"Who are you?"
Asked Jodeth with clenching teeth, she knew.
A smile crept onto the lady's face who had her hand in the air. Adward was unconscious, stuck with the wall. His body was bleeding from different parts and his head was hanging down as if the lady was holding him up there with magic, as if he wasn't tied up with anything.
Joseph stepped forward, but Jo stopped him by moving her head in no as there was no way they could fight her, they weren't allowed to use their magic, and she was indeed here to make them do that
It was' Stella '! Their mother.
"You both just look like me, how lovely" she said. Her hand moved back and their father's body dropped on the floor. Joseph ran towards him while Jodeth. She couldn't. She was just standing there looking at her. The daughters are always their mother's shadow self, and she was watching her after 18 years for the first time in her life in a conscious self. She was indeed very beautiful. They were indeed just like her. Stella got closer and closer till she could touch her
She tried touching Jo's face but couldn't. She immediately backed off,
"Do not touch me, we're not related to you anymore!"
She said, she was now looking mad as she could now focus on her father and his unconscious self,
"Oh really ? But all I can see is myself in you. Why would my own daughter say that to me?"
She said with a creepy smile.
Jodeth wasn't a person to be easily manipulated, but it was as if Stella was trying to get in her head.
"Stop it STELLA, I'm in no mood for games. It's better that you tell me straight away what you want and end all of this!"
Stella looked back at their father,
"He was way more handsome before, anyway! I want you both to come with me and do what your mommy tells you to do, okay?"
Joseph stood up. "We won't go against our father, so if you think you can do that you're wrong."
Suddenly, the vases started falling, and the window glasses could be heard breaking down. She wasn't very happy after listening to that.
"I'M YOUR-
The door opened!
It was the guards of Royalty! Jodeth and Joseph went down. They were both asked about who practiced the magic without permission, and they told them about their mother. When they came back upstairs, she was gone, and their father was still on the floor.
"Call Help!"
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Years ago, the town was left by each and every vampire. The originals left to find something to reverse the curse. Entities who were brought to the Town by black magic took over Mysteropia. The town was covered in dark. No other creatures were allowed to enter, but nobody knew who the person or creature was behind them.
Black magic has always been a forbidden thing in every race, tradition and culture and hated by every type and kind of creature present. Even in a town like Mysteropia which was known for its paranormality had its rules to limit certain kinds of magic.
Now years later, when the Vanesons came back to power and finally got their strength back, they made it forbidden for even the witches to practice magic. It was a rule to first take permission and to prove loyalty to the Royals to practice magic in the town! The Magic was only allowed to use for the work under Royalty orders or when someone in charge of royal Positions or tilted under the Royalty services, needs an emergency aid to recover.
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They were taken to the castle for the royal hearing. It was a big hall. Jodeth's eyes were all over the place and Joseph was constantly whispering about how big and aesthetic this was. They were actually stunned by the beauty of The Palace. Their father was taken for emergency aid even though he was a vampire and could easily recover, but Stella's magic made it so hard for him to gain his consciousness back. There was a long big wine red carpet just like the royals have in all those TV shows and movies. As soon as they entered the hall, they felt a very strange and dark aura. All the royal servants and loyals of the originals were seated on both sides of the red carpet pathway. At the end of it was a 'thrown' like big seat on which maybe the 'KING' was seated . They had never seen him before, not this close at least. Joseph felt his hands sweating, even , Jodeth was nervous as the man in front of them was actually intimating. There were some more people who had their own problems and complaints to address.
"Do you think they're going to punish us?" asked Joseph, his voice sounded a little nervous. Jodeth looked at him and gave him a little comforting nod of 'no', "We just need to explain the truth and everything is going to be alright, OK?" Joseph nodded OK.
Even though Joseph and Jodeth were both twins,Yet Joseph was still like her little brother. Jodeth was always an emotionally mature child, of course she had to play the role of a mother in their family. The struggles and situation made her emotionally and mentally mature before the time. While Joseph had always seen her as his emotional support, his sister was always the one he had to run back to, at any inconvenienc. He'd always had his sister as his savior. But who was her savior?
"It's almost the seventh and last case before yours. After that, it's both of your's turn", One of the guard standing behind them, told them to be ready. Suddenly jodeth remembered that she hadn't informed Rose about all of this, and that she might be worried about both of them. The Twins were always that close to Rose as the three were somehow survivors of the same treatment of being an outcast, The tribe always made them feel how they were somehow different from the majority.
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