The Blue Eyes

"Who were those guys? Did Salvatore send them here?". Cressida had found her way into the training center while the fight went on and hid comfortably under the table. Petrova Theodore was the next target and mission Salvatore had given her before her soul was transferred to Cressida. "Right! He must have sent them here to retrieve my body" Cressida attempted to run out of the table and made a sound while her body hit the table.

 "Who's there?" Morgan said after hearing the crack and sounds. Cressida ran the fastest she could out of the table and tried pacing her way around the center in a way to run out of it. Morgan chased her using her movements.

   In the middle of all this, Stefan, who had seen when she had left his province, catches up with her. Stefan drew her to a hiding place. When Morgan could no longer hear her footsteps, he retook his steps. 

"What are you doing here?" Cressida said, looking Stefan in the eyes. The moonlight was at its fullest that night and reflected on both of them. 

"Because of your eyes." Stefan kept looking her in the eyes. 

" My eyes?" Cressida was confused. Stefan remembers seeing her for the first time and he notices her eyes in the moonlight. As he sees them glisten "I knew it the moment I saw you, that you're my master."

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 "My lady…" were all the women crying at the palace over the death of Isabel. She died at childbirth after giving birth to Stefan.

"I shall make Isabel mine, if she bears a child, know that it is mine." 

The late feeble king had told Lord Daniel Donovan on the verge of their transformation twenty years ago. Lord Daniel Donovan was angered by this declaration, he took the child and headed to the foot of the royal palace where all the mages were gathered.

"My Lord, where are you going with the child?" The maid tried to stop him but couldn't.

"I heard about Lady Isabel, we were just about to head over. Why are you here, when you should be mourning her?" Old Reyes who had just stepped out of the palace with Petrova Theodore about heading to Lord Daniel Donovan house met him by the root with the young child in his hand where other mages were gathered. 

"I came here because this was the only way to change his fate" Daniel stretched out his sword and made a circle of filled water and laid the child in the center alongside him placing his palm on his chest and invoking the watery spirit on him. The guards who tried to break the circle all fell to the ground.

"What are you doing?" Petrova broke the circle water fall and broke in taking the child who was on the floor by his arm

"What have you done?" Petrova was furious at Lord Donovan.

"I have blocked his gate of energy, he will not be able to learn any spells while he is alive. I forbid anyone from opening his gate of energy" Lord Donovan was loud in his pronouncements.

"How could you do this to your son?" Petrova felt terrible for the young child.

"Is he my son?" Donovan was sure he had made himself clear before leaving Stefan with Javern and Old Reyes. 

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 Just like he rightly said twenty years later Stefan has found Elena.

 " I have met a total of twelve masters and have been kicked out everytime. And finally, I have met a master who will change my fate."

" Did you find something special about me, young master?". Cressida was skeptical about what he was saying and asked jokingly while reaching out to the knife in her cloth.

"I told you that you have beautiful eyes, ooh! Sorry only your eyes are beautiful" Stefan teased her

"The Soul shifters blue mark had blossomed inside them."

"So the mark was inside my eyes" Cressida murmured in her inner mind. She was shocked to have heard the blue mark blooming in her eyes instead. She rushed for her knife and pointed it to his throat. 

" You're going to fight me?" Stefan says, retrieving his steps backward.

"Killing you will be a breeze." She further threatened him.

"But this is Emerald Pandora, you will get caught. I am planning to save you, you will not get caught if you stay by my side.You will keep addressing me as 'Young Master' if you want to keep lying low" Stefan assured her of her safety.

As they talk, Stefan instinctively saves Cressida from Morgan's sword. 

"Stefan?" Morgan was startled to see him hiding there with Cressida.

"Yes it's me."

"What are you doing here and who is she?" Morgan was curious as to what he was doing in the hideout with a lady.

" I had come to meet the leaders when I heard the fuss and decided to take refuge, and besides she's my maid who had run away." 

The clowny Trevor walked into where they were, happy and at the same time confused to see them. He went closer to where Cressida stood and jokingly applauded Cressida for going around with a blade to keep her young master safe stating that he couldn't fight. Morgan apologized to Cressida for startling her and asked if she got hurt.

Stefan and Cressida kept up the pretense of her being his maid, although she’s not exactly thrilled with that accolade.

  " Has the dust settled?" Stefan asked Trevor.

"No! It is still chaotic, the soul shifter Elena's body has gone missing. Trevor announced to them .

" I knew it, it was Salvatore that sent those men. Now, I just need to get out of here safely" 

Cressida was certain now as she conversed with herself. Amongst the four seasons, Stefan was the only one who knew who Cressida was now. Cressida In her mind has taken the decision to kill him hence he exposes her identity to the leaders.