Musa's Tears
Tuneless was fiercely attacking us without mercy. She kept me down with her ear splitting melodious magic as she attacked my winx and specialist friends with her, ironically, tuneless melodies. My ears were ringing and I couldn't hear what she was doing, only watch in horror as she cruelly picked my friends off one by one.
I watched eyes wide as, if in slow motion, each fell to the ground with what I could only imagine to be an echoing thud.
From my crouched perch covering my ears on top of a rock I could see that their bodies were lifeless. I could see no sign of breath, however short, escaping their lungs and none of their chests pumped up and down.
Suddenly the horrid ringing stopped and I was free to move.
I barely registered Tuneless in the background cackling as I flew as fast as my believix speedix wings could carry me towards my lifeless friends. She had struck them all down and I could feel a mask of fear plastered to my face. They couldn't be dead, they just couldn't.
To me it seemed like forever to reach them but I'm sure it was just a few seconds.
First I reached flora, lying at an awkward angle. Her arm was twisted round wrong and her face was shocked, her eyes open in terror. Flora wasn't breathing.
I ran over to Techna, shaking her. Again her eyes were open in terror and not even a small breath escaped her. Techna wasn't breathing.
By now I was crying, tears gushing down my face like a waterfall. Each drop hit the floor with a sickening thud in my dazed world. I was gasping for air, hoping against hope that what I was seeing was a lie, that I was just dreaming, having a nightmare.
I ran over to Riven, again shaking him. I could no longer see through my tears and I roughly collapsed over his muscled chest. I could feel no heartbeat and hear no gasping breath. Riven was dead.
It wasn't fair! They had all been protecting ME! Tuneless wanted ME! It was MY ancestor who had sealed her away for a hundred years! It was ME she wanted revenge on! So why did they have to die? It wasn't fair!
I looked up quickly as a strange bright light filled the dark cave. I looked around slowly; Tuneless was frozen midflight towards me. What happened?
I looked up and there was my mother.