Don't Blink

Chapter twentyfour

'Life Changes; nothing is happy forever...and nothing is hard forever'
-Zane Ro'Meave

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Mayla looked at a book she found in the library, a book about spells, trying to distract herself from the ball oncoming tonight.

'There are many spells a soul user can use. Many from each of the other users can be used. The spells listed below are what the soul users are known for:

Alteenta- spell of life/light
Ignitulsis- spell of death/dark

Monstrous- spell to summon a demon

Elementundo- spell of the elements (fire, earth, water and wind) combined
Sacterio- spell of electricity
Flvoitus- spell of fire/flames

Clarieo- spell of clear/cleansing
Supresrio- spell of healing
Mam-'

'Can you stop! I have a headache' the dark being snapped.

Mayla rolled her eyes and sat down on her bed in her new gown (thanks to the dark one), staring up at the ceiling.
Mayla smiled to herself.
'Everything's going my way' Mayla thought 'I found the lost princess, which happened to be my great grandmother, the king knows about what I'm going through, leading me reveal myself and then I can go home'
'Oh, at lest you can go home, I'm stuck in this form forever' Mayla heard the dark being say in her head.
Mayla's face turned to confusion.
"What do you mean?" Mayla asked out loud.
She heard the dark being sigh in her head.
'I was a mortal of your realm, just a simple girl' the dark being explained in her head 'I was kinda like you; kind, ambitions, head-strong...i knew what I wanted to be, I really wanted to continue to try and get women's rights because when I was alive as the movement grew"
Mayla sat up, intrigued in the story.
"What was your name?" Mayla asked.
"Sarah...don't call me that though" the dark being said and sighed "In 1900, when I was 19, so 118 earth years or  roughly 6,427 Reflectron days ago, it was Halloween and for us, that was when the witches came out so we all hid at night...but that night I wanted to see if the blood moon predicted in the texts would come at the time it would..."

The dark being stopped.

"...it did happen, but I was captured...by King Jefferson of the Reflectron realm...or the current king's father"
Mayla gasped.

"I was captured for soooo long" the dark being said "i had no idea where I was, all I knew that I was being 'experimented on' as I was a 'new breed of animal'...I was tortured for what seem like years..."
Mayla stood up, walking towards the covered mirror.
"...until one day they tried to make me one of them, since I wasn't 'pure' even though I had changed due to me being there for over one of their days...they put this poison in me and it changed me. I got out...not long after getting captured again"

Mayla pulled the cover off of the mirror and noticed the reflection wasn't her's.
She was wearing the dress the dark being suggested; A graceful black dress flows from top to bottom and has a square neckline, which wonderfully reveals the ornate dress worn below it. The flowing, corset-like tied fabric of her dress covers her stomach where the continuous flow is broken up by a long cloth band worn quite high around her waist. Below the cloth band the dress opens up to the right and reveals the dress below. The front of the top dress is longer than the bottom dress and curves outwards, the back continues to flow a long length behind her and ends in a narrow curve.Her sleeves are very long and a little wide, their flow is broken up just below the elbow where they're divided by thick, luxurious bands, these are the same fabric and color used to outline the neckline of the dress.
Mayla's  washed out brown hair which is in a high bun was now a dark black and her silver eyes were replaced with pale green eyes. It then turned to faded black hair with the ruby red eyes Mayla knows.
This is the dark being's appearance.
Not it- no her using Mayla's appearance.
It's her own.
Her human one changing into her twisted dark being one.
"I swore that I would get revenge" the reflection spoke back "And I'm going to keep my word"
"But it's none of the current royal's fault!" Mayla said "We can try to help you and get you home"
The dark being's face turned into a snarl.
"NO!" She snapped "Chidon did this to me as well!"
Mayla stared at her wide eyed.
The dark being pointed to a scar on her face; one that went from the left upper corner, just above her eye and crosses over to fade at her right cheek, crossing over her left eye and nose.
"He did this to me when he was 18" the dark being snarled "His father laughing over him...he tortured me for a while until it came to the time when his daughter, your great grandmother came in, i think she was 8 at the time. She was shocked by what was going on, she was the only person which cared and stopped the harming in total...the last time I saw her before now was when she came down and asked me about my realm, which I replied honestly. She was the one who went to Nani herself and begged him to go...but everyone blamed it on me and I got beaten again"
Mayla stared at her reflection shocked, mixed feeling going through her.
The dark being or Sarah smirked.
"You can't sweet talk yourself out of this one Mayla" the dark being said, leaving Mayla confused "It has only begun and I will get my revenge"
"But SAR-"
Mayla passed out before she finished her sentence, the dark being's laugh echoing her room.