When Lady Edith stepped out from the house, Belle noticed how the woman didn’t move. She wondered if something was wrong and stared at her, “Is there something wrong?”“Nothing,” Lady Edith quickly brushed off. She gulped hard enough for a loud gulp to be heard by everyone including Belle. She also noticed how her teacher’s hand was slightly trembling as she clenched her hands together. They walked away as Lady Edith posed a strong figure as she left her house, making sure she didn’t appear shaken as she was.Belle looked at Leon as though asking if he knew what happened but he shook his head. They continued their way to the foot of the hill before Lady Edith spoke, “Give me your hands, we will teleport there.”Belle gave her hand to the woman, her other hand holding Leon’s as the witch and him doesn’t want to touch each other’s hands except hers.“Are you alright?” Belle whispered to Lady Edith whose face showed a mixed and puzzled expression.“It’s just been a long time since I st
As Damian left, Belle brought Lady Edith away to her room. On the staircase, Lady Edith let out a long hum. “That is your little brother?”“Yes, do you know him?” Belle questioned. It doesn’t look like it was their first time meeting each other. Nothing how easily Damian had accepted her to be Lady Edith. After what happened, Damian had always been on edge, being careful on all their acquaintance but he had only looked once at Lady Edith before letting her into the house. “The coven isn’t that wide and spread out. Every rumors travel even faster than wind some times. Of course, I know about your brother. How much of a genius he is that is.”“Genius?” Belle looked at the woman. She knew indeed her little brother was an intelligent young man who is always composed and know what to do.But she was certain this genius wasn’t something academically.“Yes. He is a well known witcher in our coven. A boy who is very cool headed, handsome, and…”“And?” Belle urged. She frowned as she thought
When Belle looked around she was surprised by how her surrounding was bright. Candles were lit all around her and what was more shocking was to find herself not in Rachel room but instead standing in the dining room. There when she turned herself her blue eyes widened in horror finding another blue eyes looking back at her. The features, the smile, the person sitting next to her was none other than herself!“Can’t you live here for a week after the wedding?” her own self talked. Belle looked at her own face, slowly placing her finger over her self to make sure they couldn’t look at her. Even though she had waved her palms, it appeared that no one in the dining room was able to look at her. It’s as thought she had entered a space that belonged only to herself.“Yes, it’s too sudden if you move to his house,” said Damian who looked worried and lonely like Belle. Belle felt that somewhere this had happened before, as though this entire scene in front of her was being replayed. She th
Rachel’s dagger-like gaze looked at the person standing in front of her, looking extremely unhappy how the man had intrude her happiness. She looked at him forward, taking slow steps toward him which Belle followed. She flinched when she saw the man whom her sister had talked to held bright red eyes while looking at her. It’s a demon! Belle thought to herself, her knuckles balling into a fist.Belle moved more forward over her sister, trying to get a better view of the man’s face. Just as she was close enough to enter the balcony, her forehead hit the invisible wall which she didn’t know when it had appeared.She raised her hand, knocking the space in front of her to force her way out to no avail. The invisible wall couldn’t be removed and thus it was difficult for her to look at the man’s face.Belle pursed her lips tightly angrily giving the invisible wall one last punch before hearing her sister talked again, “You don’t have to come, I know what I have to do. You must have came fo
Belle was horrified at her sister’s relax expression, she didn’t seemed like she minded to kill— as though she was familiar with blood and the consequences of it. She watched her sister who retreated to her room while the man disappeared to the night.Her sister went through the wardrobe, pulling candles, charcoals and the familiar gold glint that looked like nightmare to Belle. She knows what it was, understanding that the gold glint came from the dagger that was found after her sister’s death. Belle walked closer, watching Rachel drawing the foreign letters on the wooden floors. All those letters were the same one as she had read in the books that Lady Edith gave to her. Looking over the letters, the circle gradually become bigger, making it look grimly. The black writings mixed to the wooden wall, as though it was etched. Belle felt as though the person in front of her was someone she didn’t know, someone she had just first met. She maintained her distance between her and Rachel
Belle felt her breaths stifled as she heard her sister’s faint sigh. Her hand pressing her fingernail to the wooden floor as though to run away. To protect herself, she quickly raised her hand whispering a magic only for the person in front of her to whisper a spell against her, causing her hand to burn. Rachel recoiled from the pain, causing her fingers to turn black as she pulled it to her chest.“It won’t work,” the person said.“Why?” Demanded Rachel. She looked at her hands, shocked and confused as her skin grew paler, “My magic—”“It’s a holy magic,” the person responded, taking their footsteps closer to the magic circle as the black shoes smeared the charcoal on the floor. “It works to abolish all dark magic, rendering it useless for life.”“I didn’t use any dark magic,” Rachel coughed up blood, noticing how her own vision had turned blurry as though a droplet of water had fallen on her clear eyes.“You did. As you called up a demon, that’s when your magic turn dark. I guess, y
Leon saw as Belle fell after Lady Edith finished her magic spell. He quickly rushed to her side taking her away from the witch. His red eyes glowered as he looked down on her, “You know how this forbidden magic will hurt her soul. Unlike you she is pure.”Edith stared at the demon, surprised by how he showed such an expressive concern over Belle where his anger could be seen flowing from the veins on his forehead. He narrowed his eyes, looking at the witch and demanded, “You’re not here to protect her, aren’t you?”Edith didn’t dare to say a word, knowing the demon would try to kill her if she was to give an answer that wouldn’t agree the demon’s thought.But Leon had made up his mind. He would kill anyone, anything, who dared to try and harm his Belle. Edith took a sharp breath when she felt something coils around her legs. It was fingers of the dead souls holding down to her ankle as if trying to pull her down to the floor. She couldn’t move, knowing that would be her last move
Belle looked at her surrounding, still feeling surreal that she had travel to the memory of the past. When she recalled what she saw, she could feel her heart falling to the depth of her stomach and her blood ran cold.“How long have I’ve been asleep?” Belle questioned, looking at Leon whose eyes stared at her in concern.“Eight hours,” he answered without looking at the time as though he had been counting each seconds, awaiting for her to wake up. “If you still sleep for another two hours, I would have called my brother to check on you.”Belle chuckled, placing her hand on her forehead when she winced from a pain, “I guess I am weak physically and mentally.”“No,” Leon responded to her words at once. “You’re not weak. Physically, humans are weaker but witches are also as fragile as them, sometimes they are even more weaker. And mentally—”Belle who had been listening closely to his words stared at him, awaiting for the rest of his words as he said, “—If you are mentally weak, you wou