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Crazed in the Thralls of Love

By Shaman Zel

            /I hate them./ she thought, /Why did he have to fall in love with that… that breastless girl? She has no manners, least of all looks… And I thought she was my friend, and she took my trust and stole him from me./

            Amelia looked out from the balcony at the loving couple. She caught them in the middle of a kiss. She just wanted to Kill them!! /But… but its not his fault, it couldn't be! He loves me! He knows that I'm way better than her…/

            She saw them kiss again. /It's sickening, nauseating. Wait! I know. She bewitched him! She put a spell on him! That's it! But a spell won't last after its caster dies… I'll kill her! I'll kill her for doing this to me. Then Zelgadis will love me even more. Love, In the end will prevail. And I will prove that to you, Lina,… you whore./

            Then she mused. /But how?… Lina is unparalled in magic, surely I couldn't assault her with that. Besides, My Zel might sense it and get killed instead. I know… I'll use something that she surely won't suspect…/

Later that night…

            Amelia took the dagger she had, and hid it in her sock. She quietly stole into her former friends room. Just when she was coming to Lina's bed, Lina woke up. "Amelia? What are you doing up so late at night in my room?"

            /Ah!! Foiled!/ "I was just.. um… looking for something! Yeah, that's it… I think I left it…" Amelia spotted a bottle on the floor and used it as an excuse to bend down.

"There it is!" She exulted. /She doesn't suspect a thing!/

Amelia reached down with one hand to get the bottle, hiding her other hand as it slid down her leg and down her sock. She pulled out the dagger, and in one swift motion stabbed Lina in the stomach. The daggers tip leeched a venomous liquid from its tip, mixing with Lina's blood, and going straight towards the heart.

Lina's eyes widened with shock before glazing over in deat. When Amelia realized that her "friend" was dead, she was maddened with glee. She called for Zel.

"Zel! You're free now! You don't have to love her anymore, I killed her! I got rid of her spell!" She called.

"What are you talking about, Amelia?" Zelgadis said sleepily as he reached Lina's room. As soon as he saw Lina on the floor, with a small pool of thick, dark blood growing from its source of Lina's stomach, and Amelia with a blood stained dagger in her hand, he stopped and whispered.

"Amelia, what have you done?"

"What.. but I don't understand! She put a spell on you to love her, and now she's dead, and you… you should love me!"

"You.. you killed her? How could you? How could you do that to your friend. You… love crazed bitch! You deserve to die. I should kill you right here, right now, but I will restrain myself." Zelgadis yelled in anguish.

3 days later…

/I don't understand? Why doesn't he love me? Why??? Did the spell last even longer, past death? But that impossible. Why am I here, how'd I …/ Amelia's crazed mind lurched around as she looked out between the bars of her padded cell.

Fin

I got the idea when I dreamt of a haunting image of Zel holding a dead Lina, with a dagger wound in her stomach, and deathly white. R&R plz. I hope u liked it!?