A Reincarnated Curse: The Beginning

Chapter 3

“This is absolutely insane, I am either dreaming, or I am going crazy.”

“Honey, I know this is a lot to take in all at once, but you are not dreaming, and you are most certainly not crazy.”

“Oh yeah?” She asked, matter-of-factly. “Then how do you explain how we got here?” Vee looked at me as if she were wounded or hurt at the fact that I did not seem to be understanding.

“It is a spell sweetie. I just explained that to you.”

I stood in amazement by it all. “I can’t be a witch, witches don’t exist.”

“Then how do you explain how I have brought you here? A different place in a different time?”

“Easy, as I just explained to YOU, I am certifiably insane.”

“You are not, and I won’t hear anymore of you condemning yourself!”

Looking back at Raphael, I saw he was gathering people from house to house. “What is he doing?”

“I think you know the answer to that.” She responded to me with little to no emotion on her face. It was almost as if she were forcing herself to be sad. I find that odd if she is actually my mom. Shouldn’t she be overcome with emotion at this point? Watching me die all over again. I think I would be sad if I were her.

“He is trying to kill me! Well not me, but her, her-me! We have to stop him!” Vee just stood there with tears in her eyes as Raphael had gathered the town outside of my dream self’s door. Her tears flowed but they did not seem genuine. As I looked in her eyes trying to decipher the emotion I was seeing that she seemed to be trying to hide from me. It was then that I saw it, anger. She was angry, but was it about what happened to me or was it because of me?

“We can’t stop him, can we?” I asked as I turned my head to look towards the scene playing out in front of me.

“I am afraid not; we are only spiritually here so that you can see and so that you can make it right.”

Watching as the townspeople drug me to my death I noticed Alessandro running to the crowd. He was trying to stop them, he was trying to save me, or rather, her-me. Suddenly, Alessandro was lifted into midair and it seemed incapable of movement. I looked back at Raphael holding an amulet in his hand chanting something in a language she did not feel like she knew.

“He is performing a spell on Alessandro. Physically we are no match for the nightwalkers, especially the Royal family of Vortigen. They are the highest in rank regarding the night walkers, a form of royalty. They are also the most ancient nightwalker family of them all.”

“That amulet,” I reached for my necklace, it was my necklace that I wore around my neck.

“As I said, we are physically no match for them, but same goes for our power. That amulet that he is holding and the amulet you are wearing is yours. It belonged to your great grandfather, ‘Dorian Gratu’.”

“Wait, So Mr. handsome over there, that dream me is in love with, is like, really old? Gross! By nightwalkers, do you mean Vampires?” Looking back at him as he was dropped into the coffin, I noticed he did not look older than twenty-one. And also noticed he was lifeless. The sight was heartbreaking but even in death he was unbelievably handsome. “With a face like that though, who could blame her, I mean, me?”

“Yes, he is handsome, they all are, but it is forbidden and yes vampire is what they prefer to be called. They take the blood of innocent people and wipe their memories today, but back then, they took lives. I wish you had never caught his attention. He would have used you and your powers, and they would have taken control of us all.”

“I am understanding so far, except for the part where it’s forbidden, and the being able to control us all with my powers part…Also the fact that witches and Vampires are real.” What else was real? What was next? Werewolves?

Vee shook her head, “Did you not hear me when I told you they took the lives of innocent people to feed their own selfish existence?” If she had daggers for eyes I would be stabbed a million times by now.

“I heard that part, I am still not understanding how you can forbid someone to love someone else.” Love was love, maybe he was not like the rest of his family. Maybe that is why she loved him then.

“You thought then, much like you do now. It is almost as if you never died. It is forbidden because they are different than us. It would have tainted the bloodline. They are an entirely different species of immortal beings. That, and the fact that, once upon a time, we witches were slaves to his kind, more specifically, to his family.”

“Okay I get it, but times change, people change. In my experience, and from what I have learned from history class, nothing good can come from when people start talking about people being different and keeping bloodlines pure.”

Laughingly, Vee pointed to the crowd as if to tell me to watch. “I know what happens, I just went through this last night, and every birthday since before I could remember.”

Shaking her head, “The ending you have not.”

I guess she did not know everything after all. “That’s where you are wrong, I finished it last night.”

Looking at Vee she was hoping she would see some sort of relief, instead she saw concern in her eyes. “How?... Then this is it. This life is the one we have been waiting for. I knew it the moment I looked into your eyes.”

“What do you mean exactly, ‘the moment we have been waiting for’?”

“Long ago before your first life, you were foreseen by our ancestor seer. It was said that you would be born and on your eighteenth birthday, would ascend to your full powers. You were to be our savior when we were but slaves. Turns out that foresight was about your great, great grandfather.”

She continued, “He set our people free with that very amulet that you wear around your neck. Centuries later, on the night of your birth, there was another foresight. It was a warning to our coven. You were to be the single most powerful of us all, and with great power and goodness comes evil and darkness. You would be given choices during your journey from the moment you come into your teenage powers until the night you come into your full powers.

These choices would determine which path of magic you take. Ultimately, you have a choice, but a lot can happen between now and then. We did not know what to expect from you and to many, it was a scary thought that they just could not handle. A lot of people wanted you dead, so I did what I had to do to save you.”

“So, let me get this straight, I am an all-powerful witch with a vampire lover and a witchy stalker guy who murdered me. You have come to tell me all of this so that I can either destroy you all or save you all…from what exactly?”

Laughing, I realized Vee was not amused, she was worried. “I thought you saw the ending?”

Feeling confused I responded, “I did.”

“Then you know of the curse you unleashed on the town.”

Remembering the dream, I glanced over at my dream self in the air floating while the moon surrounded me, and the wind blew ferociously. “I do remember, but I don’t know what I said, I remember knowing it was a curse, but I don’t remember how I even knew that language.”

“I don’t think you realized, but you not only cursed those townspeople, but all of our covens and even the nightwalkers. The spell you used was used in dark magic practices.” What could have possibly been so bad that she looked as fearful as she did.

“Alessandro, Raphael and you, were all first born. You cursed us all, that no first-born children shall live until your second life came to pass. You basically, reincarnated not only yourself, but everyone that was there and died that night. You made it to where all first-born children died upon their birth until the day you were allowed a second chance at life and love.”

“I cursed everyone to not have children…I don’t understand why I would do that.” How could I take centuries of children from innocent people? “It was just in this town, correct?” I asked as if that somehow made it better.

“Yes, it was only in this town. I believe you did it so that you and Alessandro could be reunited and that this time, no one would attempt to stop you. Alessandro was reborn and aloud to live years ago. Many more years than you in this present life. I did not think much of it because he was older than you in your original lives. I also thought that maybe his parents found a dark magic witch to help keep him alive.”

“Fantastic, let’s go find my vampire lover so all of this can end, and I can go back to my life.”

“I am afraid that is not what I have come to do. I am afraid of history repeating itself. I have come to take you back, but not to Alessandro. I have come to take you home to meet Raphael, you are still intended to him in marriage.”

“You have seriously lost it, I am not going to marry anyone, I am sixteen!” She has seriously lost her mind. I am not getting married. Especially not to someone who was responsible for killing me. What am I even thinking? All of this is insane. This all has to be a dream.

“No of course not, not right now anyhow. There is a school for us witches and as of a couple years back, Vampires as well. It is meant to teach you to harness your powers, and to be able to control them.”

“So, you want me to go to this school, meet Raphael, control my powers and marry him one day so that the curses will be over?” Not going to happen, I thought to myself.

“The curse is already over since everyone’s rebirth. I have lived for centuries, for I did not die that night and so has your sister and many others. The day you were born every other first born was allowed to live after and we knew it was because of you.”

“So, what do you want from me then?”

“Give us a chance, I believe if we get your second life right and veer your course, opposite of what it was, that everything would continue to be fine. I fear that if we fail, history will repeat itself and we will be right back where we started.”

I had not even realized that I was back home across the street from my house again. How long have we been back? Good thing it was too late for her neighbors to see any of that. “I don’t know about all of this; I understand everything you have said and appreciate you making sense of my weird life. I am just not good with change and am not okay with being ‘intended’ to someone in marriage.” I had to figure something out to get away from this nut job. Even if she is my mom.

“As I said you feel now, much like you did then. As a member of the royal family, you have been born to privilege, and with that comes certain responsibilities. I am not going to force you into anything, I just hoped you would come with me to give it a chance.”

Looking back at my house I felt bad for how I had reacted. They had given me a home and a good life. A life filled with love and happiness. “How can I just leave them like this?” I cannot. I will not.

“I need to think this through. I have amazing parents. I might be upset with them right now, but they raised me, which, regardless of the reason, is more than I can say for you.” She really had some nerve. Thinking she could just swoop in show me some razzle dazzle and expect me to just leave with her. I do not even know her.