-Break-
Feeling extremely fuzzy, I hear, “Don’t worry Ahmed, we will get out of here soon.”
“Just rest up my king, we won’t allow anyone to hurt you.”
“Easifatan is here to keep you safe!”
Opening my eyes, I see that my shoulder is slung over Adi's shoulder as he carries me down a hallway.
Still weak and dizzy, I ask, “What are you guys doing?”
Scheherazade says, “Getting you as far away as we can.”
“No way will we let you die here.”
Holding up my right hand, I say, “I can’t feel anyone’s location it seems that my chains have all been deactivated. I have lost.”
“You lost nothing.”
“As long as you live, we will have won.”
“Where is Naji?”
Easifatan says, “He isn’t with us anymore.”
“Did they kill him?”
“He died from over exhaustion, it seems like he pushed himself too far, but don’t worry my king he had a rather happy look on his face.”
Lowering my head, I say, “I see, so you got to go peacefully Naji.”
Suddenly I hear a roar reverberate from behind us, then I hear Adi say, “He’s here!”
Noticing that roar I turn around and see Cyrus with blood dripping from not only his eye but his entire body, there is no way he should be standing. But one look at his face and you instantly realize how he managed this: pure rage.
“ADI RUN,” Easifatan says as he pulls out a lighting dagger. Scheherazade follows close behind him with a curved sword.
“WAIT!” I shout as Adi speeds up. “Adi let me go right now, he is after me.”
“I can’t do such a thing, my king.”
“Why are you guys doing this, my life isn’t worth it.”
Laughing a bit, Adi says, “Back on the day you saved me and my sister you had just lost your brother due to our actions, yet you never held it against us. Instead, you saved us, cared for us, and loved us. You became family to us.
If my sister died, I would have broken into to pieces, but you were strong and forgiving, you surpassed what any normal person would do and made sure to bring happiness to all the people. You truly are great my king, someone I would happily die for.”
On my left side, I see Cyrus appear out of nowhere and smack me and Adi into a wall with his tail.
Recovering from the blow I look down the hall where I see both Easifatan and Scheherazade on the floor injured.
“Run my king!” Adi shouts as he runs toward Cyrus.
With a fierce grip, Cyrus grabs his face and slams him right down into the ground.
“ADI!”
Walking up to me laid up against the wall, Cyrus grabs me with his tail and holds me up against the wall. “Kill me if you must, but please leave them alone.”
Holding his sword up he screams, “DIE!” Then swings his sword towards me.
Closing my eyes, I wait to be killed but the sword never hit me. Opening my eyes, I see Orb holding the sword.
Φ Grabbing Cyrus close I give him a hug and say, “Please just rest now, any more movement and your body will give out.”
Cyrus starts to scream, but I start gently caressing his back and say, “If you die it will make your sister's sacrifice pointless, so please leave the rest to me.”
After a few seconds, Cyrus releases Ahmed, and then his body goes limp in my arms. Laying him down on the floor I fall to my knees in pain, the sailsaila judgement attack is still making my body hurt, it hasn’t left.
Looking over towards Ahmed, I say, “Are the chains off Raqiue?”
“Your last attack knocked me out, so all my chains are gone.”
Under my breath, I say, “Thank god.”
Φ “Hey Orb, I once had an older brother.” Hearing this Orb turns his face towards me, so I say, “My brother was an amazing person, who stood for the people. He was a hero who lived a righteous life, but he died in such a horrible way.
He was tortured and his body was mutilated, he lived such a righteous life but died in such a pitiful way, and the last words he said were; I don’t want to die.
Ever since then, I have always wondered, did he break? Did he stop being himself? Did he die full of hollow despair? And if he had died before such a catastrophe befell him, would he have been happier?
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And I have always known that people could change, I am well aware that I am not the foolish child I once was, but in the process of changing horrible people like me rob the world of such good people. I am different now but because it took me so long to change my brother’s life was ripped off this planet, and the thought of what my brother could accomplish breaks me down each day.
I have changed as you say but all I am left with is regrets, and Orb for years now my soul has been nearly identical to a demon. So, with this dammed life of mine, I tried to bring people the happiness my brother would have brought them, and if I couldn’t give it to them in this world, I gave them certainty in the next. But I would never allow them to become a monster of regret like me.”
Activating my legacy, with the strength I have left, I say, “So tell me Orb can the path you choose truly bring happiness to more people, because if you can’t I will make sure to end you both here.”
Looking down towards the floor, Orb says, “The man who made me believe in such an ideal, was named Captivant. He was the first person I ever meet and raised me. He was a wonderful person who lived an exciting and fruitful life, and when he died he was shown like a star in the sky.
But the reason he shined so bright wasn’t because he died peacefully in the bed, or the fact that he died with someone who cared for him, but it was the life he lived that allowed him to shine so bright.
I didn’t become inspired by the person he was when he died, but everything that formed that person, and that is the reason he was able to shine so brightly. I am sure even if he died a horrific death that same shine would be there because death doesn’t change what Capti was.”
Seeing Orb grit in pain due to my sailsaila judgement, I hear him say, “I know how you feel regret in all your actions, and so do I. No matter what action I do I always seem to hurt somebody, I simply can never just save everybody, and make them all happy. So, I don’t know what actions can make everyone happy, whether your method is truly wrong, or even if change really does bring such never-ending regret.
But I do know that everyone can shine just like Capti, and I will always pick the path that makes everyone like him because I am sure that is where the greatest happiness that anyone can ever grasp is there.”
Falling to the ground in pain, Orb says with a kind smile, “I can also say this, if I died to reach my goal, I would be happy, especially if I got to save someone I love.”
The smile Orb is making feels nostalgic, I have seen it somewhere before but where?
Suddenly an image appears in my mind, one of long ago it was the day my brother died. It was the moment after he said he didn’t want to die.
I was held in front of him and stared into his horrible, mutilated face, it was such a disgusting scene that my mind got all fuzzy. But as the sword went close to his neck, he stared right at me. And even in such a state, he smiled right before his head flew off.
Realizing this tears fall from my eyes, and I hold my ring in my hand and then say, “You know you have left me with even more regrets.”
Smiling he says, “I am sure you can get past it all, that’s just how amazing your stars are.” Orb in front of me starts to close his eyes, and moments later I do as well.
-Break-
Φ Opening my eye, I look around the room. It is very similar to the room I woke up in this morning. I try to move around but am struck with incredible pain.
Looking down I see my body is heavily bandaged up, making it hard to move, but I still manage to sit up on the bed, and when I do I see one of Avram’s people; Gheorghe.
He then screams, “CYRUS IS AWAKE!” Down the hallway.
Instantly this scream wakes me up, then I try to get up and move off the bed. But unable to do so I fall to the floor.
Running up to me Gheorghe says, “What are you doing Cyrus.”
“I NEED TO FIND THAT BASTARD.”
“I am sorry, but you won’t be able to do that Cyrus.”
“WHY’S THAT!”
“Because both you and Orb have been in comas for the last six months.”
Shocked I say, “What!?”
Name: Ahmed Abrahams
Age: 23
Birthday: Capricorn 27th
Hair: Gold (Primary), Black, (Secondary)
Eyes: Crimson (Left), Purple (Right)
Height: 190cm
Description: The current king of Jedidah. He was a pleasant man who brought exciting and happy lives to his citizens, which he has done since the death of his brother. He loves books, especially romance books, and he also loves to bake, especially his triple deluxe supreme heavenly cream cadavre; A cream puff that would kill a normal human.
Legacy: God of the abyss Osiris. Grants the user the ability to create and manipulate chains with spiked ends. These changes can attach themselves to people allowing the user to know someone’s location, emotional state and even the thoughts in their head, with the freedom to restrict all of them at will.
Name: Adi ibn Zayd
Age: 21
Birthday: Aquarius 18th
Hair: Grey (Primary), Dark blue (Secondary)
Eyes: Pink (Left), White (Right)
Height: 177 cm
Description: The Vizier of Ahmed, and his right-hand man. Takes care of countless issues to support Ahmed’s running of his kingdom and is fiercely loyal to all Ahmed stands for. He happens to be the leader of the king Ahmed fan club, and goes to great lengths that the king never finds out about its existence.
Legacy: God of the moon, Thoth. Grants the user the ability to absorb moonlight into a giant blocky blue arm, the arm being composed of moonlight tends to copy the properties of the moon thus allowing it to create a mini gravitational field. The arm can also shape itself into different objects like a canon that’s shoots moonlight.
Name: Scheherazade ibn Zayd
Age: 23
Birthday: Scorpio 9th
Hair: Grey
Eyes: Pink
Height: 175 cm
Description: The elder sister of Adi and caretaker of the king Ahmed. She is responsible for all of Ahmed’s upkeep, and reading the stories every night. He father never gave her a name, so Ahmed gave her the name Scheherazade after the narrator of the stories she reads. Due to constantly tying Ahmed up so he can take a break, she has fallen in love with the art form of bondage.
Name: Easifatan Zuni
Age: 23
Birthday: Gemini 4th
Hair: Black
Eyes: White
Height: 163 cm
Description: The grandson of Naji Zuni and the head guard of Jedidiah. He takes the job of protecting the country very seriously, but with his annoying and loudmouthed people tend to assume he is a joker and don’t take him very seriously. Ever since he was freed by Scheherazade, he has had a crush on her.
Name: Paribanou Damavand
Age: 26
Birthday: Taurus 2nd
Hair: Black
Eyes: Grey
Height: 185 cm
Description: The elder sister of Cyrus, and finance of Ahmed. From a young age, she was forced to take care of her brother, which lead her to sacrifice many things including her life. But before she died she was able to gain what she believed was true happiness in Jedidiah.