Chapter Seventeen ★ Rampage

｡☆✼★━ Luna ━★✼☆｡

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“Dalphine.” Pearl said then looked away. Her shoulders shook as silent sobs racked her body. I kept quiet. No point in rubbing salt in the wounds.

Traitor or not, Pearl had a reason to hate me. Dalphine, her beloved, was executed for treason only because yours truly caught her. Back then I thought it was a casual meeting between her and some mermen.

Now that I think about it those men weren’t mermen but merlocks. A flash shot through me when I realized who was the true mole in our organization. It wasn’t Pearl. No, she was only carrying out Dalphine’s plans.

Plans that were now coming to light. I ground my teeth and slammed my fist onto the dirt floor. How could I be so stupid? If only I had paid attention then I would have noticed that my partner was indeed committing acts against our kind.

I shot her a venomous look and growled, “Dalphine, was a traitor. Why are you carrying out her plans?”

Pearl choked out her reply between sobs, “Your tiny brain wouldn’t understand.”

“Try me.” I countered and reached within for that golden warmth that would imbue my body with incredible merpowers.

Cold darkness twined around my insides and I let out a gasp. No, this can’t be. I tried again but the dark grew as the cold cut through me like a sharp deadly knife.

Pearl turned towards me. Her mouth quirked up at one end and bitter callous gaze bored right through me. She said in a hollow tone, “Don’t bother. I took the liberty of removing your powers along with the curse.”

“Why?” I said and tried to ball up as the piecing sensation increased. The creatures that piled on top of me made it worse. Again, I cried out in pain.

Her heartless eyes looked down at me as she replied, “Why, Luna, I thought you knew.”

Another flash of pain rolled throughout my being. I cried out trying to breathe through the agony. Clenching my teeth, and with labored breath, I asked, “Knew what?”

She placed a foot on my shoulder and ground her spike heel into it. White hot searing pain throbbed and I almost blacked out. Still, I asked, again, “What?”

A small chuckle escaped her lips, “That to break a curse you have to…”

“Ngggnnnnhhh.” I grabbed fistfuls of dirt to distract myself from the constant torment. “You have to what?”

Pearl bent down close to my ear and whispered, “Sacrifice.”

‧͙⁺˚*·༓☾ – TO BE CONTINUED… –☽༓･*˚⁺‧͙