I realised I haven't written any stories in ages and felt like I had to do something. So, I've decided to do a series on the Seven Deadly Sins. Expect a new story every week, if I remember that is. The first one is envy. Let me know what you think.
Frozen
“I'm coming for you,” Levia
whispered. Her slim and slender body slithered over the cold floor.
Her eyes were a deep yellow, her skin a peculiar shade of green. She
moved, carefully and silent, to her unknowing victim. She watched her
from a distance. Aina. Her golden hair reaching her middle. Her skin
as pale as as snowflakes. Her smile as bright as the Northern lights.
Her beauty so divine it made hearts skip a beat. She had to go.
Aina hummed a gentle melody. One that
could be heard and admired from a great distance. A song that could
melt the hearts of a thousand men. Despicable. It had to perish.
She crept closer and closer, until she
reached the fair lady, observing her from the back. The melody
stopped. A deafening silence arose. A shift of the foot. A shrill
shriek. Levia attacked. Their bodies entwined.
“Stop, please stop!” Aina screamed.
Levia had no mercy. Hatred filled every
vein of her body.
“I have done you no wrong!” Her
victim cried.
Levia laughed. A humourless, cold
laugh.
“Done me no wrong?” She shouted,
“You took everything from me. You were always the prettiest. The
smartest. The bravest. I was nothing.”
Levia tightened her grip. Aina grasped
for air, but struggled to stay conscious.
“Father loved you more. So did
mother. So did every man who laid his eyes upon you. Not anymore.
When you're gone, it will be my turn to shine. It will be my turn to
be somebody.”
Levia's words stabbed her like a knife.
Anger, an anger she had never felt before rushed through her blood.
She fought back. She tried to remove her sister's arms from her neck,
but to no avail.
“You're weak my darling. Soon you
shall be gone and forgotten. Beauty fades and so will your memory,”
Levia laughed.
Aina screamed. She struggled and
managed to break the grip of her sister. She pushed Levia to the
ground and looked at her with pity.
“Your heart is as hard as rock. You
can't expect to receive love when you know no love,” Aina spoke.
She walked back slowly, and reached an
old mirror.
“Please! No!” Levia shouted when
she realised what her sister was planning to do.
“Begging me for mercy now? Pity comes
too late.”
“Aina, please, my dear sister. I was
wrong. I shall repent for my sins. Please, don't do this,” Levia
begged.
“You shall indeed,” Aina spoke
softly.
She removed the mirror from the wall
and placed it in front of her sister. The desperate woman tried hard
not to look at her reflection.
“Look at yourself Levia. You pitiful
creature. Is this what you wanted to become?”
Levia glanced at her reflection in the
mirror. It was not the girl she used to see. A vile and poisonous
snake glared back at her, a tear falling from its eye.
“No. No,” Levia winced. She could
feel her body getting colder. The life in her limbs slowly fading
away. She could see her legs, body and arms freeze until her entire
body was numb and nothing moved but her eyes.
“I shall have mercy this time,”
Aina said. She grabbed a spear from the wall. It had only served a
decorative purpose before. Not anymore.
She held the spear tightly in her tiny
hands. Aina looked into her sibling's eyes and smiled
compassionately.
“I wish it had been different,” she
said.
And with those words she stabbed her
sister in her heart. Levia's scream pierced through her body. She
stepped back as Levia melted, as het desperate eyes cried for help
and understanding one last time.
Levia was gone.
And with a deep sigh, Aina returned to
her seat and stared at the world outside, watching life pass by.
