Dancing in the Flames
This story is for Mooncry for correctly guessing the character in my one-shot; Goodnight.
Disclaimer: I own Hax. Mooncry owns Black Angel/Selena. Mordred's lullaby is owned by Heather Dale. Axel, and the unnamed Zexion belong to Square-Enix.
She stood silently, admiring the night sky from a rooftop, letting the cool wind tug at her hair. Humming a lullaby she once knew she let the music wrap itself around her, leading her into the practiced moves.
"Hush, Child. The darkness will rise from the deep, and carry you down into sleep, Child. The darkness will rise from the deep and carry you down into sleep."
She found herself being lead into the depths of her mind, the seemingly ageless song, seemed at the same time to be generations old.
"Come my child, I'll shape your belief, And you'll always know that your father's a thief. And you wont understand the cause of your grief, But you'll always follow the voices beneath."
She let the tune carry her from within her memory, swaying and spinning, twisting and turning. She never saw the bright emerald eyes staring intently at her. Nor did she see the flaming red hair.
His appreciation for her shone brightly in the black night.
"Is this Black Angel?"
He murmured softly. She heard nothing, wrapped up in her memories.
"Or... is this my Selena?"
She continued seemingly deaf to all but the unheard music.
"Come my child, your spirit will hate her, The flower who married my brother the traitor. And you will expose his puppet behavior, For you are the proof of how he betrayed her loyalty."
He joined her, silently catching the rhythm. Catching her hand, and spinning her towards him.
"And so, Silence sings... She is heard by none but those who know pain, and love. Those who feel love as one..." A dark haired Nothing whispered, so as to not be heard, "And those who know pain so well that it hurts naught." Grey eyes flashing in the night, she smiled knowingly, and disappeared in a black mist. She smiled up at him and continued.
"Hush, Child. The darkness will rise from the deep, and carry you down into sleep, Child. The darkness will rise from the deep and carry you down into sleep."
"Selena, you know I love you, right?" he whispered into her ear. She looked up, and blinked.
With a smile, she replied, "Yes, Axel. You know I love you too, right?" Axel smiled back at her.
"Yea, I've got it memorized." And with that he leaned down to kiss her. And without hesitation Silence continued the lullaby, only for the two to hear.
Hush, Child. The darkness will rise from the deep, and carry you down into sleep, child. The darkness will rise from the deep and carry you down into sleep.
"You say the light rejected you, I'll be your light." He stared deeply into her eyes. She looked away.
"The closer to light, the darker your shadow." she mumbled, beginning to step away.
"If you are surrounded in light, you have no shadow..." He continued, not missing a beat, and pulled her into a hug. She smiled softly.
Come my son, each day you grow older, Each moment I'm watching my vengeance unfold for a child. My body, the flesh of my soul, Will die to return the birthright he stole.
"Then I'm too far away to have a light, if I cannot feel your arms..." She whispered, for only him to hear, looking into his emerald eyes.
Hush, Child. The darkness will rise from the deep, and carry you down into sleep, child. The darkness will rise from the deep and carry you down into sleep...
"And so Silence sings for the Phoenix, and the Fallen Angel, for they know pain...
But they know love better."
Hax said to her own lover, hovering high above the silent rooftop.
And so, Silence sang.
