At first, she was preparing for a sudden fight, she was ready to activate her ring and summon her swords, she concentrated really hard and about to take action as the assassin rush toward her. But little did she know the assassin wasn’t aiming for her, he ran past her and took the soda can, he single-handedly snaps the can open and drink it with a satisfying face. Varsha was still stunned from what she had witnessed. She grabs an extra soda can from her back and handed it to him.
”Want some more?”
The can vanish from her hand and reappear in his hand, ’What an astonishing speed’ she thought to herself.
At the moment, Varsha thinks that this assassin guy is quite interesting. An idea came into her mind, a genius idea. She takes off her vambrace and poured her last soda can that she had brought with her on to her arm all the way to her hand and raised her arm up to him. ”Come on boy~”
Plagued Kingdoms (Closed / Mature Themes)
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(We are going to the NSFW side already, are we not?)
(We sure are…)
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(Alrighty.)
Vincent finished the first can and after grabbing the second can, was about to open it. His nose, though, caught the scent of something else. He turned to the figurine, his mouth opening just barely. He had realized that the girl had poured some of the soda, his favorite flavor of lemon and lime, on her arm all the way to her wrist.
His eyes reshaped themselves into an actively sharp demeanor to which he rushed at the figure with his naturally fast speed.
He appeared behind the female; one hand grabbing her wrist and pulling it up while the other touched her neck, locking her in place.
”Hold still…” he spoke silently, his breathings slipped into the collars of the female’s clothes. His sharp ghoul-like tongue came out and started licking the female’s hand in a way similar to how a cat would do so. His movement was soft though his eyes clearly threatened the female not to move an inch.
When he went all the way to her wrist, for some reason, he stepped back, pursed his lips once, and spoke up the soft words of: ”Tenderly sweet…”
(Mind you, Vincent has no idea what is flirting, what is appropriate, and what is not so… yeahhhhhhh)
Phoenix looked to Mara and decided to play dumb. She really did have no idea what her highness was speaking of, but she might have a clue. Though in all honesty it would still be better to feign ignorance, “What was what your highness?”
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Valerie gave a nod to the sorceress before heading out to meet up with Galen. She had a bright grin on her face happy she that Cynthia had agreed to let her do. As she approached the medical wing she saw Galen, “Galen! You have a timetable for this afternoon right?”
"Oh, nothing," Mara said sweetly, her eyes sparkling with amusement. "Absolutely nothing." She hekd out her hand. "Can I see the necklace?"
If her secretary wasn't going to say anything about it, she wouldn't.
"Oh. Um… yes?" Galen said, looking flustered. He ran a hand through his already messy hair, making it stand on end. "I did, but Sammy over here didn't tell me this until fifeteen minutes ago." He gestured to his apprentice.
Phoenix smiled and rolled her eyes at her princess’s musings. She carefully placed the necklace in Mara’s open hand, “Of course you can. It is quite pretty is it not?”
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“Wonderful!” Valerie exclaimed as she smiled at him, “May I see it? The sorceress requested, well I asked first, for me to greet the guests and told me to talk to you about timetables.”
"Very much so," Mara said quietly, turning it in her palm, so that it sparkled against the ceiling. She was suddenly quiet and serious. She placed it back in Pheonix's hand, and sat up straight. She was kidding herself if she thought that the meeting she'd been avoiding was going to not happen. She sighed. "We have a meeting in the Red Room. The meeting." She stood.
The meeting was one that was had at least once a month. Some of her counselors wanted to make peace with the other kingdoms, which she did not want to happen. And as her mother was bedlocked, she had to go in the Queen's place.
"Of course." Galen went over to his desk, digging through piles of paper, making them fly around the small space. He cursed, before finding the paper. He moved over to them, handing it to Valerie. "Here it is." He rubbed the back of his neck awkwardly. "Sorry about the mess."
Ah yes, one of those meetings. Phe had absolutely no problems with them, but her highness did. Pheonix placed the jewel into her pocket for safe keeping and moved slightly. She glanced at the princess a soft teasing smile placed on her face to contrast Mara's serious one, "I'm well aware. Shall I go ahead and announce that her annoynace is arriving?"
Valerie smiled as she took the timetable and opened it up to look at it. She scanned it quickly before looking back at Galen, "Oh the mess is fine. It's no worse than my room and the tornado of books in there."
Mara tossed her head, hair flying, before standing. Her usual amuse face was back on. She grinned at her secretary. "Yes, do. I want tosee how they'll react. You know how much they hate it when you treat me like a normal person."
She handed the necklace back to her. "There you go. Keep it, if you want."
Galen grinned uneasily. "Yeah, well, at least you don't have blood on everything." He gestured around him. "I don't even try to get it off anymore."
He rubbed his eyes, looking tired. "Do you need anything else?"
Phoenix looked at the expensive peice of jewelry. She was the secretary yes, but she prefered to keep herself on the poorer end of things, "I can't possible keep this. Though I will definitely do the announcement. Please your highness keep it."
"Blood can be a good look," Valerie countered though cringed after she said it, "Forget I said that. No I don't need anything else, but if you would like assisstance cleaning I would be happy to help."
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"Are you sure?" Mara asked, although she was not sad about the idea. "He did give it to you, after all."
It was pretty, she had to admit. And Vincent had killed to get it, and she loved things that required blood to own. She had an entire collection of things like that. She walked toward the door, flinging it open, and startling the guards who were outside.
"Come on, go give the announcement."
Galen laughed softly at what she had said. "It's fine. You have better things to do than bother with trying to help me clean up. It's a lost cause."
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(Can someone give me a rundown of the assassination, I think I missed that part)
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(Vincent, my baby boy assassin, went on a duty near Atruxiavir and along the way back, found a group of bandits who threatened him. Being who he is, he decapitated all of them and possibly leaned their bodies against the trees in the forest that divide Atruxiavir and Cershestin. He also took all jewelry in possession of the bandits)
(Only people who work within the palace know about this piece of news and that it cannot be revealed to the public as for the time being. Those ‘bandits’ were people from Atruxiavir so it’s only fair that the guards found their corpses while own patrol)
(Oh man, Altrince… how bloody were the murders XD?)
"Your highness," Phoenix responded hiding back her laugh. This situation was more comical at the moment than it probably should be, "He requested for me to take it flr you."
She saw that they were at the doors and gave the princess the necklace back, "I'll go make the announcement now," she stepped through the doors and announced quite clearly and loudly, "All rise for her grand annoyance, Princess Mara."
"No, no I don't mind at all!" Valerie opened her spell book and flipped through the pages, "In fact I have a few spells I would like to try if you don't mind?"
"Eh. Did he? I wasn't really paying attention." She slipped the necklace around her neck, and swept into the room, head held high.
The elderly counselors all looked shocked and horrified at Phe's announcement. "You should not speak of the Princess like that!" One of them said.
Mara waved her hand dismissively. "Oh quiet, you old busybody, I asked her to."
"Sure!" Galen wasn't sure how he felt about it, but you should never say no to a magician. "What kind of spells?"
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(You sure you wanna know? I can explain them in more detail when one of the characters do bring that up to Vincent…)
Pheonix had a smile on and nodded. She was the princess's secretary and friend so it wasn't like this was an uncommon occurrence. Just one that rarely happened, "Indeed she did."
Valerie continued to flip through her book, "Depends on what you want the spell to do. I can shoot water at the walls, possibly have the blood peel off on it's own. Make your cleaning equipment do it tbemselves, though that one can get out of hand at times."
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(Holy shet! I missed a lot!)
Raz was silent for a moment or two after the Sorceress asked the question. "I'd say maybe if there was a big enough reason for us to unite we would, but I think the world would have to be ending for that to happen." She explained as she fiddled with her robes, habit she had developed when she was nervous or uncomfortable. "So yes?"
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“I have a couple of scenarios in mind, where the kingdoms do align…” Wissian smiled, holding the clock on his necklace in his hands. However he wasn’t physically allowed to say anything revealing about those scenarios. To tell the future is to change the future…
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Several advisors stood before Maerda as she paced back and forth in front of her throne. The news of the assassination most definitely shocked everyone in the room, there wasn’t a sliver of doubt that someone from one of the other kingdoms had been the assassin in this scenario.
“The bodies have been recovered and the streets have been cleaned.” One advisor told the queen. “Any witnesses have had their memories removed.”
The queen only nodded, trying to subdue her anger. War was slowly becoming more likely, and when it arrived, her people would be slaughtered.
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Cynthia nodded and smiled at the magicians’ words.
”I see, glad to know you all agree with me on that. I do believe we could be united under certain circumstances yet it’s as unlikely as it is… you two do know about the killings that happened near Atruxiavir, do you not?” the Sorceress asked. It was a Royal only info and it might be great for the magicians to know about this.
Some of the officers whispered about something to which it was quickly reported to the monarch.
”Some reports have said that the killer could’ve been the Cershestin’s princess’ personal assassin, the one miss Versha reported to us before” one of the braver officers brought up. They made sure no one outside the people within the palace heard this piece of information. It cannot be slipped.
Some were still surrounding the bard, though. They were intrigued as to what the musician was doing, taking so long. It wasn’t necessary for the musician to hurry up though. They were still on time.
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The ship landed in a clearing not far from the palace, it's extended landing support softly touch the ground creating the least noise possible. Kreuger opened the door, with his personal ship being high enough for him to stand, he left the vehicle with ease. He expected the Atruxiavir royal guard to arrive soon. "I've arrived safely,sir" The scientist mocked through the badge as if he was ordered by the assassin.
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Vincent heard the man’s voice loud as clearly via his earpiece and through the badge, spoke the words: ”Thanks for the information, sir”
Well, it was only fair to address the mocking man with a mocking tone. He then returned his attention the female. He had realized that his sword had been somewhat loosely sheathed so he pulled it out and re-sheathed it, making a ‘clank’ sound when the handle of the blade hit the metallic heads of the sheath.
Varsha suddenly turned around with a shocking look on her face, what a surprise. Her first idea was just to play around with him, she honestly didn’t think that the idea would’ve work out, heck, this is even beyond her expectation, to the point that even her spirit is about to leave her body. This is the first time in two hundred and twenty years that she had been in contact with men this close, and to be embraced by one this young, this handsome. His face is now next to her neck, under her giant coolie hat, she can even feels his soft breath on her skin. She didn’t know what to do anymore. The face of an ice queen, the emotionless face is now shining bright red, her nose, her cheeks all the way to her pointy ears and she couldn’t even resist it.
”Tee-hee-hee-hee-hee” she quietly giggling from the weird and tickling sensation.
Once the assassin finished licking he stepped back, at that point she was already about to pass out.
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The assassin glanced at eyed her expressions. He decided to move closer to her.
”Are you… sick…?” he asked naively, placing a hand on the guard’s forehead. A loose hair strand came the way of the man to which he used his other hand to get tuck it behind his ear.
”Why is your face so red and warm…?” he asked, placing his other hand, the one he’d previously use to move his hair strand, on Versha’s cheek.
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“I am aware, my lady.” Wissian nodded, rubbing his chin. Something that he would never share with the Sorceress was what the clocks allowed him to see. He would never risk his own life by exposing himself like that. “I have reason to believe that the assassin was sent from Cershestin’s princess, though I can not say why she would do that.”
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When the officer ran in and relayed the news to Maerda that the killer could very well have been from Cershestin, her eyes saw red. “Does that little Princess assume to declare war on us? Surely she knows that would cause an imbalance among the kingdoms.” The queen kept pacing, her dress floating out gracefully with every step. What exactly was going on??
As the assassin touches her cheek which are already as red as a plum, she can feel the heat rushing throughout her body, she chest is pounding like its going to explode, she had never felt anything like this before. Because their height was relatively the same, she can look into the his with her glowing violet irises without a problem.
”You really are an interesting person, I want to remember you.”
”State your name….”
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Cynthia agreed with Wissian’s ideas.
”She’s hotheaded, I know that for a fact. Perhaps the assassination was unintended but I have my doubts” the Sorceress shrugged.
A group of officers came running in and started stating a situation to the Sorceress. She’d lean in and listen. When she understood the situation, she replied with: ”That’s fine, tell the old man to come in first”
The officers were unsure as to how to deal with the situation. Never before have seven of the locals have been killed in such cruel ways. They waited for orders, perhaps from the guards or better, from the queen.
The man wasn’t expecting such a request. He’d question whether or not he’d answer. He gave in…
”Vincent… Vincent is what you can address me by…” his voice, an angelic and soft tone. His face did not show a smile, that was true. However, his actions showed warmth. He slowly leaned in…
Motion and moving can be heard from the wood. Vincent turned towards the sound and went back to his sniper rifle. Not saying a word to the female, he dashed off and into the woods, following the sound and aiming along the way…
However…
When he turned to leave and get his rifle, he had dropped something. It was a pendant, closed and beautifully carved. The man was already gone, and there was no way to tell where he went.