Dark Hearts (Golden Heart AU)

Chapter Fifty-five

Last time on DarkHearts: "Don't judge someone based on their family line." both clinked their cups together in cheers. Ella was very proud of herself, she had not only tricked and spelled all of her friends and family she had also gotten the drop on this demon. She was out to fulfill her own agenda, was it for good or bad? Would it bring light or dark? Was she worse than the demon across from her? And who would survive to see history rewritten by this menace with angel eyes, by this devil in disguise.

~~~Now~~~

Varian Laid on his stomach in his workshop playing with Vera, how he missed Ruddiger. There was a knock on the door, so he picked her up and made his way up the steps as the knocks persisted "I'm Coming, I'm coming. Jeez let me get up the stairs."

He opened the door and saw Jay who looked to be having a panic attack. With Uma trying to calm him down. "Hey kids what's wrong?"

"Hi, Varian, can we uh" she gestured down stairs, "talk."

He nodded and the three made the journey down stairs Jay was hyperventilating the whole time. "What's going on?" He asked playing Vera on the floor and pulling out the two stools at his work desk for Uma and Jay to sit while he leaned on the wall.

"We got through to Ella. But she couldn't give us much. She told us to come to you and ask about the places Rapunzel and Eugene had been."

Varian winced, "I wasn't at all of them and i was in prison for a lot of it."

Uma tilted her head, "Prison?"

He scratched the back of his neck. "I may have sorta maybe helped overthrow Corona at one point."

The young woman's eyes widened, "and they didn't..." she trailed off. He clenched her fist "Oh the next time I see Belle and Beast I'm gonna," She went off in a rant. It was in a language neither boy could understand. She calmed herself down and nodded at Varian, "Please tell us what why might encounter."

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Ella sat on the floor of her room, well not exactly her room, it was her room in her mind palace. A beautiful room of amethyst walls and golden furniture with the softest sheets and bedding the mind could think of and a wonderfully plush rug. If the blond had known how her younger siblings had been treated while she was living in here for the last 12 years, she would have lost her mind. She was not chained, she was not encased in glass, she was not forced into a take of water never to feel her legs again. She was living like a princess. She thought they all were treated like the royalty they are. She was sitting crisscrossed with Andreana right across from her both leaned over a map of Ella's mind. "We should make them work for it to see how loyal they are to me." Ella ran a hand through her golden locks, "right?"

Andreana nods her black locks bouncing with her. "We need to know you can trust them, I say we hold you here," she pointed to a place on the map that looked like Cassandra's string hold. "We'll reshape it and move it so that its at the back of your mind. The question is what obstacles do you want them to see."

She put a hand on her chin, "Definitely my memory storage." she waved her hand and it moved towards the front of the map.

"We should let them go through your imagination vault too." Andreana swiped a finger over said image and moved it behind her memory storage.

"Last is my dreamscape."

Andreana grabs her wrist "What about your family gallery they need to think you still care."

Ella grins, "do you really think me so careless, Reana." she waved at the map and it got bigger, "It's the first location they have to pass though. It's dressed up like my throne room."