"Swan Song"

This fanfic was inspired by the legend about swans. They used to say that swans sing a neautiful song right before they die. And this one came out. This maybe a bit shounen-ai so please be warned. I may write something after this. (I already have something in mind.) Megaman X doesn't belong to me. Thanks for reading.

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"Swan Song"

by: Ruemaja

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The silver Swan, who living had no Note,

when Death approached, unlocked her silent throat.

Leaning her breast upon the reedy shore,

thus sang her first and last, and sang no more:

"Farewell, all joys! O Death, come close mine eyes!

"More Geese than Swans now live, more Fools than Wise."

- "Orlando Gibbons Madrigal"

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Swans do not sing in their last hour on earth.

It is a proven fact. All that the legends state about swans being able to sing is all just, in the end, a fairytale, a legend, some old wives' tale that are told to children to help them sleep at night. I didn't believe it when I first heard that swans would sing their last and only song right before they die because swans are not capable of singing like a nightingale. They are white and graceful and beautiful, but they have no voice to sing you to sleep, no lullaby to accompany in your dreams.

No. Swans do not sing in their last hour on earth.

I didn't believe it then. And he laughed when I said so.

"Why don't you believe me?" He smirks at me from where he was crouching. "You used to believe everything I say."

I smirking back at him, I say: "I'm not that gullible."

He laughed at that but he coughed soon after, blood spattering over his crimson armor, making it more crimson if it were possible. I sit beside him, trying to ease his coughing, his blood in my hands. I look at him sadly. This is the end. I knew it. I knew it would come. I just didn't want it to come soon.

"It'll be alright." He said.

"No... It won't." I reply. "It will never be alright..." I look at him, sadly.

The end is coming and I don't want it to come.

"It will never..." I choke on the last word.

He returned my gaze, sadly. "True... But, it'll get better... Not now, maybe not tomorrow... But soon..."

As his life's blood bled away I lay my head his shoulder, arms around me as if to secure me and bleed his warmth to me. The warmth enough for me to remember him by as he goes to sleep. He looks to the dark horizon as if he would see a sunrise. There would be no sunrise for him.

The end is near...

I don't want it to come.

But he must die.

"Don't cry..." he whispers. Though he has weakened, his arms tighten around me as the sobs that I had been holding back finally surfaced. And I am crying.

"Stay with me..." I say.

"I am here..." He replies.

"Please... stay..."

"I am here... only sleeping..."

Sleep for eternity. Everything must end. Even this.

"X," He says. "It's time..."

He stands up and I remain on the floor, watching him as he begins to walk toward the rising sun, the first rays of sunlight creating a halo about him as he turns back to me, smiling.

"I am here..." he says, gently.

I only nod at him and get up myself. He gives me a nod and opens his mouth, his heart light as he sings the last song to pave the way I must tread alone for now.

I have never heard a song as beautiful as his song. And when it was done, he falls back to the ground.

He sang his last and sang no more.

Swans do not sing in their last hour on earth. I never believed it.

Zero is not a swan after all...