The next morning, Sabrina entered the parlour to discover her son busily picking out a bunch of thorns and thistles, ready to start knitting the vest that was required to bring back his brothers.
Zelda's words from the previous night echoed in Sabrina's mind, "Only by letting Prince Javier become the king can you live in peace." Sabrina, knowing very well what her son was doing, walked closer and enquired, "Javy, what are you doing with those thistles and thorns?"
However, Javier did not reply, he merely looked at his mother and shook his head, a look of disappointment in his eyes. "Does he know that it was all Zelda's doing? Is he reprimanding me for not stopping Zelda.....oh, only if he knew that this was all for his own good." Then, Narcissa's words echoed in her mind, ".....whilst knitting the vest, the knitter cannot speak or utter a single word, or else the curse can never be reversed again...."
Then, a malevolent thought consumed Queen Sabrina as she persisted, hoping to make the curse irreversible, "Javy, reply to mama, what are you doing? Look! Your hands are bleeding from the spikes of the thorns, stop, Javier, STOP! As your mother, I command you to stop!" Then, she started sobbing as she perceived Javier's blood tainting the thorns, "Please, stop, Javy, stop! You're hurting yourself!" Sabrina nearly screamed as she thought to herself, "This must be God's punishment for me, for my greed and insecurity. Please let my Javy suffer no more."
A whole month has elapsed during which the scene of Queen Sabrina trying to stop Prince Javier repeated itself every morning. Eventually, the vest was complete. In front of the whole palace, Prince Javier summoned his five brothers. Will Javier really let his mother wear the vest so she'll turn into a swan forever?
Javier had long made up his mind about this matter. Without warning, unable to bring himself to punish his own mother, Javier wore on the vest himself. In a puff of green smoke, he was transformed into a swan, whilst his five brothers turned back to their old forms. Everyone looked on in horror at the tragic scene. In fact, the spell would also be broken even if the vest wasn't put on the person that ordered the deed, and Narcissa had lied to the five princes in order to test whether they would want to revenge their stepmother. Surprisingly, they were extremely reluctant to tell Javier this, as all they remembered was Sabrina's benevolence towards them.
"All this was because of me, mama did this for me in order that I can become the king," thought Javier whilst he was knitting the vest, "So if I become a swan, all the hatred will cease to exist."
"NO! Javier! My Javy!" Queen Sabrina screamed in agony as she saw her own son turned into a swan.
~To be Continued~
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