Chapter – 7

A Families Curse

In the morning after the tough day of non-stop battles everyone was sleeping, but I was up counting my money. "What am I going to do with all this money?" I asked myself, I leaned back on my hammock and then it broke and I came crashing down. I sat up and rubbed my head, "Ouch, well I know what to get now," I stood up. "I guess a better bed it would be the best thing to buy right now."

I put all money in a safe place then went for a walk it was 5 in the morning and no one was up, but then I heard a scream from the old Alithan's family home, I ran to go investigate. I stopped in front of the house, it was older then what it truly was supposed to be, and it looked eight times older.

I ran to the door and slowly walked in. I saw cobwebs everywhere, it was like a spell had been cast upon it, but I then got into the middle of the house, it opened into a large sized room. I walked into the middle of the room and found nothing worth screaming over, "I guess they just saw a ghost or their own shadow." I turned to walk out and there it was the thing they saw. I let out an ear-piercing scream, but then my foot fell through a hole in the floor and I hit my head on a board and I was knocked out.

I awoke still in the Alithan's home, but I was being held close by Makai who was sitting on the floor next to where I fell. I tried to hug back, but I couldn't move. I tried to call his name, but I couldn't speak. I couldn't do anything, help me Makai.

I clenched my hands and tore through something I looked and I was covered with webbing from several spiders, I closed my eyes I could sense them close by, then with a large shot of energy I changed the webs into water and it shot in all directions, I was floating and glowing at the time.

I whispered the words 'come here' while I was looking up at the holes in the ceiling, but nothing came. Just then a light appeared then another till there was one glow from each hole, and then a spider the size of a man's chest crawled down on a thread, one was bigger then the others as if he was the father. But then I saw a face on each one it was the Alithan family. I was in shock, what happened to them, their spiders their supposed to be Hylian.

"Acin is that you? What happened to you and the others? And why was I wrapped with webs?"

"We tried to protect you from the curse, but it looks like it got you a little," Acin looked sad. "This shouldn't have happened, not to you, I'm sorry Larissa."

I looked at them confused, "What are you talking about? I feel fine."

Acin looked at the ground then pointed to his left at a mirror. I walked to it and turned it to face me.

"MY FACE, WHAT HAPPENED TO MY FACE?" I screamed in shock, I looked at my face in the mirror. "My face what happened to my face?" My eyes looked like a spider's they shun a sharp yellow and my teeth where sharp as shards of glass. "I look hideous," I began to cry as I fell to my knees.

Makai walked to me and kneeled to hold me close, "Your not hideous Rissa, you've just changed a little, but I will help you get you back to normal if it's the last thing I do," He smiled and I slid closer to him.

"You must leave and find golden sculltula and destroy them they will break the curse but hurry I don't no how long you have," Acin yelled out. "NOW RUN!"

Makai picked me up and then ran outside with Montana. We had no idea what we were going to do, we all ran to our house, but before Makai and I got to the first pack of stairs a small spider jumped in front of us, it wouldn't let us pass, I got out of Makai's arms and then I saw a sword leaning against the Tamillins house, I took a huge jump after a little run, I ran to the sword the spider came after me, it jumped at the house and landed on the wall above the sword, then it jumped at me. I unexpectedly tripped and fell face flat on the ground and that made the spider missed me, I reached for the sword and then took it out of the sheath while standing up and I drove that sword down deep into the ground right through the spider. The spider was dead when I slowly drew the sword from the spider, I dropped the sword and sheath to the ground and I fainted, falling face down on to the ground and my hand fell on a little token and I clenched it and held it titer.

When I woke up I was at home in a new bed that was big, soft and fluffy, it was prefect now Makai could sleep next to me when ever he wanted which was about ever awaking moment. I sat up and rubbed my face it felt right, as if the curse was broken, I looked into my wash bowl and saw in my reflecting that my face was back to normal. But still what about the Alithan's family they are still cursed by the awful curse. "That's it I will break the curse of the Alithan's family if it's the last thing I do," I spoke.

"Rissa, are you alright in there?" Montana called.

"Never been better," I replied.

Montana opened my door and walked in with my breakfast and nearly dropped the tray but I held the tray steady with my powers, Montana looked stunned at my face, "Rissa your face it's... it's..."

"Back to normal, I know."

"But how did it?"

"I don't know it might have something to do with this," I open my hand and there was the token that I got from the spider.

Montana held it, flipping it over, examining it, "Hmmm."

"I fought a spider to get it,"

"A spider," she had an odd look on her, "A spider dropped this."

"Well it burned away and that was all that was left of it," I took the token back.

"Odd, but it changed your face back," she got an idea. "It must have broken the curse maybe if we slay these spiders and get their tokens we could break the curse of the Alithan's family," I ran to the door, "let's go."

After we searched the town high and low for the spiders we started to give up hope of ever finding even one of them at all, it's almost like someone was watching us knowing what we were trying to do, like they were the ones who caused the curse in the first place. After we searched the whole town twice over we sat next to the archery shop, and gave a large sigh of exhaustion, "I give up, this is just plane dumb, I thought this was going to be easy, but its harder then not sleeping-in in the morning," I spoke.

"Yeah I know what you mean this isn't as I thought it would be, but maybe that one that you found is the only one in town, it could be why we can't find any now," Montana suggested.

"Yeah, that sound so plausible, it could be true it can't truly be so easy to find a cure to an evil curse like this."

"Well morning is rising so I guess we have to head home these guys probably don't come out during the day, it would scar anyone just to see a large spider walking by," Montana and I burst out laughing.

"If Chrys saw one she'd be running for the hill and farther, she just hates spiders with a passion and the bigger the better, she would run to the moon and back again," I looked up. "I can see it now fastest girl in the world and loudest screamer while doing it too."

We let out a large hearty laughter as the sun rose into a brand new day.

Chapter comment

Yes my sis is very scared of spiders. She can't even hit them with a shoe (TeeHee), that's my sister for you. Do you want to know who cast the curse? Read on my fellow readers and see.