2 Moons - Fairy tales Slashed

CH 20 - There is another curse

"Oh my, oh my." Monty says blushing.

"Shouldn't you save that for your honeymoon?" Chicken squeals.

"It's a free show, silence." Elephant sighs longingly.

P'Pha, P'Beam and the witch are interrogating P'In. Well trying to, but he's only telling them a few things while he continues to eat his pie.

The sudden kiss had the effect of silencing Ming, which is rare. Ming looks dazed but happy when they pull apart, he hugs P'Kit, who is blushing. I'm glad he's awake, I was missing the idiot best friend.

"Explain things please, Wayo." P'Sing asks.

"Just give me a minute p." I say walking towards the witch.

But I have something else on my mind, I have another curse that needs to be broken and the needed person is here.

"Can you...please take the spell off P'Pha?" I ask.

That manages to silence their questioning of P'In, turning their attention to me.

"It's already done, it has to be undone." She replies.

If I'm the forest witch then maybe this might work, I watch P'Pha before closing my eyes. I give him permission to have the rose. But nothing happens the spell doesn't break. Why? Wording right, P'Pha can't say, the witch won't but...

"P'Forth," I ask. "You were with P'Pha that day, do you remember the wording of the spell?"

P'Forth thinks before reciting the words. "You took something without permission, you will pay for your arrogance.

You're too proud of your beauty, that's just skin deep,

I will show him your true nature, that's really a beast."

If it's not the rose, then what else did... it couldn't be. I realise what else he did that night.

I look up at her shocked. "You cursed him because he..."

"Yes!" Her voice booms in the square. "He stole your first kiss!"

"He did what?" P'Beam shouts.

"Beam." P'Kit sighs. "Lost cause."

When P'Beam glares at P'Kit, Ming quickly hugs and moves his fiancé out of danger.

"I only looked away for a few minutes and he did that." She shouts. "You should have gone to a ball, and held hands in a garden and kissed a sweet prince. Instead, this ruffian stole something precious in the woods, the woods!"

I can feel the magic humming, it's annoyed? But not at me, I wonder if the forest intervened to stop the spell from being completed. In the hum of the magic, I can feel something else, it's the smell of my roses. A strange notion comes to mind.

"Has my rose been protecting him from your spell?"

"I can't believe it went against me." She huffs. "It stopped him being completely a beast, and it's been protecting him! It's shielding the house so I can't get in. The ungrateful...."

Could my rose do that? But I feel the happy hum of the forest, it's been helping.

"Your rose Yo?" P'Sing asks.

"I think my roses are magic P'Sing." I tell the mayor.

"Of course, they make people happy, literally, brightens their mood." He says calmly.

They did that? I just thought people were happy because they liked the flowers.

"You see p." How to tell him. "I think... I'm the forest witch."