19 Chapter 17: A Befitting Punishmen (2/2)
”If only you stayed still, you would've had a quick death, but now you're in pain” An alluring voice said in the darkness
”W-Who...?” She looked around her
”Remember me?” Luther squatted down in front of her
”P-Prince L-Luther...h-help” She reached her hand out to him
”I want to preserve your body, so you can be identified...which method should I use?” Luther thought aloud
”W-What?” She was confused
”I guess I can just kill you the old fashioned way” Luther shrugged
”K-Kill?!” She tried to crawl the opposite way he way
”You can try to get away but your death is inevitable, why are you trying so hard to live? What do you have to live for? It's not Xia, you only used her to get into the Emperor's good graces, you could care less about her, now that she's invaluable to the Emperor, you thought that by getting pregnant and having his child would possibly get you to the Empress's seat, but things didn't go according to plan” Luther's black sword materialized in his hand
”H-He'll s-s-see me d-different o-one d-day...I-I...know i-it” She started to cry over mental pain than psychical pain
”You know he never will stop wishing for an impossible dream, I'm sure he has already told you this before, you keep deluding yourself with your infatuation of becoming Empress, you don't love the Emperor...you just want power, I hate women like you the most” Luther stabbed his sword through her back
Blood spewed out of her mouth. And tears ran down her face...
He took his sword out of her back, and plunged it back into her back and repeatedly stabbed her, over and over again. Until she stopped breathing.
A pool of blood surrounded her corpse and her one last tear dripped into her blood.
Her soul, absorbed into his sword...forever trapped in darkness.
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Ivery sat on her couch, and read a book about dragons.
”Are you really going to keep that dragon Ivery?” Loki asked
”I might as well, it doesn't seem like it's going to be much of a problem...I just have to figure out what I'm going to feed it, can dragons possibly turn vegetarian?” Ivery asked
”If you ask it to eat something other than humans, I'm sure it will comply, it seems pretty loyal” Loki thought about it
”I'll see if I can try to change it's appetite” Ivery flicked through the pages of the book
”What do you think your father did with the dragon?” Loki asked
”I don't know” Ivery searched the book for anything about a dragons eating habits
”What if he killed it” Loki said
”Killed..?” Loki broke her attention from the book
”He probably didn't want you to burden with the responsibility of taking care of a dragon” Loki told Ivery
”I'll go ask him” Ivery closed the book and got up from the couch
”You can just ask him tomorrow!” Loki chased Ivery who was already out of the doors
Ivery walked down the dim-lit halls..for a castle you think they'd have better lighting..
”Ivery...I smell blood” Loki's hairs stood up on all ends
”Ignore it....it can be anything” Ivery walked down the halls
”There's a thick stench of blood, a lot of blood” Loki's nose started to become irritated
”We'll check it out after we talk to my parent's” Ivery stood in front of the two giant golden encrusted doors
”I think this is it” Ivery looked at the doors
”You think?” Loki sarcastically asked
Ivery knocked on the doors. After a minute, no answer.
She knocked again. No answer.
She knocked three times. No answer.
Ivery sighed and started to knock several times and made a beat out of her knocks.
”You're going to make them mad” Loki sighed
The door unlocking was heard and the door opened, Cassandra answered the door and saw Ivery and Loki in front of her.
”Sweetheart, why are you still awake?” Cassandra lovingly looked at Ivery and let her inside of the room
Ivery walked inside and was shocked at the size...almost everything was golden.
”I was just curious about the dragon that followed me...what did you do with it?” Ivery asked
”It's tied up by the neck behind the castle, surprisingly it didn't move or struggle” Julian answered her question
”So you're not going to kill it?” Ivery asked
”Do you want me to kill it?” Julian asked
”No” Ivery answered
”May I ask why you want to keep the dragon?” Julian inquired
”It'll be fun” Ivery smiled
”Fun?” Julian smiled back
Cassandra laughed aloud.
”She's just like how you were when you were younger..” Cassandra laughed
”If you want to see your dragon, you'll find it behind the castle...it shouldn't be hard to miss” Julian said
”Now, go back to your room and get some rest, you can check on the dragon tomorrow” Cassandra kissed Ivery on her forehead and led her out of the room
”Goodnight mother, father” Ivery bowed before she walked out
Cassandra closed the door.
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”Ivery, the smell of blood is getting stronger, it's coming from that way” Loki pointed his paw towards the end of the hallway
”Let's go see what it is then..” Ivery had an eerie feeling run up and down her spine as she walked further down the hallway
Ivery walked down the stairs and reached the bottom after a seemingly long minute.
It was dark, she could barely see anything..
Ivery walked in the darkness, they seriously don't have any lights in this room...?
”It reeks of blood” Loki covered his nose with his paw
”Where is it coming from?” Ivery squinted in the darkness
Ivery took one step and fell over something.
”What is this?” Ivery touched the floor and it felt like a thick liquid
”Here” Loki's eyes flashed a bright golden light and lit up the dark area
”Oh...great” Ivery started sweating
Ivery looked at the dead body in front of her.
”She's dead” Ivery saw the stab wounds in her back
”She was stabbed...26 times in 6 different places in her back” Loki looked at the stab wounds
”But...who killed her?” Ivery asked
”How the hell would I know?” Loki responded
Ivery rolled the body over and saw the womans face.
”Who is she...?” Ivery looked intensely at her face
”Oh! I know who this is” Loki gasped
”Who?” Ivery looked at Loki
”Princess Xia's mother, concubine 21, Judith Isbell” Loki said
”Princess Xia's mother?” Ivery looked down at the body
Dark brown hair, deep emerald green eyes...she's pretty but not necessarily stunningly beautiful.
Ivery closed Judith's eyes and sighed.
”Who could've killed her? And the killer just left her here...to be found” Ivery thought aloud
”Wait, didn't that bloody prince threaten Xia...saying she won't be paying the price herself for insulting his mother but the price will hurt....maybe this is the price” Loki put the pieces together
”You may be right” Ivery stroked her chin and recalled the event that happened an hour ago
”But he really went as far as killing her mother as revenge for talking about his mother...” Loki sighed and shook his head
”Xia may have a terrible personality but she doesn't deserve to lose her mother...father already stopped caring about her” Ivery's hands glowed with a green light and hovered her hands over Judith's wounds
The stab wounds healed themselves and her broken bones healed and snapped back into place and the blood on the floor flowed back into the body.
Ivery noticed Judith wasn't moving..
”I don't understand” Ivery healed her wounds...why wasn't she waking up?
”Ivery...look!” Loki pointed at the body
The stab wounds resurfaced an endless amount of blood poured out of the body, soaking the bottom of Ivery's blue nightgown with blood.
”This was definitely done by Prince Luther...I can sense the power of Dark Chaos in the body, healing her is of no use...her soul isn't residing in her body any longer and he used a sword that is similar to his Grim Reaper's Scythe, The Eternal Sword Black Vein, it is a God rank S anti-holy weapon, gifted to Luther from Hades himself, if stabbed by this sword, the victim's soul isn't trapped in eternal darkness, the victims soul is trapped in eternal hell, where the soul feels extreme anguish” Loki explained
”The body is cursed by the swords black poison, the body is unable to be healed or saved...anyone who does try to heal or save the body also is cursed by the sword, a double-sided curse”
”So, I'm cursed?” Ivery asked
”Most likely..although I'm not sure exactly what it is” Loki looked at Ivery...making sure he didn't see any abnormalities
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Ivery felt intense pain in her back...almost a stabbing feeling....blood poured out of her mouth and she collapsed on the floor.
”Ivery!” Loki shouted
The curse...
Whoever tries to heal or save the body in any way, shall suffer the same fate as them...
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