How we became Cursed

Chapter 14- The Need to Feed

This is a story of love and betrayal, of loyalty until death, or things that are even worse. This is the tale of a family torn apart, bringing them even closer than before. This is the tale of how I died, and lived again, and again, and again...

I woke up the next night in the third story of my new home (previously the guards quarter). I was a little bit dazed, but I was slowly coming to. I flapped down to the floor and yawned loudly. "I wonder how Kye's doing." I thought. "God, I hope she's better."

I walked down the stairs until I reached the kitchen. I was just about to open a cabinet when I realized there was nothing to eat. "Kye hadn't eaten since almost two days ago. She must be starving." I pondered silently to myself.

As I walked up the stairs to the cage, I listened to the loud breathing of a large creature (to me, that's about the size of a small human dog). I knew it was my little sister. After entering the cage I walked over to the door and looked in. There was Kye, lying still and breathing heavily on the ground.

"Oh God!" I said, and without another thought I rushed into the pin to see Kye. If she had been faking her sickness, I wouldn't be telling you the rest of my story. Luckily, she wasn't. I walked over to her, afraid of getting to near. Suddenly, she began to whimper, and I couldn't stop myself from going to her. I put my head against her chest, listening for something that might have been wrong. "You idiot! Your not a doctor!" I said to myself, and pulled my head from her, and thought. "I need to ask Gypsie. She'll know what to do."

I woke up the next night hanging upside down in my room. As usual, I got up, showered off, got dressed, and called the munchkins (Fidget and Kye) for breakfast. When I got to the table, they were not there. "Hay! You little basturds best be coming down here for you food, or I'll be coming up there with a switch!" (Note: switches are the torture items that parents of old used to wack their children with for punishment. They are small branches cut from tree's to beat the child's bum).

There was no reply. I was about to go up there when I realized something. The kids were not home. It slowly dawned on me. They had been sick, I had been scared, and I had left them all alone. "Oh God! What have I done?" I said to myself. "I have to find them."

I flew over the Thames on my way to Gypsies. What would I tell her? I began to practice out loud. "Ok, Gypsie, I need to know what can make a werewolf sick? No, that's to weird. Umm, Gypsie, in case a werewolf found me, how could I kill it or weaken it? Yeah, that'll have to do."

I finally reached the old abandoned museum that Gypsie lived in. Upon entering it I passed many statues of hero's of old, books filled with ancient writings, and pictures of long forgotten history. I then saw a small wooden dollhouse that must have belonged to a child a very long time ago. I knew this was were Gypsie lived because I had come here a little over a month after the 'incident' to check up on Gypsie. I went over and knocked on the door.

"Yes? Oh Fidget! Darling, do come in!" She said merrily when she noticed it was me. I walked inside and sat down at her kitchen table. "Gypsie, I'm kinda busy, but I needed to ask you a question." "Yes deary?" She asked sweetly. "I need to know, how can you kill a werewolf or at least weaken it so as to escape it?" She giggled. "Now darling, why would you need to know that?" She asked. "Well, Kye and I have been getting these weird nightmares about them, and it would make us both feel better if we knew that answer." Damn, I came up with that out of the blue. I'm getting good.

"Well, wolfsbane does the job, or a silver knife, or practically a sharp silver anything." "Is there anything else?" I asked, hoping deeply for a reply. "Why yes. Werewolf's need to eat at least once a day after their transformation to sustain them. If they don't, it can kill them." Finally, we were getting somewhere. "And what do they eat?" "Well meat, of course."

I reached the dollhouse that Gypsie was staying in, and knocked on the door. She opened it and said "Oh Ginger! Do come in! Fidget is already here." "He's here?" I asked. "I was just coming to ask your help in finding him." She stared at me curiously. "But darling, didn't he tell you?" I shook my head. "Ok, well come in."

As I got inside I saw Fidget at the table sitting quietly. I ran over to him and embraced him. "Oh, I was so worried. I am so sorry!" I looked at him closer, studying his face. "Your teeth, their normal. Your gums, they're not bleeding."

It was a big shock when Ginger waked in, and even a bigger shock when she told me about my teeth. I felt over my chin and realized that the wound was not there. It had healed. "I need to go," was all I could say as I got up and went over to the door. "Fidget wait! Where's your sister?" Ginger asked. I could not reply. I simply walked out the door and took to the air.

After he left, I followed, waving good-bye to Gypsie. I followed him all the way to the Thames, where he stopped and landed on the ground. He then lied down on his stomach, buried in his wings, and didn't move. I came over to him. "Baby, what's wrong?" I asked. He whimpered out "Kye is going to die!" I couldn't believe what he was telling me. "How?" "She is starving to death, and I can't feed her." I looked at him sorrowfully, and lifted him up, staring him strait in the eyes. "Fidget, I want you to tell me everything, starting with where Kye is."

He related the story to me, and I could barely believe my ears. "So Kye's at Devils Den?" "Yes." "And she can't get out?" "No" "But she's real sick, and will die if she doesn't feed." "Yes!" "What does she need to eat?" "Meat."

I couldn't believe what we were going to do. "Ginger, I…I can't" I said weakly. "I know, but you have to learn. I may not always be around to do this, but it needs to be done." We spotted a sailor mouse of about forty walking out of the Cheese N' Beer pub. "You just wait right here. When I come around the corner, hit him as hard as you can on the head." "But Ginger…" Before I could finish, she flew up in the air and landed by the man.

"Hello sir." She said. "Why hello miss." He said politely. "Jerk." I thought to myself. "He's only being all nice 'cause he wants her." She walked closer to the man innocently. "I'm afraid that I'm lost, could you help me?" He smiled at her wickedly. "Of course mam. Now, were would such a beautiful lady bat be going at this time of night?" He said while staring a little to low to be her eyes. I'm a very protective male when it comes to my sisters, and this guy was really pissing me off. I picked up a rock snickering, almost happy at this point of the deed I would use it to do.

"Well, I need to go to the midnight market to pick up some food, could you take me there?" "Of course, my lady." He replied, wrapping his arm around her waist as they walked. That was it. "When this basturd walks around this corner I'm gonna bash his head in so hard he'll be dead before we reach Kye" I whispered to myself.

As Ginger lead him around the corner I crawled down the wall just high enough not to be seen, but low enough to reach his skull. I then made my attack. "WHAT IN HELL! He screamed out just before I made my strike, blood splashing on the wall I was hanging.

Ginger carried the bag containing the man as we flew towards Devils Den. We flew silently until we reached the Den, where I proceeded to get out the keys, and point to where the entry of the cage was. Ginger put the man on the ground, and dragged the bag as we went up the stairs. After entering the cage, she looked down at Kye. "That her?" She asked. "Yeah Gin, that's our little sister."

We carried the man to the stairs, and then stopped. "She should be smelling the blood soon. Just toss him down and she'll do the rest." Ginger nodded, and pulling the man out of the bag, she tossed him down the stairs towards where Kye was. He groaned in agony wile he started to wake up.

"Oh God, I was hopping that he wouldn't wake up when she feed." Ginger said, and I just nodded. "Fidget, go away, you don't need to see this." "I do." I said. "You were bit, soon I'll be alone, and I need to get used to it." She nodded her head, and we watched the killing.

Kye's eyes opened when she smelt the blood. She stood up and walked towards the man, who was moaning in pain. She began to circle him, growling as she did. After a few minutes, she made her strike. Screams, blood, howls, screams, blood, howls. I watched in horror as she made her attack, not killing him at first, but ripping at his limbs, eating him alive. After a few minutes the screaming stopped, and the man died of blood loss and shock.

Kye proceeded to eat up every last part of him, even licking the ground with his blood on it.

When she was done, she howled satisfactorily, then lied back down and went to sleep. "Its over." I said. "No baby, it's just beginning."