As Elise and her allies drew closer to Chloe's body, she laughed madly and raised her hands. She cackled as a crash of a thunder resounded from the sky. The sky turned a sickening purple as storm clouds swirled like they were in the eye of a hurricane. Nobles, members of the jury and common villagers scattered and dispersed trying desperately to escape the maelstorm. "Run for your lives!" a woman screamed. "The queens gone mad!"

"Rightfully so," Chloe gloated with her hands on her hips. "I'm angrier than I've ever been. For this fool captain destroyed my sister and all for naught!"

Captain Archibell grimaced with his rapier drawn. It was pointed at the young queen who possessed the powers of a demon singer. "You do not know the times I've wished I could repent, but...this will not bring her back. I know that more than anyone."

Chloe's demon eye swiveled. "Of course...but you'll be back where you belong...in the depths of hell!"

The young girl chanted another round of rising scales, an opratic tenor of "Doremi Faso Tornados!"

Two billowing purple whirlwinds formed and traveled in a chaotic path tossing aside the desks and equipment of the trial. A shattered desk went flying at Elise's head and Tito screamed, "Speckles!"

The young lad ran as fast as he could and barrelled her over right before a splintered table leg could plunge into her heart. Both of them panted out of breath. Elise tilted her head and gave a kind smile. "Thanks Tito! A noble hubby always looks out for his wife!"

"Enough with the marriage stuff, Speckles," Tito said, shaking his head. "You're making me wish I got sucked up in the twister, but..."

Tito turned his head to Chloe who was laughing madly as she watched everyone battle the twister. "That queen really lost her marbles."

"That's not the queen!" Elise whined. "That's not the Chloe I know!"

In the meantime, the Archibell brothers both found themselves running and ducking the incoming debris. "I hate this kinda weather," the captain squawked as he bent low and ran as hard as he could.

"Don't know what kind of screwy person would!" the admiral answered running equally hard. "You'd hafta be a w…"

"Doot doot doot doot doot doot...doot!" Sincirce sang as she merrily peddled a bright pink bicycle with a large wheel. Tony was in the hand woven basket. "Are you kidding me?" she giggled. "This is the weather we witches get our cardio in!"

"Can we get outta this twister?!" Tony cried, his eyes pinwheeling. "My minds already twisted from all dese twists!"

"Hey, breaking the fourth wall is my kinda thing, fish lips!" Sincirce said, but she sighed. "Fine, guess I have to do all the work here."

Chloe continued to sing her piroetting opratic tricks, but Sincirce cackled and shot two fireball with a chant of "Fire blast, toast her smelly grass!"

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Chloe gasped and dodged the incoming fireballs. As her voice ceased, she caused the tornados to drop the people they had sucked up. The Archibell brothers fell to the ground with a nasally "owch!" and Lord Florian Cornbury followed. Fortunately for him, his fall was cushioned by his puffy pants and he bounced away on his tush.

"Baby got bounce!" Sincirce remarked as she lowered down on her bicycle. "Now quick," she said, "Grab her!" the two Archibell brothers scrambled to their feet, but Chloe merely began to giggle manically as her eye twisted and turned. She hit a high note and quickly rose into the sky, safely away from the grasp of her foes.

"It's time," Chloe said with Rosemary's sultry voice booming as she surveyed everyone from the center of the storm. "It's time for my final performance of the evening. One that will surely knock you dead... quite literally!"

Chloe ran her tongue along her pale skinned arm and sneered. "How would you like me to sing your very own elegy."

Before anyone could answer, Chloe's voice grew somber and sad, singing a very soft and beautiful melody.

"Now is the time of my swan song, my Blackswan Song,

My life was here and now it was gone,

Soon, you will all follow,

Your life will end in my song of sorrow!"

A gloomy pink haze drifted over everyone and they started to choke on the fumes. Elise's head started feeling light and hazy, and she imagined a world apart from this one. But as she struggled, Tito gasped and moaned and Elise was drawn back to reality. She shook Tito awake. "Thanks..Speckles," he said with a sigh.

"How are we gonna stop Chloe?" Elise said with worrying in her voice.

Suddenly, a spark glimmered in the young scamp's eye. "Chloe's power comes from her voice, but...what if she didn't have a voice?!"

Tito raised a finger and grimmed mischeviously. "Time for the prank for the century."

"Sincirce?" Elise and Tito crawled over to the witch. She was lying on the ground, with her eyes heavily dialated.

"Men!" the witch cried hallucinating. "I'm drowning in a sea of men. Hallelujah!"

Elise shook the witch and suddenly, Sincirce frowned. "Why you'd wake me from my fantasy? I thought I'd died and went to heaven!"

Elise cried. "You are dying! We all are, but, uh Tito's got a plan!"

Tito whispered in Sincirce's ear, and removed a sock from an unconscious Captain Archibell's foot. A wide smile spread on the witch's hazy face as Tito handed her the sock.

The witch chanted as the sock spun around her head, "For Chloe's mouth a perfect fit, magic help us put a sock in it!"

Archibell's gray sock was magically flung into the air and landed right in Chloe's mouth. Suddenly, the dreary singing ceased, and it was replaced with a muffled choking. The grey sock caused Chloe to fall back down to the ground with a loud crash.

As the haze dissolved into thin air, everyone dizzily stumbled to their feet. They all ran to Chloe who was lying on the ground. "Nice going, First Mate Freckles and Shrimp Scampi!" Captain Archibell said with a winsome smile. "You really 'socked' it to her!"

Chloe gave a soft choke and coughed up the sock. "You fiends!" Rosemary cried and Chloe opened her mouth. "That reeking stench! It blocked this girl's nasal passages and now I can't sing!"

"Hey!" Archibell cawed. "I didn't know I smell that bad!"

"Let's just say," Tony barked. "Even a trout like me doesn't smell 'alf as raunchy."

Everyone looked at Chloe, preparing to grab her and subdue Rosemary, but the dark dame laughed coldly instead. She removed a sharpened dagger from her pocket. Chloe held it to her own throat. "Touch me!" Rosemary snickered. "And she dies!"