A Trip To Another Land

(Trigger Warning)Chapter 5: Her Curse

(Fppov) His funeral was days ago but I couldn't bring myself to stop crying, or visit his grave yet. I kept replaying what happened in my head, it felt like a nightmare. I felt it couldn't be true, he couldn't really be gone, but he was. He was gone and I was broken. There was a hole in my heart so big I feel it will never heal. The only thing I'm certain of is that I will get revenge on that murderer. How dare she take him from me, he hadn't done anything wrong to be taken like that.

I stop crying and I pace around my room, thinking of what I could do. I couldn't possibly just kill her, that'd be just as bad, but wouldn't it be fair, to take her life as she took his? That's when it hit me, I couldn't kill her, maybe I could take her happiness. Would that mean killing the one she loves, or her child perhaps, one so innocent and one who simply loved the murderer? No, I couldn't possibly kill anyone, there has to be another way to take away her happiness. That's it, a curse, I could curse her, nobody else would die but they wouldn't be happy either. It can't just be any curse, it has to be the curse, The Dark Curse. I was glad now that I had hand copied the curse from my sister when she had the curse, before she disappeared.

Gathering the ingredients were harder then I realised, it had been months, all of them worth it. All I had to gather for the curse was: dark fairy dust, wolfsbane, and the heart of the thing I love most. I had gathered the hair, the forgetting potion for my victims, and I knew which heart I needed, I just needed to find dark fairy dust.

During the hunt I noticed something peculiar, My eyes no longer shined like they used to, my hair turned red, and my smile, once sweet, now was wicked. I dress now only in black lace dresses. I no longer feel anything but rage.

I had finally found a cave said to be the home of some dark fairies. I was armed and ready with a dagger I had recently required, amongst other things. I followed the sound of voices further in the cave quietly and kept myself hidden until I could capture one single thing of dark fairy dust from them. I make my way after the cave quickly and quietly, it was much harder then I'd imagine it would be. Now to get this back to my castle, then get the heart I need.

"Guards, tell Ethan I wish to see him in my chambers down in the basement at once, it's urgent."

I watch my guards leave at once to fetch Ethan. I love my brother, I do but I want this more. I already have the ingredients in my cauldron boiling, and both my forgetting potion and the potion to help me remember once the curse is brought on, when Ethan arrives.

"What new have you, my sister?"

"Come closer and I shall tell you."

Ethan walked forward towards me. He is dressed in a blue leather shirt that buttons on the left twice, a black belt, and black leather pants. He has a white long shirt on under. He has brown leather gloves and brown leather boots. His hair is brunette like mine once was but way shorter. It's nicely tousled on top of his head. His beard is growing in nicely, it's past stubble but not quite up to a full beard. His eyes are a creamy yet piercing amber. They resemble a recently made and polished ash wood chair.

"I finally have everything I need for my plan to succeed, well almost everything."

"That's wonderful news, but you still have not told me what your plan is. What is it you are missing still, can I help?"

"Oh brother, you are already helping, in fact, you hold the final piece I need for this plan of mine."

(TPPOV) She stepped toward him til they were face to face, she then hugs him tightly, then releases him from the hug, then a strange look appears on her face.

She knocks him unconscious so he is laying on the ground, then summons hundreds of small spiders and they start crawling up both sides of his face going up to his partially open mouth, crawling over each other as they go into his mouth and start working their way down his esophagus so many of them are working down his throat that Qadira can see Ethan's throat moving as if he was exhaling. The hundreds of spiders are having trouble getting down farther past his sternum, so they all force themselves past his sternum snapping it so loud that Qadira can hear it clearly as she waits for the spiders to get to her brother's heart. The snap is so loud and painful that it wakes up Ethan, he feels a sharp stabbing pain, so much that he tries to scream out but it comes out super muffled because of all the spiders traveling down his throat into his lungs. He tries to make himself throw them up. However it is too late, they have already eaten their way into his lungs by now. He was slowly suffocating and hemorrhaging. He realized there was no escape, as he was laying on the ground while the spiders chewed through his lungs to get to his heart. He was slowly fading as more blood flooded his lungs suffocating him faster. He tried to scream out for help but it came out as a muffled gurgling sound. He looked to his right and saw his sister watching his chest cavity as it moved around because of the spiders eating through everything connecting to the heart. Ethan tried screaming out one final time as he started violently choking on his blood.

He was fading fast, he was staring at his sister expecting her to come in and save him but she just stood there staring at him as he was dying. She stared into his eyes seeing the hope and will to live leave his eyes along with the color that was once so bright and happy was now close to lifeless and dead like a doll. His mind started playing his whole life in dream form, all those fun and nice times with his sister, just for his life to end like this being killed by his sister for some unknown reason. He looked at her one final time with tears in his eyes and then sighed as he finally died from suffocation and internal bleeding.

Moments after he was completely dead his chest started moving rapidly signaling that the spiders had disconnected his heart from his body and were working their way back up through the throat which was being teared open as they got farther up the esophagus. Qadira was watching as the spiders were now in the top of his throat under his jaw and appeared to be stuck, so she stepped closer and looked at her dead brother whose eyes were as lifeless as his body that laid before her. She was too busy being filled with rage to realize she had just killed the only family she had that actually loved her. She was sobbing as she got closer and kneeled in front of him realizing what she had to do. She whispered softly, her voice completely wrecked,

"Forgive me, brother."

She sobs softly as she grabs her brothers jaw and pulls it with all her strength popping his jaw completely out of place so the spiders holding his heart can get out. Once she sees the spiders holding his heart, she sits on her knees holding his heart with his blood all over her hands. She lets out one of the most heart wrenching cries that she can muster as she holds his heart in her hands.

She sobs uncontrollably then starts becoming filled with rage and realizes that she must get back to work to do what must be done to those horrid people that killed her true love. She buried her brother properly in the forest where he "died". Then she walked away from his grave but not before she threw a wild flower she found on his grave saying,

"I'm sorry dear brother, but I did what had to be done. I hope someday you can forgive me."

Somewhere on a distant plane, Ethan can be heard saying the word never. She walks over to the cauldron, dumps in the forgetting potion, then she puts his heart above the cauldron and crushes it. She then takes her remembering potion and cackles, wiping the drying tears from her face as her curse began to build and take flight over the land. It was a Wicked black smoke with red lightning circulating within it.