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Chapter 4 - "You hate her, yet you named your town after her!"

Mariposa had left Mystic Falls without telling anyone a thing, she was in the small town in France. Mariposa had no idea why, but it was called 'Mariposa le fay' which in French translated to 'papillon le fay'. They had decided to the name the town after her death, which was odd.

Mariposa was walking through the streets of the town, it had changed, yet it hadn't. The streets were still structured the same, but the buildings and their positions had changed. It was still a small town and she was heading for the cliffside, her death place. Mariposa was anxious to be going back to her death place.

After a few minutes, she had arrived at the cliffside and walked to the end where she saw the grass still hadn't recovered from her unleashing hell on them all, while burning. Mariposa's heels oddly didn't sink into the ground as she carefully walked towards the edge, right where her death took place, as she got closer a chill went through her body, and she looked down at the angry waves crashing against the bottom of the cliffside aggressively.

"Here to check out the death place of the famed Mariposa Le Fay?" A French accented voice came from behind her. She turned to see a man around the age of 19, maybe 20, standing there. "A lot of tourists who know of her come to see the very place she died. The very place the flames started off thousands of years ago. The waves around this place have always been tempestuous since her death."

"You hate her, yet you named your town after her!" Mariposa told the man as she walked towards him. "I don't get it!"

"We decided to name the town after her so that people would know of and remember what happened here. Our ancestors wanted us to know what that witch destroyed. Only a few escaped, and they rebuilt the town the best of their ability." The man told her. "I'm Lucius Jones!" He introduced himself.

"Mari Salvatore!" She introduced herself with a soft smile. "I came to find out what happened, my brother believes it to be a hoax, but I do not!" She told him.

"I could take you to the library, show you what exactly she did. The stories have been passed down over years, and we have it in detail and paintings of what happened." Lucius told her. "Mariposa Le Fay, she annihilated this place with her magic, she was a monster." Mariposa didn't really know how exactly she felt about all this, she knew coming here was a bad idea, but she needed to understand why Silas hated her so much. "Follow me, I'll take you to the library!"

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Lucius had left her in the library with a bunch of books surrounding her, and she began to read. She had already read two books already, and what the books said about her, they weren't flattering at all. They were completely the opposite, there was no mention of what caused her to burn down those houses with the families in, no mention of what the men did to her.

The books just made her out to be a monster, which she couldn't deny, she was a monster. But she didn't feel guilty for what she did to the town, she was happy with what she did. If only they knew what she had done after she died, they'd probably have heart attacks at such a revelation.

There was mentioning of the survivors of the fires. Out of about three hundred people, only 10 people got out of the fires, all with horrific burns. The worst was a young woman, at the age of 10, maybe 11. Her small body was littered with burns, and it said that the very girl even knew her, which apparently made it so much worse.

Mariposa thought hard back to those years and the only 10/11 year olds she knew was Gwendolyn and Tatiane. She guessed it was either of them that was related to Silas, and she read on some more and found the name Gwendolyn. "So, Silas is an ancestor of Gwendolyn!" She whispered to herself quietly. Mariposa never liked Gwendolyn if she was being honest. She was so whiny, and desperate to learn magic. It was quite pathetic.