Lucas had disappeared from the mansion while leaving Belle and the others back in the Adams mansion. It was still afternoon, and there was no time to go to the land of the dead if he needed to find a reaper. The Grims could pass in and out along with the death reapers, but it wasn't the same when it came to souls as they needed a medium to pass to the land of the dead.

He was in Valeria, searching for the couple out of which one of them, the girl was part of the alignment of stars similar to Belle. Keeping her alive was of utmost importance because if one died, then it would affect the rest and no one would be alive along with the possible destruction of the world where the mortals lived in.

When he finally found them, he noticed how Damien's face was changing because of corruption. Lucas' eyes narrowed at the thought of why Damien's heart had been corrupted, but the reason didn't matter right now. The girl was returning to him, carrying two rabbits in her hands which appeared to be dead.

"That is not going to be enough to suffice his thirst," commented Lucas who was aware of how the mortals lived and how much blood the vampires needed and when they went rampant after getting corrupted before getting killed.

Using the ghoul was not possible because this girl here was a witch who needed to take part in the upcoming war with the witches. So far no reaper had arrived, and therefore Lucas did something that he had not done in a very long time. In his reaper form, he was invisible. Lucas' face turned to a complete set of bones, and he dropped the invisible shield that he had used since the last eleven years to stop anyone from communicating with him or him listening to the whispers of death.

A crow cawed at a distance as if warning the oncoming death of the girl.

"Basilia," called Lucas, letting his whispers to be carried in the wind so that it reached a particular death reaper. But the signals that were carried were unsafe as they spread out even to reach for other reapers to listen in.

It was risky, but this was the easiest and fastest way to secure the girl, Penelope's soul.

"If you can hear me, I need you to come to the spot where the sun shines and rains less to its opposite brother," said Lucas, his eyes staring at the couple, who could not see him as he was invisible to their eyes.

"Cross," came a woman's voice behind him and he turned around to find the death reaper, a woman who stood in front of him.

"I need a favour. The girl here is going to die, I need you to help me in sending her back to her body," said Lucas, his voice holding a depth as he spoke to her, "Consider it that with this we are even."

"If I help you, I will be the next one on the wanted list," answered Basilia, she moved to see the couple who were sitting on the ground, "Who are these?"

"An acquaintance' acquaintance," came the short reply from Lucas, "I will give you a spot in the Grims. How does that sound?"

The reaper stared at him, who was lower than Lucas but having some ability that was going to useful right now, "If it were someone I would have laughed. But are you sure you will be able to do it?"

"That's the plan. I need her to be alive," said Lucas, seeing Penelope's blood being sucked from the pureblooded vampire.

"I will arrange her soul to stay in my quarters," replied Basilia, and Lucas gave her a nod, "Let me reap her before someone else does." In a blink of an eye, the two reapers disappeared from the forest of Valeria and came to stand in a room to have the girl's soul asleep on the bed.

When the girl's soul finally woke up, the death reaper Basilia moved towards Penelope, and placed her hand to say, "It appears your fever has gone away." The soul looked confused like she didn't know where she was and what she was doing here.

At the same time, Lucas entered the room, looking at Penelope who stared at him as if she was trying to remember where she had seen him, but Lucas had placed a spell. A spell where Penelope would not recognise him even though they had met in the past.

Basilia, who was used to having souls who appeared to be confused, asked, "Is something the matter?"

"Am I in heaven?" asked Penelope and this had Basilia turn to look at Lucas as this was not Basilia's soul to pick and explain.

Lucas stepped forward, to see the green eyes of hers that reminded him of the witch Isabel's brother's eyes who had died years ago. He wondered if she was a descendant of the white witch's family.

"No, this isn't heaven," he answered her question. The trick here was not to let her remember anything about this place while sending her back to the mortal world like nothing had happened, while it would still count that she had died. The girl appeared to look around the room, "This is a place we call as unknown."

Penelope, the second star asked, "I am not dead then? Where is Damien?"

"Damien?" asked Basilia, wondering if the soul was speaking about the man who was sucking her blood out like there was no tomorrow because of the corruption.

"The man who was with me. H-he..." Penelope touched her arm as if to feel something.

Lucas then raised his hand for Basilia to hand over a glass of water. He handed it to her to drink. "Please drink," he kept a polite smile on his face which he had practised for years, "It is hard to tell if you are still alive, Miss. We do not speak of this place, and even if we do, we make sure to erase the person's memory."

"Are you black witches?" she asked worriedly.

"No. Rest assured, we are not here to harm you," answered Lucas, moving his hands from bottom to top, asking her to drink the water, "You are in the transitioning phase. From being alive to dead. You might find it to be long right now, but the time you are spending here is not less to the span of a dream. I need you to go back because you have things to accomplish."

Lucas then placed his hand on Penelope's forehead for the girl's eyes to close, "Farewell, Miss Penelope," and she fell back to sleep. He then turned to Basilia, "Send her back now," and the death reaper who had taken the form of a woman nodded her head. She touched the girl's arm who started to evaporate before the bed turned empty.

"It is done," informed the death reaper to Lucas.

This was the easiest soul transaction, much easier than when he had to handle Isabell's soul, "You should get going," whispered the reaper.

And Lucas heard the howls of the hellhounds, "It seems like they have found me."

"Good luck," replied Basilia and Lucas apparated from where he was to go back to Bonelake.

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