For FT Angst Week 2016, Day 7: Fairy Tale
Why did fairy tales always end with Happily Ever After?
Any fool could tell a story that ended happily but it took true guts to end it in tragedy. That red string of fate? Severed. The words on the wrist that marked the soulmate? Wiped away as if they hadn't existed. That chance encounter that was supposed end in unbridled happiness? One took a different route that day.
The best way to end a story was death.
The goddess of Love, Aphrodite Mirajane, hated her all while hiding behind a sweet smile. What did she care? She did her job just as was in her nature, same as Mirajane did. They were like night and day, love and heartbreak, the sun and the moon.
It was Eris Minerva's nature as the goddess of Discord in the family to shatter bonds and break hearts.
There was no such thing as a fairy tale ending.
Once, a little girl named Levy wished upon a star for a fairy tale wedding. Minerva couldn't help but oblige and grant that wish. Twenty years later, on the day of Levy's wedding to the man she adored, Minerva appeared and demanded her payment for fulfilling the wish; the price of Levy and Gajeel's first born child. When they tried to object, Minerva reminded Levy of her wish all those years ago. "And this is the price for that stray wish, little girl. Once that firstborn comes, it will be my child and your debt will be fulfilled."
Everything came to pass just as Minerva said it would. Levy gave birth to a son and as she threatened, Minerva appeared to take him away. On her other arm, she cradled a small blonde baby boy, another payment of a wish made years ago. As Levy sobbed and Gajeel struggled, Minerva scooped up the child whom they had named Ryos and silently walked through the portal to her world.
As Minerva always told her boys,
light and shadow,
There was no such thing as a happy ending.