Chapter 15 - Elements

“Mia! Please be serious! Are you sure you’re making the right decision???” Zalia urged to her sister’s side.

“Zalia, I’m serious now. Because…..I have no chance against Bill and how can he handle the truth that I’m a magical freak!? And besides… I am now willing to marry Rhesus.” Mia said in a tone.

They all gave Mia a serious look. “Are you sure of this decision sister?” Zalia asked her.

“I am sure and I will never regret it. I will make sure that it's my best decision.” Mia said stoically.

“We understand.” Alice said briefly.
“Guys, I’ll be fine.” Mia said.
“But, my princess! WHY!?? WHY!!?? Is my face and presence not worthy enough for you??” Emerald busted to Mia in practically tears.

“Sorry to break this to you. Frankly, you are kind of annoying.” And with those powerful words, it hit Emerald’s soft spot like a fast lightning.

She took a breath for saying this, and then finally said it with all her courage. “It’s time I fully introduce them, huh??”

Two young men stepped from a room, revealing themselves.

The first to introduce was a pale young man with blonde hair styled like a natural emo. He had gleaming red eyes, matching Mia. “I’m Rhesus Negative. Pleased too meet your acquaintance.” He said.

‘Wow, he’s vey polite!’ Fiena thought. She then remembered the photo she saw the previous time Alice had showed to her. ‘So that’s Rhesus.’

The second to introduce was Zalia’s fiancé. “Zane’s the name! Nice to meet you!” said the young man with wild long black hair and his noticeable and signature feature, his electric ultramarine left side bang clipped with a black hairpin.

Fiena also noted that he was using a friendly tone. Fiena remembered him too, except this time he looked lightly injured. A purplish blue bruise under his left eye and a tiny scar which looked fresh was seen on his face.

Suddenly, a soft woman like feature hand touched his bruise softly. A hand which rightfully belonged to Zalia.

“You…. Are you still into fighting?? I’m worried you know.” Zalia said with a shy like tone.

And with just that, cupid’s arrow pierced right through Zane’s bloody ripe wolf heart.

“No, it’s only a small fight between me and some troll. But its fine he was weak as hell. You should’ve seen me pound him till he cried like a little goblin!” Zane laughed.

“That’s nice. But I don’t like to see you get hurt. Enough talk, I’ll fix that bad cut.” Zalia replied, making a first-aid kit appear.

“Oh, anything for you, my dear Zalia.” Zane said in a lovesick voice.

‘I must have to be the luckiest man on Other Realm now to be with the cutest girl on the Other Realm.’ Zane thought to himself.

“What?” Zalia asked to confirm what he had just said. “Anyways, this might sting a little bit. So stay strong.”

Mia was sure he didn’t pay attention on the last part of what Zalia said, because the moment she put on the medicine, he started to screeched like a human at first, then it turned like a wolf’s howl of pain.

“Idiot Zane. Well, Zalia did give a fair warning.” Mia thought, sighing to see her future brother in law acting in such an embarrassing, on par with a little child.

Rhesus began to get closer to her. “Mia……” he called her name. “Yes, Rhes? Need anything?” she asked him.

“I…I just want to thank you for reconsidering our engagement and choosing me instead of a mortal human. I feel really, really grateful.” He said, giving Mia a soft cheek kiss.

Mia immediately reacted to it. She didn’t hit him, but turned red in embarrassment and muttered, “Wh-whatever!”

“I’m sorry. I did it without permission. But now I’m asking this with permission. Can I hold your hand?” Rhesus said politely.

“Idiot. We’re getting engaged. Do it.” Mia whispered softly so no one else except Rhesus will hear it.

“Thank you.” He said. They’re hands began with a soft touch, which led to an intimate fondle then ended with a perfect couple hold.

From afar, their friends were watching with glee seeing the Apozitive sisters being all sweet and hopeless romantic with their fiancés.

“It’s like the love story of Cleopatra and Mark Anthony…” Rita said, remarking about her current greatest Egyptian love story.

“I never knew Mia could be that feminine.” Fiena said.

“Well, now you know! Our Amylea is growing up!” Alice laughed then she pretended to shed a tear like a mother seeing her daughter growing up.

“Awww….. It’s like the greatest live Korean drama!” Fazzy said, giggling.

Emerald watched Mia with an extreme pint of jealousy.

“That should be me!!!!” he yelled in furious anger, lunging towards them. But alas, he was held back by his laid-back older brother, Alyss.

“Calm down, brother.” Alyss said.

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“Alright, proceeding to the lessons. It will be elements today. But first, I give a brief explanation before you conclude your own hypothesis.” Mai said to Fiena.


“Elements, every witch is born with them and not just witches, Other Realm creatures too. They come naturally, just like puberty. I got mine when I was eleven and Zalia got hers during 12. My element, as you can see is Thunder and Lightning whereas Zalia’s element is Hurricane and Tornado. And the others will explain their elements.” Mia said.

“Mine’s Fire and Speed.” Alice said.
Alice produced balls of fire from both of her hands and in a precaution manner threw them onto a damp torch. “I can produce fire without having to rub two sticks together. Also, I can run faster than any racing cars. I’m the fastest in my family, got it from my great grandmother’s genes.” And with that, she ran next to Fiena in a flat second without having to break a sweat,

“Impressive.” Fiena said, getting a glorious grin from Alice.

“Snow and Invisibility.” Enyz said.

She waved her hands in the air, tinkling her delicate fingers, in a form similar to a cultural dance. Snow fell softly in the room making it covered in white stuff. In an instant clap of two hands, all of it was gone. “Now watch this.” She said.

She waved her hands again, but in a different form of pattern and instantly disappeared. Fiena figured where she would go and she reappeared behind of Fiena, poking her neck with a cold finger.

“GYYAHHHH!” Fiena screamed in shocked. “Enyz, you scared me!”

“Sorry.” Enyz laughed.

“Okay, mine is Heat and Light” Fazzy said.

She held Fiena’s hand, giving a slight squeeze. At first it felt warm, Fiena noted and then it turned to be really, really HOT.

“Yeooww!” Fiena wailed in pain.

“Sorry, Gwen will fix that for you.” Fazzy said with a concerned expression.

Next, she proceeded to light the room up extra BRIGHT.

“Okay, that’s enough blinding for one day.” Mia grumbled.

“Sorry.” She grinned cheekily then made everything back to its pace.
“As Fazzy had said, mine is Water and Ice” Gwen said.

She held Fiena’s burning right hand, coolly cured it with her icy powers. “There you go.” She smiled sweetly.
“I think it's time for a brief demonstration.” Gwen said.

She held out both of her hands, making a ball of water appear on the right palm. Then she did the same on the left one. Then, she fondled both of her hands together, as if crushing clay. In a brief minute, it turned into a ball of ice.

“Oh my god, that’s cool!!!” Fiena said in amazement.

“My turn next!” Syaira gleamed happily. “It’s Lava and Wind” Syaira said.

She demanded for a glass of water, which the maid hurriedly went to get. She then spilled the contents of the glass, giving a nudge and it turned it into lava.

But after seeing Mia’s face, she immediately cleaned it. She then made the room cool by simply blowing wind.

“Rita, I believe it’s your turn.

“My first element is Flora.” Rita said making vines of flower grew.

“My Second element is Fauna.” Simply clapping her fingers, a flood of butterflies appeared around her, making her look enchanted and beautiful.

“And you already know mine.” Mia said.

“And mine is Love and Flora.” Emerald said, staring towards Mia, then proceeded to give her a bright red rose and tried an attempt to give her a kiss.

Like always, Mia held him back, shoving his mouth away. Grumbling, “Oh God.” She then shoved his entire body away from her not meaning to offend Rhesus.

She turned to ask the other guys their elements next.

“Boku?” Rhesus asked.

“Hai, anata. Care to demonstrate?” Mia said back.

“I’ll go first.” Alyss said.

“I have the elements of such; Dreams and Darkness.” He said, Holding his palm out, making flashes of black crystallized shapes of a crescent moon and swirls appearing, Making Alice blush and feel proud for having him as a boyfriend and a fiancé.

“Dreams and darkness……Meaning???” Fiena said, thinking hard.

“It means that I can control certain dreams. Whether I make them a nightmare or a sweet one, it is up to my decision I can also put one person to sleep with this utile element. I can also control dark realms and turn light into darkness. It’s a vice versa to Fazzy’s element.” Alyss explained, his features darkening and flashed a grim parody of a smile.

“Alice, HELP!!!!!!! Your boyfriend is scary!!” Fiena cried, running away.

“Hey! He is adorable! And I love him!” Alice said.

“Okay, okay. Yes, so very damn lucky for the both of you.” Mia said in return. “Okay, moving on.”

Rhesus was next. He held both his arms out and in an instant, a purple line of music notes. “My element is Melody and Electricity.” Rhesus said.

“I control melody; having to change the tempo and such. Electricity is just like Mia, lightning. Except that I can wear out my electricity element, but no panic. I can fully recharge. With Mia’s help of course.” He said playfully, winking at an embarrassed Mia.

He began to demonstrate by picking the most suitable target in the room, Fazzy. She was happily listening to K-pop songs, when Rhesus managed to change it into a kiddy’s song.

Her happy expression changed, and she quickly lunged towards Rhesus, playfully strangling him. “Rhesus! Change it back!!!!!” she yelled angrily to him. “Rhesus, I will kill you if you don’t change it now.”

“Okay, okay! Mia, help me!!” Rhesus said, laughing. “Change it back, Rhesus” Mia said, just smiled.

“Oi, your turn is next, Zane.” Rhesus said to Zane, who was currently standing next to him.

“Alright then, my element is Sounds and Shadows.” Zane said.

“Pretty cool, right?” Zane asked.

“Shadows and sounds? Boring much, compared to my element….” Zalia said cynically, even as far as making a fake yawn.

Bt, we all pretty know that it was Zane’s expectation of Zalia’s reaction, because all she did was stare at him in amazement, thinking to herself, ‘Shadows and sounds? Pretty cool.’

“I’m lame….” Zane said, feeling sad.

“Zanie, are you okay???” Zalia asked sincerely.

“I’m fin- Wait what did you call me??” Zane asked her backed.

“ I c-c-c-c-called you ‘Z- Zanie.’” Zalia said, beginning to blush. The nickname given to him by her must have made Zane very happy but then Fiena interrupted them by blurting out random words.

“Oh My Gosh!! That is soooo freaking cool! Does this mean you control shadows and stuff and….” Fiena immediately rambled on about Zane’s shadow element.

All of Fiena’s excitement must be originated from her recently watching a horror movie about a voodoo master who possessed the powers to control shadows, and then he decided to control the shadows of young maidens to simply sacrifice their virginity to the devil, just to make a sweet deal for himself.



Alas, with a snap of a finger by Zane, Fiena’s loud exciting voice disappeared and she opened her mouth to speak, but to her horror, no voice or a tiny sound came out.

Fiena began to cry, and repeatedly mouthing the words, ‘Give my voice back!!!’

But Zane won’t as he would only return it after his element introduction.

“Fix that, ‘Zanie.’ .” Mia said to him. “I will. I will, after a brief explanation.” Zane laughed but then realized what Mia had just called him. “Wait what?” he asked to confirm what he had just heard.

“I called you 'Zanie’, anything wrong????” Mia asked him back, sarcastically sounding like always.

“Hey!! Only Zalia-chan can call me by that name!” Zane shouted, getting angry.

“I’m sorry, what??? Care to repeat what you had just said??” Mia said, just to let a certain someone to heard what Zane had just say.

But then, Zane had just realized what he just had said. ‘Oh man, I accidentally shouted that out loud, Zalia must hate me after this!!!’ all of the rambled up thoughts in Zane’s head was enough to make him explode from embarrassment.

And then he stared back to Mia, who had an evil grin on her face. And no one knew that they were communicating by using telepathy, a communication which is between thoughts.

‘Bring it on.’ Mia thought, sending the thought while the evil grin still not leaving her face.

‘Evil witch, good thing your Zalia’s sister.’ Zane send the thought back to her.

“Zane, if you don’t like me calling you ‘Zanie’, I can stop calling you that you know…” Zalia said.

“No, NO! It’s not like that! I love it most when you call me ‘Zanie’!” Zane shouted in reply, making himself and Zalia blushing quietly.

But then regretted it in embarrassment and anger as Mia telepathically sent him a message in his thought, saying, ‘I won!’

‘Crap, I did it again.’ Zane thought.

“Anyways, your friend is right. I can control shadows. I manipulate them as like souls, except it’s only a shadow. And sounds, I can steal it and I can even imitate your voice if needed.” Zane explained in the briefest way.

He then gave Fiena what was rightfully hers; her voice.

“Impressive, Zane, quite fascinating.” A familiar female voice said, coming from the door Mia was standing in front of.

A beautiful girl came out, all elegant dashing and sparkly. Must be from the large numbers of diamond accessories she was wearing. She was as tall as Mia, a bit curvier and she had black hair which was in a short bob cut.

Her hair was what Fiena admired the most, the bangs brushed aside and a swirled pattern headband with lined diamonds holding it back and a fuchsia colored stripe was styled with black pins.

Her eyes; were what amazed Fiena. Her left eye was a simple brown colour, quite beautiful. But her right eye was strikingly unique.

It was different from the other one, it had a striking purple color, making the girl standing in front of her very special looking. Just like herself, who also happens to posses different colored pair of eyes.

“Eh, you!!??” Mia said, seeing the girls face carefully.

“I’m back, amigos!!” the girl said, cheerfully.

“So you’re Fiena Taylor Mc’Karen….. You’re cute, like a child, in a good way of course.” The girl said, after she eyed on Fiena carefully, then she laughed slightly.

‘Who is she??? She’s so beautiful!!’ Fiena thought to herself.

“Why thank you. I take your thoughts as a compliment.” The girl laughed.

“I’m Blaire by the way. Blaire Apozitive. But I prefer it much better if you just call me Era. It’s more suitable. Blaire is too formal. Makes me sound, uptight and boring” The girl said, introducing herself.

“Also, my elements are … Diamonds! Splendid fine things. I just love and adore them!” Era said, looking at her fine white hands, while she made fine pure diamonds appear in every shape, size and color on her hands, making them as accessories.

Diamond rings, decorated her fingers, bracelets and bangle made of fine tiny colored beads and diamonds embellished on her wrists, and she even made a wristwatch from those beautiful rare stones!

If it wasn’t enough, necklaces and diamond pendants appeared more, and her ears were pierced with diamonds and a pair of large diamond hoop earrings.

She even made diamonds decorated in a swirl pattern on her manicured fingernails!

“I can control them and produce them from thin air.” She said. “Y-you mean like that alien character Diamond head from Ben Ten??” Fiena asked eagerly.

“That’s the first time anyone has said it, but yes. My, what a curiously cute one, are you??” Era laughed.

“I also can tell the different between real and fake diamonds. In addition, I also consume energy from diamonds.”

Era brought both her palms together, and then smashed it, as if she was squishing a bug. She opened her hands and produced a shining stone; a turquoise.

She gave it to Fiena, rather, sticking the stone to Fiena’s blue colored headband. “An introducing present for you.” Era smiled to her.

“Wh- what!!?? I can accept this! It’s too expensive!” Fiena exclaimed, trying to get the turquoise stone off.

“No, no. I simply produced it, so its fine.” Era protested back.

“Bu-but…..” Fiena said. “No, no. No buts please. Accept my gift for you. And now, for the second matter of things, my second element is mind power. I am a psychic.”

“I possess such powers like telekinesis, telepathy, psychometric, transvection and even scrying and retro cognition”

“Cool….” Fiena said, amazed.

“Indeed. And, by further studying about you, your past….. You are very recognizable.” Era said, sounding serious.

“What do you mean?” Fiena asked, confused and curious.

“What I mean is, I can study about your past life if you wish. Just let me gain access through it. The choice is up to you.” Era explained, in a serious tone.

“I….I give you permission.”Fiena’s lips were trembling, nervous, she felt.

“Very well.” Era said, then she began to proceed.

Era took a deep breath, she gave a slight glance at Fiena, eyes downcast then thought very hard.

Her eyes were shut tight; lips closed not saying a single word and Fiena could even see her concentration and focus on her thoughts, for she mumbled some strange peculiar words that Fiena never even heard off.

After for a few seconds, Fiena can see that Era was shaking, trembling, quivering, palpitating in the emotion of fear.

“I… I would not see anymore, for I am too tired. Let me rest for a while. But first, I ought to greet dear Grandfather.”

“Oh, that’s right! I totally forgot!!” Mia cried. “Forgot what?” Zalia asked. “We have to meet Dear Grandfather!” Mai replied.

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They were walking in small groups quietly, not meaning to interrupt into other people’s personal business.

“Mia? It’s been a week since I last saw you!” a female voice said. It belonged to an elderly looking woman, Mia’s aunt, perhaps.

“Aunt Farra! I missed you!” Mia said, hugging her aunt. After minutes of family reunion, they reached a large door; it was beautifully carved and painted white. The knob was pure gold.

Mia knocked on the door, softly. After hearing a hasty reply, she opened it.

“W-we… we’re here, Dear Grandfather.” Mia said. He was no where to be seen. “Excuse me, but where is Grandfather Ismail?” Mia asked a passing chamber maid.

“Oh, my miss, I’m afraid you catched him too late. He…. He’s on a trip. I’m sure he’ll he back by Sunday, at the day of your engagement party.” The maid said, excused herself, and then hurried off.

“Well… We’ve got nothing to do now, except to learn of The Undead with Rita. C’mon, the study’s this way.” Mia said, leading the way so the others won’t get lost in the gigantic house.

Chapter 14 - A witch's proposal

   Fiena was in a delighted mood. She didn’t know why but she felt very happy that morning. Maybe it was because she and Emil had dined at ‘Atlantis’ with his parents. Nowadays, Emil and she were getting rather intimately close.

Mia and Zalia were just passing by like normal, walking so close like other twin siblings do. Yet, somehow they were acting strangely different and as if ignoring the other one beside her.

“Good morning guys!” Fiena greeted them, while smiling widely.

  “Ohayou.” Mia said, stoically.

“Morning Fiena.” Zalia said.

Fiena didn’t know that much about them it’s just that they’re very close fraternal twins and they rarely fight. They’re always so together; either talking or joking around but they rarely do skin ship. And now they’re all gloomy and not talking. What’s happening? Fiena thought.

Time to ask the right person.

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“Syaira! Syaira!” Fiena called out the gumiho’s name.

“Yess???? “ Syaira purred catlike, appearing from behind Fiena.

“Wah! You scared me!” Fiena said.

“Really? Yay!! Let me scare you again!” Syaira laughed, growling, now like a wild fox.

“No, please don’t. I wanted to ask about something important.” Fiena said.

“What is it?” Syaira asked, fixing her hair.

“It’s about Mia. And Zalia. No, The Apozitive sisters.” Fiena said.

“What about them??” Syaira asked, twirling her curly hair.

“What’s wrong with them? Did they had a fight??” Fiena asked with a concern face.

“Oh…. If it’s about this, we ask someone who’s a very excellent expert on it.” Syaira said.

“Who?”

“Who else but Miss Alice Madeline Tempest.” Syaira smiled.

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“Huh? You wanted to know why they’re looking so stoic and frail nowadays?” Alice asked once again.

Fiena nodded.

“It’s because. They’re getting engaged.” Alice said, closing her book.

“Wh-what!? Engaged!? At an age so young??? Who gets engaged at seventeen???” Fiena said in disbelief.

“Other Realm creatures. Nobles of Other Realm creatures.” Alice stated the fact.

“What? To who???”

  “My cousin and Gwen’s cousin, Rhesus Negative and Zane Wolfram. I can show their faces to you if you like.” Alice said.

  “Sure. I just want to know the truth.” Fiena nodded.

  Alice made a thick book appear, it was in thick red cover and Alice opened it. It appears that the book was a photo album. A picture floated, on thin air coming from the book like the map Fiena previously viewed when Alice opened the book to a certain page.                                                                                                                                           

It was a family picture of three people. A tall man, who had similar characteristics like Alice. He was pale, had a handsome bold face , deep color of arsenic eyes and a mouth that bared long sharp fangs.

He wore a rather fancy clothing and a flowing black leather cloak with a little skeleton as the button of it.

A woman stood next to him, looking the same, the beard for an exception. She was beautiful, skin pale like the moon, eyes that had the color of burnt umber and deep black wavy hair, flowing by her shoulder and ended by her waist. She had black rings which appear to be like make-up at her eyes, making her look gothic.

She wore a black Victorian-styled Lolita gown. It was elegant and fancy with a black shawl covering her. It also appears she wore grand old-fashioned jewelry.

The third person was as tall yet shorter by the first man, but he appears younger and more dashing. He had blonde hair, styled like Mr. Kaoru. And it was also noted that he had gleaming eyes like Mia. He was also pale, wore the same attire like the first man and had black rings of eye liner under his eyes like gothic make up..

Is this the man Mia’s going to marry?” Fiena asked, pointing at the first person.

“No, you idiot. He’s to freaking old for Mia’s age and he has a wife. That’s Alston Negative, her future ‘Father-in-law’. The woman is Bella Negative, her future mother-in-law. This is the young man she’s going to marry.” Alice said, pointing to the young man with the emo hairstyle.

“Woah…. That’s Rhesus?? He looks fine but why doesn’t Mia agree to marry him?”

“It’s because, they were the closest childhood friends and to Mia, he’s like a younger brother and she has Bill now, remember??”

“Oh yeah….” Fiena sighed.

“What about Zane???”

  “Here it is. The Wolfram family picture.” Alice said, after flicking through a stumble of pictures and another family photo showed up.

   It was a large pack of wolves instead of humans. They were like five, Fiena counted. The Largest was a grey wolf which had a scar at the back of its left ear. The one next to it was a female wolf, which had white snowy fur and a black spot at the of its right eye.

The third one was also a bit large; a Maned Wolf with orange and white fur, much like a fox. The fourth was also female, with soft looking brown fur. The fifth was the most appealing and strangest.

It was male, had black fur and some bits of electric ultramarine coloured fur on the left side of the head, looking like a spot. “That’s Zane.” Alice pointed to the fifth.

“But, this is them being wolves…..I wanted to see…” Fiena began but Alice raised a finger to shush her.

“I know. Just wait….. I’ll use transformation illusion magic.” Alice said, and then snapped her fingers.

In an instant, five wolves turned to five human beings, well, in the picture.

The large one looked elderly yet still handsome. He wore glasses and had grey hair tied into a ponytail. He dressed simple, white shirt and jeans while the woman next to him was beautiful and looked quite mature and elderly.

She wore a white sweater and simple jeans, fitting for a simple house mom.

The third person looked like a young man, probably 25, had orange hair with some streaks on his long shoulder-length hair. He wore a white shirt, black pants and boots. The young girl next to him looked like a college student and she had brown hair with neatly combed bangs and the reached her waist. She also wore a simple green blouse, white mini skirt and sandals.

Zane was the last and he looked handsome and striking. His hair was long, shiny black and he had a left side emo styled-bang which was colored electric ultramarine.

He wore a black shirt and black jeans and boots. Looking like a simple goth.

“Is that Zane??” Fiena asked, amazed.

“Yeah. Zalia is actually fine by marrying him. It’s just that Mia sometime opposes them being together.???”

“Why?”

“Because Mia doubts him has this untrustworthy aura flowing by him.”

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   At work, Mia was still gloomy and Zalia maintained a fake smile to the customers.

“Hey babe, be my girlfriend??” said a customer to Mia. It was the type of guys who go ‘I’m-so-cool-all-girls-will-be-mine.’ “I’m sorry master but that’s against the café’s rules and regulations” Mia explained, strictly.

“Oh, come on, babe~ I know you want a piece of my hotness….” That customer said, now grabbing Mia’s hand.

“I FUCKING said No, You motherfucking asshole!” Mia screamed out in furious anger, grabbing his other hand and giving him a hard flip while the grunts of thunder and flashes of lightning roaming furiously.

“Mia, don’t! The other customers will see you!” Alice said, thus at the same time using ‘Stop time magic’. The time and every customer stop.

“Now quick! Put in this memory erasing potion in their food, just a tiny sip, not all of them.” Enyz quickly ordered.

They did so and Alice stopped the time magic.

The customer was surprised why he got hurt all of a sudden.

 “Mia, that was a close one! NEVER, ever do that again or we’ll get shut-down!” Alice warned her angrily.

“I’m sorry.”

“You better be.” Alice said.

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Later that night, they were studying about wizardry, sorcery and about witches.

“Questions??” Mia said. She was wearing glasses and tied her hair in a bun and she had a black cane with her. Fiena thought she looked like a strict teacher.

“Appearances.” Fiena said.

“Excellent. In the old days, witches and wizards looked out of the ordinary because they were evil. Now, we look like humans to avoid being hunted down and killed. And yes. Witch hunters still exist in this very day”

“I’ve known every basic thing about witches. But I don’t understand the noble’s part.” Fiena asked.

“Alice told you.” Mia sighed and closed her eyes.

“If it’s not bothering, can you care to explain? I meant how the customs here work.” Fiena said.

“Here, nobles get their soul mates picked by their parents or fate, but mostly by parents. You can escape your picked soul mate if you found some one who you truly love.”

“So, why are you gloomy this days exactly???” Fiena asked, concerned.

“My mother rejected my request to marry a simple human. She felt that was the most absurd thing to do, ever since Sid broke up with me. She’s just doing it to protect me. And she fears that it would also happen to Zalia.” Mia said.

“Don’t get me wrong, I love Rhesus but I’m not sure if I’m capable enough to be his wife……” 

“So, where is he now???”

“He’s now in Transylvania. He will be back in a month. And Zane, he’s currently in California.”

“Good, because I can’t have that scoundrel vampire wannabe stealing my beautiful maiden from me!” said Emerald, who just appeared out of no where, putting his hands around Mia’s waist.

“Get your fucking hands off me. And answer me three questions.” Mia said as her features darkened.

“And I guess those questions are, ‘why do you love me,’ or ‘did you miss me’ or ‘Will you willing to elope with me so I don’t have to be with this arranged married.”

“What!? Wrong and what is wrong with you?? I have a boyfriend! And my questions are, what the hell are you doing here, how did you break in my house and what did you just call Rhesus?” Mia said, grabbing him by the shirt.

“I’m always welcomed here. Your mother thinks I’m charming. And I’m here to convince your mother that you mustn’t marry Rhesus. I love you and you will only belong to me.”

“How sweet, but I’m not buying it.”

“And you know Rhesus is not really a vampire, either.”

“SHUT UP!” Mia said, throwing him hard and made him go through two walls then she grabbed a black broom stick and flew off by the window.

“Where’s she going??? And what’s exactly going on??” Fiena asked, panic.

“Calm down. She’ll be fine. And actually, Rhesus…. He…”Alice said but her voice trailed by the last part.

“Rhesus is some kind of a genetic freak. He’s a vampire but he couldn’t really have much ability of it. He’s a half vampire and a half spirit even though his parents are both vampires.”

“What happens if a vampire married a witch??” Fiena asked again.

“Its just the same with interracial. That goes the same with other creatures” Zalia said.

“C’mon, let’s go see Mia. I know where she is right now. It may take a long journey but not that long” Zalia said, leading the way.

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     And Zalia was right. According to her prediction, she located that Mia was at the deep woods of Essex County, Massachusetts, United States.

   They walked through the woods, then stopped in front of a castle-like mansion.

   “Where exactly are we?????” Fiena asked.

    “The Grande Apozitive Manor. It’s hidden here. You’ve heard about the witch related here, right?? Well, our ancestor resided here and he had to hide his magic well from the townsfolk for they all hate witches.” Zalia explained.

   Zalia whispered some magical chant, which seemed like a special password at the gate and they all walked in.

   The area was large and spacious and there is a fountain located in front of the mansion, as the significance of their richness. It was made from ancient black marble, carved beautifully with swirls connecting and a black cat holding a giant vase as the top of it. Water majestically flowed through the vase; making Fiena very amazed.

 “It’s been a long time I haven’t been here. I miss Dear grandfather.” Zalia said.

   She knocked at the wooden door of the castle entrance. “It’s me, Zalia Apozitive. Tell Master Ismail his granddaughter is here.” Zalia said. “And I’ve brought guests along.”

   The door was opened by a young woman dressed in a maid outfit.

“Welcome back, Miss Zalia. Its always a pleasure seeing you again.” The maid smiled warmly. She was beautiful, a brunette and had clear white eyes.

“Glad to be back, Maria.” Zalia smiled back. “Maria is our family’s youngest maid. And unfortunately she’s blind. But that does not hide the fact that she’s talented and very capable of taking care of us and my grandfather.” Zalia said.

They walked towards a room, where Zalia’s aunt was there to greet them. “Guys, this is my Aunt Flora. She takes care of the house and also my grandfather.”

They then walked to the second floor of the giant castle-like mansion. (Which had 8 floors and 12 rooms on each floor.) Fiena was feeling rather comfortable with the environment for she had been to similar luxurious like places.

“Guys……...” said a voice. It was Mia. “I’ve decided….”

  “To marry Rhesus and accept my fate to be his wife!” Mia said in a determinated voice.