"By itself?" Erebus asked, "Based on what?""On who sees it." The Queen fixed her eyes on Erebus, "Some may own it and think they have got a diamond all their life without realizing they had one of the most powerful magic items their whole life.""Then why is it called a stone?""Because the ONE myth around it," The Queen said, "Was that it would give its power, to who sees it as itself."It WAS Phosis!Kitty got it without intention when she first saw a normal stone lied there in the shop!All this time spent on chasing it, it was actually by their side from the beginning!No wonder Phosis protected Kitty in the forest, but couldn't get her out of there. The stone and the wand, in another word, the tree of life was both part of legend, and they couldn't top the other one on power.Now that Kitty has got the wand, AND the stone! The only thing she needed would be the ring on the Queen's finger. But it didn't seem easy, cause ap

The whole flock remained in silence, waiting.The Queen waited with no specific expression of any, just standing there watching.Erebus gave a bitter smile and shook his head.He never knew before today that this kind of trials were what had been happening, to all the werewolves that had been having a doubt about the Kingdom.Guess the Kingdom had always been in the hand of the witches for not a short time."Don't you have anything to say?" The Queen finally asked.Erebus didn't speak, of course, but he didn't shake his head either. He just stood there, looking at the silence of the full room. His face hard to read.These are the people he vowed to serve, and they are the ones who had been controlling and lying to him all their lives.Erebus was not sure about how much they knew about the whole scheme, but they obviously lived in a very different world than werewolves with no magic.They were different species, from the

Erebus had not been responding to anything Allura had to say in the next week.All days and nights of that 7 days, Allura had been trying to talk to Erebus. She brought up how the members of Dip Patronus that the Queen had captured; she talked about how Charlie disappeared with Kitty but the Queen didn't seem to care; she brought up Perses's visiting of Uranus.Nothing.Nothing was getting Erebus's attention.It was almost like he already died and gone with his soul, and it was only his body, standing there taking food in without caring even a bit about what was put in his mouth.Should he just give up?The question "What am I doing?" was all that occupied Erebus's mind at that time, and he couldn't even focus his mind on anything even in he tried to.He tried to save Perses by not killing him and putting him in prison, but Perses was now still under the control of the Queen and there was no way for him to break the spell for Perses;

Three months passed, and Erebus never saw Allura again. The maid returned, and if he wasn't mistaken, water and food given became more after the fallout between him and Allura.He doesn't believe her, of course.No matter he loved Kitty or not, he knew, Kitty wouldn't have done such a thing, even if she was mad at him; even if she stopped loving him.But what he wasn't sure, was whether Metis was still alive or not.It had been weird that Allura just chose Metis's news as the bait to tease him. He didn't think Allura knew Metis's feeling towards him, but it didn't seem like Allura just chose a random member of his Dim Patronus.Did something happen to Metis?The most possible scenario was --Just when Erebus felt like he was onto it, the door opened. There was never a irregular visit of him here, except the first full moon when the Queen came to talk to him.Three months passed and he had suffered three full moons now. Though i

For the first time since he was chained here, Erebus was woken up by the sound of door opening, instead of the usual --Woken up by the pain of the Sword through his chest.He doesn't get sleep time here, and he could only drift into sleep when he was extremely tired, and that could only last 48 minutes a time, because then the next Bone Carve would arrive.But this time when he woke up, there wasn't the usual pain.Erebus looked down on his chest with dazed eyes, not fully awake.Blood on his body was already dry, and the wound healed all together. Except because it was pierced through for too many times, there was now a scar left, and the skin was pink, comparing to the skin besides the wound.The hole on his chest ripped by the Queen was gone all together, and while he wasn't fully recovered, it was the best rest he had in the last three months.What happened? Why did the punishment stop?"How was the rest, sleepy head?" A l