The Cursed Light

Prologue

Four years before the first Sanders Sides episode, all of the sides were friends. There were no light sides or dark sides. Everything was perfect and none of them wanted anything to change. The group sat in a clearing talking and eating food that Janus and Patton had made that morning. Music played from the speaker fairy lights strung over the trees. Remus was laying over Logan’s lap, his hands moving as he talked. Virgil was curled up in Roman’s arms while Roman sang along to the music playing. Janus was talking to Patton about anything and everything.
    The Dragon Witch was watching the group talk envy clear in her eyes. She watched Roman kiss Virgil on the cheek and seethed before storming off. She would get her revenge for being locked away from the joy that the sides held.  She opened the door to her little cottage and picked up a spellbook flipping through it looking for something specific. She found the spell she was looking for. A spell to take memories and manipulate emotions.
    The Dragon Witch would take half the sides' memories and leave the other half with theirs, knowing they would never have the ones they loved again. She began to gather what she would need to cast the curse on the sides. She would split them into light and dark sides. Taking the light sides memories and making them hate the dark sides. She would leave the newly named dark sides with the memories of the love that would be losing that day.
    “Take the memories of those they love. Switch the love to hate. Only once more truly seeing the ones they hold in their heart and will never let go will they remember who they are. So take it from those in the light. Switch the love for the dark to hate,” the Dragon Witch chanted.
    By morning the sides would be split and never truly happy again. That morning Virgil, Janus, and Remus ran into the living room excited to see the others. The newly named light sides glared at them which confused the newly named dark sides. Each one went to talk to their loves only to be shoved away and scowled at. The dark sides’ heart sank and they each backed up confusion written clear as day on his face.
    “Roman, what’s wrong? What did I do?” Virgil asked, desperate to fix things.
    “I never told you my name Anxiety and what do you think you’re doing here?” Roman sneered.
    “Logie?” Remus asked, reaching for Logan only for his hand to be slapped away.
    “Get out Remus,” Logan snapped.
    “Patton please what’s going on? This isn’t funny,” Janus said reaching out towards Patton.
    “Deceit I haven’t the faintest idea what you’re talking about. Now go back to the dark side,” Patton snapped.
    “Roman? Roman please this isn’t funny anymore,” Virgil whimpered.
    “Anxiety enough,” Patton snapped.
    “Patton what?” Virgil said.
    “Get out of the light sides now,” Logan growled.
    “Guys please?” Janus said.
    “Get out now!” Roman yelled.
    “Roman?” Remus asked.
    “Out!” Roman yelled.
    Virgil grabbed both of the others and sunk out instantly. He was terrified and he didn’t know what was happening; he just knew that he needed to get out of there before something bad happened. Something was horribly wrong and they needed to figure out what had happened. The day before had been perfect. They hadn’t done anything that they could think of.
    Virgil, Janus, and Remus fell to the ground sobbing because they didn’t know what had happened and now the people they loved hated them.
Back with the light sides, they each felt like they had done something they shouldn’t have but they just simply shrugged it off.
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