Days became months and months became years but Tatiana was growing colder and colder. I tried to bring her back to the way she was by giving her surprises or doing anything that would please her but she did not bother.
In the winters of that year, the snow had covered the whole of our lands and in that time Orcs had attacked us. Cony was tasked to lead the army to defeat the army of Orcs, I and Tatiana were to stay in our castle. Our army of Elves was faring better in the war and I had hopes that we would surely win the war. But to my surprise the Orcs surrendered and left our lands, they even left their wounded companions to doom. I thought I would take them in, treat them and make them into my people but Tatiana had other plans.
Unknown to me she had asked Cony to bring the wounded to her so that she could treat them. I had my doubts and asked him to only send the ones that were brutally wounded and take the rest to the healer Elves. He did what I had told him to do and about three hundred orcs were sent to her whereas thousands of Orcs were sent for treatment.
A week had passed without any news of their healing neither from the healers nor from Tatiana. It felt like they were gradually dying of natural causes. One day at night I heard a gurgling sound. I went around the castle to find where was the sound coming from. I ventured to the dungeon when I saw one of the Orcs locked in a cell but that wasn't odd, for when I first saw it I thought he must have threated so he was locked here but on closer inspection I saw a mark carved on his fore head. The Orcs was screaming in pain but not exactly screams could he heard as his mouth was filled with blood. I asked him what was happening to him but he just pointed a finger towards his forehead and in front of my eyes I saw him die the most gruesome death.
He did not just die rather small cuts started to appear on his skin all over his body. Thousands and thousands of cuts deep and blood was flowing out. Then his eyeballs burst and flowed out like liquid and so it happened as his whole body was melting inside out and in a few seconds, there was no body only blood, pool of blood on the ground. I was devastated to see the state of this Orc. I ran up to Tatiana's room only to find her missing.
I called Cony and asked him where were the Orcs sent to Tatiana. He led me into the forest. I asked him why were the Orcs in the forest to which he said that Tatiana had said to him that the atmosphere there would heal them quicker.
I and Cony were hiding in bushes to see Tatiana standing in between the Orcs' bodies on the ground. But they weren't the three hundred that were sent to her. They were all the Orcs, thousands of them.
They all had the same mark on their forehead and none of them seemed to be healing rather they were in worse condition. With just a look at them, I knew straight away this was Dark Magic. I ran to the circle and pushed her to the ground and yelled at her for what she was doing. I needed answers.
That's when I saw, her eyes, she was no more innocent. They were that of evil. She was gone.
All the orcs then died in the same way and then I felt a power surge going right into her and she was wickedly smiling all the time. Finally, she said that she felt alive.
I was horrified by what she said. She felt alive by killing thousands and that was something I never in my darkest of nightmares had thought would be true. She was a witch and I could not resist her going on a rampage on my people, my Elves. So I exiled her.
Cony was directed by me to take care of her departure and then to report to me that she had gone for good. But before She went away she cursed the land to become dark just like her heart and the Sun would never shine in this land. Thus my beautiful land became black and void of all colors even the water dried from the rivers and streams. My worst nightmare was becoming true and my Elves started to die. I could not let that happen so I gave up half of my strength into a countercurse and was able to make the Blood River and the trees come to life but neither could I bring back the sunrays nor the colors making my land only dark and red.
Tatiana had left me broken and betrayed by what she did to the Orcs. I could not even think how many Elves she would have killed just to satiate her hunger for power. I started hating her to the core.
But that hatred made me evil too. And just to bring her down for good I not only needed to be as strong as I was but stronger than any living being.
And Cony had helped me to gain the powers that were when we made these portal links to go and hunt as I could never bring the courage to kill the beings on this planet. Even if they were witches.
But this was not the end of Tatiana's cruelty and revenge towards me for what she was planning was even beyond my foresight.