The Black Rose Contract

Morgana La Fey, King Arthur half sister, who for years remained by his side protecting and supporting him, however, this relationship resulted in her beloved son who could not enjoy the life that was offered to him, because father and son dueled intensely resulting in the death of the two. After times of complete loneliness and bitterness, Morgana meets Merlin, a brilliant and dedicated wizard with an unusual beauty, leaving everyone at his feet with his beauty and intelligence.

This beauty that also pleased Morgana, but in addition to that he was extremely intelligent, this made Morgana approach because she was exhausted from fighting alone, the friendship between the two soon grew and with it the admiration, which with time and approximation was changing until reaching the point where the two become romantically related.

Merlin had the same thirst for knowledge and power as Morgana, together they delved into light, dark and ancient magic. They, who were already known for their power were now feared, no one dared to go against their will. After a long time together, this relationship resulted in an intense love affair and fruits, but not just any fruit, but the most beautiful and powerful fruit that can be contemplated in existence.

The use of magic together ended up being impregnated in every pore of this fruit, giving this bearer unimaginable powers. Even within her mother’s womb, her magic was felt from afar. Everyone was waiting for the new child who could be the salvation or the complete destruction of everyone.

She was named Lyara Merlin La Fey, a beautiful little girl with an angel’s face and enigmatic look, sweet and devilish always in the same measure, it was impossible to look and not fall in love with her. From a very young age, she began to show magical signs, which made her parents proud. Lyara has always been sweet and very curious, at the age of 3 she already knew how to read and write and with that she ventured into the library where she lived, she spent all her time there as it contains her parents’ magical diaries.

However, all this power ended up resulting in a lot of envy, unfortunately the greatest of them came from his own father, the honorable and most powerful wizard, Merlin, he watched Lyara and her ease in learning and manipulating magic, regardless of the type, light, darkness, ancestors, elemental whatever the girl was brilliant and perfect in everything. All this perfection should not be hers, but his. With that thought, he began to study ways to transfer all that power to himself, because even though Lyara was small and very young, it was already clear that she would not be manipulated, much less controlled, and that made him angry.

Morgana from afar noticed the change in Merlin’s behavior and the strange relationship he was having with his daughter, he stopped being affectionate to just criticize or observe her attitudes. This clearly did not please her and led her to a state of alert, she knew that her daughter was in danger, once again she was going through this situation, but this time she was her daughter, to be killed by her own father. Dissatisfied and completely revolted, Morgana throws herself completely into ancient magic and asks for help from none other than Hecate and Lilith, but the two could only help protect Lyara if Hades himself allowed it.

Without thinking twice, Morgana launches herself into the underworld in search of Hades and pleads for his help, he was curious and even admired by the audacity of this mortal, giving her the chance to explain everything that happened and could happen. Hades, unhappy with Merlin’s attitude, blesses Lyara as his protégé, in other words, no one could take away her magic, her life or her soul, because from that day on Lyara belonged to Hades.

Happy with the result obtained in the underworld, Morgana returns and begins to prepare Lyara, teaching her everything possible for her age. However, Merlin also had advanced in his research and tried three times to transfer Lyara’s magic to himself, which resulted in major accidents, for Merlin of course. His anger only increased and he decided to end Lyara, after all if he couldn’t control or take it for himself, he would destroy her.

With much research and preparation, Merlin prepared the ritual that would put an end to Lyara’s existence, Morgana, already aware of this, was prepared and instructed to give her magic and her life to protect her beloved daughter. This was done, the ritual ended and Merlin contemplating the lifeless body of his five-year-old daughter dead in front of him, but his joy was short-lived, as the magic used went out of control and began to take Merlin’s body, Morgana who even then she was hidden, she threw herself on top of her daughter’s body and began to chant the spell that Hecate instructed her, causing her magic to be gradually ripped from her body and her life going with it. Merlin, seeing that he couldn’t get rid of Lyara, starts a duel with Morgana and fails miserably.

However, before he died, he casted a curse on himself “What was not willingly conceived will be removed, in life or in death the heir of his magic will arise, finishing what his master started and succeeding in achieving” and with that he died, however, part of his spirit remained in a diary impregnated by the curse and all his magic went towards Lyara’s body. Morgana, witnessing Merlin’s desperate act, screamed for Lilith, who immediately saw what happened through Morgana’s mind and tore apart Morgana’s soul and magic, so that in the end she would always be ready to protect her daughter.

Once the Lilith was finished, Morgana’s remaining magic went inside Lyara’s body which was completely petrified, it was a beautiful and marvelous angel statue. Enchanted all those who saw it, this magic statue was protected by magic unknown to all and with that it remained untouched on the La Fey property for a long time.

However, Lyara’s soul and magic was transported to the underworld, more precisely to Hades’ palace, where she was trained and was very pampered by her godparents. Lilith melted and watched with awe with each conquest of Lyara, Hecate was excited at every moment to see her pupil growing beautifully and with an intelligence that was not of her time and age. Hades, in his charge, cared for Lyara with great affection, but also with great strictness, sending her to preparatory schools and also training her personally. Before long, she was assisting him in trials and executions throughout the underworld.

In addition to her training, Lyara was known by everyone for her boldness and power, of course she had fun in any way she could, causing several wars in other realities and even kingdoms. Lyara was conquering everyone along the way and forming her own army, where her best men were marked by her own.

No one dared to go against her orders or harm some of her own, the black rose tattoo was known and feared, causing desire in some and panic in others, after all it never took prisoners when it entered a war.

This was done for several years, Lyara grew and developed into a woman who would envy even a goddess of war and beauty, but when she turned twenty-five, she stopped aging and remained that way until her body was awakened centuries later.

Several people came from all over the world to try to find out what that magic was, but the most they could do was just observe the statue. Morgana was on alert all the time, without any rest, by still having access to her magic she managed to seal off some environments preventing curious people from having access to her diaries and research and of course Lyara’s room.

The property was always in excellent condition and completely clean, of course all through magic, but this fact caused more fascination for everyone who accessed it. Over time, this curiosity diminished, after all, no one could own the magic that caused admiration.

They passed for many years in complete peace, at least for Morgana who only cared to keep everything in order. For Lyara the situation was completely different, her period in the underworld was full of mishaps. That doesn’t mean it wasn’t fun, she got allies and enemies in equal measure the difference was that her enemies didn’t attack her in fear of the consequences.

All of her achievements came with a great price, which Lyara paid gracefully and competently. Her magic was adapting and growing according to the occasion until it reached the point that not even Hades himself could go against it, in fact, no other being had that audacity, at least not alone.

But it is necessary to bear in mind that there were good times, joy and fun that certainly made up for the others.