Liquid Gold

Summary: ✨ Nina gets a taste of power ✨

Evie's Notes: Happy Wednesday! I hope you all are having a wonderful week. Thank you so much your support of this story, it truly means the world to me 💜! I hope that you all enjoy the this new update 🌺.


Nina carefully took stock of the elixir ingredients the group had collected so far. The Sibunas had successfully gathered the eucalyptus leaves, vanilla sticks, salt crystals, ylang ylang petals, water, cannabis, and sandalwood they needed. They were still struggling to get their hands on the necessary cyperus root, crushed wintergreen, python venom and eagle eyes. Luckily, Nina, now equipped with her ghost repellent tattoo, was about to gather another ingredient towards the elixir.

Sneaking into the school after hours was old hat to the Sibuna Club at this point. Placing Alfie as their look out, Nina and Fabian quickly set to work breaking open the case that housed the Frobisher shield. The pair replaced the glittering purple gem with the fake Jasper had used so many months ago, and returned home unaware of the icy blue eyes that watched their movements.

* Scent of Lavender * Scent of Lavender *

Placing the gem in the mask's third eye, Nina watched in awe as the mask shimmered and sparkled with new life.

"Are you sure about this?" Fabian asked worriedly.

"It'll be fine Fabian. Just be ready to catch the tears" ordered Nina.

Right on cue, Amneris popped into the room with a bewildered look on her ghostly face. "What exactly are you doing chosen one?"

"Gathering elixir ingredients. You need the Gift of Anubis, but there isn't any currently made" explained Nina.

"You are gathering what?!" snapped an angry voice as the door burst open to reveal a furious Liliana and Jerome.

"Have you guys even heard of knocking?" replied Nina in a bored tone. She had much more important things to do than explain herself to her housemates.

"I can't believe you are trying to rebuild the elixir! How could you be so foolish!" ranted Lili, only to freeze in shock as she registered just who was in the room with Nina and Fabian. "Amneris meet Liliana and Jerome, guys meet Nina's ancestor Amneris" introduced Fabian.

"Look if you are going to conjure random demons and ghosts from the great beyond, that's just fine. It's your choice" Jerome assured Nina. "Just wait for us to leave the bloody room first before you continue. We'll talk more about this later". Snagging Liliana's wrist, Jerome tugged his shocked girlfriend back into the hallway and slammed the door.

Nina let out a snort of laughter at the boy's distaste for anything supernatural. Turning back to the task at hand, Nina raised the mask to her face and felt a surge of strength and satisfaction run through her as the magic of her bloodline hummed to life around her. Fabian carefully collected the liquid gold in the three little bottles the pair had assembled prior to the ceremony.

"Alright that's enough" echoed Fabian's voice, but Nina could barely hear him as her mind and body sang with power. "Come on Neens, it's time to take off the mask".

"Just a few more minutes," she protested. Nina wanted to stay in this glorious power forever.

"No. No more. Take it off, or I will" ordered Fabian, but Nina could pick up the worried undertone to his voice. It was that worry that had her reluctantly agreeing to take off the mask. As soon as the cool gold separated from her skin Nina felt the power abandon her. She immediately felt herself missing the strength that it had provided her for those few moments and felt a deep, aching need to feel that way again.

"I am glad to see that you are progressing in your quest. I will return to assess your progress at a later date" declared Amneris before winking out of sight in a bright burst of light, leaving behind only the scent of lavender in her wake.

Fabian removed the gem from its resting place, reverting the mask to its dull and powerless form. "You look exhausted. Why don't you get some rest while I return the gem? We can rebury the mask later," suggested Fabian. Now that her boyfriend had mentioned it, Nina realized that she really was exhausted, an almost bone-deep tiredness had taken over her after using the mask. Nodding in agreement, Nina moved to get ready for bed while Fabian headed back out into the dark Frobisher grounds.

* Scent of Lavender * Scent of Lavender *

"Did the book of life mention us needing any specific type of snake venom?" whispered Alfie, hoping that Miss Denby wouldn't overhear him.

"Not that I saw" whispered back Amber, "Why?".

"I was doing some research online and there is obviously a large variety in pricing and availability. I figure that if the book doesn't specify we should just get the cheapest venomous snake and move on. I found a website selling snakes that seems to be within our price point".

"Send it in the group chat, Nina and Fabian can sign off on it after class" agreed Amber.

"I think we should name the snake Mr. Bites a lot," suggested Alfie.

"No way!" hissed back Amber, scandalized at the suggestion. "Obviously we should name it Beatrice"

"Ugh, no. How about Peter"

"Peter the snake? Hard veto"

"Well whatever we name him it will be better than the awful mythological name Fabian and Nina will try to saddle him with" pointed out Alfie.

"Definitely," laughed Amber. Unfortunately their conversation had caught the attention of Miss Denby so the pair quickly shut up and focused on the lesson, after all they couldn't name their new snake if they were stuck in detention.

* Scent of Lavender * Scent of Lavender *

The atmosphere in Marita's was rather tense Friday afternoon. The Sibuna Club, along with Jerome and Liliana, had squeezed into the round booth in the back of the coffee shop for the long needed talk.

"So…" began Patricia awkwardly as she nervously shredded the paper napkin in her hands.

"So" repeated Jerome cooly, arching his right eyebrow in an unamused fashion. "You have another mystery on your hands".

"We wanted to tell you buddy, but we couldn't" begged Alfie, not wanting his friends to be upset at them once again leaving them out.

"And let me guess, Nina said no," sighed Lili frustratedly.

"I was trying to protect you two!" snapped the leader angrily. "This is dangerous business and you guys are just going to get hurt".

"We are more likely to get hurt on accident, by not knowing what's going on, so you might as well just fill us in," replied Jerome.

Nina and Fabian traded silent looks as they debated whether or not to fill in the pair. Truly though the choice had already been taken from them. Amneris had already met the pair so Lili and Jerome were involved whether Nina liked it or not… she was going to need more tattoo ink.

"Alright, so here's what is happening" began Nina as she settled in to catch up the two remaining Sibuna members.


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