he’d remembered back to the castles name being
called Leanorisque Castle before Vrakug had killed the king and
queen, or whatever had happened to them. So using the piss bucket
quick, then after relieving himself he’d decided to go out to the
portcullis and check the castles name again.
Once out there and checking that he’d enough
time before the darkness consumed the land and the Skylark beasts
appeared, he’d been shocked to see that the name did say Vrakug’s
Castle. Only as he’d looked hard at the words with moss forming
over them, he’d realized that the stone all around the words held a
slightly different grain. So then as he was carefully rubbing away
the moss, he’d seen a crack running around the words and reached
for his knife. Then as he’d dug it in and twisted the blade,
suddenly his knife had flown forwards and the words saying Vrakug’s
castle had fallen away, revealing a sign underneath that said
Leanorisque Castle.
Chapter 5 – The King and
Queen
After Dracus had found out that there was a
king and queen living in the castle before him and that the castles
name was different, he’d put two and two together and got four.
Vrakug never bought it from them, so he must have waged some kind
of dark magic war against them and stole it.
Then with his plans to destroy all the
planets of the Valstrath Realm including Eldor, he must have
already tried it but somehow the witches had stopped him, which is
why he wants them dead.
Vrakug had approached him in the heat of his
anger towards him and Dracus had found it very difficult to look
the evil bastard in the eye after that. Although because of the
grave consequences, he’d known that he had to let the rage inside
of him go and not let Vrakug get suspicious of him. If Vrakug
suspected that he was acting strange he’d demand to know why, which
of course he wouldn’t tell him, but that would lead to more jail
time. No he’d play it cool and see if he could somehow find the
person with the royal mark that he was trying to kill, and then
warn them. If they believed him and then fled, Vrakug couldn’t cast
the spell to kill the witches and then in turn all the four planets
would be safe too.
Vrakug then seeking revenge also stepped up
his spell learning too. He’d used his portal late at night to get
into the study and took some of the deeper dark books from the back
shelves, the ones with more sinister spells in them. Then after
he’d learnt them and tried casting them in his cold stone room,
some of them had powerful results. Windows appeared that he could
watch outside the castle from and also follow Vrakug with, only
when the evil bastard had turned around once and looked straight up
towards the window as if could see it, Dracus had shit himself and
closed the spell. Then the other ones he’d summoned had started to
form hideous beasts, but again when he’d only a few words left to
read, Dracus had stopped reading the words again and let the beast
vanish.
Dracus felt that it would only be a matter of
time now until he’d found a spell that would be so powerful that he
could attack Vrakug with it, but feared deeply the consequences
should he fail. So far he only knew how to give life to dead
animals, light a candle, summon a portal, make some beasts and
apart from a few other things, make his bedding warm before he’d
got into it, hardly powerful sorcery enough to kill Vrakug with. No
if he’d rushed into it and Vrakug laughed at his spells that he
threw at him, there wouldn’t be jail time from the evil bastard,
instead he’d just vaporize him with those crimson red rays, which
is probably what he did to the former king and queen too, Dracus
thought.
Then as time went on and with summoning his
portal to visit Janus who still wouldn’t run away with him,
something else had happened that meant everyone had no choice but
to run.
He couldn’t stay in the castle a second
longer either, Vrakug would find out