The Curses' Cold Touch
Disclaimer: If I owned Fruits Basket, this would not be a fanfic, now would it? I didn't think so.
Summary: It's one of the breaks during Tohru's second year of high school and she's already been through a lot with the Sohmas. What happens when an old friend returns to reveal a similar curse? A relationship between the Sohmas and the other cursed family?
In the last chapter, while visiting Kyoko's grave, Kristi is reminded of the night she found out about Kyoko's death before finding company with her older sister. After a strange conflict, the two are parted when the other four adults arrive. With Tohru having seen everything and Shigure realizing what'd happened, Kristi speaks and passes out. YET AGAIN!
18.:.Kristi's Role.:.18
"SHE HIT HER!"
"Y-yes…" Tohru timidly nodded to the Taurus who'd shot up from her seat in shock. The five of them – Tohru, Shigure, Alexis, and Mao-Lin – were currently in Shigure's living room while the topic of their discussion would be in Tohru's room, recovering from the previous day. "Calm yourself, Kelly, and sit down," Alexis instructed before returning to their subject, "It that is the case, then Kristi's true form has indeed awakened, even if it was for that brief moment." "K-chan's…true form…?" "Yes," Mao-Lin began to explain, "Kristi's transformation has always been complicated. Because she's possessed by two spirits, Castor and Pollux, she turns into either an Angelic of Demonic being, depending on how she is on the overall light/dark scale." "But Castor and Pollux…they were the twins," Tohru muttered, "Weren't they inseparable, even in death, because of their bond? You make it sound as if they're eternally fighting each other in K-chan…" "I do," the new-graduate agreed, "And they are.
"According to legend, though they were twins, one was immortal while the other was mortal. This was because they shared the same mother, Leda, but they had different fathers: Castor's father was Tyndareus, the king of Sparta at the time, while Pollux' father was the great Zeus, head of the gods. This is all according to Greek mythology. Anyway, says legend that the twins were extremely close. Even when Castor was killed, Pollux the immortal begged that the gods would take his life so that he could be with his bother. This, however, is the Sunday-school edition meant to raise people's morale. In reality, Castor was extremely jealous of Pollux' immortality and overall skill at everything. Fueled by his envy, he made a deal with Hades, the ruler of the Underworld; however, Castor was unaware of his part of the deal. Hades would take Pollux' life, landing his spirit in the heavens with Zeus, but in return, the dark ruler would seize Castor's soul, giving the sign both yin and yang."
"So, what's supposed to happen?" the school girl enquired. "Since Gemini is both light and dark, the Western Zodiac is too light. Though it sounds like it'd be a good thing, it messed up the balance, throwing the entire system into chaos," Kelly explained over her tea, "That's where Leigh comes in. Leigh, as you both know, represents Libra, the scales. It's her job to balance things out, thus placing her at the head of the curse. If what you say you heard is true, that's why Kristi said that Leigh was twice as evil as she'd ever be. I know it sounds easy, but there's another catch to the curse. The Gemini can't know any of this, lest it'd be too easy. Besides, if she was to ever learn about these things, she would undoubtedly turn to her true form, dooming this family to the curse forever." "Her true form…" Tohru repeated once, "You keep mentioning it. What exactly…is her true form?"
"Unfortunately for this generation of the cursed members of this family…" Alexis started before bluntly finishing her sentence, "Kristi, despite the curse and its effects, she's always turned to Pollux' spirit, the Angelic, when she'd transform. She could never adopt two spirits at once, so she'll turn into one or the other. That's just the way it is. Anyway, because of this, Castor's spirit has not had a chance to vent, thus building everything up on the disgruntled spirit. Gemini is supposed to be dark (light and dark alternate if you put the signs in order, starting with Aries/dark), but because Castor's spirit has been pent up all this time, we fear his awakening in Kristi. That's why she can never know of this. As Castor…who knows what chaos she'd cause?"
Please…
"It's not right." "Huh?" Once again, the attention was turned to Tohru. "It's not fair that she has to do that. K-chan is such a wonderful person," she said, "but she has to turn dark so that the curse can rest? That's not fair and it isn't right. Mom and K-chan were really good friends: best friends. I know that the last thing Mom would want would be for K-chan to do that." Once Tohru was finished, a voice was heard from the other side of the door separating the room from the hallway. It was a stressed voice. "Ahh!"
The five quickly got up and rushed to slide the door open. There, they found Kristi, kneeling on the ground. She was doubled over, holding her arms, and shivering. No words were necessary to express the pain she was feeling.