Dragoness
EDIT: Oops. I forgot the disclaimer. I do not own Saint Seiya. Because if I did, I would know the ending and I wouldn't have spent two Fridays ago complaining about cliff hangers.
She is empty again. The silence smothers the air, making it hard to breathe as the flow of the waterfall beats steadily in the silence, a drone that fills her head with nothingness and washes away the confused jumble of thoughts and fears.
Why? Why was she the only one left? The only one on this cursed mountain that would soon be flooded with her bitter tears.
Come back!
Don't leave!
His words echoed back mingled with her pleas as if to mock her with the futility of it all.
I can't.
I'm sorry.
Empty. All empty. Her cries of anguish were lost on him as he turned away.
Don't you care?
The words are barely a whisper, nearly drowned out by the rushing water.
His blinded eyes –eyes that she had treated! – were cold as his gaze pierced her.
My duty to Athena comes first.
Athena. Always Athena. What about her? Couldn't he spare just one moment? That was all she asked for. One smile, one kind word - ! Couldn't he at least offer her that small favor? After all this time…
The bitterness in her laugh is tangible in the air as she watches the waterfall, her mind unconsciously reciting the poem like a mantra until the words are tumbled and mixed together into an unrecognizable pounding. Still, it pulses on and on until she wants to scream it at the man who had made the water fly! Fly into the heavens' arms only to be thrown unceremoniously back to the earth!
The rising dragon did not rise for long.
She pounds the wall in frustration and her tears begin to fall once again, filling the ground with yet more angry and resentful emotions.
WHY, WHY, WHY?! WHY DON'T YOU COME BACK?! WHY DON'T YOU LOVE ME ANYMORE?!
She knows he will deny that. She knows his reply.
Don't be naïve. Of course I love you, but one person's happiness doesn't outweigh the world.
The world! Is that all you care about?
The scathing accusatory tone pains her, although only a thought, and his hurt is sharp enough to cut her heart to a thousand pieces. She isn't selfish. Only neglected. Neglected by the only men who had ever cared about her more than just on the surface. Neglected because of the world. The world is more important. The world can't wait for one person to catch up.
She sighs.
I hate the world.
Soooo... what you think? It just seems to me that Shiryu keeps leaving Shunrei all the time. He's there and, POOF! gone. Every time. Not that I don't like Shiryu; I know he tries his best. ) Just saying. (I STILL SUPPORT SHIRYUXSHUNREI.)