Love Through The Dark

The List

"I will ask you again wizard, where is my lover?" Jundiin held the wizard Stefan by the neck with her hand through the mirror. "I told you before she does not exist." The wizard pleaded for breath as the hand squeezed tighter. Eventually Jundiin loosened her grip and stepped back from the mirror. How could Amante not have existed? All the memories of her were there inside the goddesses mind. In fact with her now heightened level of judgment and vision she could see every detail of their relationship of their love. Yet somehow despite seeing every realm in all of time and existence Amante was nowhere to be found. Stefan told Jundiin the way to find her lover was by retrieving the twelve hearts. If that was not true what was the purpose behind it all? Why did the wizard possibly want her to go through all this trouble and then it clicked. Jundiin knew what the game plan was she knew almost everything now. She was a database that could access any information in any realm. She saw Stefan and his lover Paolo when they first met. She saw the creatures that spoke to them, led them, encouraged them. This was a trick on the wizards part and their friends a huge scam to keep the Prince Juventas locked away for months. It was an elaborate scheme that Jundiin could not stand.

"I know your plan wizard, I know everything about you and once I have my lover in my arms again I am putting an end to it. Why can you not just leave that poor Prince alone? Has he not suffered enough?" Stefan looked at Jundiin calmly trying to maintain some sense of composure. "If you know then you would know why he must suffer, he is the saviour of everything. The chosen one." Jundiin held her palm out and her eyes glowed with fire "enough I do not wish to hear it" Jundiin stated in a voice that was not her own. The newly created goddess stood wondering what she should do next. "Seeing you have powers surely everything will be easier for you now" The wizard claimed through the mirrors glass. Jundiin scoffed "easier?" She mocked "easier. My life is going to be far from easier these powers are a curse within themselves I did not ask to be a goddess I just wanted a normal life growing old with the woman I love and eventually walking off the mortal coil. It has caused more problems than solved them. Now I am immortal who shall save my home kingdom from my tyrant of a Father? I can not be Queen and Goddess. I must also find a way to save my lover who apparently does not exist though I know she does." Jundiin felt like bursting into tears had her quest really been for nothing? "Wait" Stefan sighed "I think I know where your lover is but you will not like it." Jundiin turned to get a good look at the wizard judging that he was telling the truth.

"Where is my lover?" Jundiin asked patiently. The wizard cleared his throat "you could not see her in any realm as she is in no realm." Jundiin raised an eyebrow and then sighed "do you think I had not figured this out?" The wizard continued cautiously "she is in no other realm because she is dead." Jundiin clutched her chest, her heart felt it would burst from her chest. "How?" She demanded to the wizard in the mirror. "She melted" the wizard claimed and Jundiin used her fist to smash the glass of the mirror leaving it open. "Are you trying to mock me?" Stefan carefully stepped out from the mirror in a spirit form. "I made her Jundiin I made your lover" Jundiin was more confused than ever "what do you mean you made her?" Stefan's spirit walked over to his frozen body in the small room. Stepping into his body he stretched relishing in the fact he was back in physical form. "She was one of our many golems created to watch over Juventas and to torture him. When he trapped Paolo and I he destroyed our magic melting every golem we created most were guards of the castle but a few lived in the nearby village like Amante." Amante never seemed like a golem to Jundiin she knew every part of her lover and she had never seen any clay of which golems were made. "If what you say is true which my judgement is saying it is, where do melted golems go? They can not just disappear into nothing." Stefan gave a small shrug "I am not entirely sure myself but Paolo knows" Stefan stood by the other wizard who was still frozen in place. "Perhaps if you freed him he could tell you" Stefan grinned slyly. With a wave of her hand Paolo was freed and Jundiin waisted no time in demanding his information.

"Golems are clay but even clay has a soul. We breathed life into clay with magic so I suppose the magic manifested itself into a soul and therefore went to its own afterlife" Jundiin knew of afterlives her mother had explained them when she was recently in Elysium. It made sense that souls made of magic would have their own afterlife but how would she get there? Jundiin pulled out her traveling book and tried scribbling down her lovers name but she never traveled. "You will have to find her the old fashioned way and leave now so you can get a better start" Paolo suggested smirking. Jundiin turned and grabbed Paolo by the neck "im not stupid the first thing I'm doing is freeing that Prince you had me look up for months. Then I will deal with you and then get back my lover and somehow save my kingdom from my father." The list was growing ever longer and the goddess wondered how other gods coped with all the pressure on them. She may not have asked to be a goddess of a princess but she was and if she was she knew she had to embrace it. She had taken twelve hearts and it was now time to go back to the beginning and correct the things she had done.
Juventas may have been the chosen one for these primitive wizards but to Jundiin he was a victims family status and now Jundiin knew what that felt like at least in part.

"If you do not mind gentlemen it's time I rescue a Prince from his tower." The wizards leapt for Jundiin but she left too quickly leaving the wizards in fear of what the goddess would do to them when she came back.