THE LEGENDARY STORY OF INAMORTA ?

THE OUTCAST ELVEN PRINCE

" ' HMM.. SO FINALLY, A HUMAN PRINCE HAS MANAGED TO SNAG THE FAMOUS "SHIRABAN" CURSE.. INTERESTING.. PRAY TELL ME WHY AND HOW EXACTLY DID YOU DO IT? YOU CLEARLY LOOK LIKE A HEALTHY ( NOT ANYMORE CAUSE HE WAS TURNING INTO A TREE) AND WEALTHY BOY OF A VAST KINGDOM AND YET YOU HATE LIFE SO MUCH THAT YOU WENT HEADLONG INTO THE LIFE SENTENCE CURSE. SO WHY?' THE PRINCE WAS A LITTLE TAKEN ABACK BEING ACCUSED FALSELY FOR A SUICIDE MISSION. HE TOOK A MOMENT TO REPLY SO AS TO AVOID UNINTENTIONALLY ANGERING THIS STRANGE CREATURE, ' THATS VERY PREPOSTEROUS. WHY IN MOTHER EARTH'S NAME WOULD I, THE PRINCE OF A VERY BIG KINGDOM WANNA COMMIT SUICIDE?. AND MOREOVER, WHO ARE YOU? AND WHY ARE YOU AFTER ME? ARE U A SHIRABANIAN?'.

THE BEING CHUCKLED AT HIS WORDS AND REPLIED, ' WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THAT I COULD BE A SHIRABANIAN? AND EVEN IF I WAS, THEN WOULDN'T I BE IN SHIRABAN, RECEIVING THE BLESSINGS OF THAT PLACE AND LIVING A HAPPY MERCHANT LIFE INSTEAD OF BEING CURSED LIKE THIS TO BECOME A LIVING APPARITION AND SPEND MY TORTUROUS ETERNITY LIKE THIS WITHOUT SALVATION. BUT NO WORRIES. SINCE YOU ARE THE FIRST CURSED HUMAN PRINCE I MIGHT LET YOU HAVE THE PRIVILEGE TO STAND BESIDE ME HERE BY THE POND. THE BREEZE HERE IS GOOD THAN THERE HUDDLED WITH THOSE OTHERS'. THE BEING POINTED TO A THICKET OF TREES A LITTLE FAR OFF FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE POND. THE PRINCE WAS CONFUSED AS WHAT THIS STRANGER WAS TALKING ABOUT. LIVING APPARITION?...TORTUROUS ETERNITY?... PRIVILAGE TO STAND BESIDE THE LAKE?.... AND WHO WAS HE POINTING AT? THE TREES OR SOME HIDDEN PEOPLE LIKE HIM?.. ' WHO ARE YOU EXACTLY? AND WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?.' "



" THE BEING WAS SILENT AND MOTIONLESS FOR A FEW SECONDS, AND THEN TAKING A DEEP BREATH BEGAN, ' ALRIGHT THEN. LET'S START OVER. ' *AHEM* ' I AM ITARI. I WAS AN ELVEN PRINCE ONCE UPON A TIME. LONG

STORY SHORT, A DISASTER ONCE STRUCK MY KINGDOM. TO SAVE IT FROM PERISHING I HAD TO GO AGAINST MY FATHER AND THE COUNCIL ELDERS TO OBTAIN HELP FROM ONE OF OUR BIGGEST ENEMIES IN EXCHANGE FOR RARE MAGIC JEWELS FOUND AND CRAFTED ONLY IN MY KINGDOM. AFTER THE SAVING WAS DONE WHEN WE ALL THOUGHT THAT THE WORSE WAS GONE,OUR ENEMIES WHO HAD HELPED US NOW DECLARED WAR AGAINST US (AS EXPECTED). OUR SOLDIERS FOUGHT BRAVELY BUT UNLIKE USUSAL THIS TIME WE SUFFERED A GREAT NUMBER

OF LOSSES CONSIDERING THAT THEY HAD OUR MAGIC JEWELS. AFTER THE WAR WAS OVER A COUNCIL MEETING WAS CALLED IN WHICH THEY FOUND ME GUILTY FOR GOING AGAINST MY OWN PEOPLE AND BEING SOMEWHAT RESPONSIBLE FOR OUR SOILDER'S DEATHS. SINCE WHAT I DID WAS FOR A GOOD REASON SO INSTEAD OF PUTTING ME TO DEATH OR TAKING MY IMMORTALITY, THEY SIMPLY BANISHED ME AND CAST ME OUT OF THE KINGDOM.' "

" AS AND AS THE ELVEN PRINCE WAS NARRATING HIS STORY, OUR PRINCE'S FEELINGS OF FEAR HAD STARTED TO DISAPPEAR SLOWLY AND BY THE TIME HE FINISHED IT WAS COMPLETELY REPLACED BY SYMPATHY. HE SLOWLY MANAGED TO ASK, ' SO HOW COME THAT YOU ALSO GOT THIS CURSE? I MEAN YOU DID GET THE CURSE RIGHT? THAT'S WHAT I GUESS POSSIBLY HAPPENED CONSIDERING ALL YOU HAVE SAID. AND WHY ARE YOU A GHOST AND LIVING IN A TREE?'. THE ELVEN PRINCE SIGHED, ' HUMANS CAN BE SO IMPATIENT. I AM WASN'T FINISHED YET. ANYWAYS I WAS SAYING. AFTER THEY HAD BANISHED ME, I WANDERED ALL OVER THE WORLD LOOKING FOR A PLACE OF MY OWN. IT WAS THEN THAT I STUMBLED UPON "SHIRABAN". AT FIRST I THOUGHT IT WAS A SWEET PLACE, BUT IT WAS DURING THAT ONE FATEFUL NIGHT THAT I REALISED IT'S HORRORS. AFTER BEING STRUCK BY THE CURSE I FLED THE PLACE IN HAST. BUT BEFORE I LEFT THE CITIZENS TOLD ME THAT NO MATTER WHAT I DID I COULDN'T ESCAPE WHAT WAS COMING TO ME. ' "

" ' I SWIFTLY RAN ALL THE WAY HERE TO THIS LAKE. I WAS SITTING AT THE EDGE LOOKING AT THE WATER WHEN I FIRST EXPERIENCED LOOSING SIGHT. I THOUGHT IT WAS MERELY MY TIREDNESS AND ALL THAT HORRIBLE INCIDENTS THAT WAS PLAYING IN MY MIND AND I WENT TO SLEEP RIGHT THERE... ' THE ELF SHOWED THE EXACT PLACE WHERE THE WILLOW WAS STANDING. TH PRINCE GASPED WHEN HE REALISED THE TRUTH BEHIND THE WILLOW. "



Will the prince be able to find an answer to this curse in time or will he be doomed for life?

Find out in the next episode.

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