Chapter 16:

Blackwood Side Story: Helicopter Hex and Graveyard Tea

as she pleases of black magic and revenge


The Extravagant Arrival

The Blackwood manor perched on its misty hilltop like a gothic tiara, all spires and gargoyles sneering at Windsor City's bland cold dark purple skyline early in the morning. Inside the velvet-draped library, twins Luna and Theo Blackwood lounged on antique settees, their porcelain skin glowing under candlelight. Luna, with raven hair in perfect waves, flipped through a grimoire while Theo, her mirror image save for his sharp jaw, polished a silver athame. Both sixteen, posh to the bone, haughty as hell, and classy occult brats who treated hexes like homework.

Their mother, Vicky Blackwood, paced nearby, a vision in tailored black silk, her ice-blue eyes calculating every shadow especially with her trademark glasses. Cold, sassy, posh perfection - she ran the family’s arcane investments with a ledger sharper than any curse. Dad, Edward, fiddled with a crystal ball, ever the mild-mannered stud under Vicky's thumb.

A distant thwop-thwop shattered the silence. Theo glanced up. 'Helicopter? Father's expecting no one.'

Luna smirked. 'Bet it's Grandma Veronica crashing again. Or Finn with his idiot drones.'

Vicky froze, lips curling. 'No. That's them. Prepare the welcome.' Her voice dripped frost.

Outside, the beast of a chopper - gold-trimmed, logo screaming 'Blackwood Heirlooms Ltd' - kicked up grave dirt as it settled on the lawn. Out stepped the lucky young at heat Grandfather Tim thanks to the fire energy of liz, dapper in tweed, silver hair impeccable, lugging a wicker hamper like it held Excalibur. Beside him, Grandma Elizabeth: fire incarnate. Curves hugged by crimson velvet, emerald eyes smoldering, lips painted blood-red. Feisty, hot, seductive - the model with her own set of witchy skills taught by Vicky who turned boardrooms to bonfires with a wink.

'Elizabeth,' Vicky muttered, snapping her fingers. A potion vial glowed in her palm.

Vicky's Amusing Prank

The family assembled on the portico as rotors whirred down. Elizabeth swept forward, arms wide. 'My darlings!'

Splash! A spectral fog erupted from hidden nozzles, drenching them in glittering ectoplasm. Ghostly moans echoed, courtesy of Vicky's rigged sprinklers possed with the souls shes dammend to the shadows. Tim sputtered, wiping goo from his spectacles. Elizabeth threw her head back and laughed, throaty and wild.

'Vicky, you devil! Still pulling parlor tricks?'

Vicky's lips twitched - almost a smile. 'Merely ensuring no uninvited spirits tagged along, Dearest Liz.' She says in a witty tone. Nevertheless she warmly hugs Elizabeth like a skelton to the living.

Luna and Theo stifled snickers. Edward sighed of relief happy to see his parents again. 'Welcome, Mum, Dad.'

Elizabeth ignored the slime, striding in for hugs . She slung an arm around Edward's shoulders, pulling him close. 'My handsome stud of a son! Look at you, still letting this ice queen run the show.' She winked at Vicky. 'Though I hear she's thawed quite nicely in private. Those ahem lovely flourishes of yours, Vicky dear she whisper it in a teasing manner, Edward swears by your... darkened love magic. Warms a girl right up from that haughty chill. heheheheheh'

Edward flushed crimson. 'Mum!'

Vicky's eyes narrowed, but a rare pink tinged her cheeks. 'Elizabeth. Always the provocateur. Tea?'

Tim chuckled softly, unpacking the hamper. 'Port and scones first, Lizzie. Save the scandals.'

Contrasting Flames and Ice

Over crystal glasses in the drawing room, personalities clashed like thunder. Elizabeth sprawled on a chaise, legs crossed seductively, regaling with tales of hexing a rival perfumer into eau de skunk since shes now trying out Vicky’s black magic. 'Feisty keeps the blood hot, darlings. Life's too short for one to live in the cold caluclations of the places like the arctic eh.

Vicky sipped, unruffled. 'And chaos bankrupts empires, Elizabeth. Calculation builds them. We're Blackwoods - not street witches who use streetballs for random guesses on the street.'

'Yet here we are, families entwined,' Elizabeth purred, raising her glass to Edward. 'Walker kin send their love. Close as coven blood, eccentricities be damned. Your spooky antics amuse them.'

Theo leaned in. 'Uncle Thomas Walker called last night. Their galleries thrive, but that rival corp...'

Luna nodded. Trinity Art Holdings. Pushing bland prints, mass consumerism sludge. Keeps the masses dumb, pro-stupidity corporate mush.' Their pro positivity sayings, it just feels so forced in almost as if they’re being held hostage and are forced to say it. The entire brand itself is basically overpriced overconsumptionism.

Tim grunted. 'Threatens Walkers' true art scene. Puritans in pinstripes.'

Art Inspiration and the Rival Threat

Elizabeth's eyes lit. 'Precisely why I'm here, loves. My graphic design biz needs inspiration. This manor's crypt-vibes, your hex ateliers - gold for covers. But those puritan pigs at Trinity Art? Secret cult, hoarding ignorance. Extreme blandness to dumb down buyers. Mega-successful, but we'll gut 'em.'

Vicky arched a brow. 'Illegally i presume?'

Elizabeth grinned wickedly. 'Darling, we're Blackwoods. Steal their combs, pens - personal talismans. Finn and Morgana chant the hexes. One night, poof. Scandals that'll make headlines blush.' Our bazilionth grandfather Lucius is the closest we could have gotten to king midas. Vicky oh sister dearest you know me so well with my love for literature very well then i shall accept your request.

The twins exchanged thrilled glances. Edward smiled faintly. Tim poured more port.

'Graveyard tea first,' Elizabeth declared. 'Plot over phantasmal finger sandwiches.'

Elizabeth leaned back. 'That rival? Totally sus, no cap.'

Vicky blinked. 'Sus? Suspicious, uncapitalized? And 'no cap' - no chapeau? Your slang vexes, Elizabeth.'

Elizabeth cackled. 'Modern magick, my icy friend. Keeps me lit.'

Exasperated all Vicky could do is just sigh and give a stone cold poker face same as the rest of the twins.

Graveyard Tea and the Hex Brew

The Blackwood graveyard hummed with evening fog, ancient tombs forming a macabre tea parlor. A lace-draped table groaned under silver service: blood-red jam, scones shaped like femurs, port in skull goblets. Crows cawed approval as the family settled on wrought-iron chairs amid weathered headstones.

Elizabeth presided, legs kicked up on Great-Uncle Reginald's slab. 'To family ties stronger than hex chains. Walkers thank us already - their galleries breathe free once Trinity rots.'

Vicky poured, precise as a scalpel. 'Details, Elizabeth. Or it's just gossip.'

Tim buttered a scone. 'Trinity's cult core: board pushes “nu-art' - beige abstracts, corporate calendars. Dumbs the masses for consumerism. Billions in bland.'

Theo grinned. 'Uncle Walker's intel: CEO Harlan Cosby, hair from his antique comb. CFO EmiliaVoss, lipstick tube. Steal 'em, curse 'em.'

Luna clapped. 'Finn and Morgana?'

Elizabeth snapped fingers; a raven dropped a velvet pouch. 'Cousins en route. Talismans procured - scrying mirror nabbed 'em overnight. Harlan's comb reeks of pomade and hypocrisy.'

A whoosh: Finn (lanky, wild-eyed) and Morgana (pierced goth queen) materialized from shadows, brooms optional.

'Granny E!' Finn whooped, dumping artifacts. 'Trinity HQ warded like tissue. Morg snagged Voss's tube mid-meeting - chick didn't blink.'

Morgana smirked. 'Hex circle prepped in crypt. Embarrassment curses: truth serums, fetish flares, scandal summons.'

Vicky inspected a pen - board chair's. 'Efficient. Target weak points: puritan facades crack under vice.'

Edward nodded. 'One night. Corporation crumbles.'

The Ritual Roast

Candles flared. Circle chalked with sigils. Artifacts piled center: comb, tube, pens, even exec undies swiped from laundry.

Elizabeth led chant, voice sultry thunder:

*'By bone and blood, by shadow's bite,

Reveal the filth they hide at night.

Purdy prance in panties pink,

Voss confess her kitchen sink kink.

Chair hump desks till cameras catch,

All scandals bloom, their empire scratch!'*

Finn helped drummed bones. Morgana flung powders. Twins linked hands, eyes aglow. Vicky added ledger ink - 'for financial ruin.' Tim hummed bass counterpoint.

Energy crackled. Artifacts smoked. Hex launched.

'Trinity's dawn will be their porn,' Elizabeth cackled.

Midnight Mayhem at Trinity

Midnight, Trinity HQ glittered corporate sterile. CEO Harlan Purdy paced penthouse, preaching blandness to mirror. Itch. He scratched scalp - then shrieked. Hair turned neon pink, writhing like tentacles. 'What sorcery?!'

Downstairs, CFO Emilia Voss in boardroom, prepping Q4 lies. Lipstick tube vibrated. She gasped, dropped it - but urges hit. 'No... not the copier again!' She humped the machine, moaning biblical verses backward. Security cams rolled.

Chair Reginald Thorne gripped his pen - squirt! Ink flooded pants. He bolted to bathroom, but doors locked. 'Confess! I fund cult orgies!' Social media postsauto-posted from his phone including very damming evidence against other associates too.

VP Marketing Sheila Bland swigged coffee from stolen mug. Froth bubbled - she burped rainbows, spewing slogans: 'Buy our crap or burn in hellfire sales!' Zoom call live to investors.

Interns swapped undies mid-shift, dancing polka naked. Janitor found satanic porn in vents. Emails leaked: puritan memos plotting 'dumb-down drops' in art supplies.

By 3 AM, scandals viral. Stocks tanked. Reporters swarmed: 'Trinity execs exposed as kink cult!'

Harlan, in pink wig diaper (curse upgrade), sobbed to cops. 'It was for the greater bland!' Company dissolved by dawn.

(To be continued: tea finale, pranks, whack...)

Trinity's Puritan Pornocalypse

Dawn broke bloody over Trinity HQ. Harlan Purdy, CEO poster boy for bland piety, livestreamed himself in a frilly diaper tutu, chanting nursery rhymes while his pink wig shed glitter. 'Repent... with ruffles!' Police hauled him as stock plummeted 98%. Twitter exploded: #PinkPurdyPrance.

CFO Voss? Arrested mid-orgy with office supplies, lipstick smears on Xeroxes. 'It's fiscal stimulus!' she wailed to stunned shareholders. Leaked memos revealed cult plots: subliminal stupidity in posters, consumerism spells via calendars.

Chair Thorne trended for 'Desk Desecrator Diaries' - videos of him humping furniture, confessing embezzled tithes to 'ignorance funds.' VP Bland barfed psychedelic slogans on CNBC: 'Consume or combust!'

By breakfast, Trinity dissolved. Walkers called: 'Galleries safe. Art lives. Blackwoods forever.' Elizabeth sketched feverishly - hex chaos birthed killer designs: swirling scandals into logos.

Family reconvened graveyard-side, fog curling like applause.

Tea Time Tussle: The Forced Smile

Sun pierced tombs. Scones just finished being-eaten, port low. Elizabeth eyed Vicky's perpetual poker face. 'You, glacier of a woman. Smile for family. Or must I?'

Vicky arched brow. 'Professional demeanor suffices, Elizabeth. Work demands professionalism as thy sin is thoust sloth summoned veerily removing thy skill of the teacher.'

Elizabeth lunged, fingers pinching Vicky's cheeks upward. 'Smile! Like you do for Edward's... rewards.' Vicky's lips stretched demon-like, eyes promising murder and huge flushing redcheeks and her sharp fangs rivaling the sharpness of the legendary veronica walker showing.

Theo choked on his scones. Luna giggled hysterically. Liz has got Mum!' Something they rarely say mum considering how normally uptight they are.

Finn, this is the first time i ever seen her smile like that Finn hooted. Morgana teases Vicky, well now the goddess dawn has finally shown she says in a teasing tone.

Vicky swatted liz’s hand half-hearted. 'Release, you harlot. Or ledger lists your debts.' But corners crinkled - amusement thawed.

Tim chuckled. 'Lizzie, behave.'

The Grand Whack

Elizabeth released, but mischief peaked. She hefted a massive grimoire from Tim's hamper - The Compendium of Cosmic Comeuppance, 10 pounds of vellum spite.

'You lot laugh at thy one who brought thoust into this cesspit of a world? Whack!' Book cracked Theo's shoulder.

'Ouch!'

'Whack!' Luna next.

Oi!'

Vicky smirked. 'Whack!' But Elizabeth dodged, book glancing Edward.

'Not the stud!'

Finn and Morgana dove giggling. Tim took a playful tap. Final swing: Vicky parried with teapot - clang! Book flew, pages fluttering curses.

All collapsed laughing amid headstones. Fog swirled, crows applauded.

Elizabeth dusted hands. 'Blackwoods and Walkers: eccentric allies against bland. Now, sketches await.'

Vicky straightened silk, almost grinning. 'Profitable chaos. Approved.'

Twins high-fived. 'Best tea ever.'

Fade on manor spires, rival ashes, family unbreakable.

The End.

(Sharp words, spooky laughs, posh hexes. Black comedy served iced... with port.)

Theo blinked. 'Yeet, Grandmother? As in ritual expulsion? Barbaric.'

Elizabeth winked. 'Kid, it's hurl with flair. Try it.'

Luna frowned rolling her eyes. 'Lit? Illuminated like our candles?'

Elizabeth grinned. 'Hot, darling. Viral fire.'

Edward adjusted collar. 'Slang eludes, Mother. Pass the tea.'

## Elizabeth's Private Treat for Tim

Later, fog thick as lovers' breath, Elizabeth pulled Tim behind Great-Aunt Beatrice's mausoleum. 'My stud, all that hexing got me riled. Time for your reward.'

Tim's eyes widened, tweed tenting. 'Lizzie, the grandkids...'

She dropped to knees on mossy stone, unzipping him with ruby nails. 'They'll hex Trinity. You get this.' Lips parted, tongue teasing tip. 'Fo' shizzle, handsome.'

Tim groaned, hands in her hair. 'Slang still baffles, but this... phat.'

Elizabeth swallowed deep, throat velvet vice, eyes locked up wicked. Slurps echoed like incantations. Hands cupped balls, nails tracing runes. 'Pimpin' your pipe, Tim. Dope?'

He bucked. 'Word... close.' She hummed vibration curse, nose to pubes, gagging playful. Saliva dripped, mixing dew.

Vicky's voice distant: 'Where's brother dearest?'

Elizabeth popped off, grinning spit-shine. Milking loads soon!' Dove back, suction spell, Tim tensed. 'Lizzie!' Rope after rope, she gulped greedy, milking dry.

Wiping lips, she stood. 'Blinged your night, stud.' Tim zipped, dazed. 'Tight as ever.'

They rejoined tea, Elizabeth's glow suspicious. Luna eyed. Granma’s lipstick smudged.'

Elizabeth winked. 'Port mishap, dear.' Family chuckled unknowing. Blackwoods: eccentric to core. 

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