Chapter 25: Amber
"Wendy?" I muttered before I could stop myself and saw my parents shock through the mail.
"You knew? You knew about it all along?" My father shrieked.
"Nah, no, I mean no. I just saw it on my friend's mirror. But I thought it was impossible." I laughed it off, running away from reality.
"I'm sorry, dear. But unfortunately, Anastasia is Wendy." Her words hit against me hard. So it's true, Wendy is Anastasia. "Wendy, Anastasia, they're the same person…" I muttered, I've known this beforehand, but still, I felt really betrayed, who would have thought, Wendy.
"We'll get someone to arrest her as soon as possible. So dear, please be careful. A tip beforehand, what Anastasia is lacking, is her weakness. Using her weakness, you can easily defeat her."
"And what is she lacking?" I asked, having a bad feeling.
"It's…" Before my mum could finish her sentence, the letter was thrown away from my hand with a tentacle.
"It's something you won't want to know, Princess." Wendy appeared in front of me.
I stared at her, wide eyed. "Wendy, you're not Anastasia. You're not, right? Tell me, tell me you're not." I'm surprised by the trembling of my voice.
"Princess," her eyes turned cold, "I'm honoured you thought so much of me. But, unfortunately, I am. I am the Sea Witch, Anastasia." Even though I knew this, hearing it from her struck me the hardest. Right in front of me, she transformed back into her real form.
Something trickled down my cheeks, a tear, a crystal tear.
"Oh," Anastasia's eyes glee in delight, "What a warm welcome, Princesssss. That's the nicest gift I've ever got from youuuu…" Her sticky tentacles stretched out and wrapped me tight. Pulling me closer, she stole the tear from me. "Since you're so kind, Princess, I shall let you live. Not happily ever after, but tortured always." She smirked, flinging me into the ocean under the cover of the night.
I wanted to scream, but my voice just wouldn't come out. My legs turned back into my tail, with this, I can use my own power to protect myself. At times like this, I could only depend on myself before help arrives.
"It's useless, you stupid princessssss." Her smirk can be felt in the darkness. "I still need your tears so I will not let you die so easilyyyyy. I'll do something no one would ever expect from me, don't worry, it'll not be painfulllll." More of her sticky tentacles wrapped me and squeezed me hard, as if they were squeezing mustard out of its bottle. Of course, I resisted. With my strength, I hit my tail hard against her tentacles when her guard is down. I swam off as quickly as possible, hoping to find some help. But as expected, it was useless. Her tentacles caught up with me soon and had it wrapped around me once again.
"I wanted to give you the not-so-painful treatment, but princesss, you forced meee." Her greed and hatred overtook the coldness of the ocean. With her tentacles wrapped around me, she squeezed. I screamed, I'm pretty sure I screamed really loudly. The pain overtook my fear, my voice managed to find its way out of my throat. "Your princeeee, your lifeeee, you'll forget all of this. Till the day we meet again. My precious princessss…" Her voice faded till it could not be heard anymore.
Memories of Ash, of Fate, of Jo, of Edmund, of the entire school, the entire Kingdom, of my life flashed across my mind. A warm feeling flowed out of my body, slowly, the memories disappeared, like it was forgotten. The pain was indescribable, the feeling of emptiness filled my body. Tears flowed out of my eyes as my memories flowed out of my body. Not long after, I'm left in my empty shell with no memories of who I am. I felt empty and soon, darkness surrounded me and the warm Sunlight warm me up. But it was too late, as I felt myself losing conscious.
When I woke up, I'm in a totally unfamiliar place. A pretty stranger greeted me, "Oh, you're awake, finally. You've been sleeping for at least a week."
"Where am I?" I felt that I should ask this, ignoring the growl my stomach just let out.
"In our house, Kyre, no, my brother found you by the ocean and brought you back. I'm Stephane, Stephane Marshall. Are you hungry? I'll get you something to eat." The girl introduced herself and smiled as I nodded. She passed me a plate of long and slick with balls on top and covered in red. I looked up, surprised. But she looked even more surprised than me, "Spaghetti. Don't you know?"
I shook my head and I hold onto the sharp item to hold the spaghetti. I stuffed myself with that food called spaghetti and realized it was really delicious. But I felt that something was missing, she seemed to forget about something, she'd probably missed it out.
In order to point her out, so I could understand, I asked her, "Who am I? What's my name?"