I walked into a secluded area of the castle. Once there, I called for a maid.
"Yes," the maid said as she entered the room.
"Hold still," I said. Vega left my body and flew at the maid. It was almost like possesing her. Then she turned and looked at me.
"There. Now, you said you can help me?"
"Yes, but i need to know what happened."
"Fine," she said. She spent the next hour explaining how she became Nightmare.
"Wow," was all I could say after hearing her story, "So, let me get this strait. The king and queen imprisoned your family and turned you into this because you attacked them?"
"Yes."
"I see. I'm sorry."
"Why would you be," she shouted, "You dont understand the pain I went through."
"No, but I understand better than most. You see, I lost my family to."
She looked at me with what looked like tears.
"You did to?"
"Yeah. My parents were killed in a fire. And my grandparents died of natural causes. My siblings are probably dead by now. I only have Luna and Chrysalis left. And I don't want to lose them."
Saying that, letting all the pain and suffering out, I just sat there and cried. I had kept all that misery bottled inside. Now it was all flowing out. I barely noticed when Vega walked up to me and hugged me. I just kept crying. Finally, after a few minutes, I stopped crying.
"I'm soory," I said, "I should be helping you."
"No. I'm fine. It's you who needs help. Why did you keep that all bottled up?"
"I don't know," I said, "Old habits die hard."
"I'm sorry about what happened."
"It's fine. It wasnt your fault. Its already been taken care of."
"Good."
Vega looked away.
"I've been meaning to ask you something."
"About what," I said.
"About your curse."
"Oh."
"If you don't want to talk about it tha-."
"No. It needs to be heard. But what I'm about to tell you is very grusome, and you may not like what happened."
"I'll be fine," she said.
"Alright."
(17 years ago. POV Jonathon)
I was walked from school after being kicked around and bullied for my apperence one day. As I was walking I saw someone being robbed at gun point. I just ignored it. It's not like I could have done anything about it. I just kept walking home. As I was walking, I noticed smoke coming from the direction of our house. I started running there as fast as I could. By the time I got there, the house was nothing but ash. Then I notice lumps in the ash. As I continued to look, I notice they resembled bodies. Two of them.
"MOM!!! DAD!!!" I was about to them but my arm was grabbed by something. I turned expecting a firefighter, but instead came face to face with a middle aged man. Then I saw his eyes. They looked like pits of fire.
"Come with me. I can help you get them back." His Voice sounded like a snake hissing. Not thinking, I followed the man into a back ally.
"How can you help me," I asked.
"I can give you the power to defend your family. But, you must give me something in return."
"I'll give you anything. Please, I just want to help my family."
He sneered.
"Don't worry. I've already taken him. Now hold still." he walked over to me.
"Wait. what did you me..." I froze as his hand touched my head. I felt a horrible burning sensation flow through my body. It was like my body was being burned from the inside out. I screamed in pain. Then, Everything went black. I woke up in the same ally. I got to my feet and looked around. Everything looked different. Then, I saw my hands. But they weren't hands anymore. They were claws. Then I noticed people walking around my house. I listened in on their conversation.
"What happened," one asked.
"oh. someone burned the house down."
"Yeah no shit shelock. Were is the son of the family?"
"Why," the second one asked.
"Because, his grandfather died last night."
I didn't hear the rest of the conversation. That is what the man ment by i already took him. He took my grandfather. And now I was cursed. I let out a deep, loud growl. I was going to kill the man who did this. Eventually, I found a way to change back into a human. But I never forgot what that man did to me.
(Present)
Vega sat there, frozen.
"I-I'm so sorry."
"Don't be," I said, "It was my fault. I should have thought about the consequences about dealing with the devil."
She walked over to me and hugged me.
"I'm sorry about attacking you and your family."
I hugged her back this time.
"It's fine. It was just in your nature. I'm sorry about almost killing you."
She laughed.
"Oh please. You didn't come any where near killing me.'
I chuckled.
"Yeah. You're probably right."
We left the room and went our seprate ways.