Chapter Five - Are You Happy With Your Answer?

Hehe, here we are with another update, guys! Let's get the rest of the answers from Jared, since things are about to get worse, according to Jared. And right now, he seems to be a pretty reliable source.

09Who knew90 : Before I say anything about your review, I just want to tell you that seeing you reviewed and reading it brought such a big smile to my face when I woke up and saw that there was a review. I've been having a hard time, and seeing such an amazing review brought my spirits up right away. c: I'm glad the chapter was good, and I'm glad you're liking the answers so far! I'm glad Mina was awesome, and that's awesome that I was able to give you some book-Jared moments! :D That always is satisfying for me. And yay about there being only one typo! At some point I'll have to go through all my fanfictions and fix all the typos, if I ever have the patience too. cx As for the Godmothers, there's still more to their story. c: So don't worry about that, they aren't just a rebellious group anymore. I'm glad the chapter wasn't rushed and that it flowed too! That's super exciting! Ah yes, poor Teague. :c We'll be hearing a bit more on what happened with Willa, Ferah, Ever, Teague, and what the Godmothers are like in the present this chapter. c; I'm glad you are excited for this update, so I hope it doesn't disappoint you!

Now, shall we get on with the show - errrr, chapter? I'm super excited to give the rest of the answers - that Jared is going to give us - this chapter, and I hope that it'll all make sense!

I nod my head, and keep my comments to myself, seeing as this story doesn't seem to be close to finished yet.

Seeming satisfied that I am telling the truth about understanding everything so far - and I am - Jared continues. "So, many eligible ladies, princesses, and overall 'high society' girls came to try and win Prince Teague's hand in marriage." He almost sounds disgusted as he says this, and I can't help but wonder if he was there when this all happened. Is he a close friend with Prince Teague? If he is, why was he chosen to come to the human plane and guard me? "There were hundreds of girls that showed up, but the Prince rejected most of them. In the end, only twelve were asked to stay longer and move on to the next rounds. One of these was a girl named Willa Grimm." I have to keep myself from gasping. My ancestor was in a competition to marry a Prince? "She was a siren, just like you are. In fact, she was the princess of the sirens. Princess Willa Grimm. She didn't look much different than you, and she did manage to catch Prince Teague's attention. All of the the girls that stayed did. However, Willa - along with two others - were working for an underground, rebellion group known as the Godmothers."

The good feeling I got hearing about Willa fades, replaced by a sour feeling. "What exactly are the Godmothers?"

Jared looks a bit irritated as he pauses to look at me, and I realize I've interrupted. "The Godmothers were, as I said, a secret rebellion group. They still are, actually. They disapprove of the way the Fae plane is run, and feel that the Fates should be removed from power, along with their descendants." He's really upset about this. He's certainly extremely loyal to Prince Teague, and the Fates. "Willa, along with two other girls named Ferah and Ever, had joined their cause, and were sent to try and assassinate Prince Teague." The name Ever sounds familiar, although I'm not quite sure why. I'll focus on that later.

"Ferah was discovered right away, in a test by blood. She was sent off to be killed. Ever and Willa, however, passed, and Willa eventually saved Ferah's life from a Reaper. And, as the contest progresses, began to change her opinion on the whole matter. She actually found herself falling in love with the prince, and when it came down to the final four, was the one who completed the race through the maze. However, Ferah arrived, nearly killing the Prince - who Willa healed - and exposing Willa."

"What?" I gasp the words out, but Jared sighs at the interruption.

"It gets worse, Princess."

Mina's Point of View

"Worse?" I whimper the word, but Jared doesn't bother to try and comfort me about it.

Instead, he takes up his pacing, and continues to tell the story. "You see, it was a race through the maze, and there were four girls in there. Diana, Ever, Annalora, and Willa. Annalora murdered Diana, nearly murdered Ever, and attempted to kill Willa. Willa managed to knock Annalora unconscious, and after healing Ever to the best of her ability, had to rush to the center of the maze. She knew that Ferah was on her way, and that she'd have to beat her there. And so, she ran to the tower, and made it inside."

"The Prince was quite pleased that she had finally made it - if not slightly annoyed that she hadn't made it faster - and in those moments up there, things ended up going badly. Ferah arrived, and when she saw that Willa was planning to actually marry Prince Teague and not murder him, she became furious." I watch Jared's hands curl into fists, and watch his anger grow yet again. He must take this whole traitor thing extremely personally. "She exposed the assassination plot - in which Willa was supposed to be the key assassin if Ferah failed, with Ever pulling in behind her - and then proceeded to stab Prince Teague with a knife filled with hatred."

"The Prince fell to the ground, and Willa knelt down next to him." Was he in the tower or something when this all happened? Or was he given a detailed account from Prince Teague? The amount of information he is able to give on this all is quite amazing, but also peculiar. "She was able to get most of the dagger out without a problem. But part of it - the tip - was embedded in his heart, and a special Fae magic was required to take it out. The kind where you trade one person - who does it willingly - to bear whatever it is instead of the person currently dealing with it. And so, Willa did that. She embedded the tip in herself, saving Prince Teague and ultimately resulting in her death."

"Ferah was executed for treason and anything else you could think of on why she could be killed. Ever disappeared, and there has been no luck in all this time with finding her. I've even tried to find her myself." That comes across as a bit odd to me, but I make no comment on it. Did the Prince ask him to try and find her? I guess that would make sense. "Prince Teague, however, was torn. He wanted to punish Willa, but she was dead. He also still wanted to marry her still, but again, she was still dead."

"And so, he devised a curse of sorts." I bite my lip at this. A curse of sorts? It's literally called 'The Grimm Curse.' That isn't sort of a curse. That is a curse. I don't understand why he can think of it any other way. "Willa Grimm had two older sisters and a younger brother, none with children yet. Prince Teague cursed them all, so that their firstborn child - if it was a girl - would be born with a little, black star below their right shoulder blade. Any children they had after would have the same curse on them, so that any descendants they had that had their firstborn child be a girl would have her carry on the Grimm curse. The curse only ends when one of them survives." Prince Teague is suddenly becoming quite scary to me.

He pauses here for breath again. "You see, the curse makes it so that at some point in your life, you will have an incident. Sometimes it's something that would be fatal to anyone. Other times, it's only fatal because of the curse." At least he's not always referring to it as a sort of curse, but I suppose that's too much of a mouthful for him to say every time he mentions it. "And that's when Prince Teague arrives. He offers to save the girl's life, in return for coming for her on her sixteenth birthday and taking her away to try and complete the Grimm curse, which I can't tell you about what exactly happens. It's different for everyone. If the parents or guardian says yes, then the Prince will heal the girl. If they say no, then the girl dies. No matter what they say, if there is a person who was involved in the accident, they-"

"-will be killed." I finish, and Jared raises an eyebrow.

"So you know that part?" He asks.

I nod, biting my lip and blinking away a few tears. "Yup." My voice shakes a little as I say that.

Realizing the effect this is having on me, Jared comes and sits down beside me, pulling me into a hug. I stiffen, calming myself down enough to pull away a little bit. He almost seems a bit disappointed, and then apologizes for my loss, although I suppose that's just out of politeness. "I'm sorry."

I shake my head. "It...It doesn't matter." Desperate to change the subject, I decide to ask two questions. "But you still haven't explained what the Godmothers are like now. They must have changed a bit, seeing as you said Templestiltskin was attacking me, and he was a Godmother. And, while you're answering my questions, what's a trader?

"I'll handle what a trader is first. A trader, essentially, will capture Faes or humans and take them to an 'inbetween zone.' That zone is inbetween the human plane and the Fae plane, as you might've guessed. They then will trade or auction them off there. I have no doubt that if you were taken by a trader, it would be to attract Prince Teague's attention. I scared Templestiltskin when he came with the Guardian threat, but if I wasn't around, they could take you. Of course, he is a different case, as he's a Godmother. They would probably be trying to get money from Prince Teague, or something like that. They're extremely greedy Fae." He frowns. "The Godmothers? Well, they want to murder Grimms. To be more specific, they want to murder the Grimm girls that are that have the actual curse, and that will be taken by Prince Teague. There are a rare few that just want to torture the Grimm in question, but mostly it's all killing. Temple was once a trader, so he's one of the rare, torture ones. That's why I mistook him when he first showed up." Jared sighs again. "The killing is partly to punish the Grimms for Willa's change of heart way back at the competitions, but it's also to prove a point to Prince Teague. That this killing won't stop till he's stopped. They don't kill Grimms. They'll kill anyone who's close to the throne that might impact the Prince."

"Why not do something to impact the Fates?" I question, a little confused.

"Because Prince Teague is the only thing that could be killed that would honestly impact the Fates. They barely even handle any political affairs at this point. Instead, Prince Teague handles them all. So, impacting him is much better for them, and far easier." Jared shakes his head, and looks up at the sky.

I barely even noticed that things were getting darker, but it's sunset now. "Shoot, it's a lot later than I thought." I sigh.

"Let's get you home. You still have to do your history homework." Jared says, grabbing my hand and walking me over to the motorcycle. "Ready to go?"

"Back on the motorcycle?" I groan a little, which just causes Jared to smirk.

"Of course we'd ride back on the motorcycle. How else, Princess?" He is quite pleased, but I groan in response.

"Can we go slower this time?" I request, and that just causes Jared to raise an eyebrow.

He answers that with his own question. "Do you want to take a longer time to get home?"

"No..." I shake my head. "Motorcycle at your illegal speed it is."

That chapter was a little bit shorter than last chapter, but I hope it was still just as good! Hopefully that answers most of your questions, gives you some ideas, and gave you new questions! :D I'd love to hear any suspicions, curiosities, questions, hypothesises, or anything else like that. c: Please review! I'll try and update soon. c;

Until I update again!

~ Dagger