-Break-
The very next day I married Tarina in a speedy wedding, then moments after we went up to her father and I said, “Sorry I won’t be taking your offer, since we are going to go on an adventure!”
With a face of disbelief, he says, “Has your mind rotted away.”
“As one body, that is what me and my darling wife have decided.” As I say this tears burst forward.
“Darling why are you crying.”
“It is just that I can finally say you’re my wife!”
Sighing, Tarina’s father says, “I see now, you let my child whisper into your ear, listen up right now Yamal do you know how many great men have fallen due to letting the inferior ones whisper sweet words into their ears.”
“Father, no Samuel, what me and my husband decide to do with our lives has nothing to do with you.”
Laughing a little, Samuel says, “You're simply the daughter of a whore whom I graciously accepted as my own because of your face, don’t think because some idiots are willing to pay for you that you can take such a tone with me you dumb bitch.”
Without hesitation, I punch Samuael in the face and say, “You may talk to your whores however you like, but you won’t take that tone with my wife you got that Samuael!”
Turning to my wife, I say, “Are you ready?”
“Have been for ten years!”
And in no time, we were already on a carriage preparing to leave. As we are about to take off our friends from the village wave us goodbye.
Zee says, “Spread the name of our village!”
Od says, “Bring back lots of stories and money!”
Nob says with tears in his eyes, “I know you can do it!”
Waving goodbye, I say, “You guys better live good lives!”
On the carriage, we talked about where we would be headed next, “Should we go to Braoneia or Elenito we could even go to Avalon.”
As my beautiful wife is joyfully mulling over our next location. My mind goes crazy, and I say, “Why don’t we go to Rasartine?”
“Rasartine?”
“A beautiful country which specialises in the creation of confectionaries, chocolate, marshmallow, even lamb Carmel.”
“Oh, I remember you talking about such a country from your stories.”
“How do you remember such a story; I told you that over 9 years ago?”
“I always remember what you tell me.”
“You really are the greatest,” I say jumping my wife.
As I try to kiss her, I am punched in the face as she says, “Bad boy Yamal.”
“Sorry, I know we can’t have our first night as husband and wife like this.”
“Don’t worry when we get to Rasartine, I will give something very special.”
Moving to the front of the carriage, I say, “Give me those reigns!!”
“Sir what are you doing!!?”
“I have no time for this, I must get there!”
Upon arriving in Rasartine, we looked on towards a country covered with confectionaries, from giant cakes to large lollipops everywhere. There are also large towers raining little coloured flakes.
Walking up behind me my wife gives me a stick and says, “Run with this.”
As we run we hold up the sticks in our hands and candy floss appears in them.
“These special sticks makes all the micro candy fibres in the air clump together and it changes depending on where you are. See if I run over here the colour and the taste changes.”
My wife with the joy of a child runs around as the multiple different colours of candy join to her stick making a large spiral of candy. Seeing her like this I start to cry again.
Running up to me and stuffing all the candy in my mouth, she says with an adorable face, “Stop crying and celebrate the happiness.”
“I know, I know,” I say with tears running down my eyes.
Grabbing my hand, we run through the city as my wife says, “Let's go have some fun.”
Looking back on those days I really wish I celebrated instead of crying.
As the day drew to a close, up in the sky I see a swarm of omega butterflies flying overhead.
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Jumping Tarina grabs one of them out of the sky, and says, “It has been a while since I have seen one of these.”
“They could never find our village, so how do you even know what they are?”
“Remember, I wasn’t raised in the village like all of you.” With a pouting face, she says, “Look at you unable to remember things about me.”
“Sorry, it is just I have erased all information from before we were together.”
With a blush, Tarina says, “Idiot! But still, it is nice to see these, maybe I will get to read one of Captivant’s stories again I always loved them.”
With a sour face, I say, “You like that famous author!?”
“Don’t be jealousy darling,” Opening the omega butterfly Tarina starts to read it, but suddenly she has a frightened look on her face.
All around us, I hear screams and tears, as I see people clutching the butterflies. Seeing this I run over to Tarina and read the newspaper.
It says the following: On the 4th of Virgo, at 1 am the holy nation Gevurah declared war on Rasartine.
After reading this I immediately grab Tarina and head to the inn to pack our bags. As we stuff our bags, I notice Tarina is shaking behind me, so I hug her and say, “Don’t worry everything is going to be fine, but right now to make sure that has an even better chance I need you to help me pack.”
Calming down she says, “I trust you!”
After packing our bags, we head out of the inn towards the border of the town, then get our carriage to head north on a direct road away from Gevurah to the south.
Through the night we hold each other as we travel to the border city of Zweetkie, but when we arrive to our dismay, we see the army is stopping anyone from leaving north.
As we head to the crowds outside the army barrier, we see them scream, “LET US OUT, LET US OUT, LET US OUT!”
Then the army shouts, through a shattered shell, “Be quiet the lot of you! We are trying to protect you.”
From the crowd, I hear someone shout, “That’s a bunch of bullshit, the reason you're keeping us here is because if enough civilians die then there is a chance other countries might help you, WE ARE NOT YOUR CATTLE!”
The moment the man finishes screaming, the crowd erupts as they try to force their way through. Pulling Tarina close, I say, “We need to sneak through.
As we start manoeuvring our way through the rough crowd, I start to breathe heavily as the heat starts to affect me. “Just a little more honey.”
But as I say this, I see blood spurt on my face. Looking forward I see some of the soldiers have started to attack the crowd.
“You traitorous scum, I told you to back up!”
The soldiers in front of us continue to cut up people, which causes the entire crowd to turn around and run away. The people who suddenly start running in the opposite direction cause me to let go of my wife. “TARINA!”
Φ Being dragged away by the crowd, I scream out, “YAMAL!”
Using all the strength in my small body I try to push my way through the crowd, but I am instead pushed to the ground. As I try to get up, I am knocked down then suddenly I am kicked by one of the panicking runners.
Recoiling from the blow I open my eyes to see a bunch of people running over me, so I enter a fetal position and try to protect my head. As the people keep stepping on me, I feel my body about to give out, but it suddenly stops.
Opening my eyes, I see Yamal on top of me protecting me from being stepped on.
Φ Seeing that Tarina is still alive, I let out a sigh of relief. But then my focus immediately changes as I try to cope with the pain of having my back constantly stepped on.
Feeling a sharp piercing pain in my back a let out a scream, did someone just walk over me with heels. This isn’t good I can feel my body about to collapse, but I can’t, if I go down Tarina will have to take this and her body won’t hold out, I must protect my wife!
After a minute or two, I no longer hear the voices of people, so I say, to Tarina, “Let’s go.”
-Break-
Lying on the floor of the street, my wife Tarina starts to patch me up. with a panicked look on her face she says, “This is bad Yamal, you're bruised everywhere and there is blood leaking from your back.”
Looking at her body, I realize she is more injured than I thought so I say, “Sorry for failing to protect you.”
Suddenly she stops what she is doing and looks at me with a face of furious anger, “What the fuck is wrong with you!!!? Did you really just say that you mentally roasted potato.”
“Sorr-.”
“Don’t apologize, you cotton-toed imbecile, you fish-necked bastard, you dairy dickhead.”
“What the hell do those insults even mean?”
With tears, she says, “Shut up, I don’t even know.” As she starts to cry, I try to clear her tears, but as I do that she says, “Please don’t apologize because if you do my heart will break.”
“I know, I know,” I say holding my wife.
After a little while she calms down and sits beside me all bandaged up.
With a smile, she says, “Looks like our first day as a married couple is already hectic.”
With a cold expression, I say, “Seems like it was.”
Noticing my expression my lovely wife pokes, my cheeks and asks me, “What’s wrong?”
“Nothing.”
Poking my cheeks even more, she says, “Tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me!”
“OK!”
“Yes!”
“I don’t think I have ever told you this, but my family were adventures of the hunters guild.”
“EH, really!?”
“Yeah, they use to race all over the world and have great adventures, and when they finished, they would come back to the village to tell me about them, hearing their stories even as a child made me so excited especially since they always looked so happy.
Though it was sad that it was only me and Grandpa most of the time, so I asked them once to stay with me and Grandpa.
But in response, they told me, “Sorry son, but we have always wished to experience the wonders written in Captivant’s books ever since we wore little kids, and until we see them all we won’t stop.””
“How selfish!”
“Your right, it was a very selfish thing to say to a child, but still I thought they were incredibly cool for it. Not rotting away where they were born and breaking free from all the rules that bound them. They felt like legendary heroes, but alas they were still just humans. One day, a priest from Cordum came to tell my family they had gone missing, apparently their ship ran into a tsunami.”
“I am so sorry Yamal.”
“No need to say that I have gotten over it. Well at least partially, you know somewhere deep in the back of my mind I thought that if I became an adventure I could find them, and when we meet, they would be proud of me for following their path.”
“Yamal.”
With tears in my eyes I say, “And because of I dragged us both here, I am so sorry!”
Kneeling in front of me, my wife holds my head with both her hands and gives me a kiss. Feeling her lips against mine I stop crying, then moments later she says, “That was our second kiss ever, I am still kind of embarrassed.”
“You know using that to manipulate my mood is evil.”
Giving me another kiss, she says, “But it worked didn’t it.”
Shy I say, “Yes.”
“As I have said a hundred times at this point and will probably have to say for the next 60 years, don’t blame yourself I agreed to this.”
“Honey.”
“Now if my memory serves me right this is technically still the nighttime of the day after our wedding, and I believe our carriage is still over there.”
With a blush on my face, I get up and walk with my wife over to our carriage.
Throughout that night I felt happiness I had never felt before, as I spent time with my darling wife.
But it was something soon replaced with terror, as in just 70 hours Rasartine surrendered.