Shadowcraft Short Stories

The Cursed Rose

It was a dark and foggy midnight which was fine to me, it was the fact that it was Halloween that bugged me since my powers were lowered due to the gates of dimesons being broken and humans have been on my trail constantly tonight and not to mention that I HATE being weak since it makes me feel useless. I looked around cautiously and started to make my way at home through the forest to the nether portal. I almost got there when something stopped me in my tracks there was a human!? No there was more than one there was twenty or more 'just great' I thought to myself. One of the humans smirked at me "ah just the fella we were looking for" as he was clutching his sword tightly with his scarred up hand "what do you want! What's your business with me!?" I shouted while mildly growling under my breath, they all started to laugh and one of them spoke "HEHEHEH as if you don't know...WAIT YOUR SERIOUS YOU DON'T KNOW! Wow, you mobs really are stupid" I glared at the human "WE ARE NOT STUPID! YOU BETTER TAKE THAT BACK BEFORE I KILL YOU" the human just looked at me and laughed more and shook his head "my aren't you easily angered heh it's been a nice chat kid but now you're coming with us" after saying that he grinned and snapped his fingers and two humans jumped on me from behind pinning me down while putting chains on me I retaliated by throwing them off of me and slashing them with my sword I always carry on me as my eye my eye's glowed brightly from anger. A few hours later I was exhausted and the players kept coming as well shooting at me constantly with bows and slashing me constantly with sword and my vision was getting blurry making it harder to fight when suddenly a strange greenish like arrow shot me in the side, I looked down to see it was a poison arrow and I suddenly felt numb and everything even noise started to blur and I fell hard to the ground and my vision went completely black. I woke up to see I was in a lab!? But I was being dragged by chains by two of the players who caught me, I looked up only for them to look over at me and one of them spoke "you're up. Good. Now walk and don't try anything funny we got you by chains anyway and those cuffs you have won't let you use any powers they seal your magic so even if you try tough luck it won't work", I cursed under my breath as they brought me to this room it was practically empty except for the person with a brown ripped up sleeved shirt and grey pants with a fedora just standing there waiting for someone or something. It was my brother, struggled against my restrains terrified and shook I could tell something was off about him his black eyes were no longer happy and lively like they used to they were just cold and dead 'oh god what has Jeb done to you' I thought to myself constantly while still shaking the players looked up at him "hey your majesty I brought the mob that was causing you and Jeb trouble" one of them said with a grin on his face then the other one smirked "it was quite the trouble getting him here too" as he pushed me down on the ground my brother looked at them and then at me "good...I would like to have a word with him alone now..." the humans looked at me and then my brother and smirked "alright" and then started to walk out the door as one before they left laughed cruelly and said "heh you're in for a real treat Herobrine" then left through the door. I looked I, my brother, just as he picked me up with magic and put us eye to eye "I'm disappointed in you Herobrine", I stuttered "please let me explain I-"before I could finish what I was saying he cut me off and raised his voice "I DON'T want to hear your excuses" then put his hand on my forehead and surrounded his hand with magic, shouted "go ahead kill me I don't care!" he paused the moment I said that then spoke "kill you? But your fourteen...are you crying?" I went silent for a second then shuddered "no...." he looked at me with a stern look "you're a horrible liar now calm down I'm not going to kill you" I looked up at him "you're not....?" he nodded "yep I'm going to something instead that will set you straight" I paused and shook 'what is he planning..' I thought to myself before he knocked me out cold with an energy pulse. I woke up to see I was on a cold metal table lifted a bit upright and a huge machine was above me as well as many scientists surrounding me they had my arms outstretched as well as my left leg, I struggled due to feeling uncomfortable and a bit frightened I knew something was wrong and I didn't like it one bit I moved but I didn't budge I still seemed to have those cuffs too...,a scientist walked up to me and smirked "don't try to break out these restraints are made of bedrock and iron you'll just end up hurting yourself" as he drew some line's and scientific stuff on my left arm like if they are planning to implant something in my arm then he did that to my other arm and leg. I looked up to see the machine was turning on and saw it was a laser, I struggled more I didn't like that at all 'what are they doing with me what's going on' I thought to myself. The laser cut my arm deeply as I screamed from the pain as my arm bled heavily, it cut a spiral all around my arm then they turned the laser off I was shaking from the pain and my stomach turned when seeing how heavy my arm was bleeding. A scientist with gloves walked up to me holding a strange looking deep red rose and smirked then looked at me "this is our newest invention lucky you, you get to be the first to be cursed with it" I glared at him "a flower what good is that going to do I swear when I get out of here I'm going to kill all of you for this" the doc laughed cruelly "heh this isn't any old rose this was a scientific creation we call it the R053 but you can call it a cursed rose heh this flower lives not off of sunlight, soil, and water but off of magic and it's hosts life force instead heh it even absorbs the hosts newly generated magic and makes them super tired after an hour of using their magic and they can't take it off or it will take all their magic with it and life force as well heh this flower will also make you feel eternal pain" I shuddered "your putting that thing on me...." The doc nodded and smirked more "very much so yes now hold still" after staying that he put the flower on my arm inside the cut and I felt the rose tighten on my arm by itself as the thorns dug into my arm, I shouted from the pain it felt worse than the laser or any other damage I've ever felt in my entire life I could feel it eating at my magic and life force while digging into my arm. The doctor looked at me "heh I see it works just like we made it to don't worry all the extremely dangerous mobs that have been causing us so much trouble are getting one too so you're not going to be alone with this curse heh we just have two more to put on you before you can leave" I lowly growled under my breath 'none of my subjects deserve a curse like this...I don't deserve this either it wasn't my fault those 1000000 people died but what player would believe a demon possessed me..." I thought then spoke "no you're NOT going to put any more of those THINGS on me!" the doc grinned and tilted his head "oh? Is that so? Will this change your answer?" after saying that he grabbed my bad arm tightly, I screamed in pain then bit his arm as a reflex. The doc yelled "GAHH! LET GO GODDAMMIT!!!" I ignored him and kept sinking my cat like fangs in his arm more as some of his blood sprayed and got in my brown hair because I had bit a vain, some of the other docs tried to help the other doctor and after a few minutes finally made me let go then one of the doc's spoke "ugh...we'll do the rest tomorrow we need to let our leading doc recover a bit" then glared at me "and were getting you a muzzle as well tomorrow", I grinned a bit "he deserved it". The rest of the doc's looked at me then scowled then left the room leaving me in complete blackness. I looked around feeling alone, I was alone for hours just me and my bleeding cursed arm until a light shined through the door, expecting it was another doc I growled until seeing it was my brother then I lowered my growl "what are you doing here...decided to kill me yourself?" he looked up at me "no...I'm letting you go earlier think of what you got as a warning." I was confused "so your letting me go early...you out everyone in this damn place is letting me go? This is your fault I have this damn thing!" He looked down "I know..." then he snapped his fingers and I appeared in my room on my bed like none of this happened yet my arm was still bleeding and the rose was still there clinging tightly to my arm, I shuddered remembering what I went through to get that thing and let my bad arm hang off the bed and I rested for a bit despite me still being in a hell load of pain I was exhausted. I thought to myself 'I guess things I didn't even mean to do still have consequences' as my eye's got a bit misty and I slowly closed my eyes and fell asleep.