Amaranth: A Maerith Kingdom Novel - Chapter 15

The dark underworld was stirring with evil spirits and demons. Kezrin floated up to Crumazz, Qrizor and Zaleria and told them, “I have warned them. I don’t know if they will believe me or not. Zizor survived because Odulore came to his rescue. When will we all return? Who are you taking with you?”

Qrizor gave him a twisted smirky smile, “I cannot wait to see what has happened with them. They think they are going to live happily ever after. That is not going to happen if I can help it. No daughter of mine will be with a son of Trodus’. We will rule the kingdom, NOT them!”

“Oh come on, he makes her happy. What harm can come from it?” Zaleria questioned him.

“Do NOT question me witch. Remember I had you banished to the Crystal Crypt for a lifetime. I can make you completely disappear to where you will not even be here,” Qrizor snapped at her.

Crumazz smiled and said, “I will get back at her. She didn’t think twice about sending me here. I will get my revenge!”

“No, you don’t need to do that. You don’t need revenge on her. She’s your sister,” Zaleria pleaded with him.

“You need to stop defending her. She has gone to the other side. If I hear you defend her just one more time, you will be banished forever! You will never see her nor anyone else ever again. Don’t think that I can’t do it,” Qrizor glared at Zaleria.

Zaleria backed away from him. She thought to herself, Man this is ridiculous. She is my daughter. She is his daughter. He has turned into a level of mean that I have never seen before. I really hope that Odulore figures out how to not let us return. If only there was a way for me to return without him.

“What are you thinking witch?” Qrizor yelled at her.

“Nothing. I am thinking nothing.”

“Father, do we really need her? I think she is the reason Amaranth sent me here. I bet she didn’t even tell her where I was going. It’s all HER fault. These witches are nothing but trouble and in the way,” Crumazz said.

The dark smoke enveloped them and Ozrig appeared in front of them. “You three need to not fight amongst yourselves. You need to band together. You can use the witches to your advantage. Do not dismiss how you can use them to take over Maerith Kingdom. However, before we take over Maerith Kingdom we need to take over Zodel Kingdom. We will take it over and then attack Maerith Kingdom from the east. The first castle to take over is Corlach Castle where Azohr is at. Be ready to escape through the portal tonight.”

They all nodded at him in agreement. Ozrig disappeared from them. He reappeared over at the portal entrance that was being guarded by Gairrulit and Frally. “Be prepared for a great exiting tonight. We are heading out to take over Corlach Castle. We need those griffins and gargoyles to help us.” They nodded to him.

Korzath appeared in Ozrig’s cove and questioned him, “Are they going to leave Zaleria behind? I think she needs to be taught a lesson. I can put her in the cove with the Tarantulas. She has been disrespectful of Qrizor, and she turned her daughter on her son.”

“She will be dealt with in time, but first we will use her and get the most that we can out of her. She is expendable, but can be quite useful. I think that Amaranth will trust her. She will want to trust her so much that she will make a mistake, and we should end up with both witches. It will be better to do away with both of them at the same time. They need to know who is the ruler and what the consequences are. Now leave me.”

Ozrig sat at his table and thought to himself, These demons, witches, wizards and warlocks are troublesome. They are going to drive me crazy. However, once we take over the kingdoms I will use them to continue my quest to take over both worlds. Now to get my evil partner in on the whole scheme. She will not be surprised but she will be thrilled. We will rule the worlds together! He creepily laughed out loud.

Annamaaz appeared in his cove. She went up and ran her fingers through his pitch black hair. “You were thinking about me. I know it. Please tell me more.”

“Oh my evilness, we are going to take over both worlds. You will be my goddess. I will be a god. We will convert all the good to evil. It is going to be so evil!” He told her as he held her tight to him.

“This will be exiting. Can I watch it unfold? I want to watch you take over the other world. You are already a god here,” she implored him.

He stood up and took her over to a crystal ball. “Here, when we are out tonight, you can come over here and tell it to show you the take over. The ball will light up and show you everything going on. You can root for us from here.”

She hugged him tightly, kissed him on the cheek and said, “I cannot wait!” Annamaaz disappeared from the cove.

Zaleria walked to her cove and sat down on a boulder. She stared out into the tunnel. She thought to herself, This is horrible. This is beyond evil. I do not trust them. I have never trusted them. What in the world is going to happen tonight? Are they going to capture my daughter again? What will they do to me? What will they do to her? Was I not evil enough?

Crumazz entered his mother’s cove. He glared at her, “You always loved her more than me. You favored her. She was your favorite. You hated me. Now we will get back at you and at her. I don’t care what you think anymore.”

“If you don’t care what I think, then why did you come in here and tell me all of this?”

“I wanted you to know.”

“I didn’t favor her. I didn’t see her either. Qrizor kept all of you from me.”

“Sure, blame him. It’s never your fault. It’s all his fault. I don’t believe you. I think you went away on your own. I think you did sneak off to see her and that’s why he put a spell on the crypt to keep you in your place.” He turned and left.

Zaleria sat there and shook her head. When is this going to end? When will he quit blaming me? He thinks his father is perfect. That is so not true. I need to figure out how to escape the Dark Underworld for good. I don’t care if it means that I am dead. That would be better than dealing with all of this.

Ozrig appeared in the middle of the Dark Underworld and summoned everyone to be in his presence. “We are going to escape this world tonight and enter our previous world. This is where they believe that evil is gone. They are wrong. We will be taking over both worlds. I will be the god and Annamaaz will be the goddess. You all will do as you are told. If not, I will let Korzath take care of you. Our first castle that we are taking over will Corlach Castle in the Zodel Kingdom. We will go about taking over one castle at a time. We will do it swiftly and quietly. This way the other castles do not suspect anything is going on. You can all go to your caves until such time I summon you again.”

They all immediately left his presence as to not anger him.

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