she's gone now

#11 (reupload)

"Psst!" Someone voiced. "Hey ijekiel!"

"Princess?" Once again he met athanasia in that dream. "Yes it's me!" She smiled.

Ijekiel felt better seeing her there, though she was unreachable in the real world, "how have you been?" She asked. "Im doing just fine. I missed you, lady angel" He blushed.

"Yeah, me too. I never got a chance to say goodbye"

Ijekiel was out of words, from the sadness that is slowly filling up seeing her, "hey don't be like that! You still have lucas.." She reminded.

Ijekiel chuckled "I guess you're right.. He's a great guy, aside him telling his true age now.."
"Oh, he did.. Well he's technically 19 now, since he spent his life sleeping" Athanasia explained, athanasia stand up "welp, what do you need help with!" She changed the topic, perhaps she was running out of time.

"Right. Jennette gave me an invitation to the tea party" He explained, "I figure that lucas can find clues at the castle, while I distract the girls.." He finished off.

Athanasia thinked for a second, "that's an excellent plan, actually." He cheered, "by the time he's searching for clues, you can inspect jennette's manager"

Ijekiel wasn't sure how to see other people's mana, even lucas said his mana was low. "The problem is.. That my mana is low, lucas said that"

Athanasia smiled, ".. Then i have no choice but to hand over my mana to you"
Ijekiel wasn't about to accept it, it was too big of an offer, he stood up "what? I'm not allowing you to do that, princess!" He begged, "I don't know how ill be able to repay you.."

Athanasia stared at him, "I insist. After all, you're gonna be the next emperor." She said with a serious expression. Then faded away.

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Ijekiel slowly opened his eyes, but then

"Hey white-"

"Gah!" Ijekiel shot up from the couch, he swinged his arm across and slapped who ever was in front of his face.

The person fell to the ground, "ouch! Hey what's the big deal, whitey" Turns out it was lucas who ijekiel accidentally slapped. "Wha-?! Lucas?!" Ijekiel kneeled down to check on lucas, since that was kinda a hard slap in the face.

Ijekiel swipe away lucas's bangs to see his cheek "Are you okay?? I'm sorry it was reflect I swear!" He tried apologizing.

But oddly enough, lucas looked mesmerized. "Whoa.. I haven't been punched in years since athanasia did it.." He said. Ijekiel was weirdest out now, "..."

"Yet even my parents has never hit me once" Lucas continues.

".. Okay then, um.. Good for you then uh.. Want me to get you ice packs..?" Ijekiel offers awkwardly. Lucas stood up again, "no. Use magic"

To think of it, how did ijekiel even manage to hit lucas that hard. Athanasia's mana, perhaps? "Well, I'll try?"

"That's the spirit. Go on then" Lucas crosses his arm. Ijekiel focused and focused, then eventually the red mark on lucas's face faded away.

"Whoa.. I did it?" Ijekiel asked himself. "Right you did." Said Lucas.

Ijekiel looked at his hands, then focused on Lucas once more while slightly squinting his eyes to focus.

A sparkling red, purple, and blue things started to circle around Lucas. "That's my mana, not all of it though" Lucas pointed to himself. Ijekiel's eyes we're twinkling in curiosity, he looked around the room, the only lifeless thing that was surrounded by mana was the piece of invitation left by jennette.

Ijekiel walked towards the letter, and it was clear now, the sparkles were blood red and black. Presumably because of black magic.

Ijekiel was committed to pick up the letter. But his hands were stopped by Lucas, "don't touch that," Lucas said with a blank expression.

Ijekiel looked at him, "black magic, perhaps?" He asked. Lucas nodded, "I purified it when I first saw that maid holding it. Though it's hard to get rid of it." Lucas explain.
Ijekiel slowly placed down his hand, then nodded.

Lucas walked away "I've wrote everything down, you know.. The 'tea party's stuff. You can read it later" He pointed to the table, then left the room just like that.

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6 hours later.

"Right. The letter." Ijekiel remembered. He picked up the caramel plate, and below it was the plan Lucas was talking about.

He picked it up, and opens it. Slowly reading the plan, ijekiel automatically understand the plan just by reading the first paragraph.

Ijekiel got up from his bed, then gets ready to go to bed.
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A/N: lol yed