ABOUT FOUR YEARS AGO….
"All I asked for is that you simply sell the blood that I supplied to you, Mr Northman and then you would bring me the girl," Sophie-Anne reminded him, her voice purring almost. Eric knew better though…
"With all due respect, Your Highness, I think we should be more worried about The Great Revelation instead of this girl," Eric advised.
Sophie-Anne raised an elegant eyebrow at him. "This girl is The Great Revelation. It's a fight to the finish for both vampires and witches. Whoever gets there first will have such a bright future that even your gods will shout misery from wherever it is that they come from. Olympus?"
Eric stared blankly at her. "I'm Swedish. A Viking."
"Close enough," she said with a shrug.
No, it's not actually, Eric thought. Zeus ruled the sky, but Odin ruled them in my religion. They are very different.
Eric's jaw ticked as he said, "Yes, Your Highness. Why did you request my presence?"
"You are the oldest vampire in my queendom and I want you to get me that girl. I want her."
"She's a witch."
"A very powerful witch at the age of fifteen, I saw her evaporate an entire human army when they tried to shoot at her brother and sister," she explained. "She just looked at them and even I'll admit that it was a sight to behold. Besides if she rises up so will the witches and the AVL wants all of America, not just thirty-nine states of it. Besides...what kind of queen would I be if I don't have New Orleans. They would laugh at me, my reputation is at stake here!"
"They won't let me get near the girl," Eric informed her.
A sultry smirk came onto her face as she inspected her freshly painted manicured nails. "My humans tell me that there is a rumor of a power struggle between the girl and Celeste. The girl is apparently to ready to reign. I mean she's only fifteen and a teenager."
"Ridiculous," Eric agreed. "It seems they don't know what they want. Their side is split if the rumor is true."
"Exactly!" She said with excitement. "We need to strike now."
"I want no part in this, Your Highness," Eric told her. "Witches are nasty business and I don't like involving myself in our battles with them."
"Your maker agrees as well by the way, I asked Godric first since they were spotted in his area," Sophie-Anne informed him which surprised Eric. "But like you he wanted no part in Celeste's war with us."
"It's not war yet, Your Highness unless you kidnap the girl," Eric warned her cautiously.
Celeste's eyes were filled with fury as she looked at the two weak humans in front of her who were badly beaten and forced onto their knees. Sweat coated their bodies as an unimaginable pain coursed through the both of their bodies. The kind of pain that you wished yourself a quick death in that very moment.
"WHO SENT YOU?!" She screamed at them as they felt her fingers poking painfully inside of their heads specifically their minds.
"Mother, enough!" The girl with long blonde curly hair and grey eyes yelled at Celeste. "You've tortured them enough! It is obvious that the vampires sent them to kidnap me. Now even though we don't know which one of them did it, I won't torture an innocent."
Celeste growled. "They threaten you-our kind and you want to grant them mercy! They should be hanged, burned alive, or even cut their mind up into little pieces until there's nothing left. An example should be made out of them. Mercy is weakness and those dead people will see that. I know this because I spent half of my life with them, little girl so I know more-"
The girl shot to her feet, her voice booming, "YOU DARE GO UP AGAINST ME! HECATE CHOSE ME OUT OF EVERY WITCH OUT THERE TO RULE THE WITCHES AND SO MY WORD IS FINAL! I AM THE ONE TRUE HEIR THAT WAS PROPHESIED! DO NOT CONFUSE MY MERCY WITH WEAKNESS! I AM ANYTHING, BUT WEAK AND YOU KNOW IT! LEAVE THE HUMANS ALONE!"
Every witch in the room watched with fearful eyes as two of the most powerful women alive glared fiercely at each other, both challenging the other. Celeste stormed out of the room and one of the witches in the crowd asked, "So what do you plan to do then?"
"I'm going to break them."
Two days later, the vampires held their annual summit to discuss the matters of their world and the upcoming Great Revelation at hand.
Suddenly, Eric remembered that a huge explosion happened in the ballroom and fires came out thin air, appearing all around them. People screamed and the vampires scurried to get out of the building as it started to crash down onto them. He saw some of them evaporate into the air and turn to ash.
Eric watched as the ground suddenly started to swallow the building into the ground. He started to hear the vampires growl behind him. Eric tore his eyes away from the sinking building and the blood all around him as Sophie-Anne came to stand beside him, she had her fangs bared as well. Eric looked to the top of the hill and saw the alarming number of witches watching them.
Eric tensed as he saw a short girl standing at the head of the army. Even though she was tiny, she stood tall with a fierce and familiar expression on her face, her long blonde blew in the wind. The moonlight shined onto them specifically her quite brightly in a sky with darkness that shadowed over them.
Eric was actually impressed by the boldness of the girl that he had half of a mind to simply go up there and talk to her. In the corner of his eye, Eric saw the vampires on either side of him pose themselves for a battle, but then two Authority members, one he knew by the name of Nan Flanagan stopped the vampires from engaging into a battle with the witches. He could tell that she wanted to fight, but knew very well that they couldn't because of their agenda for the Great Revelation.
"This is their territory," Nan whispered as she glared at the witches across from them. "We are in their territory. We must obey their laws. For now. Back off and go rest. Dawn seems to be approaching."
All the vampires became shocked since it was only 2:43 in the night and already the sky was slowly turning orange with a tint of red. With one last look at the short blonde girl with eyes daring for them to fight, Eric flew into the sky with Pam hot on his heels.
He heard the girl's name was "Lillian".
A YEAR LATER…
Godric couldn't believe the words that were coming out of Celeste's mouth. She was still the woman he loved and yet now...it appears the glass he had in front of his eyes began to shatter as he saw the real Celeste and not the one he came to love so long ago. The one who saved him from an eternity of darkness or so he thought.
"You helped kill your daughter-your firstborn," Godric spoke softly with a firm tone. "You told me that she was the first person you ever loved. Now she is nothing to you?!"
Celeste looked somewhat shocked and a little uncomfortable. "Godric-"
"Get out," he responded coldly. "I, Godric of Gaul, Sheriff of Area Nine, banish you from this territory from this day until your last. If you return, I will reign hellfire on you and show no mercy upon you-"
"Sorry, Mr. Godric," a silky smooth voice interrupted. He saw a tall main with a Roman-like jaw and wavy black hair slicked back as he was dressed in a navy blue pin-striped suit. "But I can't allow this verdict to pass."
"Your Majesty," Godric greeted the King of Texas, bowing his head.
"I'm afraid that Celeste has become my royal consort, I apologize for not informing any of you, but it just happened," he chuckled and Godric wanted to rip his heart out of his chest. His fingers twitched. "I understand the position I've put you in, but this is not a request, Godric. It's a command from your king."
He nodded. "I shall obey you always then."
WHAT THE HELL?!
I shot up on the bed, gripping my sweaty forehead. Yuck, I hate when I sweat, it's so nasty!
And what the hell was the deal with that crazy dream of the past that I had. Lillian...she was such a badass! Why can't I be that way? Seriously, I got stuck with a couple of asshole corpses! Meanwhile, she got an army of powerful witches and cool powers. I'm so jealous of her right now. I never knew how cool she was. Whose memories were those that invaded my mind? I saw Eric's, Godric's, and Lillian's. Could it be their blood inside of me? Lillian, was that you? What are you trying to tell me?
I hit the inside of my cheek as I saw Eric laying beside me. "Corpse."
"Witchy."
"Your maker tricked me into marriage…"
"I know this so why are you telling me," Eric asked coldly like the drama queen that he was.
"Well, I just want to let you know that I will be staking him thus killing the pervy corpse," I calmly informed him.
"I half a mind to let you," Eric replied. "I'm sorry."
"For what?" I asked in confusion.
"For letting Godric...he won, Belle. You are his."
I shook my head and jumped over to the stupid corpse. "No! I am no one's!"
"You know as well as I do that's not how it works."
I shrugged. "I'll burn the place to the ground if I have to. So I seriously can't get out of this? I'm sure there's a way."
Eric leaned towards me and whispered, "Our contract. It's still intact if I erase the part of you and your father never have contact with each other. You are still mine then-"
I growled. "Fine! For now, our contract is still active! I prefer stupid over pervy anyways."
Eric smirked then winked at me. "I knew you would chose right. I'm surprised you didn't put up a fight."
I let out a heavy sigh. "It's hard when you're forced into marriage with the biggest pervert out there. My ex is here too with his slutty skinny dog of a fiancee! I'm sort of in a pickle."
Eric smiled charmingly. "You are right. We both are."
"So I've been having dreams of the past...one of them involved your conversation with Sophie-Anne about my sister then she brought down an entire building...Celeste tried to overthrow Lillian and Godric banished her, but Texas stepped in," I explained to him. "It's all confusing. Is it because of your blood?"
"Perhaps. Maybe our bond is growing stronger than either of us anticipated."
"God, corpse, could you be any cheesier?!"
"I can always kill your ex for you," he suggested with a sly smile.
I hummed. "Oh, well, that does not really nice, but first let's get the hell outta here and divorce Gary and go to bed."
Eric nodded and then suddenly he was NAKED! WHAT THE HELL?! I jumped out of the bed and covered my eyes in shock. "AH! Put some clothes on, corpse! Ain't no one here want to see your sausage link."
I peeked through my fingers and saw Eric in the bed of my "prison" bedroom, he looked offended! Stupid copse! Why the hell is he complaining?!
"It's hardly a sausage! It's bigger than that and you know it too!"
"One time," I reminded him. "I walked in one time because you didn't lock the fucking door!"
"You didn't knock!"
"Ugh! Who cares?! You never lock it! I bet you do it on purpose! Perv!"
Eric rolled his eyes. "I know it may be hard for your judgey brain to comprehend, but my world does not revolve around me trying to get you to see my cock."
"Man-whore," I grumbled then proceeded to make a pillow wall. I growled as Eric kept on throwing the pillows that I put between us away somewhere in the room. "I need my space, corpse!"
"There should be no barriers between a husband and wife."
"HEY! I'M NOT MARRYING YOU, STUPID CORPSE! I AIN'T GONNA EITHER!"
"Okay, time for some sleepy time," he moaned as he wrapped his arms around my body like vines.
"Let me go," I snarled as my body hit the mattress. "Stupid corpse, we have no pillows!"
"It's okay I'll use your breasts as pillows," Eric mumbled as he slid down my body.
"HELL NO-HEY, STOP NUZZLING YOUR FACE BETWEEN THEM, CORPSE!"
TBC…
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I wanted to show what the world was like at Lillian's time and the threat everyone kind of saw her as. Later in the chapters, you'll start to see the similarities between Belle and Lillian. To me, Lillian honestly is a fifteen year old with the biggest balls alive so you guys will love her.
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