A Change In The Wind
Gringotts, France
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After the heartwarming moment, Aurora pulls away to grab her diary and start writing. Olivia waits patiently and looks when Aurora turns the book to her with a question,
"Où allons-nous?" (Where are we going?)
"Nous nous rendons à la place Cachee, où se trouvent tous les articles dont nous avons besoin, mais nous devons d'abord faire un arrêt rapide à la banque pour collecter de l'argent afin d'acheter votre matériel scolaire.”
(We are heading to Place Cachee they have all the items we need, but first we need to make a quick stop at the bank and collect some money to purchase your school materials.)
"De l'argent ? Je n'ai pas d'argent à la banque?" (Money? I don't have any money in the bank?)
"No," Olivia chuckled, "But your father does and all his inheritance will be yours one day."
"All of it? Will be mine?"
"Of course! You're the only child of your parents."
Aurora didn't know how to feel about that. Everything just felt too fast. One moment she is moved to a much bigger and more beautiful room. The next she is in a flying carriage and heading to a bank that holds the majority of her father's fortune.
A set of unease and nerves overcame her.
'I need him here,' she trembles as she reaches out through an unexplainable force to the other side.
'He always knows how to calm me down.'
But before the mysterious boy had the chance to answer her call, Olivia quickly reached out, grabbing onto her trembling arm, and interrupted the connection. Aurora looked at her in shocked and confused about why Olivia was now glaring at her. She was memorized on how the other’s purple eyes glowed brightly, almost as if she wasn’t looking at her directly but at something distant away.
A small tension covers them till the carriage comes to a full stop.
Olivia closes her eyes tightly and takes a slow deep breath to calm away her anxious nervous, "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to react that way." She clenches her eyes shut and rubs her temple.
"Please in the meanwhile don't call for him."
Before Aurora could write down asking why Olivia opened her eyes which now appeared close to normal but with a small hint of glow still.
She rubs her temple and reaches for the door, pushing it open. "Come Aurora, let's head out." Aurora follows nervously behind her filled in her head more questions than answers. Wondering if it was her fault for making her godmother mad.
But all of her worries vanished once she was fully outside where the feeling of excitement flowed in her veins.
So many people walked around them. Men wear business attire and women wear different styles of fashion dresses. Vehicles of different styles moving in front of them made Aurora question how they work.
Olivia began to walk forward and Aurora snapped out of her excitement quickly, trying to keep up with her footsteps. They were now walking by a few cafe restaurants where some women were gossiping about the latest fashion or rumors about their family relatives.
But Olivia ignored them all and even scoffed when one of them mentioned the name Francis. Aurora didn't understand what they were talking about so she followed her godmother's lead and ignored them as well.
Walking up a step of stairs they now stood in front of a green statue of a woman. Aurora was shocked to see the statue, then moved, giving her a small smile and pulling the part of her dress that was draped on the stone.
Olivia then simply walks straight to the wall saying softly, "Follow me."
Aurora just stares at where Olivia disappeared thinking, 'No way...'
She places her hand on the wall seeing how it just fades through so easily. A small giggle escaped from her as she walked inside seeing how big the world is on the other side.
There waiting for her was Olivia leaning against the rail of the stairs. She chuckles at the way Aurora's eyes gleamed in amazement.
"Come cygnet, to the bank we go." She reaches out her hand to her and Aurora grabs it allowing Olivia to take her one step closer to an adventure.
After walking through the crowd of parents and kids her age or older that were also gathering their school materials. Aurora and Olivia found themselves walking to an extremely tall building made of both stone and marble. Aurora tightly gripped Olivia's hand as they walked through more crowds of people. Once they made it safely inside without losing each other there were many tiny people with scary faces sitting on top of the high desks.
They were all either stamping papers, or moving shiny crystals and gold everywhere in moving carts, but Olivia ignored them all, heading straight to the goblin sitting higher than all the others in the room.
Aurora, not knowing what to do hid behind Olivia only listening to their conversation.
"Ms. Aurora Belmont wishes to make a withdrawal rule."
The goblin looks away from his paperwork observing her before looking down to see Aurora's frightful appearance. He places his feather on the ink bottle and peers down at Aurora who is now attempting to hide away completely from behind her godmother's form.
Olivia stands in between them and glares harshly at the goblin.
"And does Ms. Aurora Belmont have her key?"
Olivia grabs the key that was safely secured on her neck and takes it off handing the key to the goblin. Seeing that the key was real and not a fake one, a new goblin appeared, taking the key and leading them deeper inside.
After a bit of walking through a couple of tunnels, they are now standing in front of a dark brown gondola.
The goblin stood in the back of the boat and told them to remain seated throughout the ride.
Aurora trembles in fear when the boat begins to move as she attempts to get on. Olivia smiles encouragingly at her as she helps her get on.
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Once they were on, the gondola started to move by itself taking them to their location. It was here that Aurora could admire the beauty of magic as they were riding on a levitated stream of water. A few minutes later the gondola came to a stop and the goblin hopped off from the back.
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Belmont's Vault Entrance
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"Vault 996"
They both made their way down a small set of stairs and in front of them was a metal door with many locks. The goblin takes out the key, places it in the key slot and one by one each lock disattached itself allowing the metal door to open.
From there was just a dark hallway with only fire lanterns on the walls. Olivia places her hand on Aurora shoulder and gently smiles to her, "Don't be scared."
Aurora slowly moved one step forward before stopping when the wall space between them and the hallway began to glow gold.
Just like with the statue, Aurora shakily places her hand on the wall, not feeling any pressure against her palm with the gold transparent wall. She walks through and takes her first steps inside. Giggling over her fears, she turned to Olivia. But frowns not understanding why her godmother was not following behind her.
Olivia smiles sheepishly before replying, "I am sorry, my love. I can't follow you from here."
Aurora quickly pulls out her diary, writing down shakily, "Why not?"
The golden misty wall was the only thing standing in between them.
Olivia reads the writing only giving a sad smile before explaining, "The barrier only allows those of family blood to enter. I am not a Belmont by blood so I cannot enter. Only you can."
'No, no, no, I don't want to go in alone!'
Olivia kneels placing her palm onto the barrier that now glows brightly upon contact with her.
Aurora places her hand with her.
"There's nowhere you can go where I won't be with you."
Aurora wipes away her tears, giving one last look at her godmother before she turns around walking deeper down into the darkness.
Olivia watched wishing she could accompany her but her focus attention was ripped away from her as another vision came abruptly.
A flock of ravens was flying in a circle in the middle of the forest.....there standing in the middle was a girl....she had white hair, icy blue eyes wearing what looked like a crown on her head ....then more indistinguish screams and shouts of different spells being cast everywhere as if a war was going on...then nothing...but endless darkness...
The visions were becoming broken.
It was becoming difficult to decipher what was going to happen and how to prepare for it.
'Why....why.....why are you giving me riddles.....please...tell me....can I save Aurora for what is to come...can I stop her fate from happening?'
Another vision came.
A forest field with a flock of ravens surrounding the same girl with white hair, and icy blue eyes was shown again, but now she standing in between dragons and....what is that form...slithering its way....a snake..
'Is that girl the answer?'
No vision came.
'But how can I find her? How can she save Aurora!? Please I must know.'
No reply.
'Shit', Olivia curses in her mind as her head begins to feel like it's wanting to explode. This wasn't the first time that visions have affected her this way.
Not after…
She shook her thoughts away and forced herself to lean against the marble stone pillar. She looks into the water stream that they took to get here waiting patiently for Aurora to return.
"I heard that she is going to be the last of the dragonlords," the goblin spoke in a dark voice.
"Why does it matter to you?"
"I sense a change in the wind. Dark times are approaching, celestial."
Olivia laughs and gives a side glare, "Are you attempting to scare me?"
"No, but if rumors are true then you know more than anyone that she will be the main cause of it."
"Aurora is pure. She does not have it in her to hurt someone."
Her eyes begin to sting again. The fire began to course through her veins which made her whimper in pain. Everything felt like it was suffocating as darkness attempted to reach for her again but Olivia tried with every strength she had to remain in the light. The ringing in her ear was all she could hear now that she was clenching onto the side of her head pushing away more broken visions.
The goblin's voice speaks out to her in echoes from within the dark.
"No, I don't fear the young witch. For I do not sense darkness from her. It's the other half of the connection that I fear more."
'I know', tears streamed down her cheeks.
'That's why I need to teach her how to block him away.'
'I can sense the darkness from him.'
'And I fear...'
'What that darkness can do...'
'If something happened to her.'