Chapter 6

" My precious beauty, are you back so soon" my adoptive mother started as soon as I entered the house.

Well literally the shanks family had only sons and no daughters and Mrs shanks loved girls. That's when they met me, the poor beautiful orphan. I am a witch so I look far younger than my years, I told them I was 14 at that time and only had a rapid growth and they believed me.

At first she allowed me to stay with them till they found my parents, but no matter the search they found nothing, after all my parents aren't in this world.

" Yeah mom am back, and am so exhausted and hungry" I pouted. " Is it, don't worry, go to your room and rest I would have the chef to cook something for you and send one of your useless brothers to give you a massage" she said patting me.

Mrs shanks literally love and adore me and even spoil me, I want, I get after all am the princess of the house. " But mom, it's almost 3am, am sure everyone must be sleeping, am sure they won't like to get up from bed at this time just to take care of me" I said, well not because I really felt pity for them but just because I love the princess treatment.

" Forget about it, if my beautiful daughter wants anything she would get it everyone's need comes latter, now come on go and have a shower and I would get everything ready for you" mom said caressing my hair.

" Thanks mom, I gotta go, see you later" I said as I walked gracefully back to my room.

Spoiling myself is a foremost priority, so I enjoyed a long hot bath of rose petals. When I came out of the bathroom my adoptive brother Arthur was standing and sulking, obviously he was woken up from sleep.

An array of food and fruits had been kept on my table while mom cleaned my bed. " Thank you mommy ooo, I feel so refreshed after taking a bath" I said sitting on the bed.

" You fool, what are you waiting for, start massaging your sister, the poor girl is so tired" mom said twisting Arthur's ear.

" Come on mom, she stays up all night partying but I have to wake up in the middle of the night go give her a massage" Arthur complained as he started massaging my legs.

" Am sorry brother Arthur, I didn't mean it, it was a class party and everyone was invited, I didn't want to go, mom insisted that I go, don't worry I will just go to sleep" I said feigning innocence.

" Hey that's not what I meant, you know we all adore you, after all you are our baby sis. You just shouldn't be staying out that late" Arthur immediately changed his tone to pacify me.

" That's exactly what you need brat, you just want to trouble my sweet child" mom said hitting his head.

" Mom he is just teasing me, you shouldn't take it so serious" I said to stop her from further chiding him.

" So how was the party" mom asked as she fed me, literal princess huh.

" It was fun, but nothing exciting, just normal party vibes you know" I said I can't possibly tell her all the things I did.

"Since it wasn't fun, do you want to host a party at home for your friends" Arthur asked. " No not really brother, but now I just want to sleep, you two should also go get some rest, I gave lectures in the morning" I said shooing them away.

" Why don't you skip the lecture, it's not that important, get some beauty sleep since you were partying all night" Arthur said yawning.

" It's very important, that's why I need to go, goodnight mom, goodnight brother Arthur" I said.

" Well since you insist, goodnight sweetheart, have a nice rest" mom said dragging Arthur out with her.

Tomorrow is a new day, we know the location of the mermaids golden tears, now we just have to bring it in our possession.

Tomorrows task is for aurora, only she can bring the tears for us from underground.

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Next morning.

" Zephyr, have you done what's required" piper asked. " Yes, I have the blue print of the school" I said handing over a piece of paper to aurora.

After checking the layout auroras eyes turned dark, " So it means the cafeteria is the center of the college. There is always a student or the other in the cafeteria, how am I supposed to go underground then" she asked.

" I can turn into my normal form and scare everyone away, that would give you enough time to go underground" vesper said.

" No, that's not a good idea, we have to do something else, scaring those people out might create so much chaos and people would start coming to see what's happening, if we don't go out with the rest we would be a center of suspect" piper pointed.

" So what can we do now" Aurora asked. I closed my eyes to think of something, am the witch after all so I should be able to come up with a better idea.

Suddenly it hit me, I learnt a spell that can render thousands of people motionless for a few minutes, and when the time ends they continue with their activities without even realizing that they had been motionless.

" I have an idea, but I need all of your help. I have a spell recipe that can render the whole school unconscious for 10 mins, as soon as that 10 mins pass not even a second more they would come back to their senses" I explained. "Then what are you waiting for, recite the spell" aurora said.

" I have to create the mixture first before using the spell. For the mixture I need a silver vessel, Mortua aqua, stasis elixir, immobulus draught, kryptos potion, Nirxias embrace, frigus stabilize, lethargias kiss, Silenus hold, torpors grip, cessatios brew, paralysis petals, stasis stem, and immobilis leaf. Good thing I have almost all that is needed in my secret locker at home, but piper, you have to get the mortua aqua for us. It blooms once in a year deep under the red sea" I explained.

" Okay, I would go right away" piper said. " It's not that easy, the area which the plant grows is deeply guarded by the sea creatures, you need to fight them to get water. After that you need to use a golden fish's skin to retrieve the mortua aqua from the mortua leaf" I explained.

" No, that's not good, you mean to tell me that I have to fight my fellow sea creatures, they should be a way to negotiate with them right" piper asked uncertain.

" Maybe you can negotiate with them, but you have to kill a golden fish. Like I said earlier, to extract the mortua aqua from the mortua plant you are required to use the skin of a golden fish that is dead for less than 5 mins, at that time the skin particles and the required Ingredients of the skin is still active. But if it exceeds that time frame its no longer effective. With that been said you need to capture the golden fish by yourself, kill it, skin it and use it to extract the mortua aqua, you know how important this is to all of us so the choice Is yours" I explained to her.

" Fine, I would go, but this should be the only time You make me kill a family member of mine" piper exclaimed.

" We can know that only when we get our hand on all 30 objects otherwise we will kill as many as it's required, everything else is secondary to this mission". Vesper said.