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The Flashback
"Shall we go now?" Rune asked her younger sister.
"Okay"
It was a nice sunny day. There was a mildly warm breeze blowing through Roshtaria. It was such a lovely day that the two Roshtarian princesses decided to have a day out at royal gardens. But this was all years back; before Fatora's other self appeared.
As the strolled to the center of one of the gardens, Fatora had noticed that there was quite some wildlife roaming in the gardens. Mostly consisting of birds and insects, but one animal she paid special attention to. A cute small mammal with a furry grey coat and long ears, it was a rabbit.
She just couldn't leave that place without petting the rabbit first.
"Can I pet the rabbit?"
"Sure. Give it some of those berries from that bush. I'm sure it'll like that." The light-haired Princess said whilst pointing at a nearby bush. (I mean the leaf and branches kind! Get your mind outta the gutter!!)
Fatora, gently petting the rabbit on its back and hand-feeding it berries was in contentment feeling the rabbit's soft fur and the fact that it was eating out of her hand. Suddenly, a loud noise blared from the direction of the palace. Something had exploded, so Rune, being the more responsible of the two, rushed back to the palace. The noise had startled the rabbit that was eating out of Fatora's hand and bit her hand out of fright and scurried away. Fatora just sat there looking at her bleeding hand and dwelled on how painful it was. Then she abruptly stood up and chased after the rabbit with a new, ferocious look in her eyes.
When Rune was well out of sight, the rabbit was securely in Lorana's clutches.
"I'm going to have my fun with you for the bite you did, my little furry friend."
Lorana hid the rabbit in the picnic basket that they brought after she emptied its contents as she would with the rabbit.
When she got back to the palace, the commotion was over. Rune had taken care of the explosion that happened in the lab. Dr. Schtalubaugh had overloaded one of the machines.
Lorana headed off to the kitchen.
"Okay, everybody out!"
"But Princess, we'll cook anything you ask for. Why are you chasing us out of the kitchen?" the head chef asked.
"It's a day off for all the kitchen staff. Now, shoo!"
The kitchen staff scuttered off according to Lorana's orders and those who were slow at getting out had Lorana's help of a boot to the rear out the door.
When the kitchen was totally empty except for all the cooking ingredients and the utensils, she took the rabbit out of the basket.
"Finally…"
The rabbit was strugling to get free of Lorana's hands but she over-powered it.
"Quit strugling, you stupid animal."
With those words said, she broke the little mammal's front and hind legs, one by painful one.
"Ahh, that's better."
She placed the broken rabbit on a metal tray and grabbed a deboning knife off the table.
She started off slightly below the rabbit's neck, a horizontal line across the rabbit's torso. Then it was a vertical cut starting from the cut she made before until the rabbit's nether regions. She opened up the rabbits skin to expose the flesh. Even though the rabbit was still squirming in pain and bleeding, it was still alive. She went in further.
She cracked the rabbit's chest cavity to reveal all its vital organs. She just watched in amazement on how the rabbit's insides worked. She picked up the rabbit's intestines without tearing it from the rabbit and placed in next to it on the tray. Next, she forced the rabbit's mouth open and grabbed its tongue. Using the rabbit's own teeth, she cut the tongue free from its confines of the mouth. She then focused on the rabbit's torso again. Organs like the heart was important enough that one strike to it will kill the rabbit. She couldn't be that cruel to the rabbit to kill it instantaneously. She avoided that for now. She stabbed the knife in the rabbit's liver instead. A small cry was heard from the rabbit.
Somehow, it was music to her ears. She twisted the knife hoping to hear that beautiful sound again. After awhile she got bored with toying with the rabbit since it didn't fight back anymore. She heated the oven so that the rabbit can have a grand finale death. Just as the got hot enough, she placed the dying rabbit in. It was getting chared since the oven was too hot. The rabbit twisted and turned but it couldn't escape anyway. Lorana looked at the burning rabbit with such joy in her eyes. Soon, black smoke filled the room and the smell of something burning was could be sensed even on the outside.
Rune was one of the people who were directly outside of the kitchen so she decided to investigate what was burning. She swung the door open to see her little sister sitting in front of the oven watching whatever that was burning burn.
"Fatora! What are you doing?!"
Lorana looked up at her body's sister with an evil look.
Rune rushed to the oven with oven mits she grabbed from the table and opened up the oven to take out the metal tray. She was dismayed by what she saw.
"What the hell do you think you're doing?!"
When Rune starts cursing, she means business. She usually never curses.
Lorana didn't answer her.
"Answer me!" Rune roared as she put a hand on the sister.
"Don't touch me!" Lorana answered as she grabbed Rune's hand and flipped her over she shoulder.
Rune, who was caught off guard, fell to the ground. She was indisbelief that her own mild mannered sister could do such an act. She was certain that she either was an imposter or something had happened to her sister.
"Guards! Cease her!"
Three large palace guards ran in at Rune's command. They surrounded Lorana and tried to restrain her gently because she might actually be Princess Fatora, which she was. However, before they could get a hand on her, she kicked one of the guards square in the family jewels and punched the other in the stomach. The third and final guard was unable to do anything else but get Rune out of harms way.
When they were all gone, Lorana switched back to Fatora.
"Huh? What happened?"
She walked outside the kitchen feeling dazed and confused. She remembered that she was in the gardens, petting a gray rabbit. "How did I get back here?"
The servants that passed her ran away, scared for their lives.
"What's going on?"
She decided to go to Rune for some answers.
Rune however was getting treated for the bruises Lorana had gave her.
Soon, Fatora found her sister in the medical room.
"Fatora!" Rune and the guards saw Fatora enter the room and the guards quickly stood in front of Rune to protect her from any harm Fatora might inflict.
"Sister, wha…Sister, what happened to you?"
"What are you talking about? You did this to me, don't you remember?"
"No, I…I don't remember. All I remember was that I was petting a rabbit then there was an explosion and you ran
off…everything else after that is a blank. I found myself walking around in the kitchen that's in a mess. What's going on?"
They were surprised at what Fatora said, but she could be lying.
"Okay, then. Guards, cease her!"
The guards grabbed Fatora by her limbs. The attempted to escape but she could. She wasn't strong enough. The guards and Rune noticed this too.
"Rune, what are you doing? Why are you letting the guards loose on me?"
"It's a test."
"What's going on? I don't understand."
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Fatora is standing outside of a room looking through the thick glass window with all the palace staff in there. Rune is saying something to them and the staff nod to show that they understand. She couldn't hear what it was though.
The whole incident was never spoken of again and Fatora's dangerous split personality didn't come back. Perhaps it would have been better if they had sorted out that problem back then.
________________________________________________________________________________________________ Chapter 6: Back to the present, how's everything holding up in there?
Does anybody know what Alielle, Fatora and Rune's last names are?
*Disclaimer: In no way do I support the abuse of animals.