Avoid The Lead! [[COMPLETED]]

17. Puppet

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The wedding night was as enchanting as Celia had imagined, as Taze carried her into their room, gently laying her on the bed.

He kissed her forehead and whispered, "Happy Birthday, my Love."

Celia blushed as he tenderly kissed her lips, his hands reaching up to untie her corset laces...

Teenage Celia gasped and turned away, grateful for her invisibility!

But mind Taze chuckled, patting her head. "I wouldn't have let you watch much further! You're still sixteen!"

With a snap of his fingers, the scene changed, but not by much.

The older Celia now lay in a sheer white nightgown, sleeping in the warmth of Taze's arms, but sometime close to midnight, she rose from the bed, trance-like, and made her way out of the room.

'What am I doing?!' Teenage Celia wondered, watching herself move through the dark palace, her green necklace softly glowing.

'Where are the guards?!' Teenage Celia glanced around, but much like in all her lives, no guards were in sight as her older self walked out of the palace and into the snowy landscape she would come to detest in later lives...

Just beyond was a clearing which spanned for miles and miles, and she usually died somewhere around there!

The older Celia's bare feet sank into biting snow with each step, but she didn't seem to notice, walking right through the trees, and into the dreaded clearing...

Celia watched anxiously, as the winter winds whistled, and as the older Celia approached a hooded figure, who stood within a red magic circle.

The figure pulled back his hood to reveal fair blonde hair, which lightly fluttered in the wind and blue eyes which gleamed in the moonlight.

And this was when the older Celia snapped out of the trance-like state, and she drew in a sharp breath of freezing air.

"Wh- what is happening here?" She wondered, glancing around.

"My Queen." Vitav gave a taunting bow. "I'm glad you could join me."

"Y- You!" She hastily waved a hand, and her white nightgown was covered by a thick white cloak. "Shouldn't you be exiled?!"

An annoyed look crossed Vitav's face. "Why bother?" He calmly asked. "You, the one who harmed my mother and I... I wouldn't touch you, even if you had no clothes on." He directed a spell at her, but she evaded, and then retaliated with a spell, which sent him flying backwards.

But as he lay on his back, Vitav laughed. "Go ahead and kill me." The calm in his voice sent a chill down Celia's spine, and she had the unsettling feeling that something was wrong.

"This life is over, anyway." Vitav continued. "But before you kill me..." He snapped his fingers and a cold sensation washed over her, making her feel like she was frozen in place.

No... This was far worse.

Her mind was alert and wide awake, but she had no control of her body, and she felt herself falling to her knees against her will!

'The Mind Puppet spell!' Both Celias thought at the same time.

The Mind Puppet spell was a dark spell which granted the caster power over the spell's target. The Caster could make the target do their bidding, exactly like controlling a puppet.

"Father never bothered with me... And nor did my dear little brother." Vitav was saying as he rose from the snow, dusting flakes off himself. "So no one ever knew my core magic had been corrupted. I can use dark spells at will."