I'm Telling You We Really Are Twins, Ok? (MNLAAV:ARLTD TwinAU fanfiction)

Chapter 23: Contracted

Katarina hummed, she twirled around a bit.

"How is it?" She asked the maids.

"It's as lovely as always, Young Lady Athanasios!"

"Incredible, Young Lady Athanasios!!"

They showered her with compliments.

Katarina liked to hear it, she never asks Anne for compliments since... She always wore the same dress and there weren't a lot of compliments she can try and ask for her to give. She gleamed, laughing before flinching when she felt such an odd sensation erupt from her.

Pain? It was faint.

Did she perhaps eat a little too much just this morning to afternoon? Nobody ever told her anything though since she didn't look any sickly after each take. The slight pain wasn't coming from her stomach though, it was coming in her chest.

"Hm? Is something wrong, Young Lady Athanasios?"

"Young Lady Athanasios?"

Katarina stared at the mirror unmoving, it was such a weird...

It was..

It was beginning to grow stronger.

It...

"Ugh..?!" She clutched her chest.

...

"Aauurghh--!!!" Artemis suddenly yelled, clutching her chest.

"Duke Athanasios!!"

"Duke Athanasios!"

The maids and chefs near her began reaching their hands to calm her.

Maria gasped, an odd... An odd sphere of darkness suddenly began illuminating and spiraling inside Artemis's chest.

Dark magic?!

"W-What's going on..!?" Sophia asked.

"What's wrong with her!?" Keith asked, standing up just like the others out of worry.

Artemis slammed her head down the table, causing a few plates to clatter a bit.

"What's going on with her!?" Keith yelled, he felt a little angry.

Not because of this and that but because he was seeing Katarina in pain instead of his eldest sister, they really look alike don't they?

"Haughh--!?!! Khgg...!!" Artemis heaved, it felt so hard to breathe.

"Kyaaaaaaa--!!!!"

A scream from somewhere else erupted.

The servants knew whose voice that was.

"No... Don't tell me the curse--" Artemis shot up from her seat after muttering her name softly under her breath, "Katarina..."

"Wait! Duke Athanasios! Don't get up!!"

"Duke Athanasios! Don't run, please!!"

"Duke Athanasios!!"

Before Artemis could turn a hall, one of the servants, a passing boy carrying clean laundry, understood the situation immediately and stopped the running House Master.