"The evil witch died ! The evil witch died ! ,she got herself trapped inside a morgue !the empire has fallen to a time of peace and secure once again! `Yelled out the overjoyed young man as he hopped around the village in wilderness .the witch died? The witches don't die .the witches are not mortals , neither they are mere immortals ! then what are they? "
The young maaya couldn't apprehend what her mother was reading out from the passage of that strange book
the morgue of the god's least favourite
,her mother would often make the young twins listen to strange stories , she especially favoured that one book in particular
Maaya didn't think much of about every other stories her mother had told her but she found this one particular book exasperating .she didn't even know why she felt like that ,maybe the book was too unrealistic
How is that possible for something to not be a mortal nor an immortal.she felt that ridiculous .
In the first place ,why did she even bothered herself to question this as it was but a mere story of no concern
She knew witches were unreal but she also knew witches existed inside the people's mind even though it was merely made up .that clarifies the fact that witches do exist. after all , everything exists because a someone believes it do .in her world things that have existence are those goes through the believing of atleast one person but she also questioned herself from time to time
Just because someone believes something is unreal ,does that make it unreal? But what terrified her most was what if everything she had believed to be real turns to be otherwise ?that fear made her hesitant about unraveling mysteries but she had no choice but to unravel,and unravel ,over and over again until she gets just that one thing she desperately wants
But at times ,she was so exhausted by her own thoughts ,she only wished for her brain to burst out flying off if that that was what was keeping her mind busy
Her mother slammed the book shut and laughed as she goes over to maaya "oh dear child,you don't have to blow off steam over your little head for something I had inconvenienced yourself to listen.
It made me happy that you always listen to my little stories" maaya could only nod as she was not much of a speaker unless really necessary
Maaya raised her head to take a glance of her mother ,the countess of solavita coffin ,' morgana sylvester solavita coffin'
The true embodiment of mystique and noble
Her burgandy eyes in a way that terrifies the one that catches it 'it traps people in it ,a hyperlong hair so blue that it's almost black with it's delicate curls cascaded down her slender frame contrasted sharply with the paleness of her still tender skin
Long slim pale fingers with it's long nails painted red ,needless to say if those nails were to dig into a person ,he would die in an instance as it is coated each time with different deadly venoms she herself extracted from the strange flowers and tiny beasts she pets ,she takes well care of them as if they are her most beloved
Maaya was to leave the duchy of solavita in the evening and departure to the southern territory valdemer of velissimer empire to find and meet a certain women .she wasn't reluctant to leave the place she has long been living neither she was excited
She packed very few things with the help of her knight viktor who nagged her all the way to the end to take more belongings instead of just taking the oil lamb , an axe and little some strange potions she took apart from two simple garments and of course a whipp to calm her fiery knight who wouldn't let her be is what she claimed to him ,he couldn't believe what he was hearing from his old ears
Viktor is a middle aged worn out knight who has been serving maaya since she was a child .he was loyal ,in fact too much loyalty for maaya to bear .maaya noticed his locks were turning gray since last year and his skin had started to wriggle . she also felt like viktor who was always so tall that her neck hurted ,was slowly getting shorter by the days but she knew it better that wasn't the case
Viktor carried her copper square suitcase with angel wings scrippled on it and some strange patterns embedded exquisitely .as the two of them were walking through the castle to the outside ,she had noticed one last time the castle of solavita ,the place she had grown up was way too majestic and Mystique for it to be real but it was as gloomy as it was beautiful ,the strikening navy corridors ,big tarnished silver coloured ornated gothic windows with stained glasses large enough for beast to break into if left opened, were seen almost throughout the castle ,strange giant statues mostly of the goddess of death and her lover elias who had betrayed her for his new found male lover and in contrast to that ,frightening eery sculptures of gargoyles as well ,on the outside snow piled up ,dried large trees with no ounce of life ,a field full of gloomy navy blue roses with sharp thorns that only grows in harsh winter ,large and majestic fountains with it's outflowed water freezed midways as if it had been untouched for decades
No one in the castle came to see her off ,one thing she was so greatfull for. Her brothers and the count was away from the duchy a the moment and her mother was too busy with tending to her strange garden ,the servants didn't for no good reason made an effort to see her off but few of them took a peep through the walls and windows in secrecy
Maaya hopped on the blue carriage that was later ridden by a horseman and with two horses with long hair,one black and the other white followed after viktor who rode on a brown horse but they had to leave the carriage and horses behind midways since ,with them it was inconvenient to travel through the ocean and cliffs ,they had to depend on taxi carriages , boats and even ships ,the journey ahead was one to be of
Long and extreme.
It was after 4 days of long journey when they decided to take a short break on the island of yellen ,both maaya and viktor wore black cloaks over their head to the bottom
It was already midnight and middle aged local folks were gossiping over the riverbank "oh my! You knew the dead jonathan !the one who always caused a ruckus after getting drunken and would beat his brother ,the only family he had!
His coffin was apparently empty! " the freckled lady whispered loudly " goodness! There's no way ,I mean who would even want that useless drunken body ?" Claimed the other lady with ugly bangs "listen ! that's not even the strangest thing ! When the villagers were on their way to bury his coffin . In place of jonathan a gorgeous pretty boy arise from the coffin !from the coffin, I tell you! And that boy smiled at the villagers ,how creepy it must have been for most of those losers to ran away frightened .he must be a ghost !" This incident somehow felt familiar to maaya. someone really exasperating to her has done this before many times and she had her doubts that It was the same person this time as well
And some time after in a tavern they decided to stay ,she heard a ruckus over downstairs which was a jointed rural pub and came down and she immediately figured out who was the mastermind that arose from the coffin as soon she saw him ,the gorgeous boy.
The boy had strikening dark blue hair with it's wolf tails cascaded down through his spine reaching it almost halfway to the back bone, all of his locks had it's ends spiked gorgeously .his pupil had the same colour as his hair which was framed by long soft eyelashes ,he wore a navyblue top with hyped patterns and it's long lantern sleeve , a black sleevless waist coat on top of it ,and a silver tie loosened messily around his neck ,black long pointed boots reaching almost upto his calf
And along with his well defined posture and not too slender but fairly enough,he was a stunning and an arrogant kind of beauty
A robust man who looked like a mercenary had lifted him in the air and had started strangling him but the boy sneered at the man .the man got angrier and throw him on the wall causing it to hit him on his back bone but the boy laughed harder .he looked like he was enjoying getting beaten up
Of course he was ,after all he was a masochist ! This fool !maaya thought to herself .he had to go around and sleep in a coffin out of all places and now he has gotten himself into a one sided fist fight and worst of all he turned out to be her twin brother
vangelis vernon solavita coffin !
Vangelis spotted her and as soon as he did ,he waved at her like a happy kid whilst getting beaten " oh mr robust man! Look ! that adorable lady is my sister ,she crossed over the mountains to pick me up , that's so lovely,right? "he pointed his hand in her direction with a ridiculous smile on his face "as if that's my business!,not even your sister can save you now brat!" The man spat out
"I ask again! That's so lovely,RIGHT?" he was smiling kindly ,even his tone was gentle but something about it was menacing and that gave a shrill to the man's body "a-as if I knew" before maaya stepped forward to intervene viktor had already rushed over and calmed the robust man claiming that his young master is a little retarded and he was getting treatment for it and that his poor little sister had come all the way here to pick up her ranaway brother and maaya awkardly nodded to every lies viktor said while vernon looked dumpfounded
But none convinced the man but he didn't no longer wanted to deal with vangelis who had confused the man in every possible ways ,so he let go of him in exchange of some little bribe
The three of them were kicked out of the tavern and they had decided to resume their journey "what was that viktor?you said your young master is retarded! and my only sister didn't even bothered to correct it ! that hurt my feelings "his pout cringed maaya
"What was i supposed to do? ,it was the most convincing way to convince that man and no one would argue that you're sane, young master! " viktor contradicted , " what ? I don't wanna hear it baaahhhh!" His silly demeanor carried on until he noticed maaya staring at him unsubtly " what's wrong ?why are you staring at me like that, like I ate your pretty precious lamp ? "
"you said baahhh! " She imitated him "goodness!you found that amusing?" He laughed but she shook her head in denial "stupid!, so retarded! " She spoke in a low pitched tone with no change in her soft facial features as she always had "what happened to that man's corpse? " She pried
"You just accused me retarded and now you're asking me questions?not fair ! " He frowned ."can you just answer the question since I have more to ask !"
"Why bother ask ? , I'll blab everything to you at the end of the day anyway !" Maaya wanted to smile there but she didn't ,she simply suppressed it.
" for the corpse , I don't know what had happened , probably someone who despise him had done something to the body
I took a quick nap because that coffin looked tempting ,you know about it, it's a hobby and as for why that man beaten me up ~ ~ "
"You asked him of something vulgur?"
"Whatever you mean vulgur ? I only asked him if I could dig his dead wife`s corpse and do a autopsy on her who had even cheated on him ,was that so wrong? And It was only for the purpose of greater knowledge ! We were even having a great chat ! Such a shame !" viktor gasped and maaya chuckled a little but she quickly pretended as if it was a mistake
"Young master !!! "Viktor cried out because he was so fed up with his young master's mischiefs "what's so wrong viktor!,my cold sister laughed ,it was after all for no nothing "
"I didn't, didn't laugh ! " she cleared her throat in awkardance "yes you definitely did! "He smirked
"Wait ! Are you following us ?" She quickly changed the subject " then what else ?of course!"
He hesitated none . Her expression was quickly shaded "what do you mean? You don't even know where iam going or for what purpose don't be ridiculous!"
"Do I have to know all those things? , I go wherever you go ! That's as simple as that !"
he paid no care to her objection.she sighs for she could do nothing against his fiery stubborness .maybe i should toss him away in the mid ocean while he's asleep ,she thought to herself
She's thinking something awfull again was what vangelis thought to himself
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By the time they reached their destination the city,schutz of valdemer territory,nine more days had passed .
The schutz city or the city of merchandise,,,,,,
The high raised rust painted victorian buildings swarmed one after another , pathways filled with busy peoples and traveller carriages ridden by horses and merchant carriages by horses and donkeys, heavy bridges above the' pride' lake, many sculptures of goddess of fortune gave them the idea that most people here worships the goddess of fortune and of course gargoyles to ward off evils but that only makes up for the facade , beside that exist eery alleyways where the discriminated resides and probably the supposed place where black market trading and crimes are ritualised and many other unspokable things
It was nothing like the place she had grewn up where it was always winter
The city was magnificent!
But even still ,
Maaya didn't expect for fortune to come her way neither she did expect for misfortunes to stay away but never she expected as soon as she came here something so awful would happen and that the misfortune would fall onto the very person she had dragged here.and above anything she didn't expect in the least that person would meet his demise
In the most gruesome way !
In Front of her very eyes !
In the mouth of that terrifying creature !!!
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