Four

M O N G R E L

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⚘Venetian Empire⚘

"As the Lord Demetrius has spoken, the village was attacked by the rogues. This can be the conspiracy against one of the Lord and this trial would work as a fuel in the fire," the Lord explained. 

"About this Lord Clitus, you do not have to worry. Council knows how the trial works and I request you to take your seat." Andrew said, gathering everyone's attention. 

Lord Demetrius, who wasn't paying much attention to the Lord Clitus' blabbering now had his signature smirk on. It was obvious the Lord hated him to his very core and knew the exact reason why Lord Clitus was so impatient.

"How dare you talk back to the Lord like this?! You aren't even a Lord," Clitus exclaimed in fury. 

"With all due respect my Lord, I suggest you take your seat and will not repeat again," Andrew said and before Lord Clitus could say anything he continued, "and we don't encourage such wild mannered behaviour even if you're one of the Lords."

"Who are you to order me?!" asked Clitus with a bewildered look on his face.

"The council member. Please refrain from behaving so before you are asked to leave," Andrew ordered.

"Lord Clitus, Andrew is the third in command of the Venetian Empire and I hope you pay respect towards him in future," Lord Demetrius spoke supporting his third in command, which left Clitus silently fuming in his seat.

"Moving on, Lord Clitus taking your words into consideration and to be fair we will have this trial after three months, and in the following three months every region of the Empire will be under interrogation," the head spoke fairly and the Lord Clitus smirked triumphantly, "Do the other Lords have an objection to it?" He asked Ambrose and Nicolas.

"No objections," Ambrose and Nicolas replied.

"Alright then, the meeting is dismissed. We shall all meet after three months," the Lord Demetrius said.

Once the Council was done, everyone left the main foyer. The Lords were ordered to move to their townships. 

"Say Demetrius, why did you postpone the trial?" Andrew asked nonchalantly as they left the grand hall.

"Let the pawn make his moves because sometimes in the game of chess you need to make a void move and wait for that one wrong move," the vampire emperor said as his lips curled up darkly.

⚘Elamite Empire⚘

In the period of time when Venetian Empire had council meeting, witches visited the Elamite Empire.

The emperor of Elamite called upon the witches to reveal the secret behind the wooden box that they found with Arianna in the basket. 

"Alpha, the witches are here and waiting for you in your cabin," Sargent said.

"Inform Luna Katherine about the same," replied the alpha.

After a few moments, Katherine with Elliot and Arianna walked inside the alpha's cabin and her eyes fell upon the trio of witches who were talking to Ronald. They were the same witches who casted the spell around the Elamite Empire to keep it secure from the vampires, that was the reason the humans living in Elamite were safe. 

Arianna was fast asleep in Katherine's embrace and was unknown of the activities happening around her.

"What a lovely surprise, Fletcher witches." Katherine said coming towards the large round table present in the cabin.

"Ah... Luna Katherine, it's good to see you after ages." One of the Fletcher witches replied at the same time her eyes fell upon the little Arianna. "Looks like she's the princess of Elamite." She said, looking at the little Arianna.

"Yes, she is." Katherine smiled and sat on the chair of the Luna.

"So, what is the reason you wanted us to make an appearance, alpha?" The Fletcher witch asked.

Elliot looked at the Fletcher witches and thought about the weird attire of witches in the past. Throughout history, the witch has taken on many forms, but the archetype has always been a woman in all black, either wearing a pointy hat and flying around on a broom. But now the witches had become quite modern with black lipstick and body piercings. The fashion of witches doesn't necessarily entail all the black all the time, nor do witches focus too much of their energy into their wardrobe. After all, the magic and spells don't come from the clothes.

"As you already know about our daughter, but there's something we need to know about this wooden box that we found with her," replied Ronald while showing the box to the Fletcher witches.

Ancestral magic was an extremely powerful form of witchcraft that was commonly practiced by the Fletcher witches of Merlin land. Similar to spirit magic, this form of sorcery draws its energy from the power of ancestral witches who have been consecrated on the Merlin' soil. However, according to Fletcher witches, this power can only be harnessed within the boundaries of Merlin, since they were in the land of Elamite, ancestral magic could not be used. So, they decided to cast a spell "Divination" , the power to divine future, past and present events based on extrasensory perception. 

"We request Luna Katherine to step forward in this circle with princess Arianna," one of the Fletcher witches spoke and pointed towards the "psychometry witch circle" that they formed. It was the circle with the power of divine future, past or present events through contact with or proximity to a certain object or a person.

Katherine sat in the circle with Arianna, the circle was formed from the black salt because of its ability to absorb energy and hold onto it, it was used to cleanse and purify the area of negative energy, and create protection boundaries. The salt and energy can then be returned to the earth when the ritual has completed. 

The wooden box was placed in the circle with Ariannas' s small hand on the lid of the box. They started their spell with the continuous chanting of " Dice mihi verum post arca archa" .

After a few moments, suddenly the pace of the flow of wind increased. The chants were too loud as it builds the strength of the voice and diaphragm. Suddenly Arianna's body and the wooden box emerged in the golden aura, which made Ronald, Elliot and Katherine shudder.

Fletcher witches felt the strongest push and the loud sound of glass of the window shattering echoed. The spell was broken as well as the spell circle. 

Their eyes fluttered open and the Fletcher witches along with Katherine stood, their minds were clouded with the different thoughts as they scanned the little Arianna who was innocently smiling. 

"What had happened?" Ronald asked with little fear in his voice as he has never encountered the failure of the Fletcher witches.

After gathering the words as the witches were utterly shocked, one of the witches spoke, "Alpha Ronald and Luna Katherine, please listen to us very carefully and do not reveal anything about the same to anyone, not even a single living or non-living being," the witch said and they nodded.

"In the history of our lifetime, we have never seen the face of failure. But your daughter is borned with some extraordinary powers that will be revealed on their own as well as the secret behind the box," she continued, "There was only the flash of white light, it seems that the little girl was refraining us to know about her past, present and future. When the time will come, the secret behind the box will be revealed on its own."

By now the Alpha, Luna and their son were shocked by every bit of the information.

"The girl needs protection!" Another witch of the Fletcher witches spoke loudly. 

"How?" Ronald asked.

"You need to keep her identity and powers safe. When the time will come, she will be able to possess her powers." She replied. 

"She's the future," the Fletcher witches said and disappeared into the thin air of Elamite.