My name is Fira Loveatea, I know you may not know me, but I am a friend of the Tennyson family, as was my grandfather was when he was younger. Now you may understand aliens and magic to a point, but I bring in a new factor to the field, demons and fairy magic. I will go into that maybe later. But this story that I'm going to tell you is a sad one, but I learn something during these events. I hope you enjoy my tale.
It has been weeks, maybe only days. I can't tell anymore, all I know is that it feels like it was yesterday. I still remember the heat against my skin and the rush of air blowing past us. Ben doing everything he could to hold me back. Then I remember how weak I got after it cleared, leaving a pile of debris behind to burning in the remaining flames.
"How can you let him die!?" I snapped at Ben.
"I didn't know!" He shouted at me sadness in his green eyes. Eyes that looked nothing like his twin brother's. "Had I known what he was going to do, I would have stopped him, Fira."
"How don't you know Albedo, your own brother?! Sure you were on different sides but it doesn't mean you don't know him. You were born together, raised together." Tears started to run down my cheeks as I collapsed to my knees. "How am I supposed to tell him?"
Ben knelt down in front of me and pulled me into a hug. Then Gwen and Kevin came rushing over. At first they didn't know what had happen but they quickly put the pieces together and they gained sad looks.
We couldn't stay long, so Kevin had to carry me because I refused to move. But how could I? I never got to tell him how I felt, he never knew, he was too smart for his own good to know.
I stayed with the Tennyson's but only because I lived alone. They really didn't want me to be alone, though it was mostly Ben, who didn't. I just couldn't bring myself to go into his room, no one could. The most I could do was put my hand on the doorknob and lean on my head on the cool wood.
"You were more of a hero than Ben was that day, but you are now the biggest idiot there is." I said to the door.
Then I heard a beeping sound. I looked around but it came from the room. I took a large gulp of air and let it out slowly before turning the handle. The door slowly swung open and the air smelt stale but of him. I took a slow step inside, looking for the source of the beeping.
I noticed a red light on his workbench and walked over to it. I noticed another omnitrix, only it had a tag on it. I picked it up and read it: "Fira".
"Why would he make this?" I questioned playing with it some.
Suddenly a hologram appeared from it, it was a recorded message from him.
"Fira, if you have come into the possession of this particular Omnitrix, then you have likely discovered it is not functional and incomplete. But also that is not an authentic omnitrix, but a mere replica of the actual Omnitrix." He said. "If it is incomplete then I have been deemed by some law to be locked away into incarceration, or fear even worse than that. This replica Omnitrix is simply a badge of office among the plumbers but does a few functions such as; the ability to track any known person whom is not deceased. I have completed the communication system on it, but the tracking mechanism still needs requires some additional work." In the hologram he sighed and rubbed his head some. "I had plotted to give this to you when I had conversed with you on the matter of how you felt. And that I had also shared those mutual feelings and wanted to reciprocate them full well. But if I am eternally evicted, then I apologize for being the biggest imbecile you have ever known." The hologram faded away, leaving me crying."
"What am I suppose to do with this?" I asked sitting on his bed. "Why didn't you tell me sooner?"
I sat there for a while before putting the tracker on my wrist and throwing open his closet doors. I dug around some until I found his red jacket and hugged it to my chest. I cried more as I finally let it settle in that he wasn't going to come home.
I threw on the jacket and pulled out my phone and dialed Kevin's number. Only because I knew he'd know how to finish the tracking program.
"Hey, how are you holding up?" Kevin answered.
"Worse, but only because I found his latest project but I need your help in finishing it." I replied.
"Wait, is it a dangerous project?" He asked
"No, it's just a tracking program. He made me a new plumber's badge that looks like the Omnitrix, but instead of aliens, it allows me to track any living person I know." I explained.
Kevin thought for a moment. "Yeah, I got the stuff to finish it." He said. "It may cost ya a bit though."
"Kevin!" I snapped getting upset.
"Okay, okay. It won't cost a thing." He said sounding a little worried.
"Thank you." I said calming down some.
"Fira, don't cry over him too much... I mean don't mourn him, but try not to cry too much." Kevin said softly.
"I can't make any promises."
I went to Kevin's, working on the program was harder than we thought. There was more on the watch than we had thought. It had the whole Alien Database on it and the extranet on it. I was amazed by how much hard he put into this just for me. I felt like it was too much for me.
"You have that teary-eyed look again." Kevin stated looking up at me.
I shook my head. "This is too much to be a gift." I replied watching Kevin.
"He felt the same way, he thought it wasn't enough." He explained. "Us guys have a hard time finding the right gift, so we tend to get it wrong or go for too much. But it's the thought that counts."
I looked at the ground. "I know that much." I said as Kevin typed something into his computer.
"There." He said rolling back in the chair and leaning back. "It may have a few bugs but we can fix them as we go."
I unhooked the tracker and put it on my right wrist. I took in the details he had put into it. It was a lighter orange than my hair, with black instead of white. I knew on the backside of the face his signature was there, showing that it was his work, his best work so far. I kept the hologram, but only because it was the only way of hearing his voice and seeing him living again. It was the only way I could keep him on me all the time, other than the jacket I took.
"Fira, I just want you to know, that if you ever need anything, you can call me or Gwen." Kevin said giving her a quick hug. "You are a part of the team, but also the little family we have formed together. Even if Ben's brother was on the other side."
I looked at him. "You were on that side before you fell for Gwen." I replied with a small smile.
"There's that smile." he said messing up my hair. "Now, go do whatever it is you have to do."
It was those words that reminded me what I was suppose to do today. I was suppose to go to a movie with him. It wasn't a date, but it was preplanned as friends. Kevin show the sadness in my blue eyes and gave a worried look and put his hand on my shoulder.
"Hey, that look tells me you had something to do with him." he said softly.
I simply nodded not looking at him. Trying to shield him from my watery eyes, since I was trying my hardest not to cry anymore. I knew that crying over him would not bring him back, nothing could bring him back. Even if I hunted down Paradox and begged him to take me to that moment, it wouldn't be enough. He was gone forever.
I found myself in the middle of the fire. At first I didn't know where I was, but everything quickly fell into place and I realized who was in front of me. He was out cold, burns covered random areas of his skin, fallen debris pinned him to the ground. Panic filled my chest as I got up and crawled over to him and shook him, trying to wake him.
"Please, wake up." I coughed as smoke filled my mouth.
He groaned some, but nothing more than that. I shoved some of the debris off him, but it was harder than usual due to how hot it was and the smoky air. I gritted my teeth as I removed the heaviest piece, before brushing some of his bangs out of his face.
"I should have stopped you, but now I dream on saving you." I said softly as tears streaked my soot covered cheeks.
