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Fantasy Fiction

	I couldn't stop them as I was held back by my father. The men started to drag my lover away on false grounds. "He isn't a witch or wizard, he is a man of the lord. I was never bewitched by him. Please stop your hurting him" I screamed in agony as they struggled to tie him to the stake. He was going to be burned as a witch and I couldn't allow it. I let out a blood curtling scream that shook the very ground we all stood on causing them to fall as well as my father. My lover was secured on the stake so he did not fall. "Gu'n cluinneadh na diathan mo ghlaodh, Cuir teine ​​mach air dorus nan cinneach" I chanted over and over again as the ground trembled and cracked. Soon a fiery beast with no true form emerged as the village began to panic. I levitated in the air as they looked upon me with fear. "Is this what you wanted. To prevock a maiden who was meant to marry her love. To bring forth a cure to your entire future bloodline to endore. Well congragulations to you all because now you have it. "Tha mi 'g ad mhallachadh uile gu'm bi bhur clann, agus an sliochd a ta ri teachd o so gu criochaibh ùine, 'n an iobairtibh do na diathan, agus an uair a chi iad iomchuidh, buailidh iad gach aon agaibh gu làr" I screamed at the top of my lungs before lightening struck and both me and my lover were gone. We appeared in a meadow and I placed my hand on his head. "Tha mi duilich a ghràidh oir chan urrainn dhomh leigeil leat a bhith ann an cunnart. Bidh mi a’ toirt air ais a h-uile cuimhne a th’ agad orm agus gad chuir ann an dachaigh ùr. Biodh fios agad mu dheireadh air sìth" I chanted as his eyes turned white and he collapsed. I teleported him to a new village and fell to my knees, crying as the gods looked down at me from the skies. I knew i did the right thing but the gods knew how much it hurt me. "Guidheam gu'n cluinn mo dhiathan mo ghairm, agus buail mi sios, oir tha mi criochnaichte" I cried out in agony. The gods heard and they answered as I was struck by a bolt of green lightning, my suffering finally ending or so I thought. I was brought back over and over to do the same thing as last time for eons and eons. I broke him free of his torment that only ever can after we fell in love. I always had to lose him and it never got easier. I hurt worse everytime I have to erase his memories of me and i always cry out for the gods to end me. They always end my physical form but keep my spirit in limbo. I can never know peace. I finally had my breaking point when I got my memories back this past time. Right before I would have met him again. I screamed and cried and begged for this to stop as the gods looked at me with dissapointment. "This is not how you sould be acting when we give you the honour of doing our work, We gave you your powers and we can force you to do this. It needs to repeat for peace to stay in balance" they say as i throw fire at them. "I will not sit by anylonger to do your bidding. If you continue to do this to me then I will kill you all" I scream as they look between each other with suprise. "You would willingly try and kill gods for your selfishness even though you would die" they asked as I released a blood curtling cackle that shook the skies on which we stood upon. "As my generation now would say, Fuck around and find out, and that don't mean just anyting motherfuckers. It means try me and I'll show how serious I really fucking am" i say as they look to have fear in their eyes. I soon jerk awake with no recollection of the past few i guess days until I se a note on my table. When you see him dying then you will beg for your powers back is all it said. I was confused but continued on with my morning. I hoped in the shower and relaxed in the hot water as I hummed an old song I was taught by my nona. I sang and sang until my water went cold before jumping out and drying off. I got dressed only to find the news on and what shoked me was the gentleman on the news announcing the return of the witch trials. They also showed a video of a man with fire coming from his hands as the police tried to detain him. He looked so familiar but I couldn't remember where I saw him from. I ran out of my room and put my shoes on before running out to town square. There I saw the boy being tied to a wooden stake with hay being piles at it's base. I go to run up to stop them but am held back by my father. I soon get flashes of every past life I ever had and this all happened in each on. Before I could yell for them to stop, another girl does it before me. I look at her and she is also being held back by her father. she is screaming and crying and begging them to let her lover go but they do not listen. Soon I see a surge go through her before she looks at me and I feel it. We both rise from the ground and chant what I chanted all those lifecycles ago. The ground trembles as the beast reappears. The girl screams like a siren as the city covers their ear with terror.

July 05, 2023 10:13

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