Off With Her Head Part 4

Chapter 195-3

Off With Her Head

Part 4

 

The Judge pounded on the gavel requesting silence and order, it became so quiet you could hear the pool bubbling in front of us as it reminded us we would be using it as they watched us finish the preparing ritual. The Judge had me play 20 questions as his in inquisitors paced or stopped in front me to read my mind feeling the sweat drip from my face. Told me to get up and walk, each time the words got louder inside my head. Yet I didn’t head them.

Until four of them were circling me; I got up and my legs wobbled taking five painful steps then fell on to the ground. Everyone gasped; I was then ordered to walk again, as they pushed even harder this time not only were they doing it by mind control but speaking louder. No matter how hard I tried it was an impossibility. The Queen rose and walked near me placing her finger on my forehead she screamed. “Walk I know you can, I have seen you walk a short distance.”

I nodded and said. “Hand me my cane’s."

She shook her head no. and demand me to walk using a knife at my throat only for it to be pushed away as her hand shook, dropping the knife. She screamed in pain gripping her hand. She said. “He’s been warded by magic of some kind.”

The Judge looked down at me sitting on the floor. Opening my medical records and asked the Queen. “Do you have proof of this? Because the boy’s medical file and our own doctors say he can’t, not without his cane’s, or leg braces or without help.”

She nodded, and she quickly placed a video in front of him she smiled. “I have taken it from the hotel inside his bedroom as he had sex.”

The moment the tape played the video, was blank as if it had been erased, showing nothing but snow; then the Judge growled. “Is this some kind of joke?” The Queen kept forwarding then it stopped when reached a porn video as the Black man said. “Come here baby” as the w***e smiled wearing nothing.

She gasped as she looked at the tape and back at me. The High Bishop smiled and said. “This must be your favorite past time my Queen.”

She screamed. “You are responsible for this.”

He tsked. “Explain to me my Holy Queen how I was able to be in two places. I have been sequestered inside my Salt Lake home the entire time. Do you have proof of me entering your school? I think not.” 

She said. “You must have sent someone.”

He said. “Yes, I could have, been then again you would need proof. All my men have been a counted for, however, yours can’t.” He quickly said. “I, however, have a copy of the tape. Showing him in my house, needing the use of a wheelchair, leg braces and his canes too get around and with the help of his friends and husband. I will start it at the wedding ceremony where thousands of people have witnessed Nate and his disability.”

He tossed her, her video to her and popped in his own showing me being married and in his house using the leg braces as we recreated the scene as it overlapped with some fancy camera trick. He paused said. “I have tons of tape showing Nate in his disabled state; in which your own doctor’s state is true, the inquisitors. Question him and demand him to walk and he did so at your request but failed.

“Your supreme honor, do you need any more proof that states this boy cannot walk without help? Or you the jury need more proof?” They took a vote and we won with the majority then it suddenly changed in the Queen's favor, when that happened. Everyone gasped it meant that the Queen and her people were trying to gain a foothold, making it a mock trial in her favor.

The Judge said. “It appears we have doubts, I tend to agree,” and then he shook his head. “No, I don’t agree. I ask for a new vote.” The vote came in favor of me. 

The Queen growled. “It still doesn’t prove that the boy before us is Nate Carrion. I will prove this without a doubt, that records have been forged by having the inquisitors find the truth using any means possible, even the point of death.”

The High Bishop said. “Excuse me, did I hear the words that you are telling them to kill my guests; when I have signed a blood contract stating any harm to them, by any means either by you, your men, or the inquisitors is a breach of contract?”

She smiled and said. “I know the terms.” She pointed at Eli and said. “Kill your husband pick up the knife off the floor and kill him.”

Eli refused as he was told to do. His forehead beaded with sweat as she kept forcing him to do so. Eli waited until the last minute before she was about divulging the truth that we have been warded seeing her head bead with sweat. Eli got up and circled the knife trying to make it look like a struggle as he slowly picked up the knife and looked at me and dropped it and yelled. “No. I will not kill my husband, you b***h.”

The Queen shoulders sagged and said. “His will is too strong, I have had a hard day.” She asked three of her best warlocks to do it, they were more than happy to do so, but the results were even worse. We watched Eli kicked the knife away and kissed me so passionately it took mine and everyone’s breath away as the Queen asked. “What is the meaning of this I said kill him not kiss him.” The four warlocks sagged as they told her they were. The queen pointed to one of the warlocks and told him to kill him the man in front of him.

The Judge stood up and said. “No, this has gone far enough my Queen, this not a death chamber. This is a trail where we judge yours and the High Bishop crimes. Not show us who is the most powerful, like squabbling children. Now sit down, you may cross exam as to the proof of the High Bishop information with your own if you have said proof to counter it. So far he has proven that this boy can walk on his own, and you have no proof of your own, either by magic or by video stating he can’t.”

The Queen smiled. “You care to repeat that…?”

He said. “The boy can walk…”

The queen said. “So you all heard it…”

The judge said… the boy can…” The Judge stood up stopping her and said. “Stop playing mind games with me. I said the boy can’t walk don’t put words into my mouth.”

She giggled. “Your words are your own Judge; I never tricked you to say the truth. It was…”

He pounded on the gavel said. “Shut the hell up or I will….?” Se said stopping him, she giggled. “You’ll do what? He tried to answer but couldn’t. She giggled as she moved her fingers and wrist as if she was waving to us. “Cat got your tongue?” He choked down a glass of water.

She said. “It matters not if the boy can or can’t walk, even though it would prove my point. That he is lair and so is the High Bishop. You are quite wrong this about who has the most power as you can see I do. Not you or. The High Bishops w***e witch. As you can see I have the power, so we shall continue. By proving once and for all if this boy is Nate Carrion…. Where should I start?" No one said anything like they chose not to or couldn’t. She said. “O’ think I will start with the people he has brought with him so the jury and the 9s can see that they have been trying to deceive us all.”

The Queen said. “I will start with his husband Eli.” The Judge nodded wiping the beads of sweat from his face and Eli took center stage. He made it look as if he was being tortured, but she failed and moved on to each of our wives, and the Benson’s and Dora then the High Bishop himself.

Each one did their best proving that I was Nate Carrion. The High Bishop showed the clip where he interrogated me, and including my look-alike impostor. Who I had no doubt that Jeff was involved. The queen rephrased each of the questions and so did the inquisitors; getting nowhere.

The queen said. “Perhaps I was wrong your honor. Forgive me; it has been a very long day. I need time to research the matter further.”

The Judge said. “No. there is no more time, he has no proof, you have asked your questions, and you have done everything to ensure these questions were answered. You have found the truth to prove that this boy is not Nate Carrion.”

His body shook, even more, pounding his hand on the podium trying to get control of his self fighting the magic she was using against him and the jury said. “I Repeat the boy is not…” He started again standing up and shaking like a dog after taking a bath. “I repeat the boy is not…” He sat down hard and she waited and he said. “The boy is not Nate Carrion, “ as if she had released his tongue.

The jury murmured trying to figure out what the hell was going on, the proof stated once again that I was Nate Carrion, not the other way around. Dora waved her hand into ball light as a light burst from it in flash said bring everyone’s attention to her. “It seems the Queen has taken over the trail to favor her, even though there is no proof from her so far telling us if Nate is the boy here or if he or cannot walk. I call for a new trial. In a room sealed from magic of any kind.”

The Queen giggled as she walked over to her as if she and she were roosters in the same pin or at a cockfight. The Queen said. “A room without magic? How very unnecessary. Considering so far the Judge himself and many of jury and the 9s have already have stated the true facts. Nate Carrion is not the boy here, and he can walk. You are just trying to sway the vote after it has already been given and in my favor and not yours. You little cockroach I can squish you if I choose, but you do amuse me so we will play this out.”

Dora said sweetly “You’re Honor, can you give us a vote one last time for the record. Is the boy Nate Carrion and can or can’t he walk.”

The Judge said. “No, he can not walk and yes he is Nate Carrion the proof stands as I have said. Tell me the jury how you stand so we move on.” They all voted back into our favor.

The Queen eyes narrowed on Dora, me and the Judge and the jury and said. “As I was saying it matters not, in the end, I will win as I have always have? It matters not if the boy is Nate Carrion or if he can or can’t walk.

“The real and only issue is if they have failed in the Preparing Ritual. The very Ritual I have put in places as I my self have taught it since the day we came out of the darkness and brought back the true church using the old rituals. I vote that they have failed, and this is a delay tactic. I am giving them one last chance as their merciful Queen to either show us that it has been completed or we kill them all for failing as to the agreement of the High Bishops terms he has signed to a blood contract.” 

Jeff said to us that too isn’t going to happen as the water has been changed to an acid bath. Dora said. “Your honor I sense that pool before us is filled with acid.”

The Queen said. “More lies witch. When did I have a chance to make it so? I have been standing clear over here and so have my men. It must have been you when no one is looking.”

Dora said as she smiled back so sweetly. “Quite a feat even for me with a room full of people, more so because we have been stripped and searched for any weapons, several times and if you haven’t noticed these robes have no pockets and I and my guests expect for my master are naked under these slave robes.” She took hers off and proved to them that was the case; turning her robe inside out showing no pockets of any kind.

The Judge said. “Do you have proof witch that water in front of us contains acid?”

Dora nodded she did, said. “But it would require a demonstration. First, if the Queen would allow one of the men that have been found guilty of disobeying a direct order.” 

She shook her head no stating it was just a delay tactic, to delay the ritual. “I have said I have killed the men for their actions.”

Dora said. “Then you wouldn’t mind having them remove their masks so we might identify them.”

The queen said. “Yes, I do mind by unmasking my men will put them in danger of being recognized on the street.”

Dora said. “A compromise your honor. Just one man, if the man is recognized as one of the men she had been ordered to kill, not save him. Then it will state that she again has lied. If not I will personally go into the water.” The Queen shook her head stating that she must prove that water really contains acid first.

Dora said. “Fine,” and tossed in her robe and it bubbled and fell apart into a million pieces.

The Queen laughed. “Such an easy trick your honor, the robe she wore can easily be used in such a way.” The Judge motioned someone to hand her a new robe off the wall of one of the robes we would be using after the ritual.

The High Bishop said. “Fine, let see what happens, when I toss your video in… that showed us nothing but a porn tape.” She held it close to her chest but the inquisitors and the jury told her to give it to him. She had no choice but to comply. She tossed into the water rather than hand it too him and it bubbled and melted. Again the Queen said. “A trick, any first-class witch can do.”

Dora said. “And so we are at an impasse, throwing things in the water, stating that it is trick. Neither of us willing to give until someone like me or one of the men you were told to kill lives.”

The Judge said growling. “I am tired of these games. Take off your masks so we might see your faces.”

The Queen stood up and said. “There is still no proof stating I hadn’t killed his men, I am the Holy Queen which is being accused. I tell you I have killed these men.” The High Bishop smiled and placed the tape into the VCR. And right when the entrances hall came up, the TV sparked and went out.

The Queen smiled and Dora smiled and drew a symbol on the screen as Jeff helped as the screen came back on only to have the TV fall onto the floor and with a loud crash. Dora said. “Oh my, aren’t we in a testy mood my Queen. We don’t need a video, we have brought pictures.”

She quickly hands the pictures to the Judge and said. “Each picture has been timed stamped and ward against being destroyed by either of us, your honor.” The queen waved her hand and said words that made no sense, to us as we watched the smoke lift off the pictures, but nothing more. They motioned all the men forward starting with the men that Dora had found, he ordered the first one to take off his mask. He refused so the inquisitors did it for him. Everyone gasped as the inquisitor placed the picture next to his face after sifting through them; then moved the man in front of the jury as they compared his picture to the man in front of them.

The Queen said. “This is a trick, the picture could have been taken within these walls by the High Bishop, and you know there were cameras.”

The inquisitors said. “Yes, but it seems she has proven her case none the less. His mind says you have ordered this man to do your bidding.” The inquisitor pointed to the next man and the next one until he had run out of pictures.

The Queen said “More lies and more lies. You have all been bribed to betray me. So this witch can take my place.”

The Judge said as he growled. “Three times you have lied, using excuses; that you did not tell these men to do your bidding and not his. You paid these men to do it. The evidence is stacking against you, my Queen. I will give you one last chance, I will give you two hours to give us proof that these are not the men and prove any of the crimes the High Bishop has accused you of committing as we recess to go over this new information. You will have that time to do whatever you need to do. Prove yourself, by sending two inquisitors and honor guard of my choosing.

“You may not leave the school. But first I am willing to solve the problem knowing that these men are guilty. You say that the pool of water is not harmful that everything we have put in it is a trick. If that is the case then this man… the first man that Dora has picked will enter the water, I order him to strip, so there will be no doubt if the clothing he wears has been treated. I also order his body to be washed with clean water.

“After that, it has been tested, by my inquisitors. If he dies so be it. If he lives we know it to be a trick. But if you can not prove that evidence we have viewed is false I will order inquisitors to kill you and cut off your head and preserved for all to see, a fallen Queen.”

The Queen laughed and said. “Do as you like, but if haven’t noticed the water has been drained all during the time you have been talking. No water means no proof. Besides if you look at the laws that have been written. The Holy Queen may at any given time contradict any order of the High Bishop or his substrates, even in the point of death if deem to do so without cause. I felt the need because he has fallen, he deemed unworthy and can no longer father a child. He has no wives or husband to his name. He has killed for no other reason unless it is too demonstrate his power.

“He has killed 25 of my men just to prove a point that the boys you see before you have no choice but to do the preparing ritual his way and none other. I am the Holy Queen and these men he killed were mine to do with as I please. Not his or yours your Lordship. This trial is over; I deem the preparing ritual a failure and request that they all be killed. As it is my…”

Dora linked said. “Grab everyone’s hand and everything we brought with us.”

 

She raised her hand and into an arch watching the shadows quickly race up the walls as if it was eating all the light in the room hearing a loud clap at the same time the Queen said. “Kill them, kill them all,” pointing to us as the lights went out. Everything went completely dark and the alarms of the school were screaming angrily.

Dora quickly said grabbing me and Eli to follow her. She touched each of us on the forehand and it was like a light that only we could see as the place went into a total panic. The Judge screamed and Dora quickly added him to our group and two of the inquisitors telling them to follow us or die by the hands of the Queen. They nodded as we quickly dogged bodies in the room and saw a light in the room as the Queen pointed to us yelling at her men to go after us.

Dora said linking with Jeff. “Jeff if you could create a distraction this would be a good time.”

He said. “I did, our rebels were about to capture the building. After I told them where Eric and Eli were after their monitoring devices was no longer working. Until you decided you had a better idea.”

Dora linked argued. “If you haven’t noticed we had just been ordered to be killed. I couldn’t wait, so stop complaining we need to get out of here.” We ducked into a room and I cringed seeing it was full of torture devices and a lot of mangled body parts. It smelled of death as we watched several flares of lights coming towards us.

The Queen yelled. “Search every room and every floor, they must not get away.”

Dora said to follow her as she quickly snapped her fingers and their lights went out leaving the corridor in complete darkness. Yet we could see as if we had some sort of night vision. Dora turned and we followed her as she led us into a corner that looked like a broom closet. The smell only got worse, as I felt something wet and cold dripping on me I looked up seeing a small body of a child hanging by hooks. I nearly screamed if it wasn’t for Dora placing her hand over my mouth. She pushed something that gave a soft click as a hidden door opened.

She quickly ushered us inside and closed the hidden passageway then drew her fingers over it. Hearing a loud hissing as a strange symbol burned over the door. She said “That won’t hold them for long. Not when they have our scent.” We all took her word for it as she quickly said. “Your clothes are in the next room. I rather not leave them, knowing they could use them against us like bloodhounds, one of the reasons I made sure they were sealed.  Stay here I’ll retrieve them, don’t make a sound.”

We nodded as the Queen and her men started to pound on the door. Dora cursed loudly as the lights came on. She said. “Jeff I could use a little help here.”

Jeff smiled and touched outlet on the wall and the Queen cursed as the lights all went back out. “I am going to kill that w***e witch, now break down this door you stupid bruits.”

Dora said. “Time for plan B,” handing each our boxes as I carried the briefcase full of cash and the leather one. We dressed as we stopped every so often. Dora quickly burned the boxes and dumped them inside the garbage shoot, and rolled up the robes and stuffed inside our backpack, said. “We can afford to leave anything behind.” 

Jeff said. “Help will be waiting once we get outside,”

Dora said linking with him. “No Jeff, not until we get far enough away from the school. Where we can’t be traced; tell them to meet us at this address. Better yet tell them nothing other then we are safe. The Queen and her men can read minds quicker then rain falls on a hot day.”

Jeff nodded and blinked out to deliver the message. We followed her all over the school and down every corner, and secret passageway she knew until we had made it outside, coming out of sewer at some dark street. About a mile from the school seeing the lights coming back on in the distance, she said to get into the car as she hot-wired it quickly and we drove away in silence.