Chapter 7 - The Past 1

Christian couldn't shake the fear in him. Exium warned him and he didn't listen.

He remembered seeing her body laying on the bed wd with shadows around her. The scariest part was her true figure. Her soul was out of her body and floated around yhe small room woth a mind on its own. It was the colour of her eye with long antennas on her head.

They seemed to be transferring something into her pale body. He left before he was caught.

"Are you okay?" Exium aaked him. "You didn't listen did you? Consider yourself lucky you weren't caught." He whispered in his ear.

"Where's Edrea?" Exium asked Christian. He shrugged his shoulders. Exium waved his hands and plants crept their way to her room and and dragged her from bed.

They heard her muffled curses." Good now the whole family is here, isn't it lovely." He waved his hands and the plants threw her on Christian's lap.

"What's lovely about all this nonsense?" She hopped from Christians lap amd sat far from him. " Silly me, we're forgetting two members." Two plants threw Faust and Luna on her lap. 'You this witch!' Luna hisses at him

She was in the middle of eating cat food in her dream and he ruined it. "Don't be angry it will be worth it after this talk." He watched Christian.

Luna gave him an annoyed look and layed comfortably on her master's lap while Faust hid in her sash.

"What talk Exium?" Celeste asked him. "Looks like you weren't listening when I was talking were you?" He snapped his fingers and a plant whipped her back.

"What was that for?" She sedthed rubbing the sting. Aside from his perverted use of magic, when he wants to be serious he can be. He can be also scary and had an innocent face when torturing his victims with his creeping friends.

"Now let's get to business." He pulled their seats closer to them. Christian gave Celeste a confused look.

"I'm Exium as you all know." He stated. "Can you get over with this. We already know your name." She rolled her eye at him annoyed.

"Did i ask you to talk Edrea?" He asked her innocently. A plant whipped her back. "What was that for!" She glared at him. The stinging was more painful than the first one. She blew on it to cool the sting.

Christian gave the plants behind Exium a weary look. As beautiful as they looked, they gave powerful whips.

"This is a once in a life time opportunity considering you're weak at this stage or you would have burnt my friends." Exium gloated.

"Alright no interruptions or you would have a taste of my friends." He gestured to the plants behind. The two nodded their heads.

"Im Exium a green witch. We deal with nature that is, plants. We also know alot of history concerning plants obviously." He said.

"We have other witches like the mages also known as the elemental witches. They are powerful. But using too much of an element drains their energy thereby consuming them to the void."

"Then Celestial witches who use astrology. They also use the zodiac signs to enhance or amplify their power. They're also known as the cosmic or star witches."

"Enchantress, a seductress. Be ware of those vermin." He snorted disgusted. "As beautiful as they look, they're monsters as soon as they say the word, 'The enchantress '. They are also powerful."

"Shape-shifting witches are the horrible ones of them all. They take the shape of anything they want. Also possessing the same strength and abilites."

He paused and looked at Christians now curious face.

"Then we have you, a seer."Celeste glared at him to stop.. She didn't want to tell him thks early. One it could awaken his powers to quic3whichbwas bad news. Exium ignored her. The sooner he told him the better. " Me? " Christian asked Exium confused.

" Yes you the symbol on your chest proves it." He said. " Your a seer for the Laveau Witches. That's where Edrea comes from. " He looked at her.

She was sensitive to the topic so he tried as much as possible to avoid talking about it.

" The Laveau witches were slaughtered by the Royal Family in cold blood because of a love affair between Amethyst Laveau and King Kasmir. " Christian watched Celeste silently. So that's why she was cold to him the time they met.

"Why do you call her Edrea if you don't mind me asking?" He asked watching Celeste watching for any response instead she sat still with a blank look on her face.

"Edrea was the leader of the Laveau witches at that time when Amethyst, her sister fell in love with King Kasmir. She was known as the Shadow Witch." Christian rose his eyes when Exium said at that time ans he wondered how old they were.

"Shadow witches are rare. They have all the types of witches powers. The prominent one is the use of shadows as you saw her use. It takes a lot of energy." He nodded in understanding but still had a question.

"What does it have to do with me?" He asked ans Exium grinned.

"Why don't we just travel to the past?" Exium suggested and Christian frowned. "How would we do that?"

"Edrea will guide us since she has that ability." She snapped her head at him reacting to him for the first time. "Forget it. Im not doing it." She snapped at him.

Memories of the her sister and how she was killed hurt her and she wasn't ready for a second wave of them. "Please Edrea i also want to see my past too." He begged.

She sighed. She wanted to see how her sister died because King Kasmir couldn't kill her. She wasn't sure but she said agreed she said nodded.

"Take off your shirt Christian." She coughed. Exium smirked at her. "Now look who's perverted."

She rolled her eyes at him. " Do you want to do it or not?" He nodded. "Am done." Christian opened the last button.

Celeste watched his upper body with a tint on her cheeks. He was muscled like he had been sculptured by the gods themselves.

A cough brought her to reality. "Are you checking him out?" Exium smirked when he saw the tint on her cheek. Christian noticed her eyes lingered on him for long. "Well now lets start and it's best if your creepy friends stay away from here." She ignored what Exium said.

Exium waved his hand and his plants slithered from the area.

"Faust come here." Faust crawled to her. She grabbed his tail and he turned to a circle blade that gave a purple glow . "Christian this is going to hurt alot considering your powers haven't been awoken yet." She waved the blade in her hand.

A circle appeared on the ground below them. She watched Christian before touching the symbol on his chest with the blade. The symbol appeared inside the circle and gave a red glow.

" We haven't started yet. Hold your hands and don't loose your grip.. Christian prepare yourself for the pain." She said.

"Illuminate aperire inanis. Cum potestate videntis, aperire!" She yelled and place her blade on the symbol. The symnol glowed purple then black. It forced its way into Christian's chest who loosened his grip on her hand.

"Don't loosen your grip!". She held both Exium and Christian's hands tightly.They looked like they were about to pass out. Meanwhile they were the ones that forced her into doing this.

Christian felt his body electrify. The pain spread all over his body that he loosened his grip on Celeste's hand. He felt his heart rate pivk up and became dizzy by the second while his whole body became exhausted.

Celeste clicked her tongue in annoyance. She didn't think he would be this weak. Her power was drained enough and she didnt want to pass out. She could loose control.

Weighing her options, she decided to use hers. "Retexam mei verba. Uti umbra pythonissam pro viribus meis. " The shadow made its way into her chest illuminating the other tattoos on her skin. She gritted her teeth in pain. It intensified by the second.

"tunc e converso," she muttered and the circle glowed pulling them into the void.

Darkness, that's what they saw. They look at their bodies ans realized they were shadows themselves. "This is cool!" Exium said beside Christian.

Celeste was in front and wavered her wau through flying objects. "Stop talking and concentrate. We're going a century back im time." She turned her attention to them.