Spellcast 14: Miseria 2

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As Arthur stood before the plagued lands once more, on that second day, it had finally come to light to him, what sinister thing was growing within the sky above them, as he noticed walking corpses and malicious creatures, now all parading the fog... Right from the centre of the plagued lands, something huge loomed within, reach up towards the sky, reaching over the fog and creating large monstrous stormy clouds above, with seemed to give a loud, low and constant booming sound from within it... Almost like the sound of a heartbeat... Within the clouds, the spread out what seemed to almost be like branches, spreading out across all the sky of the plagued lands, poisoning ever area it touched...

"What is that meant to be...?" Arthur questioned seriously, his eyes narrowing a little to the monstrous unidentified thing within the plagued lands as Ciel seemed to give a somewhat pale look.
"I am unsure myself Sir Arthur... Mistress seems to have lost all the control she had of the plagued lands... From this point, it will just continue to grow out of control... And soon, the time restarts might not be able to hold it back..." Ciel went on, as Arthur's eyes widened to his words...
"What... You mean we now have a time limit?!" Arthur questioned, his tone sounding rather mortified as Ciel kept his head low to Arthur's words...
"At this rate, the entire kingdom would most likely meet a terrible end, and it may be something which spreads past the kingdom, poisoning the entire world..." Ciel then went on, before looking up to the plagued lands. "You are looking at the heart of the apocalypse..." Ciel stated as Arthur face went extremely pale, the grip of his hands tightening as he gave a look of complete frustration... This next few time restarts result would most likely seal the fate of the kingdom... Depending on who died, chose the fate of the entire kingdom... He had already found himself in an unbearable situation, but for things to be timed, not giving him any other choices in the matter...
'What sort of ending would you want for this curse...?'
That sort of thing, beyond this point, had been made irrelevant... Just as he assumed, whatever ending he wanted, didn't matter... For he was bound to two endings, and two endings alone, there was no choice for him in this matter anymore...
"Rosalyn..." Arthur called, raising the teleport stone in his hand, causing pink lights to surround, he, Ciel and Olier...

And when they arrived, Arthur found himself met with a sight that had become more frequent in the main hall...
"No trial again..." he mentioned, looking around as Ciel seemed to become rather restless at this knowledge... So much for the supposed huge trial!
"I knew she was going to be doing something she shouldn't!" Ciel exclaimed, beginning to fly up the tower, much to Arthur's shock, who was rather stunned to see Ciel just fly off.
"E-Eh?! Hey bat, wait up!" he cried, releasing Olier's reign's going to run off, only briefly stopping once again, to look back at his horse.
"Stay!" he told Olier, who grunted in response as Arthur began his climb up the tower. 

"Why... Why would you leave so suddenly like that..." Arthur panted for breath as he walked into Rosalyn's room, running up so many stairs having taken it out of him... And he looked around for both Rosalyn and Ciel, he was rather surprised at the state of the room...  It was almost as though a storm had gone through here, the ingredients and books that were once one shelves now scattered across the place, as though they had been flung off of them by a sudden force...  The entire room was quite a mess, nothing like it's previous rather clean self... He took a few steps in, looking around in slight a daze, when he heard Ciel giving small panicked lectures.
"Mistress you truly are a fool! Had we left you any longer, you could have killed yourself!" Ciel snapped at Rosalyn, who Arthur now found at the back of the room, resting near the window, looking rather pale. She gave a faint smile to Ciel...
"Don't worry, I would stop before I let that happen..." she told Ciel, who still seemed to be rather angry with her actions as he sat on her leg,  giving concerned sounds.
"Say... What's happened...-?" Arthur began, walking closer to Rosalyn, before his words trailed off a little as neared her... All around the floor by her, the window and the book were splatters of blood, some of which even stained that of the book. The blood was quite heavy and a deep colour showing it was from a simple wound, and it all lead to Rosalyn, who despite having seemed to have tried her best to wipe her face clean from the blood, she still had stained hands, and tints of red now showing in her hair... Arthur stopped, a little taken back as he continued his words from before even slower... "What happened in here... Are you okay?"

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