CHAPTER 1- THE CURSED CHILD
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"Stop doing that, Emilia!" Constancia screamed when she saw her daughter Emilia tried to drink the potion she created to abort a dead baby inside a mother's womb.
Constancia is using that to save mothers from dying when their babies died in their womb.
"You are using that to other people, Mother! Why won't you let me use it?" she screamed at her mother for stopping her on drinking the potion.
"I'm using that to save the mothers from dying not for killing an innocent child!" she's crying while looking at her daughter.
"I can't let this monster inside me lived, Mother. I won't give birth to a monster!" she continuously screamed.
"That innocent child in your womb is not a monster, Emilia. She doesn't need to pay for what her father did. She's innocent! I can't just stand here and watched you become a murderer," frustrated to convince her daughter not to proceed to her plan.
"How can you say it's not a monster, Mother? This child has a blood of a Gamphir from his werewolf father! I will never give birth to this horrendous monster!"
Emilia was raped by a Gamphir when she was working there as a maid. The owner of the house forced himself into her and impregnate her. Emilia can't accept what happened to her that's why she wishes to terminate the baby. She was scratched by the werewolf that raped her but wasn't turned into one since he didn't allow her to drink his blood. Humans can't be transformed into werewolves by just scratching. They need to drink the blood of the werewolf that wishes to convert them into a one.
As a lowborn Belphir, Emilia was discriminated against for carrying a werewolf's child. People in their town called her a w***e. They even created a story of her seducing the master so he could turn herself into a Gamphir.
In the land of Merigon, humans are in the lowest part of the hierarchy. On top of that is Ghampir, those are the vampires and werewolves who possess money and power, and beneath them are the Belphir, the humans, and the witches. Witches are only allowed to perform household magic and healing magic. Witches that will be caught performing dark magic will be sentenced to death by beheading.
It said to be that hundreds of years ago, there's one race that stood above them all, the Great Dragon Alpha, but it is now considered a myth since it been hundred of years and yet they haven't seen even a single scale of the Dragon Alpha.
"I will kill this child no matter what or I will kill myself!" Emilia shouted at her mother.
Emilia leaves Constancia with no choice. She watched out for Emilia to prevent her from harming the child until she calms down and finally falls asleep.
"I'm sorry, my child, but I can't let you harm my grandchild."
She cast a protection spell for the child in her womb so that no man can ever lay danger upon her.
"..Im protektus ivala c*m por mi, kala um forme asdula. Protect this child from any harm caused by human, No man shall lay a danger upon you. Im protektus ivala c*m por mi, kala um forme asdula " she repeatedly cast the incantation in her hand. A bright green light started to come out from Constancia's hand. She lay her glowing hands to the womb of Emilia who was sleeping soundly to finally completes the spell.
"This will do, for now, my child. Please forgive your mother for planning on harming you. I can't wait to see you, my innocent child. You are the last hope of Merigon," she whispered in Emilia's womb.
Her magical powers don't just give her the ability to cast a spell and create a potion, nobody knows about it but Constancia is a powerful witch who can see the future.
Constancia was woken up by Emilia's scream.
"What did you do to me, Mother?!" she was frantic when Constancia went to her room to check on her.
"You know what I'm talking about, Mother. What did you to me? I’ve been punching my stomach for too long now and yet I can't feel anything. My hands keep on bouncing back as if something is preventing my hand to lay on my stomach," she mumbles continuously.
"I don't know what you're talking about, Emilia. Come out now, I already prepared our breakfast. Why don't you eat first before continuing on your day," she calmly responds.
Constancia was glad that her incantation works.
"You are definitely behind this, Mother. I will never stop until I killed this cursed child!" she threatens. Constanscia was unbothered by Emilia's threat.
She knows that Emilia can do nothing to harm that unborn child. She's not cursed, that child is a gift.
She just turned her back on Emilia and went to the kitchen to finish setting up the food. Moments later, Emilia comes down running while holding her mouth. She went straight to the sink and started vomiting. She apparently drunk the potion that Constancia made to flashed out a dead baby from its mother's womb.
"I can't even drink a poison!" she complaint when she realizes that her body is resisting anything that will harm the child inside her. Constancia hides her smile. She breathed a sigh of relief, at last, she's now at ease that the child will be born unharmed.
7 months Later
"Aaargghhhh!" Emilia screams while droplets of sweats are running down to her face.
"Emilia, push a little more. I can already see the head," Constancia said while massaging her womb for the baby to come out.
"Ahhhhhh, I can't take it anymore. Get that monstrous child inside of me!" Emilia shouted.
"Try to calm down, Emilia, just a little more push. Here she comes!" Constancia excitedly shout.
She heard Emilia growl in pain as she tried so hard to push the baby out. Moments later, a loud cry of an infant child wraps around the room. Constancia was delighted to finally see her granddaughter.
"Look, Emilia, she got the color of your eyes." she happily tells her.
"Why don't you put her on your chest so you can start breastfeeding her," Constanscia stood up and tried to latch the baby to Emilia.
"Get her away from me, Mother, I don't have any plan on holding that monster," she refused.
"Don't talk liked that Emilia, your daughter is no near a monster. Look at her lovely face, she looks exactly like you," Constancia said while trying to tend the baby.
"She doesn't look like me! She's a monster like her father!" Emilia shouted which causes the child to cry.
"Okay calm down, shouting won't do you any good, you might overexert yourself."
She put the newborn baby in the crib beside the bed that Constancia had built for the baby. She started cleaning up the placenta and wipe some blood due to giving birth.
"If you don't want to hold her, you should at least give her a name," she told Emilia who's now facing her back at her and the baby.
"I don't care what you do to her. You can feed her to wolves for hell I care," she dismissed her mother's words.
Constancia just shakes her head in disbelief for seeing how cold Emilia is to her newborn daughter. If only she could tell Emilia the important role that this child will play in the future. A witch like her who sees the future is considered to be a devil worshiper and can be sentenced to death. The irony, right? Witches who perform dark magics are considered to be evil but those Gamphirs who use humans for food are not.
She continued fixing the things she uses for Emilia's delivery. She went to the kitchen for a while to wash away the blood from the basin and towels that she uses when she suddenly heard a loud bang coming from Emilia's room. She immediately runs towards the room only to find Emilia pinned on the wall holding a knife in her right hand. There's a certain unseen force that's holding and pinning Emilia against the wall.
"You see, Mother? She's a monster! She's a child of the Devil!" Emilia screamed still holding the knife in her hand.
Constancia immediately went to the child and carry her to stop her from crying.
When the baby calms down from crying the forces surrounding Emilia also started to fade. Emilia is still furious by the fact that even after birth she can't do anything to kill the cursed child. She starts to lose her mind, she blankly stares at her mother and the child. She's beginning to feel the toll of giving birth and the trauma she experience in the hand of his previous master.
She started walking blankly towards the other room. Constancia didn't bother to check on Emilia and continue tending the baby until she calms down. The child is probably hungry that's why she decided to look for Emilia so she can start breastfeeding the baby.
She continued searching for Emilia until she searches the bathroom. There she saw Emilia.
"Emilia!" she screamed in horror when she opened the door of the bathroom and saw the lifeless body of Emilia hanging from the ceiling.
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