The Forbidden Sorcery (Wizardry Of Souls)

The Secret Room

While the three seasons and Cressida converse in the hideout, the Leader of Pandora Petrova Theodore and other senior mages run to the thick Forest to uncover where the assassins ran to.

 " They must have broken the pine forest barrier and gone out," one of the senior mages said.

Petrova released a magic, like a forecast on the wall of the mountain to monitor where the assassins took.

" So they broke the barrier." Petrova said.

"We will go after them" The senior mage attempts to make a move but Petrova insists it was too late into the night to do that.

" Only those of Pandora can break the barrier, there's a spy among us. We must ask the Martinez family for help"

       In the secret room where Elena's body was kept Trevor, Stefan, Morgan and Cressida deliberate over the missing body.

"Stefan, did you notice anything suspicious when you were hiding in Emerald Pandora? Trevor asked Stefan

"Suspicious? No! I was only looking out for Cressida"  

Trevor continued "do you think Elena shifted her soul into another woman's body and came to retrieve her body?" Trevor asked the other two seasons

"Can women only shift souls to the same gender?" Stefan asked, looking sternly at Cressida who was just standing there without saying a word.

" Not really, but for everything to go smoothly, I heard that they have to pick someone similar. Gender, age and build. They all need to be similar" Morgan answered.

Stefan turned to look at Cressida again " I am only asking because I have never seen her before, was Elena thin with short limbs? Did she have a round face like Cressida right here?" Stefan was already half inches away from Cressida's eyes locked down on her. Cressida was already wondering what was wrong with him.

The clowny Trevor was at it again with his jokes, he went close to Cressida and lifted her cheeks up" what type of assassin looks this good? Just look at her?"

Cressida tries to wear a fake smile amidst this and so suggests the said assassin Elena was nothing less than a monster in looks.

"No, she was human,"Morgan said in defense."Let us not belittle the dead even though she was an assassin," he continued. Cressida looked at him amazed that he could defend Elena even in her death. 

    The guards came into the secret champers where they were to inform them of the presence of master John Gilbert and his demands to see them. Stefan refused to go, insisting that master Gilbert never liked him and therefore stayed back with Cressida. Trevor and Morgan left Stefan and Cressida in the champers where Elena's body was kept and went off to see the master. 

"The body was frozen here" Stefan hits the frozen cave where Elena's body was kept.

"Seeing how there is no rotten smell your body must still be fine Elena'' Stefan said her real name now, he was certain she was Elena and not Cressida. 

    "You're right, I am the Shadow assassin, Elena" Cressida wasn't afraid to admit it anymore. " I thought long and hard as to why you helped me, did Salvatore send you too?

 "No, no one sent me here" Stefan knew what he wanted from her.

"Then why did you choose to help me? Cressida was still doubtful about Stefan helping her.

" I already told you, but I guess you didn't get the message". 

"Don't tell me you fell for me" Cressida recalls Stefan admiring her eyes when they first met. " That's the only thing that makes sense to me" she said screaming this time. Cressida was already irritated.

" I do admit repeatedly calling you pretty, but it was because I desired something."

"Which was?" She said,

" I have been searching for someone who can break this spell to call my master and then, I found you. Elena, I want you to be my master." Stefan was more determined than ever to learn from her.

Cressida becomes speechless for a while and chuckles at Stefan's demand of being her pupil.

"Son of Donovan of Pandora is asking me, an assassin to be his master? That's an original nonsense" Cressida mocks Stefan in her speech.

"You will open the gate of energy of your pupil and help him to practice spells. As your pupil I will keep you safe and hidden, we could also form a beautiful relationship where we benefit from each other" Stefan didn't take her mockery seriously.

"Not interested" Cressida debunked the idea almost immediately.

"If you don't want to be my master, you could be my wife instead. Would you like that?" 

"Shut it" furious Cressida almost lost her cool. "I heard you visited several masters and got kicked out everytime, was it because you were this stubborn?"

" I could not threaten my former masters since they had no weakness. But you have quite a big one, you cannot get out of here alive without my help. You will die the moment they find out who you are". Stefan threatened her with what he knew about her.

"Is that so? In that case, I will kill you first".

Stefan moved closer to her and spoke clearly to her face. 

"How merciless of someone I helped, I brought you to our house through the Jade plague and into Emerald Pandora with the Spirit Plague. Now look where we are." 

He didn't give her the chance to speak again as he walked towards the wall of the chamber and press closed the secret door of the cave where they were. 

"This is the Pandora secret room. If that door closes we can only get out if someone opens from the outside. We're locked in here together"

Cressida attempts to run out of the room and suddenly pauses her steps on a marble on hearing Stefan's screams "do not move, step on the wrong spot and the ground will cave in. Kill me and you will be killed by the Pandora mages who will enter, but if you agree to be my master, we will get out of here unscathed."