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"Peculiar of Moon's Illusion,

The Twilight that hold the Lights,

Lights of your Shadow hold the path,"

- C.KA

Entry for Open Novella Contest 2019

3rd book : Blue Moon(On-going)

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One night of full moon while the sound threatens the entire village.

Fear of people when sunset is beyond the horizon of the fields near the forest. The howl of wind that swayed the trees as it dance wrapped in mist while the cry of a screech owl terrified the villagers every night.

There was a rumors has been out in their village where the forest was haunted by the witch that no one was brave enough and dare to enter.

There was once a witch who always wandered into the woods her name was Elvira. She was deceived by the person she loved.

She felt the pain in his heart made his start of vengeance to bring his wrath

The poison to every maiden; fragrance of the flower which will gradually become obsessed with its smell and starts to lose sense and worst they would become a bird.

One day Thomas returned to their village with his wife while they were going to his old house Laura seemed to notice the beauty of the sunset. And where they went to a field near the forest as they gazing at the sunset while Laura wandered and seemed out of her sense as she sudden walked to the woods where Thomas felt confused.

Dark cold nights when they go to the woods. Thomas was frightened that every trees he see; have eyes looking at them and the cry of a screech owl he heard seemed strange.

Eventually, Thomas noticed that they were taking the same route. They seemed to be lost while Laura ran to something.

"It so beautiful flower?" Laura said as she gazed the short floral spikes and narrow leaves with thickly clustered bloom in the forest. "Don't touch it their bulbs are poisonous you may get skin irritation if you touch it without gloves, it called Hyacinth" Thomas said while he breathe heavily as he ran following her. "Wonderful name" She said and smiled while she was still amazed to the beauty and fragrance of the hyacinth.

Thomas was concerned about what was happening and suddenly ed the beliefs when he was young and his uncle told him when someone was lost in the wood they needed to do was bite in their tongue where they could see they are the right path.

Thomas felt something strange to happen to Laura. She quickly took Laura's tie hair and took her hands while tied to her. He took Laura and started walking fast while biting his tongue on the road even though he did not know what his uncle told him was true. He goes on walking until he sees the right path in the woods.

While Elvira was watching behind an old willow tree and appeared as an owl where he felt envy.

A few days later, Thomas discovered that Laura was pregnant but she seemed sick and wanted to go back to the forest. At times Laura wanted a hyacinth flower.

Thomas wondered and he did not agree with what she wanted but could not refuse whenever she saw in her eyes that she was eager to get it.

On that day he decided to go back to the forest to get some hyacinth. As he plucked some hyacinth. Suddenly, he heard a whisper.

"Don't take what is not yours" Elvira whispered

"Who are you? Show yourself." Thomas exclaimed while he was holding the hyacinth with his hands trembling.

Elvira showed herself to Thomas. Thomas was scared when he saw him. "Please forgive me, I need these flowers for my wife." Thomas knelt down as his sweat drips on his cheek

"I will give you those flowers but I need something in return." Elvira said as she took smirked while looking at him.

"What do you need?" Thomas replied as it voice carried away in the wind.

"I need a maiden in every full moon" Elvira replied while her eyes widened.

"I can not do that!" Thomas refused as he felt trembled in fear.

"Well, you will turn into a bird instead", Elvira was furious with her eyes full of anger.

Thomas was terrified when he asked for mercy on her.

"I can forgive you but when the 3rd of four full moon your child will be mine." Elvira was vanished after her last words to him.

He run fast as he could. He was frightened and panting where he thought what the witch told to him and he decided not to say it to anyone even his own wife.

After several months, Thomas had a nightmare every day. He could not stop thinking about it and he was worried about what the witch said to him.

As he returns from fields with the sheep. He felt something strange and his heart in his throat. Blue moon appeared in the sky. He hurried back to his house. She was surprised when Laura was on the floor, she seemed to be giving birth

Thomas did not know what to do, until a strong wind from the outside pushing their doors and windows to open. He saw someone approaching the door and began to be frightened when he saw the witch.

"Have mercy," as he knelt down and begged him where Laura was alone when she pushed the child into her womb and felt a lot of pain.

Elvira watched as he begged her. She felt that she had been deceived. "Where is your promised?" Elvira exclaimed while anger in her eyes. "Humans can't ever keep their promise!" Elvira was furious as she began to cast a spell upon to him.

"You will be no longer be the same, you fly to tame,"

Thomas turned into a bird. Elvira, changed her mind when she saw the child instead of Laura turn into a bird, she gave curse that they will regret forever.

"You holds the curse to bloom the flowers"

Laura will remain as a human but whenever he touches the human, it will be a flower. Laura holds the flowers and tears that fall into her eyes where her innocent daughter becomes a flower.

Lucinda saw what her sister had done. "What are you doing?" She said and felt that her sister had committed a crime.

Lucinda tried to bring them back to normal but Elvira was given a cursed to her sister. When she bring back them to normal in return, she would become a bird forever and no one can break the curse.

Elvira vanish into thin air together with Laura and Thomas. She took them to his cave from the highest mountain in Throtellia where she lived with the other maiden which became birds too.

Lucinda seems to be peculiar to the flower, and she felt sad as her teary eyes looked at flowers and she promised that she would do everything to help them.

She re the curse her sister gave her that all Elvira just cursed was the only thing she could not get back to normal. The child has become a flower because of her mother.

Lucinda returned the child to normal and gave her the name Cynthia like hyacinth flowers.

She thought she could not care for the child but at the time her fate was decided. She left the child in a family she'd known.

She ensures that the child grows with a brave heart. She always looks at the her as she grows up until her fate begins.

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You will be no longer be the same,

You fly to tame,

You holds the curse to bloom the flowers, Curse within and ours,

- C.KA