Cursed Hybrid Rejection

Chapter 5: Ascends Part 1

As I look upon her more closely, she looks more like me, but her skin is fair unlike mine. With her true light golden blonde, true sapphire blue eyes that sparkle like sapphires. However, she has the same height as me, 5 feet, 8 inches and a top hourglass figure.

Shocked upon looking at her as it was like looking into a mirror, suddenly I heard a noble kind beautiful voice. “ Hello Rosalind, it is nice to finally meet you at last”. With a smile she looked at me as I said “who are you, where am I, what is this?”

“My name is Alexandria Rose Cromwell Nightshade Stanford, and you are me, and I am you. This is a space where we can talk to each other. In other words, our mind space and the reason you are here is due to you passing out while we are waking up.”

“Waking up, waking up from what? Wait was that your voice I heard when Jonathan rejected me and ordered Jasper and Troy to attack me for humiliating him in front of all the villagers for daring to fight back against his rule.”

“Yes it was me. As for waking up, it would be better to see for yourself what happened back then.”

*Flash back*

8 Years ago

Light of a new morning day is coming throught the room from the windows as my maid Flora pulls the curtains in my chamber. With a kind smile, dressed in her royal maids uniform of the vampire's and witches' kingdom. She is 5 feet, 6 inches tall with her fair white vampiric skin with short black hair and brown eyes. She is my personal maid as well as a member of the Shadow Blood. They are a secret order created by the first vampire ruler as a means of protecting the royal clan. They are assassins as well as spies for them to know what the other vampire nobles are up to and protect the royal family.

They were created when my ancestor changed a human into a vampire by sharing her blood. They swore from then on to protect her and her family for each generation to come. When they made that vow, the Blood Goddess Enyo, the mother of all vampires, blessed them with her mark that creates special weapons that can be summoned from the mark that only those in Shadow Blood have. The mark was of her two special symbols as a goddess they are the spear and the torch. There are many different types of weapons but every member upon full initation into the order the mark will glow and they can summon their soul weapon. Soul weapons are the secret weapons of the Shadow Blood because the weapon they summon is there best weapon for them to wield none other can beat the form of there weapon. However, it can never harm or kill those of her bloodline, which would be the royal vampire family.

Traditionally, when a new member of the royal family is born, they are assigned a shadow blood member to protect them and be what they need in any form. So what I needed as I grew was a personal maid to serve me, which kept people from thinking she was a member of the shadow blood. The reason why she was assigned to me personally was due to three things. First, she is a vampire-witch hybrid like me, her father is my grandfather's personal butler, but also the leader of the Shadow Blood, and third, other than her father. She is the strongest in the Shadow Blood, perfect for protecting me from all dangers, be they threat of assassination or magical curses. With her bloodline, she can protect me from everything as she is trained to.

“Good morning your highness, you have a busy day today. After breakfast, you will meet with your highness's mother, Princess Katherina. Then, train with your father, Prince Consort Stephan. Afterward, study the basics of magic and, in the afternoon, your royal etiquette lessons.”

“More etiquette lessons, Flora, but I have already mastered everything for both vampires and witches. Royal etiquette.”

“That may be, but your royal highness must study more as both their royal majesty have decided to make you their heir, you must learn all the supernatural royal etiquette for when you take the throne.”

“Very well, I believe I must become stronger, so I can protect my kingdom and people when it is my time to rule.”

An hour later

As I walked through the long corridor until I came across my beloved mother looking out to see grandmother in her ceremonial attire at our family's altar with some other witches dressed in a plain white dress.She is 5 feet, 6 inches with vampiric fair skin and her sapphire blue eyes that shine at night with true red hair and an hourglass figure. Dressed in her royal witch dress. “Mother, what is the ceremony that is going on today? I don’t think there is any special holiday or event happening this time of the year.”

“But of course not. As you know, your grandmother isn’t just the queen of witches, she is also a high priestess of a coven. What is happening now? Will one day happen to you? You see those young witches dressed in white." I nodded “yes”.

“Well, they are witches from ours and other covens near us who have come for their witch trial ceremony.

“What is that?”

“To put it simply, a witch like yourself who is learning the basics must go through the witch trial to become a full-fledged witch. Every witch from when they are born has a set amount of mana that they must grow and master before they can begin their witch's trial.”

“When will I know when mine will be from looking at the group of witches? Some are older than the rest?”

“Yes, only the witch will know when they hit a wall of sorts that, no matter how much they train, they won't break through and their witch mark will start to glow. After that, they must seek out a priestess of witches to perform the ceremony. The ceremony is a way to contact our goddess to bestow a trial onto them. Only the priestess performs it on them and the witch may know what it is. It could be anything. Some will have their families with them for the trial as support for other weapons. It really all depends on our goddess, but once the trial is over, the witch will feel it like breaking through their shell to become their true self. Some who have finished their work will undergo physical changes to their height or hair color. But for all it will be, they feel stronger than ever before.”

“Other than becoming stronger and becoming a full-fledged witch, is there anything more to it?”

“Why Alexandria, there, not only will all the witch community view you as an adult and their equal, but once done, they receive their witch's hat and a magic gem, which, with it, they can create their staffs or, weapons from it that will stay with them for the rest of their lives.”

“I understand, mother. I will train hard and master my magic as fast as possible, so I can take my trial.”

“Very well, my sweet treasure, but remember the goddess only gives us what we can hold when it comes to the trial.”

“Yes, I must be on my way now to the royal father for training.” I bowed to Royal, then left to go to the Lycan training grounds.