Flawed

Chapter Eighteen

In the land of Eden, Queen Erin had large celebration going on for her daughter's death. Nobody acknowledged that was the reason of the celebration, but even if they did who would care?

Queen Erin danced with many young men, who wanted nothing, but her money. Overly proud of her appearance, she believed the men were attracted by her beauty. The young women were jealous of the queen, but said nothing of her.

Rachel stopped Erin, she was urging to speak to her. Queen Erin ignored the forest witch, maintaining to dance with the young men.

"Erin! We need to talk right now!" she persisted, yanking on her gown.

"Rachel, don't you see that I'm busy?" Erin scolded, taking another man's hand.

"You really should come with me and talk, your highness."

Queen Erin neglected her friend, still dancing around. Rachel determined to abandon Queen Erin, why did she want to help her anyways?

The forest witch absconded from the castle, returning home to her pet owl. Her owl perched on a coat rack, twisting its head to her as she entered her home.

"Hello, William. I'm sorry I took so long."

The old owl seemed annoyed, but flew over to the witch. She extended her arm out, allowing her pet to land on it. Rachel handed her owl a live mouse, William seemed to lighten up. The ravenous owl engulfed the squirming mouse, eating it up quickly.

In the corner of Rachel's room, there was a huge mirror. This was an ancient magic mirror that could contact the deceased. Just like the one Queen Erin had.

"Oh mirror on my wall, please show me the Queen and King of Nod." she supplicated, waiting for the mirror to change.

The glass of the mirror swirled inwards, two individuals appeared in the mirror. It was Queen Zelda and King Draiman; they gave the witch a scowl.

"What do you want from us, witch?" King Draiman hissed.

"I know, I was bad to help the queen in the past, but you need to believe me. I'm trying to help you, I wanted to tell you, the curse is breaking over your kingdom!" she answered, showing them a another mirror.

Zelda took the mirror inside the mirror with her. She examined what was on the mirror, their land was changing back to its normal self. It was beautiful, tears were rolling down her eyes.

"Our kingdom! She's telling the truth!" she gasped, showing her husband.

King Draiman grabbed the mirror from her and happy to see his lands. The curse was breaking; the wildlife and vegetation was coming back to the land.

"I fear Erin and Aldrich might have something up their sleeves though. I need to know what I should do." Rachel warned, with worry in her eyes.

King Draiman crushed the mirror in his hand. Zelda was utterly angry at him, but watched as he blew the crystals outwards. The crystals affixed to the outer glass and King Draiman stepped out of the mirror with Queen Zelda at his side.

"Well, that's something you don't see everyday. What took you so long to do that?" Rachel asked, still perplexed by what she saw.

The king thought of a good answer, but could only come up with something cliche.

"Things happen a certain way for a reason. Dear, let's go warn our son about the evil queen." King Draiman suggested, holding her hand tight with his.

"Yes, they do, dear." she replied, looking at the beautiful witch. "Thank you, Rachel we really appreciate your help, but let us take care of this."

Rachel nodded her head, the witch was getting tired of the excitement that was going around in the kingdom. She wanted to help, but could no longer stand for what was going on. The king and queen respected the witches' decision of not wanting to be part of the situation anymore. It was an ongoing battle for years now and they would put an end to the queen.

Walking through the forest, Queen Zelda remembered Blair and how sweet she was to her. King Draiman had no idea that she met the princess of Eden again, this was her chance to tell him.

"Draiman, I need to tell you something important." said the queen as she held her husband's hand.

"What would that be, my dear Zelda?" Looking over at his beautiful wife.

"I met up with Princess Blair, the daughter of your dear friend, Cydonius."

"Oh, really? How is she doing?"

"She's doing good actually. We talked and she agreed to help our kingdom with the curse."

"Really? How do you think she broke the curse?"

"Halford..." One said.

"Halford..." The other followed.

"He found her and they broke the curse with true love. They must have remembered each other when they met!"

"I hope you're right, love. I hope he hasn't done something stupid."

Something stupid was right, last time Halford and Zelda conversed they fought. Halford didn't even come home when his poor mother died from Aldrich poisoning her late night. He thought that since Halford was gone he could become king of the land, but being king of something dying was not fun. He decided to take a chance at being king with Queen Erin.

They continued their journey to their land, Nod was becoming more lively and beautiful every second.

Orion woke up from exhaustion and was happy to see the sun shining bright in his face. He looked around, they were in a bedroom; the children were tucked in the beds and so was Abe. A lively nurse entered in the room with a cart of food, she pushed it towards the bed. The man looked at the nurse and wondered what was going on.

"My master told me to come to your room and give you all a meal." she seemed to answer what was on his mind.

"Halford? He just wanted to hurt all of us yesterday."

"He changed his mind, right now he is trying to look for the girl who is named, Blair. He actually seems pretty worried about her."

"Blair! I need to go find her. That Aldrich took her away to put the curse inside of her."

The nurse was dumbfounded as she heard what he said. She moved out of the way from Orion as he ran from the room. Orion and Halford bumped into each other as they were both searching for Blair.

"You! I saw Aldrich outside with Blair last night. What has he done to her?" Halford shouted, grabbing him by the shoulders.

Orion could not look into the prince's eyes, turning his head away as he wanted to leave. He stopped though and lowered his voice.

"She sacrificed herself to save the kingdom. The curse that was buried deep in this land was forced into my daughter's body!" he yelled, anger overflowing his body. "It's your fault! She said she was sorry and you didn't given her a second chance!"

Orion left the prince standing all alone. Halford was confused, could a curse really be transferred onto something or someone? After all he did to her why would she do something like that?

"Orion! Wait for me." Halford caught up to him.

"Hey, how about you leave our kind alone? If my daughter had anything to do with breaking this curse you should just let us go home."

Halford didn't listen though, he followed Orion to his garden. There in the garden, everything was beautiful and colorful. the tiger lilies and roses were surrounding something in the center. Blair's naked body laid in them all, a smile spread across her face. Birds laid flowers at her side, Halford was surprised to see how beautiful everything was.