“I am pretty sure I came here to be convicted, not to witness a flock of goody two shoes angels burning down the Great Forest.” Maleficent’s voice was full of disbelief as if she was really aghast with the idea of the holy flames engulfing the entirety of the meadow and the Great Forest. Stepping forward, the ground trembled for her beloved familiar followed suit. With its wings were used like a cane, thumping its edges on the ground.
“The Calamity Dragon! Oh no!”
“Run! Ru–un for your lives!”
“Fly, everyone!”
“Hide!”
“To the Great Forest! Let us hide there!”
The frenzied crowd behind the Methuselah tree dashed away. Some were too caught up that they forgot they had wings yet they ran with their tiny feet. While the others who managed to remember that they could indeed fly through magic or wings, bumped into each other in the air – causing quiet a ruckus
“And that’s it? They just let you leave like that after being the bringer of chaos, girlie?” Matilda asked with her incredulous tone as if she did not believe what she said. After seeing her nod her head, Matilda was taken aback. “Oh, wow. That is not like the Trilateral Court members that I heard so much about. Many composed songs for how righteous the grand maester is. Dismissing is you is like putting aside his ethics.”Matilda, who was sitting at the railings of the Empire State Building, had her back against the night view of the city lights of New York. Her curiosity over what transpired in the sacred meadow of the Ambivalent world weighed more in her rotting brain rather than the glittering lights of the Human Realm which could be compared to fairy lights when they played at night.“Matilda, dude, the logic is a bit obvious,” said Levi the Envious. He was standing on the railing with his back against them. Hands in his p
“What? What is happening?” Matilda, who was being carried by Apollo Sky, shook her courier’s collar as soon as they landed on the rooftops of Transylvania Academy. “Hey, watch it!” The apprentice angel grunted after admonishing the squirming zombie in his arms, though his eyes were also trained to the myriad of students on the ground – forming in clusters as they whispered words of heresy. The chatters of the students from all sorts of races mixed, reaching the skies – reaching them. “What is happening?” Levi the Envious, who stepped out from the shadow portal next to Apollo Sky and Matilda, looked down from the rooftops they were standing on. Standing at the edge of the rooftop, Apollo Sky, helped Matilda down. His hand was around her waist the entire time until the latter was able to stand on her own and away from the windy edge. “Looks like something big happen. I don’t know. I can’t hear them.” He leaned his body more but still heard incoherent mu
“Don’t tell me to calm down, Levi!” Merlin snapped which made Levi the Envious raised his hands while shrugging his shoulders. The necromancer continued. “It’s the headmaster…”Matilda was the first one to jump at Merlin when the latter stopped from whatever he was about to say. “Fucking say it!”Maleficent and the others waited for Merlin’s news although Maleficent had already an inkling from what was happening.“…He’s dead.” “HEADLESS… THE VERY BEING who maintained this neutral zone safe from all the conflicts of the three realms, is dead and murdered inside the very school he wished to protect all his life. Mangled and degraded like a common traitor, our beloved headmaster deserved nothing but justice.” Ariel of the Benevolent Dormitory was crying and hiccupping in the monito
“Your Grace, please stop.” The hollowed voice of the goblin standing several arms length away from the hunched form of the once proud demon lord resonated inside the dimly lighted room. The zaps of lightning bolts flashing and peeking through the tightly closed curtains of the lavish room could not penetrate the darkened room for all the shadows of the three realms were hissing and whispering in every crevice of the duke’s self-imposed hole – a hideout from all the problems he was enduring as if he was back to the time when he lost his wife and when he had to give up his daughter.Sitting in front the green flames of the dying firewood in the cackling fireplace, the gleam from the half emptied whisky glass flashed like a mockery to the frowning goblin. “Stop what, Gukasho?” He barely glanced at his aide as he continued his words filled with anguish and self-hate. “Stop breathing? I’ll be damn if I can only do that right this mom
STANDING TALL AND IMPOSING as ever, the raven locks of the horned being was the first thing that Maleficent noticed before his words registered in her mind. Fresh from the darkness she was being swamped by, her glowing green eyes were welcomed by the onslaught of light around her. Her gaze zeroed to a pair of flaming ruby eyes looking at her with equal intensity.The memories of their last conversation flashing in her mind surged for a fraction of a minute before his words registered fully in her frenzied mind. “Damon,” said Maleficent the Glutton. Her voice was even though the pounding of her chest said otherwise.“Who? Who killed headmaster?” Matilda’s voice was frantic.Maleficent could not help but looked at her friend in a passing second before she turned her attention back to Damon, who was standing a few arms length away from the tree she was being
Maleficent the Glutton was now clad in a black dress paired with black net stockings and black high-heeled boots. In her right hand was a lily, Headmaster Kirk’s favorite flower. She stood among the students and faculty members of Transylvania Academy. But unlike those around her, she watched the memorial service of the academy’s father under his most beloved tree Ygdrasil with dry eyes.She looked at her east and saw Matilda beside Apollo Sky crying her eyeballs out. A knowing smile appeared on Maleficent’s face as she watched the unlikely duo. She had been seeing the apprentice angel around her zombie friend lately and the reason why she did not talk to Apollo Sky about it was because Maleficent could see that her rotting friend was practically glowing around his presence. With Matilda wiping her tears with the handkerchief he had given her, he was speaking near her ear as if he was consoling her through his own way. Though she made him know that she was w
“TELL ME THE truth, Gabriel. Am I really Aurora? Am I really that child’s mother? Did I really sleep with a demon lord? The grand duke of the Nether World at that! I sworn enemy!” Selaphiel paced back and forth in front of the guardian angel Gabriel the Faithful. She was inside his room to talk about the scene in the sacred meadow of the Ambivalent World. Specifically, her memory remained transfixed in that moment rather than the time when she often visited her in the dungeon because Selaphiel’s last encounter with winged Halfling made her chest throbbed with unknown ache, the dull ache lingered longer compared to the pain she would feel when she saw the grand duke of the Nether World.Gabriel the Faithful who was sitting on his lavish one-seater couch while reading, did not look up at the pacing guardian angel in front of him. His gaze remained fixated on the pages of the book he was reading as he opened his lips. &ldquo
“I will believe it right away if you are only pranking us about your death rather than believing that you are utterly defeated by that damn demon king,” said Maleficent the Glutton.The sky was dark. Crows screeched, signaling the setting of the sun. The chilly pre-night breeze whipped the lone winged Halfling who was clad in her black-colored knightly uniform minus the presence of her brooch. Her silky waist-long raven hair swayed as her head was cast down.Darkness crept in chasing all the light away. The veil of the night was like the final nail to the coffin – the fact that Headmaster Kirk was really gone for even the great tree Ygdrasil was yet to bloom ever since the death of the sacred tree’s guardian.“I never strike you to be the denial type, Halfling,” said the voice from behind her. His voice was like a balm to a scalding surface that Maleficent the Glutton was currently feeling beneath her calm and collected fa&cce