Chapter 43


    Warning: Triggering chapter


    Fiona woke very early to get ready.


    She got reatly as fast as she could, not wanting any dying from her. She prepared herself


    mentally and physically for what was ahead. They were going to the fountain of death, which was the


    source of the curse. The “fountain” was actually a waterfall whose water connected to other bodies of


    water around themunity and even beyond. How the name came about, she didn’t know, but she


    was certain there was more to it.


    She only encouraged herself that this would be doable, just like the rest of them Unlike what she had


    dealt with in thest three weeks, the source of the gue wasn’t a person; rather, it was a ce, and


    she didn’t know how that would go.


    She stepped out of her quarters of the vi, and she spotted Julian also stepping out. She felt shivers


    at his sight, and she tried to work through it. He would be with her like he was yesterday, and she


    would do well to not let his presence affect her


    “Good morning, Sky”


    “Good morning, my Julian,” she said, and that made it sound weird because she had now called him


    hers. She bit down on her l*p.


    He chuckled, finding no fault in it. “I see you’re dropping the title, and I am proud of you.” He said and


    winked at her, and that didn’t make things better because she squirmed on her stand.


    Was he flirting with her? Because if he was, it was getting to her.


    They arrived at the sanctuary and met Elder Rio, who was already waiting for them. He seemed ready,


    but not very excited about the adventure.


    “Good morning, my king and healer.” He bowed his head.


    “Good morning, elder Rio,” Julian said that and nodded at him.


    “Good morning, elder Bio,” she said, and it echoed the same. “We are all ready”


    There was no time to waste, so they followed him, and he led them to the fountain of death. They


    arrived after a half–hour walk from themunity and there was the waterfall. It had a mixture of green


    and dry grass around it, and it didn’t look us prosperous as a waterfall should. It indeed attested to its


    name because it carried


    the presence of death, and doom lingered in the air. She knew Elder Rio had brought them to the right


    location.


    “It was called the Fall of Life since the foundation of themunity, but twenty- five years ago, the


    name changed to the Fountain of Death, which is what everyone calls it now.” Elder Rio told them.


    “Everyone has felt the dark presence and kept away from the waterfall for safety”


    Elder Rio continued in his path, and Fiona followed behind him.


    “Sky.” She heard Julian call to her after a while, and she paused and turned to him


    He looked a little helpless, and that made her grow worried as she stared at him. “What is wrong?”


    “I can’t go further,” he told her.


    Her brows narrowed. “Why? Are you okay?” Her voice turned into a protective one immediately.


    He smiled at her concern. “Yes,” he nodded. “I just can’t go further; I feel stuck here, and I guess it


    means I cannot enter further.” he told her.


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    She didn’t doubt him. “Alright.”


    “Be careful” He looked concerned for her now, but it was out of his control at this point


    She nodded. “I will be.”


    Marion followed behind, and so did Jose


    “The waterfall has always had fortifications, so only those with pure blood cane in.” Elder Rio said,


    and he must have noticed the confusion in her face as to why Julian couldn’te with her.


    They said no other word as they continued. They had to go up to the crest, which was the top edge


    from which the water fell. It was a long and stressful climb for her, but they made it up.


    Fiona spotted an out–of–shape tree nted in the centre of the flowing river at the brink. The closer


    she came, the stronger the negative feeling she got. She felt something terrible happen here, and this


    must have triggered the curse that flowed into the waterfall. They came closer and found a carcass


    hanging around the tree with a dagger in their heart and a blue diamond pendant around their neck.


    The pendant told Fiona it was a woman. This woman had hung herself there


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    with a silver chain around her neck, which was also connected to the tree, and died.


    “Something terrible happened to her to trigger the curse.” Fiona said and drew close to where the tree


    now stood, having the carcass hanging on the tree.


    “Do you have any idea who that is?”


    Elder Rio stared closely at the b*dy, and his eyes lingered on the blue diamond pendant around her


    neck. He took a sharp breath. “It can’t be”


    “Do you know who it is?” Marion asked.


    “I was much younger, but there was a rumour of Yi, the white healer, who lived amongst us twenty–


    five years ago. She was very beautiful–the most beautifuldy ever to live—and it was said she was


    the daughter of the moon goddess herself. It was rumoured that she filed a petition against the alpha of


    Grandfield. She imed he abused, maltreated, and raped her, but no one believed her. The council,


    bribed by the alpha, branded her a witch. She wasst seen heading towards the waterfall and never


    returned. It was always a rumour, and no one believed it. A few believed she had ended her life, while


    others believed she ran away because she was unable to take the shame. Shortly after her


    disappearance, the gue broke out.” He exined to them, “I know she’s the one because she is


    famous for her blue diamond ne


    This was payment for the injustice she faced. The gue was a result of a curse that came upon this


    My father was on the council that sentenced her, and when the gue broke out, The knew it was a


    punishment from the moon goddess. While the council sought refuge in othermunities, my father


    remained. He said he would stay here and face the punishment. He never had the gue, but


    everyone in the council seat that ran away did. They were the first to carry it out to the other


    “Your father repented of the evil done to the healer Yi, and the rest didn’t because her soul never


    found rest. She needs to find rest. Fiona told him, and he didn’t argue


    When she headed here this morning, she didn’t think this would be what she would discover. This world


    has always been cruel, but those suffering now have nothing to do with it. It had to be stopped.


    “What do you think we can do?” Marion asked, confused.


    She was lost as to what needed to be done, but the first thing that came to her


    Chapire at


    mind was bringing down the b*dy of the healer.


    “She needs a proper burial.” She told them. “We need to get her down from there.”


    Jose moved towards the edges of the brink, where water flowed down and around


    the tree.


    “Be careful,” she pleaded.


    He transformed into his Lycan form and leaped off the floor with his hands spread out. He grabbed the


    branch of the tree and he climbed up. He wrapped his hand around the silver chain around Yi’s neck


    and took it off. With a firm grip, he took the carcass into his arms and leaped off the tree. Hended on


    the safe, dry ground, not far away from them.


    He walked towards them with Yi’s carcass in his arms. Elder Rio took off his cloak and helped cover


    Jose up, and Fiona took off her cloak and covered what she could of Yi’s b*dy. Her hand touched her


    dry bones, and she moved into a trance. She found herself standing in the same position, but not on


    the same


    timeline.


    He found the now–dead Yi moments before her painful death. She was in her silver wolf’s form on


    the tree, sobbing into the flowing water, and she couldn’t tell how long she had been there. In her hand


    were silver chains and an oak wood shaped into a pointy mouth dagger. She threw the chain around


    the branch of the tree, and then, when she had it around her neck, she threw herself off the tree. The


    same second, she drove the dagger still in her hand into her chest, piercing deep into her heart. She


    bled out, and the blood dripped into the flowing water. Immediately, the fresh tree was emaciated and


    turned dry.


    “Sky?” Jose called, and she snapped out of the trance and found him before her.


    She withdrew her hand from the healer’s carcass and turned to Rio. “Where can she be buried?”


    “Come with me: I will show you.” He said that and led Jose away from the waterfall’s brink


    Marion stood staring at the tree in the centre of the flowing water for a while before turning around to


    Fiona. “What now?”


    “Her blood activated the curse, and her death cemented it.” She replied.


    She stepped towards the edge of the flowing water. Getting to it, she transformed into a wolf. She


    leaped off the ground, and she stretched her paw out to grab the


    branch and keep herself from falling into the water. Once she achieved that, she climbed onto the tree,


    and she dug her w into her palm deep enough so that she bled. Then she held up her hand, and her


    blood tricked down her paw and dropped into the water flowing. After the second drop, she felt the tree


    she held onto shake, and this told her the blood had taken effect on the roots. She then ced her still


    bloody palm on the tree branch, and she leaped off the branch, stretching her leg so shended on the


    side of the flowing waters.


    She stood from there, watching as the dry and almost dead tree came back to life before her very eyes.


    “Sky?” Marion called to her, and she turned to find him holding out his cloak for her.


    “Thank you.” She took it from his hand and wrapped it around her b*dy.


    “I should thank you.” He bowed his head to her and said. “The curse has been broken, and this is


    something I will never forget as long as I live.”


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    “The waterfall has always had fortifications, so only those with pure blood cane in.” Elder Rio said,


    and he must have noticed the confusion in her face as to why Julian couldn’te with her.


    They said no other word as they continued. They had to go up to the crest, which was the top edge


    from which the water fell. It was a long and stressful climb for her, but they made it up.


    Fiona spotted an out–of–shape tree nted in the centre of the flowing river at the brink. The closer


    she came, the stronger the negative feeling she got. She felt something terrible happen here, and this


    must have triggered the curse that flowed into the waterfall. They came closer and found a carcass


    hanging around the tree with a dagger in their heart and a blue diamond pendant around their neck.


    The pendant told Fiona it was a woman. This woman had hung herself there


    th a silver chain around her neck, which was also connected to the tree, and died.


    “Something terrible happened to her to trigger the curse.” Fiona said and drew close to where the tree


    now stood, having the carcass hanging on the tree.


    “Do you have any idea who that is?”


    Elder Rio stared closely at the b*dy, and his eyes lingered on the blue diamond pendant around her


    neck. He took a sharp breath. “It can’t be”


    “Do you know who it is?” Marion asked.


    “I was much younger, but there was a rumour of Yi, the white healer, who lived amongst us twenty–


    five years ago. She was very beautiful–the most beautifuldy ever to live—and it was said she was


    the daughter of the moon goddess herself. It was rumoured that she filed a petition against the alpha of


    Grandfield. She imed he abused, maltreated, and raped her, but no one believed her. The council,


    bribed by the alpha, branded her a witch. She wasst seen heading towards the waterfall and never


    returned. It was always a rumour, and no one believed it. A few believed she had ended her life, while


    others believed she ran away because she was unable to take the shame. Shortly after her


    disappearance, the gue broke out.” He exined to them, “I know she’s the one because she is


    famous for her blue diamond ne


    This was payment for the injustice she faced. The gue was a result of a curse that came upon this


    My father was on the council that sentenced her, and when the gue broke out, The knew it was a


    punishment from the moon goddess. While the council sought refuge in othermunities, my father


    remained. He said he would stay here and face the punishment. He never had the gue, but


    everyone in the council seat that ran away did. They were the first to carry it out to the other


    “Your father repented of the evil done to the healer Yi, and the rest didn’t because her soul never


    found rest. She needs to find rest. Fiona told him, and he didn’t argue


    When she headed here this morning, she didn’t think this would be what she would discover. This world


    has always been cruel, but those suffering now have nothing to do with it. It had to be stopped.


    “What do you think we can do?” Marion asked, confused.


    She was lost as to what needed to be done, but the first thing that came to her


    Chapire at


    mind was bringing down the b*dy of the healer.


    “She needs a proper burial.” She told them. “We need to get her down from there.”


    Jose moved towards the edges of the brink, where water flowed down and around


    the tree.


    “Be careful,” she pleaded.


    He transformed into his Lycan form and leaped off the floor with his hands spread out. He grabbed the


    branch of the tree and he climbed up. He wrapped his hand around the silver chain around Yi’s neck


    and took it off. With a firm grip, he took the carcass into his arms and leaped off the tree. Hended on


    the safe, dry ground, not far away from them.


    He walked towards them with Yi’s carcass in his arms. Elder Rio took off his cloak and helped cover


    Jose up, and Fiona took off her cloak and covered what she could of Yi’s b*dy. Her hand touched her


    dry bones, and she moved into a trance. She found herself standing in the same position, but not on


    the same


    timeline.


    He found the now–dead Yi moments before her painful death. She was in her silver wolf’s form on


    the tree, sobbing into the flowing water, and she couldn’t tell how long she had been there. In her hand


    were silver chains and an oak wood shaped into a pointy mouth dagger. She threw the chain around


    the branch of the tree, and then, when she had it around her neck, she threw herself off the tree. The


    same second, she drove the dagger still in her hand into her chest, piercing deep into her heart. She


    bled out, and the blood dripped into the flowing water. Immediately, the fresh tree was emaciated and


    turned dry.


    “Sky?” Jose called, and she snapped out of the trance and found him before her.


    She withdrew her hand from the healer’s carcass and turned to Rio. “Where can she be buried?”


    “Come with me: I will show you.” He said that and led Jose away from the waterfall’s brink


    Marion stood staring at the tree in the centre of the flowing water for a while before turning around to


    Fiona. “What now?”


    “Her blood activated the curse, and her death cemented it.” She replied.


    She stepped towards the edge of the flowing water. Getting to it, she transformed into a wolf. She


    leaped off the ground, and she stretched her paw out to grab the


    branch and keep herself from falling into the water. Once she achieved that, she climbed onto the tree,


    and she dug her w into her palm deep enough so that she bled. Then she held up her hand, and her


    blood tricked down her paw and dropped into the water flowing. After the second drop, she felt the tree


    she held onto shake, and this told her the blood had taken effect on the roots. She then ced her still


    bloody palm on the tree branch, and she leaped off the branch, stretching her leg so shended on the


    side of the flowing waters.


    She stood from there, watching as the dry and almost dead tree came back to life before her very eyes.


    “Sky?” Marion called to her, and she turned to find him holding out his cloak for her.


    “Thank you.” She took it from his hand and wrapped it around her b*dy.


    “I should thank you.” He bowed his head to her and said. “The curse has been broken, and this is


    something I will never forget as long as I live.”


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