OHSEESEE:

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Please note, that this story contains profanity, violence, use of alcohol, and sexual references. The story also switches between first person narrative and third person context.

Not too strong though :P Innuendos and whatnot.

Storyline:

This story mainly involves Neki and Jinx (Yes its Jinx from the games!) along with a few other notable faces. Both have had a rough life, the story delves into Nekis horrific childhood, Jinxes juvenile approach to life, and the significance they have on each others lives. Through tragedy and hardships they both lost faith in what is right and wrong. The story is entitled Curse Of Me.

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Curse Of Me

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The Circle

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It was early spring, the day it happened. I remember running through the woods and brushing my hands against the Dewberry bushes. The Felora plants smelt so lovely that year. I was nine at that time. There was nothing I loved to do more than run barefoot through the Haven Forest and play all day by myself. I was home schooled and I had no friends, according to my mother, but I did have friends. I had plenty. They were all around me, the animals, the spirits, the faeries. I remember it like it was yesterday.

There was no breeze in the thick columned forest. Shafts of light burned through the verdant leaves. The forest floor was abundant in fresh flora, the sky was a pastel blue. The world was thrown into shades of blue and green. Birds chirped merrily in tune with one another. They swooped low and enter-twined in flight. The creek trickled noisily though the clearing. Small guppies made bubbles fly to the surface. A fawn sipped from the crystal waters and its mother chewed upon the fresh jade leaves on the other side of the creek.

She came running through the forest dragging her fingers against the sweet Dewberries, dangling from their leafy binds. She laughed and ran as if someone was chasing her. But no one followed. Glancing behind her she collapsed on her knees in the middle of the clearing. By this time, the fawn had raced off with its mother, fearing for its life.

"My mother said i never should,

Play with Gypsies in the wood.

If I did she would say,

Naughty Girl to disobey!"

She repeated the rhyme getting faster and faster, as she emptying the contents of her pockets. Some twigs, and berries, sprigs of Felora plants, and rose petals were some of the items which now lay on the forest floor. Neki gasped and scrambled to her feet, she dashed to the other side of the clearing, got down on her hands and knees. There on the ground was a ring of brown earth, where the mossy grass had not grown.

"A faerie ring, a faerie ring! I found a faerie ring!" she exclaimed, calling to no one. She pushed her blonde locks behind her ears and stared at the ring. She shut her eyes tight and repeated some inaudible word. Chanting, to see if the faeries would come. Would they come? In the mind she could see them dancing, beautiful petite creatures, hand in hand, dancing in a circle. Then they laughed and disappeared. Opening her eyes just for a peek she was disappointed that the faeries had ran away. She sighed and let her hands lie flat on her legs. She stared at the circle, and then she heard chanting. It was far away, it sounded as if they were shouting. Shouting to one another to come play and dance. They were running, and even though it was a very small noise she knew they were getting closer. They were coming. A grin spread on her face as she tried to see the first faerie burst out from the trees. But they did not come out in front of her. Now they bickered and used harsh tones to one another. They came from behind her but before she could turn around they already had her arms in their grasp and where dragging her across the clearing. And they were not faeries, they were men.

Neki cried out but they twisted her wrists harder and she bit her lips in pain. Tears streamed down her face, "Let me go! Let me go! Stop it your hurting me!" she yelled. Suddenly one of her captors grabbed her cardigan by the back and pulled her up from the ground. He was wearing a helmet and his face was scared and inky patterns strewn across it. His yellow teeth were bared at her and as he gritted them he spoke to her,
"Shut up you little bitch. Stop crying like a baby! Do you want your mommy?" He laughed cruelly. Neki nodded without realising that she had given in. She wanted her mommy so bad, her parents were camping out in the forest nearby. Just for a holiday so they could spend time together. Why hadn't they come to rescue her?

The other captor laughed, "Speak of the devil," he turned from where he was standing and nodded to the man restraining Neki. She opened her mouth to speak out that her mother was not a "devil" but stopped. Through the trees came another 3 men all in crimson uniform. They were guards of the city, and her father told her to stay away from them. But two of them had hold of her mother who was crying and trying desperately to yell through her gag that was savagely tightened round her mouth. She was shaking also and dripping with sweat, her hands were binded with cord, and Neki could see the raw skin beneath it.

"Mama help me!" cried out Neki who ran forward. Her captor grabbed her hair and pulled her back, giving her a slap over the cheek. Tears stung Nekis cheek and her mother yelled out and attempted to run over but was cruelly stopped with a knock in the stomach with the guards gun. She doubled over and fell to the ground still in the clutches of the guards.

"Say your goodbyes," laughed the guard holding Neki as he put a gun to her head. Neki squealed as the cold metal pressed into her head. Sweat trickled down her face. Her whole body shook. Her mother gasped and the look on her face full of lament stayed in Nekis mind to this day. Neki bit her lip and even though at this young age she was not prepared for what came after death, nor is anyone with half a mind, she tried to think of what it would be like to wander the earth as a spirit. But what came next, no one could ever be so unprepared for. As the captor put his hand on the trigger, one of her mothers captors stood forward brandishing a dagger he pulled her mother back and slide the cruel blade along her throat. Her mothers clothes soaked red instantly and her body was still upright as the guard was still holding it. In less than three seconds Nekis life was spared and her mothers taken.

A round of cheers came from the guards and Neki was thrown onto the forest floor. Her first instinct was to run, but she wanted to stay. She crept over to her mothers body as the guards all talked amongst each other of what to do next. She sniffed as tears rolled down her cheeks. Blood spattered her dress as she rolled her mother onto her back. She did not like the wound that was so vulgarly displayed on her mothers throat. She sniffed again as she turned her mothers head sideways and lay beside her, crying softly. Where was her father? Cruelly she heard the sound of a smooth blade inject itself into her mothers back. She looked up as the guard stood over her. "Now, we will have no more of that crying business, ya here?" he said in a serious voice. The laughter continued as the guards all approached the body kicking and standing on it ruthlessly. Neki crawled away to the other side of the clearing. She should run but where would she go? Suddenly two more guards entered the scene. An even bigger cheer went round the woods, as she peered around them to see the head of her father grasped by the hair in one of the new guards hands. Neki gasped and turned away, coughing up her lunch unceremoniously on the forest floor. After a few minutes she was grabbed roughly by a guard and half carried, half dragged along with them as they moved on.

Not much happened after that, I was taken away to the prison. I don't remember the journey very much. My mind was elsewhere. With my parents. To see that kind of thing happen is shocking, but I wasn't scared. I didn't care what happened to me. I had no one to love me anymore.

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End of Chapter one

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