Capital city Cassiopeia, a white crescent moon was shining in the midnight sky, a smaller scarlet moon was shining beside it, giving a bloody hue to the surroundings.
A carriage, with two beautiful white horses pulling it, was running along the road; various light posts lit up the path.
Suddenly, the carriage took a right turn from the square and entered a dark alley,
"Albert, that's not the way." A woman's voice came from within the carriage.
"….."
"Albert !" Women sounded angry.
Carriage stopped somewhere Deep in the alley,
A young woman adorned in beautiful violet dress emerged from the carriage, she wore a beret hat with a veil covering her eyes and half of the face. Her golden hairs held by a silk ribbon was flowing behind her back.
"Albert, what's the meaning behind this?" She demanded in a frustrated tone, she conjured a golden light orb in front of her which illuminated the dark alley.
Plop,
The driver dropped sideways, falling in front of her feet.
Albert was dead, his headless corpse was laid on the cold cobbled streets of the alley. Blood flowed from his neck reaching the woman's feet, a round object flew from top of the carriage, where Albert was sitting, rolling down the street.
Golden light from the orb revealed its form, it was a severed head with beautiful silver hairs, appearing to be severed along with the head, only the whites of it's eyes were showing.
"Albert"
The woman gasped removing her feet from the blood, taking out a short white wand, out of thin air, she got into a defensive stance.
There was no one there, the alley was desolate, at its one end was the street where the carriage came from, bright lights of the Main Street were visible at a distance of couple hundred metres.
At the another end was a shabby looking square which was lit by a flickering light post, a hundred metres away, nothing was visible beyond that.
"You look breathtakingly beautiful as ever " A man's soft voice echoed from behind her back.
She turned around, an ominous black flame appeared on top of her wand. She, stared blankly at the empty space behind her.
"Stop hiding and show yourself", her blue eyes, filled with anxiety, scanned the surroundings.
"I'm here to save you…." the man's voice echoed in the alley,
"…"
"….From yourself, Olivia"
A young man clad in black leather jacket appeared in front of her, three earrings in each ear dangling around his pretty face, his eyes were shining bright red. A crimson cape fluttered on his back.
Black flames shot towards the man as he stepped closer to Olivia, flames stopped just before reaching him, as if he was surrounded by an invisible barrier.
Olivia kept firing all offensive spells, that she knew, toward him, but none reached the man.
"You !" Olivia gritted her teeth,
"My oh my, I'm only here for one thing" man leaned closer, his lips almost touching Olivia's ears, as he pulled her dress down her shoulders, revealing the pale skin.
"There it is"
An ominous symbol was present below her neck between her plump upper body parts, which was half exposed by now.
An archaic pentagram glowed faintly, emitting a faint purple light.
Olivia flinched,
"how did you know?"
"call it my experience" an evil smile appeared on the man's face, ' more like trauma' the man mumbled to himself.
"Now sleep" he whispered in Olivia's ears, she fainted as if obeying the man.
An unremarkable carriage approached the alley from the direction of the dimly lit square and stopped in front of the man.
"Sebastian, take her to the Fenice estate and clean up this mess", the man pointed towards Albert.
"Yes, young master"
The man disappeared into the alley.
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Elijah stood in front of the mirror with a stupid looking grin on his face, caressing the crimson gown that was draped over his shoulders.
"Let's begin our first expedition."
His reflection disappeared from the mirror as he activated his cape.
Elijah slowly opened the door, observing the guard standing in front of his door, he quickly closed the door and returned to his room.
"Well, as expected", he took out a vial containing silvery viscous fluid and drank it, the red eyes of his phoenix pendant started to glow.
'That should be enough for tonight', he touched the door and a faint light emerged from his palm surrounding the door, the red lights dimmed in the pendant.
' this should create a good enough illusion'
He opened the door and got outside, closing the door behind him and locking it with a key.
The guard heard the lock clicking, but he couldn't see anything from the outside.
Elijah observed the guard for sometime, then strolled off into the palace, remaining invisible all the time.
' magic feels good' he caressed the pendant while moving down the stairs,then towards the balcony of Artoria's bedroom.
'Yup, there's definitely something wrong my head'
After a while he stood below his aunt's balcony which was on the third floor.
He took out a pair of gloves, various runic carachters were inscribed on the gloves, forming a circle.
'Spider gloves, a fitting name' Elijah praised the gloves in his head,
He slowly started to climb up,
'it's time for all that training to pay off'
Shortly after he was sitting on the balcony's short boundary, observing Artoria's room, which was exuding feminine scent.
'Where is she ?'
The room was empty,
' don't tell me I did all this for nothing'
Elijah sighed inwardly, feeling disappointed he was thinking about returning to his room.
Click!
The door to the bathroom opened,
' My oh my, isn't it my lucky day'
Elijah got down the boundary and stealthily walked into the room,
Artoria was wearing a silk robe, more like a bathing gown, she walked towards the balcony and closed the door to the balcony.
Standing in front of the mirror she removed the towel covering her wet hairs and started drying her hairs with magic.
Elijah was leaning against a wall while observing her from the farthest corner of the room.
The room was soon filled with a sweet smell,
' if you ignore all her manic tendencies during training, she's definitely a heavenly beauty.' Elijah commented in his head.
After drying her hairs Artoria untied the ribbon of the gown around her waist, revealing her skin between the two flaps of the robe.
' Wait, I'm not ready for that' Elijah's ears turned red.
'I'm just eight-year-old right now and I'm just curious, there's nothing perverse with my actions here, right ?' Elijah asked himself,
' what have I become, god ? It's your fault, why did you made me like this?' Elijah started talking to the god and blamed everything on him,
' yes, it's because of you that I died a virgin and became such lecherous child. You are the one at fault here, not me. I'm just an insignificant individual, and I'll carry your wish' Elijah started convincing himself for his actions with utter nonsense.
Artoria removed her robe, putting it on the dressing table, her pale skin was fully exposed revealing it's full feminine allure.
Elijah stopped with his nonsense and was mesmerised by her beauty, he started walking towards her.
Artoria's eyes narrowed as she turned around and started walking towards Elijah's direction with a tense look on her face.
Her full frontal body covered Elijah's view, her body jiggled in a hypnotic manner making Elijah's heart to beat as if a humming bird was trapped inside his chest.
Elijah stood still like a statue, Artoria stopped just a feet apart from him. He started sweating like crazy,
'That's a poor choice for a tattoo',
Elijah suddenly frowned in his head, temporarily forgetting about his quite perilous situation, an archaic pentagram glowing with a faint purple light was etched on her pale skin just below her neck, at the centre of her upper body, between the two manifestations of a man's dreams.
'It gives off quite an ominous presence, it's giving me chills' Elijah's eyes were glued to the symbol.
Artoria sniffed the air in front of her,
" you brat!" Artoria exclaimed in an angry and confused manner.
Waving her hand she casted a spell which revealed Elijah standing in front of her, his face was just a few away from the purple tattoo below her neck.
Elijah's face was sweating like crazy while he maintained his poker face, staring straight ahead.