The Queen and the Crystal Vol. 3

Ch. 12 Jezebel's Next Steps

Simultaneously, back in the castle on the terrace , Jezebel was pacing back and forth waiting for news from Dr. Phobia. Bulk and Skull stood aside waiting for instructions from their beloved Queen.

Jezebel was puffing as she turn each walk.

"He should have been done by now! What is taking so long?" the Queen was shouting to her servants.

"Well my queen he has to make sure that there is no point of return for them." Bulk answer her question. She roar at them, but was more like a yell of 'get away from me' type. With hair-raising feeling they try to run but instead they ran into each other. Jezebel was disappoint with them and just sigh.

"Fools."

"I'm just sure he having too much fun. I can go and retrieve them." Sir Beast said as he began walking out.

"No! Sir Beast, wait just a moment." She call for him. He turn to her with a confuse face. "I have notice something lately. About you mostly."

"My lady? What kind of things?" Sir Beast ask her.

"Well, to start, you have been eager to go down and get them. Why? Have you been thinking about something? Are you feeling something different to our enemies?" She said, he stood there with a serious look and said, "No. There is nothing going on."

"I can sense that something is troubling you Sir Beast. Especially when you see the Princess and Ben. You have been going easy on them. Why?."

"I guess since those two are our main target I just don't want to lose the sight of them."

"I seen that you haven't too rough at them...let me...The princess was there just around the time you and I met. And Ben has been working for the queen long before that." She told him. Somehow he felt uneasy all of the sudden. He was grasping his handle of the sword tight. He can think straight, his mind is just as confuse as he is.

"How do you know Ben?" she ask him. He gasp, he didn't think she was going to ask him a ridicule question. After all, they have never met before. But long before he had felt something about them.

"I don't my lady! I have never met him before the battle!" he said to her.

She study him, hard, and told them to wait. Since he wasn't going to talk she might as well let him go. He walk out and headed to his room.

As soon as he was out of sight She call out Edgar. He came running into the terrace gasping for air.

"Yes... My queen?" he said in between breaths.

"I beginning to worry for Sir Beast. I think it wearing off." She told him as she stare straight at the earth. During the whole time she did not once turn her head to Edgar.

"Wearing off? It's impossible. It's not supposed to wear off until the next century. What can be causing him to lose it?"

"Don't act like you don't know. It's that brat with her crystal. It been shining so much that it cleaning the darkness off of Sir Beast."

"Yes. It has been shining a lot. I was afraid of that. Well, I guess start a new batch but it will take me awhile."

"Fine! Do what you need to do. And if you need anything just ask those buffoons there to help you."

"Yes My Lady." Edgar said and he went back to the lab and began working on the potion for Sir Beast.

Standing there still, Jezebel just stare out to the unknown. Angry at the princess Rebecca. Even not in presence she somehow got a hold of one of her loyal henchmen. That was Jezebel last straw, now it's not about the crystal it getting back at her too. She will come up with a nefarious plan, a plan where she will leave her at her mercy. Something that the princess has no choice but to surrender. But this plan will take time to come up, Jezebel thought to herself.

Concurrently, Sir Beast was in his room sitting on the chair waiting for orders. But he began to sweat greatly. He went to the sink that was in the far side of the room and wash his face. As he wash his face he try to scrub off himself, mentally, about these new feelings he's been having. He then look up into the mirror and saw two figures. Both women, one was a much older woman, while the other was younger. Both have same features, same eyes, same lips and by the looks of it, same spirit. He was puzzle, why is he seeing these two women here in his mirror. He place his hand on the mirror trying to see if they were real but the mirror stood as a shield keeping him from getting to them.

"Who are you?" he ask the spirits in the mirror. Then suddenly he remember a dream from a couple of days ago. He was standing in this white clear room and from a far he saw a woman, just like the older woman from the mirror, she smile at him and gave him a hug. She then grab him by the hand and show him a bassinet and inside was a baby. He woke up from seeing the child.

"You're the one in my dream! But who are you? And what do you want from me?" he order the woman to answer. She just stood there, standing next to the other. He then look at the younger woman. He's eyes open wide when he saw the younger woman. Something that took him unexpected. It was the Princess Rebecca standing next to the woman.

"No! Why are you here!" he shouted at the mirror. Then he pound at the mirror shattering into a million of pieces. His hand were bleeding but that wasn't his concern. It was more to the women in his mirror. He didn't know how to take this information so he began to yell like a mad man. He squeeze his head as though it hurt.
"Get out of my head!" he yelled the image was burn into his mind. He walk to his bed when finally he stop out of nowhere. He fell on his bed, asleep. It seem as though someone knock him out. By the door, Jezebel stood there with the staff pointing at him. She had put him into a sleeping trance.

From behind here Edgar was watching. He was amaze that the effect was wearing off quickly.

"Now you know how important it is for you to have that potion ready for him." She told him.

"I see. But my lady to make a potion to last longer will take a while but I can make something that can go little by little." Edgar told her.

"Longer?." She said.

"Yes it might take a week or so..."Edgar explain. Jezebel thought for a moment maybe she can reason with the princess.
"Edgar, nevermind about the potion."
"My queen?"
"I have an idea. Get Sir Beast ready... He has to look good for the princess."
She both walk down the hall back to the

Once she was back, her orb began to glow. She place it in front of her ready to speak with whoever it was. It was Dr. Phobia who appear in the orb. He seem upset about something that Jezebel doesn't want to see.

"What is it Doc?" Jezebel said in an angry tone.

"I'm sorry my lady I think I have fail. I only have two left. The rest have gone to rescue them." He told her.

"Damn! Alright I'll be there soon. Don't let them out until I get there. I'll deal with them."

"Oh My lady one more thing. I have also got the last two, Athena and Ben."

"Really?" She said. She never thought her plans will work this fast, "I never thought of them to be there. It's a dream come true. Alright, keep them there until I arrive."

"Yes My lady." Dr. Phobia said to her.As soon as he was gone,she began throwing a fit she start throwing stuff across the room. But once she clam down she remember her plan.She began with this raving mad laughter.
"Aw princess, your life is going to end...everything you hold near and dear will be gone!" She continue laughing. One way or another she will get her way.