To the Dark of Nothingness

Chapter 2

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Daylight shone my eyelids awake. For a moment I forgot where I was or... who I was. I completely forgot my whole existence.

I sat up straight with a pounding headache and recall the sudden events from the night before. I was crying.

"Help me stop the pain," "Please make the pain stop." Then the next was...blank. I fell into the dark of nothingness.

I look at the mirror, at my reflection. I see the shadow that used to reflect my endearing self, it stares into my soul knowing. Knowing that this is not us, not me, anymore.

Toxic Demon Rulers and Stress Monsters now surrounded my whole life. For five years, I've tried to fight them, tried to befriend them, tried to avoid them. But I can't get rid of them if I'm living with them.

Toxic Demons like to get inside your head and fill it with bad thoughts and negative energy. All they want to see is your suffering but they won't care to even notice it. They feed on your happiness and suck the life right out of you.

The moment one turns into the age of double you are forced into slavery. I've been a slave to the Toxic Demons for five years...

Feeling. Seeing. Hearing.

I never mind the slavery, the orders weren't as bad as they get. I might've over exaggerated a bit. No matter how hard some of them was, I paid no heed to it. My emotions are the ones to lead me down the paths I take.

Lately, my emotions, my life, are being drained by the Toxic Demon Rulers and Stress Monsters. Constant fighting, arguing, hurtful words toward each other and towards me, anger towards me. That goes on to the point where I can't focus or even think right.

Am I to blame for all of this?
Do I deserve to be treated like this?
How long do I have to live with the shadows and demons that keeps me from getting my peace and happiness?

11:36 AM. A white envelope was stuck between the rose vines of my window. It's a letter from the Queen!

Greetings, fellow sister! An archery tournament will be held at your village that the King and I are planning to attend. We do hope to see you there in the evening twilight.

Yours truly,
Queen Mirela.

The sudden darkness inside me suddenly evaporated the moment I found out the Queen and her husband, King Jaromir, is coming here tonight.

Mystic madness! They're coming here tonight! The Toxic Demons aren't gonna be pleased by this.

About a month ago there was a war between the Toxic Demons and their kind. Lord Deón tried to poison his wife, Lady Jaya.
(Lord Deón and Lady Jaya are the rulers to the Toxic Demons, and the ones I'm working for) When the Lady found this out, she banished her husband from the castle and never once take a footstep inside the castle.

For a while, Queen Mirela and King Jaromir sided with Lord Deón and helped him against Lady Jaya. That's when the Lady lost it. Queen Mirela and Lady Jaya normally don't get along often or so, so when the Lady found out the treachery of the Queen, she sought help from the Stress Monsters. That's where they formed their own clan and continued to backlash each other.

Where was I in the middle of this? I was literally in the middle of their war, and made me their messenger pigeon, but I was forced by the Stress Monsters to take care of the madness of Lady Jaya.

Over the weeks that has passed, both clans continued to twist worst against each other and tried to brainwash me to pick a side to join. That continued to a point where I was overworking and overstressing myself and almost ended up blood streaming down my eyes. I couldn't take it anymore and had to flee both kingdoms.

So I journeyed to the 6th Circle of Life... I seeked help and regeneration from them and they were in no hesitant state to give it all to me.

I bonded with the two sisters of the 6th Circle. They took me to the Mystic Forest where we played at a hidden fair, (who knew the Mystic Forest had a hidden fair). We picked fresh mystical fruits to eat, went to a tiny library cottage, then journeyed back to the castle.

I didn't want to overthink and stress things on what was happening back at the Kingdom. It was like I'm being drowned to the bottom of the ocean where there was nothing but darkness that surrounded me. Slowly losing air, slowly losing room to think, and slowly losing my mind. My heart couldn't take much more suffering, it needed a once in a lifetime of rest. But I was the Unfortunate One, and they say that our kind don't deserve such things. And so we believed it to be true.

We endured the suffering and pain, but I was the only one who had to endured the suffering for five years of my life and continuing on. My heart ached for restoration but my mind ignored. I let my mind rule me, I buried all the hurtful things the Toxic Demon Rulers say to me for five years that  all of them are now just wanting to burst out all at once.

I let the darkness consumed me, and the Toxic Demon Rulers and Stress Monsters are next in line, slowly collecting the remains of what little life I have left inside me.

My few days of peace and relaxation came to an end when I got a letter from Lord Deón, saying he has returned to the Kingdom and restored things with his wife... I ventured back to the kingdom...

(I didn't want to go into further details on what happened in those past couple of weeks)

Fast forward to further few weeks later, Lady Jaya "rekindled" things with Lord Deón. But even after the two rulers patched things up, arguments are still made by the Lady, and it aches everything in me to even witness those fights that they have.

My fairy friends donate peace and happiness to me once or twice a day so I wouldn't die of depression. I thank my whole life to them as well for always being there fore whenever I needed them the most.

2:23 PM. The Princess Ladonna and youngest Princess Inina of the 6th Circle arrived yesterday at our village for a visit and I'm supposed to see them later.

But before I do, I have to get ready for the archery tournament.

Queen Mirela is coming to town.

End chapter.

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