The Blight Legacy:

The Blight Legacy

Chapter 1 - The Baby

"Ahhh!" Jillia Blight cried out in pain. She was giving birth to a child. "Oh GOD!!!!"

It had been less than a year since Jilla's husband, Jowy, King of Highland, had sent her to Harmonia to begin a new life. Her real name, however, was no longer Jillia Blight, but for sake of confusion, I'll refer to her as Jillia Blight. "Aunt Jillia, are you okay--OW! That hurts! Let go!" Jillia had grabbed Pilika's hand.

"S--aaaagghhh--ORRY," Jillia replied through strained breaths and cries of pain.

After numerous hours of pain and sweat, a new life had emerged from the womb. Jilla's womb. "Ah...finally..." Jillia whispered as she cradled her new born child in her arms. "Ah...my son...you look just like your father..."

Pilika stood on her tip-toes so she could see the baby. "You're right, he looks ALOT like Uncle Jowy!" From the grey eyes to the sleek blonde hair, the child looked alot like it's father.

Suddenly, tears started dripping from Jillia's eyes. She was weeping. "Aunt Jillia, are you okay?" Pilika asked.

"Pilika, it's time to go. Let's go out and play!" one of Jillia's maids, Rika, told her. "Let's leave Aunt Jillia alone, okay?"

"Kay!" She said loudly, exiting through the large double-doors.

"Everyone, please leave. I'll be all right. And leave my son with me," Jillia told all her maids after Pilika and Rika left.

"But, miss..." one of her maids contradicted.

"No, I'll be fine. Leave me, I need a moment to think," Jillia replied. "Please."

The maids lined up and left the room.

"Well, it looks like it's just me and you in this room. So what should we name you...Mikal? T'lear? No...Ryu? Absolutley not. How about Ky? Nah. Frederìc? Agares, after my father? Or Luca, no...I will definatley not name him Luca. That name is cursed forever. Mixoul...no. I have it. I shall name him Jowy Blight, after his late father."

Jillia sat podering for a moment, until she started crying again. "Oh, Lord...I wish...he were here...oh, why must I still love him?" she asked herself. She wiped away her tears. "I musn't cry for him. He would call me weak for that, and I most certainly am not weak."

She looked down at her son. "Yes. That is it. I shall name him Jowy. Jowy Atreides Blight." Just then, a maid knocked on her door.

"Are you okay, miss?" it was Rika. Rika was the youngest of her maids, being only a year or so younger than herself. After all, she was only sixteen years old.

"Yes, I am okay. Please enter."

Rika entered, and curtsied at the doorway. "Miss, Pilika would like to make a suggestion on what to name the child. May she enter?"

"Yes, she may enter," Jillia responded.

Pilika came bounding into the room. "Aunt Jillia, I've got a name for 'im! Name him Jowy! Please? Pretty please?"

"Thank you very much, Pilika. I really needed the suggestion. Hey, I think that's what I'll name him!" Jillia lied, making it look like Pilika had thought up the name first. She forced a smile, although what she really wanted to do was hand her child to Rika and turn over and cry.

Pilika smiled and left the room. "Miss, there is someone here to see you. Actually, three people..." Rika told Jillia.

"Oh, really? We haven't had company in quite a while. But I'm not properly dressed..." Jillia replied.

"Yes, I know, miss. They are waiting in the parlor. If you wish, I'll tell them to leave."

"No, don't do that...if you would take Jowy, I'll go get myself cleaned up, and then I'll meet them down there. Have Merloe fix some tea and crumpets," Jillia told Rika.

"Um, miss, who is Jowy? Is that what you named the baby?" Rika asked.

"Yes, that is his name. Now go tell Merloe and I'll be down in about thirty minutes," Jillia responded.

"Oh, all right..." Rika replied, taking Jowy very carefully from Jillia's arms.

Rika left the room and Jillia climbed out of her bed, very tired from hard labor. "Ou...ou..."

She took off her nightgown and looked at her once-full figure in the mirror, now a young girl with a huge belly. "Oh, God..." she said. She climbed into the bathtub and began to was herself off.

"I wonder who the visitors are..."

-end of chapter 1-

HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE I'M EVIL!!!!! Aren't I? Yes, I know I am. Thank you very much! Oh yeah, I'm changing my name from Shorty to Jowy. Buh-bye!

-Jowy Blight