Chapter 39: Trying Out New Spells

Kathia was outside at the spot where the cook had buried the remains of the sweetling hatchling. She held the cellphone in her hand, overlooking the steps to do the spell that would allow her to see ghosts. She looked at the ground and hoped that the soil over the corpse would count as grave dirt. 'It better,' she thought, not liking the thought of having dirt in her eyes for nothing. She knelt down and used a shovel to scoop up a hand full of soil. Then she dipped her hand in the bowl of water to wet her fingers. After that, she touched the soil get a little bit on her fingers. Once that was done, she brought her hand close to her face, particularly the eyes. She stared at her fingers nervously, knowing that this was going to sting her eyes. She slowly moved her fingers closer and closer. Then she opened her eyes wide and braved herself to touch the grave dirt to her eyes. She winced, brought her fingers away and closed her stinging eyes. "Oh gods," she murmured under her breath.

She kept her eyes shut and rubbed the remaining dirt off her eyelids with the back of her hands. She let the grave dirt on her eyes sit there for a few seconds before she looked back to her cellphone. It said that to test to see if the ritual had worked, she must perform the ghost summon spell. Kathia followed the steps to this spell and then attempted to do it herself. She put her arms out and then slowly brought them to herself. She thought about which ghosts she wanted to see; her parents. She channeled that thought into her spell and said, "Souls of my parents, please come back to this living world to see your dear daughter." Instantly, two white translucent forms slowly appeared out of thin air in front of the girl. They were Kathia's parent. The girl smiled at them and greeted, "Hello, mom and daddy. It's good to see you again."

Mrs. Rittevon smiled and greeted, "We missed you, dear. And I know you missed us as well. We wanted to be there to comfort you when you were crying for us a few days ago."

"You were watching over me?" asked the girl. She heard many times about spirits of the deceased watching over their loved ones; looks like it was true after all.

"Yes we were," confirmed Mr. Rittevon. "We saw you swearing revenge, learning magic, trying to kill dragons and teaming up with this Jason man to build a city and unite all people against the dragons." Then he sounded a bit impressed as he crossed his arms. "I must say; it looks you inherited your old man's ambition." Kathia felt praised by his comment. The man continued, "Now I don't mind you using my company to build these people homes. In fact, I like how you're keeping it alive under the dragons' takeover of construction. And I certainly don't mind you learning and teaching people magic. The only thing I don't want you to do is going out trying to kill every dragon in sight."

"What?!" the girl said in shock.

The father told her sternly, "You heard me; stop this foolishness. I've seen you get hurt twice and I don't want you to put your life in danger again."

The mother added to the conversation, "You have no idea how worried we were when that black dragon nearly got killed. I was almost in tears. I wasn't sure if you live or not."

Mr. Rittevon spoke again, "That's how much you scared us, Kathia. Listen, I made you heir to the company and I need you alive to keep it going. Not only that, but we love you too much to see you get hurt."

The mother begged, "Please Kathia, don't try to avenge us. Just live your life peacefully. Do it for us."

Kathia considered whether to listen to her parents or not. Sure she loved them so much that she would do anything for them. But however, she also was aware that so many people in this region lost their loved ones. The world will continue to suffer as long as dragons continued their rampage. She needed to help these people to keep them from going through what she did. The girl shook her head and declined, "Mom, daddy, I really want to do what you say. But I need to be a fighter for these people around the world. Someone's got to take down the dragons and I want to help out in this cause."

Mr. Rittevon warned her seriously, "Kathia, think about what you're doing!"

"I am," replied the girl, who was strong in her resolve. "And don't worry; I'll just start with lone weak dragons until I can handle them with ease. When that happens, I'll be strong enough to take out the tougher dragons and then eventually hordes of them. I'll also have Jason on the others to back me up against them. Together, we'll all grow strong and save the world!"

The parents were stunned to see their daughter go against their wish. The mother murmured to her husband, "My gods, she really does have your stubborness."

Kathia continued, "Besides, The dream recall spell had a prophecy where I would bring the dragons to their downfall and humans will prosper again. I am so going to make that come true, no matter what! I'm going to be a hero!"

The father tried to talk sense into his daughter, "Kathia, it's just a dream; you don't know if it's going to come true or not."

"Well I for one, believe in it!" the girl spoke back. She was getting annoyed that her parents won't trust her to do her mission. "I'm going to do whatever I want and I'm not going to let anybody stop me; not even my own parents!"

The parents were shocked by her defiance as the mother placed her hands on her mouth and gasped. Mr. Rittevon got angry and yelled, "Kathia, you... you disgraceful girl! If I was alive right now, you would be grounded, do you hear me? Grounded!" The girl didn't even care in the slightest. After all, he was just a simple ghost and he can't do anything to her. As the spirit continued to scold, the girl scrolled down on the cellphone to read how to banish ghosts. Once she read the instructions, Kathia held her hand out at her parents and willed her parents away. The ghosts disappeared from sight as they were back into the spirit realm.

Kathia picked up her stuff and turned around. Under her breath, she murmured with a confident smile, "Don't worry mom and daddy, you won't be disappointed with me." She made her way back to her tent and set the things in the far corner. Then she went into her sleeping bag and started to sleep. Tomorrow, she was going to teach her students, the ghost seeing spell.

Throughout the rest of the day, Aeolus had his horde training against many of their fellow soldiers to get the combat experience they needed against various breeds of dragons. During that same day, the horde leader was contacted by Salvo, who finally made his decision. He and his clan wanted to join the horde. So Aeolus has his magi dragons teleport them over to the desert, where he then informed the clan about everything about their current agenda, which must be kept secret from Atlas and the dragon lords. Then night finally came and the daytime members of the horde went to sleep in the village. The cave where Juna tested them was the perfect place to hold many dragons. Aeolus organized the nocturnal members of the horde on sparring and guarding the village. While they did their tasks, Aeolus and Gneiss had went outside the village to test out the transformation spell that Atlas told him about the night before. The horde leader had brought his cousin with him to watch how he transformed and help correct his mistakes, so that his human form would be perfect. Aeolus recalled what the magi had said last night about the spell and said, "So according to her, I need to imagine myself as a human in many details and change my weight and size. This is harder than it sounds, which is why I brought you here with me."

Gneiss asked, "So you're going to try this spell out by yourself, huh? Why not bring the rest of the horde, so we can all learn together?"

The horde leader understood that his cousin thought it would a pretty efficient way for everyone to be able to turn human. But however, that was not the case. He explained, "Because we don't know if Juna or Mekarth will wake up any time and find the lack of scents in the village. I need to keep them in a state of security, so that they don't get suspicious as to what we're doing."

The green dragon nodded his head understandingly and replied, "Ah, I see. That's pretty sneaky."

The horde leader told him, "Now I'm going to start transforming now. Watch me carefully and see if I'm doing this right." ;He didn't want to end up hurting himself if his bone structure got into an awkward shape. The disaster dragon made a mental picture of a human he already decided he was going to look like. An olive-skinned man in a dark gray business suit with matching pats, a white dress shirt underneath, sleek black shoes and a green tie. The man would have graying black hair in a comb-over style, a gray circle beard, and dark hazel eyes. It was a grudging shame that he would have to resemble one of the upper-class slavers, considering they were one of the causes to his post woes. But Aeolus also knew that this form would give him status among humans and easily earn their trust more so than he would have as someone who looked like they were middle-class or lower. After all, humans tend to see the rich as the least threatening and tend to admire them more, while the poor were seen as dirty savages and beneath them. Such was the psychological and sociological snobbery of humans. With the appearance chosen, the horde leader began to rear up on two legs and turn himself into that man. His body shrunk down in size as his wings, horns and tail sunk into his body. His green scales turned into olive tan skin, hair and clothes. And his body went from quadrupedal to bipedal. After the transformation was complete, Aeolus looked at his new form to make sure that he got everything right. Already, he found a mistake; his dragon claws were on his fingers. The man imagined the fingernails and willed his claws to turn into them. With that done, he looked up at his cousin and asked, "Gneiss, how do I look?"

The green dragon crouched down to his cousin's level and eyed the man's body. He commented, "You look a little too big, like over seven feet tall. You should shrink yourself a bit."

Aeolus closed his eyes and willed his body size down by two feet. Then he reopened his eyes and asked, "Am I the right size yet?"

Gneiss paused briefly to check the height of his cousin. Then with a nod, he answered, "Yes." The horde leader looked at himself from the ground to his eye level, where he measured himself to his cousin. This was the size he needed to remember for his human form. Then Gneiss told him, "Now let's see how you walk." Aeolus took a step forward and stopped to feel his position. For a moment, it felt like he was going to fall over, but his spine's balance prevented him from doing so. Then he took another careful step forward and paused again before taking a few more. It felt awkward to be walking on two legs upright like this. But he knew that he would get used to it in time as long as he practiced. Gneiss watched him move carefully and said, "You look like a human baby taking its first steps."

"I know," said the horde leader. "I need to take it easy, so that I can understand how to move around in this form."

"Okay," the green said.

Pretty soon, the man stopped pausing every step and just walked slowly. He was beginning to get the hang of it, but still hasn't mastered it yet. As Aeolus continued to move, he moved his arms up and around to see how these limbs functioned. Then he flexed his elbows, bringing them towards himself and moving them back straight like a stick a few times. And lastly, the man started to play with his hands' functions. He moved his fingers like snakes moving their heads in erratic ways. He bent their joints and saw the fingers closing in to his palms. Then he turned his wrists around to see how far they can turn. Aeolus noticed the only way he would be able to see the back and palms of his hands were to turn them in the direction that faced his body. Now that he was finished checking out his body, the horde leader said thoughtfully, "I see how the human body functions now. But even one night won't be enough for me to learn everything. There may be a few things I haven't tried yet, but they will be discovered in time." Then the man turned back into his dragon form.

Gneiss agreed and said, "You know? I'd say you have all the time in the world to be human. But we need to wake up early tomorrow."

Aeolus agreed and replied, "That's precisely why we're making this short." Plus, he was also cautious about the former dragon lords' unexpected awakening while they were away. Even though the guards can tell Juna to telepathically talk to him if she needed something from him, the horde leader suspected that she might get suspicious and try to find out. Then he told his cousin, "Anyway Gneiss, it's your turn to try out the transformation spell."

"Okay, got it," said the green. Then he started to shrink down and changed into his human form. Gneiss was now a tan-skinned man with black hair, a mustache, shaved beard and dark brown eyes. He also wore a black shirt with a jolly roger image, a brown leather watchband, blue jeans and gray & green sneakers. The dragon-turned-man tried out his limbs with the same ineptness as his cousin. But this time, he tripped and fell over onto the desert ground. The man pushed his upper body off the ground and stood on back on his feet. He said, "Darn, this human form really is weird."

"I know," said Aeolus. The horde leader imagined the other dragons would feel this way after their first try at the spell. "Anyway, it's time for us to get back. We mustn't waste any more time out here."

Gneiss replied and asked, "Okay, but can I walk with you in this form? I could use some more practice on the way."

The horde leader thought that was a good idea. They get can used to being human on the way home. He nodded and said, "Of course, you can. I think I should do that as well." He turned back into his human form before continuing, "But when we smell our horde, we must turn back into dragons or they'll be alert the others and attack us. And we know we can't have Juna or her brother waking up to what we've been doing."

The black-shirted man nodded and agreed, "Right, that will be the last thing we need." Then the men walked together on their way back to the village. As expected, their walking improved pretty soon and it started to feel normal to them. Then upon smelling dragons, the cousins turned back to normal and proceeded into the village, where they slept in the clan medic's cave.

A few hours later, Atlas's sleep was disturbed by some loud groans she was hearing. 'What the heck?' she thought. She opened her groggy eyes, trying to get past the pain that was stinging them. Then she forced herself up and cast a light ball and kept it close to her to use as a beacon. The magi went to the tree where Axle slept and saw him tossing and turning. "Axle?" she asked in concern, believing that something was wrong with him.

The man tossed a bit more before he woke up. He rubbed his eyes a bit before he yawn. "I take it that I woke you up. Sorry," he said loud enough for her to hear.

"It's alright," said the forgiving magi. She noticed that his eyes looked more scared than sorry as his body seemed to shake a bit. Whatever he just dreamed about, it seemed to have gotten to him a lot. She asked, "Say, did you have a nightmare or something?" If he did, maybe she could help him overcome it or something with a good talking.

Axle kind of looked down from Atlas to the ground not far below. "It was more of a memory of my past. It haunts me and more likely will for the rest of my natural life." He sounded like he was scared of that past, but more hurt than anything else.

The magi replied, "Sounds like something bad must have happened back then."

The the man requested of her, "Atlas. When we get to Shadow Wind, if we do, promise me you won't get in harm's way."

Atlas paused for a bit to think. Then she said, "Well Axle, I don't know if I can keep that promise, being a fighter and all. But I'll do my best." She smiled confidently and continued, "After all, I got my teleportation to use, if things get too rough for me. Plus, I'm a great fighter, so I can handle anything those scums throw at me. So no need to worry too much about me, alright?"

Axle turned his head slightly towards her. He kind of forced a smile a bit. It seemed like he was glad she would put her safety first when they get to Shadow Wind. This little time, his smile quickly faded as he turned his head back to the ground. He still looked a bit down. Not sure what else to say, Atlas said, "Well uh, time to get back to sleep. We need that energy to travel in the morning. And try not to think too much about that nightmare, alright?" Then she laid down and went to sleep again.

After sleeping for an hour, Kathia opened her eyes when she heard a scratching sound at her door. Who or what was there? She got up and saw a rip at the tent's flap. Wondering what was the cause of this, the girl picked up a torch light and turned it on. Then she got out of her sleeping bag and poked her head out the tent. She moved the light left and right, trying to find who left a tear on her tent. There didn't seem to be anybody in sight. But then her search finally spotted something, her lantern found a 22-feet-long green anaconda nearby. Kathia shrieked in fright and dropped her lantern. The girl backed away, not taking her eyes off the snake, as she started channeling her magic energy. Then she zapped out a lightning bolt from her hand at the anaconda to try and kill it. The anaconda was hit by the spell and stopped moving. It was now still without any signs of life.

With the snake struck down, Kathia started to catch her breath and recover from the shock. But apparently, she wasn't out of the woods yet. Someone behind her spoke in a devilish tone, "Did your parents ever tell you not to damage anyone else's stuff?"

The girl quickly whipped around and to her shock, saw a very bad man she had been warned about. It was Spinx. "Ack! Where did you come from?!" she asked, badly startled as she quickly backed away from him. She nearly tripped over anaconda she had killed or so she thought. Then something started to wrap itself around her legs, squeezing just enough to keep her from moving. Kathia looked down and saw the anaconda; it was still alive. "Ack!" the girl cried out in fright.

Spinx simply had that evil grin on his face as he put his sword away and just watched for a second. He said harshly, "Scream and I will remove that pretty head of yours, girl."

Thinking the man might be more powerful than her, Kathia decided to heed his thread. She asked warily, "What do you want with me?"

The necromancer said with a grin, "Nothing with you, I was just looking for a place to sleep at for the night. After that, I will head back to the mountain and ambush my prize there. Your tent provided what I was looking for perfectly. However, there's a problem with you, little girl."

Whatever it was, the girl knew it wasn't going to be any good at all. Feeling her heart race and her body stiff with fear, she asked, "What?"

Spinx told her what she had been suspecting, "You may not know this, but either way you are going to die. Scream or not, you will still be killed no matter what, the question is how?" The man seemed to be enjoying himself as his pet wrapped around her, becoming ever so tighter that the girl started to feel pained. The necromancer in puzzlement asked himself, "Squeeze to death, simple rip to shred, eaten, burn to a crisp. So many things I could do, but what to choose?" Kathia shuddered to think about how painful and torturous a death this vile man was willing to deliver her. He finally had an idea of what to do and said, "I know. I'll use you as bait, well more of a leverage over my prize and his small band of misfits. I can't simply leave you here, nor move you among this plane, so there is only one thing I can do." Then suddenly, the anaconda started to sink underground, dragging the poor girl along with it. She let out a terrified scream as she definitely knew she was going to get suffocated or get killed in another way.

Kathia tried thinking up of some spells to save herself fast. The lightning spell? The fire spell? Or the burning touch spell? The last one seemed like the perfect thing to use. The girl shut her eyes tightly and channeled her magic energy in heat that warmed up her body until flames appeared on her. She hoped that would burn the slithering creature alive. Kathia felt the big snake uncurl itself from her, due to the flames licking at it. And strangely, she also felt her feet standing on flat ground. The girl opened her eyes and was surprised to see that she had been taken to a place where there was nothing but fog everywhere. 'Where am I?' she wondered, wary of this strange place. The fog slowly started to fade away from the view as a small, yet very peaceful piano solo was being played. Its melody was quite peaceful that it seemed to have washed away some of the girl's fear. Kathia looked around and asked, "Who's there?" She took slow steps as to avoid running into danger too soon. As the fog cleared up more and more, it slowly started to reveal a castle in the distance with a rose garden, trees and a fountain, making it almost looking like a royal palace. "What?" she asked herself. Her anxiety turned into perplexity as she wondered how and why a place like this would be under ground. She headed towards the castle to see what this place would be like. After about 10 minutes of going closer, the castle came fully into view as now people were walking around the place, almost like servants. Kathia blinked in bewilderment and surprise; what kind of place had Spinx taken her to?

A butler seemed to come from the castle and walked right up to the girl. "Good evening miss, our master has been expecting you to show. Please if you will be so kind as to follow me," he said with a bow before heading back to the castle.

"Uh okay?" said the girl. She might as well go along with him since she had no way of getting back to the surface world.

The butler went up to the door, opening it to the grand design of the inside of the castle. The main hall had just about everything to make this place look royal, maybe a bit more. Gold-trimmed walls with almost diamond-looking glass vases as well as lighting to make its warm welcoming. It had tilted floor that reflected the ceiling grand artwork as rooms fan off from it. Kathia stared in admiration at the magnificent design of the interior. Whoever lived in this castle must have been filthy rich. Then they walked up to one of the rooms, where the butler opened the door. It led to a room so massive that it almost seemed to not fit the castle at all. The girl was in wonder of its size. The soft piano song was coming from that room, almost sounding high above. There was even a crowd of not just people, but also dragons and halflings were in there as well. None of them seemed to be undead, but some did look like they were servants. "Master is inside, please be patient as he finishes his piece. He will be with you moment tartly," the butler said to her in a soothing calm voice. "I will take my leave now and go prepare your room for tonight," the butler said as he bowed to her again and walked away down the hallway.

Kathia went to look for someone, a human servant, who was not busy talking to others or doing his/her work. She avoided the dragons and halflings like the plague they are. She wasn't sure if they were slaves or not; they were probably most likely the former since Windfall declared them all to be free. She found a dark tall man who was by himself. After going to him, he looked down at her as she asked, "Excuse me, sir. But do you know who the master of this place is?"

The man pointed to the other man and said, "It's Spinx Talon, well what left of his true self."

The girl was surprised to see a completely different man, whose appearance was unlike the necromancer that sent her here. He had a crimson red type of hair with a white suit on. He wasn't the sadistic man in black that she knew him to be, but rather an elegant-looking nobleman who seemed to be peaceful. "That's Spinx?" Kathia said, staring in perplexity. It was hard to believe that it was the same person.

The soft sound of the piano seemed to come to an end as Spinx got up from his chair and turned to his audience. He bowed to them to show that he was done. This was like a signal for everyone to start leaving peacefully, except for two dragons, a black dragon and a silver dragon seemed to stay around. "Excab, do you think this is a good idea?" the silver dragon asked the black dragon.

The black replied, "We have no other choice. We lost all connection with Axle, Juna and Mekarth. I have no idea what Dracul is planning, so it might be best to ask him to help." As the audience left, Kathia stood there, waiting for the nobleman to come to her or see what he would do next.

Spinx came from the stage, after people were congratulating him on his performance. He soon made his way to the back of the room and started to talk with the two dragons that seemed to stay around. From the looks of it, it seems that they were a bit pleased at Spinx's reply to them and left with a thank you. He made his way to Kathia and said, "So, you must be the one 'he' sent here. Pity really, just to be used as bait. So judging from your face, I can guess you have questions to ask." His assumption was right; Kathia did have a few questions to ask of him. She was curious about how Spinx went from a fine fellow to a mad man. "Well if you want answers, please follow me. There is little time," the man beckoned.

"Okay, sure," the girl replied. Then she followed him over to where he was going.

They went through the main hall, which was empty, even after people just left. They headed into a dinner room where there were two servants, one male and one female. The male was a halfling and the female was human. "Please take a seat," Spinx said as he went to the other end of the table. He sat down in a chair with silver trim and had a scale like texture on it.

Kathia sat at one end of the table. The girl looked at the nobleman and figured that now was the time to ask questions. So she asked, "So anyway, about your future self. Why does he want me to be the bait? Who is he using me against?"

The good Spinx said, "Future self? No child, he and I both exist at the same time. To explain in simple tongue, we, well you, are in what is called the Temporal Plane. Think of it as a place that necromancers keep the undead at until they are summon, well he does.

Kathia was surprised as if she had just heard something very bizarre. 'I'm in the world of Spinx's undead stash?' she thought.

The man continued, "As for who he will use you against, that is really quite simple. There's a white dragon by the name of Axle Incarus, who just so happen to have an oath to protect anything that lives. Human, dragons, halflings, even the hybrids if they do not pose a threat to him or the city he comes from. Here's the problem, he wants Axle's heart to gain eternal life, which after, he would try to bring ruins to the world you live at."

'A dragon's heart makes them immortal?' the girl wondered. If that was true, then it was an amazing discovery that mankind could use for their own benefit. She could gather a group of hunters to kill a dragon and then have the big-brained researchers study the recovered heart for clues to give humans immortality. No more people dying of old age; everyone will be young adults forever.

Spinx got up from his chair and walked to the door way. "As for the reason to use you against a dragon you do not know is to use Axle's own oath against him, forcing him into a position that you would call inhuman. You see, Axle's only really reason to live, even after his own kin was slayed, is to keep to his oath that he have sworn to keep. That is the only reason he lives." He was about to leave the room before he turn to the maiden servant. "Make sure she get to her room alright, keep an eye out for the shadows," he whispered to her as she simply nodded her head. Spinx soon left afterward, leaving Kathia by herself with the maid.

The girl's thoughts went on about Axle. Even though it was a shame that he was a dragon, she admired him a bit for cherishing human life. She felt sorry that an awful man like the evil Spinx would use a dirty trick against Axle. "Hmph, I guess that's one good dragon I'm willing to spare," she said to herself grudgingly. Well just as long as he didn't interfere with her undeadening of the dragon species, he'll be alright. Then she went to the doorway and asked the maid, "So where is my room?"

The maid looked at the girl and nodded her head. "Yes, it's just up around the corner upstairs. Please follow me," the maid said as she smiled. She turned on her heels and they walked a fair pace back into the main hall soon arriving at the staircase. The maid waited a bit for Kathia to catch up before they headed up the stairs. As they walked however, the maid's head seemed to eye at the shadows as they made their way upstairs and banked around the corner. They stopped at the third door on the right and the maid opened it. The bedroom was large with a queen size bed in the right hand corner. The room also looked like it belonged to a noble person with high standards. Kathia was amazed at the grandeur of the bedroom; it felt like a room fit for a king. Then the girl noticed that there was a two people in there. One was a female in a gold dress sitting on a chair over by the door. The other looked like a kid dressed in military uniform leaning against the wall. "You room miss, um," the maid started to say.

The maid was trying to say the girl's game, so the girl answered for her, "Kathia; my name is Kathia."

The maid bowed to her. "These two will protect you for the evening, for things lurk in even the most safest of places," she said as she took her leave.

Kathia figured the maid meant that the evil Spinx would have his zombies come here to attack her, or most likely drag her out to use as a bait. The girl looked to the two figures, wanting to know who these people were before she could trust them. She went over to them and asked, "So you're my guardians, right? Who are you?"

The woman in the gold dress looked at her and said, "Yes, we are and my name is Elisabeth. I was once a great mage of unimaginable power, however I was, you could say banished here by my master. That's really all you need to know about me. Over there." She pointed to the kid leaning against the wall. He could have been no more than fourteen years old. She said, "His name is Van. I do not know much about him, just the fact he a closed off person."

Kathia turned her head to Van; she found him just standing there quietly as if he didn't want to talk. "A quiet one, huh? I guess he's not one for conversations," she said to Elisabeth. Then she looked back to the woman and said, "So the maid said there are things lurking around everywhere, right? Was she talking about Spinx's zombies coming to get me?"

"It's nothing for you to worry about tonight. Try and get some sleep, Kathia, so you are not tired in the morning," Elisabeth replied back as she walked to the door.

The girl replied, "Oh alright, fine. I just hope nothing bad happens."

"Van has first watch than I. Good night," she said as she closed the door. Van still has not moved at all.

"Good night," the girl whispered as she put on spare pajamas. Then she lifted up the covers of the bed and slept under it. She was worried about what tomorrow would be like and hoped that she survived to fulfill her conquest in the future.

Note: The part where Kathia mistook the evil Spinx for being the future version of the good Spinx, that was me not paying attention to or remembering what Draco posted on the RP. I'm sure there's more mistakes in the future due to me not having the present written in chapter form. Also, check out the DeviantArt version of this chapter to see what theme songs that Draco has picked for our characters.

Excab, Elizabeth and Van (c) Lorddraco8967