Chapter Four: The Mission?

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"W-what?! This soon?!" Scaffold exclaimed, he soon blushes after realizing he had said that so loudly in front of Tahlia, she doesn't seem to care though.

You're confused of what's all going on, you don't even know why you're here in the first place.
"Yes. I know we agreed to do it after the human gets settled in, but things are getting worse and worse, more and more quickly, and I don't want to risk running out of time." The princess states firmly.

She snaps her fingers together and soon enough, a giant sea horse comes through the doorway, carrying something placed on a velvet pillowa.
"Here, drink this." The princess softly demands, indicating that you drink a liquid in the small flask on the pillow. One of her servants then grabs the flask and hands it to you, it was a purple liquid, no label attached or anything.

You take a quick sniff, it smells like nothing. You then take a sip, it's sweet, you then drink all of it, the rest was then bitter-sweet, and it turned from purple, to blue, to green, then to yellow.

"A-aah!" You scream, the place where you're foot was hurting starts hurting again, but this time, with pain like never before, the princess doesn't even flinch when you scream, her expression is still dull.

Suddenly after an immense amount of pain, you can't feel your foot, it's as if it's gone, you look down, it's all black and it looks like the surface of hardened lava.

The princess snaps again,
"Get them a wrap." she orders one of her servants, they nod and go get one right away, you then notice that in between the cracks of your foot is blood, but it's almost a yellowish type of orange and bright, almost as if it could glow in the dark. You hesitate for a moment, but your hand reaches out to touch it,
"No! Wait- don't-" the princess exclaims, but it's too late, your hand already touched it.

First your fingertips start to turn black, but not like your foot, it's more of a shiny black, almost like obsidian, soon enough your entire body is black, hard, and shiny. Thick, orange blood then starts to trickle down your body like a fountain. All your clothes melt off you and your naked, but none of your innappropiate body parts are exposed, you're just black, hard, and shiny now. Your now bright, orange eyes, look shocked and worried as they look towards the princess.
"Your curse is removed." she said.
"U-uh, w-what happened to them?!" Scaffold asked,
"They has transformed, the potion I gave them has been used many times to heal people and creatures of their curses, but this has never happened before." the princess explained, still having a serious and dull expression.

"What's your name child?" she asked you, you realize that, you don't remember anything of your past life, not your age, name, anything, you dont remember a single thing.
"Uh- I don't... Know..." you say hesitantly, the princess rolls her eyes, still keeping a dull expression, she then snaps.

"Give me the Jar of Names." She orders, her servant nods his head and he runs to get the jar and immediately comes back, she snaps again and this time another servant comes and picks out a piece of paper from the jar.

"Atlas, that is now your new name, do you understand?" you nod your head, you didnt mind the name.

Tahlia whispers something in the princess' ear,
"Order someone to search for them, dead or alive." Tahlia nods and then walks out,
"What's wrong?" Scaffold asks,
"Oh, the servant I sent out a minute ago to get a cloth for the child hasn't come back yet, usually they're very swift with their work." The princess said plainly. Scaffold nodded his head, Tahlia then came back,
"I sent someone." the princess nodded in approval, Scaffold started blushing when Tahlia walked in.


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