A New Queen
The following part is taken from the actual book, near the end of Fable: He pulled away, and he was visibly shaking from the intensity of their kiss. "Mina, I want you to know that I've felt alone for a very long time. I was incomplete, and nothing could fill that void. Until I met you. I've known for a long time, but I wasn't sure how you felt about me. At times I thought you hated me, but I wanted to tell you that I, uh, Mina, I lo-"
He was cut off, when Mina shoved him to the side. She had seen Teague over his shoulder, and she didn't know why, but she had a feeling, that something bad was about to happen to Jared, so she had done the first thing she thought of. Suddenly, she gasped in pain. , and fell to her knees, leaning against Teague. She felt cold, cold so cold it was burning, spreading out from her stomach. She looked down, and the hilt of a dagger stuck out from her stomach, and her shirt stuck to her around it, stained with red.
Teague looked down at her in surprise, clearly meaning to stab Jared instead of her. At first she thought Teague might just pull the dagger out and go after Jared, but he didn't. She followed Teague's gaze. He was staring at Jared, who in turn was staring at her, his face a mask of horror. Jared stood up, and started over to her, when Teague said, his voice silkily filled with menace, "Careful brother, another step towards her, and I'll make sure she doesn't survive."
Jared's eyes were filled with anguish, but he stopped. "Now then, just go over there and grab the grimoire, and we can put this whole thing behind us," Teague said, while gesturing to the book, that lay untouched on its pedestal. Jared stared at him, uncomprehendingly. "Oh mother never told you," Teague asked with an evil grin. "You are a part of me. Which means you have part of my power. I want it back. The only way for this to happen is if you, or dear little Mina here, uses the grimoire to combine us. As she is obviously quite incapable, you have to do it," he said.
"Why should I, I know what will happen if you get all your power, we were split apart for a reason," Jared said, knowing that if Teague had all his power he would destroy both the Faerie and Human planes.
"Why...because if you don't younge Mina here will die," he sneered, before sharply twisting the dagger. Mina gave a scream of pain, before collapsing onto the floor, her eyes closed, her body completely still. Jared stared at her body, before running to the pedestal. As he touched the book, something strange happened. He felt every part of him filled with knowledge, filled with magic, filled with power. Never before he both he and his brother ever been in the same plane, let alone the same room. But now, when he touched the Grimoire, he learned of every power it had, some he was sure even Teague didn't know had existed. There was only one power he cared about though, the one that would let him save Mina.
He grabbed the Grimoire, then turned it towards Mina. "Teague," he called to his brother, who was busy examining Mina's body. Teague turned to look at him, as he continued, "We both have to touch the book for it to work."
"Very well," Teague said, before quickly pulling the dagger out of Mina. MIna flinched, but did not wake up. Teague spun the dagger in his hand then swaggered over to Jared. The two brothers faced the book that was open to Mina, and grabbed the sides. A bright glow filled the room as Jared stared at Mina. Instead of giving Teague his power, he would take some of the power from Teague and him, to make Mina a royal, the only way to heal her. The room glowed bright, so bright, it was blinding, before a great wave of magic threw them all to the floor.
When he opened his eyes, Jared was parallel to the floor. Teague lay sprawled across the ground a few feet away, slowly pushing his way to his feet. The Grimoire was missing. He looked up, and saw Mina standing, her wound completely healed. Instead of wearing her pale white shirt and tan pants, she wore a black tank top, and black skinny jeans, with a deep blue bejeweled belt, and tall heeled black boots. She was holding the Grimoire, caressing its cover. A glow of power surrounded her, and slowly, the book changed, becoming a darker version of what it was before. Her long brown hair fell in waves down her back, and a dark crown of sapphires encircled her brow.
Teague stood up and smiled evilly at him, before saying, "Oh very clever of you, but I am much more powerful than you, which means she got much more of my power. Just like you and I are two parts of one person, she is one person of two parts, and so sorry to tell you, but she follows the more shall we say powerful side." He then stood up, and walked over to Mina.
Mina herself did look different. She even spoke differently, and when she said, "Hello, Teague," her voice was laced with malice. Then she turned to him and kissed him, pressing herself into him and circling her arms around him. At first, he looked surprised, but then he deepened the kiss, wrapping his hands around Mina and pulling her even closer to him. And Jared's heart shattered into a million pieces.
He would have sat there all day staring at them, but then, he felt a small tug on his shirt sleeve. He looked down to see Charlie holding the seam ripper, which must have fallen out of his pocket during the fight. He smiled at the boy, and grabbed the seam ripper, and was about to open a portal back into the human plane, when he felt Charlie tugging on his shirt again, and pointing to to a pile of rubble. He followed the boy over to it, and helped him move from of the stones, before he found a face. He brushed the rest of the rubble off of them, and discovered it was the Nixie that had saved Mina, even at the expense of his own life.
Even he had heard about the curse of the Nixies, and although he was still alive, he was obviously going to die very quickly. Suddenly, he had an idea, that he wasn't even sure would work. The phoenix Mina freed had said he would die on this plane, but if he took him to a different one, he might survive. Grabbing the Nixie's hand and having Charlie hold his other. he pressed the seam ripper, and opened up a portal. He gave a last glance to Mina, who was still entangled with Teague, and stepped through the portal, and into the human world.