Cheshire -The Second Servant-

Halloween is just around the corner and our next fragment is here already, it's Cheshire's turn. 

Storytime!

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Cheshire Nia Whisperia "The Smiling Cat"

The first year of "The Convergence" was rough, maybe a little too rough for the witch's taste, as powerful as she was, the moment the battle begun she realized in matters of combat she was dull and with the Hallow's Night just a few months away, she had to think on a way to prepare for the next wave. 

Even with her loyal servant Hollee now at her side the clash with the Harbingers of Chaos was unexpectedly wild, these creatures were savage, vicious and relentless.

"If it weren't for that saviour boy deciding to visit me at that time, things could've gone very differently" she thought disappointed with herself.

In addition to the evident danger the Harbingers posed, their high numbers and the vast quantity of minions they demonstrated capable of summon and command was alarming, the threat was real, more real than the prideful witch would like to accept, she had to do something because this was only the fist year of four, the next year things would get much, much worse, it was a frightful thing just to think about it.

Ella'Phana was in need of more power, the dark-haired beauty needed to sharpen her skills once again, polish her edge and bind another servant to her will, Hollee was powerful enough to hold her own and her power would grow even more if the witch managed to acquire more for herself, but the Harbingers and their minions where just too many for them, she needed more control over the battle field from different fronts.

"One more servant... maybe even two. Mmmmh... three servants would be very costly but it would be certainly convenient..." Lost in thought, she is interrupted by Hollee.

"Mistress, we have a visitor! we have a visitor!! it's from Terra!" Hollee hollers from across the stone corridor while she runs in the witch's direction.

"A visitor? from Terra!? but it's not Hallow's Night yet, the veil is... wait... mmm yes it's true, with The Convergence happening the planes are aligned, that's how he or she managed to get here, I mean, *ahem* who dares to enter my realm unannounced?" she vocals a regal, demanding tone.

"It's the lady saviour! the one with the long, dark hair with cool purple tip, tips!

"Noira? what is she doing here?, did something happen to him!?, let her in, tell her I'll be waiting at the throne room" she orders.

"Aye, aye queen-captain!" 

Letting Noira in, Hollee guides her through the palace straight to the throne room.

"Good evening Witch Queen" Noira bows gracefully.

"It's okay, you can call me by my name dear, what brings you to this forgotten realm? I certainly hope it's not an emergency" she inquires.

"Nothing of the sort Ms. Phana, it's a more... much, more personal matter" she replies.

The witch exhales and relaxes on her throne, then questions Noira about her visit.

"I'll be brief" she says.

Ella raises an eyebrow expectantly.

"I know about what happened here on the last Hallow's Night"

The witch, opens her eyes wide in surprise but closes them quickly hiding it, sighs and responds.

"It's that so?" 

"Yes" Noira firmly affirms.

"Ooh-oh! she knows Mistress!" Hollee exclaims.

The queen stands up and walks towards Noira, the sound of her black heels against the obsidian floor echoes on the room, she stops just in front of the young saviour, no more than two feet away from each other, then looks at her straight into the eye.

With a smug expression on her face, the witch asks. "So, you know"

"Yes I do" she replies.

"You know what he did here on that Hallow's Night?" Ella'Phana's face closes distance with Noira's.

"I know what he did that night" the violet-eyed woman gets closer to the queen's face.

"So... You know what he did here that night... with me"  the witch takes another step and gets even closer, the tips of her breasts come in contact with her visitor's own breasts.

"Affirmative" Noira presses back, her bust squishes against Ella's.

"And with Hollee?" the tip of her nose just a couple of inches away from her counterpart.

"With me!" Hollee shouts gleefully. 

"I know everything"  she insists.

"Saviour boy stayed all night long with us... both of us"

"Both of us!" the pumpkin happily whoops while whipping out two fingers with her right hand, similar to the victory sign.  

"With all due respect queen he is not a boy, he is a man" 

The witch lets a out a playful, lustful laugh while she whips her head backwards "YES! yes he is, I noticed!" *giggles* 

Noira looks at Ella intensely, she adjusts her pointy hat, recomposes herself and looks back at her.

"You're right dear, I should stop calling him a boy" the queen steps back and sighs. "So you know what happened that night and now you come to me... to talk, is it because you're angry dear?" she inquires.

"I'm disappointed" the female saviour responds, lowering her sight.

"I understand" Phana gets close once again and grabs Noira's chin with her right hand to raise her face, their eyes meet and in a slow, sultry, smooth tone she asks. "And... what can we do about it dear? 

"When it happens again, I want you to call me, I want in!" she declares.

"Ooooh! she wants in!" Hollee giggles, opens her eyes as wide as she can and looks at her mistress. 

"Oh my!" the witch queen steps back surprised, she laughs "Oh dear! you're something!" takes back her hand placing it just above her breasts at the center of her chest and pats herself gently.

Noira's eyes are fixated on the queen's. she doesn't move.

"I'm disappointed that I couldn't feel any danger even tough Master and I are supposed to be linked with each other... I... I may not be as powerful as you, but I can fight, I know I can be useful in the battle against the Harbingers of Chaos!" she exclaims.

Ella'Phana laugh comes to sudden halt.

"The Harbingers?" puzzled for a moment, she looks at the resolute lady.

"Yes... as soon as Master told me you both were in danger I... I felt terrible... I felt terrible and useless for not being there to help!" Noira clenches her fist to her chest and lowers her head, sight to the ground, visibly concerned.

"The fight?" the redhead rises an eyebrow.

"Awww dear... that's sweet! but I think we misunderstood each other" the witch queen expression turns velvety and warm.

"Pardon me?" Noira looks confused.

"I appreciate your concern, I really do, but I wasn't talking about the battle" Ella places her hand on Noira's shoulder.

"Sorry but I... I don't get it, what did you think I was talking about?

"About the threesome of course" the raven-haired dame eye shines with a lewd glow.

"The saviour is savoury!" the pumpkin exclaims with a happy, lecherous expression.

"Oh? the threesome?" she says startled.

"You didn't know about what happened after the battle?"

"Huh? oh no, no, no, no of course I did, but you're right we misunderstood each other, my apologies" Noira closes her eyes and bows towards the witch with both hands together on her lap, then she does the same towards the pumpkin.

"You're such a sweetie, worrying about this old witch and this little pumpkin" Phana walks up to her throne, sits and crosses her legs, "I'll tell you what..."

The female saviour regains her posture and listens.

"Next Hallow's Night I'll call on you, both of you"

Noira smiles.

"But!" the queen makes a pause.

"But?" Noira asks expectant.

"But... if you join the battle, you WILL have to join the victory celebration too..." the witch bears a lascivious expression.

"Of course, a well-earned celebration is in order after a hard-fought battle" Noira states.

"That means you will share the bed with us lady"

"Share the shag Noi-Noi!" Hollee cheerfully remarks.

The young saviour blushes and accepts but makes the witch queen promise she will call on them if she or Hollee ever found themselves in danger.

Happy with the results of her trip to the witch's palace, Noira was about to leave when the queen stops her.

"Wait dear, actually... there is something that you can help me with right now"

"Of course, what can I do for you?" Noira asks with a soft smile on her face.

The witch inquires about about one of the champions she and her partner collected for Terra some time ago, a champion named Alice, Noira informs the queen that Alice is slumbering at Terra's core along with the other champions. The queen asks the female saviour for a vial of her blood, surprised, she asks back the reason behind such a request.

"I know her soul, "Alice" and I have met before, she... is different... she is a special kind of human called "Origin Holder", of course the flesh is not same I knew, but her soul is" 

Intrigued the young lady asks. "Alice... not the same flesh... a metempsychosis?"

"Meter-Psycho-osmosis?" Hollee asks completely confused.

"No dear, a reincarnation" Ella'Phana answers calmly.

"Fascinating... mother Terra has told us about it before and there's a lot of theoretical data on it in our database, but I didn't imagine Ms. Alice is in fact a reincarnated soul... and you say she is a... Origin Holder?" 

"Her soul is strong, very strong, she has returned to the cycle a few times but her soul is almost intact, only a powerful soul like her's can be an "Origin Holder", which to put it simply means that she has an entire world... a plane inside her mind, she particularly calls it "Wonderland",  and exactly there is what I'm looking for" she replies.

"And you need her blood to connect with her from here?" 

"Exactly dear, it would be unwise on my part to leave the Emerian Palace unattended for a long time, at least for the time being" Ella rests her head on her knuckles, open hand.

"I understand... I can help you with that, but in exchange, I ask you to teach me more about reincarnation and the cycle of souls, deal?" Noira asks excited.

"Quid Pro Quo my dear" Phana declares.

"S-quid Pro Quo Noi-Noi!" Hollee exclaims.

The three of them laugh together for a moment and the young saviour departs with the promise of returning, which doesn't take long.

On the next day Noira returns with a vial filled with Alice's blood and delivers it to the witch queen. Pleased, she gives the violet-eyed lady a kiss on the lips and sends her back to Terra with the promise of holding on to her end of the deal when the next Hallow's Night arrives.

The witch prepares the ritual with the help of her servant and the newly acquired vial filled with the blood of the champion. After the preparations are complete she finds herself in the middle of a small runic circle made with the contents of the vial, and while she recites a long incantation, she drinks what's left of the crimson fluid inside the crystal container little by little.

After several intense minutes the spell is complete, the runic circle beneath her feet opens and expands revealing a sight of luscious scenery with clear skies, compact, floating, earthy masses of land that pour crystalline water to the terrain below and a translucent palace suspended on the air at the distance on half of it, on the other half, a dark, thorny, dry landscape with orange-reddish skies and a broken moon can be seen along with ominous, encroaching storm clouds that crackle and glow with scarlet sparks and thunder above a floating palace made of cards that drips small but constant streams of blood.

"Her duality hasn't changed one bit,  but I see improvements, now there's a barrier between the two sides of her Wonderland, whatever Terra's saviours done to her, it's working... Hollee dear, activate the Emerian barrier we'll just be out for about minute with the planes' "Time Distortion", but one can never be too careful"

"Consider it done Mistress!" the pumpkin salutes and nods.

"It's time to go to Wonderland once again... It's been a long time..."

The witch and the pumpkin jump into the portal to Wonderland, once there, they fall from the skies and land in a place called "The Forest of Clovers".

"Perfect, we are not far from where we should be little pumpkin, we must hurry" she declares pleased, while she makes a well-practiced gesture with her hand, her fingers leave a trace of light in the shape of a rune and once she finishes the formation of light a broom emerges from it, floating sparks of light left behind fall and disappear when they enter in contact with the forest soil. "Get on your pumpkin form and get on my lap it's time to fly"

"Aye-aye queen-captain!" Hollee exclaims and follows her orders. In a flash the one-eyed lady shapeshifts into a small pumpkin, no bigger than a child's head and jumps on the witch's lap.

Flying over the forest the witch and the pumpkin travel beyond it, their destination is a place called "The Spirit Tomb".

Soon they land at the entrance of a cave, high in the mountain and far from reach, the Spirit Tomb is inside it. The little pumpkin returns to her humanoid shape and both enter the hollow formation. 

Inside, the witch feels a familiar chill, a gentle, thin fog surrounds their calves and feet, they proceed. The cave gets darker and slightly more narrow as they advance, the sounds from the exterior cease eventually and are replaced with their own steps echoing all around them, water droplets drip from time to time almost in a rhythmical, soothing manner, the path is long but they keep walking it until they reach a point where it opens up into a dome-like structure carved from the mountain itself and finally, in the depths of it, soft violet and cerulean lights can be seen, produced by small ethereal orbs of floating light that leave a luminous trail behind them.

"These are her wisps" Ella takes a look around looking for the tomb, the wisps play around her and Hollee like butterflies, they come and go as if they were curious about their visitors, at the deepest part the ethereal beings concentrate and create an alluring view enveloping the stone tomb in their diaphanous light.

"Here you are old friend... Here she is, let's begin Hollee" orders the witch to her servant.

"Yes Mistress!"

Ella'Phana stands in front of the tomb while Hollee carves an arcane circle around it.

"I hate to interrupt your peaceful rest but..." the witch queen collects herself "Many years ago we fought together and when you parted from the mortal plane you made a promise to me!" Hollee finishes the engraving and steps back. "You promised you would come back to me in my time of need! the time has come! that time is here!" Ella's voice echoes powerfully and bounces off at every crevice of the stone walls around them. "Chaos draws near and death knocks our door, let my words reach out to your core!" a small violet and blue crystal sphere comes out of her chest floating forward towards the tomb, the witch raises both of her arms slowly, her palms face up and she starts to levitate a few inches from the ground. "The time is nigh and the nightmare begins, to fight at my side you must rise once again!" The crystal starts to emit an eerie glow, brighter and brighter with each second passing, "Rise!" she commands, all the wisps in the place circle around the tomb "Rise!" she orders, she turns her hands palm down, and lowers them abruptly in a downward motion, the crystal instantly drops down with tremendous force on the tomb, the sphere pierces the enormous stone slab dead center, it violently cracks and from those cracks a blinding light is released, "RISE!!!" she demands one final time and all the wisps in the cave are suddenly absorbed like if a black hole attracted them in an instant into the crystal sphere's energy mass. 

The stone shatters completely in the blink of an eye, shards fly in all directions, the dust fills the air, but in mere moments it starts to settle, where there was once the monument called "The Spirit Tomb"  now only fog and light remained and in the middle of it, a dark silhouette, humanoid in form, female in shape with pointy ears on her head, a tail behind her back wiggling smoothly, the violet and blue crystal resting on her chest matched her eyes and gleamed of the same colors, soon the silence broke.

"I hearrrrd yourr call..." she lets out a soft giggle.

The witch falls on one knee but her servant quickly helps her up.

The female silhouette stretches out her arms *Yawn* "That was looooong nap!, hee-hee, so! arrre we gonna get some fun?" *snickers* a wide smile with only pointy teeth can be seen.

"Welcome back... Cheshire" Ella'Phana whispers happily.   

I hope you like Cheshire's origin story fragment and I'll see you soon with Dolly's one.

Cheers!