Soul Possession

--- Graycastle ---

In the throne room, the lifeless body of Lord Forbes was impaled by two spears. The knights who were ordered to do so was awaiting the next orders of the queen.

"(What a waste...) Men, throw his body out. Call the maids to clean up the blood." Queen Auburn said while having some thoughts in her mind. Just as she was thinking about stuff while the knights and some maids did as she asked, a ghastly voice talked to her within her head.

"Auburnnn... How dare youuuu..."

The moment she heard this, the queen got chills running all over her body. She knew that it was not the ghost of the recently executed Forbes. The reason why she thinks so is because a few weeks ago, this same ghastly voice kept talking to her every after hour.

At first, she just ignored it. But the moment she met Jay, the ghastly voice kept speaking to her more frequently. And this time, because of the demon incident, she knew that the ghastly voice will even keep on talking frequently.

"Shut up! Get out of my head!" Auburn tried to resist as much as she could but the ghastly voice still kept talking to her in incomplete sentences.

"Auburnnn... It is I..."

"Auburnnnn... Why..."

"Auburnnn... don't do it..."

The queen could not take it anymore and decided to rush up to her room and lock herself there. Everyone who were present in the throne room, the knights, the maids, and some black knights concealing themselves, were wondering what's wrong with the queen.

...

"Hey sis, what's with you recently? I noticed you are smiling a bit more often. Did something happen?" Princess Hailey asked while she and Princess Auriel were walking on the castle's courtyard.

"Nothing much. I just joined a guild, made a friend, and so on..." Princess Auriel was enjoying telling all about the stuff that happened recently. But then, she saw Queen Auburn through the castle's window running like a crazy person towards the second floor of the castle.

"Mother? This is weird... she never acted like this ever since..." Princess Auriel thought to herself.

"Big sis! What happened next? Come on, don't stop. Tell me more. And what's with the delivery you got from the adventurer's guild earlier?" Princess Hailey said impatiently and wanted to hear more of Auriel's story.

...

After a few minutes this happened, Jay arrived at the Graycastle. The moment he stepped through the castle's front gate, he immediately saw the knights who were dragging Forbes' corpse out and also saw some maids cleaning something that looks like bloodstains on the floor.

"Queen Auburn executed him already? That was fast... then I suppose I won't have to take Auriel away... unless something else happens." Jay thought in his mind as he approached the throne room.

The moment he reached the throne room, he noticed that the only ones present were the maids and the knights. Queen Auburn was nowhere to be found. Seeing the confusion in Jay's eyes, one of the maids spoke up.

"I'm sorry sir. The queen is unable to attend to your needs for now. Please leave the castle if you do not have any other plans within the castle."

Jay was surprised when he heard this. Knowing the queen is somewhere else, Jay proceeded to the castle's courtyard where Princess Auriel was usually located.

...

Graycastle's courtyard...

"Jay! I did not expect you here at this time of the day." Princess Auriel exclaimed.

"The tournament got cancelled for the meantime so I decided to pay you a visit first before returning to the Golden Moon Academy. And the cute lady beside you must be princess Hailey. Hi!" Jay said while he looked at the refreshing scenery of the courtyard.

There were a few trees that gave of a refreshing breeze of air and a nice shade from the sunlight. The flowers that surrounded the courtyard complimented the shiny look of the castle's walls.

As for the two princesses, they did not know about the demon incident that happened so they were shocked to learn that the tournament got cancelled.

"Then, does that mean you are going to be punished by mother?" Princess Auriel said while having a sad expression on her face.

"Well, I was intending to ask her about that, but I did not see her on the throne room. Where is she by the way?" The moment Jay asked, the Chicken Lord suddenly spoke up.

"Jay, I am sensing a very large suction force of magicka at the second floor. Don't you feel it?"

Jay was shocked to hear this since he never felt a change in the magicka around him so he asked the two princesses if they felt something. They shook their heads so Jay decided to tell them what the Chicken Lord told him.

"Second floor?" Just as they were wondering what was happening...

~~Boom!

~~Peng, peng, peng

A large explosion occurred and shards of glass from the windows of the second floor scattered everywhere. The explosion was so big that even the people far away from the Graycastle saw it. The strange thing was that even though the explosion was large, no one got hurt besides those who got hit by the shattered glass.

"Mother!" Princess Auriel exclaimed since she remembered queen Auburn rushing off to the second floor earlier. Besides the queen, no one else was there. She started panicking and hoped nothing happened to the queen.

She immediately rushed towards the second floor. And seeing the change in her attitude, Princess Hailey and Jay followed her.

...

Graycastle, 2nd Floor...

Princess Auriel immediately rushed towards the corridors and went to the far end of the right area of the 2nd floor. It was where queen Auburn's room was located.

The moment she reached the place, she saw a disturbing scene in front of her.

The front walls of queen Auburn's room was gone and probably got blasted off by the explosion earlier. This caused everything within the room to be exposed.

Almost all of the furniture in the room was burnt to ash besides a small mirror on the floor. Queen Auburn was chained on the floor with her own magic. Her exquisite robe which she wore was now in tatters and most of her body is exposed. And the worst thing was, she kept screaming even though blood ran down from her mouth due to all the screaming she was doing.

"GET AWAY FROM ME!"

"GET AWAY FROM ME!"

She just kept on repeating the same phrase as she shouted. The moment Jay and princess Hailey arrived, they also saw the disturbing scene in front of them and decided to stop the queen.

"Mother! Stop it, please!" Princess Auriel cried and begged as she tried to remove the magic chains from Queen Auburn.

"Mother, snap out of it!" Princess Hailey tried her best to make queen Auburn stop shouting and used a spell to silence her.

As for Jay, the moment he saw this, he had a shocked expression and thought of two possibilities why this happened. "Insanity Overdrive, a curse that only Aisleen can use or dispel. If not that, then it is probably a forced soul possession. But who's soul is it?"

Jay was really troubled at this thought of his. If it was the first one, then Wildergreene is probably screwed since Aisleen already made her move and gave the 'random' buff to most of the NPCs and players here. If it was the second one, then it was even more troubling since this never happened during the 10 years Jay played the game before.

While he was having a hard time thinking about this, the Chicken Lord spoke up.

"Jay, not good. I see multiple souls approaching the queen. I also sense more than 2 foreign souls invading her own soul. If this goes on, she will lose control and get taken over!"

The moment Jay heard this, he had a clear idea of what was happening but did not know how to solve it.

"Wait, multiple souls? Then... oh god..." Jay knew the queen was done for this time.

"If I am not wrong, these souls attempting to invade her soul are the previous kings and queens of Wildergreene." The moment Jay thought of this, the Chicken Lord asked Jay, "Jay, tell me everything you know of this matter."

Jay agreed and started telling the things he remembered from his ten years of experience.

After the First Great War, when Wildergreene suffered defeat in the hands of Aisleen, something changed within the queen. When the players checked her lore through 'Observation' of the Fate System, they were wall surprised with the change on it.

It was stated that Queen Auburn was dead and was just a puppet controlled by Wildergreene's ancestors, the past queens and kings. The reason for that was unknown during that time, but now, Jay found out what happened.

The soul of queen Auburn got forced out and destroyed by these kings and queens probably due to their hatred since queen Auburn failed to protect the citizens of Wildergreene who were brutally massacred by Aisleen's forces.

"But the First Great War is still two and a half months away! Damn it!" Jay clenched his fists and decided to try out something. An experiment he once did when he was still a level 543 Grand Sorcerer.

"Jay, what are you doing! Stop!" The Chicken Lord shouted as he saw Jay creating a soul gathering magic circle on his forehead.

"Souls won't rest unless they take over a host. If they are here, it means something disturbed their rest. It means a huge change in history happened again, probably because of me. Since that is the case, I will take responsibility this time and do this. Chicken Lord, prepare for a fight. The moment they enter my soul, both of us have to fight them."

The Chicken Lord did not even have time to argue with Jay since Jay immediately activated the soul gathering magic circle. The moment he did, ghastly voices talked to him, the same way they talked to the queen earlier.

"SHUT UP AND GET IN HERE!" Jay shouted furiously and forgot that the two princesses were with him and thought he also became insane like the queen.

"Jay! You too? Snap out of it!"