then, "Of course! With my scientific training, it was rather obvious." While seeing him grab something, Luci oddly enough, decided to show up yet half-humored both Elfo as Helena gave him another cookie and herself, by his words, "Meow, guys. What's up?"
Sorcerio though saw this yet Helena decided to not judge anymore in other's actions as this was the Dark Age after all, "Ah, your talking cat is here to keep you company." He had an odd item (to what Helena didn't recall what it was), but it was letting off the smoke of sorts within Sorcerio' gloved hands, "Now, let's find that Demon." Bean then began to cough once she inhaled the smoke while Sorcerio states to her then as he kept waving it back and forth, "That's it dear. Cough out your Demon. Cough it out like a demonic loogie," Helena imagines then of Luci as that, and shivered (to amuse said demon) as oddly enough, he had a smoker's pipe filled with that same weed Helena gave him and blew some to Bean to somewhat relieve her yet also cough from the other smoke, at the same time.
After a few more minutes, he stopped while putting that away, and Bean asked warily to him as she was getting air back into her lungs, "Is that it?" From hearing Helena groan to herself while Bean mentally did the same, and Luci only tilting his head with a shrug at them both yet was wondering why the extremes, "No, we are just getting started, my dear."
After a few other experiments of her holding an odd plant while drinking some holy water, making her speak her full name backwards, and few odd or funny things that Helena also got involved in by his orders as seeing his Assistant wasn't at all here, came to his next one.
"This next experiment I hope works, as this is a powerful Lodestone, and we'll use this to extract the demon using magnetism." Though while he carried it, all the metal objects began to quickly latch into the stone, even Elfo's Cage as it also freed him while stating to them all (as the cage itself knocked Sorcerio out, briefly), "Hey… Look at us hanging out on the floor together." They blinked though as some of Elfo's Blood landed on the stone itself, and it oddly… Cracked open to reveal a beautiful orb-like gem in which they all gapped as Helena took it while telling them quickly, "Dibs, especially since this seems familiar somehow."
Before they could ask, Helena pocketed the item before seeing Sorcerio wake up, and narrows his orbs at them while seeing it was late at night, wrapped his head up and states to relieve them all by his words, "This Test never fails as this is the last thing to flush a Demon out! No Demon could survive this preposterous degree of jiggling." He was turning the crank quickly on the side of the table to make Bean jiggle in place.
Bean, however, looked ready to barf while admitting to their drinking earlier, "This is not good for my hangover," Luci, however, didn't see Bean's glare at him by encouraging Sorcerio on his task with his hands on his hips, "Oh, yeah, that's it! Crank harder. You've got him on the run now. Whoo!" He was getting the man irritated by his words then as Luci continued, "Work those scrawny needle arms. Jiggle that Demon back to Hell. Nice."
Luci was confused as he stopped before Helena grabbed him as the Wizard tried to choke him and shook his hands before sighing, and left the area while closing the door behind him.
Helena decided to free her cousin while asking her as she agrees by her and the other two, "You guys want to play a game or something as all this made me wide awake, still… And perhaps something to ease us?"
Later on in the morning, Sorcerio grunts before stating in failure to the King as Odval and Queen Oona was in the Throne Room, "Alas, the Demon remains, even after the application of the three major parts of the sciences being used."
"All three? Even Smoke?" King Zøg states in bewilderment as the Wizard nodded to him, "Indeed. We scholars like to think science has all the answers, but in the end it's just a bunch of unprovable nonsense." King Zøg although then asked the wizard while making Sorcerio think about this, briefly, "So now what?"
It was a few seconds later Sorcerio decided to suggest in a secretive tone of defeat, but with purpose and advice, to the King, "I suggest something based more in reality. Religious Magic." The King blinked at that before asking, "An exorcism, huh?" King Zøg groaned to himself before adding onto his words to everyone, "I don't like the sound of that… Let's do it, but don't say it out loud again." He turned to the one man from before as it looked like he was going to say something, and quickly closed his mouth after the King spoke, "Shut up you."
"As it happens, Sire, I am acquainted with the world's foremost exorcist… Big Jo. His people are the sworn enemies of demons," Odval paused before he added warily to only confuse everyone for just a few seconds, "But I must warn you, he creeps even me out." But at his words, King Zøg just shrugged him off while stating to him, "Ah, no one's too creepy for my daughter."
With Helena and Co. as she was teaching them how to play Poker, she suddenly felt a shiver alongside Luci, oddly enough, and merely shrugged as even Hermione was with them as her student was with Kisara and her child in the courtyard playing and minding their own business.
Bean, however, noticed the shiver and stated to her in concern, "You ok Hel?" Helena only shrugged while giving her cousin a puzzled look while shivering again, "I'm not sure, but for some odd reason… I got the willies for reason I don't know, and last time that occurred was when I faced a Basilisk."
That made them all blink in surprise at her then, and Bean states aloud in shock (mostly) as Helena gave her a look as if she didn't mind it, "You faced a dangerous snake?" Helena shrugged at the end of her words, and merely replied as if it wasn't a big deal, "Yeah I did. She was partly controlled and I freed her from the Spectre within a diary of all things when I was Twelve, and in return, I got Basilisk Venom and Phoenix Tears Mixed within my blood... Though I don't know where she went to after she was freed."
Seeing their flabbergasted looks before Bean understood while Helena grabbed a card, and it was the one she needed, "Your School I take it?"
"Yeah… But I did handle everything that went on before I left, so that's all in the past," Helena told them before they looked to Luci since they were all within Helena's Official Chambers (which is mostly a mirrored version of Bean's Room, except no balcony), and Helena sighed while getting up to confuse him by the question, "So… You have proof of that?" She gotten into her trunk and went deep into it to know it was enchanted, and stated the words, got it, and came up while to make them blink at seeing said diary and a very large, sharp, snake fang in the center as since she used it, as it was declared hers by Magical Law.
"Woah, that's actually impressive," Luci states as Helena grinned back at him in satisfaction while Elfo asked curiously to her, then, "Did it hurt?"
Helena just shrugged with Bean secretly holding thoughts on that as they were then bewildered at the winning hand she quickly laid down, "Somewhat yet I barely recalled the pain until I woke back up in the Hogwarts Hospice Wing… Anyways, I win, Full House."
Later on within the Courtyard Area at the Entrance of Castle Dreamland; During a odd yet sudden storm, a few hours later:
King Zøg and everyone from the Throne Room was standing near the steps of the castle entrance and wondered as to where the sudden storm came from since the weather was supposed to be clear, and saw a carriage coming while the thunder rolled on.
Once the carriage came, they were confused briefly before screaming shortly in place as when the thunder flashed and sounded once again, a very tall man was in front of them. As mentioned, he was a elderly, tall, skeletal looking man with a male pattern baldness and wavy grey hair at the back. He has a large nose and bags under his eyes. He also wears a black robe with a crimson shawl and cape, and carries an exorcism kit bag; with secretly, bottled demons, and also holding sacred tools.
This was none other then Big Jo, the one of the top recommended Exorcists during this age period.
"I get that a lot," he told them plainly to know it was no mere surprise at their reaction, and King Zøg and the others began leading him into the Castle while explaining the situation, and Big Jo was then bumped into by Delphi as she was playing chase with her Mama, currently, and blinked while looking up as Helena froze over at seeing him before hesitantly coming over, and the child stated surely while not seeing the odd gleam in the old man's orbs at her child, "Sorry Mister."
"I'm so sorry about that. My child tends to be quicker on her feet than me," Helena states while Big Jo blinked at her as well (with more interest) before shrugging as King Zøg states to the Exorcist, "Ah don't mind them. That's my Ex's Niece and her child. No harm from them being here anyway, and their not the ones we called you about."
Once they were out of earshot, Helena confused Delphi as she quickly picked her up, and moved on foot, quickly, back into the Castle with worry on her face as something about that man unsettled her, and quickly headed to their chambers that, currently, Kisara, Daphne, and Hermione were while looking into something yet jumped by the unexpected door slam as Daphne was given Delphi, and Helena instantly began rummaging through her trunk and confused them.
"What's got your mind in a fizz, Love?" Daphne states to Helena before they could yet be confused even more as she went to her door, and placed a charm on it that was known to keep intruders from coming in, "I saw an odd man just arrived, and I didn't like the look he gave us when Dee accidentally slammed into him," was her mere answer as they grew worried with that, and after Helena told them what he looked like, Hermione snapped her fingers at knowing who he was, "That's Big Jo. A famous and recommended Exorcist…" they all then looked at each other once Hermione trailed off and figured out one thing as Helena also stated while Delphi's ears were quickly covered, "Oh Bloody Hell, they didn't."
Back with only King Zøg and Big Jo, they were approaching Bean's Bedroom as currently, she was taking a nap, and Luci was with her as well.
"Okay, Big Jo, she's asleep in the bedchamber," King Zøg states to the Exorcist yet blinked at seeing he wasn't at all with him, yet when he opened the door he quickly held his heart at getting scared again by the old man as Big Jo stated like he said, to him, "I'm already in here."
Luci was minding his own business before he felt weird and suddenly went right into Bean along with her eyes glowing red as she too was awake and secretly surprised by that as well, and they saw Big Jo enter and her father leave the room as Helena just arrived yet was stopped by King Zøg, "Whoa, hang on! What are you doing here?"
Helena gave him a look, "I need to get past you, Uncle Z, as I have a feeling something bad would happen if I didn't," Helena states as she left her group to watch over Delphi since she felt very assured that if she was left alone, then something bad would occur.
"Nah, uh. No can do this time Hel as I need Bean better, and if this is what it takes, this is what it takes," King Zøg told her firmly to see he was firmly set on this, and Helena could do nothing more then wait it out.
Within Bean's Room, Big Jo unsettled the two as he only stated to them (mostly to Bean), "Fear not, Princess. I will soon have the demon out of your body," was all he said while getting into his bag as Luci responded in a failed attempt at speaking like Bean while she was rolling her eyes and guessed since he was "In" her, she can't say her mind at all, "Uh, nobody in this body but us Princesses, man. Oh, wait, uh, just one Princess. Me, Princess Tia... Oh, God, what's my full name? Damn it."
Not at all fooled by Luci, Big Jo stated to him the demon mostly in a from tone while setting up still, "Soon I shall soon cast thee out, Demon, with these Sacred Tools." Bean mentally chuckled by Luci's remark back then to the Exorcist's words, "You're a sacred tool."
"Jokes are a sign of fear. A fear that is well justified," Big Jo states to him while preparing the items as such and paused as Luci states to the Exorcist, "Hold on, there's something I've always wanted to try." He then made Bean's Head go on a complete 360-degree angle while laughing and stating, to mostly himself, "So cool! I didn't even know that the Human Body could do this!" Bean was somehow, from the glee Luci was having, was able to get out a few words in admitting something, "It can't."
"Out! Get out! Be gone, damn you!" Big Jo stated aloud while Luci was only amused, "Ooh! Sounds like some quality Exorcism." Big Jo blinked before stating firmly to him, "I was talking to you! Nobody talks to me like that, except my daughter and my wife… And now you." He then began chanting in Latin/Greek mixed, in which outside the door, King Zøg quickly grabbed Helena as she suddenly felt weird and weak as not known to her while she was on her knees, this butchered part of a modified spell Big Jo was doing was meant to subdue her Chaotic Kind to be weak and vulnerable, as long as it was chanted, "Oh! No! It burns! It burns! It burns with boredom!" Luci admitted in glee while laughing, "Come on. Liven it up a little."
"Leave this body! Allow this girl to resume her humble life of obedience and sobriety and chastity," the old man then states while preparing the major tools and whatnot, and Luci snickered while telling him in honesty, "You've never met Bean, have you?"
"O Lord, our only God, brother of the Other God, grant me the power to expel this vile spirit," while he was chanting, he made Luci for once worried as he began sprinkling some odd dust from one took in a design all around Bean's lying form, and then ignited it to see fire was around them, and Luci stated to him while perplexed, "Fire doesn't hurt Demons. You're only hurting Bean." Bean and Luci went wide-eyed at his firm yet precise words as if he did this before while having a wicked gleam in his eyes, "Exactly. Once the flesh is burned away, the Demon is revealed. Flesh burn, Demon return."
"Dude, she needs her flesh!" Luci states yet he ignored him while Bean was confused at hearing an odd scream on the other side of her bedroom door alongside Luci as he went back to that mixed languaged spell, and sighed to himself while quietly stating it, "Great, you're gonna make me be the good guy? Ugh, I hate that." Luci made Bean's body twitch and everything in the fancy display of things while yelling before he forcibly made her belch him up as he grunted, and also panting, as that oddly took a lot out of him and not at all seeing something coming from behind, "I saved your life. Now, I can go back to ruining it." Bean was stunned Luci did that, although, for her.
Bean then weakly gotten up before feeling a sudden strain of sorts as Luci grunted in shocked-surprise as he was sucked into a special, Anti-Demon Container that was made from Enchanted Glass, "Gotcha." Was all Big Jo stated to Luci before placing him his opened bag along with others from his previous stops inside.
"Ah! You can't do this, man. I want my lawyer." Luci demanded before he saw his demonic lawyer next to him on his right, "Uh, I'm in here. Don't say anything." The Bag was then closed up after he moved quickly and placed his tools away into it, and Bean was about to say something about what happened until King Zøg came into the room while to worry her at seeing a very pale Helena in his struggled arms as despite the way she looked, to him, she was heavy, "Can you move it along now as I have another problem to deal with here."
Big Jo stated to her as the teen saw the gleam in his eyes renewed while looking at Helena, "You have been Exorcised. Don't forget to take it easy today and drink plenty of water." He then quickly left while purposely nipping Helena's arm by a spare tool he had and was satisfied since he was the only one to see it heal up, and left quickly while Bean (from the odd strain-like feeling) passed out as Helena did, next to her on the bed.
The next day; December 17th, of this time period (2014 in True Time):
Helena was weak still as whatever occurred last night, concerned Hermione, Daphne, Kisara, and the others that gotten to know her, and Bean, mostly, she too felt weak as well, but still herself. It was as if half of something important was taken away from her.
Currently, the three; Helena, Elfo, and Bean, were outside as Kisara was babysitting, and Daphne (oddly enough) was with Hermione to aid Marabelle, and she made them all confused as Helena was edgy lately as if someone was watching her or her loved ones, and turned to Bean as they were in the Garden by the Daisies, "So is Luci really gone?"
Helena saw "The Strain" from seeing Bean was somewhat pale to know that if they were that close, they would need to eventually find them if she gets worse, but Elfo responded gently back while he was picking flowers, "Well, it depends what you mean by 'Gone'. If you mean 'Carted away, never to return,' then, yes."
"Well, maybe it was for the best," Bean began with Helena seeing it differently in her orbs as she helped Elfo with the flowers as well while wearing a white cloak around her frame, "Life with him was fun, but I probably would have been dead in a few weeks." Elfo sighed while pausing on picking, and admitted to Bean, mostly, as Helena looked behind her as she felt a cold presence that was there, but there was no one, "I will miss how he always pointed out my foibles and mocked me ruthlessly," he looked to her then, "But we'll be okay. You'll be amazed how much fun I am on my own."
It seems Helena disagreed on that as she saw Elfo chuckle warily while seeing Bean placed a weed into the Daisy Basket, "That's not a daisy." That confused Bean and she stated it to him, "What?" Elfo chuckled before telling her gently, "You put a dandelion in the daisy basket." Bean shrugged while stating to him as like her, she didn't understand why it was a big deal, "So?" Elfo then began to gently lecture her before it went too far, "So, we're making a daisy chain, not a dandelion chain. Why even bother to call it a daisy chain if you're just gonna-" he then began to quickly cry to startle them and Bean awkwardly patted his back, "Oh, God. I'm so sorry. I lied. I'm not really fun. The pressure, it just got to me. And then the pressure to sustain the lie? Oh, God, it was a nightmare."
Helena decided to tell Bean firmly (to get her puzzled) while the girl in question not seeing her skin pale slightly a little without meaning too than normal, "We have to find Luci."
"Why?" She asked before Elfo and she was stunned by what Helena briefly told them, "If he bonded to you then as he said he did, Bean, then what you are not at all knowing yet feeling is known as 'The Strain'. That means if the longer your separated, the closer to you being very weak and susceptible to getting killed." Not known to them, Enchantress slapped the Emperor on the head for that as they quickly went to the outside dining spot and spotted the King, Bean's Step Mother, and Half-Brother eating food, currently, and got his attention by his title, "Dad."
"Oh, sweetie, I can see the sparkle in your eyes is gone. It's such a relief," he told her while ignoring some other signs (like Bean's skin being pale and the color of her hair dulling, a little), and indeed that sparkle was gone but a feeling of herself being drained little by little, "So where does that Exorcist keep the demons after he removes them?" She asked to get him to blink before the three grew worried by his answer back, "Keep them? Oh, he doesn't keep them. From what Odval told me he disposes of them with extreme prejudice."
A little while later, Helena was with them then while telling her two mates and her sister to watch her child longer (after telling them things), and to be guarded as she felt something odd within the Castle Property, "We can't let him destroy Luci." Elfo states to them as they were on the move as Bean sighed, "So typical of my family to get rid of my friends like this."
They both then gave Elfo a weird look from his next set of words, however, "I'm sure one day you'll wake up with them trying to smother you." Seeing the look, "What?"
"Never mind… Uh, grab a horse. Let's go!" The horse neighed while Bean let Elfo ride with her as Helena flew while suddenly grabbing her heart, in confused wonder, as to why that sudden urge to go back to the Castle was oddly occurring, yet ignored it while following her cousin and friend.
If they were their longer, and if Helena followed her instincts, they would have seen a certain armored man holding a squirming Delphi within his arms, and was running very fast on foot to his destination.
"So there I am, possessing the Duchess and she has the nerve to drop dead. And I'm like, 'Now where am I gonna live?' Rude. Ugh." A female demon stated nearby Luci's own bottled prison within the carriage-like wagon, "Well, if it isn't Stacianne LeBlott."
"It's LeBlatt. Yeah, it's French," she told her Ex-Demon Boyfriend while reminding him (Luci), "Like I said on our first date, nothing could be worse than this," he told her as she huffed before they all gasped at seeing them near a volcano with the lava oddly different in color to make them all gulp, and seeing an odd armored man nearby the entrance knew one thing: Him and the other demons with him, were screwed.
They did see an odd woman, however, still in special black chains within the vehicle as such.
The woman had impeccable beauty, and she is also a woman with lustrous jet-black hair and the face of a goddess. She has golden irises and vertically slit pupils (on her left and right temples are two thick horns protruding crookedly, however), and on her waist are a pair of black angel wings. She also appeared to be wearing a pure white dress with silky gloves covering her slender hands, and a golden spiderweb necklace that covers her shoulders and chest. She also was secretly tall at being 6'9 in height while lastly, her chest size was a large F-Cup (due to her race and creation long ago from being a fusion of an Angel/Succubus Hybrid as the original intended was for her to be mostly Angel, and a still not known Dream Creature, of sorts).
She sighed while mentally thinking as the carriage kept moving, of a Chibi Version of herself easily battling and winning against both Big Jo and the armored man.
Helena somehow lost her cousin and Elfo as they went through the woods briefly while she was soaring in the sky, yet she had to suddenly duck while glancing behind her and saw the armored man: The Eradicator. He's mostly a black and green, full-bodied skull-armored-like Knight. Yet he was riding on a pitch black, armored, flying Pegasus with silver streaks on the sides, and grey hooves while having red eyes.
At this point Helena went wide-eyed at feeling that odd energy again from a while ago as he sent a black and red flamed attack that felt both hot and cold, and nearly made her fall yet maneuvered easily while glaring at him, and sped up as Eradicator only laughed in an echoed, deep yet dark voice, and sped up as well while on that flying horse.
Helena had to sputter though as she flew into a flock of geese without meaning to, and kept going as the remains of some feathers did hit the armored man yet he ignored it while they were nearly at an odd mountain as the design oddly enough being head of a dragon with an opened maw and smoking nostrils, large granite teeth, and heated caverns at the sides that looked to be from the distance, glowing-red orbs.
Helena landed on the head while panting before wincing at feeling something struck her, and saw it was a dart of sorts that she took out, and tossed it to the side as the man landed, and stated in what his laughter was as well, to her firmly, "I finally found you, Chosen Child. Now I can resume revenge from that truly odd man from long ago sending me to this location nearly several decades ago!" He then charged her while she jumped before moving, quickly, to her left and right as she was dodging his weapon: A large jagged broadsword with darkness seeping from it easily, and blood-red runes, and came close to actually slicing her with that odd weapon until she tripped and fell into the 'Left Eye' of the mountain.
The armored man grunted in dissatisfaction and followed her as Helena was way ahead while sliding all the way down until she came into a very old and hardly touched cavern that held runes, old images, and other things in ancient times, and she heard the man coming while feeling strange and off about herself while she hid into what she thought was a small hiding spot, but was, in fact, a storage room from ancient times.
She ended up at the back as when she touched the wall to her left, it slides open to the right while making her trip, and her left hand gripped what was hidden behind the wall (in puzzlement)… It was a dagger.
The dagger itself was otherworldly, to say the least, as it seemed to have been made differently from any sort of material in existence while the center seemingly seems to be that of a closed eye, runes that glowed a neon-blue if a old language of sorts while having near the handle it hold it, four prolonged spikes made of the same black metal material while two silver, smaller ones around the closed eye... to which opened up to reveal a silvery-grey, demonic eye.
This was Xal'atath, and she was cursed, fully this time, to her former body and everything sealed into the weapon, and be in service to whoever touches her, firstly, for all time until they officially and truly die, and there would be a way to free her while altering the weapon… But the conditions were tricky at best.
Helena quickly hid as she heard heavy footsteps from the weapon speaking to her then, like what she knew of that actor, Claudia Christian (secretly the same in another familiar story as well, and future, and sounding like in that Franchise), to her then as her voice sounds secretly powerful and echoed only slightly, "It seems you have been deemed My Wielder, Child… Interesting by how much potential you have held back still and left untrained, but the better part is some of the power you currently wield is truly impressive than those that I was once serviced, to long ago." Helena made eye-to-eye contact to the weapon and started quickly in a quiet tone to get the weapon to roll her eye at this, "Be quiet, I'm currently hiding from someone."
"Be as it may, Child: I am Xal'atath, Blade to the Black Empire… Again," That got Helena to give her a look in puzzlement by what the dagger... No, Xal'atath meant yet moved to a secret passage as she heard him coming and moved through the cavernous passageways this place had while the weapon continued speaking, "So by past means, I am bound to you evermore… So who is after you then?" Helena saw the man somehow found her and the dagger saw this and hummed in contempt while she ran now, and stated to her with a glint in the weapon's eyes, "I see then… Perhaps you should take the path on the left as when I was placed here long ago, I recalled traps and whatnot within Dark Dragon Mountain, and would delay that Mortal of sorts for some time."
Helena taking any chance she could get as she felt her heart hurt, once again, and took to said direction before blinking as she was glowing a void-like aura and sped very fast to the other side of what she went wide-eyes at from the deadly traps while behind her, Eradicator paused at seeing the active, otherworldly traps active and stated to himself in thoughts while glaring at Helena, I will get you eventually, Child, and I'll have my revenge! Enjoy that solution my comrade currently with that old fool made specifically, from knowing you lived, alongside the others and Master… Eradicator then began to try and get passed all the traps then.
With Helena, she found the exit while discovering some treasures at least for the next ten or so minutes, and blinked as she came across a shortcut to where she needed to go.
"I don't want to encounter that man ever again… That person was a man, right?" She stated to herself yet also asked, and turned to the dagger as she merely stated in a tone that was obvious, "Indeed it was… An odd Mortal of a man that seeks vengeance from what I sensed within his heart against you, Child, for some strange reason." Helena grabbed at her heart once again to get the dagger then go wide-eyed before she took off quickly at her words, "It seems your Bond with your own offspring is telling you she is in danger… Best head to where a battle awaits then?"
"This is, like, so unfair. I never got to haunt a house or spook a dog or get married," a random female Demon states to make them all grin as it was a rookie, and was complaining the entire time, "Oh, please, put me out of my misery," Luci states as a few agreed before they gulped at them seeing the bag opened and heard Big Jo state to them all in finality, "Prepare to be put out of your misery."
Big Jo although, looked at the servants to those two current allies of his while asking firmly to the closest one, "Is everything prepared for when the main event arrives? Also for that She-Demon on my wagon?" They were worried about that as the lava down below felt off and not their kind of natural as it hissed at him in an odd tone, and he nodded while looking at the person firmly, "Good… Now as to start things out," he reached in as Luci realizing what the old man's intention is, stated 'no' yet was relieved as he grabbed (oddly enough), his ex-wife before his ex-girlfriend, and she declared to the old man while he was chanting, "I possessed your Mother and she loved it!" She screamed alongside (to stun him), and gasped while declaring to Big Jo once they were tossed into the odd lava these people caused to be different, "You just killed my Lawyer."
"You won't be needing him anymore… Your appeal has been denied!" Big Jo states as he grabbed Luci and seeing the outcome while eyeing the odd pillar and making his eyes wide at seeing them tie up Delphi to it, and also seeing that chained woman he gotten the name of Albedo on one as well, and declared quickly to him, "Wait, wait, wait. I love you? Big Jo, I love you!" The old man only gave him a look while getting ready to toss him before he was hit on the head with a rock, and turned to see Bean holding another rock as Elfo had a stick, and the horse took off down the volcano while stating firmly to him, "Let Luci and whoever you have go, or else!"
Amused while placing Luci back into his bag he has with him, and stated it as well while making Bean wary as they realized they were surrounded and they took off their cloaks to reveal (to her astonishment alongside Elfo), they were humanoid snake men, "Well, you see.. These race of creatures that came with my alliance of a person, the Sethrak, to aid my endeavor of getting rid of the evil in the world while seeing to their assigned mission."
Bean saw Delphi was blindfolded while tied up and the weird woman as well, she guessed, to be offered into the glowing-green volcano's lava, and stated to him firmly while honestly being confused, "What do you mean?"
"Isn't it obvious? There is more out there. More in existence then what we currently know," Big Jo began to state while explaining things, some of the lava churned and was moving due to the odd, black solution of blood placed into it, "More awareness to my goals of not only this world, but others as well! After I get rid of the evils here, then we will go to the next and get rid of them all!" Bean was half-sobered up to know that plan was crazy, and stated it aloud to him, "Your a fool to think that could work! What's in it for you!" He then chuckled while telling her firmly as the Sethrak began slowly closing in on them, "Its hopeless to stop the inevitable as there is plenty of us… And only a few of you."
Without warning, they heard a shrieking-like sound before seeing a blast of raw magic sent right at the snake men who fled quickly, as Helena appeared, and her eyes glowing in true rage at mostly the enemy so much that the Demons in those bottles, Albedo (whose heart oddly thumped at this way of things while thinking she was gorgeous, like this), and the wariness mixed with hope of both Bean and Elfo since she shouted loudly at them all while her inherited creature lines were showing, in full display while also wielding Xal'atath, still, "Leave them alone!"
"It seems the Child of the hour has arrived at last," a voice spoke out before Bean shouted out too little too late as a falling figure crashed right into Helena and landed a little further away, from them, "Look out!"
It was an equally armored female (like Eradicator), that was crimson armored, and was a few inches shorter then Helena while she was also wielding two scimitars, and has odd black wings behind her back as the two then began to fight, and Bean dodged Big Jo as he began to go after them while they, at the same time now, were trying to nab his bag and get Luci, "Cursed are those who consort with Demons! You will pay for your sins!"
Helena was fighting the mystery woman while panting, and briefly grabbing her heart from not the bond this time, but from something else working it's way into her system, and the woman chuckled as Helena dodged her strikes and using Xal'atath to black most of the hits, "Seems that concoction I made is working its way to slowly harm you from the inside out, Child! Soon you will be killed by your own actions!" Helena merely just kept fighting as Bean saw some of the snake men return, and was beginning to lower the two pillars into the lava and stated to Elfo as she tossed a rock hard at Big Jo's temple to send him in the ground, "Go free those two by any means Elfo! I got this!"
Elfo nodded quickly while being as small as he was, was able to sneak around somehow to get to the pillars and made the two in task of lowering the sacrifices into the Fel-Volcano, froze in place at their task on lowering them (once they saw the Half-Elf), and he waved while asking them, "Hi… You happen to know how to raise them up, right?"
Albedo was dumbfounded at how dumb these two lackeys were as they shrugged while raising the pillars up, and was then knocked on their heads by a large stick nearby that Elfo dropped earlier, and quickly went over to Delphi as tears was flowing down her face, "Shh… It's ok Dee, Greeny is here to save you and the other lady." Delphi snuggled while she gotten untied and was unbound from her blindfold as she hugged him, and the Half-Elf turned to Albedo while stating to him firmly as she focused then on Helena, who was not faring well against the woman, and Albedo sounding like the actress, Elizabeth Maxwell, "Untie me. Your friend needs my aid," Elfo whike seeing this then, allowed Delphi to help him try and untie the binds the woman was in.
With Helena and that woman, Helena's vision was blurry while her body felt very hot and sluggish as the woman noticed this, and held back a laugh while brandishing her weapon's, and then kicked Helena onto the ground as Xal'atath had a wide eye in fear of her new owner, since the armored woman placed her boot against Helena's throat while making her start to frantically try to get her off as she was chuckling, "It seems your getting closer and closer to Death, Child…. Let's keep you here while I merely watch you-" she was then body slammed by Albedo as Elfo told Delphi to stay by the carriage and wait for them, and both women glared at each other while Albedo glowed while growling, all over, and her attire then quickly changed (to make Helena blush, secretly).
Albedo now wore an impressive black full plate-based armor with a unique helm for her, and carried a special battle-ax. Her armor, however, did little to hide her figure and the upper part of her bust.
The two then charged while Helena weakly gotten up, and out of odd need, struggled while eventually getting the dagger, and saw Bean was struggling around the edge of the volcano against Big Jo while feeling feverish and weak even more, and heard Bean state as she tossed the bag to the side near Helena (oddly enough), "It's all over, Big Jo. I got the bottle and the knife," Indeed she had his knife and possibly Luci from where she was as Albedo and the woman was far away at this point alongside them hearing clashes of loud-like attacks before the two blanched as somehow… "Well, I got whatever this is," Big Jo states while holding Elfo over the edge, "Throw me the bottle, and I'll throw you the Elf."
Bean thought of something quickly while knowing Elfo was in the line of fire, heard him say thanks to her after he ran over to Bean, "Okay, catch!" She tossed the objects at him yet he caught the knife right in his left arm, and the momentum being near the edge made him trip yet with odd reflexes as Bean approached him, grabbed from his right hand firmly while looking upwards, and stating to her with narrowed eyes, "Oh! You haven't defeated me yet." Seeing Luci was safely on the ground while in his bottle still, and the bag, had hate in her orbs for once and kicked his hand away while he shouted and fell right into the lava, "Now, you have!"
"Momma!" Bean heard a shout and saw to her worry, Helena was on the ground twitching, sweating, and indeed looked feverish and weak as it seemed whatever was in that solution was truly slowing down her healing process, and Bean didn't know what to do as Elfo grabbed the bag and Luci, and Elfo (after setting the bag down was trying to open the bottle), and Bean for once didn't know what to do as she felt awkward once again as Delphi hugged her while seeing Helena was out of it, and saw Elfo grunting while hefting a large rock, "No, no, no! Just pull out the cork!" Once smashed, Luci was out and rubbed his head firstly before he stated to himself and making the bond between them both whole once again while getting a small chuckle from Bean herself while looking at her cousin, "Ow! Ta-da. Did ya miss me?"
"Yes, but never fly into my mouth again," Bean sternly told him as Luci quickly nodded before moving and checking Helena over as she then asked, "Is she going to be alright?" Luci shrugged while detecting an odd elixir within her system that she may be having an allergic reaction to, and told them what he guessed, mostly, "Not sure as whatever is wrong with her, she isn't going to last long if we don't find an antidote."
At that, Delphi stayed with her Mama while her Auntie Bean and friends went to the carriage-like wagon and saw a lot of things they merely tossed out or placed down while looking for things, as the Sethrak fled into a odd vortex that showed up alongside the woman as they did. They left the other Demons alone, however.
"God damn it, if he had allies why didn't he have the antidote?!" Bean exclaims while checking over her cousin as she looked very sickly as Delphi was being comforted by Elfo, and Luci was on Bean's left shoulder while explaining to her briefly, "All I heard from that Old Exorcist was 'Change the world this, and freeing the world from evil and stuff' like that."
Bean only nodded before they jumped as the weapon Helena refused to let go, began to speak to them, "Perhaps it is what she needs the most to be cured, then what that Old Mortal was teamed with, is the answer." The weapon then rolled her eye at them while Bean merely looked at her while stating a fact, "Did that dagger speak to us?" They jumped again as Bean reluctantly picked her up with the metal oddly vibrating as if amused, "Indeed, Child. I am not some ordinary weapon per say, but of a powerful entity sealed once again yet fully this time, into my former prison, and am bound to the one ill as we speak."
"Is there anything we can do for Helena?" Bean asked while glancing at her cousin firstly before to a distraught Delphi, and before the weapon could reply, Albedo landed next to Helena's right side (as they were all on her left), and her armor vanished to return her back to her original outfit. Then Bean and Co. jaw dropped slightly as she suddenly kissed Helena straight-on the lips as if a lover and making Delphi confused yet suddenly feel a bond develop from her to Albedo as not to a Soulmate… But as a new Mommy... No, Actual Mommy #2, and the same occurred with Helena as both Albedo and the fourteen-year old's body glowed a silver color before Bean and Co. were blasted onto their butts as a small wave was sent.
When the light died down, Albedo removed herself slowly from Helena while stunned about what occurred, and saw Helena was aware yet moved to the left side of her while hacking and puking up dark-green sludge of sorts that stunk yet begun to dissolve into nothing as she returned to normal, and fully passed out while Albedo picked her up in bridal style, and paused as they also heard it as well. "Hey, what's that roll-y, wagon-y sound?" Elfo asked as they looked to see the carriage began rolling back down the trail and then was sent down a ravine before hearing a crashing alongside lots of shattering before seeing Demons laughing while taking off to anyplace.
"Well, at least we saved Luci, and Dee," Elfo states to his friends as Bean nodded at that while glancing secretly at Albedo (who was mostly staring right at Helena) with emotions she never thought she would have be up and running, once again, "But we released evil upon the world." Luci shook his head while on her shoulder still as Delphi hugged Bean's left leg and stated in a pleased tone to them, "A happy ending for everyone."
They gathered the items yet was surprised as Albedo merely waved her left succubus wing and they all ended up in a chest that magically appeared, and was sent back to what the woman knew was her Soulmate's Room within Dreamland Castle, and her heart thumped as she froze briefly only a moment as two familiar bonds were once again active (after knowing they were killed), and inwardly was shocked they were alive once again, somewhere, in this world.
Though not known to any of them, a cloaked female hidden by some large rocks had her hands glowing an eerie silverish-green as a secret deal was just made to bring that woman's two sister's back and be free (like Albedo was), and left, as the group then headed back to Castle Dreamland.
It was moments later that Eradicator came back before seeing the scene, and cursed aloud at missing the action and things.
Well, there ya guys have it. Chapter 2 to the Helena Story, and I bet you guys are surprised I did that? Adding certain characters as such? Well, there will be reasons later on down the road as the story progresses.
For the names of certain people, you would have to mostly look up.
I would like to state that I will still be working on this and other lower chapters for the time being; Alongside anything "New" as such coming up, and also my current new stories as well.
If you have hints, suggestions, or whatever, please post in either the review or PM me as such.
Besides that, I do hope you enjoyed the chapter as much as I did, as it took a lot of time and patients to think of things.
Until the next chapter, this is Aeroza, signing out, and also considered this an early B-Day gift to a fellow Author named ThunderClaw03 as I didn't think I would have this up in time.