The door open sharply and was closed quickly as she rushed inside to place a large book onto the table, normally she would not be so discreet but if her sister found out that they were trying to use her daughter to find more of the dragon fire she would not only have a fit but kill them as well. Literarily.
"Alright, let's get to work." Darcy said as Icy opened the book, there were a large assortment of mind control spells but was quickly dismissed as Pendu has a very high tolerance against them. It was not what they want, and the young girl's mind was so scattered it would near impossible to even read her mind much less control it. "Show up in a dream and tell her it is her destiny?"
Icy shivered, "with all that clouds and, ugh, dreamy sweetness? No thank you, how about sending a spirit to possess her?"
"She's good at exorcising spirits, figures the one thing she is good at it turns around and bites us in the end." Icy flipped through the pages, an idea crossed her mind of going to Pendu and plead for "help" but dismissed it. It was faulty at best, in fact any of these plans involving Pendu would pander out entirely. No doubt about it, the child was just no evil like them, she is too much like her mother.
"This would be so much easier if we had our full powers," Darcy complained as she flopped back into a chair. "We just pop right in front of Bloom and just yank it out of her, no fuss and no mess. If there was someone besides Pendu perhaps this would be easier, but there has to be a way. We can rule if we can figure out how to bend this to our favor."
"There has to be something, a spell, a motive or a way but mark my word we will be ruling the world again." she stopped for a moment, a thought had dawned on her. Since the beginning she and Darcy had been training and conditioning Pendu ever since she could walk to do their bidding, under Stormy's nose. To a degree they saw their niece as a tool for their vengeance, the prince's unknown daughter would stir up something as they would wreak havoc all over the place. That was why they spent the last fifteen years teaching the young girl to be strong, teaching her to be powerful and teaching her special tactics for battle. It was not from the goodness of their hearts, nor is it because they were family as that reason was wasted on them giving her a share of their reign. Icy growled as she slammed the book shut, "I'm sick of this life."
"We are not meant for minimal wage." Darcy sneered, "if I wanted to waste my life behind a counter I would have gone to Alfea and gotten a job flipping burgers."
"I swear one way or another, all of our hard work in that girl will not be in vain. Even if I have to freeze earth and heaven," Icy's face twitched a bit into a twisted smile. "Earth and heaven, I've got it!"
Darcy blinked as her sister walked over, she was getting an uneasy feeling of dread when she saw the wide eyed insanity her older sister was expressing. "Did a blood vessel burst or something?"
"Pendu's sister, she always whined about wanting to met that little whelp." Icy smiled a bit as she backed away, flicking her wrists a bit and unleashing what little magic she had connected to her. "We get them together and allow them to become chummy with each other, and when the moment is right we step in and take Bloom's brat hostage. Pendu won't hurt us because we have her sister."
"What about Stormy," Darcy watched a small viewing portal to open in the center of the room. "She would never go for this, we had to sweet talk her into teaching Pendu."
"That's the beauty of this, we have Pendu and that girl and Stormy would be defenseless against us." the clouds of the portal cleared away, revealing a red headed woman dressed in a purple long sleeve shirt with a black vest and a leather mini skirt, "the question is how do we get her to met the other without making it too artificial?"
"Leave that to me." Darcy smiled, "it will take some time but it would be perfect."
Rain fell upon her body as she walked through old streets of the abandoned city but she ignored it. Minor inconveniences, that is all she would consider it but for now it was serving a purpose. Shifting she exchanged the scythe from one hand to the other as the atmosphere seemed to change all around her, casting shadows everywhere despite it being dark.
She sharply crouched as she extended the scythe a bit, sensing something amiss. Ahead, beyond the crumbling gates a strong feeling of dread and misery were stirring. She narrowed her eyes as she used her aura a bit to feel out the source then turning on her heels as she sliced through the rain, literarily slicing the raindrops in half as it had cut through an apparition of light. The creature hissed as it faded into a fine mist. From the darkness several small apparitions appeared, they were small and contained no true form but seemed made of a wispy fire and cast a glow all around themselves. These were souls, lost during some cataclysmic event and left damaged by their hate and fury. She knew they were a threat to her not directly, but it is alerted she will have a much harder battle a head.
She swung down with the scythe. Two were caught in its path, swinging back a specter was destroyed. Looking around she counted at least twenty, even if she swung away there was no chance of getting them all before the demon would be notified. Her best defense now was to prepare for a hard battle now, which she could feel was coming with the negative energies coming her way.
Through the ruin gates a black mass of writhing tendles slithered through, raising up high into the sky and came down. Standing there as the darkness melted away she swallowed hard as she gripped the scythe. The creature was on the back of a horse that was black and eyes of fire, it wore an uniform of a royal guard dulled away into an off gray and held a saber. The only difference from a traitor and this monstrosity was it's face, which cannot be seen as it has no head.
"Stella."
She shivered as the air groaned her name but she stood fast, she cannot back down. Raising the scythe up just as the dallah reigned up before galloping forward swinging down upon the handle sending sparks everywhere, Stella was rocked backwards a bit yet she manage to use the scythe to prevent herself falling onto her back. The dallah was at the other end of the street, turning the two faced off at each other before charging at each other.
Blades bit into each other, sparks flew. The saber shattered into a million pieces and scatter across the asphalt, Stella took this chance for a fast strike against the legs of the horse. The creature fell on its side, a loud and thunderous crack was heard. Stella held the scythe, her hands were forming the signs for sealing spell to lead into the final strike against the demon. In a burst of blistering light emerging from the deep gash. Stella fell to her knees despite the battle being so short, sealing away these strong spirits always took some much out of her. The spirits were leaving as the rain let up, the darkness was now just regular night.
"Finished. And with enough time to change clothes when I get back," she smiled as she caught her breath. Since graduating from Alfea Stella had taken on a career of spirit exorcism as she had lost her right as future queen of Solaria, since her father had chronically gone insane and cut her off from all support. At the moment the kingdom was in political turmoil, leaving Stella out to dry. Her mother offered a hand but Stella wanted to become somewhat more independent, her pride was in need of a boost. There was something in purifying an area of deadly, utterly insane evil spirits that gives you a feeling of accomplishment.
Stella waited before leaving, seeing if there were other spirits laying in the shadows. Her sense was picking up nothing except for the lost souls which were vanishing by each passing second, Stella took in a deep breath. A look over the shoulder her eye was caught by something, under the gates it was laying there. Raising her guard as she step forward Stella eyed the object until she was right on top of it, looking it over she was confused.
Where did this scythe came from?
The desk was very orderly, neat and clean yet efficient like the woman that runs the office of Cloud Tower. Ms. Griffin had finished all of her official work and was now enjoying a small glass of brandy before going down into her own dean beneath the office, it was tradition of hers as each year before she would have on glass of brandy before going to bed and waking up to a new school year.
She would gladly just finish the entire bottle and conk out for the night, yet tonight she was barely touching the liquor. Her mind was on a certain girl, the name had appeared in the main database an hour ago when she was doing inventory. There was some doubt it could be that girl but her mind was not letting it go, the name kept going through her mind as she recalled a student. One, three in fact, that went on to take over the universe for nearly a week and then escaped from Light Heaven. Escaping to a place where the law could not capture them, and where one had a child with the same name as that student of Alfea.
Pendu, the daughter of Stormy Trix. She had came to magix, and to an academy too. If she was a snitch she would had ratted the poor girl out in seconds, but that was not in nature. Ms. Griffin was interested in seeing how far would this girl go, perhaps this one would secede where the last three failed. Not in taking over the world, but something else that Ms. Griffin has been waiting for since her senor year.
Turning away from the window she return to the desk, placing a down the glass she reach beneath the desk and pressed a button. A bookshelf off to the side slide away, revealing a small glass case. Within the case was a slender rapier sword, hidden in a marble blue sheath that had a slight radiance to it. Ms. Griffin walked over to it, only gazing down at it as she remember the day she had came to find this artifact. Returning to the desk she pressed the same button to closed the bookshelf and seat in her chair to finish off the entire glass as she thought about the possibility for someone to wield the electric dragon.