Chapter 36: The Past Long Forgotten

Gou, Hishikawa-sensei, Rei, and the little girl were at sensei's place watching Bo as she slept peacefully on sensei's bed. Gou had a frightened expression while she held Bo's hand tightly.

"Matsuoka-chan, Watanabe-chan will be fine I promise you." Hishikawa-sensei said with a kind voice.

"No It won't. Nothing is fine. She's not fine! What the hell happened back there! How did you two do that? Who and what are you? Are you going to kill us too!" Gou yelled at them while forming an ice lance from the water in Bo's cup on the nightstand.

"Gou, calm down please!" Hishikawa-sensei tried to calm her down. Suddenly the lance was obliterated and You pushed down to sit her chair. When she tried to get up again she was forced back down.

"You are so impatient…" the little girl in the white nun outfit said, sighing.

"You try being a target then you'll see what I mean." Gou spat.

"Gou, let's relax and then ask them what we want to know, alright?" Rei said in a soothing voice. Gou was silent and then threw a frustrated sigh and reluctantly agreed.

"Fine, first question: what happened with Bo tonight?" Gou asked.

"What she was tonight was how this curse originally was like." the little nun said.

"What…" Gou's heart stopped for a second.

"This curse originally was that. But after generations and time went by the curse was deluding and started to evolve to keep going. Today it's just no red meat, no touching water unless wanted to, flipper defense, and the power of water."

"Then how was Bo able to form into the original curse form?" Rei asked.

"The liquid that was abstracted and burned away was serpent's blood, a major ingredient in creating this kind of spell. Back then it was easy but in order to stay in that form for a few generations is serpent's blood. Without that, the curse is deluded like I said."

"So without serpent's blood, we won't look like that? But, if that is the key ingredient then how come I didn't end up like that?" Gou asked.

"Serpent's blood might be a major ingredient but it is only used for the appearance of that monster that Miss Boboa was turned into. And since serpents are almost impossible to find nowadays. But, just because it was left out it doesn't mean you would look like yourself. You could have been scaly, almost a fish, but this curse is too hard to make. Too many extinct ingredients are involved as well so I don't know. I have a theory though."

"A theory?" Rei questioned.

"Well, it's my theory." Hishikawa-sensei jumped in.

"Well, what Yamahora thought is that someone must have somehow got Miss Boboa's blood and then added some sort of potion and then fed or injected it into you." the little girl explained. "It takes time for it to appear so you probably wouldn't know who did this to you?"

"Yamahora? What kind of name is that? Gou asked.

"My fake name is Hishikawa Takao. My guardian name is Yamahora." he answered.

"Guardian?" Rei repeated.

"That's enough, Yamahora. We will answer anything else, but ourselves. It's better for you not to know." the little girl said instantly.

"That's not fair!" Gou got up but bend over in pain. Rei gently sat her back down and told he not to push herself.

"What is going to happen now? Will you help us stop whoever is trying to kill Watanabe and Gou?" he asked.

"No, we cannot go any further than this or else we will go off track again. Someone already has by doing this to Miss Boboa. We cannot do this again. You two and this boy are going to be alone on this one." the little girl said discretely. "Right now, Miss Boboa is going to have to rest. Her body is trying to heal so give her sometime."

"We'll say that she is not well tomorrow so she'll miss school and not have people worry about her." Hishikawa-sensei said.

"I'll call her aunt." Gou said instantly calling her on Bo's phone.

Bo's Thoughts

"Ugh, where am I? What happened? I don't remember anything at all…"

Bo wandered through darkness, not knowing what has happened. Suddenly a,light appeared in the darkness. Cautiously, Bo went through and ended up in some ballroom. The ballroom was good and red with engravings of gods, mythical creatures on the ceiling and walls. There was a beautiful design across the marble floor. Slowly, people started to appear and talk and,laugh and dance all around her. They wore ballroom gowns and old style clothing. As the party was at its peak, someone announced that the royal family was entering.

"Presenting Your Royal Highnesses King and Queen of Denmark, and Prince Erik with his fiancee Princess Seraline!" the Harold shouted. The trumpets sounded as the family descended down the stairs gracefully.

"You liar!" a woman in drag barged into the room. Her blonde hair was a mess and wore a worn out dress. "You promised to marry me!"

"Oh I remember this...my mother told me this when I was little." She watched the distressed woman casting the curse upon the the couple and seeing her die in front of them. The princess fainting as a result of being assaulted and almost killed by her. The night the curse began.

Then the surroundings became black again and then suddenly she was at a shore with a large cave behind her. There was a girl wobbling unsteadily towards the cave. She was blonde with a white short dress on, but in ruins like she was in some sort of accident. Low growls echoed through the cave and a large hand dragged the girl into the cave. Bo quickly went in to help her.