Malevolent Manor

A short fanfic based on a RP, that we actually finished!
Characters from left to right; Lemon, Rosewood, Nephilim, Minty, Blue Copper
==Story==
The manor was huge and imposing, dark stone walls with darkened windows. The front doors were gone, persumably they had been stolen or simply rotted away. Several dragons waited in the enty. Nephilim stared up at the building, it looked structurally unstable, a rustling to aer left caught aer attention. Hidden in the bushes was a purple-blue SilkWing. Their eyes met before the SilkWing dashed inside trying to put on a brave face.
A RainWing to Nephilim's right dashed in after the SilkWing, "Oi Blue! Wait up!" She called after her. 
The two dragons stopped in entranceway. The SilkWing, Blue muttered, "Aand I already hate this place."
"Me too. It reminds me way to much of some place I used to know." The RainWing's slightly glowing purple snout scales lit up the semi dark room. Her leaf-shaped wings spread out and brushed the grimy walls, but she drew them back with a grimace.
Blue looked at her with, a and you know this how? kind of look before heading off down a halway down the corner.
Nephilim decided ae was wasting time and carefully stepped inside. Off in the distance, Blue and the RainWing were exploring another room.
The RainWing came rushing back towards the door. "Ello." She said to a very startled Nephilim. "Welcome." Her voice was flat as she swept her leaf-like wings above her and went back off to explore, her glowing snout and neck scales flickering slightly.
Nephilim narrowed aer eyes at the departing dragon's back. Acts happy, Ae noted, Repressing strong unwelcome feeling; sadness, loneliness. Presumably weaker venom, reason: hybrid, tribes; Rain, Leaf, and perhaps distant Sea.
Nephilim was wary. Ae delicately walked across the floor gingerly touching any boards that looked to be higher than the others before putting aer full weight on it.
The hallways were dimly lit and narrow, the walls being a dark brown with a few paintings here and there. Even though it was noon, and the sun was out, barely any light made it into the home, if you could call it that.
Nephilim had made it about halfway down the hall before the same RainWing came barreling out of door to aer left and slammed into aer. In an instant Nephilim jumped back, teeth bared. Aer eyes quickly scanned aer body, no damage.
"Oops! Sorry!" She yelped, before going off again.
Nephilim was pissed, and considering to return home, but decided against it. It had been a long walk to the manor, and that was when ae was awake and had more energy. Outside more dragons were mingling in the doorway. Only one of them really stood out to aer, a pale pink SandWing with NightWing teardrop scales at the corner of each eye.
"Minty?" One of the dragons at the doorway said, uncertainly. They were a NightWing IceWing hybrid with a dominant NightWing body.
"Explain to me why we are here again!” The SandWing yelled in a sarcastic yet worried tone. Without waiting for a response, she walked into the mannor, every step she took cause the floor to make an ominous creaking sound.
Nephilim stared at the bizzarly pink Sand dragon, who slowly walked into the manor. Every step or so there was a creek that added to the eeriness. She reached down into a small satchel around her neck and pulled out a plump rabbit 
"Who wants some?" She asked, "I’ve got plenty and we’ll be here for a while"
"Rabbit? No thanks." The RainWing, Minty, wrinkled her snout as she headed back inside "I'll grow something later"
Nephilim looked down aer nose at the limp of fur in the dragons talons, "I'll pass" ae decided.
"Minty? Where are we?" A voice asked from the entryway.
"Blu- I mean, Malevolent Manor." Minty hurriedly fixed her mistake.
"O..oh no" The dragon at the entryway said, they were desperatley trying to hid ethe fact that they were terrified. "I mean.. you must be terrified unlike me becuase I am deffinatley not terrified".
"Um- No I'm not. Just leave me alone ok?" Minty snapped, whipping around and heading deeper into the Manor.
Nephilim thought this would be a good chance to cause some trouble. Ae pretended to pull something out of aer bag at put it in aer mouth and pretended to chew. Ae then spat into a large plant, the plants leaves withered and died under aer poisonous saliva.
Minty shrieked and hurried over to the plant, frantically whispering something in leafspeak to it. "WHY would you do that?" She glared at Nephilim, her gills flaring angrily.
Nephilim gave the concerned dragon a wicked grin before sauntering over to the other side of the great hall.
"How dare you" the NightWing/IceWing mocked sarcastically, "Is anyone else hear?" They were nervously trying to hide their scared tone.
"Lemon, Rosewood... Star isn't here... Oh and Blue Copper." Minty listed off the names, her voice had a slight growl to it when she mentioned Blue's name
Nephilim's ear flicked up at the slight growl in Minty's voice.
Minty finished healing/regrowing the plant to find it was a blueberry bush, which she happily picked some fruit off of.
"Careful," Nephilim's singsong voice sailed across the wide hall, "Poison in a plant can't be so easily washed away."
"I can still try. I have a higher poison resistance. Kind of." Minty called back.
Lemon groaned and walked over to the blueberry bush and popped a few in his mouth. 
Rosewood made her way to minty in a hurry “C- can I have one?” She she asked nervously, gesturing to the small tree.
"Sure."
Nephilim spat another small blob of saliva into a chockcherry bush.
"Ok, I give up at this point." Minty rolled her eyes. "Is Blue Copper around?"
"Dunno. Maybe he was murdered," Lemon said, trying to scare Minty.
"Pfft." Minty rolled her eyes, but inwardly she shriveled.
Nephilim wandered back towards the group.
"Do you want to tell ghost stories?" Lemon asked, jumping at the opportunity to scare the other dragons. 
Rosewood started “Imma go explore!” And she rushed out of the room in a matter of seconds.
Lemon smiled to himself as he watched Rosewood go. He followed her out of the room and started to explore. 
Rosewood noticed Lemon behind her and smiled “come on let’s go to the attic!!!” She said in a strict yet friendly tone, then she bolted infront of Lemon and up the next flight of stairs. Then she called out "bahaha, maybe we’ll find a ghost!" She said in a sarcastic/playful tone.
"I don't believe in no ghosts!" Lemon replied, following her up the stairs. 
Nephilim followed Rosewood up the stairs.
Lemon looked behind him and saw aer following him and Rosewood.
As Nephilim climbed the stairs, aer managed to get aer foot caught in a gap in the floorboards. As ae bent down to free it, ae had a clear view of an interesting scene below aer.
Blue Copper suddenly screamed, loud enough for everyone in the house to hear.
Nephilim dove through the crack in the floor, and briefly forgot aer lacking of wings, and fell about 50 meters down to the floor below. That's 164 feet for y'all Americans
Minty clamped her talons over Blue's face, quickly snapping her neck before darting out unseen and throwing a cloak over herself to hide her glowing purple scales. But she accidentally left a small leaf on the floor.
Nephilim crashed onto the floor. Aer head snapped up and Blue Copper was dead.
"What was that!!!" Rosewood yelled above aer, "COME ON!!!"
Minty quickly ran out of another room, looking frustrated and sleepy, she rushed over and crashed into Lemon. "W-what happpened?" she said nervously.
Nephilim dusted aerself off and scanned the dragons around aer. 
Once Rosewood made it into the room she couldn’t fathom what she was seeing. She screamed bloody murder at the sight of the mangled body lying limp on the floor. "NOOOOOOOO BLUECOPPER!!!" She screamed in agony and ran to the body. She sat beside her body, it only took a few moments for her to notice how she was killed. She studied blue coppers eyes, the life already faded. "Who did this" she roared back at the growing crowd, tears down her face, in the most intermediating voice she could manage.
Minty shrieked. "Blue Copper! Wha-"
"It wasn't you or Lemon," Nephilim said, "you two were upstairs going to the attic. I went up with you so that leaves..." 
"Then who did this?!" Rosewood said in a deep growl.
"I was taking a nap when I heard a scream." Minty said, shivering.
"Napping?" Nephilim said skeptically. Rosewood, Lemon and I were going to the attic, Ae thought, beginning to piece together the story.
“Where were you taking your alleged nap, Minty?” Rosewood said in a menacing voice, she felt bad for ingratiating her since she was one of the most loyal dragons she knew, but she sounded like a suspect so she did anyways.
Rosewood stood up from beside Blue Copper's body and slowly stalked towards Minty and Nephilim, each step flicking out her snake like tongue. "So, were we’re both of y’all"
"In that room with the moss bed. I don't understand why someone would kill Blue." Minty said in a faux sad voice.
"When you first came here, you acted like you'd seen a ghost," Nephilim thought outloud, ignoring Rosewood's question for a moment. "Then, when explaining to Blue Copper the name of the Mannor, you said, and I quote, 'Blu- I mean, Malevolent Manor'"
Once Rosewood made it across the room to them she was only about a scavenger away from their faces, and she let out a low menacing growl.
"I did? I don't remember that." Minty said, confused.
"Convienent that you forget." Nephilim said, baring aer teeth, "You knew the original name and probably the owners of this place."
“I do… what was that about?" Rosewood asked, "And Nephilim you still haven’t told us where you were during all this?!”
Lemon ran over to the scene and saw Blue's body. "OK, who did it?"
Rosewood let out a longer, louder growl then continued "Whoever killed her will get the convenience of being torn apart by me!" Then she roared in their faces trying to make them flinch.
"I don't know who owns this place." Minty tried, "Looks like it's been abandoned for years."
"Are you sure about that?" Lemon's scales shifted to a bright red. 
Nephilim laughed, "What's my motive?" Ae snarled, finally answering Rosewood's question. "Come on, Rosewood, you're powerful and smart, you figure it out. Before now, I haven't interacted with Blue Copper."
Lemon growled. "Well, I didn't do it! I was in the attic the entire time with Rosewood."
"I haven't really that much either," Minty said quietly, but the others ignored her.
Rosewood stepped up to the body again, "Lemon was with me going into the attic, Blue Copper was down here when she was attacked and killed… this leaf didn’t get here by itself. Who was messing with leaves?… Minty and Nephilim, what are y’alls stories?"
"I know," Nephilim sighed, "I SAW you two run up the stairs! Meanwhile, Minty has been mysteriously napping with no witness to confirm or deny this fact."
Lemon turned to face Minty, teeth bared. "Ever since we came here, you've been awfully suspious."
"I have?" Minty blinked.
"Yeah. You have. And don't you have leafspeak?" Lemon's scales shifted again, this time to pale green.
Rosewood let out a long sigh "I can make everyone in this room tell the truth…"
"All I did was spit into two plants to get Ms Nature Actavist here to freak out and potentially cause some trouble." Nephilim said, trying to keep aer composure, "I never went to the blueberry bush and took a fruit. And you don't touch chokecherry leaves; it's common knowlage."
"I can make everyone in this room tell the truth by morning, for now let’s get some sleep and clear out minds…" She hissed to them all.
"I heard you the first time," Nephilim said under aer breath.
"I literally have almost never used it." Minty complained.
"But what if someone else dies?" Lemon growled. "While we're sleeping, the killer has the advantage."
“Also explain to me if this place is abandoned why was their a live plant here!?” Rosewood cried.
"I've never killed or wanted to kill anyone. Please!" Minty stared at them with a desperate look in her eyes.
"We can sleep together, I will stay awake." Rose offered.
Nephilim shot Rosewood a look, "Finally, some dragon actually says something smart."
"That's a good point. What are you not telling us?" Lemon whirled around to face Minty.
"I'm a farmer. Lots of dragons who know me and know I would never hurt anyone. I sell my crops at the local market." Minty blinked back tears.
"And Minty why were you so worried about that plant?" Rosewood questioned.
Lemon sighed, exasperated. "Fine, let's go to sleep." 
"So deprate to prove her innocence," Nephilim taunted. "Why do you hate this place, anyway?"
“Minty how long were you napping?”
"If you even were napping." 
"Minty answer my question!"
Minty seemed to be shrinking under everyones angry and suspicious glares and questions.
"I saved the blueberry bush because I just gave the answer." Minty cried, "Also, jt was literally begging to be saved, which was painful in my head."
"SHUT UP!" Nephilim said, "Rosewood, sorry, continue."
Lemon's scales shifted to mimic Minty's scales.
"Were were you in the bed wen you heard the scream?" Rosewood said more quietly.
"Where. Were. You. Napping?" Nephilim said icily when they didn't get a response.
Minty raised her claw and pointed down the hallway.
Lemon walked over to Minty. "Answer the questions." he hissed, baring his teeth.
"I was exploring. But I got tired, so I went to find the room I saw first, the moss room. Seriously, you can see proof because of the flowers I grew there." Minty said.
The group walked towards the room that Minty had pointed to, but she ran ahead of them and into the room. Sure enough, there were flowers growing out of the moss.
Lemon walked over to the moss bed. It looked unslept in.
“If you were napping then the bed should still be slightly warm not cold!!!” Rosewood dashed into the room in a rush, beckoning for everyone to follow her.
"Does this bed look slept in?" Lemon called, pointing.
Nehilim sniffed Minty, before walking over to the moss and smelling it, "I don't smell your scent on the moss." 
Rosewood let out a sigh as she touched the bed. It was icy cold. “Why would you do this Minty… why…”
"How could you do this?" Lemon said, bewildered.
"The flowers I grew may have blocked it." Minty said, in a last ditch attempt to prove her innocence.
"Blocked what?" Nephilim asked.
"How would they have blocked the warmth," Rosewood said, "Plants love warmth"
Minty suddenly snapped. "Because her parents banished me! Thats why!" 
She shoved the others outside and ran, crying to another part of the house.
“WHAT!?” Rosewood was shocked, she ran after Minty in a hurry
Nephilim ran after her, and pinned Minty to the floor.
“Why though?" Rosewood looked lost, "She isn’t her parents”
"I was a lab rat for HiveWing scientests." Nephilim snarled, "And you don't see ME trying to kill every HiveWing dragonet."
"I don’t want to kill you Minty… but.." Rosewood looked up tears in her eyes.
"Yeah, it was a bit of an overreaction." Lemon chimed in, "I mean, I was cursed by an animus, and I'm not trying to kill Rosewood."
"LETMEGO!" Minty struggled "This is her parent's manor! I recognized her in the crowd, she did nothing to help me! They hate hybrids!"
"I'm a hybrid," Nephilim pointed out.
"I'm sorry, Minty." Lemon raised a claw.
Nephilim put both her talons on Minty's horns, forcing her to the floor.
"You know what we must do to you…" Rosewood said unhappily.
"Should we... uh..." Lemon raised a claw and made a slicing gesture with it.
Rosewood nodded "I’ll do it."
Lemon shut his eyes, his scales turning bright green and blue.
"We’re sorry Minty," Rosewood said, and quickly looked around, "I'm sorry," She ammended, "But what you did… it was wrong"
Nephilim stepped off Minty.
Tears were dripping from Lemon's eyes. 
Minty shut her eyes. Vines erupted through the floor which she grew with her leafspeak, everyone instinctivly stepped backs, so she was able to slip away. "I'm sorry." she whispered.
"Hey!" Lemon roared, leaping at Minty. He put his claws at her throat.
"Vines," Rosewood commanded with her animus magic, "Pin her down."
Minty just narrowly dodged Lemon's claws, racing out of the room and throwing a cloak over to her scales wouldn't shine through.
Nephilim leaped towards the fleeing dragon.
Rosewood flew up and tried to land on top of her, letting the animus touched vines capture her. “MINTY STOP! I WONT KILL YOU!”
Minty dodged through the halls, running as fast as she could. The doors were so close...
"AAAA-"
“EVERYONE STOP!” Rosewood roared.
Nephilim siezed Minty by the throat and threw aerself on top of aer.
"NEPHILIM BACK NOW!" Rosewood ordered.
Before Nephilim could move, Rosewood knocked aer off Minty and stood over her. "Minty listen, I won’t kill you but I will stop you."
Minty seemed to shrink further into the floor. She pulled the cloak tighter around her shoulders.
"You should have known the conciquences of murder." Nephilim snarled.
"It's Blue Copper's fault! Blame her! And her stupid parents!"
Blame the HiveWings," Nephilim taunted in Minty's voice, "They made me suffer! Honestly child, I've been through worse"
Rosewood pressed her talon to minty head and looked up "I enchant this dragon to never be able to kill another dragon unless it’s for self defense, and to feel the pain of death she inflicted on Blue Copper for the time she took to kill her, but not die from the pain or injury."
"You should have enchanted her to feel the grief of all her friends and the disaproval of US for the rest of her life." Nephilim said.
"I- I- But-"
"Don’t worry she will" Rosewood assured them, "There."
Minty cringed. "I don't know why I did it. I just- did."
Nephilim glowered at Minty, "You should have died."
"Minty," Rosewood asked, "Do you think death for you would have been fair? Because I do."
"If you do, you have to take care of my farm. It's near Possibility." Minty curled into a ball and squeezed her eyes shut.
"Nephilim what do you think?"
"So," Nephilim said awkwardly. "You want us to keep your garden alive if we kill you??"
"Its the only thing I want. Or you could hire some other dragons or Leafwings to take care of it. I just don't want my hard work to die." Minty looked at the ground. "Just do it. Please."
“Should we kill her?” Rosewood was still holding back tears at the thought of Blue Copper.
"Why don't we keep her alive and kill the garden?" Nephilim said offhandedly.
"That seems better, since she doesn’t care about death." Rosewood grabbed a vine and said aloud, "I enchant this vine to turn into chains to hold Minty, and they will be unbreakable and only can be taken off by Lemon, Nephilim or myself" She hated using her powers but this was a time she needed them. "Sit still" She harshly snapped the chain around Minty’s legs, wings, and snout.
"You could enchant to be an immortal and make her be a scarecrow for her own garden for eternity...?" Nephilim said, taking hold of the chains. "But enchant the garden would also be enchanted so that no one could tend to it."
"No! Not my plants!" Minty struggled.
"If I hadn't used my powers already," Rosewood said over her shoulder, "I would, but good idea."
The walk to Possibility took the group just under an hour. Nephilim silently cursed aer lack of wings.
"NO! Please! I'll do anything!" Minty was sobbing now "Don't!"
Bring back Blue Copper" Nephilim snapped.
“Either we burn your plants and you get to go back to the village or you get to never touch another plant again? You choose."
Minty was crying too hard to hear either of them.
“MINTY!!! You deserve this!" Rosewood was getting impatient. "We will let you pick one single plant to keep and all the others die”
They arrived at Minty's garden and Nephilim opened the gate and pulled Minty inside.
Minty sighed. She went over and examined each of the plants. She stopped at the mint. "This one. Spare it."
Nephilim looked at the tiny plant, before uprooting it and dropping outside the garden.
“Nephilim chain her to that tree over there!!! Then we can destroy the plants.” Rosewood ordered.
Nephilim led Minty out of the garden and wrapped the chains around a nearby tree.
"Hey! What- what about the mint?" Minty protested "Can't I have it?"
"It'll take root out there," Nephilim gestured vaguely.
Rosewood let out a blast of flames that caught the front plants on fire.
Minty gave a small nod, She buried her face under her wing, shaking.
“Mk, let’s be quick though," Nephilim said, "We don’t want to draw any unwanted attention."
"I do have a request though." Minty looked nervous, and quickly went on, "I want to go somewhere far away where I can't hurt anybody. But at least let it be a place where I can grow things or raise animals to survive. Like, magically banishing me."
"The NightWing Volcano," Nephilim suggested.
"She can’t grow plants there." Rosewood pointed out.
"I don't know then."
“I’ve got a idea, but we need to go the the ocean first."
"The ocean?"
Rosewood finished burning the plants “Ready Nephilim?”
Nephilim nodded and the three of the started walking up river.
"What about Blaze's old fortress." Nephilim suggested as they walked, "Enchant anyone who passes to never be able to enter it and for it to be warm enough to grow plants inside?"
“Good idea but it’s owned by the SandWings, I’m sure they wouldn’t be happy with that." Rosewood reasoned.
Nephilim was too busy thinking about clever punnishments for Minty that aer didn't realise that they'd made it to the Ocean until ae stepped into the waves.
“Minty, imagine a island," Rosewood instructed, "Imagine it just how you want it to grow plants and live there all alone” She grabbed a leaf off the mint plant in her satchel and looked back at Minty.
Minty shut her eyes.
“Minty have you thought of it?” Rosewood asked.
"Yes." She described it. "Its a bit much."
“It’s fine, this will be the biggest enchantments I’ve ever done, let’s hope I don’t go crazy” Rosewood closed her eyes and began to speak “I enchant this mint leaf, so that when I drop it into the ocean it will become the island of Minty's dreams, it will be all hers, and no dragon can take it from her. But in the middle of the island there shall be a tree, every time she looks at this tree she will remember all the grief and harm she caused to others, once she understands what she as done the tree will provoke her grief no longer. Enchant the island so that no one can find it and it will be undetectable by all, and to disappear and become invisible to any dragon who flies over it.” Then Rosewood opened her eyes and took flight, faster and faster she flew till it was hard to see her on the horizon, and dropped the leaf. And within minutes a island sprouted from the ocean.
Rosewood was back on the shore with the others by the time the island was done sculpting itself. “What are we waiting for let’s check it out. Minty help me carry Nephilim to the island?”
Nephilim made a sound of protest, but Minty and Rosewood scooped aer off the sand and flew out to the island.
Once they made it to the island Rosewood handed Minty her satchel “Keep it I have more” as she stood I awe of what she had built.
"Now what?" Nephilim reached into aer pouch and retrieved two coconuts, aer sliced the tops of both and handed the other to Rosewood, "Drink up." Ae adviced.
“Thanks” Rosewood was famished, she gulped down the coconut milk and ate the soft white center.
Minty nodded. She booped noses with Rosewood and moved towards Nephilim, but aer intercepted her before their noses could make contact. Minty gave aer an apologetic look before heading in. "Goodbye, and I'm sorry." 
Nephilim and Rosewood began to swim back to the mainland. Rosewood had offered to fly them both back, but aer had pointedly refused.
Behind them the island began to vanish, and just before it turned invisible on the horizon, Nephilim hear Minty's voice, softly carried across the water.
"Well, I guess this is my life now."
THE END
==Cast==
Nephilim - ValkyriePatronous
Rosewood - Fruitbattttttttttt
Minty - SnowLeopardTheRebel/SnowLeopardTheRebelALT
Lemon - VisiontheNightwing
Blue Copper - WeaveTheOrb
Category:Fanfictions
Category:Fanfictions (Completed)
Category:Fanfictions (Fanon)
Category:Content (Orphiceunoia)
Category:Genre (Adventure)
Category:Genre (Short Story)
Category:Genre (Mystery)
Category:Genre (Horror)