The Castle

After talking at the bell tower, the Kade kids, returned to their vessel to retrieve their belongs which weren't too many for them to carry and began to backpack across Europe. While traveling they went through many cities but due to their emergency, they didn't stick around to enjoy. More importantly though before they left they made sure to head towards the correct direction as to not get lost again.

--Tomas' POV--

After traveling for the days we had finally arrived on to our lands in Verona and were on the outskirts of the city of Aquileia. From our parent's familiars, we knew that the castle was near the coast of the city. As we couldn't wait anymore, we decided to skip the tour of the city and went towards the castle.

After clearly through the forest we came to an opening which beautifully showcased the Adriatic sea gleaming on to it was the late afternoon sun making the sea appear to be glowing. Just up the glowing sea, we spotted our family palace which stood sturdy and ready to protect any who were within it, its off-white stone gave it a revered look as it sat hidden from foreign eyes.

When we arrived at the draw-bridge standing in front of the gates we saw the face that was on the crest our dad gave. A creature with a deer's head with bat wings sprouting from behind it, its limbs tied by an anchor and chain. But that was not the weirdest thing, what was was the sun like object floating above it.

Ivy walked forward and placed the crest in front of the figure on the wall and with a blink of an eye the surroundings changed it became dark desolate and HOT I mean I have never experienced such heat good God I almost melted. The change in temperature was not the only thing that changed the figure in front of us that was craved on to the wall seemed to have come from the wall and become more realistic and the chains around it came undone and from what I could tell we had just set free a demon kin of ours we had no knowledge of.

Demon: Welcome Lords Ladies I was expecting you for a very long time. I may not know how much your parents informed you of but form the different types of blood I smell from you all I can tell it was not much. Now then shall we enter?

Curious we followed in with the demon in tow. We seemed to have been taken straight to a library so grand it would put the St. Peter's Basilica to shame. There were bookshelves lined up one next to another like trees in an orchard... It was beautiful. I gain a sense of calm from all of this as it felt too unreal for this to be built in this era.

Demon: Ahhh! How rude of me I am named Ambrosius and I served your parents since um well a very long time. Now let's get to it here are the books you might need for your next adventure.

Then Am{Ambrosius} raised his hand and piles of books appeared on a table.

--End of Tomas' POV--

The Kades kids were staring at many books but the ones that caught their attention were those geared about magic, demonology, Demon realm and what not.

The Book of the Mystic Arts- Ivy picked it up and began to read. After a couple of chapters, she was shocked by what she learned. It talked about the two types of magic and fell into the Mystic arts, first the Arcane Arts that were used by the witches and most magical creatures and the Dark Arts which were used by the demons.

The Book of Demons- Dave had oddly chosen this book as he was trying to figure out what kind of demon their Buttler was. After some time he found out that the last demon that was seen in this realm was around the same time as Jesus. Other things he learned were the different types of demons in the demon realm. The noble demons that were known by the ancients of the underworld and other special cases.

Book of Realm History- Tom had decided to read this book because he wanted to find a way into the demon realm. What he found was truly eye-opening, it said that after the death of many Pantheons the realms were sealed off by powerful races that wanted the earth to only belong to the humans. Over time the veil between realms loosened giving many a chance to learn its secrets. Some who dabbled in this was the Dutch witches. They had managed to learn the art of banishment and had proven to be useful to those who wanted to seal off the mundane world.

While the others were reading, Lexi was strolling through the shelves until she came across a book that piqued her interest.

Book of the Damned- Lexi gently brought it back to where the others were and started reading. It talked about the mixing of demonic blood with other types of blood, be it human, witch, werewolf and the like. It talked of forgotten races like the Warlocks creatures born from demons. They were immortal for the most part and could perform the dark arts without backlash making them extremely dangerous. It mentioned that these races were able to survive in this realm without demonic energy because they would corrupt the Arcane energy's lay lines of witches into Dark energy lay lines giving them power.

After many hours of reading different books, they eventually found diaries from their parents which showcased their own journeys about how their mother was born from the escaped demon energy within the Marianas Trench and their father was from the ashes of Pompei.

Ambrosius: Now Now. I believe you all should be heading for the nearest lay line as you have ingested blood from other creatures making your demon blood wild. You see after you convert the lay line you should have ample power to find a way into the demon realm and stabilize the demon within you. With the knowledge you have acquired today you should very well know that the entrance to other realms is blocked, so you should hurry and while you are at it I suggest you from consuming blood. Even though you have read it, I will still explain when you arrive in the demon realm you will be perceived as threats from the local regime Queen of Hell Lilith. The reason being that Lucifer MorningStar was out trying to conquer other hell-like dimensions from other cultures like Niflheim, Helheim, and Muspelheim. And now is stuck out of his own realm and the nine circles of hell are under Lilith's control with the Afterlife realm from Egyptians Mythology.

Ivy: That is a lot to process you know and we might not even believe you. So thanks for the advice anyway, but we will just leave and find refuge in a new corner of the world.

Twins: What!? She doesn't mean that we would gladly act on your advice to some degree that is I mean I am kind of interested in becoming the Queen/King of Hell. I like the sound of that. What do you think Tomas?

Tomas: I want to see what our true demon form is like cause from what I have read each demon has his/her own non-human form and I am curious to see ours. As for trusting Am here, I think we should, after all, our parents left us this place if we felt lost or unsafe so why not. I mean we even gave him the urns so what's the harm now?

Ivy: Fine!! I learned that of all the powerful lay lines of the world the oldest is by far the strongest and for the most part all old Acrane sources are under the control of powerful races. But there is one that no one controls, that is an Egyptian tomb of an old king of theirs. The tomb is hidden within a black sand region which the populous call the Land of Anubus.

Others: Wonderful! After we learn the spells and Dark magic we will leave.

Am: That should be no problem as long as you leave within 30 years and that is you stop blood consumption.