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Chapter 15: Cursed Armour I didn't leave the room for a week and Alexis had to bring my food up for me. I would occasionally tip my horn with a finger and start crying again. Every night, I left a few holes in my pillow and once Alexis woke up with my horn on her chest. After that night, I slept on the floor. "We need to find a way to get that off." Alexis complained one night after my horn pierced a hole in the wall. "I don't like it either." I grumbled. Mei Ling came up one night and tried to cut the horn off with a chainsaw. "No, don't!" I protested. The vibration shook me from head to toe, but there wasn't even a scratch on the horn. On the other hand, the chainsaw disintegrated. "That's one hard horn." she remarked, tapping the point. She withdrew her finger. "And sharp." she licked a small wound. My tail was also causing a few problems. Sometimes, while I was going through doors, the tail would slam against the frame and break it. Roy had to replace my bedroom door's frame 3 times already and he was getting annoyed. I tried to pull off the armour every day, but I always failed. I gave up after a week and sulked in a corner. Alexis tried to comfort me every now and then and once she even tried the Purge spell. However, the energy was absorbed into my chest again. My hair turned silver and grew so long it reached my foot. I groaned. "I give up!" Alexis groaned after that episode. I fingered my new hair timidly. It was silky smooth. When Lacus came up, she didn't even recognize me until Alexis told her. "Let me try Heal." she placed her hand on my chest and concentrated. I tried to stop her a second too late. My back armour plate was absorbed into my skin, leaving nothing but a string tying the cloth over my chest together. I couldn't untie the knot either. "Sorry, my bad." she scratched her head. I finally mustered the courage to go to the archery range to practice. Even so, I occasionally felt eyes boring into me. I tried to ignore them as much as possible. Alexis was looking through the library for anything that might be able to get my armour off me. Fruitless searches. Once, she turned up an enlarging spell that she thought might be able to get my armour large enough for me to slip it off, but it ended up melding my arm plates into my skin. Another one with a shrinking spell to turn me small enough to squeeze out of the armour turned the back of my bikini into a string, totally exposing my buttocks. The others were afraid to try anything else after that. I winced every time I sat down on the cold steel of the kitchen chairs and I tried to keep out of Lopez's eyesight, knowing full well that he would get a nosebleed. "I'M FED UP OF THIS STUPID ARMOUR!!!" I shouted, slamming my fist into a target in the storeroom. It disintegrated into dust. It was now a full 2 weeks since I first put on the armour. Every night, I shivered while I was sleeping, which made it almost impossible for me to fall asleep. I resorted to stargazing and one night I thought I saw a winged figure speeding through the air. I suddenly realized that my hair was emitting a faint white glow. I grabbed a fistful of it and pulled. It didn't come out. "Okok, I think I've found something." Alexis placed a spellbook in front of me. The page was open to an incinerator spell. "You sure? I don't want myself getting more exposed." I glanced at my own body. "It should work. The description here says it can burn through anything." she placed her hand on my chest. "I doubt it." I thought aloud. "The spell was the most powerful spell in the ancient times, probably way more ancient than the armour." she explained. "Oh all right......" I said sullenly. Alexis closed her eyes and began muttering an incantation. A few seconds later, my chest armour was inflamed. A tingling sensation shot through my chest and I pushed Alexis away. "It failed......" I stared at my leg plates. They had melded with my legs and the remaining parts of the armour were shining white. Also, two transparent wings had appeared on my back. "I don't think we should try anything else." Alexis shrank back. My fingernails extended by 3 centimetres and became pointed. "Agreed." I could only stare as my chest expanded again. I couldn't eat properly now due to my fingernails. Trying to clip them off only resulted in an additional 1 cm to my chest measurement and pale skin. I emitted a faint light aura no matter where I was. I tried using Strafe on some targets during archery practice. The target was completely pulverized by the first arrow and the second left a hole of a metre in radius on the ground while the other two pulverized a tree. I was stunned. A simple Strafe doing that much damage...... I felt a pair of eyes on me and whirled around in time to catch a leaf falling from a nearby tree. I ignored it and walked back into the house. "My name is Jakito, the White Demon. May I ask what your name is?" a strange figure was staring at me. I realized I was back to normal, and I was naked. "Jakito? That means...... the armour......" I gasped. "I had nothing to do with the armour, Torteliangra merely sealed me inside." it sighed. I realized that it had a single white horn protruding from its head and two transparent wings along with a white dragonish tail. "White demons are by far, the only peaceful family of demons. Because of that, the main families despise us and hunt us down. There are barely any of us left. I was thrown into your world a few thousand years ago and I seeked the Queen to shelter me. However, she flew into a shock when she saw me and attempted to cast a spell to banish me. The spell created a chain reaction with my demonhide cloak and caused me to meld with the Queen herself. My presence inside her caused her to hate me even more and I accidentally awoke her dark side." Jakito explained. "But the history in the book......" I thought back to the history page of the Inner Beast book. "A misunderstanding. The Queen transferred my spirit into the armour just before she died and caused words to be written with her magic, wrongly explaining me. I come in peace." Jakito smiled at me. "Then how do I get this armour off?" I asked. His face fell. "There is no way. The Queen enchanted her armour with a cursed spell. She would be immortal as long as she wore the armour, but the price was she would not be able to take it off." he grunted. I groaned. "The armour can never be destroyed, except if by an exceptionally powerful weapon. You still haven't told me your name, young one." he stared into my eyes. "Sorry, I'm...... Artemis." I replied. "I see. Well, Artemis. Your armour does not siphon the power from spells and kinetic contact directly to me. It is your power, and it is safe to charge yourself up like that without causing me to control your body." he grinned at me and disappeared with a 'poof'. I woke up with a start and stared at myself. My mind projected images of my normal skin for a second, then I was back to my cursed form. I sighed and got up. I couldn't move. I turned back and found my tail stuck in the wall. I grumbled and pulled it out, quickly patching up the hole with a little magic. Was that a dream? I flapped my wings and hovered down the stairs. I saw Lopez at the table and quickly covered myself. However, at a closer look, he appeared to be asleep. There was a small hole in his neck. Mei Ling, Roy and Lacus were also asleep at the table. Alexis was sleeping on the counter. Each one had small marks on their necks. I blinked and stared at the mark. The next thing I knew, a door opened under me and I fell into a steel cage. "What the!?" I punched a steel bar. It sparked slightly, but held. "Good work, Afro." a man's voice said. I fell silent. Afrodita walked out of the darkness, holding a syringe. A man turned his head towards me from her side. He was fat and short, and he was wearing a monocle. "I live to serve you, master." Afrodita knelt down before him. I was shocked. "The labs should be happy to see her." the fat guy grinned. |
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