MasteroftheMidnightYard: At the end of this chapter, there will be mega-spoilers! Yaaaaaaay Spoilers!
TruDivination: Wait, what? How are you planning to pull that one off? I still have a censor button.
MasteroftheMidnightYard: But I have a spoiler button now! Watch this! *Pushes button*
"Bella chooses Edward over Jacob."
TruDivination: Why a Twilight spoiler?
MasteroftheMidnightYard: One, because if I gave a spoiler that people might actually not know, people would get mad at me. Second, it's because you are still a Team Jacob fan, even if you stopped reading the books a really long time ago, and I'm just rubbing it in your face.
TruDivination: *smashes the spoiler button with a hammer*
MasteroftheMidnightYard: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
FlyingElephants: While my older sisters are arguing over something completely pointless, I would like to thank ryvan and hetaliapasta90 for reviewing. Like we said before though, it would be nice to get some more feedback. Thank You! *Ends up getting hit in the head by the smashed spoiler button*
The Hetallious Chronicles
Chapter 5
The Madness of Duke Venomania
Come and dance inside my harem…
Year 136
For some time now, women had been reported missing in the Belzenian Empire. Almost every day, girls were disappearing without a trace in almost an instant. Many men were loosing their wives, others their sisters, or their daughters. No one knew a thing about where they were or how they disappeared. It was almost as if they vanished, or maybe simply taken…
Most of the disappearances seemed to be focused on the region of Asmodeus, a country located in a small cluster of land over the sea. The largest amount of women were taken from that area. So that was where Chun-Yan Clockworker was headed.
When she arrived, she immediately set right to work. She began to track down the families of girls who had vanished. However, no matter how hard she searched or how many people she asked, she didn't find any helpful information. According to the people she had talked too, no one had seen anyone forcibly carried off or attacked. It was as if the women were walking out by themselves.
Soon though, Chun-Yan noticed something unusual. Apparently, she was not the only person investigating the disappearances of the girls. Well, other than the law enforcement, of course. Once, she witnessed a hooded woman questioning one of the people that Chun-Yan had already talked to, asking similar questions to what she herself had already asked. This immediately caught her attention. There was something familiar to how the hooded woman bore herself. It was almost like someone Chun-Yan had known long ago…
Meanwhile
Another pretty girl came to me today, thought Duke Francis Venomania. He was reclining on his favorite chair in his basement, almost as if it was a throne. He was surrounded by dozens of girls, all happening to be scantily clad in the most revealing nightgowns.
These were the very same girls that had gone missing from the Empire. The young woman who had arrived today was now happily sitting close by, looking at Francis with love in her eyes, just like all the other girls in the room. It didn't matter to her that she wasn't one of his favorites. She loved him more than anything. Just like she was supposed to. His four favorites sat around his chair. Two at his feet, and two on either side of him, all happily adoring him.
The Duke thought back awhile. About how this paradise of a harem came to be inside his basement. Because of his outward appearance, his peers had always tormented Francis. He wasn't unappealing, but he was different from the others in his country because of his foreign ancestry. Blond hair and blue eyes were unacceptable in this community, which he was constantly reminded of. All he had wished was that one woman, even if she was as unattractive as he was, would love him. But society refused him even that simple wish.
And then one day, his parents suddenly died in a terrible accident, automatically making Francis the last remaining member of the Venomania household. He was left alone in his huge house, with no one else around. No one would approach him, after all.
While walking in the grounds of his mansion many years later, he happened across a purple flower. He picked it up, admiring its beauty. If only he could be this beautiful. He could have any woman he wanted! He could even have all the women he wanted!
As if the flower could sense his thoughts, it started to shimmer. Instantaneously, it transformed into a long sword right in his hand. It was purple, like the flower, and it was decorated with similar painted flowers at the hilt. As he held it, a strange feeling came over him. He was alone now, and he craved the warmth of humans. No, he lusted after it. It was as if the sword was telling him all this.
He also immediately knew how to receive what he wanted. He spent numerous hours trying rituals to summon the dark powers. When he was finally able to summon the demon he was seeking, he made an unholy trade with it. Francis' soul would have to be given up. In exchange, any woman whom Francis desired would immediately fall enchanted, and come one by one to his basement to be his own personal mistresses. A harem, you could call it. He laughed at the thought.
His four favorites among all of the women were the most beautiful ones there, of course. There was Torina Marlon, the young unmarried queen of the Kingdom of Marlon. The other two were Xiao Mei Greonio, a young peasant, and Nene Octo, a tailor with unusual peach colored hair.
However, there was something about Nene that not even the Duke himself had known about. Nene was not the same as she had been when she first arrived.
When Chun-Yan had discovered the whereabouts of the missing girls, she had snuck into the mansion and then used one of her trickier techniques, the "permanent body swap". Now Nene's body was hers, and Nene herself was probably wandering around in Chun-Yan's old body somewhere. It didn't matter to the sorceress. She was entertained, after all.
The fourth and most favorite of Duke Francis' was Victoria Glassred, his childhood friend. They had been very close as children. But as time passed, she made more of a fool out of him than anyone. Now she was here, practically worshipping him at his feet. He could do anything with her that he wanted. It gave him more pleasure than anything when he pulled her into a tight embrace and kissed her passionately.
In this fantasy of darkness, sexual desires, and pleasures, the Duke Francis Venomania immersed himself completely. However, Chun-Yan thought, there is poison hidden under this madness and depravity.
The next day, again, a woman knocked on the door of the large mansion. The Duke again welcomed her inside, and shut the door. Smiling sweetly at her, he embraced her, and the woman smiled.
Suddenly, there was a sharp pain in his chest and the "woman" stepped back, still smiling, and holding a poisoned tipped dagger.
Chun-Yan, looking on in interest, recognized the "woman". The "woman" was actually a man by the name of Feliks Crim. He was the secret lover of Torina Marlon.
He had been one of the people Chun-Yan had questioned for information on the disappearances. Feliks had followed the girls who made their way to the Venom mansion, as it was commonly called. After discovering his love's location, he dressed himself in youthful girl's clothing so as to get close to Francis, stab him, and free Torina from her enchantment. Of course, it wasn't that hard for him. He had taken up crossdressing quite often back in his youth.
The poison quickly spread through Duke Francis' body. He collapsed, blood pooling on the floor, slowly mixed with drops of violet.
The enchantment was finally broken, and Torina ran into Feliks' arms, sobbing in relief. All the other women quickly fled the mansion and back to their own homes, horrified at what they had been put through.
As he lay gasping futilely for breath, Francis' eyes fell upon the last woman, no, Victoria, who was walking out.
Victoria stopped and looked down on him with disgust, before turning and walking back out of the door. Wait! Francis tried to get his words out, but failed. I haven't told you yet that I actually love you…Then the light went out of the eyes of Duke Francis Venomania forever.
Chun-Yan walked over to his body and picked up the purple sword. She ran her fingers down it, admiring the beauty of something so terrible. It needed a name, she decided. Hmm," The Venom Sword" sounds nice, she thought. It was only fitting, namedafter the person it had possessed and affected. Chun-Yan nodded in thanks to Feliks, before walking out of the Venom Mansion.
As she reached town again, she noticed that many families were experiencing happy reunions with the missing girls. Shaking her head, she continued through a relatively empty part of town, so as to avoid the large crowds.
Suddenly, she felt hands around her throat, and she was yanked back and pinned to the ground. Above her was the hooded woman from before, her hands squeezing the life out of Chun-Yan, rage blazing in her eyes.
Chun-Yan blasted her backwards with her magic, than stood up over the foolish woman that dared to attack her, ready to finish her off. However, the woman's hood had been knocked off, and short black hair and angry brown eyes were revealed.
Well, this was certainly unexpected. Standing before Chun-Yan was none other than Sakura Clockworker.
"I know who you are."
Sakura spat these words out with hate, her eyes still focused clearly on Chun-Yan.
"You may have changed your body, but I still know you."
Chun-Yan's eyes narrowed. It seemed that she had not been the only one the guardian spirits had granted immortality to. Sakura clearly had not changed since the last time the two girls had met. That event had ended with Sakura greatly wounded and Chun-Yan gaining control of the kingdom.
"So. It wasn't enough for you to almost kill me and destroy our country and my brother, you also have to take away my one chance of bringing him back?"
"I don't have time for this Sakura. I have a job to fulfill, and we both know that those who are dead cannot be brought back. Now out of my way."
Chun-Yan attempted to brush past the woman. But Sakura had no intent on letting her go free. She instead lunged for the Venom Sword that Chun-Yan had attached to her hip. Chun-Yan sidestepped Sakura, and continued on. The other woman fell on the ground.
"You don't understand!"
Chun-Yan turned back and looked skeptically at Sakura.
"That's one of the sin vessels! If they're all gathered together, the ones who granted me immortality say that a utopia will be created and the dead will be happily reunited with the living, and all will have eternity in happiness! Give me the sword!"
A look of slight surprise crossed Chun-Yan's face, but she didn't reply. The sorceress turned again and walked away, leaving Sakura Clockworker in the dust.
TruDivination: Okay, I'll be the first to admit it, there were some really nasty implications in that song that didn't make it in here. It all depends on which translation you look at.
MasteroftheMidnightYard: Anyway, now that the spoiler button is unfortunately incapacitated right now…*glares at TruDivination*
TruDivination: Who, me?
MasteroftheMidnightYard: Well, anyway, it seems that there won't be any mega spoilers today. Sorry.
FlyingElephants: We do, however, have a new cast list. Here you go!
Duke Venomania: France (okay, there was no debate really on who would play this role. He was practically born to play that part!)
Victoria Glassred: England (and with France as Venomania, this was another given casting.)
Xiao Mei Greonio: Taiwan (we'll definitely be seeing her next chapter.)
Nene Octo: (just some random woman whose body Chun-Yan stole. She ends up getting pregnant from her time in the Venom Manor, and that last name of hers is important, we'll be seeing it in around twenty chapters. Nene is Fem!China's pet name, btw.)
Torina Marlon: Lithuania (here's another important last name.)
Feliks Crim: Poland (oh come on! He's a crossdresser in real life, so this part was only natural!)
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