Stronger Together

Chapter 6

Gypsy’s POV

I opened another portal and dragged Julius with me to my family's home. Mum and Dad left it for me after they passed away. It was in the witch kingdom, but it was isolated from any of the covens and I had placed charms around the perimeter to hide them from passersby when I was cast out. I didn’t want anyone thinking they could come in here and touch what belongs to me.

“I told you we shouldn’t have gone back there. I told you we should have started fresh, in a different location”, I shouted at Julius. He looks as though he is ready to kill someone. It was his fault. He said no-one had been at the facility since the Fundamentalists were destroyed. “Ezekial knew the facility like the back of his hand, and now he has his mate back.”

Julius mumbled something under his breath. I’ve had to save him more times than I can count, and it’s starting to piss me off. “The only problem is your witchcraft Python put into the collars. What happened to your sure proof, way? They will never have their mate or pups, huh?” he snarls at me. “I thought if any of them got close to where they are, a portal would open instantly, and we would take them again. The portal opened; we couldn’t get them. Why?”

“You are asking me? You said you would be able to see anything happening with your camera. The girls ripped it down within the first 10 seconds of being in the isolation pit,” I snarled back at him.

He reached out to grab my throat with his silver hand when he dropped to the ground, screaming in agony as his arm shriveled and disappeared. “What the f**k?” I screamed, watching him squirm around the floor. No, it can’t be. You can’t reverse an enchantment. Mum told me it can’t be reversed. Why is this happening?

“Wh..What. I.. Is. H.. Happening?” Julius asks, trying to gulp in large breaths of air.

“I don’t know how they were able to reverse the enchantment. I was always taught you can’t reverse one”, I said in a whisper as he grabbed my arm, his nails cutting the surface of my skin. He has 4 days of this because an enchantment sears into a person’s soul. Only the strongest of witches can do it without incident. I warned him it would happen when I placed the enchantment on the girls to give him a new arm. We didn’t need all three of them, but I wanted to make sure it worked.

“Fix this” he seethes through gritted teeth.

“How can I fix something when it is clear their witchcraft is much stronger than mine” I shouted at him. I don’t like it. I came to terms with it the moment they were able to stop my hexes. That's why I refused to alter their memories. It wouldn't work, even if I tried, because they would be able to reverse it, even if they didn't know how. I open a portal and Julius stands up, bowling me over as we crash through the portal.

“Who disturbsss my ssslumber?” A male voice hissed through the cave we entered.

“Python, we need your help” I said, sitting down on the floor as the snake-like enemy of Apollo slithers his way to us from his hiding spot. “How can someone remove an enchantment? Mum said if I use one, no-one will be able to remove it.”

“You woke me up for twenty quessstionsss?” he says, circling my feet. He won’t eat us; he needs us. But I don’t want to anger him either. “Did you ussse the collarsss I gave you?”

I glanced over at Julius bunching his hand into a ball to stop himself from screaming out in the pain from the burning he was feeling. “They got the girls back” I said, dodging the mouth of Python by rolling through a portal as he lunged for me. “They broke the collars and took them back.”

“Enchantmentssss can be reversssed by a royal member”, Python says, and I swear under my breath. The three girls were all royal decent. No wonder they could have the enchantment reversed. There is only one problem with working with Python; he can see into the future. He would know we had gone back to the facility to piss Ezekial off. Julius said, why not restart the maidens by having them at the facility. “I warned you not to ussse revenge asss a tool. Thisss isss your missstake to bear.”

“We have come too close, we can't back out now. What do I need to do to be better than the werewolf queen?” I asked him and he shook his head.

“You will never be better than the werewolf queen” he said, circling my feet again, and I let out a scoff. “Ssshe is ssstronger than you on her own. Add her mate, her brother and cousssin; together they cannot be defeated. That issss why I told you to take their daughtersss and ssstart the legacy when the lassst comesss of age.”

“How do I get them back?” I ask and he shakes his head again.

“You cannot get them back”, Python says, and I shrink back towards Julius. “They will be too sssstrong to take again. We will have to ssstart over without them. Be aware, anyone you get, will need to be ssstrong and have strong children for my nourisssshment.”

He throws more collars at my feet as I pick them up and open a portal, dragging Julius along with me. We will have the kingdoms searching for where we are. We will need two sites; one for the new facility with maidens and one for the rogues. Wherever we get the facility; we can’t have the rogues coming and going as they please. I stand near a wall in my bedroom; “reveal” I state as the wall opens, and I place the collars inside. “Conceal” I murmur, and the wall closes again.

“Could we get your arm back?” I whispered as Julius sucked up another breath. “We can use one of the rogues.”

“If I have to suffer for the next 4 days, I should get something in return” he says through clenched teeth and I nod my head. I open a portal and head to where we left the majority of the rogues. I don’t even say anything; I waved my hand to a random rogue and dragged him back to where Julius was.

“Replace the arm which was taken, for this man’s voice be not mistaken. He doesn’t need it nor use it much; and give the vampire an arm of silver, making it stronger than before. Make this enchantment sealed for all time; do not allow it to be reversed”, I said as the rogue fell to the ground squirming in pain. I waved my hand and pushed him through the portal back to where he came from.

Now we have the arm situation under control; I need to find somewhere to build a facility. “Maybe there is a cave somewhere we can make to hold the maidens” I said, and Julius shook his head.

“Wait” he says, trying to hold back the pain in his voice. “Use the cave Titus was in” he says, and I narrow my eyes at him. The same caves where Python is, and the previous vampire leader knows very well. “It’s close to where we need to go and Titus won’t want to go back there.”

I agree Titus wouldn’t want to go back. I also agree the cave system is easy to hold people since it already has some cells in it. I know we can make more and I can use my magic to hold them. The rogues know the area, we can’t have them coming near it. “What about the rogues? We can’t let them come near the maidens when we get them.”

“They won’t” he seethes, clenching his teeth. “We’ve been moving them around for the last five years. We just need to keep moving them without sending them back to the cave.”

I nodded, grabbing him by the back of his shirt and creating a portal to the cave we used to hide from the reality of what we were doing. Hiding behind those that were made to lead and never once have them question how they were able to. Convincing them, by planting memories and removing others; it was their idea. “How are we going to rebuild a baby-making scheme without everyone knowing what we are doing? The moment someone goes missing, they will know”, I asked out loud to no-one.

I didn’t realize Julius heard me. He shuffled himself up to sit against the wall of the cave; “we didn’t create what I managed to do with Ezekial” he answered, and I turned myself to look at him. “The only thing we need is females who are willing to sell themselves for s*x. I know a she-wolf and a she-cat who were sent to the witch kingdom that may be willing if we can get them out.”

The daughter of a lord werewolf and the chosen mate of a werecat leader? They were, what do they call them again? Bunker baby? They would be great additions. “You are saying we should create a brothel?” I questioned, and Julius nodded his head, sucking in air. “That could work. There is always some female out there who is willing to sleep their way to the top, but we can’t control who gets pregnant that way.”

“That’s where you come into it”, Julius says, and I c**k my head to the side. “You will make sure they willingly take injections to fall pregnant. Injections that will cause them to go into heat, men won't be able to resist. We won’t need to distribute the babies. They can be raised by their mothers and when the time comes, they will be fed to Python.”

Someone has thought this through. I nodded my head and moved to the room I was allocated when Titus was there. I think this plan will work better than the first. There is always a male who isn’t satisfied with his mates and is willing to pay for s*x, even if the mate will feel everything they do. I like this plan. I like this plan a lot.