The group separated. Skara and Boscha headed to Hexside. Luz and her friends headed to the Skull. The most important group, Eda, Lilith, and the Coven Heads, headed to the ceremony.
"Okay, we know the plan, right?" Eda asked the Coven Heads, "Lilith and I will go in and try and kidnap one of you, stopping the draining spell from happening and saving everyone."
"And when they try to fight back, we'll attack and keep them busy while you get away with the prisoner." Darius said as Eberwolf rode on his shoulder, nodding.
"Remember, we only have one shot." Raine said, "Everything needs to go according to plan."
Everyone nodded to Raine as they continued on their way to the ceremony site. In the Skull, Belos held King by the scruff of his neck, while holding a syringe fill with blood in the other.
"To think, the very life essence of the realm contained in such an unsuspected source." Belos said, looking at the blood before looking at King. "Finding out that you were in the hands of the owl lady this entire time, it has brought me more joy than you could possibly believe."
"I am so much closer to victory than you could ever imagine."
"Yay! Now you have Titan's Blood!" Collector said, "Now you can free me!"
Belos closed his eyes and smirked.
"I'm afraid that's not possible."
This seemed to surprised the Collector AND King as they looked at Belos in surprise.
"Um, I'm sorry?" The Collector asked, confused.
"Yeah, aren't you two like partners or something? Friends?" King asked Belos.
"Friends? Please, he's just another pawn." Belos said, "In fact."
Belos took his cloak off and wrapped the Collectors disk in it.
"He's served his purpose." Belos said, before dropping the disk off the edge.
"You liar!" Collector shouted as he fell into the pit of darkness.
"Holy crap!" King shouted in shock, looking towards Belos. "You really are a monster!"
"Now that's just the pot calling the kettle black." Belos said, moving away from the edge.
Belos went over to the portal and filled a funnel with King's Blood.
'It's almost time to go home.' Belos thought as his portal began to activate
He lifted King.
"Now... I can't let anyone know about this, not that anyone will be around to know about it." Belos said, walking to the edge, "I wonder if you're one of the Titan's that are capable of flight."
Belos held King over the edge and let him go.
"Aaaaaaaaah!" King screamed as he fell into the abyss.
Belos smiled.
"I suppose I should get changed." He said, "After all, I don't think Emperor Belos will do well in the Human Realm."
At the ceremony, Darius, Eberwolf, and Raine were getting ready to go meet up with the other Coven Heads. Raine looked at Eda and Lilith, who were putting masks on.
"Alright, let's get this over with." Eda said as she and Lilith were disguised as scouts.
"Remember, on the signal." Raine said.
Lilith and Eda nodded to them as Raine, Darius, and Eberwolf walked up the steps and got into their spots.
"We were wondering when you three would show up." Adrian, the illusionist coven head, said as he crossed his arms.
"Well, unlike you, we had some important business outside of making shapes and colors." Darius said to him.
"Ehehehehehe." Eberwolf laughed.
"Say something about illusions again and I'll put you in an endless nightmare." Adrian said with a glare to Darius.
"Please, just knowing you is enough of a nightmare." Darius said.
"Oh boys, there's no need to fight. By the end of this, everything will be fine for all of us." Terra, head of the plant coven, said with a smile.
She always enjoyed conflict.
"I agree with Terra." Raine said, "Let's just wait for the Day of Unity to begin."
'And the plan begins as well.' Raine thought.
"Agreed. The sooner this is over with, the sooner we can leave." A hissing, hoarse voice said.
This came from Vitimir, head of the potion coven. Raine looked at the moon, getting ready to pass the sun.
'Less than a minute.' Raine thought.
Raine snapped Their fingers, letting Eda and Lilith know that it was time.
"Show time. Who do we take?" Eda whispered to her sister.
"Adrian. He's the weakest, relies on an enhancement tool, and only casts illusions." Lilith replied.
"Okay, give me some smoke and cover me." Eda said, heading towards the Coven Heads.
Lilith made a spell circle and the Coven Head area was covered in smoke.
"Huh? Smoke?" Mason, head of the construction coven, asked.
"What's going on?" Adrian asked.
Right as he said that, Adrian felt something get put in his mouth and tied around his head.
"Nighty Nighty, pretty boy." Eda whispered.
'What the-' he thought before suddenly feeling weak, his eyelids growing heavy.
'Okay, step one complete-'
Eda's thought was cut off when her arm was grabbed. She looked up as the smoke was cleared by Osran, the Oracle Coven head. Eda looked up and saw the Healing Coven Head, Hettie.
"Well, what do we have here, scout?" Hettie asked.
'Oh shit' Eda thought before Hettie and Osran were hit by white lightning!
"Come on!" Lilith shouted, appearing in front of Eda with her staff out.
"On it!" Eda said.
"I don't think so!"
Hettie pulled her back, making her let go of Adrian. Lilith moved to help, while Raine looked at Darius, begging him to do something. He morphed with his Abominations and forming a blade.
'I have to make it look like I'm with the heads.'
"Surrender Traitor!" He said.
Lilith looked behind her and moved out of the way, unfortunately, Eda wasn't so lucky. Eda felt immense pain and looked down, seeing her arm was accidentally cut off by Darius, right below the elbow, only millimeters away from her elbow. Eda fell to her knees and screamed in pain.
'Eda!' Raine and Lilith thought in shock and horror.
"Don't worry, it's a clean cut." Hettie said, "If treated within a few hours, you won't get an infection."
Hettie got Adrian back up and slapped him awake.
"Huh? What happened? Where am I?" Adrian asked, looking around.
"Just get back into place." Hettie said.
She pushed him back into his spot as Darius and Eberwolf "tackled" Eda and Lilith to the ground.
"We need a new plan!" Lilith whispered to Darius.
"I have one in mind but trust me." Darius quickly whispered back.
"Do it."
Darius nodded as he pulled Lilith up and began wrestling with her, moving around the circle and knocking Raine to the ground!
"Hey!" Raine said.
"Don't just sit there, you bard! Use an instrument!" Darius shouted, winking at Raine to show this was all part of the plan.
Raine pulled out an instrument, but it didn't do much, as Terra was getting tired of this and summoned vines and wrapped Eda and Lilith up, as well as get everyone into place, right as the eclipse started.
"No!" Eda and Lilith shouted.
"Rah!" Eberwolf screeched in a panic.
"We're too late!" Darius said, looking at his coven mark.
The draining spell began, and the Coven Heads seemed happy… until their sigils began to burn.
"What's going on?!" Vitmar asked, holding his arm in pain.
"This isn't a reward, it's a death sentence!" Darius shouted, as magic began pulling out of his sigil and going into the sky. "And our sigils are the guillotines!"
Veins started to spread up their arms, causing the Coven Heads, as well as anyone with a Sigil to fall to the ground.
"B-But Belos said-" Terra said, in confusion.
"He lied to all of us! He never wanted to help us or promote the "will of the Titan." He just wanted to kill all of us." Raine said, giving the hard truth to Terra. "And he needed all nine of us to be here to do it."
And with that... the coven heads fell unconscious, passing out from the pain. Eda dragged herself over, leaving a trail of blood from her arm. She pulled Raine onto her lap.
"Raine... wake up." Eda said, "Please... don't leave me."
She held them close and began crying, praying….begging that someone can stop this.
'Luz, please hurry.' Eda thought.
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