PURE FLOWER
Chapter 15
The Curse
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Flash Back
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It was the first time she was being released from her jail because her so-called father summoned her. As she followed the soldiers and the demoness Ryoko into the hallway, she was startled by a piercing scream. All of them stopped in their track to listen.
"Man, the hunting game is on…why we are still here?" one of the soldiers said and whined.
"By the sound of it, the game is finished. Let's go." The other soldier replied and began walking again.
She was still staring at the direction of the scream. Although very soft, she heard the sound of someone begging. It reminded her of her own mother begging and it disturbed her.
"Hey bitch, keep moving!" one of the soldiers yelled and raised a clawed hand, however before he strike, she muttered some words and he froze, unmoving at all. The other soldier paled when she stared at him. He tried to run but he was too late.
"My lady…what are you trying to do?" the demoness asked.
She did not bother to answer the demoness. The only reason the demoness was spared was because she was not a threat to her. In fact, she could be useful to her. Following the scent of blood, she came into a view where numerous humans laid dead on the ground. The soldiers noticed her but before they could mutter any word, they were petrified.
"What is this place?" she asked the demoness as she looked around, trying to find the source of the scream she heard earlier. Then something or rather someone caught her attention.
She stared at the dead woman lying in a pool of blood. Her naked body covered with bruises and scratches, her long raven hair caked with dry blood, and her amber eyes stared back at her, lifeless, dull.
The dead woman seemed very young, not yet a woman, a young girl, maybe fifteen or sixteen years of age. Kneeling down beside the dead girl, she reached out a hand to swipe the dirty hair away from the girl's face.
"Good lord…she…she has your face, my lady." the demoness gasped from behind her.
It was not her face she was seeing. It was her mother's. Ever since she was born, she had never once seen her own face. She never knows how she looked like, but she did know how her mother looked like. She looked like the dead girl before her.
"…she looks like me?" she asked as she slowly caressed the cold face.
"Exactly the same, my lady. Oh poor girl…" the demoness said and knelt beside her.
An idea formed in her mind. She smiled when she placed her hand over the eyes of the dead girl. She had been given the opportunity to destroy the nobles. Closing her eyes, she chanted some words. After she finished chanting, she sliced her wrist with her sharp nail and let her blood dripped on the girl's forehead.
"Come here, you are safe now." She whispered and held the girl's hand in her own.
"My lady…what is going on?" the demoness asked and started to move away from the dead girl when she saw some eye movements from the dead girl. She covered her mouth to stifle a scream when suddenly the dead girl sat up gasping for breath.
She smiled when her spell was perfected. The girl was resurrected. Placing herself directly before the girl, she looked deep into the girl's amber eyes.
"Do you know who you are?" she asked softly, her eyes still holding hers.
"…Yes…" the girl replied softly with a confuse look in her eyes.
"Do you know why you are here?" she asked again.
"…Yes…" the girl replied again, this time her voice a little stronger.
"Tell me." She said, ignoring the horror look on the face of the demoness.
Not caring about her nudity, the young girl stood up from the ground. Staring ahead, the young girl replied,
"I am Rin, the daughter of Southern demon lord. I am here because father wishes to see me."
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In the Garden
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Rin looked at the two infants sleeping peacefully in their cradles. Although they were born from the body she was currently occupied, Rin had no feelings for them at all. Turning away from the infants, Rin looked up into the darken sky and silently counted the days when there would be full moon. Two more days…
"My lady, are you sure the Western lord will not find out about this?" Ryoko asked as she looked after the sleeping infants. She had been serving the Lady Rin ever since the day when the look-alike was resurrected.
Rin turned to look at the demoness who had so far served her faithfully. Soon after the birth, she had asked the Western Lord to hire Ryoko as the nurse for the infants and he had agreed without asking.
"Even if he finds out about it, there is nothing he can do to stop me." Rin said and stiffed when one of the infants woke up and started wailing. She watched as Ryoko carried the infant in her arm and brought it to the nursemaid who waited in the far corner of the garden.
Rin refused to breast milk the infants because she did not want to grow attached to them. On the day of full moon, the curse she cast will be triggered. To complete the curse and bring forth destruction to the land, the infants will be sacrificed.
The curse for destruction was cast on the day she resurrected the young girl four months ago. She had transferred half of her soul into the young girl's empty body and created fake memories so that the young girl could become her, until she gave birth.
Rin did not know why or how it was possible for the young girl to remember something from her own past when she was supposed to forget them.
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Flash back
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"Lady Rin…"
Rin frowned when she saw the young girl she resurrected 4 months ago was still alive. She was supposed to be dead right after she gave birth so she could take back her soul. With her being still alive, she could not regain her power as the wing clan priestess.
"Lady Rin, please, I beg you. Please do not harm Lord Sesshoumaru and the children."
"How can you say that, knowing that they are the reason our clan perished." Rin said and frowned harder when the young girl shook her head and cried.
"I was killed by the demon soldiers, not Lord Sesshoumaru. I am grateful you save me, my lady, but I cannot betray Lord Sesshoumaru. I love him."
"You remember…" Rin whispered and placed her hand on the young girl's pale cheek.
"Yes…I regained my memories a few weeks ago...i also know you hate what was done to you clan but Lord Sesshoumaru and the children have nothing to do with it. Please, I beg…"
Rin covered the young girl's eyes with her hand and chanted. When she began to struggle, Ryoko appeared and held her down.
"Please don't…" the voice trail off as her life force slowly left her body. Then in just a moment, the young girl she resurrected was once again dead.
"My lady, how are we going to trick the Western Lord into believing she is still here? His sense of smell is powerful and a slight difference will expose us." Ryoko said and positioned the dead girl onto the futon as instructed by her lady. She watched as the lady Rin climbed on top the dead girl's body and laid her forehead against hers.
"This time…I will become her." She said and a glow of blue light emerged as a pair of pure white wings sprouted from her back.
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After making sure no one was following her, Ryoko made her way into the dungeon deep down in the castle. She was carrying a tray of food as she slowly descended the stairs. When she reached the ground, she pushed open the iron door and entered into the room.
"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY MOTHER?"
Ryuya shouted and struggled against the chains chaining him to the wall. He glared at the fox demoness as she placed the tray of food before him and he bared his canine at her when she tried to feed him.
"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY MOTHER?"
He had been captured and chained in the dungeon since the day he witnessed what happened in her mother's chamber. That day, he had wanted to see his mother even though the guards had barred him from her. He had slipped into her living quarter unnoticed and when he was running towards her chamber and into it, he saw there were two of them, and one of them had wings. After that he knew no more. Then when he awake again, the first thing he saw was her mother lying motionlessly in the corner of the room where he was chained. No matter how loud he shouted, there was no response. She was dead.
"Did you kill her? I swear I will kill you when I get out of here!" he shouted and growled at the demoness who now knelt before him.
"She was dead long before this, boy." She said and stood up. With one last glance at the dead body, she left the dungeon and the young lord.
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PS: Phew, it's been months since my last update. My dad finally decides to buy a new computer. All thanks to the thunder that totally wreck it for me. I will try to update ASAP, but no promise. Haha. Do put on story alert. Till next time.
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