Necromancia

It was at the day of my coronation that I saw her, the woman whom I used to call sister before she was thrown out of the country. Even through her cape and hood, I could see that she was as beautiful as I remembered. Her skin was shining, her hair was as dark as the night sky and her azure eyes numbed my soul. I couldn’t make myself speak up, I was mesmerized completely.

But first, I should tell you how I first met her. I am the only child of the King of Necromancia, the kingdom of magicians, ruled by only the most powerful Necromancer. Necromancy is the power to bend the shadows and the dead to your will, if mastered, it is considered to be the most powerful magic in the universe. The people of Necromancia value power above all, even the king of Necromancia is decided by a show of power and it does not necessarily have to be the son of the previous king that takes on the throne; but the position of the king has been in our bloodline, Necrosis, ever since the Kingdom of Necromancia has been founded by our ancestors.

The bloodline of Necrosis only consists of pureblood Necromancers, and it is a taboo for a child of the Necrosis to even think of marrying with someone who is not a Necromancer. Some of our ancestors had even married into the family to keep the blood pure. So I was shocked when my father came to me on my 13th birthday and spoke to me: “It has been a long time since we lost your mother, and even though she isn’t a Necromancer, I finally found someone that can make me happy. I hope you will come to accept my decision.” My father had always been a strict believer of our family traditions, and my mother was his own sister. He had been teaching me to follow the ways of our family since I was born. I couldn’t believe what he was saying; marrying a spark, someone of lesser magic, was a stain on the family name. I replied him the way he had taught me to: “How dare you marry a Spark, you’re a disgrace to our family!” He seemed hurt for a moment, and then recovered himself, “My heir is ready, I have done my part for our family, and it’s time for me to rest until you are ready to take control of the country”. His answer sealed my mouth shut, I could see how much he had suffered for the sake of our family, and I couldn’t really blame him for wanting to live the rest of his days in peace.

To add to the direness of the situation, my father was risking the throne by marrying this woman. She had a 15 year-old daughter that could try to claim the throne if I were to die. I was lost in my own thoughts as I reached the door of our dining room.

Only one glimpse at her left me dumbfounded. She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen; her dark hair and pale skin would make Necromancers jealous. Her body was spotless, she was the definition of perfection, and I was lost in her eyes. Her mother was almost as beautiful with her green eyes and light brown hair. At that moment, I understood why my father had married this woman; she was probably the only one that could save my father from the despair he was feeling since my mother’s death. He was heartbroken and he didn’t need a new love to replace my mother, what he needed was a beautiful woman to enjoy for the rest of his life, and this little family was the definition of beauty.

It took a moment until I could hear my father. He said “Necron, meet your new family”, he continued before I could object “Believe it or not, I am still a member of Necrosis and I know not to take them into the main family. They will be in our sub-family Necroia from hereafter. ” After the ceremonial wedding, my father took the woman to his chambers and left me with my new step-sister. I jumped when I heard her soft voice. I was mesmerized just by looking at her, it was almost impossible for me to talk to her.

She extended her hand out to me with a smile on her face, “Hi, I’m Alexis, nice to meet you. I’ve heard a lot about you”.

I thanked the years I’d spent training to hide my emotions as I took her hand and replied, “The pleasure is all mine, Necron, the current heir of the Necrosis Family, at your service”. It helped that I was taller than her even with our age difference, but it wasn’t enough to stop her from starting to giggle as I finished the formal greeting that was taught to me at the age of 6.

She tried to speak in the middle of laughing “No need to be so formal, we are to be siblings from hereafter; it would be inconvenient if we were to be this formal at all times.”

I gathered all my strength as I replied, “Then, Alexis, I’m going to have to take my leave as I have…important matters to attend to. It was nice meeting you; I hope we will be able to chat more thoroughly at a more convenient time”.

That week ended without any more encounters; mostly because I tried to avoid her at all costs (I even hid behind a maid once - I did not use magic to disperse into shadows because my father had ordered me not to use magic inside the castle if I don’t have to, my respect for him had returned after I realized the reasoning behind his actions -). The night after I first met her, I couldn’t sleep and I thought about her for the whole night; I didn’t want to have that again, I couldn’t, I needed to sleep to be able to focus on my studies.

In the end, my father came to my room and told me “You know you can’t avoid her for the rest of your life, you are a Necrosis, don’t be afraid of facing a little girl.”, he also wanted to talk to me about my progress in my studies with Necromancy and administration/diplomacy which he couldn’t do during the week because I had always avoided sitting with them to avoid coming in contact with Alexis. I knew I was being a wimp, but I really didn’t want to risk acting like an idiot in front of Alexis or anything of the sort.

I had to accept his offer, I also wanted to ask him some questions; and I thought maybe this could help me become capable of facing Alexis without biting my tongue to regain control of my body. The sight of her was enough to make me feel like I was possessed by a demon, I couldn’t even think rationally when I was in her presence. “If I am to become king, then I should at least be able to deal with a little girl” was what I was thinking as I entered the dining-room.

The meal started without a problem; we sat at our respective seats (me next to my father, Alexis facing me and her mother across my father), and the servants brought our meals. My father was the first one to speak “Good afternoon Necron, it’s nice to see your face for once. Since you have been focusing on your studies, I’m guessing you surpassed your current teacher? Shall I assign you a better one?”

I was trying really hard not to look at Alexis, my eyes were focused on my plate, but I still managed to reply “Yes father, I have passed my current teacher. But I would like to ask for a test to see my current level, as I’ve been self-studying for a while; I believe that I would achieve more by continuing to do so. I see no profit in hiring a teacher to do what I can do by myself”.

My father seemed to have been expecting this answer, “Very well, you may do whatever you see fit, I trust your judgement”.

Surprisingly enough, it was my step-mom who spoke next “I hear you have been to the Roijen forest last month, is it true that the Elfish capital Elvanin is in there?”

It was intriguing to see that she wasn’t as ignorant as I thought; I replied “It is indeed true that elves live in that forest, which is why I have only been to the border-town Nerias to check the shadow-barrier.”

When Alexis replied instead of her mother, I almost choked; “I’d thought so, it would definitely be a problem if the prince was caught trespassing.”

I quickly brought my thoughts back together and replied, “Of course, it would be very inconvenient to have a war while I haven’t yet finished my studies.”

When it was finally time for my “parents” to take their leave, I was getting exhausted trying to suppress my emotions; and when my father whispered to my ear “Alexis hasn’t been educated on magic since birth like you have and since she entered one of the sub-families she needs to be at least on the same level as others of her age; so she’s going to be in the same class as you for the rest of your school-life”, I understood that I needed to leave as fast as I could.

After waiting for him to leave, I quickly apologized to Alexis and went to my chambers. Only a little moment after I closed the door, I heard a soft knock. I went to open the door, and was shocked to see Alexis standing only 10 cm away from me. I immediately backed up, almost fell down as I got tackled by a chair and sat down.

Her laugh cleared my mind, and left me with a red face and a bruise on the back of my knee that I no longer felt. She sat on the chair right next to me and asked with a soft voice “I feel like you’re avoiding me, and I don’t want there to be weirdness between us. Why are you running away from me?”

I wanted to answer her with a downright denial at first but I lost myself in her eyes and said “I…I can’t think when I’m with you, I need to be able to focus on my studies, and your existence is enough to make me feel…incapacitated”.

Her giggle made my heart sink, but I knew I couldn’t lose my thoughts right now, I had said something really stupid and I was waiting for my punishment when she replied “You’re really cute, but it seems that we don’t know each other very well and I’d like to get to know you better”.

I couldn’t resist even if I wanted to, and I actually didn’t want to reject her, I also wanted to know her better. I asked her “So, what do you want to know about me?”, and she asked me “What happened with your mother?”

I didn’t need any more secrets in my life, so I answered her with as much of the truth as possible “We lost her when I was 10, I had felt very sad at the time but I’m starting to feel better. And your existence certainly numbs some of the pain I feel when I see my father happy for the first time after my mother’s death”.

I recollected my feelings for a moment and asked “So, who’s your father?” She seemed saddened for a split second then replied “He was a distant relative of yours from the Neucron sub-family; he was cast out for marrying my mother and producing a child from her”.

I could feel the broken tone in her voice as she answered my question. I could feel that she had experienced as much pain as I had, if not more. At least I’d been able to enjoy many happy moments with my mother; she hadn’t even had the chance to see her father happy for once. The feeling of sympathy was new to me, but it made me open up to her. I started to feel at peace around her, and I could see that she was feeling the same way. We continued to talk all night long, until we were both unable to keep our eyes open.

The summer ended in the blink of an eye, as we were always together, sometimes talking, sometimes playing around, and always having fun. The school started at the first day of autumn and we were both sad that the summer had ended, but we both knew that we’d enjoyed the summer to the fullest. At the opening ceremony we sat together at the elevated part given to the children of Necrosis and the sub-families. I didn’t care about what anyone had to say, so I just gave the little mandatory speech assigned to the grade representative and started staring at Alexis; which I intended to do for the rest of the ceremony; but unexpectedly, I saw her staring right back at me with a smile on her face. I had expected her to be at least a little excited because of starting a new school, but she seemed as “enthusiastic” about school as I was. I knew that no one in the main, or sub-families really cared about the ceremony, but she had just reentered the bloodline and already acted like one of us.

I smiled back and whispered in her ear playfully “I can see that you’re very enthusiastic about starting a new school, wanna go somewhere else?”

She widened her smile and got up, before sitting on my lap, facing me. As I was still dumbfounded by her brave move, she leaned towards me and whispered to my ear “It would be rude to our classmates if we suddenly left the ceremony to play around, wouldn’t it”.

I couldn’t really think while I was drugged by the feeling of her hips on my legs and her breasts pushing against my chest, but I answered the best I could “Well of course, I see no problem with staying here either”. I could see that she was playing with me, but I was enjoying it too much to stop her. I didn’t give a damn about rumors, nor could I care less about the eyes of the weaklings surrounding us. She was the only existence for me at that moment, and I could see that she was as focused on me as I was on her.

I was still savoring the feeling of her so close to me when she looked at the stage where a random teacher (I think the director) was still going on and on about our school ethics before she spoke again, “Well it’ll be over in a moment anyway, it’s nice that you managed to get us placed in the same classes, it seems that this will be a fun school year”.

Soon after, the ceremony ended and all students went to their classes. We were still holding hands as we went to our classroom. I could feel the menacing looks that the male students were giving me, even though they were trying to hide it. It wasn’t really shocking since I was holding hands with someone who would be considered the school “princess” if she wasn’t already considered as mine. Well if she was the unreachable princess I was the one who would be considered the unreachable prince so you could say that we were a perfect match. Either way, I couldn’t care less about what others thought about me, as long as they left us to do what we want, it didn’t matter what they thought about us.

The first class was about the basic principles of magic which we both knew by heart because I had also taught her a lot about magic, and especially Necromancy during our long chats. I was starting to get bored and I could see that Alexis, who was sitting next to me, wasn’t really having fun either; so I whispered in her ear “This is starting to get boring, shall we get out and have a walk, I’ll show you around the school”.

Alexis welcomed my idea and replied enthusiastically “Lead the way”.

I quickly got up and in a second, all eyes were fixed on me and everyone was silently waiting to see what I was going to say. I didn’t even try to hide my smile as everyone, including the teacher, was too scared to talk. I quickly spoke in a monotonous voice “Alexis and I’d like to take our leave as we already know what you’re teaching at the moment”. The teacher couldn’t even dare to object as she knew that it would be stupid to try and object to the heir to the throne who was known to be one of the most powerful Necromancers despite his young age. I could feel the stares of everyone in the classroom as I turned to Alexis and offered my hand to her. She gracefully took it and followed me out of the classroom.

As soon as we were out of the classroom, I hugged her tight against my chest, and I could hear her laughing against me. We started walking through the corridors with my arm on her shoulders. I occasionally stopped to explain to her where we were walking through at the moment. Once we finished touring the school, I pulled her to an empty classroom before sitting on one of the desks and pulling her next to me.

She spoke first “I didn’t really need to know my way around the school since we’re always together, but now that I’ve learned my way around, what do you want to do until we find a class worth taking?”

I was enjoying just having her with me, but I wouldn’t want to waste my time either, so I decided to teach her more about the art of shadows. “Well, I’ve been giving you classes on Necromancy for a while now, but why don’t we do it in the school hours and save our time at home for more enjoyable stuff.”

She was smiling as she answered “I don’t really know what you’d consider as enjoyable, I’ll gladly take you up on that offer.”

I reddened at her comment and started our study hour by going over my conditions for teaching Necromancy to her, the most important of which was her following my instructions word by word. I gave her a couple of small demonstrations, by filling the room with total darkness and dispersing into the shadows while hiding my presence completely from her. After the demonstration, I carefully observed her as she followed my instructions word by word and managed to pull off both spells perfectly.

We didn’t leave that room until the end of school.

That night, for the first time, we ran out of stuff to talk about. We were sitting on my bed, face to face and we had been chatting for hours. I could see that she was starting to lose interest in talking, and starting to focus more on me, specifically my face and my lips. I could feel her staring at me, even though she was trying so hard to hide it. It was starting to get embarrassing so I asked her “Is there something wrong with my face?”

She smiled at my question before answering, “Nope, I’m just admiring the view.”

I was too embarrassed to reply, so we just stared at each other for hours. When it was time for her to take her leave, even though we hadn’t been doing anything for hours, I didn’t want her to leave.

I subconsciously reached out and grabbed her hand as she was getting up, and pulled her back towards me while whispering “Don’t leave.”

She jumped when I grabbed her arm, but quickly brought her thoughts back together and replied “I don’ want to leave either, but we aren’t doing anything and I need to study.”

I didn’t even think as I replied “Then let’s do something” and pulled her into a bear-hug before taking her head in my hands and putting my lips against hers.

She was startled only for a second, before she pulled back and said “Are you sure about this, you know your father will not be happy to hear us doing this. You’re going to be the king and he would not be happy to hear you kissing a half-blood Necromancer.”

For the first time in my life, I didn’t give a damn about the Necrosis traditions. If she wasn’t a Necromancer, I’d make her one. I couldn’t care less about what others thought of us. The only thing that mattered to me at that moment was Alexis. I didn’t even need time to think about my decision; I quickly reached out and pulled her back towards me before whispering in her ear “I love you”.

She reddened at the way I answered her question before hugging me back. She whispered “I love you” into my lips as she passionately returned my kiss.

The next morning we went to school holding hands, and continued our kiss whenever we had the chance. We left class early and got back to class late just to have more time for ourselves, we felt lucky just to have one more second together, and we savored every single moment.

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That night after we started kissing, we couldn’t stop. I felt my need for her deepen by the very seconds; I just needed a slight sign of confirmation from her, and when she whispered “I want you” into my ear, I knew that I wouldn’t be able to stop myself.

I started kissing her neck, her forehead, her arms, I kissed every little bit of skin open to me and her reactions gave me the courage to continue on. I opened the buttons of her shirt one by one, kissing every little skin shown to me. She was also getting anxious and she reached out to remove my shirt. I let her savor the taste of my skin as I had enjoyed hers; and continued our kiss once again, this time embracing each other with naked chests.

I was gradually getting immune to her pheromones, but not in a way that made me love her less. Now that I was kissing her; I no longer felt that she was an unreachable rose but a beautiful meal designed for my taste, the best I’d ever have. We were both overrun with lust; we attacked each other like wild animals. In a moment; we were on the bed, naked, savoring each other’s skin, kissing so deeply that it hurt. I knew that we should stop, I knew that we shouldn’t do this; but I couldn’t stop myself from touching her; I needed her, and she needed me.

That morning was when disaster came.

My father was called to my room by some maids who heard us. I could see that he was fighting with his own emotions; he wasn’t angry, but he knew what must be done; so did I. We knew what would happen if we were found out, and we took the risk willingly. But still, I felt like I had just been stabbed in the throat when my father told me “Son, I’m sorry”. I tried to find a way, a loophole in the rules, but even as she was now a part of the sub-family, there was no way to let her be with the heir to the main family. There was no way for the rest of the family to accept her as a Necromancer. She was going to be cast out of the country, and there was nothing that I could do about it.

We didn’t even have a chance to say goodbye. One moment she was in my arms. The second, she was already gone; stolen from my arms by my very own father’s magic. I was left staring at my own empty hands. Everything my father said made me angrier, I was on the brink of attacking him as I kicked everyone out of my room and sealed the door. As soon as I was alone, I fell into despair; she was taken from me so swiftly that I hadn’t even had the chance to react, a chance to resist. I couldn’t stop the tears as I fell into my bed and started crying. The sadness took over me and darkness started to escape from my body. The whole castle was suddenly enveloped in darkness, the plants and animals around the castle started to die, it got so bad that my father had to come into my room and slap me to make my brain work again. I never smiled again after that day.

The next few years until my father died were torture for me, I numbed my emotions with studies and worked harder than ever before. Every time I saw my father’s wife, she would remind me of Alexis; and I would drown in sadness. My father was aware of what I was trying to achieve but he kept his quiet.

Throughout these years, I mastered the art of numbing my own emotions and became the perfect example of a king. Me winning the power struggle after my father’s death was not a surprise for anyone. I thought I was ready for anything that could go against me after the coronation, but Alexis was not a part of my plans.

When I saw her at the coronation ceremony, I was lost. She wasn’t supposed to be here, she was still considered an exile; but I was the king now, the first thing I was going to do was to remove her banishment anyway. What shocked me was that deep down, I’d hoped that she would be here. I’d wished to see her again, and here she was staring right at me. I couldn’t tell anyone about her presence, so I kept my quiet and sped the ceremony as much as I could.

My eyes never left hers throughout the ceremony, and when she left after the end of the ceremony I ran after her. When I caught up with her, she was smiling, and so was I. I didn’t care what had happened. I was the king now, and it was finally time that I could have her; or so I thought. I should have guessed from the change in her aura that she wasn’t the same person I once loved; she was different. I could feel that she was now almost as powerful as me. I could feel the scars the years she’d spent in exile had left on her soul. Something about her felt unnatural, someone had tempered with her soul. But I wasn’t going to lose hope, I knew that I could save her, I had to.

So I accepted her attack head on; I knew it was coming, I knew that she had been raised to assassinate me; and I didn’t care. She had been raised well, she was probably the most powerful Necromancer I had seen other than my parents and I could see why the traitors thought she would be capable of killing me. They were wrong, they had miscalculated my power. I was born from the most powerful Necromancers of all time, my parents were called monsters because of their power, and I had surpassed both their powers combined. I had surpassed human standards, I had become a being that could even be called a “god” and they couldn’t have known this, it was an honest mistake at their part, but it was going to cost them the most powerful asset they could ever find.

I knew she had been brainwashed by the traitors, but I wasn’t going to kill her just because of that, I knew I could make her mine once again. So I stopped her attack with one hand and incapacitated her with the other. Then I took her by the waist and shadow-travelled back to my chambers. She yelled “Let me go, I will kill you!”, small tears of mixed feelings were rolling down my eyes as I chained her to the bed with chains made of darkness, and sat next to her. I knew she wasn’t hearing me, but I started talking.

“It had been a while since we last saw each other, hasn’t it? I missed you Alexis. Life without you was torture; I barely survived in your absence, only by holding onto the hope of seeing you once again.” I continued as I put my right hand on her warm cheek, “I will save you, no matter what happens, I will get revenge for what they’ve done to you”. She didn’t even move an inch as I was talking but I could feel that her cheeks were wet from tears and I could tell that she was surprised by it. I smiled at this small sign of hope.

I stared at her until I heard a knock on the door and the sound of a girl yelling “The sub-family heads have assembled to discuss where you’ve gone after the coronation ceremony”. Once my assistant entered the room and saw who I was with; she started to apologize but I stopped her with a gesture and said, “I’ll be there in a second, and keep this as a secret between us, would you?” Her face turned pale as she heard the tone of my voice and she left after bowing and choking out a quick “Sir.”

I felt even worse as I turned back to Alexis who was still refusing to talk at all. I hated myself for leaving her in this situation but I didn’t want any more distractions, which meant that I needed to deal with this situation first.

I gave her a quick kiss and whispered “I love you” in her ear as she struggled to break from the chains. I made sure that she had no way of hurting herself and removed her chains, before leaving for the meeting and sealing the door behind me.

The meeting was boring, and a waste of time. The sub-families were thinking that they could play with me since I was newly crowned, and their schemes made me feel sick. I just told them to stay put until I ask them to do something and dismissed them. There were also some other problems; such as some weaklings trying to rebel, and our neighbors thinking of attacking us. To tell the truth, I couldn’t care less, the only thing I cared about was Alexis; so I just assigned some principals from some sub-families and pretty much ran back to my chambers.

What I saw in front of the door of my chambers was annoying to say the least. Someone had tried to break the seal, and had failed miserably at it. There were bodies on the floor, shaking and sweating, their eyes were black and there was black fog coming out of every opening on their body. The seal had served its purpose; I just dissipated their bodies with a single gesture and entered my chambers.

She pretty much jumped on me as soon as I entered the room, it was quite amusing actually. I was laughing really loud, and I could see her getting angrier by the second. She was trying to choke me but my body was strengthened by magic, so she couldn’t even do anything even if she had a knife strengthened by magic. I pulled her up, leaving her hanging in air, and kissed her as softly as I could. She spat on my face, but I just welcomed the spit. I knew she had a hard time being brainwashed by the traitors, I needed to return her senses back. I knew what I needed to do, and even though I didn’t want to enter her brain forcefully, I knew that was what the traitors did to her. They had deleted everything she knew about me and replaced it with hate. I needed to turn it back.

I put her on the bed and sat across her. I placed my hands on her face and entered her sub-conscience. Her mind was in chaos, she was filled with contradicting emotions, and she didn’t even know why she felt them. I reached the part where the traitors tinkered with her brain and destroyed their magic, not forgetting to learn who did it first. There was no way to return her memories back to her so I gave her new ones, I gave her back the time we had together by recreating them with help from my own memories. I didn’t inject any emotions into her; I knew I didn’t need to use magic to make her remember me, I could feel that she wanted to remember me and that she was in pain. I had nothing that I could do to stop the pain, I would have stopped my own pain if I knew how to. I could still feel her sadness as I left her sub-conscience.

When I opened my eyes, we were both crying. For the first time since she was sent away, I felt emotions gushing up inside me, and I let them flow instead of stopping them. I hugged her like never before and sealed my lips on hers; she hugged me back and returned the kiss just as willingly as I was. We stayed like that for the rest of the night, not capable of moving away, not wanting anything to change. In the morning, I knew I had meetings to attend to, but I didn’t care. Waking up next to Alexis was heaven, and I wasn’t going to leave it just to talk to some old bastards.

I waited unlit Alexis woke up, she was mesmerizing, I couldn’t even get myself to move. I asked her if she was okay, and she told me that she had never felt this good in such a long time. That was enough to make me not leave her, but I still needed to do my duties as the king. That gave me that perfect idea: I needed to rule Necromancia, but I was never going to leave her side again, so I just needed to marry her. The simplest and smartest solution. She was also the most powerful Necromancer I had seen except my parents so marrying her into the Necrosis would be a gain not a loss. I just needed her approval. I knew she loved me as much as I loved her, but I still had my doubts if she would accept marriage if it meant that she needed to become the queen of Necromancia.

I would have waited for some time before asking her marriage, but I just didn’t have the luxury. I was left incapable of getting away from her, and the country needed a ruler, I needed her to be in the commandeering chambers. So I softly whispered to her if she would marry me. She didn’t even seem shocked, she just nodded happily. I was overjoyed but I needed to first tell my assistant to organize the wedding and the coronation.

I called her over and gave her the orders then sealed the door voice-proof. I finally had some time to be alone with Alexis, and I wasn’t going to waste it thinking about other things. I returned to the bed where she was watching me. Seeing her in my bed was turning me crazy, I needed to do something about these emotions. I took her in my arms and took her to the bathroom with me. We swiftly got rid of our clothes and went into the bathtub. I made her sit on me, I was as hard as ever for her, her body was intoxicating and I could not take my hands off of her body. I had missed her so much, her body felt even better than before; we were made for each other. She turned around to face me, and I couldn’t stop myself from attacking her lips even if I wanted to. She was controlling my body, and I loved it. She slowly eased herself around my cock, her body was making me crazy and I felt myself craving for her. I lost control at that; I got on top of her and started thrusting with full force. I was worried that she might not enjoy herself this way, but her loud moans showed me that she loved it as much as I did. We fucked each other until we were both so exhausted that we couldn’t move.

The next day we had a swift ceremony and the woman who had been my queen since I saw her, officially became my queen. Now came the time to get rid of everyone who had hurt her in my absence. I was fueled with anger and I was not going to stop until I obliterated everyone who had laid a hand on her. My first target was going to be the bastardly traitors who dirtied Necrocasm the capital of Necromancia. I had known of their existence and chose not to bother getting rid of them before; they were going to pay the price of trying to turn Alexis against me.

I told Alexis of my plans to get rid of every single threat that lay before us, and she said that she would help me. Just her existence next to me was enough, I didn’t need help to obliterate some weak bastards. I told her just to focus on protecting herself and not to bother dirtying her own hands. She smiled at my offer; though she was also a Necromancer of formidable power, she knew that I didn’t need help to get rid of some pests. She had experienced my power firsthand, and though I knew she wouldn’t tell anyone about it, she knew I could leave the whole world in darkness with a single gesture.

In a few days, we were the talk of everyone in Necromancia; weak people called us the beauty and the beast, but some of those who had enough magic to notice our power called us monsters or even gods. I had found the place where the traitors were hiding, and turned the whole building and those inside it to ash right after our discussion with Alexis. Now I was taking a break on getting rid of them, I wanted to hit them when they were at full power, and my attack had left them too shocked to even attempt anything.

It took them a while, but after a few months, they finally struck back. They had had collected their forces from all around the country, it was all of the traitors that were stationed in Necromancia, combined in a big fat army that numbered in thousands. There were mages and physical warriors, they had gathered for a final strike to get rid of the royal family. What they didn’t know was that they were playing right into my hands. I had been waiting for them to come at me, now I wouldn’t need to search for each and every one of them one by one. I just tweaked with the mind of some of their superiors and made them come to the middle of a desert where Alexis and I were waiting for them. It was a massacre; skeletons made of pure darkness were coming out of everywhere and attacking the traitors. They were overwhelmed by these undead warriors and not a single living being was left in a matter of minutes. This was a show of power in the most basic form. I had made my assistant broadcast this massacre in every city center; this was a massage for those who tried to go against us.

“Don’t try to fuck with me”.

Alas, this was not enough to make them shit their pants and run away. This only fueled the fire, and that was what I wanted in the first place. I wanted to get rid of everyone who even thought of going against me, and now, magicians from all over Necromancia gathered to attack me. They thought that the traitors had died because most of them did not possess magic, and that their magic would save them. They placed barriers to defend themselves from physicals attacks that would come from the skeletons and even placed some barriers against magic. The battle started when they fired at us, fire mages were raining fireballs, water mages were sending ice spikes, wind mages were sending slashes powerful enough to cut a mountain in half, earth mages were creating giant earthquakes and sandstorms, there were even some Necromancers who tried to attack with dark-slashes and skeletal warriors. None of these even came close to touching me; darkness flowed out of my hands, creating a barrier that destroyed everything that posed any threat. In a moment, the whole battlefield was in utter darkness, you couldn’t even see as far as your nose. Then came the screams; coming from every corner of the rebel army. People were dissipating into darkness, their bodies were becoming a part of the black fog and there was nothing that could protect them from death.

I took Alexis’s hand and started walking through the battlefield, watching all the effects of my magic on a magician’s body. It was both intriguing and disgusting at the same time, Alexis didn’t show any signs of being disturbed and we stood on the middle of the field as everyone around us dissipated into the night sky and the screams died out. It was finally over. Necromancia was finally clean of all those who threatened our happiness and we could finally live our lives without having to worry about a servant trying to attack us in our sleep. Or so we thought as we returned to the darkness and travelled back home.

We enjoyed the night in each other’s arms and when we woke up, it got obvious that there was no time to rest for us. I could see light over the horizon and there was never light in the capital, the dark magic was too powerful to let light in. This could only mean that our neighbors, the Elves (those who control light) were trying to invade our country. The one thing I felt at that moment was annoyance.

I was annoyed at myself for not getting rid of them before, and annoyed at them for pestering my affairs. I was expecting them to attack me when I got rid of the pest but I had not expected them to get ready so soon. I hadn’t even gotten rid of the people in my country that got angry at me killing the rebels. Now they were going to combine forces and annoy me even more. The darkness is not as effective against light and the Elves protecting the rebels would make them more of an annoyance, if not bothersome to deal with. But you reap what you sow, so I couldn’t really complain at the peace-freak hippies for wanting to get rid of someone like me.