Alcina laughed warmly when Angie ended a story she had told her and took another sip of wine. "No way he did that!", she laughed and covered her mouth with her hand. "Oh he DID", the doll answered and jumped on Alcinas lap, who did not mind. The lady was a little drunk already. Donna also chuckled a bit underneath her veil. Alcina leaned forward. "Do you think Heisenberg remembers this story?", she asked. Donna chuckled and leaned also a bit forward, the wine had made her a little more talkative. "If he does, I wonder why he is capable of drinking his whiskey with that much confidence." They laughed again.
They did not notice that something was not alright until they heard women screaming in horror. Instantly Alcina stopped laughing and stood to her full height enthroning all her guests, looking for the reason for those screams. When she noticed a woman in a cream-coloured dress lying on the ground, her face went white. With four big steps she stood near her beloved Melisande. She breathed heavily, her face distorted in pain, blood flowing out of her mouth. Her eyes had formed tears, when Alcina held her in her arms. She immediately regretted this movement as she felt the warmth of her lover's blood on her arm and hand. "Saiya...", was all Melisande said, before more blood exited her mouth and ruined her dress. Her whole back was scratched open and the dagger was lying next to her.
Alcina felt how sadness and anger started to build up within her chest, how this heat was about to consume her self control, but she held it down. "Miranda...", she whispered, her voice full of hatred. She took Melisande in her arms and carried her to the couch where Donna was still sitting, before running up the stairs. She had to save her daughter. Melisande would not die, she knew she would fight. She reached the bedroom together with Heisenberg, who just hit the door with his hammer and ran in.
The Countess did not know what she was expecting. Saiya sleeping peacefully in her crib? Probably, because her heart was already hurting from the thought alone to lose this baby, her daughter. Maybe it wasn't Miranda who had attacked Melisande, maybe this was just someone who was jealous? But deep within her she already knew the answer. She knew it was the woman, who she had called mother for a long time. She knew it was the woman, who tried to kill her several times. And know this woman would try to kill her from the inside by hurting not herself, but the ones who she loved so deeply.
With shaking hands she bent down and entered the room, but when she heard her brother swearing, she was not able to go any further. She just stopped in her movements, afraid to lift her head, afraid of what she might see. "Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! The damn bitch has her! She's gone! Fuck!" Heisenberg screamed as loud as he could, to prevent the pain he was feeling from reaching the outside. The crib was empty, no trace of Miranda, no trace of little Saiya. She was gone.
Tears left Alcinas eyes, tears of sadness and anger. She felt the heat within her chest grow stronger. "She will pay...", she quietly said, suppressed anger filled her voice. She looked up, into her brother's face on whose cheeks a single tear was shimmering. Her eyes were glowing red from hatred and wrath. " I want her head!!", she screamed before storming out of the room back into the main hall.
When she got there most of the guests were gone, but the lady did not bother, she ran down the stairs and... And she immediately seemed to be frozen in her movements. She could not believe her eyes. Miranda was standing in the middle of the hall, the black mask still covering her face. She smiled victorious, holding the sleeping Saiya in her arms. "I see you finally noticed.", she teased, rolling her eyes dramatically. "If you really loved her, you would have noticed sooooo much earlier.", she let out a laugh. Alcina straightened, extending her claws, ready to fight, but she had no chance. Miranda just lifted her hand like she was choking the air. At this moment Alcina was not able to breathe anymore, she gasped for air and tried to move, but her body did not listen to her commands. "My sweet child, why are you always so naive to believe you could stand a chance against me, the most powerful woman in this whole country." She was about to crush Alcinas thoat, when she sensed something and let her fall to the ground, like she had lost interest in her as a little toy. She looked up to the railing of the stairs. Heisenberg stood there, his face red from anger, but he was not the reason for Miranda's sudden mood swing from spiteful to angry. On the railing a woman was standing, dressed in a white wide robe, a white veil covering her hair and face, she wore no shoes nor gloves and her red tattoos glowed dangerously.
"So you finally show yourself!"Miranda said and let Saiya vanish with a wave of her hand, opening her arms to welcome the lady on the railing. "It's time to decide who has the right to practice his crimes here.", she laughed and took off her mask, showing her face. "Let's end this little game of hide and seek! Why don't you finally introduce yourself properly!?" The woman stayed quiet, so Miranda let out an evil laugh. "Tell your lover who you are 'Melisande'!" She looked at Alcina then at Heisenberg and lastly at Donna and Angie. "My dear children may I introduce you to the youngest, the seventh of the Seven Sisters, the long lost high dream weaver. Or what should I call you?", she took a provocative step in Melisande's direction, smiling evilly, before saying: "Dance with me, Arachne, The Spiders Queen?"
Melisande, now to be called by her true name Archane, seemed unimpressed and did not move at all. Heisenberg backed away from her, but did realize fastly that Arachne would not harm him or Alcina or Donna. The only one who was about to get hurt was Miranda and she had already gone too far. Alcina just smiled proudly, standing again, whispering: "I love you no matter who you are and what name you are carrying. I don't care about those story's told about you, because you never cared about the story's told about me" and she believed that Arachne heard her, because she seemed to look in her direction when she said those words.
When Arachne finally said something, her voice sounded as cold as ice, no mercy. "You want to dance with me? I hope you know that this dance will not be ended by the music of this world ending, but by the melodies of death starting.",she barely moved her right hand, but all of a sudden walls appeared, walls from sticky spider webs, delimiting her and Miranda from Alcina, Heisenberg and Donna. Spiders growled onto them, looking at Miranda with red glowing eyes. "Well, well then let's start, shall we?" She jumped from the railing, the veil did not flow upwards while she jumped and remained close to her face. It looked surreal.
The fight did not start inside the castle as it was so small in space, but they started in the gardens. The woods were behind Arachne when the music in the castle started playing again. I was dark and Miranda had the feeling that something was hiding in the woods. No! Not in the woods, something glared at her from behind this white veil. Not someone, something.
Miranda was the first one to attack. She tried to hit her, but Arachne made an elegant turn and lifted her arm, barely enough to touch Miranda's arm, but it was enough to make the witch gasp for air. When she tried to hit her back, Arachne had already made another turn and was out of her reach.
A fight based on nothing, but magic energies was dangerous and as they both had a massive amount of magic abilities the whole world seemed to start trembling when they hit each other with their magic. Their fight looked like an elegant dance, a dance of hate and anger. A dance of a mother who lost five children and a mother who lost one child.
Miranda hit Arachne in her back before a tree root entwined the Queen's angles to hold her still. Within seconds Miranda hit her multiple times in her stomach and her back, both her most weak points at the time as she had just given birth a week ago. Arachne did not even make a noise when the hits attracted her body all she could think of was her baby and if she had not worn the veil Miranda would have been able to see her massive grin.
This was just a game for her. Playing with Miranda like a cat did with her mouse. The fight had already been decided before it had even started. Everywhere in the area thin threats were shining like silver in the Moons light, sharper than any knife, any dagger. More dangerous than any bullet. When Miranda hit her around she had been able to weave her web, to weave and weave and weave. Her spiders watched them with thousands of eyes, waiting respectfully in the dark, their eyes like red stars.
"Why are you not dying?!",Miranda screamed frustrated when she hit her the hundredth time. "You should be long dead!" All she received as an answer was a loud and cruel laugher from Arachne, who had thrown her head back. "Do you really think you can kill me?", she asked with a sinister, but calm voice. "I think it's time I stop playing with you." She stood, ripping the roots apart like they were paper. Miranda backed away as Arachne straightened herself and raised her hand to grab her veil, pulling on it. When the veil hit the ground Miranda's eyes widened in fear. Arachne just laughed at her sight as she opened her eyes. "Run, little rabbit, run.~"
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The Last Ruby Rose
Fanfiction[Lady Dimitrescu x female oc] Don't like it, don't read it! (contains lemon scenes) ~oOo~ "The lady of the house was born in an era, where the women were desperate to have flawless white skin and even painted little veins with blue paint on their f...
