"She is not. But she has a spell that makes her look strong. And that is the recasting spell. It makes your power go against you" Ariana answered.
"That must be the reason the vampire Queen could not save herself?" Jabal asked.
"Yes," Jasmine answered.
"The rest of your should wait here. Ryan and I will go in and check how many men are on guard" Kelvin said.
Kelvin and Ryan left and returned later.
"There are about twenty men. Everyone should be careful" Ryan said.
"Do we all still remember the plan?" Jabal asked.
"Yes," they cooed in unison.
"Then let's go in and come back with victory," he said and they nodded.
They dispatched themselves according to the plan. Jasmine was to face the witch. Ryan, Kelvin, Jabal, and Jamal will fight off the men and Ariana will escort the vampire Queen out and also fight off anyone that tries to stop them. Jasmine left first, to find the witch and when she did, she gave the rest a sign. Next, Ryan, Kelvin, Jabal, and Jamal left. Ariana waited for a while before going in. She noticed the vampire Queen seated, hands tied up. She was the only one in the room. She moved closer to her.
"You finally came" the vampire Queen said.
"You must be expecting us" Ariana answered.
"I knew you will find the comb and come rescue me"
"You must have felt frustrated"
"What frustrated me most is finding out that my husband's family is responsible for this. I will let my husband know that when I get back to the realm"
"You can't do that. You need evidence that is concrete enough to nail them down. Don't you think so?"
The vampire Queen sighed. "I think you are right"
Ariana smiled. "We need to leave this place now"
The Queen stood up. "Thanks for coming to save me"
"You should not thank me. I am not the only one involved in this"
The Queen nodded with a smile. "I know. I can hear the sound of the swords. But who is taking care of the witch?"
"Jasmine" Ariana said.
"You mean the demon Prince's mate?" she asked and Ariana nodded.
"Yes"
They left the cave as they both fought hand in hand. Soon, there was no one else and they had to wait at the place they had agreed on before to wait for the rest. Soon, the rest joined them.
"Kelvin" the vampire Queen called. "Thanks for coming to save me"
Kelvin smiled. "Everyone here did"
"Thanks, every one of you for coming to my rescue"
"Thank you for trusting us to save you," Jasmine said.
"We couldn't get the King's brothers," Kelvin said and the Queen smiled.
"That won't be necessary. I already had a plan. Thank you once again for saving me"
"Good job everyone. Thank you very much" Kelvin said and they smiled.
They had thought rescuing the vampire Queen would be difficult and had worried about it but seeing how easy it needed up as they could not help but smile.
"The vampire King should be here soon," Kelvin said. "I already sent a word to the vampire realm"
"We will be here until they come," Jasmine said.
"You are going to the vampire realm with me. You deserve to be appreciated"
They smiled. "There won't be a need for that"
"I insist and I think my husband will to"
**
It was the celebration of the return of the vampire Queen to the vampire realm and a lot of people from other realms were invited. Among those invited were the heroes who had helped bring back the vampire Queen. Ella and Emerald were invited as they were also partakers in the Queen's return. There were so many performances done and different varieties of food to be eaten. The Queen asked for the presence of those that had saved her. She needed to thank them once more for removing the spell and bringing her home.
"Thank you very much, once more," she told them and they felt very proud of themselves.
The joy they always feel whenever they can help out is something they can't explain.
"We are happy we were able to help," Jasmine said and the rest nodded in agreement. "We hope we get to expose the King's brother soon because they make another move"
The Queen sighed. She had a plan already but she doesn't know how well the plan will work out knowing that most people here are working for her husband's brothers. She also knew that most of her maids are betrayals.
"What do you think we can do to expose them?" she asked them.
Luckily, there was just the Queen and the six of them in the room. Jasmine stood up and walked to the door, popped out to the right and then to the left and after a while, she returned to her seat.
"One needs to be careful, you know?" she said. "There is no trusted one in this realm"
The Queen nodded, knowing that what Jasmine had said was true.
"Do you have any idea?" The Queen asked. "Any way we can expose them? I have a plan already but I doubt it will be easy to execute them here"
"I think there should be a way," Jamal said
"There is a lot that can be done," Jasmine said.
"Like what?" the Queen asked.
"Kelvin, do you still have your demons shadowing them?" Jasmine asked and Kelvin nodded.
"Do you want me to ask them to come back?" he asked.
"That won't be necessary now. But very soon" she answered. "First, we might need to make them own up to what they have done"
"How are we going to do that?" Jamal asked.
"I think I know how," Ariana said. "Vampire Queen, can you leave this to us? It might not be safe talking about our plans here"
"Yes, Ariana is right. We don't know who is watching or listening" Jabal said.
"I trust you all that you will do a great job. But you know there is not much time left, right? No one knows what their plans are and when they plan to carry them out" the Queen said.
"You don't have to worry, vampire Queen. We will get back to you with good news, very soon" Ariana said and the rest nodded.
They surely will.
"Thank you very much for your help. Thank you" the Queen said. "I should let you go and enjoy the show. After all, you are here because of that"
They bowed and left the room, joining the rest outside. As they walked through the hallway, two maids stared at them suspiciously.
"Do you think they overheard us?" Jasmine whispered.
"I think they do. I could feel strange auras when we were talking" Ariana whispered back.
"What are we going to do now?" Jasmine asked.
"We might have to take care of them, ourselves. Just the two of us" Ariana replied.
Jasmine widened her eyes. Just the two of them, sound interesting to her. "Do you have a plan"
Ariana smirked. "Sure, I do and you will love it"
Jasmine chuckled. "Let the fun begin"
Ariana waved her hand. "Hey, guys. Can you spare Jasmine and me some time? I have something to tell her about the plan"
The boys stared at her wondering why she suddenly wants to speak to only Jasmine when they all agreed not to say a word until they are out of the vampire realm.
"It's just a little part of the plan," Jasmine said with a smile and pointed slightly at the two maids who seems excited to hear what the girls have to say.
Jabal got the point immediately. He knew the two girls had a plan for those two maids and he could not help but wonder how fun it will be.
"I think I understand. You should go. We will be over there waiting" he said
"What is going on?" Kelvin asked.
"What plan?" Jamal asked.
"I think we should go, guys," Ryan who seem to have understood too said.
"Can you not put us in the dark?" Kelvin said and Ryan held his hand.
"I will explain to you" he whispered, dragging the surprised Kelvin away.
Jabal dragged Jamal who looked confused wash too, leaving just Ariana and Jasmine with the maids.
"Where can we talk about it?" Jasmine asked.
"I think I heard there are secretive places here. We can look for a place, like a room. How about we go there?" Ariana said and Jasmine nodded, smiling.
They walked over to the empty room and entered.
"What is the plan?" Jasmine whispered.
"We make them come into the room and lock it up. Then we can make them confess everything and also do whatever we want to them" Ariana whispered.
They heard footsteps and they quickly use the invisible spell.
"Are you sure they entered this room?" one of the maids asked the other.
"I am very sure they entered one of these rooms here" the other replied.
"What do you think we should do now?" the first asked.
"How about we go in?" the second answered.
"What if we get caught?" the first asked.
"But we can't know if that is the room they are in and we won't be able to get any information for the boss"
"Don't you think it is risky?"
"I don't think it is. All we have to do is pretend we entered the wrong room if we see them"
The other smiled. She had not thought about that. "I think that is a good idea"
They opened the door slowly and peeped into the room and the room was empty.
"Are you sure they are inside?" the first maid asked.
"Let's go in and check. If what they have to say is, important, they might want to stay at the far end of the room" the second one said and the first nodded.
They opened the door fully and walked in. The first maid frowned.
"I don't think there is..."
The door closed suddenly making them jump in fear.
"D-did you lock the door?" the second maid asked in fear.
"N-no. I did not. i-i thought you did"
"I did not. Maybe it's the wind"
"I don't think there is anyone here, Let's go. We should check out the other rooms"
They walked to the door and tried to open it.
"Do you think someone locked it from outside?" the first maid asked.
"There was no one close by. No one would have done that"
"Let me try opening it"
She held the door hand and tried to open it up.
"I think we are being locked up in this room"
"D-do you mean we can't leave this place?"
The other nodded. "I think so"
Jasmine, listening to them, busted into laughter and since the room is empty, her laugh echoed, making the two maids shriek in fear. Ariana noticed how fearful they are, she decided she should join in the fun. She laughed so hard that when it echoed, the maid couldn't help but cry.
"D-do you think this room is haunted?" the second maid asked in tears.
"Y-you made us come to this place. I should not have listened to you. I-i shouldn't have"
"B-but I do not know that this place is haunted"
They blamed each other for coming here and wished they had to stay back instead.
"I-if we ever get out of there. I will never try to get information for the boss again" the first maid said.
Jasmine pitied them and showed her face.
"Do you promise never to do this again?" she asked, her arms folded and they nodded.
"I-i won't do that again"
Ariana, seeing that Jasmine was not using the invisible spell again, showed herself too.
"You should have allowed us to have some more fun" she whispered to Jasmine.
"Can't you see them in tears? We shouldn't be too heartless" Jasmine said and busted into laughter.
Ariana joined her in laughing. The two maids stared at them, with fear evident in their eyes. Ariana stopped laughing and sighed.
"Do you want to leave this place?" she asked with all seriousness and the two maids nodded quickly.
"Then you must tell us why you followed us here and every other thing you know that we should know," Jasmine said.
"W-we can't tell you. Or else we will die"
"Do you prefer to die here?" Ariana asked her eyes turning red. They shook their head quickly and muttered a no. "Then you should start talking"
The maids stared at each other and nodded.
"The King's brothers sent us" the first maid began. "They are the ones who took the Queen"
"Wait!," Jasmine said, bringing out her phone. "I think we should record this," she said.
"It should be a video record," Ariana said.
Jasmine stared at the maids, expecting them to go against it but they did not.
"What did you do to them?" Jasmine whispered.
"Ariana smirked. Something to make our work easier"
Jasmine smiled. "I think this is going to be fun"
**
"What is the plan now?" Jamal asked after they returned to the earth witches coven. "What do you plan to do with the video and the information you have gathered?"
Jasmine and Ariana had just explained what had happened with the maids and showed the rest of them, the video.
"As I said earlier in the Queen's room, we will make them own up to what they did" Ariana answered.
"But how?" Kelvin asked.
"Using this video" Jasmine answered.
Before coming to show the rest of them, the video, Jasmine, and Ariana had about it and had come up with a good plan and now they will like to share it with the rest.
"How is that going to help out? I mean the video" Jabal asked.
"All we have to do is make them know we have the video of what they had done," Jasmine said.
"Are you saying that we will meet them and tell them that? Won't that be risky on our part?" Jamal asked.
"We won't meet with them. We are going to instigate a rumor about what they had done. But that will be after we had converted this video into audio. We will send some parts of the video through an anonymous account to a few people in the vampire realm as well as the demon realm. If the King's sister is involved, we need to expose her too. Then we let these people do their job by spreading the news" Ariana explained.
It sounded like a very good plan if they succeed.
"But what are we expecting in return after all this?" Ryan spoke up.
"If the news gets to them, they won't let it slide but they won't be able to do anything if it remains anonymous. We are going to leave a loophole and let them find out one of us sent it. They will try to contact that person and when they do, all that person has to do is pretend he or shw is working alone without the rest of us. A location will be given to them that has hidden cameras" Jasmine said.
"And we will be able to make them own up?" Jamal asked and Jasmine nodded.
"When are we going to do this?"
"Very soon," Ariana said. "We need someone good with computers. That should be Kelvin right?"
Kelvin nodded. "Yes"
"Then you will be the one to send the audio," Ariana said. "Can you convert this video to audio?"
He nodded. "Sure"
There was a knock on the door.
"Who is that?" Ariana asked.
"Mira"
"Mira? Is there a problem?"
"Ella and Emerald asked to call your guys"
"What is going on?"
"I think it's about the book"
Hearing it has to do with the book, they rushed out of the room and headed straight to meet Ella and Emerald.
"What is going on, mother?' Jasmine asked.
"There is a rumor about the book" Emerald answered.
"The great book of the witches?" Ariana asked.
"Yes. There has been a rumor that the book appeared in a pack in the northern hemisphere" Emerald said.
"There is also a rumor that the book was seen in the southern hemisphere," Ella said.
"There is also a rumor that the book is in the goblin realm," Mira said and they stared at Jasmine.
Could Jasmine's prophecy be coming to pass?
**
There had been rumors everywhere about the book, just like Jasmine's prophecy. In just a day, the rumor had traveled far and near, and this has brought commotion among the people. A lot became afraid that there might be war again. If there is a war, are those to take the task ready? Are they strong enough to fight those involve in this? The people had thought and this had brought more fear to them. It's just a year since the battle with Rose and now rumors about the book?
Since the rumor had stated so many places where the book had appeared, those who wanted the book began to hurt others to get access to it.
"We can't keep watching this happen," Ariana said. "A lot might be dead before the book appears," She said. They all knew the book has not appeared yet and this was to cause distraction. "Don't you guys think we need to do something?"
Everyone one of them had thought about that too but they do not know what they are going to do. No one knew who had started the rumor or where it started. By the time the rumor got to them, it had traveled so far already and no one was able to give clear information about where the rumor started and who had started it. Also, they knew that whosoever had started that rumor had been planning it for a while now.
"We just have to find who started the rumor," Jamal said. "There is not a thing we can do without finding who or those who started it"