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Spells in the Dark (18+ for Dark and suggestive themes)

~Hellena Leigh~

Interaction with; @Aerandir. Including @Legion02

Lucy paused as she anticipated Alexina’s reply, the end of her tail wagging excitedly like how a little puppy would;

Which one will she choose?

The little reptile watched the coven leader who was in deep thought. She then gave Lucy a light tickle under her chin, eventually expressing her sheer fascination on the last choice; the poison.
However, in the end, even after implying how she wishes to talk to Hellena about the particular matter within an available timing, she had other plans in mind and chose none of the options that Lucy laid out.

“Yes, mistress.” Lucy deeply hissed, and extended a deep bow of her head to pay her utmost respects before slowly slithering down from Alexina’s body to the ground.

Hellena who had watched from afar, saw Alexina’s look of approval and felt an immediate spark of pride as if she had just won a competition. She then carefully tucked in the little glass bottle of the glowing potion inside her straw basket that she had been holding on to before reaching out her arm for Lucy to come slithering up to her neck and wrapping around her loosely.

“Well? Spill.” Hellena demanded.
“Wellll…..” Lucy let out a hiss as to giggle. “She didn’t want any of them.”
“Hm?” Hellena’s brow flashed up in surprise.
“For now. She’ll want to have a word with you soon, mistress. Better keep a sharp eye now, shall we?”

Before she could reply, Ryleth’s voice could be heard from the center of the crowd. He had been keen enough to choose the first option Alexina had given them; the Penitence Mission. Shortly, another witch who had stayed by his side followed suit as she made the same choice as him.

Hellena’s eyes landed on Ryleth, quite amazed at his willingness to co-operate, even if she had been half expecting for him to say no to everything that just happened and just walk away, taking with him his bits of pride. As Alexina explained to them their Penitence Mission that included invading a nearby coven, the sight surely became much more amusing to the red headed witch as curiosity snaked its way to the tips of her skin. Despite being aware of the existence of covens, she didn’t seem to be aware of any coven that stood nearby Bloodrose Castle. Her cluelessness had only then matched with the other witch on trial with Ryleth who had asked Alexina for any information on said coven.

Topping that off was the sheer look of disbelief that showed up on Ryleth’s face the moment he had gotten hold of the mission, and it surely didn’t get any better once Alexina demanded a blood oath to take place between her and the witches as a promise to fulfill their assignment. Hellena’s lips pursed in suspicion. With how he had reacted, Ryleth sure looked like he had been familiar with the particular coven. What does he know?

Hellena’s let out a quiet gasp as she watched the sacred ritual. Never in her life had she witnessed a blood oath, nor had indulged herself in such. It was surely a sight to behold for the red headed witch.

Once they had finished, Hellena had only continued to watch Ryleth who turned his back coldly on Alexina before tending to the witch that had come face-to-face with Alexina’s wrath at the start of the trial.

“Best of luck to you, master Ryleth.” Lucy hissed, her tongue tangled with bits of sass.

Hellena heard her little pet and thought how it was only right to wish him in his coming endeavor. Because if there had been anything that Hellena could extract from Ryleth’s earlier responses, it could have been nothing else but pure hesitation and protest.
As a little contribution, Hellena simply bowed her head at him as he continued to his way.

Skyline Academy (Academy of Heroes)

When Aira attempted to offer a helping hand towards the two professors who seemed troubled, Dr. Roy and sir Alexander both simply exchanged quick glances at one another. But if Aira had looked a bit closer, weariness could be seen in their eyes, especially with Dr. Roy.

In the end, they’ve plainly dismissed the matter by explaining how it was a mere technological error. In the fear of pushing the scenario to where it shouldn’t be, Aira simply gave them a nod of her head in return. “I-I see.”

When Dr. Roy continued by asking Aira if she had any more existing concerns, the fire girl flinched, remembering her main purpose of approaching them in the first place.

“Err, well. It’s my sparring partner, Morrigan. You see, she seems to have some troubles with… trying to cool down.” Aira explained as she gave the back of her head a vexed scratch from the unintended pun, because in literal aspects, Morrigan really had troubles with cooling down. “Should I just sit this one out then? I mean, unless you have another student who I can continue the class with.”

Aira ended her last statement with a nervous look. Deep down, if she were to be given another sparring partner, she’d hope that it wouldn’t be someone who’d create an ice sculpture to kill her. Perhaps, being excused for the rest of the day and being sent back to her dorm would be a much more pleasing idea, undoubtfully.

@Raptra

Skyline Academy (Academy of Heroes)

@sempis

Yooo, welcome back!
It's good to hear things are getting better over there! 😄

Skyline Academy (Academy of Heroes)

Yeah, that's not happening for me KH3 dropped today, what little life I had is now gone 😂😂

@Cerces22

Kingdom hearts 3?????

Skyline Academy (Academy of Heroes)

<Snipped quote by PokimKyOshi>

Going pretty well. You?

@King Tai

All gucci over here. Though I really gotta get out of the house more often.

Skyline Academy (Academy of Heroes)

Yo, guys c:
How's it going??

Spells in the Dark (18+ for Dark and suggestive themes)

~Hellena Leigh~

Interaction with @Aerandir

Once the warlock questioned their coven leader on what their punishments would be, a few witches then started coming forward with their own happy suggestions.
One offered slow torture.
And another one, who suddenly emerged from the crowd like a fast bolt of lightning and started playing with the dead witch’s limbs, suggested something that didn’t seem too understandable to Hellena’s ears. Though the given features were enough for Hellena to know that the particular witch was Usoa. The red head had been quite familiar enough with her, possessing the similar ‘doctor’ role of the castle that she once had with her village in the past as well as how she had lived inside the coven for probably as long as Alexina had.
Hellena’s eyes only widened as she watched Usoa take her merry time with the piece of flapped skin. The red head had already been aware of how…unusual… the witch can be. Though at the very least, she was wearing pants for the occasion.

In the end, Alexina had then declined both suggestions, and Usoa was commanded to stop.

Lucy should’ve been keen enough to listen to her owner’s words. Indeed, after giving Alexina the odd compliment, the coven leader flashed the snake a sharp glance, but still stayed dead silent.

“M-My apologies.” Lucy silently hissed, her head coming down low on Hellena’s shoulder. The owner gave a small smirk as she glanced at her little venomous pet. “Told you.” Hellena whispered.

Hellena’s eyes returned back to look at Alexina as she proceeded to list down her though-out punishments. The first was to perform a Penitence mission, the second was for their powers to be taken, and lastly, death.

Hellena had jotted down her own little thoughts on Alexina’s listed punishments.
With what these 5 witches had done and what they had caused, a Penitence mission didn’t seem all too enough. But in any other questions, what kind of Penitence mission can come to Alexina’s mind? A kind of mission that would make up for the loss of more than half of a village. Raising the dead and apologize? Not even a Master of this world can do such a thing.
Though seeming to be a reasonable choice, the second one will most definitely be of big objection to someone like Ryleth, the warlock. Being one of the only male witches in the coven, the one easy feature that Hellena can extract from his liking is his immense ego. He doesn’t seem to get along well with their coven leader either, for sure. If anything, he would have anything up his sleeve to counter it at any time. Doubtless, it would steer more trouble.
Lastly, Hellena didn’t seem to have the need to think the last choice though, as it would be the most reasonable choice of all.

A big smirk made its way across the corner of Hellena’s lip.
She couldn’t help but think;

What if she could spice up the third choice?

In these kinds of scenarios, the red head tends to always have tricks up her sleeve. Literally.
Hellena dug into her lower loose sleeve such as how a magician would and pulled out a small glass bottle with liquid inside the color of glowing dark red.

The last thing that Hellena would want to do is emerge from the crowd and feel the discomfort of eyes glaring on her, in so she decided to stay in her place.
With the red glowing potion in her hand, she waved it up just by a considerable length, not too high to attract much attention, in where she only wishes to gain Alexina’s alone.

“Hmmm...?” Lucy took notice of her owner’s action and hissed as to let out a small giggle. She knew what Hellena wanted to do. But with the hesitation that was clearly visible, Lucy decided to give her owner a helping hand.

Lucy slithered from Hellena's neck, down to her body till she reached the floor and made her way through the crowd and until she reached the front to where Alexina stood.
Once she neared their dear coven leader, Lucy quickly slithered up Alexina's leg, all the way up to her body till she reached her neck and eventually wrapping herself around her like a loose scarf.
"Mistress Alexina." Lucy hissed. "Pardon me for the sudden interruption, but I do believe that my Mistress Hellena can lend you... a helping hand perhaps?" Lucy remarked as her little head jerked up to Hellena in the crowd with the little glowing glass bottle visible in her hand.

"Maybe... a potion that, well yes, temporarily takes away their powers? They live a life of a normal, boring little human. And the only way they would get it back would be through...a pricy request perhaps?" Lucy slyly hissed closed to Alexina's ear. "Or! Or, what about a potion that tortures them every night? A deep sleep, in where they live in the world of their worst, hellish nightmares." Lucy continued with excitement lacing around her voice. "Ah! Yes! What about... a little poison?" As Lucy went on with her last suggestion, she slithered her body further to come face to face with Alexina. "A poison that is slow to spread, but yes, utterly painful. Limbs one by one will rot and die, until the very last drop reaches the heart. Not even a witch can survive it through, the devil himself will make sure of that." Lucy concluded with shedding a hellish grin at the coven leader.

As she watched from afar her little slithering friend work her charm, the red-headed witch couldn’t help but feel an inner spark for her deep adoration for her potions, and the smirk on her face only grew wider and wider.

Spells in the Dark (18+ for Dark and suggestive themes)

~Hellena Leigh~

Earlier...

Hellena’s drooped eyes fluttered open to sheer curiosity to the distant sound of loud dog barks. She watched a pack of angry wolves at quite a far distance in the forest, making their way in tight groups towards Bloodrose Castle with unbelievable speed. Still stuck in quite a light-headed state from a short nap by a tree stump, she had not been able to grab time to process if what she had heard along with the serious of barks, between it squeezed eerie cries and screams of human voices, before the forest became quiet again.

After what seemed like an hour or so of waiting, she felt the heavy weight of her pet snake, Lucy, as she slithered her way up Hellena’s arm and around the back of her neck, resting both of her ends; head and tail, on both of her owner’s shoulders.
Pinched between Lucy’s fangs was a dead blue butterfly, baby blue wings punctured in holes and scratches, but Hellena gladly disregarded the fact and took it from her pet serpent’s grasp. From her basket, she took out a small glass jar and carefully placed the butterfly inside.
“The wings of a Holly Blue, just as you asked for, my mistress.” Lucy hissed with a slight bow of her head to pay her respects to her beloved owner. “Pray tell, what will you be using it for this time?”
“With how beautiful their wings are, there must be something into it that I can put to good use for my potions.” The witch replied as she scanned the lifeless creature inside the glass container. "Now tell me, how did you find the butterfly?"
"I saw it already dead, stuck on a spider web. No killing, just as you said, my mistress." The snake hissed.

With that last confirmation, Hellena then carefully placed the small glass bottle back inside her straw basket – one of the listed items that the red-headed witch simply cannot roam around the forest without.

The red head had known Alexina for quite some time ever since joining the coven. She knew what the place such as the forest could mean to her leader. As much as possible, Hellena would always put up her respects.

At the very same time, the witch and her serpent looked up at the towering trees of the forest that covered the rays of the sun, but it was getting dim enough to know that more than half of the day had already went by.
“High time we return to the coven, mistress.” The serpent hissed at her owner, making it enough for Hellena to jolt her body to fully wake up and heave herself up into a complete stand.

Dusting off dried leaves and bits of soil that stuck onto her green cloak, she started to lightly tread on the pathway that led back to the castle with her hissing pet just beside her ear.
“Did you see it earlier? Those hounds.” Hellena asked her serpent, tints of weariness lacing around her voice.
“As a matter of fact, I have, my mistress. They were quite loud.” The serpent hissed back at her. At this point, the witch decided to stay quiet throughout the journey. Staying in the coven for a period of time, wolves have grown to have quite a picture for her. Thoughts of only one subject flooded her mind;

Could something have happened with Alexina?

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Once the red head reached the castle courtyard, quite a scene welcomed her rather late arrival.

Witches of the coven gathered around the courtyard as they eyed Alexina, standing in the middle of twelve wolves, all of them looking down at five deeply injured witches.
“Look, mistress! Aren’t those the hounds that we saw-“
“Shh. Quiet.” Hellena shushed Lucy.

Hellena watched Alexina’s eyes burn with great fury as the coven leader spoke out about how the audacity and rebellion of five witches led them to terrorize the village of Goldencrest and take the lives of countless innocents, but once Alexina included the lives of young children to the list, Hellena’s eyes bolted wide. It didn’t take long for Hellena’s eyes to start expressing an empty kind of sorrow.

The injustice surely seemed distraughtful.

The conversation between the rebellious and the leader went on. As one of the witches attempted to taunt Alexina, knowing her leader, Hellena could only think of the many possible approaches that she could do, that witch chose one of the least that any one, or at least herself, would do. In the end, the red head watched the expected as Alexina took her fury out on the witch, tightly grasping her neck till her last breath.

Hellena’s face showed revulsion as Alexina tossed the bloody, lifeless body down to the side as if it were a mere toy.
“No!”
A masculine voice roared out. The eyes of the red headed witch distinctively fell on a male warlock who ran to the body and tried his best to reassure any remaining life in her. Unfortunately, luck didn’t seem to stand on either of his sides.

“My, my. This is getting quite exhilarating, don’t you think so, mistress? Mistress Alexina sure has quite an iron heart.”
And once again, Hellena found herself shushing her little serpent to silence.
“Either you stay quiet, or let Alexina have your tongue. She can hear you.” Hellena remarked at her slithering friend. As a sole response, Lucy let out a quiet, long hiss as a way of saying “Oops.”

As Hellena’s eyes went up to her coven leader, she couldn’t help but allow a string of pride lace around her as she continued to watch the woman who took her under her wing. But nevertheless, an ominous feeling that grew and stuck onto her cannot be shaken off, now that these five witches have stirred trouble for their home. And most inevitably, their lives.

Spells in the Dark (18+ for Dark and suggestive themes)

Hellena Leigh

Hellena Leigh



Appearance; Perhaps the feature that makes Hellena extremely stand out is her red locks of hair with the striking color of flowing red lava. A notable favorite wardrobe haul for her would be a deep emerald greed colored cloak where she can be seen wearing it multiple times. Additionally, it also allows her to camouflage and blend along with the deep colors of the green forest.

Age; 30

Personality; Ever since the death of her mother, Hellena has grown to possess an image of being very cold and quiet. She will speak only when necessary, but a crowd is not something she tends to collide well with. She will surely seem unapproachable and hard, but deep down, good company is all she desires. Much alike trying to break down a wall. With a trait as such, Hellena knows who to keep close.

She is also very studious. You will most definitely find her performing 2 of her main tasks; if it is not picking herbs, it is studying herbs and making potions, seeing as to how the two tend to have common grounds in terms of mixing ingredients and spell casting.

History; Hellena was once a normal young lady who worked in her town as a local doctor, helping and tending to her townsfolks who were suffering from severe illness and diseases or from fatal physical injuries. The mode of treatment used in the time were mere herbs, but Hellena was extremely good at it.

The village loved her. She always tended to every need of the people in her village. She managed to heal every patient that came to her for aid and not one has she ever failed or let down with her deep knowledge of healing and herbalism.

However, that all came to change for her one night when her mother came barging into their house from herb picking. She tried to suppress her loud moans of pain as she showed her daughter her right leg that was in the deep color of purple with her veins dangerously displaying themselves. With a few quick diagnoses, Hellena was able to pinpoint that this was a case of snake poisoning. Having to be extremely familiar with these kinds of matters, Hellena quickly tended to her mother using herbs and other needed ingredients to make a healing formula that would suck and absorb the poison out. Despite her attempt, it only got worse for her mother who later on revealed that the snake that bit her was truthfully a demon in the form of a serpent.

No doubt that her attained knowledge would not suffice to heal her, and amputating her would surely lead to death. The only known way to counter this was through the use of dark magic alone. Left with no other choice, Hellena quickly summoned a demon in the same night for help who appeared to her in the form or a female spirit. The demon started to give Hellena instructions that didn’t seem understandable to human ears, but she went to work with no hesitation on the healing formula with adding one more vital ingredient. Hellena chanted a deep spell with the assistance of the demon, placed the formula on her mother’s wounded area and watched as she got better and her skin color come back to normal.

Once the demon disappeared, Hellena’s mother couldn’t ignore the sorrow on her daughter’s face as the young girl explained to her the last part of the demon’s bargain; how in exchange for her mother’s life, she’d have to start working for ‘them’ for the rest of her life.

With hunters around the village with the keen senses of a hawk, the happening that night eventually spread around the village like wildfire with the news that Hellena and her mother have had an affiliation with the devil. One morning, their home was invaded by huntsmen while Hellena was out in the forest, but her mother had met a terrible fate from the sharp edge of a huntsman’s sword. As soon as Hellena bore the news, she had carried out her duties alongside the devil wholeheartedly for revenge.

In the midst of a village festival, the huntsman who had murdered her mother in cold blood had been drinking the merry night away. Under a disguise, Hellena served his next drink with dark poison she’d formulated using harmful herbs, and with a spell that will be bound to send his soul straight down to the pits of hell.

Any last memory the village had gifted her was the horrified shriek of a village woman after finding the huntsman passed out, with the color of his skin as dead as grey, before fleeing the village, eventually finding her way into her supposed new home, Bloodrose Castle.

Special Power; Potion-making – with the skills obtained from her excessive knowledge on herbalism, making potions has become a specialty for Hellena, ingredients and methods specifically given and instructed to her by demons. The main part of it is casting spells infused with dark magic. She had lately been enhancing her skills to making poisons.
Some potions and poisons that she had been able to perfect are;
- Potions that allow you to transform into an animal (requiring some kind of part from the animal)
- Potions that enhance sexual appeal / seduction
- Poison that makes you rot inside when consumed (A kind of slow torture method)
- Poison that thickens your blood, leading to death
- Potions that put you into a deep sleep
- Potions that allow a woman to be pregnant, in exchange for their soul to be sold to the devil

(Potions and poisons do not necessarily need to come in the form of liquid. They may be smoke or mist, powder or sand etc.)

Things they look for in a partner; perhaps the main trait Hellena looks for in a partner is for their ability to see through her. Behind all that strong silence tends to be a book of stories.

Pets; Hellena has been gifted a pet Black Mamba by the devil, giving it the name of ‘Lucy’. It was given purpose to initially assist her with making poisonous potions using its venom, but time elapsed and she had been able to find a sort of pet-owner bond with the dangerous snake.

Lucy

Rank; Adept