The Way of The Curse

Prolog

When we are all small children we are told about the Chinese zodiac. The story goes like this; "In the Chinese legend, God had 12 places to be taken for the 13 animals he invited to his Chinese New Year celebration.

The animals were:

The Cat

The Rat

The Cow

The Tiger

The Rabbit

The Sheep

The Dragon

The Boar

The Dog

The Rooster

The Snake

The Monkey

The Horse

Back then, the cat and the rat were the best of friends. However, upon receiving the words of the race, the rat wanted to win the race. It didn't even want its best friend to win. The cat wanted to race too. It told the rat that he would sleep and trusts the rat to wake him up in the morning of the race. However, on the morning of the race, the rat slyly didn't do it and ran off.

At the last leg of the race, the ox had taken over the rat. Even more determined to win, the rat jumped onto the ox's back. As the rat was light, the ox didn't know and carried on running. At the finishing line, the rat jumped off the ox's back to win the first place of the Zodiac.

When the dragon finished the race, God wondered why he had not taken first place. In reply, the dragon said that he had to first bring rain to crops and help the people. God was pleased with that.

The pig was far too lazy to wake up. However, its friend, the dog, woke it up and told him to get going. That's why the dog and the pig's positions are close: the dog ran in front of the lazy pig who walked all the way in the race.

As for the cat, he remained sleeping, waiting for the rat to wake him up.

Only after God declared the Zodiac did the cat wake up. It rushed to the end of the race, only to find out the rat betrayed him. From that day onward, the cat and the rat's relationship soured until the cat kept on chasing the rat."

There has been a left out Zodiac that is the fox. The fox was also the cat's best friend. The fox was left out too from the banquet because of the rat.

a/n: hi! I hope you end up liking this story.

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