The Garden's Tale

• Fantasy

								
once apon a time there was a king and queen who loved each other very much. one day, the king set out to get a knife to cut a cake for her. meanwhile, the queen was bored and began chatting with a man in the forest. when the king chopped off her head for seemingly dating another man, the king was cursed by the will of god to turn into a monster known as Kitzulon. kitzulon quickly fell into a guilty and depressed state. one day, he found a cave that he thought was empty. but the cave had a gate blocking him outside. so, what do you think he did? 
kitzulon huffed and puffed and blew the gate away, revealing a garden filled with gold, and magic, and food. there were unicorns and dragons and dancing elves. he ran inside and jumped into the water, scaring the fish away with his smell. just then, he heard a voice and turned around. who do you think it was? 
it...was the spirit of kitzulon's freind Edgar. you see, before he was king, as a prince he'd always enjoy pranks and mischeif with edgar, til one day a demon with fire for eyes and no skin snatched edgar away and ripped out edgar's intestines in front of the poor preking. so when kitzulon saw his freind as a ghostly preasence, he started to cry, admitting the curse and the death of his wife. edgar tells the king turned monster that he was sent to him by god and that he himself cursed the king. edgar says that he'll reverse the curse and let him stay at the garden as long as he follows the rules. no eating the forbidden fruit, no killing anything in the garden even if it attacks first, and no staying up at midnight or he'd be banned from the garden, remain a monster forever, and have his eyes scooped out. kitzulon nodded, claiming he'd listen to his freind. but did he listen? 
one night, kitzulon couldn't sleep. he checked his time and it was almost midnight. "sure edgar's my freind, but i'm the king. why should i listen to some dumb ghost?" kitzulon thought. then, the clock chimed. and guess what time it was! 
kitzulon was horrified, remembering the consequences. "if edgar sees me awake, i'll lose my eyes!" he panicked. so, he closed his eyes and pretended to sleep. edgar came out and saw him. having been fooled into thinking kitzulon was asleep, edgar vanished. the next day, the river had dried up much to kitzulon and edgar's shock. "what happened? you were asleep, kitzulon! was there someone else who stayed up past midnight? i gotta go place some sequrity. everytime a rule is broken, the garden'll fade away. first the water vanishes, then the grass and trees and plants begin to die, next the unicorns and animals'll turn to dust, and then lastly the spirits, including me will cease to exist until someone steps forward and admits to breaking the rules and takes the consequences," said edgar. so, did kizulon tell the truth that he was the one who broke a rule and get his eyes ripped out, or did he keep the lie going, knowing it would destroy the garden and his now spirited freind? 
oh, not yet. kitzulon sighed and went picking berries when suddenly, he saw the biggest, juciest looking fruit that was gold ontop and purple on the bottem. it was shaped like a heart and had the words, "eat me" written in glitter on the fruit. it was the forbidden fruit, but kitzulon didn't know. he grabbed the fruit and ate it. 
meanwhile, edgar, unaware of the situation, was getting a thorn out of a half-vampire girl's foot. the girl was only 105 years old, making it five in vampire years. suddenly, she sneezed and grew pale. then...she turned to dust. edgar's eyes widened in horror as all the animals and creatures started growing pale too. edgar screamed in rage and greif, knowing that another rule had been broken. little did he know it was kitzulon, unaware that by breaking edgar's rules, the lives of the garden creatures were being taken. soon enough, kitzulon awoken to find every animal in the garden now a pile of dust and skelital remains. even the cute little elves and the beutiful unicorns gone seemingly forever. kitzulon fell to the ground screaming and crying hysterically. he took a knife and started cutting his own hand with the same knife that he used when he killed the queen.
so, then kitzulon wiped the blood from his cut on the last animal, a bear whose fur was as red as blood. the bear growled and pinned him to the tree. then, he took the knife to the bear's eye and stabbed it through the skull, impaling it, ending the bear's life and breaking the final rule of the garden. just like that, the trees and plants began to shrivel up. the ground shook and the wind grew sour. and then he looked behind to find a spirit, not edgar's spirit, but the spirit of his wife vanishing. he knew that if he didn't tell edgar in time, edgar would vanish as well. he had to tell the truth and fast. even if it meant losing his freindship and his eyes and forever remaining in his monsterous form. he ran to look for edgar, but it was too late. all that was left of edgar was a headless body. even if he told the truth now, edgar wouldn't hear him without a head. so, he sat there crying as his ghostly freind faded away along with the garden. never to be seen or heard from again. the end. 
It's a powerful story. It shows the importance of honesty and the consequences of our actions, no matter how great or small. Kitzulon's grief is a stark reminder of the pain we can cause when we're not true to ourselves and others. 
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