Caught in a curse
Prolouge
Author : butterfly-grey
Dark clouds covered the once blue lit sky, the drums of thunder echoed
through the dark skies and lightning ran across with jagged blue streaks.
The winds howled and threaten to tug the trees away from
it's roots.
A small carriage carrying a very pregnant woman struggled to
keep upright. She cried out, her water had just burst. The husband called
for the carriage to move faster to the nearest town. There was no way they were
going to make it and luck shined upon them when they saw a cottage
amidst the darkness.
The husband ran to the cottage and rapped on the hard wooden oak.
An old woman opened the door and gazed at the rain-soaked man suspiciously.
"Please, my wife is going to give birth. Can we-?" he asked.
She swung open the door furiously, "Bring her in quickly," she told him.
He carried his wife carefully into the cottage after wrapping
her in a cloak. In the brightly lit cottage, the woman directed him
into a room where another woman was about to give birth. He laid her
gently on the bed beside the other woman. Then he noticed that the other
woman was a gypsy. He bit his lip uncertainly, gypsies were casters of
curses.
"Go out," the old woman said to him in a firm voice.
"But-"
"They will be fine in my hands. Their child are destined to be born
together, I am prepared to receive them," she said in an odd tone that
made him wonder. Was she a prophet?
Screams pierced through the night and the husband grew worried
and frustrated that he could not get to his wife. This might not be her
first time giving birth but it worried him just the same.
"Push, girls push. Take deep breaths and push," the old woman told them
gruffly.
"I'm going to die," the gypsy woman screamed.
"You must deliver the baby, Nadeshiko," the old woman told her.
"No, I won't make it! The black haired gives birth to a son and
a girl grows in me. On this fateful night, I will bind them together.Their
souls are one and their hearts are tied. They will feel completion
only when they are together," Nadeshiko gasped while trying to breathe.
"You can't do this," she cried out through her teeth. She screamed again
as the pain took her again.
"Save my baby, Old Woman," Nadeshiko said before her last breath left
her.
She stared at the dead gypsy woman, and saw the old lady took out a huge
knife. Through panting breaths she asked horrificly, "What are you doing?"
"Saving the baby," she said in a matter-of-fact voice.
She closed her eyes and concentrated to bringing her baby to see this
world. Finally she did it, and baby cries filled the room. The gypsy's baby
cried as well and through half opened eyes she saw the baby girl. That gypsy
had cursed her child to soul-linked with her girl.
The old woman held the two babies in her arms, they were holding each other
tightly. Nadeshiko should not have done so, such a binding could sometimes be
fatal to both the children. But she was worried that none would take care of her
baby. She pried them away and handed the boy to his mother.
"My husband, please," she said to the old woman softly. She felt very
tired and would like to see her husband before sleep claimed her.
Her husband wearing a grim expression bounded in the room. His features
relaxed once he saw her and the baby to be safe. He hoped that the baby was a
boy, having two girls already he needed a baby boy to succeed him.
"It's a boy, my love," Ye Lan told her husband with tears in her
eyes. Her husband kissed her forehead and stroke his son's head.
"Sleep beloved, I will be here," he told her with love shining in
his eyes.
And so she closed her eyes and let sleep claim her into a dreamless sleep.
* * *
Prolouge
Author : butterfly-grey
Dark clouds covered the once blue lit sky, the drums of thunder echoed
through the dark skies and lightning ran across with jagged blue streaks.
The winds howled and threaten to tug the trees away from
it's roots.
A small carriage carrying a very pregnant woman struggled to
keep upright. She cried out, her water had just burst. The husband called
for the carriage to move faster to the nearest town. There was no way they were
going to make it and luck shined upon them when they saw a cottage
amidst the darkness.
The husband ran to the cottage and rapped on the hard wooden oak.
An old woman opened the door and gazed at the rain-soaked man suspiciously.
"Please, my wife is going to give birth. Can we-?" he asked.
She swung open the door furiously, "Bring her in quickly," she told him.
He carried his wife carefully into the cottage after wrapping
her in a cloak. In the brightly lit cottage, the woman directed him
into a room where another woman was about to give birth. He laid her
gently on the bed beside the other woman. Then he noticed that the other
woman was a gypsy. He bit his lip uncertainly, gypsies were casters of
curses.
"Go out," the old woman said to him in a firm voice.
"But-"
"They will be fine in my hands. Their child are destined to be born
together, I am prepared to receive them," she said in an odd tone that
made him wonder. Was she a prophet?
Screams pierced through the night and the husband grew worried
and frustrated that he could not get to his wife. This might not be her
first time giving birth but it worried him just the same.
"Push, girls push. Take deep breaths and push," the old woman told them
gruffly.
"I'm going to die," the gypsy woman screamed.
"You must deliver the baby, Nadeshiko," the old woman told her.
"No, I won't make it! The black haired gives birth to a son and
a girl grows in me. On this fateful night, I will bind them together.Their
souls are one and their hearts are tied. They will feel completion
only when they are together," Nadeshiko gasped while trying to breathe.
"You can't do this," she cried out through her teeth. She screamed again
as the pain took her again.
"Save my baby, Old Woman," Nadeshiko said before her last breath left
her.
She stared at the dead gypsy woman, and saw the old lady took out a huge
knife. Through panting breaths she asked horrificly, "What are you doing?"
"Saving the baby," she said in a matter-of-fact voice.
She closed her eyes and concentrated to bringing her baby to see this
world. Finally she did it, and baby cries filled the room. The gypsy's baby
cried as well and through half opened eyes she saw the baby girl. That gypsy
had cursed her child to soul-linked with her girl.
The old woman held the two babies in her arms, they were holding each other
tightly. Nadeshiko should not have done so, such a binding could sometimes be
fatal to both the children. But she was worried that none would take care of her
baby. She pried them away and handed the boy to his mother.
"My husband, please," she said to the old woman softly. She felt very
tired and would like to see her husband before sleep claimed her.
Her husband wearing a grim expression bounded in the room. His features
relaxed once he saw her and the baby to be safe. He hoped that the baby was a
boy, having two girls already he needed a baby boy to succeed him.
"It's a boy, my love," Ye Lan told her husband with tears in her
eyes. Her husband kissed her forehead and stroke his son's head.
"Sleep beloved, I will be here," he told her with love shining in
his eyes.
And so she closed her eyes and let sleep claim her into a dreamless sleep.
* * *