Ch40 King of Europe

After spending the night at the Midnight coven, we sat discussing where to go next
"Who's the king of Europe?" I asked not really liking the argument that was going on "I would like to meet him"
"King Pierre" Dylan shrugged
"Ooh he's French?"
"French? No..." Charlie sighed "we don't have continents or countries like the mortal world, and King Pierre lives in a coven where France... would... be ....on... the ....mortal .....map, yes" Charlie explained giving up, and pinching his eyebrows I just laughed glad I was right.
"We should go and see him next, I think we should work around Europe for now, and remember we are to visit every coven, no matter how small, is that clear?" I looked at Dylan when I said this because I knew he was planning our trip, Dylan nodded as if to say he understood, I wanted to see everyone no matter what, and I was going to see everyone.
When we were ready Charlie took out a picture from his pocket, I was to use this picture to guide me, the castle was big and white, with many windows, there was a meadow of blue flowers, I allowed the image to flood my mind, thinking of nothing else and then I blinked, nothing happened we were still at midnight.
"What happened?" Damon asked, I just shook my head as if to say I didn't know, Damon nodded and smiled "try again" he offered, I nodded, took a deep breath, and tried again, this time we moved but we didn't land on solid ground, we landed in air, so when we opened our eyes we were falling, I screamed I couldn't see Dylan and Charlie, but Damon was falling too, we landed on the ground, with a thud and I groaned as I sat up, Damon, however, landed on his feet, I looked at him angrily, he could've tried to break my fall, he looked at me apologetically, I looked away
"Where are Dylan and Charlie?" I asked as I stood up and brushed myself off, the pain already subsiding, ahh the perks of being a witch, I can heal pretty fast now
"Don't know" Damon told me as he too brushed himself off.
We heard eaglas in the sky and we looked up to see two eagles landing next to us, I stood still, I didn't know what to do,
"No sudden moves" Damon whispered next to me, holding my hand, I nodded slowly but then, as we looked at the birds, they began to change, they began to grow, and lose feathers, is that a shirt? The eagles transformed into Dylan and Charlie, I breathed a sigh of relief and laughed out loud
"Perfect landing, your majesty" Dylan announced, I just pulled a face and started walking away,
"You're going the wrong way!" Charlie shouted after me, I turned to see the men walking towards a castle, in the opposite direction to where I was walking, I rolled my eyes and ran to catch up, I held Damons hand as we walked
"Do you guys always transform with clothes?" I asked the lycans
"Yeah, it's great, we transform with whatever we're wearing, it comes in handy" Dylan told me, I just nodded.
The castle was huge with a drawbridge, there were two men standing on either side of the drawbridge, they wore black outfits, with black hats and long spears, and a knife each strapped to their waist
"Queen Anastasia, and King Damon here to see king Pierre" Dylan announced us, the guards said nothing but they turned to the side and started spinning a wheel, that caused the bridge to open, I nodded towards the guards in thank-you then followed Dylan and Charlie into the castle, Damon walking beside me, a man wearing the same black outfit but without the spear met us just inside the castle
"Welcome, this way, your majesties" he guided us, we all walked behind the man turning one corner to the right then another to the left, this place was like a maze, I hoped we're not expected to leave ourselves later, I will surely get lost, we finally came to a room, a throne room, it seemed, there was a throne at the far end with two rows of chairs facing side ways from the throne so if you're sitting on the chairs you would have to turn to the side to see the throne, where as the king faces you head on, the throne was wooden and had red velvet on the seat, the arm rests, and the back, the back was very high, the guide, pointed to the chairs and we sat down. I sat next to Damon and the lycans sat opposite us.
"King Damon?" I asked Dylan
"He's practically king" Dylan shrugged with a small smile, Damon smiled too
"King Damon, has a nice ring to it, don't you think? Queen Anastasia" Damon asked proudly, I just smiled and kissed him, I stopped when I heard a noise.
A door to the side opened and a man walked in, a crown on his head, a necklace around his neck, and red robes, he wore black shoes with gold square buckles he came and looked at me
"Queen Anastasia, it is a pleasure to meet you" he stood in front of me and bowed, I nodded in acknowledgment, he then turned to Damon "King Damon" he bowed again, to which Damon nodded in acknowledgment, then smiled at me, I smiled back, king Pierre then greeted Dylan and Charlie, and they bowed towards him, he then told us to sit and he himself sat next to me, on the chairs,
"Your throne" I started as I pointed at the throne, but king Pierre shook his head
"I'm fine here your majesty" he said with a wave of his hand, "So how may I be of assistance?" He asked with a smile
"We are travelling the world, and meeting everyone, we're here to see if you are happy, if everything is ok if there's anything we can do to assist you, we have already been to two different covens here in Europe, and I must say you're doing a great job King Pierre" I told him
"Please Pierre is fine, and yes thank-you, I have been king for over five hundred years, and I'm happy, I'm just glad we finally have our queen, it has been a long time since anyone has seen you"
"Five hundred years, that's a long time" Damon mentioned
"It is, tell me your majesty, do you remember your past lives at all?" Pierre asked me, to which I shook my head no, the king smiled "follow me, you will love this" he stood up and beckoned all of us to follow him we left through the side door from which he had come in, a butler with a food trolley was there "we shall eat in the dining hall later John" the king spoke to the butler, then he looked at me and added "This cannot wait" the butler nodded and walked away with the trolley, Damon, Dylan, Charlie and I looked at each other questioningly then followed the king, he took us down three different corridors turning right and left, then right again, I'm definitely going to need help getting out of here, we soon came to a room, Pierre opened it, it was a library, but with portraits hanging on the walls, all the portraits were women, wearing gowns of various colours, each woman was different, some had black hair, some had brown, some had long hair some had short hair, there were ten portraits in total, king Pierre pointed to each one as he named them
"Mary, Elizabeth, Anne-Marie, Agatha, Joan, Delores, Josephine, Amelia, Clara, and Evangeline" I gasped at the last name, the king looked at me expectantly
"They're all me" I told no one in particular but still Pierre nodded
"They're all you" he agreed
"But how? This is" I didn't know what this was, I moved closer to Evangeline's potrait looked at it closely then moved to the next, Clara, I looked at each portrait closely trying to remember something but of course I remembered nothing
"How do you have all these portraits?" Charlie asked, good question, I thought, so I looked at Pierre expectantly
"Joan was born here, where this castle stands was where she was born, not a princess or a queen, not until she was initiated, she was the first to be born in the magical realm" I raised an eyebrow at that, what did that mean?
"The magical realm didn't exist until then" Pierre carried on "during Delores's reign, a human had been found drained of blood" we all looked at Damon "then a human was found torn to shreds, it was later discovered a warewolf had done it, then some sailors came back adamant that they'd seen a mermaid in the sea" Dylan scoffed as he laughed, he tried to cover it up with a cough, Pierre carried on "Delores was at her wits end, so she decided that magical creatures must leave the mortal world, she created a portal and the message was sent out that every vampire, warewolf, lycan, and witch must leave for the magical realm, after she died Joan was born in a small house, where this castle stands today, everytime you were reborn and initiated, you would remember and you would come here, but Mary died around five hundred years ago, no queen has set foot here again, until now" the king finished
"Mary was killed by king Jonah" I started filling in "and evertime I was born he had me killed, I was never alive more than a week, this time, however, my parents took me to the mortal world, I stayed there until a few months ago" I shrugged, then as an after thought I added "but who are you? To me, I mean, who are you to me?" King Pierre looked at Damon, then at me
"It's not important" he told us with a shake of his head
"It is to me" I told him "please" the king sighed looked at Damon once more then said "I was Mary's boyfriend, we had been together since she was sixteen, I was seventeen at the time, she was initiated at eighteen, those were the rules back then, anyway at eighteen she found out she was not only queen, but Evangeline, she came to the castle that had been built for her as Joan, something she had done each time, anyway this time I came with her, she wanted to introduce herself to all the kings, like she had always done, she took her time visiting the kings, she would always come back here after each visit, she didn't let me go with her, she asked me to stay here, in the castle, I did, I shouldn't have but I did, only when she went to America she never returned, I have waited ever since" he finished with a shrug I walked to him and stood in front of him
"I'm sorry" I whispered, I didn't know what I was sorry for, for not returning, for not remembering him, or for coming here with a new boyfriend, maybe all three
"It's ok, Anastasia really it's fine" he took my hand and kissed it "well I will miss this place, this palace but give me three days I shall leave" he announced to all of us
"Leave?" I asked as I looked at the others behind me "leave where? And why?" I asked
"Well you're here now, this is your home, I must leave" he said as if it made sense
"Pierre" I shook my head, as Damon came to stand next to me, hand in hand I spoke "this is your home, you are the king of Europe, Mary entrusted the Palace to you, I entrusted it to you, you can't leave, and besides, we will not be staying, we must meet the people, get to know them, help with problems" I finished Damon nodded besides me I was thankful that we were on the same page, Pierre smiled and wiped away a tear
"Well you mustn't leave without eating, come, come" he beckoned us once again down corridors and stairs and more corridors, I mentioned it before I'll say again, I'm going to need a map to get out of here.