CHAPTER 39 -DESIRES-
How long has it been since I felt like this? Days? Weeks? Months? Years?
Putting down the plate with food, I began to walk towards the curtained window. Everything I turned my face to was dark, hard enough to see in. No matter, I’m going to get her out of this.
I moved the two curtains to the opposite sides, revealing the warm light of the sunlight. Surprised by it, I looked towards the sky knowing that it was cloudy, moments before raining.
Could it be that the gods are giving me a signal? I thought, not being able to contain my hopes and excitement any longer. “You see Julie? The gods are giving us hope at this point in time.” No response was given, seconds passed faster than what it felt like. But I was given a dead response, “But it was those ‘gods’ that killed him.”
My body trembled to her words. No one that knew Julie would say such a thing in that type of tone. I was scared, scared that she was lost. Lost in a dark place, cornered herself and probably even to anyone.
I got closer to her. Julie was sitting on the bed while he hugged her legs, her blue eyes that once glowing and full of life were dark and dead. Her eyes had regret and sorrow, she was thinking about Alter. “Why? Why didn’t Alter take us with him!?” The black haired-girl exclaimed, sadness and remorse covered her voice.
On that second, I fastly jumped into the bed she was in and hugged her tightly. I began to comfort her, stroking her head and shoulder. Giving her all the love she needed right now, her grievance and desires needed to be satisfied.
That’s when she asked me a question that everyone had asked me since the news. “Why are you okay? You’ve been acting like this has never happened.” It hit me, I needed to hear those words from Julie, not from anyone else. She knew what I was going through and only I knew what she was going through. That is the reason why we both consider each other as siblings.
“The reason why–” I trailed off. My eyes began to blur as I tried to talk, tumbling on every word I pushed and begged to unhinged off my emotions. Yet the more I tried, the more it overwhelmed me. “I’m acting like nothing has happened because I’m trying to act tough for you. I don’t want you to see this side of me. It pains me seeing you like this, it pains me what I heard from the Elementals!”
The hot streams of water rolled down my cheeks into Julie’s hair. I couldn’t take it anymore, I’d held my grievances and desires for far too long. Juliette kept sobbing quietly as she heard my words, like how a child would hear the adult conversations. Swallowing and dwelling it in, almost like she was going to hear this later on.
That thinking left my mind quick as I embraced her even more. Julie only continued to sob silently. “Julie! Let it out, please.” I implored her. “You need to grieve now, your desires are telling you to. Listen to them.”
With little to nothing of things left for me to say, I let out something that would be a double edge sword. Benefiting me and her but at the same time destroying me and her.
“Alter would’ve wanted you to cry his death than to avenge him!”
Her dark and lifeless eyes widened. Her fingers and hand began to tighten around mine. Her sniffs began to sound more like they are supposed to sound like. Like a person mourning their loved one in a funeral. The crying and wailing became louder and louder with each breath she took…
An hour or so had passed by, hugging Julie and she hugging me back. Her cries were no longer louder, instead, her sobbing was only there. “You okay now?” I questioned drying the watery paths that my tears left behind on my cheeks. Juliette only nodded before sniffing a long part of air.
Her breathing was calm and sincere, now her grievance and desires have been satisfied. This gives my heart a little more of an ease, knowing that Julie would be able to move on instead of being hung up with Alter’s supposed death.
I got up from the bed, Julie tried the same but her body gave up. She was weak from wholing up all those emotions for a very long time. “Juliette Riley, you have to rest.” I scolded her, covering her legs with a blanket. I grabbed the plate with food that Tei brought earlier, it was cold. Concentrating the mana in the atmosphere into my palm, heating up the food for Julie to eat. “And eat.” I finished talking before leaving the room.
Now, it was time for me to avenge Alter’s death. I said in my head. The mana in the hallway seemed to be drawn to me as I began to clench my hands. I won’t rest until I’ve killed those who made Alter suffer. My desire was a simple one, to see the ones involved with his death down on my feet, begging for their lives as I took theirs one by one.
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Being in front of the doors that separated me and the monarchs from Ezar, made me feel excited. The outcome of my plans rested on the Queen’s and King’s decisions, without theirs it wouldn’t even move a single bit.
“High risk, high reward.” Would be the words that Alter muttered every time there was an inconvenience in his plans. You could say that I was only following my master’s steps. Standing before the opening doors, the small gap showed me something unexpected.
Brelbem, Sytairirth, Freomal, Aidryss, Someissoa. All stood before me, releasing their royalty and alien aura. If it were the old me, I would’ve fainted upon entering the room. However, I now had a mana core, something stronger than a mana ring. Multiple times stronger if I had to say, that I could even take on the Elemental marshal from before alone with my powers.
To begin with, I’ve never thought of Sytairirth and Brelbem as Queen and King. No, I only saw them as a pebble in Alter’s way, our way.
Knowing that they were the parents that gave birth to that dragon Onyx Millguard, the one who destroyed Alter’s life and fate. Forcing him to live with his powers and knowledge would only bring my hate for him even stronger. Onyx is the main reason why Julie’s home and mine were destroyed.
The moment Onyx joined the war was the moment that marshals joined, causing only havoc and crisis wherever they went it followed. He himself is the unbalanced power to this war, allowing even more powerful beings into it.
I confirmed this by a basilisk general that I killed during the war. Before the war in Afreon, Alter and Onyx had met each other. Both of them were calamities that brought death and sorrow. Fighting generals to marshal, even stars–something I still don’t understand. Alter and Onyx fought a god and managed to harm the god, but in the end only one of them survived. Leaving the other to gain the lost power of its companion and use it for revenge.
I suppressed my anger and hatred, I couldn’t let any of them know my true self. I had to continue being the Luna Lyric that I had always shown, the emotional and weaker version of myself.
I kneel down to respect the monarchs along with the generals. Missing the older general and what I would consider the strongest, the generals left en Ezar are still stronger in their own way.
“Luna, are you aware of the reason why you were called here?” asked Sytairirth with her authority tone. I shook my head, “No your majesty.”
Belbrem was next to speak, though he didn’t have an authority tone like Sytairith did. “Luna Lyric, as we know. The information that the Elemental marshal had given you has been proven correct. Inox is no longer, it has been destroyed off the map leaving nothing but a crater.”
I raised my head in despair. Widened my eyes and let out a tear before wiping it out with my hand. The dragon then continued, “The scouts and general Someissoa can give the report right now. Go on, general.” Belbrem gave the dragon general permission to talk, taking steps to the middle of the room and faced us. Someissoa brought his arms forward, mana that resided in the room moved to him–more specifically his arms. Forming a small swirled portal, then he muttered something that I couldn’t hear. Instantly, the swirled portal grew and in the middle, there was movement.
“Someissoa specializes in spatial magic. Rare to even us dragons but not to him in controlling it without a sweat.” Freomal explained loud to us but mostly to me. “Spatial magic?” I asked curiously.
“Yes, his unique magic allows us to see things that might even be far away or even the past of certain events.” Queen Sytairith spoke, “He could even travel in dreams to different places in real time.”
When I turned, the spell was finished. Showing everyone in the room certain events. Someissoa then spoke, “Here are the recorded events that happened before the destruction of Inox.” Endless numbers of soldiers were in Inox, flooding the place like ants when their colony was destroyed. Every single one of them was equipped with weapons, waiting for their prey. “An ambush,” I reluctantly said.
These soldiers knew that Alter and the rest were going there. Raising the question that we all had thought about at that moment, “Who gave it away?”
As we all looked at the kingdom searching for anyone that we knew that was in this kingdom. At the center of Inox were five people and around those five people were the soldiers who had an ambush ready. Without a question, we knew who the four people were but in common we didn’t know who the fifth was.
The owner of the spell zoomed into the one-sided fight that happened. The boy that had whitish-gray colored hair dashed forward into the army, taking out those who were in his path. The remaining four stayed in formation as they fought off those with killing intentions, they didn’t kill any soldier aside from hurting them to an extreme level but they had living signs.
Moments passed as the recorded event was put to real time, the battle didnt for show any winner or losers. No progress seemed to be made until a single person’s body came flying through the crowd of soldiers. Creating a dust storm and blinding us from seeing. When it cleared, Alter was the flying person and was now unconscious on top of the walls of the building he crashed into.
Opposite from him stood a lone man with crimson eyes and black hair. Seconds later he disappeared and appeared next to Pearl, imprisoning her to the ground with magic as they exchanged words. Words that couldn’t be heard making the Queen insert her fingers into her golden throne.
The more they exchanged words, the more her frustration grew. But that growth slowed down as Chuzeoth took the battle himself. Eugene came second while the other unknown girl checked up on Alter. Then the imaging changed to white, causing the portal to dissolve itself into the atmosphere with the mana.