Ok all I have written since Madness's last bit
Frankie sat in her chambers, she was concerned, the power it took to keep Jack under her control was draining, she knew even though his subjects and wife had been subdued by the Shadow that her grasp on the kingdom was fragile, her paranoia controlled her every move, looking to her crystal ball for ever decision, more and more, even what to eat, should it change the future. Although the future is fluid and changes, she knew that, rational people knew that, but Frankie was no longer rational. Her obsession with Jack after he left her, citing her xenophobia as a reason he could no longer respect her as his queen. Although he left her well cared for and supported, with a comfortable castle, grounds and subjects to look after her, needing for nothing, never needing to work or worry about being provided for, she still bitterly resented him. He left her, he told all the kingdom that he didn’t want her, how dare he do that, she was the most perfect creature ever created, He would learn that and return to her on his knees.
A strangely dressed man had appeared at her door step offering her everything her heart desired, he called himself ‘Ste’ and wanted only in return a sacrifice, someone to suffer pain and heartbreak unlike anyone else. Well that was easy, she didn’t need to be asked twice, she picked her youngest Son’s Partner, a kindly English teacher, who adored her son, and her Son adored him, yet Frankie was never pleased that her son was involved with a man, and ending this and getting Jack back in 1 move was the perfect solution.
The deal was done, signed in blood, using bodily fluids for legal documents seemed odd and unhygienic to Frankie, but this was her pride so she turned the other way, as was her general approach when things benefited her, flexible morals always useful.
The voodoo doll was created, and locked in the castle in a room with no door, and the spell remained so whilst the doll existed.
Over time Frankie watched with glee as the young teacher suffered more and more, his relationship broke when her son decided that he wanted to be with women (appeasing her homophobic tendencies) he nearly lost his son to the birth mother, failed relationship after failed relationship each with more heart ache, always being left for someone else, always being the least important and cared for, other horrors and pain, lost, abuse, befell the young man and Frankie watched with glee. As the deal she had been granted mild magic powers as well, which she mostly used to control jack and check her crystal ball
Today she was looking in it, it showed a familiar picture, she was chained in a room, in the shadows stood a female shape, she couldn’t see her face but knew it was Chelsea, whilst
Chase and Madness were in the door way looking delighted, out of the window she saw a goth dark castle which had sprung from nowhere, black roses were growing around the room, twisted around the bars on the window, the thorns were on the floor around her, digging in to her as she slept,
She covered the ball with a cloth and wondered how she could stop this coming true, always the 3 women in her vision sometimes others helping them, but those 3 must be stopped, she put out a hit on Chelsea and Madness, and Chase was as good as dead, so this couldn’t come true.
She went back to the crystal ball again, looking again, hoping it had changed
Chelsea slept on the cheap hotel bed, the group had been traveling for days and sitting on a flying carpet was proving to make them all grouchy, although the quest was urgent, without a clear plan, and clear heads there appeared to be no practical options. They were tired, ached and were hungry and longed for a bath, cleaning spell magic wasn’t working as much as a bath to soothe the aches of the day, the hamsters wanted to run and explore. So the group decided to visit a hotel and have a few days relaxing and recharging batteries, even find new clothes and go shopping, or just to have space from the cheesy scent that wafted from Wonky
The group all took rooms, Daffy decided to share a room with the hamsters, mostly because they were the same size, but because she really liked being around hamsters,
Gizmo had a quirky sense of humour and she liked cuddling the 2 boys, Chase was asleep so her mirror went with Madness who would awaken her when she was awake.
Everyone had their own room for some space and a break from each other, and most were asleep, enjoying a bed rather than nodding off on a flying carpet and fear of falling off it, they all had fresh clothes from the recent shopping trip, and full bellies from a lovely meal, with no cheese, salad and wine, breads, meat for those who ate it, and a massive bowl of chips made them all happy, they retired to their rooms early, Chelsea cast a cloaking spell to hide them from anyone who may be looking for them, and then went to bed herself
Her dreams were dark, always had been since childhood, whispered voices in shadows calling to her, future cruel events that came to pass and she failed to prevent. This dream she was stood in a throne room, in a dark gothic castle, made of black stone, the windows were clear and large, looking over a land shrouded in a mist. The throne in the centre of the room was surrounded by black roses, which grew from the floors, on a table next to the throne was a table with a black cushion on top of that was a slender sliver crown, decorated with onyx. It was perfect thought Chelsea, so beautiful, she felt drawn to it, and walked closer, “Chelsea” called Madness and she turned to see her, and wanted to hug her friend, she looked broken, chained to the wall trying to break free from her chains, another called her name, she saw Kol also chained to the wall she moved to him, but was called again and saw a black wedding dress and veil, her intended was in the shadows, and she couldn’t see who it was, her name was again called and she saw her hamsters trapped, rushing to them Frankie appeared in the middle of the room, she held a gold diamond encrusted dagger and ran at Chelsea who woke with a scream.
Sweating Chelsea sat blot up right in bed, black roses had started grow around her head board, when they had started to grow as she slept she was concerned now she accepted it, she missed Kol, she meet him shortly after she started to develop powers and he had helped her to use them to understand them, and to stop turning everything in to soft toys as she had for the first few weeks before she joined the coven.
The dreams were not new, had happened once a month or so since she was a child, were more regular since her powers grew, always the same recently, in a throne room, surround by people in her life, these people changed, but they were all trapped and then Frankie would appear with a weapon, then she would wake.
Chelsea signed and returned to sleep
The morning was missed by the whole group sleeping in Chewy was the first to wake and the words of the oracle played on her mind, about how she was a shape shifter, and she decided to try shifting
Though where to start? She sat there looking strained as she tried to shift, and failed, and tried again, straining again, and nothing happened. Feeling frustrated she pulled out her Ipad and googled how to shift as a shape shifter, but other than a lot of detail on a computer game called Minecraft, and some peoples stories about how they thought they were werewolves there was nothing of use, She googled other things, and got side tracked and ended up spending 20 minutes reading spoilers for Game of Thrones, which would have been exciting if she had ever watched Game of Thrones or had any idea who those people were. As it was it was just 20 minutes wasted that could have been used better.
So she went back to straining and being frustrated
Suddenly she sneeze and transformed into a coat stand, at first she was delighted, she had shifted then concerned that she only shift by sneezing and coat stands didn’t have noses. As coat stands go she was a pretty coat stand, deep brown wood and well glossed. But still a coat stand
Dinner was interesting they had all agreed to meet in a restaurant, a few doors from the hotel at 7.30 having had the day to do their own thing, Chewy was first to arrive, still looking like a coat stand and unable to walk she just hopped along (Coat stands don’t have legs). She entered the restaurant and hid at the back for fear that if she was too close to the door people would hang their coats on her
Next to arrive was Madness, she had been shopping and had bought some new clothes, sadly the shop she had been shopping in was the local fancy dress shop, and she was dressed as a cow girl, complete with hat, sheriff and fake gun.
Not seeing Chewy she sat down at a random table big enough for them all, next arrived the Dwarves who joined Madness. Daffy and the hamsters floated in on their flying scarf.
“How does no one look shocked at that?” asked Madness as they floated happily to the table
“I cast a glamour spell, so we all look what passes for normal around here, not interesting enough for people to look at us, but conformist enough so we don’t stand out” answered Chelsea near enough appearing from nowhere, she had ditched her goth dress for jeans and a black and silver corset, “Chewy why are you stood over there?” everyone turned to look and only saw a coat stand and turned back to Chelsea, who looked bemused, and snapped her fingers, Chase became chase again
“Thank you so much” she signed “I thought I was going to be a coat stand forever”, the rest of the group looked unsure what to say, how should you react to learning that your friend can become a coat stand? Or why could Chelsea see her in that form
“Where are Wonky and Chase?” asked Madness
“You had Chase’s mirror and I would guess Wonky is in the cheese section of a local super market” Gizmo answered
“Oh yes” Madness remembered, pulling the mirror from her bag and waking Chase, who appeared happily rested, Wonky appeared moments later having rubbed himself down with a well matured Red Leicester cheese just to flirt with the pretty ladies.
The meal went as well as a meal with 2 hamsters, 2 dwarves, a 4 inch human, a Furry princess, and ghostly queen, her cheese obsessed uncle, a witch and whatever Madness is could go.
They made their plan, they would meet up with Snuggles and find Kol, who Chelsea needed to help control her power, she knew it was not good for her long term to have this power, and didn’t understand where it had come from. After that they would go the rescue King Jack
The pendant that Madness had which was connected to Snuggles was not working, when she looked into it she saw nothing, this had concerned her, she hadn’t spoken of it so far as it hadn’t seemed a concern but now they needed to find him
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In a lowly lit room Frankie paced, she was becoming concerned as each second passed, her guests spoke in hushed tones, and their words scared her more, terms that she thought were fairy tales were used as though everyday language, The Shadow, the Witch, Hexs , even spell casting became normal. She had started to question if her choices were right, to accept this in order to have Jack in her life, loyal and obedient, yet love wasn’t real, just a spell cast. Her crystal ball sat in the corner covered so she would not be tempted to glance at it and see what the future held, a tall white crystal on the table crackled and fizzed then flickered. Ste was closest so picked it up and slapped it against his hand until it glowed, it then projected an image
“Wonky good of you to join us” Ste grinned as Wonky’s image was projected from the crystal to the floor in a life size image, “This is all of us, shall I make introductions?” He asked the others nodded “This is Wonky he has a connection to Queen Chase, This is Snuggles” he pointed to a kindly old man with curly hair and thick rimmed glasses, he is the partner?” Ste shrugged looking for re assurance” of Madness McQueen, This is Kol Mikaelson” Ste introduced a young handsome blonde blue eyed man, who smirked slightly upon hearing his name, “He’s in the same coven as the witch Chelsea, hes….”
“Don’t you worry what I am darling, I know my role in all this” Kol had a hint of humour in his voice and a scary undertone that showed he was older that his image suggested
“Whats that supposed to mean?” Frankie was scared, she hid it with anger
“My reputation and that of my family is known, there was a time when my brother Nik’s name would bring fear into the hearts of all who heard it, “ he turned to a woman they were yet to be introduced to, “You and your cousin, Chewy? You know the name Niklaus Mikaelson” the woman nodded nervously “So use my host bodies name Kaleb, we don’t want too many people knowing of my involvement, a 1000 years of killing and chaos doesn’t help when you want a low profile” he laughed
“Ok, “ Ste continued, “This is Meg, Chewy’s cousin,” The woman was pretty in her mid 30s
“Shes a shifter, though mostly a wolf, most of your family has werewolf blood although you hide it,” he turned to Frankie” This is queen Frankie, she holds the heart of King Jack, Chase intends to get him back, we wont let that happen” Frankie smiled in thanks to Ste’s comment, “And finally we have Dennis, Daffy’s brother, he longs to be returned with his sister who was kidnapped a few weeks ago and turn to our group to ensure her safety”
The young man looked very scared and tired as though he had not slept in a while, “And I am Ste, I can contact the shadow, he and I have an agreement, he does favours for me as I do them for him”
“So why are we here?” demanded Snuggles
“We have connections to a group who it has been foretold will bring down the shadow, we need to split this group and remove the powers they have, I can give you each items which will limit the damage they can do, we can safely remove any power they could have, making them human and, returning them to you safely,” Ste looked proud, Kol looked at him doubting anything he said was true, but wanted to see how this would play out.
“So the first step is…..”
Chelsea jumped as she heard the door handle of the room being opened, the smoke and images she was watching this play out on disappeared, she glanced at Chewy and both nodded this stayed between them
Madness entered the room, holding an old sock, “will this help with the tracking spell?” she asked, to which Chelsea nodded, and set to work at casting a spell to locate Snuggles, even though she and Chewy knew where they were, she dare not break Madness’s heart and suggest Snuggles was in on it before she knew the whole story, Chewy also knew what Madness cared to deeply for Snuggle to accept this, she wanted to know the whole story as well
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