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Mackenzie stood there with a million thoughts running through her mind. How could Elijah have known that Celeste was there? She almost felt sick to her stomach, what was her and Elijah's 'discussion' going to be about. She knew that one of the rules of the vampire territory was, 'No werewolves allowed' and she just broke that rule, well, it wouldn't be the first time she broke the rule, but this time she got caught!
She sighed to herself, it was no use getting herself worked up, she dug her own grave and now she would have to lay in it. The only thing she could do now was get herself some points by not getting into anymore trouble for the rest of the night, while Elijah was gone.
She went over to her cracked mirror and looked at herself with a grimace, she looked a messed. Her clothes were shredded thanks to Celeste new claws and she had a few scratches and bite marks on her skin that were already healing, looking at her hair she could see it was all over the place, half of the reason being because she was 'asleep' not to long ago.
Taking off her clothes and throwing them carelessly on the floor she walked over to her wardrobe; she opened it to see mostly modern clothing that she adored so much but Elijah found to be distasteful. She pulled out the nicest clothes she had, which was a black knee high skirt with a white blouse and black flats. Elijah bought it for her, he said it made her look more like a lady. She looked at them with distaste but took them out of the wardrobe, put the clothes on, and went to the mirror.
'Ugh, I look like a fool.' She thought. 'But desperate times call for desperate measures, and this is definately a desperate time.' She wanted to be on Elijah good side as much as she possibly could by the time he came back.
Going over to her vanity she started to brush the tangles out of her hair, she grimace in pain as she fought to make her hair look decent. Elijah told her that her hair looked like a rat's nest sometimes. After a ten minute battle with her hair she finally was satisfy with it, and now it was time for her room.
Standing up with confidence she looked around her room only for her mouth to drop open in surprise. Her room was a wreck, it kinda looked like a mini apocalypse just ripped through her room without any mercy! There was broken glass on the floor, clothes thrown everywhere, and even some make up smudging the walls, including her water proof eyeliner. She knew she wouldn't be able to clean this herself, at least not by hand! But that's when it hit her, she wouldn't have to clean it up by hand. If she remembered correctly, Elijah had told her there was a spell for anything and everything, at least just about, and if that were true, that meant there was definitely was a spell for cleaning, at least she hoped so anyway.
With a mischievous grin on her face she left out her room and stepped out into the castles halls. The castle was huge, and since she hasn't been a fledgling to Elijah for too long it served as a maze to her. Elijah, seeing this decided to summon up guide fairies to help her through the castle, and they've been nothing but annoying to her, but also served immense help, so she never complained too much.
She called out for one, and to her annoyance the one that annoyed her the most answered her call.
She looked at it with narrowed eyes, but it only gave a smile in return.
"Do you require service, lady Mackenzie?" It said in a tiny, squeaky voice.
Sighing to herself she knew she had no other choice since this one was already here.
"Yes, I do, I need to get to the library. But I'm warning you, no funny business!"
The fairy only smile wider at this comment.
"Fairies honor." It said with it's left hand held up. "This way, lady Mackenzie."
Mackenzie gave a nod and followed as the fairy started to fly in the direction of the library. At first it was going well, and the fairy kept at a steady pace for Mackenzie to follow. But as time went on the fairy started to speed up it's pace. Thinking nothing of it Mackenzie just sped up her pace a bit. Again, the fairy sped up it's pace, and again Mackenzie sped up her pace; this time having to sprint to keep up. This went on for another several minutes until finally Mackenzie had to run at vampire speed just to keep up with the fairy.
"Slow down!" Mackenzie yelled at it, but this only caused the fairy to speed up even more.
"Damn you." She cursed at it, now putting all her speed at maximum.
Mackenzie didn't know how long she could keep this up, even as a vampire she was starting to get tired, she saw a painting on a wall that she could have sworn she had seen about three times already, and with that she came to a complete stop.
"What the hell! You're sending me in complete circles?!" She yelled at the fairy.
The fairy stopped and turned towards her with a huge smirk on it's face.
"Maybe." It said and burst into laughter at it shenanigans.
Running towards the fairy Mackenzie try to catch it in-between her hands but it kept dodging out of the way.
"You can't catch me!" It kept repeating everytime she missed.
Mackenzie looked angrily at the fairy before coming up with an idea. Smiling to herself she pretended to look like had given up.
"Fine, I guess I'll have to find the library myself, I just hope I don't get lost in the castle since it's so big, Elijah would be so angry if he found out that you weren't doing your job and I ended up getting lost." She said while turning her back to the fairy and started walking in the other direction.
The fairy stopped it's laughter when it heard this and quickly flew over in front of Mackenzie's face.
"No, you can't go alone! I help!" It said in a panic toned.
Mackenzie gave a smile at this and mentally thought 'gotcha'. "Well if you insist, that's only if you don't play anymore tricks."
The fairy nod it's head quickly. "Follow me, I take you to library."
Mackenzie followed and sooner than she thought they both reached the destination.
The fairy smiled at Mackenzie. "Is lady Mackenzie satisfy?"
Mackenzie stared at the huge opened double doors that lead into the library. "Yeah, I'm satisfy, you can leave now." She said with a dismissive wave of her hand and started walking into the huge library. Although Mackenzie herself wasn't too big on reading, she always seem to find the library more fascinating than any other room in the castle. There were so many books that were hundreds of years old and based off of so many genres, that it would sometimes make her feel overwhelm.
But her most favorite thing about the library would have to be the magic section, it was one of the biggest sections in there, she was always interested in magic. When Elijah would start to talk about magic she listen very closely to the things he would say, but he would only talk about it in short brief conversations. He didn't want her to get to interested in it. There was one time when Mackenzie ask if they could practice some spells for the day but Elijah quickly said 'no' and instead told her she should practice more on her violin. When questioned on why he refused he simply sighed and told her that he basically didn't trust her yet to learn magic, Mackenzie was hurt by his blatant honesty and a few drops of tears started slipping out of her eyes, this in turn made Elijah feel horrible for saying such a harsh thing to her and in return he promised to teach her a couple of simple spells.
The first spell was a levitation spell, in which she was able to levitate small objects, the second one was a invisiblity spell, at first, when Elijah told Mackenzie she would learn the invisibility spell she was very excited for the power because she knew she could use it to her advantage, but then Elijah also told her that she was only going to learn the basics of invisibility. Which meant she would only be able to be invisible for about ten seconds and it drain her energy greatly so she could only use it about every twelve hours or so, in the end Mackenzie found both powers to be, well, pretty useless, but she wasn't going to tell Elijah that. Not unless she wanted to be scold on the importance of learning the basics of magic before learning more complicated spells.
Mackenzie walked over towards the magic section and just looked around in wonder, there were so many books, but the book she was looking for was behind a locked door in the back of the library, also known as books that were off limits. Of course with every huge library there are parts of it which is off limits to others, but Mackenzie figured that it was pretty unnecessary for the book she needed to be off limits, all she needed was a simple cleaning spell, right? No big deal, and she would have the book back in it's rightful place before Elijah got back, he wouldn't even notice.
As she reached the door she felt a dark aurora come over her, it sent chills down her spine. She looked at the door for a minute trying to think of the spell Elijah had used to get in the room before. She remember him using a spell to get in the while she hid behind a huge stack of books one time so she can see how he would get into the room. Could it be called spying? Not to Mackenzie, she thought of it more as...observing, at least that was her excuse if she got caught.
"Come on Mackenzie, what was the spell, you know this!" She said to herself. Thinking for another minute, she finally said the spell that she thought she had heard Elijah say.
"Aperi secreta ad me?"
At first the door did not budge, and Mackenzie gave a sad sigh and was getting ready to leave, but then the door started to creek open and she gave a excited grin.
Slowly walking into the room she could see hundreds of candles that were lit up and illuminated the whole room. The room was large, not as large as the library itself, but still quite easy to walk around in. There were a lot of shelves with many books on them all categorized in alphabetical order, and when she looked above her she saw books flying around the room. It amazed her to no end. Why would Elijah hide this from her?
"Master is that you?" A voice from behind a book shelf asked.
Mackenzie panic when she heard the voice, and quickly try to hide behind a tall stack of books. Peeking out a little she saw a short creature come from behind the shelf, she looked at it a bit closely before recognizing it as a troll, and gave a sigh of relief. It was a good thing Elijah made her study other magical creatures or she would have been horrify at the creatures outside of the castle. When she was a human she was lead to believe that a lot of the creatures she now know today were just myth and most of them were evil and ugly, but when she was turned into a vampire by Elijah one of the first things he did was give her a book on what she thought were fairytale creatures, but quickly realized that they were very much real.
With all the thinking she was doing, she didn't notice the troll standing beside the stack of books she was hiding behind. He stared at her a bit curiously for a minute, it was his first time ever seeing another person other then his master Elijah being in this room. Finally he spoke up.
"Is there something I could help you with, miss?"
Mackenzie frozed when she heard the voice beside her, and looked at the troll from the corners of her eyes.
"There's nothing to be afraid of, dear." The troll said while cleaning off his glasses with a piece of clothe and pushing them back on his face. "You must be master Elijah current fledgling, yes?"
Mackenzie stood frozen for another minute before starting to relax and turning directly towards the troll. "Um, y-yea, are you going to tell Elijah I was in here?" She asked hoping the answer was 'no'.
The troll narrowed it's eyes and looked at her suspiciously. "Why would I? Master Elijah doesn't just send others down here unless they were specifically told to come here, how else would you know the spell to get in this room?" He question.
Mackenzie begin to panic and quickly search for something to say before finally relying on lying.
"U-uh, yes! Elijah did send me down here, he said that I was ready to learn more complicated spells, and he gave me the spell so I could get into this room."
The troll looked at her still a bit suspicious. "I see, you must have been a fast learner, I wouldn't expect a fledgling here in the first place."
"Yeah, Elijah said I learned quickly and told me that I needed more complicated spells to do." She lied.
"I see, what kind of book of spells would you like to practice learning then?"
She took this chance and answer without hesitation. "A book on cleaning spells!"
"Cleaning spells?" Well that isn't a book I would think Elijah would have you on, but if he insist, then I will oblige. As the troll said this a large green book flew swiftly towards his hands and he pushed the book towards Mackenzie for her to take. "This should do it, any and every possible cleaning spell imaginable, from how to get ink off your clothes; to how to get centaur liver off your walls."
'Centaur liver?' Mackenzie thought to herself and took the book in her hands. When she did this she notice how light the book felt compare to how it look, if anything the book was no heavier than a sandwich, which she could really go for right about now, her stomach felt pretty empty.
"Um, thanks, I'll have the book return in no time."
"No, no, take your time, there is no rush to bring it back." The troll insisted.
She was happy to hear that the troll was in no hurry to have the book back but she knew that she was, she would have to get the book back to this room before Elijah returned, and hopefully that wouldn't be for another few hours.
"Great, thanks again. Oh, and also whats your name?"
"Milburn, I'm basically like a personal library for this room." He declared with pride.
With a smiled she respond with her name. "Oh, my name is Mackenzie, nice meeting you."
"Quite, like I said before take you time with the book, I'm in no rush to have it back, it hasn't been used in a good while." Milburn responded, reassuringly.
Mackenzie smiled and with that stepped out of the room, as soon as she did the door to the room quickly shut with a bit of dust picking up from it. She cough a little from the dust. 'Wow, that room might need this book more than I do.' She thought.
Getting back to her room she saw that nothing had changed in her room, not that she thought it would. She walked over to her bed and placed the book on it and started flipping through the pages, she would need the broken glass to be picked up, her clothes to be put back where they belong, her make up cleaned off her walls, and just about a little of everything else. As she flipped through the pages she couldn't find exactly what she was looking for and in a sudden frustration, she closed the book and threw it across the room.
Realizing what she had done, she quickly got up and ran towards the book hoping there were no damages to it. Reaching over to grab the book, she quickly pulled her hands back when she saw a green little wisp come from out of the book and started turning through the pages itself. It turn from the front pages to the back before finally settling on a certain page, and suddenly disappearing into the book again. Waiting just for a moment to make sure the wisp was gone Mackenzie slowly reached to pick up the book again and looked at the page that it was opened to. Her mouth widen into a smile at the page; she finally found what she was looking for. It was a golem cleaning spell, basically she can summon a golem to do the cleaning for her, and it would finish way faster than she could possibly hope to.
She read the words to the spell very carefully, making sure she pronounced every word right. Since most of the spells were written in a elder language she had to be careful not to mess up or trip over any of the words.
When she completed the spell it was eerily quiet at first, as she held the book it started to feel more heavier, as if it was converting into it's true weight. Not being able to hold on to the heavy book anymore she dropped it to the floor, and as it laid on the floor the pages of the book started turning again, and the green wisp came back out of the book. As Mackenzie looked on she saw that the wisp was growing bigger, and she backed away from it until she hit the wall. When the wisp stopped growing, it didn't look much like a wisp anymore, it had more of a ghostly body, it had arms and hands but no legs, and where it's head was supposed to be were two black holes and a mouth but no nose. The only thing that still looked the same about it was it's green coloring. Mackenzie was terrify by it, thinking that she had said the spell wrong and now this thing was going to kill her.
The now huge wisp stared at her with no emotion on it's face, as if it were waiting for a command. Mackenzie just stood there with her back still pinned to the wall and a frighten look on her face. After a few minutes of this, Mackenzie was starting to calm herself, seeing that the wisp had no intentions of doing her harm. With a meek voice she whispered a 'hello?' to the wisp.
Hearing Mackenzie talk made the wisp eyes glow yellow, and finally it spoke.
"I am the cleaning golem you called for, correct?" It said in mixture of a ghostly and robotic voice.
Surprised when the golem spoke it took Mackenzie a minute to respond back.
"Y-yes, y-you're the golem?"
"Correct, I'm here to clean the areas you direct." The golem said.
Unpinning herself from the wall, Mackenzie smiled happily at the golem, not only because she was going to get her room clean without her having to do it, but also because she didn't say the spell wrong and wouldn't get killed for it. If she remembered correctly, and she did, Elijah told her that one slip up from a spell could cost her, her life. But seeing that this was her first golem spell she didn't think she did too bad.
'Pretty good for a first, huh Elijah?' She thought to herself as she admire the golem.
"The orders I direct, huh? Well I want you to clean this whole room, I want it spotless."
"As you wish mistress." It bowed.
'Mistress? I should start doing golem spells more often when Elijah is away!' She had never felt so powerful and in control.
She watched in delight as the golem started picking up the clothes scattered around the room and folding them. As she watched her stomach had that empty feeling again, a glass of blood and a sandwich would do wonders for her at the moment, and since the golem seemed like it had everything under control, leaving it for a half hour or so wouldn't do harm.
"I think I'll go get something to eat, um...you want anything?" She asked not sure if it ate at all, but Elijah always said be nice to guest, or in this case golems.
"Negative, no subsistence required." It responded back.
"Of course." Mackenzie said to herself as she left her room to go to the kitchen. Vampires of course didn't need to eat to survive, but it did help fill the emptiness in ones stomach, and of course since Mackenzie hasn't been a vampire for long she still felt the need to eat at least once a week even though Elijah told her she would be just fine without food. Nonetheless he always bought bread, meat, and cheese for her just to help her cope.
After another 40 minutes of having to deal with the same annoying guide fairy, Mackenzie finally had her sandwhich and glass of blood, and was being excorted back to her room by the fairy. She dismissed it with a angry look but overall she was content after her snack. Opening the door to her room and looking in she couldn't believe what she saw. The room was...spotless.
She could see her reflection on the floor better than in her mirror, and her walls looked like they had been repainted. The only problem was, her furniture to her room was, missing? Her bed, her vanity, her full sized mirror, and her wardrobe were all missing! She saw the golem coming from the balcony back into the room.
"What the hell, where is all my stuff?!" Mackenzie shouted at the golem.
If she didn't know any better she could have sworn the golem actually coward a little in fear at her voice, before finally responding.
"I made the room spotless, as you ordered. I threw them out through the balcony."
This only made Mackenzie angrier. "Spotless?! Yes, spotless, that also meant the furniture in the room!"
The golem only looked at her with no emotion. "I was ordered to make the room spotless." It said again.
Mackenzie felt like her head was going to pop off her shoulders with all her frustration. "You idiot, I wanted my room spotless not empty! Why did you throw my stuff out?!"
"I was ordered to make the room spotless, not the furniture in said room." The golem repeated.
"Go get my stuff back!" She yelled.
"Negative, the furniture was messy, bed unmade, mirror with finger smudges, and wardrobe with wrinkle and unfolded clothes inside."
"I expected you to clean those things, you fucking idiot!" Mackenzie couldn't help it, her habit of cursing was resurfacing and she was so angry she almost wanted to cry.
"My job is complete, if you are ready to dismiss me, please do so." The golem said still with no emotion.
"No! Not until you put my stuff back in my room where it belongs!" Mackenzie yelled .
"That is a negative, I only clean."
"Fine! Get back in the damn book!"
"Is that you last and only command?" The golem ask.
"Yes, get out of my sight!"
"As you wish." And just like that the golem quickly turned back into a small green wisp and disappeared back into the book.
Shutting the book hard Mackenzie picked it up and rushed to get it back to the library. She knew that it would be nearly impossible to get her furniture back up to her room before Elijah arrived. She didn't know her way around the castle too well so she wouldn't be able to bring it all back to her room with out those annoying fairies, and even with her vampire strength she would struggle to pick the furniture up and get it into her room. It wasn't nearly impossible, it was impossible.
'Unless I use a moving spell? Ugh, what are you saying Mackenzie, spells are what got you in this problem in the first place! I can just get Milburn to help me.' She thought to herself as she raced down the halls turning left and right.
'Am I even going the right way?' She didn't know, she didn't wait on a guide fairy to escort her there, she was just getting there by pure memory. Seeing the familiar painting on the wall she knew she was going the right way.
Arriving at the library she headed straight for the back section and practically pounded on the door, not even bothering using the spell to open it.
"Milburn! Milburn let me in, I need your help!" She yelled while banging on the door.
No answer.
She try to think of the spell to open the door but she was panicking to much to remember.
'Calm down Mackenzie, just breathe.' She took her own advice, and looked through her memory for the spell.
"Aperi- Aperi secreta ad me?" She said.
The door opened, and she gave a sigh of relief.
Walking into the room she saw that all the candles were out, and she could barely see anything.
"Milburn?" She called out. "I'm here to return the book."
No answer.
She was creeped out by the eerie silence in the room, everything wasn't as lively as before, and she didn't know where Milburn went. She wanted to place the book down and just leave, but she needed Milburn help to get her stuff back to her room.
"Milburn, I really need help, I summoned a spell for a golem and he threw all my furniture in my room outside through the balcony, and I won't be able to get it back on my own."
"Is that so?" A voice from behind her questioned.
She closed her eyes, that voice, it was too familiar. Did she dare turn?
"Look at me when I'm speaking to you Mackenzie." The voice said.
Slowly turning towards the voice in the door way, she saw the last person she wanted to see.
"Hi, sire."
TBC
Here it is Chap. 3. Sorry for the wait I honestly wrote this story in ten different ways before finally going for this.
Now we can all see why Elijah doesn't trust Mackenzie with magic too much.
Hope you enjoyed, please read and review. ^^