Episode 5

Am back in the dungeon I've been here for

6weeks in counting its hard to keep track the only reason I know what time it

is because of light streams from the bars that tell me when it morning

afternoon evening night I also have my 1-day meal time like clockwork midday. I

refuse to sit on my hands and wait for my doom am going to destroy the people

who put me in here every day my plans grow further more complex and I get in

contact with more people outside to bring them to my side. I was thinking of

sending out some assignation orders but that would make me as bad as my enemy

and death are too quick and good for them. They deserve to be alive to suffer

their consequences. I have been reading the reports my spies have been sending

me on what actually going on it turns my entire life is a lie and I got mixed

up with a struggle for the thrown this was all done by the 4th princess Cruella

she wanted to be crown princess future queen and do away with equal rights for

men lessen their counts and keep people reliant on the crown by keeping country

always in danger. She helps create mutate and further the draining with the

potions she sent to her mother. She joined together with the remainder of

coconspirators of the Cora faction and anti-men revolutionaries.my kingdom they

went to war with the kingdom of Borus another matriarchal they didn't want this

kingdom views to infect or pollute their citizens because somewhere changing

even defecting to out the kingdom. They wanted this independence and equal

right nipped in the but at the source even if they haft to annihilate this

kingdom to keep their ideals they will, so they joined hands with the Cora

faction back in the day, and Cora now the new Cruella faction. When they

succeeded they planned to rebuild this country from scratch in their own image.

This information was obtained over the course of weeks listening to

conversation reading documents interrogating low and high levels within the

faction. The information was brought to me and I put it together over (Time). I

even discovered they placed a mole in my lab to watch over me because of my

great successes from academies and after I am considered a genius in my field

with magic and science. Am glad whenever it came to my research I was never

friendly with my lab tech and colleague while I was working whenever I worked I

was always the super focused,1 track mine, I block everything else out. Luckily

the draining research was locked up in my home lab no one has access too and no

one knew about. I also realized the only reason they would send someone to

infiltrate my work is that they wanted one of my research and based on the past

crimes they must have found out that I was working on a cure and only knowing

about my public lab how di they know. This spy could have destroyed any future

plans in the works for curing my mother am glad she safe I hired a couple of

bodyguard for me and her after one of Cruella incident back when I was in

school so she's protected and they're good at collecting information. They

probably deciding what to do with me and how long they can keep me alive before

someone else makes a move. I have been known to go off into my lab for weeks at

a time and not be seen or be in contact with anyone sometimes mother wouldn't

even know because I would put her in a magical coma to conserve her life

essence when I went away. A week before I was arrested there was a break in and

I didn't know who did I thought it was a  robbery and they got lucky and

found my secret private lab. My entire house was a complete mess lucky mother

wasn't home she was getting an official check-up at the new all included

hospital. This must have been when they found out how far along I was with my

cure and knew they needed to act fast once they found out I was ready for mass

production they were in a hurry. They weren't as careful as they should have been

they probably didn't turn off the security watcher I installed and they made a

lot of noise kidnapping me using paid professional combat (mercenaries hunters)

guys to be a fake guard or they paid off real ones I sent the proof to Zelena

so she could build a case.

i remember my kidnapping vividly now one time

at night at my lab on campus and I was bone-tired I tried using my magic but

they knocked me out and put that magic black cuff on me and dragged me to my

new home. My home lab reinforced and inside my research kept in a safe, it will

only open to my voice password so my indebted research was safe formula and a

recipe for making the cure.unfortunately they got m to throw away research so

they have the how and why but not the results. My undercover network removed my

mom and took her to a safe location in case they try to blackmail me. Mother

still doesn't know what's going and she's not in a state to handle it.

I also discovered more in-depth about their plans past and future, like that

the draining the increase in case and mutation along with the increase in beast

attacks was done by the Cora government faction they were using our enemies who

just went to war with that they orchestrated as pons to keep lower-class down

and weak, beast attacks more frequent and deadly, the draining more potent and

an ongoing problem. Borus provided access to more monsters luring them to our

countries border luckily most can't get in because the magical wall

construction was almost finished. These beast coming from Borus had mutated

strain of the draining and men were more susceptible to it. I have a feeling

Cruella worked on it but am not worried my cure included possible mutation as

well and if I ask for the queens help I can use her eternal magic to make the

draining extinct. They were also constructing a plan to get this new beast over

the wall. This makes sense now I remember about 2 months ago the government was

giving away free housing to the lowers town males especially the ones who could

fight and are hunter mercenaries and combat mages they would want to be close

to the beast action. I heard the news from robin some of his brothers are

getting shared housing because they want to live together not at the hunter

guild because non-guild members if not children can't live in guild housing.

I have a limited amount of time to find a way out of this cage either legally

or not I sat in contemplation a continued constructing a plan I thought over

everything and with all information I have from my own spy network. I know I don't

have a lot of allies right now because most nobles follow the 4th princess and

the neutral won't get involved luckily there are 2 other factions I could get

help from. I thought " and to thinks, I promised myself and my friends and

family that wouldn't get involved with the struggle for the crown, well it's

too late now Cruella just remembers you made me do this" I was always

asked to participate I would be a great addition to their team they say but I

did want the hassle or responsibility of choosing or supporting the next

monarch it an honor but it dangerous and can get you killed but apparently I've

just been dragged into it or rather I accidentally stepped on a land mind and

almost blew myself up. Cruella faction has a final goal it's to stop royal independence

decree from being made law and official public knowledge to keep royal in

power, to win the thrown, restoration of the class system, and gender roles

using the magical beasts and the draining to do it. Democracy was announced

about over 22 years ago when the previous queen made the announcement. Their

plan had been in the works for years, they have been removing nuisances from

their chess board for years I remember for heiress classes assignment for royal

ember they were sent out on assign to help the investigation team of the

military figure out who responsible for these assignation missing and

mysterious and death and why.

I kept my research under wraps until it was

finished so my removal was a rushed job and because I am of highly known 1st in

my academy class, a genius in my fields, and old peasant new noble I am well

known they haven't figured out what to do with me as of yet meaning I have a

limited amount of time to figure a way out of this mess. I need to escape and

come up with a counter-attack and find allies. luckily for me am about to

become part government they probably don't know because it wasn't made official

yet so that a trump card and apparently I was told I had a friend in high

places I don't know who but am thankful for added protection Cruella will rue

the day she messed with me.

Over the year i have made friends of

influential people in the kingdom people who id risk my life for and they’d do

the same for me we all met, got to know each other,and became family in the

academies. ever since i graduated i have been single-minded and focus on curing

my mom so no new friends because after years of having the draining the magic

injection treatments don’t have the same effect her body adapted and now needs

more magic than i can give her or supply she getting immune. That’s why I’ve

been working so hard hardly seeing my friend and family since graduation and

they knew and didn’t mind they all had their own lives and they always come by

once a week to check up on me or bring me food and make me take a break.

During my childhood from 0-7,my mom was always the strict one with the rules

and punishment and the chores. She was very active and always dirty and smell

like soot and metal she was a blacksmith and Gardner in her free time. She said

when even she was stressed out from an order or quest at the guild she would go

out into the wild and use her nature magic meditate and center herself it

always relaxed her. When I was turning 8 there was a huge magical beats

attack I hid under the floorboard dad and mom stayed in guard but the

beast got inside the house mom used one of her weapons and ran it out, she

fought with she finally killed it but she ended up being scrapped.

The beast was tiger winged beast and middles

stage beast luckily mom high stage grade weaponsmith and she made weapon for me

herself and my father once every year if her skill improved to protect are

selves she even infused her little nature magic into the weapons she was even

teaching us how to use them, unfortunately.  We took her to the

hospital to get treated, mom wasn’t too banged up she got to ch up and sent

home. but unfortunately, the beast she killed didn’t get cleaned up properly

because we didn’t know how to properly dispose of it, apparently, the hunter is

supposed to pick them up using a magical storage bag but since they didn’t kill

it they did clean it up and we had too because we got tired of waiting for

them. We sent a request to the guild but no one came. I think they were being

spiteful because mom didn’t their job and took money out of their pocket

because mom got a big reward for her defeat. We waited for days before mom

moved it herself and cashed in the remained to pay for her doctor’s appointment

with some leftover. At this point, the draining was hard to identify in

its early stage we only realized mom was sick after she could barely continue

working, and using her plant magic bleeds her of all energy dry and has

her passing out. We realized she was sick she was diagnosed with the draining 2

days later everyone was devastated I thought she was going to die and that was

the beginning of the worse times for us.

During my academy days, my mother would always

make time for me even when she was sick and was tired she couldn’t get outta

bed. She would wait up for me after classes in basics and the academy and

listen about my day she would even let me run theories and ideas by her about

my research and study because i never had any close friend in my field. I know

my mom misses my dad a lot i hear her crying in her sleep some nights. He was

the best dad in the world he always encourages me to dream big back then i just

wanted to be a nurse i didn’t know I had the ability to be more think or do be

good at anything else. My dad uses to help out with my homework in basic school

and my cooking. He started training his body seriously when mom got sick to

protect us from bullies he started working out after his run on with the

anti-men faction years ago. We both really miss him but we will survive. I was

a  very introverted person always kept to. Unless it necessary so i didn’t

make a lot friends until the academy.

I made some lifelong partners in the academy i

will call on for help and include in my revenge plot and escape plan. I was

friends with 2 royals, 1 commoner like me , and 2 nobles both from influential

families. The irony was i went to school with about 4 the princess and 2

princes they were all like rival some were more friendly than others. Cruella

the 4th she was in science and heiress course as well. We always bucked head

over everything because of our different views and the same interest. She

wanted to discover a way to make men obsolete and wipe them out by doing that

she would automatically gain support from certain factions for the thrown

anti-men and a  reminder of Cora faction and anyone who opposed the

current queen policies.

The queen has always been chosen by merit there

school accomplishments and 2-year real-world results then she conducts

popularity contest and lets candidates campaign it was announced on the last 2

princesses graduation the 4th & 3rd princess. The 2nd Ursula princess was

genius a graduated early and started her own business she abdicated the thrown

as well she preferred her own work. I also knew the 1st princess

she was my senior and friend. So i have 5 favors i could cash in or friends i

could call to help me out we still meet up once a month to check in on each

other lives were all so busy. We even made a  panic signal on my

graduation in case any we needed extreme help and was in big trouble with

family, business whatever. We all got along so well in school because of

single-minded goal and workaholics.

I just read all my reports I’ve been getting just finished my 1 meal a day a.

Sandwich/soup and water. The activity outside my cell has started to increases

one of my spies just told me they set a trial date for in a month to contact my

friend make allegiances to crash my trial and set me free. I told Zelana back

in the academy i would never get involved in the struggle for the thrown no

help would come from me, It would be too much off a bother but now it’s on and

i need help so i need to make some deals. We always agreed from the jump when

came to serious matter wed behave like allies,not friends or family so when it

over there are no hard feelings.

I’ve contacted Zelana we made a deal that i

would join both her and 1st princess rubies faction and help

them with whatever they asked as long as it doesn’t conflict with the other.

And that my cure would go to know one's side I did the work am gonna get the

credit. They both have a truce going no dirty tricks allowed if either is in

trouble or need help against Cruella schemes they would. So sent out a letter

to all my friends with our secret SOS. I made deal with Zelana she will be royal

power of eternity she best lawyer in the kingdom and she would defend me, ruby

is the vice commander of knights she will be my seen protection bodyguard her

dream was always to become queen if not the knight captain of forces in Aurias

the knight is the outside faction of the military always war-ready and sent out

on expedition and diplomacy talks. The royal backing at this point should have

everyone shut up if there are any objections they don’t want to risk one of

them becoming queen and holding a grudge.She was the muscles in case things got violent

at the trial. The 1st prince Alfred is in the royal assembly and is the

official speaker he will bring more nobles to my side by using the ones who

want to get in good with him and especially the ones with an interest in my

cure for their loved ones and money horses. My noble friends provided money and

resources and smaller nobles under their support. I had now quality and

quantity backing my noble friends were high nobles with a lot of vassals 1st of

her house Marchioness Maleficent Aura merchant family became nobles through

donation and merits and Duchess Emma Aurora is of royal descent with rare

healing magic that has been lost over the centuries. Mal set up outside travel

and living in case I had to flee to another country because of her trade routes

to them. Emma was going to release my cure if I couldn’t and take care of my

mom if anything happened to me. Mom always liked Emma considered her 2nd daughter

because she took care of her so much when she came over she was in the medicine

guild. Emma doesn’t like magic so she will learn the basics of how to control

it and nothing more. After an incident where she had to use it on me after one

of Cruella attack, she decided to study medicine and put her magic to good use

but she refuses to use it for anything else.Emma’s mother died from an accident with magic

it overloaded and she killed her after she had a fight with her husband he

estranged from Emma especially after she moved in with Mal family. She was just

a kid she’s still traumatized by this. Emma's sister went abroad to another

kingdom to study Laya. Finally, the commoner turned noble like me the Baron

studied assassination magic and martial arts. Robin Lockwood was my plan B with

mal and Emma in case they decided to kill me and i need a fast escape. He works

for any noble especially he’s now dating her ruby as an assassin and thief he

studied archery as well.

My prep is done everything will begin in 4 days

from now. I have been in this dank dark cage for weeks, i have the ability to

escape but I won't be a fugitive that last resorts. I am all healed up and

recovered, but if I escape I’ll be branded as guilty a criminal and traitor.

And that’s what they want I noticed my security was getting a little lax over

the weeks. They just wanna issue a manhunt to kill me on site and burn my homes

they’ll probably start implicating my friends and family later so they won’t

get revenge or make sure they don’t have back up cure formulas and this would

all be for nothing. I getting so mad just thinking about it. Luckily they did

not expect me to set up safety measures in place ahead of time in case of my

unlikely demise if I died  I installed a spell on my familiar with a copy

of all my spell buried treasure locations and all my research form invention to

the cure I also installed a list of people to deliver it too so I will never be

silenced even in death ill be a pain in their asses.

 I’ll have a good laugh beyond the grave.

That I won’t go down that way. The plan will work it has to. I’ve been training

my magic all my life and basic body strength as well and extra training in my

cell  I learned self-defense from robin when we were kids and in the

academy to protect myself. So I was ready as I'll ever be.

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