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Emerelda woke up in a dazed state with a tension headache as her alarm clock blared over the pain. Headaches were the new normal for her with the war and all but it had been over for a month. 'Okay weird,' she thought, rolling onto her back and slamming a hand on the alarm to shut it up. After lying there for a few minutes she decided to sit up and power through the pain not thinking anything of it. (Boy would that come to bite her in the ass) she got up and out of bed rather quickly and immediately fell to the ground in agony with a yelp. Not only was her headache a full-blown migraine but she had god-awful cramps and could smell blood a LOT of blood.
From where Emerelda was on the floor, she could see that her period had started. "Of course," she muttered under her breath in annoyance. She went to prop herself up against her bed when she heard a door shut and frantic footsteps. Emaralda knew someone would have heard her fall; she did scream, so it wasn't surprising. Xanthous burst through her door, it took him a minute to realize what was happening. At first, he thought she had been seriously hurt, then he concluded she had started her period but was then further confused as to why she yelled.
"Wait, are you okay? Em, what happened? Why are you on the floor? Did you hit your head?" Xanthous asked, rushing over to where Emerelda was.
"I started my period and It's really bad," She replied.
"Um... Okay, so do you need help?" Xanthous asked while he stood up, starting to take Emerelda's bed sheets off and replace them with new ones. All Emerelda could do was nod slightly.
''Alright, then what do you need Princess Emerelda?'' Xanthous said half-jokingly.
"Umm..." She said hesitantly "A lot, starting with a bath, maybe some hot tea, painkillers, and a nap," Emerelda finished.
"That's not much," Xanthous said then abruptly scooped her up and carried her down the hall into the bathroom, set her down and started running the water. "Are you sure you want to take a bath? I get that it would be more comfortable but the water will get gross quickly," Xanthous commented.
"Mhm, yeah you're right could you maybe help me rinse off and then get into the tub?" Emerelda said hazardously.
''Yeah, I don't mind." He said with a yawn; it was pretty early around 6:30 am most of them canceled their alarms but Emerelda being the way she is kept hers.
Emerelda held herself up on the sink top as Xanthous helped her undress. Yeah, sure, she could ask Skyline or Tangerina, but Xanthous has always been by her side, and she's been by his. They always had that brother-sister bond, especially after the sorcerers targeted him. When they were asked about it, the answer was always unclear, even to them.
Emerelda wasn't wearing a bra so he moved on to take her blood-soaked underwear off. She got clean enough to get in the bath and, the contrast of the sticky blood on her to the warm water felt amazing plus the cramps and migraine were going away with the help of some medicine Xanthous brought her.
Later she got out of the tub (against her will, mind you) and went to bed to try and get the little sleep she could with all the pain. There was a lot of clotting but it stopped after a while thank god because it was freaking Emerelda out.
(two weeks earlier)
"Hey Luce?" Emerelda said.
"That would be me. What's up Emmy?" Lucy said while ‘reading’.
"Would you happen to know where the spell book 'a simple guide to magic' is?"
"What? You re-learning magic or something?" Mother Goose replied with a snarky tone.
"No, I cast a spell on my body when the grand army came so I didn't have to worry about my period," Emerelda said exasperated.
"Wait two things. You still have your period?! And why would you want it back?" Mother Goose said while holding up the respective amount of fingers.
"It's not like I have a choice, spells always have consequences. You of all people should know this!" Emerelda said ignoring the first comment. Though it did make sense, she was around 500 years old. Maybe she wasn't so sure.
"Yeah yeah, whatever Coral probably has it."
"Thanks," Emerelda said and left the room. Coral did end up having the book and, after she was done with it she gave it to Emerelda without question.
"Let's see… how do I uncast this spell?" She thought out loud for a moment. Her eyes skimmed over pages finally landing on the page she needed. There was a warning on the bottom of the page that read: The longer this spell has been in effect the more side effects will occur.
(present time)
She severely regretted undoing the spell at this point, but what more could she do? It was a little odd that she still had her period like Mother Goose said maybe it'll go away and never come back... Oh, who was she kidding she's a FAIRY for crying out loud of course it wasn't going away. She'd have to suffer the consequences for a whole week if not every time she got her period. "Ugh!" She moaned out partly in frustration and also because of the amount of pain she was in.