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‘I say this to you now: I love you, with no beginning, no end. I love you as you have become an extra necessary organ in my body. I love you as only a girl could love a boy. Without fear. Without expectations. Wanting nothing in return, except that you allow me to keep you here in my heart, that I may always know your strength, your eyes, and your spirit that gave me freedom and let me fly.’
Paul carried Kate into the front of her gate. Dropping her gently to her feet, he knocked on the gate which was opened by the gate man. He opened the gate when he saw who it was.
Without any further delay, they both entered the house. Jolie and the rest servants were still awake and they became surprised when they saw Paul and Kate entering the sitting room.
“Let’s call it a night, go to your quarters and make sure you lock the door securely.” Kate announced before anyone will ask her questions, Jolie and the rest servants nodded their heads and made to move when Kate voice stopped Jolie. “Jolie, don’t forget to switch on the danger alert.”
“Yes ma’am.” Jolie reply and went with the rest of the servants to their sleeping quarters.
They were left alone.
“You go to sleep ma’am.” Paul said.
“How can I sleep when my granddaughter and your father is out there with that devil, do you have any idea what he might do to them, especially Nora? We don’t even know where he took them.” Kate said as she suddenly burst into tears.
“Listen ma’am, nothing will happen to Nora and my father. I will bring them home safely.” Paul said trying to assure her.
“You are wounded already, how can you save them when you saw what they did to you. It is extremely dangerous if you face them, you can’t handle it yourself my son, I will involve the police into this.” Kate said.
“No ma’am, you will only cause more death, I will handle it my own way and for my wounds, I know how to heal it.” Paul said to her. “Go and sleep, you need some rest.”
Kate sighed sadly and nodded head. “Promise me Paul, that you will bring them back.”
“I promise you. My twin brother had gone too far.” Paul promised.
“No wonder he has your face and came here and made us believe he was you, but you know you have a twin brother, how then did he ended up like that?”
“I don’t know what really happened to him myself. When we were Young, we’ve always got each other back, then a fire accident happened… I… I tried, my father tried everything we could but we couldn’t save him, he was gone, we couldn’t find his body, I thought he was gone for good only for him to reappear years later with a vengeful heart. I don’t know what changed in him but he wasn’t like this.” Paul explained with tears in his eyes. “Please ma’am, give me Pan’s phone.”ConTEent bel0ngs to Nôv(e)lD/rama(.)Org .
“I now see why he took your father with him.” Kate said in thought as she gave Paul Pan’s phone that was with her.
“Yes, I just hope that he will hurt none of them. Your eyes are heavy with sleep, please go and rest it.”
Kate left for her room as Paul sat on the floor of the sitting room, he concentrates on the wound in his stomach.
****
Casala:
“Aww, you missed the part where you should have told her that I am equally your match.” Daisy said sweetly. “And you sending your clone which I defeated in my kingdom, shows how weak you are.”
“Mind the way you talk to me little fairy, don’t forget I still have the ancient evil book with me.” The Sluagh fairy said.
“And you think you’re the only one who has read the evil book? Well think again.” Daisy said.
“It’s never too late to know who will win Daisy.” The Sluagh fairy said.
“True, but I have been preparing myself for this for a long time, if the universe weren’t on my side, how did you think I met Lora’s twin sister? If the universe weren’t on my side, I wouldn’t have met dementia today…… nor you.” Daisy told the Sluagh fairy with a smile. “So you see why I have no fear, because I know the universe is with me.”
“Then, let’s play shall we.” The Sluagh fairy said with her own smile as she raised up a hand to the air.
“Aliese duru rýne.”
A skeleton face in the form of a smoke appeared before the evil Sluagh fairy. “Kill her.” She commanded pointing her fingers towards the tiny figure of Daisy.
The smoke skeleton face moved with speed towards Daisy who just look calmly at it.
“Gielde ic þec þissa meowles sawol… Gyden æblæce.” Daisy spoke so quietly that the evil fairy couldn’t hear her. The smoke skeleton face that was approaching her dissolve immediately before it reaches her face. “Is that all you’ve got? I thought you’re strong but this clearly shows that you are just boasting.” Daisy said taunting her.
“I am just getting started little fairy.” The Sluagh fairy said with gritted teeth and started singing slowly:
Lovely night has come to us, lovely night, soft and dark; the lovely night that ends a long and hard, weary day; so rest… Lay your body down, forget your life. Spiders of the night come, spin your silky webs. Spiders of the night come. Now, spiders of the night! Wrapped in your shroud, dead to the world. Come and infest on this ill-gotten soul that I presented to you.
All the doors and windows crashed open, wind swirling in and sending everything flying as huge black spiders begin to climb inside.
Even with such noise, Mary and James didn’t hear it.
Lora suddenly screamed out in fear as the huge spiders descended into her room seem hideous.
“Be quite Lora, they are not here to hurt you.” The Sluagh fairy told her.
Daisy shook her head and whisper some words.
The black spiders disappeared as quickly as they came.
“Didn’t I told you that you weren’t the only one who had read that book. So every of your next spells, I know how to destroy them.”
The Sluagh fairy stamped her foot impatiently. She flung something at Daisy – it looked like a small ball of mud and spat a word. The ball of mud erupted into a plethora of dark green vines and wrapped tightly around Daisy.
Oh. A tangle-vine. Of course.
Daisy’s eyes widened, then narrowed. She muttered something beneath her breath, then the vines suddenly burst into flame. In moments, there was nothing left of them but ashes.
“Be careful sister!” Dementia shouted towards her sister.
Daisy only nodded her head but couldn’t reply dementia, all her focus were on the Sluagh fairy.
Scowling, the Sluagh threw something (Dementia saw a flash of light – a bottle?) at Daisy, who flung up a handful of powder out of nowhere. The bottle turned into a butterfly and fluttered around, looking very confused. Dementia couldn’t blame it. It must be very disorienting to spend your life as an inanimate object and suddenly be given wings and a brain. Such as it was.
The Sluagh fairy and Daisy made a few more exchanges, the Sluagh fairy growing increasingly irate, Daisy seeming to relax, oddly enough.
There was a sudden flash out of the corner of her eye and Dementia turned – just in time to get hit in the chest with a spell of some kind.
Pain. Overwhelming pain.
She screamed.
“Dementia!” Daisy shrieked, staring at her as she collapsed on the floor and could not move her body, though her eyes were wide open.
“Now, I got your twin sister,” The Sluagh fairy announced triumphantly.
Even through her agony, Dementia couldn’t miss the way Daisy’s eyes flashed a vivid orange. “How dare you,” she snarled.
Showing some semblance of sense and fear for the first time in her life, the Sluagh fairy took a step backward. It wasn’t enough, not even close; only twice before had Dementia seen her twin sister this angry. The results… hadn’t been pretty.
Daisy drew a handful of something out of nowhere again, then yanked out a few strands of her hair and added them in. Last, she took out a tiny dagger and slashed her hand, allowing the blood to mingle with the other items.
“What are you-” The Sluagh fairy started to say.
Daisy cut her off. “I was going to turn you into a mouse after I am done playing with you,” she said coldly, “But this seems more… fitting.” Her words were hard as ice as she chanted them, devoid of the heat that usually infused everything she did. They made everyone recoil, and not just the Sluagh fairy.
The flames now coming out from her hair turned blood red, throbbing rather than flickering. A shadow seemed to coil around her, casting the entire room into darkness – all save for Daisy and the evil Sluagh fairy. Those two figures were illuminated with more of that twisting, sickening red. Daisy spoke the final words, flinging her wounded hand out toward the Sluagh fairy and spattering blood across the floor between them.
“May you never return,” Daisy said quietly, almost too quietly to be heard.
Black and red swirled around the Sluagh fairy, tighter and tighter, pulsing and throbbing, smaller and smaller until at last there was nothing left except for the book floating mid-air
The room returned to normal as it was before the fight.
Daisy spoke some words and the book caught fire, burning up Immediately.
Lora was shocked when she saw what happened.
“I give to you what you gave to your sister.” Daisy spoke as she pointed at Lora, she knew the girl wasn’t seeing her as Nora did.
Lora was suddenly engulfed by darkness as she couldn’t see.
Daisy went over to where Dementia was and use magic spell to pick her up and disappeared.
She felt pity for Lora and only made her go blind, it is what the universe wants, so that it would teach her a lesson.
****
Floda:
Paul opened his eyes when he couldn’t feel any pain again. He removed the bandage and smile when he saw his stomach is as good as new.
He quickly pocket Pan’s phone and brought out his own phone. He put a call across David.
“Hello Paul, is everything okay?” David asked yawning as he picked it.
“No, sorry that I woke you up by now but we were attacked, the guy who I call my friend betrayed me and stabbed me. Philly took Nora and my father away.”
“What? You shouldn’t have sent us to come here, we could have protected you and all these wouldn’t have happened.” David said in anger.
“I know, but you all safety is important to me. Tell Eric so that he can be more vigilant from now onwards.” Paul said.
“I will tell him. But where are you and grandma Kate at the moment?” David ask.
“In her house.” Paul reply.
“Isn’t that risky, won’t Philly attacked her when you’re not there.”
“No, he won’t hurt her because of Nora, but I will make sure that she’s safe. I will call you again. Send my regards to uncle and dad.” Paul said and ended the call.
He went outside and jumped over the fence with skills, making sure his body made no contact with the red line all over the fence.
He ran with inhuman speed towards where he normally keeps some of his boats for emergencies like this.
He soon arrives at Valten and ran towards his late master home.
The place was deserted when he arrived, this was where he and the rest Samurai’s all trained.
He climbed the old fence with ease and started off towards the direction where his master had taken him too.
Entering the dark secret chamber, he clapped his hands once and the candlelight came on, lightning the dark room to reveal the 10 statues of the Immortals with the drum in their middle.
His eyes went towards the old box lying beside it and heard his late master’s voice in his head as if he was there with him.
“To have control over this Sword and the ten immortal Samurai’s statues, you must hear it’s silent whispers that will beckon you to Dance With It.”