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Seto's POV

I paced the length of my room, panting heavily. I felt like I was gonna be sick.

I'd woken up in the archives again... This is the twelfth time this month that that's happened. I go to sleep in my bed, and wake up in the archives a few hours later, a different journal open each time.

I didn't understand why this was happening to me... No, I knew why, and how... What I didn't know was what I could do to fix it....

I've tried everything, I've tried, potions, spells, charms, hexes, everything! But nothing's working... If anything, it's getting worse. I'm even starting to black out during the day, waking up somewhere else. I have no idea what I do during those times, but I know it's not good...

I sighed and looked at the palms of my hand, once again examining the identical black runes on my hands.

Corruption... That's what the rune meant, and that's exactly what it was doing. This magic was slowly corrupting me, turning me into someone I wasn't. Turning me into the spitting image of my grandfather.

Oh Notch... Did he go through this when he was writing the journals? Slowly turning into something he wasn't before he gave in to the magic? Turning him into a monster? Will I suffer the same fate as him?

No... I won't let that happen... I won't give in or give up... There has to be a way to reverse this...

There has to be...

I looked up and at my desk in the corner of the room, a large spell book lay open on the table, revealing many different spell that I'd all tried except one.

I took a deep breath and walked up to the table, picking the book up and reading the spell, repeating each word in my head to memorise it.

Once I was sure I had the spell down, I closed the book and placed it on the table again. I slowly walked to the centre of the room and concentrated, raising my hands and chanting under my breath.

As I did so, bright purple flames burst to life in my hands, rising up and circling me. I took a deep breath and continued chanting, feeling a burning sensation in my arms, but ignored it. I had to focus.

I kept chanting, the flames spinning around me faster and starting to make me feel dizzy if I watched them for too long. I closed my eyes and kept going. Slowly feeling the burning pain in my arms grow stronger, spreading through my body.

I could feel beads of sweat fall down my face. This spell was sapping my energy fast.

Finally, I open my eyes and gasped in shock.

The flames surrounding me had turned a dark red, the runes on my hands glowing brightly, the burning sensation growing throughout my body by the second.

I quickly curried my hands into firsts and brought them down to my sides, no longer chanting, the flames quickly spluttered out and the burning feeling began to fade everywhere aside from my hands. In fact, it seemed to get worse, flaring painfully and glowing brightly.

I hissed in pain, stumbling back and my back hitting the wall. I began pant heavily, feeling exhausted and in pain.

But, I could also feel power beginning to feel my body. It was an incredible feeling, like I could do anything, and no one could stop me...

I smiled and gazed at the rune on my hand, the power coming from it was truly amazing. I ran the fingers from my other hand over the rune. Maybe this corruption wasn't so bad...

My eyes widened when I realised what I was thinking. I took my hand away, shanking my head violently to clear my head. 'I can't afford to think like that!' I thought 'It's just gonna make things worse!'

I closed my eyes and lay my head against the wall, sliding down it slowly, feeling a small silent tear slip out of my eye and down my face.

I couldn't help but think 'Maybe there isn't a cure... Maybe I'm just doomed to end up like my grandfather... Like a monster...'

I brought my knees to my chest and buried my head in them, sobbing silently.

I just want this to stop... I want it to end...

Is that too much to ask?

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