The Curse Is Cast
It was now dusk of the same August day that the Neo Senshi had spent training in the bright happy summer sun at the Crystal Palace. But as the cruel spirited Neo Mars aka Christen pointed out it was also Friday the 13th plus a full moon, and it seemed she'd been making a very dark prophecy, whether it was intentionally or not she'd made it.
If Christen did have special divination powers, this was likely due to fact of her mother's past of being a shrine maiden and her own inborn powers. On the other hand it may have also been the root for the young girl's liking for the dark, morbid and eviler things she immersed herself in so deeply.
For if she was using any gifts she might've inherited from her mother whom she so resembled in a negative way, it could only spell doom for those who truly cared about her one day.
It was known that Sailor Mars in the past had aided the Sailor Senshi with her powers and ability to read messages by sacred flames. Therefore it was very likely her daughter had gotten these abilities as well. Yet again it was also likely Christen wasn't using them for the benefit of others or at least this time didn't realize she had used them at all.
Either way at the moment that was neither here or there. All of the Neo Senshi were currently in the Crystal Palace safe and warm in their beds. Exhausted from their training all day as well the large dinner they had eaten that night.
It was a great feast and they got the notion their parents were trying to make nice with them before really talking to them about something important to them. It turned out they're right.
Their parents had first expressed a desire to see them all perform as a team in their Senshi forms. So they wanted to see them transform and worked together before school started and afterwards they'd all have a long and serious talk about becoming the next Senshi and becoming teenagers really meant before the start of the next school year.
So that's what was on the young princesses and kittens minds as they slept in their beautiful palace that night. They didn't realize that their first test with both growing up and being Sailor Senshi were about to collide with fate of another young girl all because of today's date.
Right now on the far outskirts of the city were a group of older teenagers who looked like they're all 17 to 19 years old and they're half dragging a frighten 15 year old girl with brick red hair and very pale celadon green eyes.
"C'mon! You said you wanted to be cool and part of the cool kids! You gonna chicken out now?" hissed the older boy dressed in black has he dragged the poor girl as if she was nothing deeper into the dark creepy woods.
The other kids laughed and seemed to enjoy all this and the frighten girl who was starting to have seconds thoughts about this was just thinking about what led her to be out in the middle of the woods on tonight all of nights with these older kids.
The poor child being dragged through the woods almost reluctantly was named Demetria "Demi" Lilith Morgan and right now as they dragged her though the twisted dark woods her whole miserable life played before her eyes.
Demi's life was as about as nice as her name; in fact her whole name was an irony of itself. Her first name was after a goddess of the fertility which was her mother's choosing, but her life in many ways hadn't been plentiful.
Her father had chosen her middle name and it had lived to be a nightmare like that meant.
Her last name just meant sea bearing and she felt she was forever lost in the sea.
Demi felt cursed by her name as much as felt cursed by her parents and felt she was cursed before her birth. Like some people were born lucky she was just born worse than even unlucky, she was born cursed and her name was even a curse.
Her life was hell and it been hell from the moment she come out of the womb and taken her first breath of air. Even as a baby her life had been hell from her parents Athena and Samson Morgan and she give anything right now to have been switch at birth or to never born at all given the life she had lived these past 15 years.
Her parents were literally made for each other that was for certain. They're exactly alike in so many ways they're truly soulmates though that was implying they even had hearts and souls to begin with or even really understood what the word 'love' was.
Demi learned at a young age many cruel facts about life that most would be shocked existed in the paradise world that Neo Queen Serenity reigned over. But even she didn't know what went on behind the closed doors of all who lived in her beautiful city and even she with all her love and power couldn't fully take away every aspect of human nature. That was impossible even for her.
Demi's mother Athena was a highly respected and high ranked professor at Crystal Tokyo University. And just as the goddess for which she'd been named she was more or less obsessed with achieving wisdom.
Her mind was always as sharp as a sword blade and eager for more knowledge. Even after this long a lifetime she wanted to know more and more and expected it even more from her students. Athena said the quest for knowledge was the most important pursuit of mankind and knowledge was the ultimate power.
She was also demanding all her students to take their studies as seriously as she took her quest for knowledge. She told her students she expect nothing short of perfect grades from everyone anything short of a perfect score was unacceptable and punishable in her books.
So naturally from a young age she forced her own daughter to put even more hours into studying in highly advance subjects for hours even when she was tired and needed to sleep. She was forced to study and take complex test her mother came up with to make sure her mind was the sharpest it could be and it never stopped even on holidays or her birthday!
Her father Samson was no different only it wasn't the mind he was concerned about. He wanted a strong body and he pushed her beyond her limits too. He was head of the University Athletics department and he drove everyone to the same extremes his wife drove them in the classroom.
He may've been as strong like the man he was named for in the Bible but he still pushed everyone especially his own daughter past their breaking point to make them the strongest their bodies could be even when they couldn't take it anymore.
He wouldn't settle for anything but past a 100% and he didn't put up with 'excuse' like hunger, needing water or whatever. You worked till you bleed literally with him.
So if she wasn't being forced to study by her mother her father was working her to the bone making her do a zillion different exercise routines and sports and again she never got a break from this either. Never for holidays or her birthday.
Sunup to sunrise for 15 years it been like this! And it didn't stop there even! Her parents weren't just obsessed with being crazed perfectionist of mind and body. No that was just the tip of the iceberg with them.
They could be quite verbally abusive with her if she didn't do exactly as they told her to do. She'd to walk, talk, and dress exactly like they wanted. She could only read what they approved of as well. She'd to talk in perfect grammar correct manner, be beyond respectful at all times, and never be one second late for anything.
Most of all she wasn't allowed to socialize at all. She never got to make a single friend because of her parents' strict, controlling and domineering ways. They didn't think any other girls behaved like proper conservative respectful young women anymore and boys were just 'foul monsters'
As a result she was all alone trapped in a horrid existence and wanting every day a way to escape from a loveless, friendless, abusive life. Which is why right now she was doing something she never thought she have the guts to do before.
She was disobeying her parents having snuck out of the house with older classmates. By some strange stroke of luck they'd managed to get her alone and told her if she passed a test they'd make sure all her dreams come true and she wouldn't be alone anymore and her parents couldn't do anything anymore to her.
She had taken the deal so impulsively and right now wondering if she was making the right decision at all. But it was too late now. It was already 11:45 and they're deep in the woods but it was getting darker and creeper and everything was telling her to run.
Finally the two older boys she was with had both her arms and dragged her the last two mile up a twisting path with dead trees and fog. They stopped when the three older girls who like the boys were wearing black smiled and had stopped outside some type of graveyard that was about 25 feet away.
"Okay we're here. So, Demi, are you read for your initinion?" asked the oldest girl as the boys threw Demi at her feet and she was trembling. But Demi couldn't stand at all so the both were sick from dragging her so the other girls hauled her up and made her look at the oldest girl.
"Umm…yes, I'm ready. Where are we?" she asked looking around frightfully at this dark and foreboding place.
The blond girl with pigtails and thick dark green makeup on the left informed, "This is place is a hidden location that cannot be found on any map or seen from air no matter where you look for information on Crystal Tokyo. It's not even in the history books of the history of City!"
"Yeah, it's like there real magic, even black magic or something keeping this spot hidden from the rest of Crystal Tokyo and maybe even the world! Can't you feel it? The mystical energy here?! It's so intense!" the dark skinned girl with frizzy neon red hair told her in a creepy voice. The way she acted and her thick purple makeup only made things even creepier.
The girl in the center had jet black hair with blood red highlights with catlike green eyes with thick black makeup. It seemed all these people would definitely be Christen's kind of people.
It rapidly became apparent these 'cool kids' weren't just Goths, but they also had an extremely intense interest into the paranormal, especially demons. From the way the two boys who both had tattoos and jewelry that weren't just Gothic it was also a bit satanic in nature.
The group of five friends kept telling more and more horrifying tales and legends about the land, spirits, demons and magic. The way they went on about it and how this cemetery never showed up unless two powerful forces coincided which almost never happened till tonight.
They told her only if it was Friday the 13th and a full moon would this cemetery appear otherwise this place would never be found by anyone ever. So if she was to join their group and finally be free of her parents control she had to pass their test.
Still trembling in fear and about to pass out where she stood she asked what did she had to do. The leader the girl with jet black hair with red highlights smiled and told her to pass their test she had to spend 3 hours in the demon cemetery. From midnight to 3:00 am.
"You mean in a demon cemetery?! I have to stay inside?!"
"Yes, you have to stay inside for three whole hours amongst our brethren of darkness. So find a nice gravestone and get comfy. Stay there for three hours and then if you don't chicken out you'll be in the group."
"And if I don't?"
"Your life already hell, we can make it even worse then that, trust us!" hissed the two boys who were twins Demi realized finally and she watched as one twin took something from his belt and handed to his twin then to her.
It was a knife actually knife wasn't the right word. It was a dagger and she was now really trembling. What had she gotten herself into now? "What do you want me to do with this?" she asked in a terrified squeak.
"You are to stab the gravestone to prove you were there. Now go midnight is thirty seconds away and remember you have to stay there three whole hours or we'll show what's worse than hell!" the oldest girl told her.
Swallowing hard she nodded and went to the cold iron gate and it was so old and even though the normal magic should keep locked somehow it being Friday the 13th and the full moon did cancel out the normal magic that sealed this awful place away from the rest of the world.
The demons all sensed the presences of a human walking into their prison and knew only one of them could escape if they could just lure the human close enough to possess them.
They'll started at once to do anything to lure the girl to their gravestones to get close enough to try and possess her. The only thing this did was scare the child more and she fled through the cemetery trying to find some kind of protection even if it was full of demons.
She finally came to a very dark corner to a gravestone that was in the shape of what looked like beautiful woman almost angel like. Feeling this was the safest place to be in a demon cemetery Demi sat down and start to hope three hours would pass fast.
She thought this wasn't a gravestone at all but perhaps there to offer protection and help keep the demons trapped in their prisons. That maybe from the legends those Goths kids said that perhaps the strange crystals, coffins and words weren't' enough and some good old fashion angelic warriors were added to keep the demons imprisoned.
From what she could see and tell all the other gravestones had the demons true forms shaped on the top of them. And what kind of demon be in the shape of an angel? Feeling somewhat safe tugging her coat around her tighter as it seemed so cold here she closed her eyes and again prayed the three hours would pass quickly.
Demi didn't realize she had made a very grave mistake. She was sitting on the grave of the only female demon of the whole demonic graveyard and it was a very deadly and dangerous demon that underneath her right now.
There were fallen angel demons alright, very beautiful seductive fallen angels who became dangerous demons. But for all her parents studying and pushing her in so many ways they of course never let her learn anything about the world of supernatural, demons or things of that nature at all.
Or she would've known why in a demon graveyard there be an angelic like statute to mark a demons grave or why it had some of the strangest writing on it. But Demi of course had no knowledge of any sorts of this. So she slowly drift in an out sleep and didn't realize there was faint glow around the grave she sat on.
The coffin under her was glowing as Demi's own life-force energy was being slowly drained from her into the demon inside it. Whatever inside was growing stronger and was smiling happily.
Finally three hours had passed and by now Demi was as pale as a corpse when her watch said it was three am. Devil's hour. Knowing she could leave this god awful place she fumbled for the dagger but was so weak and not knowing why.
It took what little strength she had left but she plunged the dagger into grave and yelped at the same time. She'd been so weak the blade had slipped and cut her palm. Her blood seeped into the crack the dagger had made and now the last bit of her energy and blood both spilled onto the coffin and it burst open!
Demi was struggling to walk away but collapsed onto the ground not understanding why she felt so lifeless and then felt the earthshaking and with great effort turned and let out a cry that was almost immediately silenced.
The gravestone was shattered to pieces as something rose from it still shrouded in darkness but whatever it was now held the dagger in one hand and was looking at her with it golden eyes like she was prey and it was the predator.
It gave a wicked smile and slashed its own palm to let its own blood seep out and then she watched as her blood and this thing mixed together and harden into three blood red stones.
The things golden eyes flashed and this stones were magically attached to Demi as a set of earrings and a choker and then the next thing she knew the thing jumped into her! There was a lot of cries of agony as a dark vortex of power surround them and after a moment it disappeared.
When it passed Demi looked the same except her eyes no longer were hers but the golden yellow of whatever demon had been in that grave. The demon smiled and walked out of the graveyard seeing the Gothic kids laughing, sneering and mocking the body that was now her host.
Before they knew what hit them the demon attack them with such ferocity and savageness it was unbelievable. She had sucked almost their life-force dry and attack them so savagely they're an inch from death.
But not wanting to be found out that she'd escaped from her prison she knew she'd to let them live but also knew she had to do something else to cover her tracks. This demon knew how to erase short-term memories so for the five Goth kids she erased their memories before dumping them outside a hospital.
The next day for Demi however she awoke with no memory of the night before. She just knew she was in for another day of her parents' hellish control over her and went over to her vanity to start brushing her hair in the approved manner they liked.
She did notice that she was wearing a set of earrings and a choker she didn't remember, but for some reason she also knew she couldn't remove them ever. So she didn't question where they came from and went back to brushing her hair. She was looking at her reflection not realizing there was a second person looking at their reflection too.
Someone else was looking at their reflection and smiling wickedly at their first taste of freedom in over a 1000 years and knowing soon it would be time to both feast and get revenge. Soon.
Demi- Jen Taylor- (Salem RWBY)