Gwen whinnied in amusement and launched herself into the sky, strong wings beating as she shot off toward the castle. She scanned the ground as she went, looking for the three who were at the dinner. She definitely got a bad feeling from all of them, and she didn't want to see what they could all do together.
"Jesus christ," Cassie yelled in shock as Gwen launched into the sky. "Okay, okay, oh my god." She closed her eyes and held on for dear life.
All too quickly they came upon the castle, and Gwen noticed with a sinking feeling in her stomach that she didn't see any guards standing watch outside. With a burst of speed she dropped to the ground, extending her wings sharply as the earth flew up beneath them. She landed gently behind a line of trees, hidden from whoever might be watching, and knelt, letting Cassie slide off her back before transforming back to human form.
Cassie stopped and bent over, leaning on her knees for a moment before straightening. "I really don't want to go inside," she muttered, readying herself.
"I know," Gwen said softly. "But we have to see. We have to make sure they didn't hurt anyone. That's all we're doing."
"Yes, but you met them. You know they did," Cassie argued.
Gwen sighed dejectedly. "I hope they didn't. But I'm pretty sure that neither of us are going to like what we see in there." She paused looking at the castle. "We have to check though. Please?"
Cassie groaned. "Okay, okay. Let's hurry, please."
Gwen shot her a grin, and took off towards the castle, being careful not to let anyone see her. Not that there was anyone to see her. As she sneaked around the stone wall, she noticed that all of the guards were gone. She wondered, and worried, but decided that they were just on break. That is, until she saw where the guards really went.
Cassie almost threw up, inhaling sharply and closing her eyes. "Fucking bastards," she muttered. "Okay, we've been, we've seen, can we leave now? They're probably gone, anyway."
"We have to check inside," Gwen said desperately. "This might be all they did. But we have to check."
"No, no we really don't. There's really no purpose," Cassie argued.
Olivia had sent sent a raven flying from the top of the castle, it went soaring off to her manor summoning her girls to come quickly, they had arrived and went to work. There was a group taking down old decor, another group dealing with the other resident's of the manor in what Olivia hoped was a peaceful manor, and a large team was spreading out all over the castle replacing old guards Once such a team exited the gate to replace the guard who lay on the ground slaughtered. "Pardon, But we're here to stand guard and answer any questions you may have." One of the woman addressed the two girls.
"Who are you?" Cassie fired off. "What happened to all the other guards? Who do you work for?"
The woman responded calmly, "I am Brenda, I work for the lovely lady Olivia, she rescued me from a brothel 5 years ago, I've worked for her ever sense, the woman around me all have similar story's, our mistress has a habit of rescuing us from less then savory situations and offering us employment. The guards are casualties of war, no battle is without them, most were killed painlessly by the Lady Olivia, her poison works instantly when in this high of a dosage."
Cassie growled in frustration. "How can you possibly think that this is okay? People died, and you're going on about how wonderful your employer is and how they died painlessly? Does it matter if it was painless? They're dead. Most of them probably had families, and now they're never going to see them again, and you're - " she quietly screamed and turned around to lean against a tree.
The woman remained calm, "Yes people did die, I can't deny that, but were the previous government leaders do in there job either, hundred's more would have surrendered and died from starvation and in a much much more painful way then these few died, it is a sacrifice made for the betterment of the country."
(That's some straight up Thanos shit right there XD)
"You keep telling yourself that," Cassie told her, shaking her head. "Gwen, I'm sorry I have to go."
( https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-RVSWnw9u6h4/XVNTHEq95OI/AAAAAAAAGFk/nr0QzEMQiVghSOEowKhE6Ryey4vdKXO7wCK8BGAs/s0/2019-08-13.jpg I made a flag for us bad guy's because why not. The arrow thing is the alchemy sign for Iron and a raven is Olivia's personal symbol, I think the butterfly's are self explanatory )
(That's some straight up Thanos shit right there XD)
( perhaps the saddest thing is that's the mentality sold to people about war's in real life )
"Cassie!" Gwen cried as the girl turned to leave. "You can't just go! We have to do something! We have to stop this!"
The woman looked at the retreating form of the first girl then to the one who shouted after her, "I'm afraid stopping this isn't an option at this point my dear, when my mistress get's an Idea in her head, she tends to be unstoppable, aided by those two men I'm not sure anyone can do much of anything."
"What are we supposed to do, Gwen? Please, tell me, because these people are literal sociopaths, and I don't think there's anything we can do."
"I don't know!" Gwen was getting increasingly more emotional, almost on the verge of tears. "I don't know what to do! But these people are murderers, we can't just sit back and do nothing! You keep saying there's nothing we can do, and don't you think I don't know that? But we have to try! We're some of the only people in the whole world with powers, and you want to just stand off to the side?! We have to try." Her voice went quiet. "I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I didn't."
( https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-RVSWnw9u6h4/XVNTHEq95OI/AAAAAAAAGFk/nr0QzEMQiVghSOEowKhE6Ryey4vdKXO7wCK8BGAs/s0/2019-08-13.jpg I made a flag for us bad guy's because why not. The arrow thing is the alchemy sign for Iron and a raven is Olivia's personal symbol, I think the butterfly's are self explanatory )
(It’s beautiful…)
As the conversation went on, a white butterfly landed on both Cassie and Gwen.
“Now now… good night…” the butterflies released hypnotic powder which would work within a three minute scope time. The young man who was their owner walked up behind the two girls, holding his index finger to mouth.
Cassie noticed a butterfly and immediately crushed it, blinking heavily despite doing so. "God fucking dammit, I knew this was a bad idea," she mumbled before collapsing, barely conscious.
"Sorry," Gwen murmured, crushing her own before crumpling to the ground alongside Cassie. She strained to keep her eyes open, but it was no use and the last thing she saw was the blurry silhouette of a young man before the world went dark.
Even though the hypnotic powder worked on the girls, they would still be able to hear somethings faintly.
“Brenda—“ the young man called “—can you please make sure that they’re unharmed during the time I’m gone? Even though they are somewhat nuisances to us, it’s better to slowly torture them as we go” he suggested through gritting teeth before spreading his azure colored wings and launched himself into the sky.
Behind him were several guards stacked, all unconscious and motionless, not harmed one bit though.
Brenda nodded as the man flew off she then carefully picked up one of the girls and ordered one of her compainions do the same to the other girl, once they were inside they began to talk, "Are we really going to let them be tortured?"
"You're new Jess, when Olivia hear's torture, what that means is paralyzing them no real pain but definitely not fun, the girls haven't really done much wrong so it wont be too bad for them."
Olivia wasn't surprised to see her woman carry in the girls, "Ah, so they did try to play hero, that's a pity." She lightly brushed her hand over each girls forehead then found a nice plump vain each of the girls, she carefully pumped them full of her paralysis poison, she then saw the bandage on one of the girls hand, she unwrapped it and upon seeing the wound open motion to Brenda, "See to it that this is sewn up, you know the drill." Olivia waved her hand and the woman left with the girls. Olivia sighed, she just hated having to paralyze people, but until she had evidence they were guilty she couldn't very well kill them not while she was trying to set up a countries legal system, she needed a good reputation. The girls would have to be locked up in a tight concrete cell for now, luckily this particular castle had just the thing, not only that but the door would have to have multiple layers so the physic one couldn't just pop them open, and naturally they would be placed in different holding cells as far away from each other as possible. Olivia may be a villain but she wasn't stupid.