Chapter 11: Bellas story
From the last chapter after Blitzo revealed his ok and alive leaving a new manuscript as he baited Andre to follow him to a almost hanging until Bella saved him as she walked down the hallway as Andrephelus ran to catch up with the fox "Lady Bella wait" "Please sir, I know no more than anyone else!" She said to get Andre to leave as the peacock saw she was lying "That's not true! You know something!" He said as Bella glared "I am telling you, I know nothing!" She said but calmed down "Please sir just…just dont ask, there have been to many accidents" she said however that made Andre more curious. "Accidents?" He said stopping her from going into a room as he took a breath "Please lady Bella…for all our sakes" he said as Bella studied him and looked down the hallway "Very well *Leads him into the room once in she closed the door and locked them before turning on a lamp and sat it down* it was years ago *Studies a photograph of herself as a young child with her late Wife and husband Beth and Jacko* there was a traveling fair in the city, Gypsies" she narrated
(Flashback)
It shows a young Bella who was walking through the fair with her fellow ballerinas and a nephelem who was her future wife Beth and a pumpkin headed skeletal sinner named Jacko who would be her future husband.
Bellas vo: I was studying to be a ballerina one of many as Beth studied to be a carpenter and Jacko a singer, living in the dormitories of the opera house
She, Beth and Jacko wondered through the fair as a Gypsy man beckoned them "Come come inside" he said taking them into a tent of freaks and oddities of angels imps and more all over "Come and see the devils child" he said as curious Bella, Beth and Jacko and the ballerinas walked into the tent as Bella moved ahead with Beth and Jacko following in front of a crowd with a cage seeing a young imp boy with a burlap mask on his face his skin exposed showing deep white marks, bur scars some with pusing marks showing infection as the imp was obvious Blitzo as the three couldent stop and stair pitifully at the boy as he fitted cymbals to a angel shape made of burlap as he tapped them together,
But the Gypsy man entered the cage and knocked it out his hands as he beaten up Blitzo as the crowd laughed but Bella, Beth and Jacko watching with pity and sadness at the poor imp. Once the cruel humanoid was done he lifted the burlap mask off Blitzo "This is the devils child!" He said as he forcefully lifted Blitzos head so the crowd can see as they laughed some more and tossed money into the cage as Bella and her mates watched pitifully as the man let go of Blitzos head as he pulled the mask over his head as the crowd left except for Bella, Beth and Jacko as they watched a little longer as they started to leave as well.
As the man began to gather up the money Blitzo untied a rope from the bars of the cage as Bella stopped at the entrance as she stopped her mates having a odd instinct to come back as they gasped in horror as they saw Blitzo strangling the cruel man with the rope that was laced with angelic steel as he fell over dead his throat slitted with the metal mixed into the fibers as Blitzo picked up the angel with the cymbals before he looked up and saw Bella, Beth and Jacko staring at him in shock.
Outside of the tent a gypsy screamed "Murder" as jacko quickly unlocked the cage as they fled the tent as the gypsy yelled murder as a police commander ran up asking where they ran poining at the direction where the group gone as he yelled "That way! That way.
Once Bella. Beth, Jacko and Blitzo were outside of the fair Bella quickly led him to the opera house and opened a small window and guided him in before closing it. Once inside Blitzo opened a window and climbed with agility inside the chapel before Bella, Beth and Jacko ran up to him and lead him to another part of the opera house.
(End flashback)
"We hid him from the world and its cruelties as he lost so much before he was forced into that circus" said Bella finishing her story "He has known nothing of life since then outside of this opera house, it was his playground and now his artistic domain, when my late husband Jacko before his death gave him books he devoured them, when Beth before her passing in the war taught him architecture he took it in like a prodigy, he is a genus, an architect and a designer and composer and a magician, he was…amazing a genius" she said as she pleaded to Andre to leave him alone "Andre you are playing a dangerous game, Blitzo deeply cares about Stolas and Stolas has that same look I had when I dated Beth and Jacko, maybe its best to let them be" said Bella pleasing as Andre wasnt gonna lose against a imp "I am sorry lady Bella, but I cant stop, its clear that Genius has turned to madness" he said as even with the story he will not lose against this imp…not now not ever
Authors note: poor Blitzo but even with the tale told Andre wont stop until Stolas is his and Blitzo is stopped even with Bellas warning to let Blitzo and Stolas be
Next chapter emotionally stressed about all that has happened Stolas goes to the grave of his late father wishing he was with him again and deeply wishes he can truely tell his feelings to Blitzo and apologize for Andres advances as Andre forms a plan to bait Blitzo out to put a end to his regin.
