Redemption
By Dementedness
Dementedness: I know I should be continuing Quiet Angel but I really wanted to make this one shot. It'll help with my stress with school and stuff. I'm really sorry that I didn't update any of my Beyblade fics in awhile. I really want to cry. Here's the one shot. Flashbacks are written as if the person was reminiscing.
Disclaimer: The poem, Yoko, the song chorusand this plot I own. Beyblade I do not own.
Poem
Narrative
"Talking"
'Thoughts'
POV
-Flashback-
/Time/
(Place)
Song
Emphasis
Save me or hold me
Crystal tears fall through my eyes
As I bleed from the wound of a thousand years
I'm no angel and neither are you
But you're the only one that understands
Yoko
"Tala…" I whisper sadly. Crying over him is something I should never do. He left me all alone and stepped on my heart. My heart was broken before; I guess I just never accepted it until now. I am only five years old after all. My past life must have gone through the same as I have because I'm bleeding, bleeding in a place where I've never gotten cut. "Tala, do you know what you've done to me? I will bleed to death now." I couldn't fly before and I still can't. You can't fly either. We used to believe we could soar to the skies. I would imagine the wind blowing against me and you holding me by the hand. No one else understood my dream; only you did.
Do you remember who I used to be?
You're the only one that seems to
You heard me whisper what I think
But there is one word that I said
That you won't ever forget, "Nothing"
Last year-
Tala
"Hi, Tala!" I heard you yell.
"Yoko?" I replied with a question. You look at me strangely.
"You don't remember me?" I shook my head.
"It's just been a year. I wanted to make sure it was you. I'm sorry that I left but my dad made us move." You smiled and laughed. I didn't think your smile would be so wonderful. When your grandfather came by to bring you home, he scared me. You ran away from him and I ran after you. Slowing to a walk, I hear you sobbing. I could only hear you say the word, "nothing."
'What do you mean? Do you think your life is worthless? Do you think you're worthless?' "Yoko? What did you mean by that?" I asked trying to understand.
I am nothing, is what I said
Which makes this hard to forget
Yoko
I heard Tala's words. "I said, 'I am nothing!' Leave me alone, Tala!" I ran away leaving you there speechless. Grandfather beat me for running off. Why didn't I tell you about this?
You promised me that I would return
The real me that I left behind
You see me and fall apart
Whisper, "You're gone."
/10 years later/
I'm a heartless person. No one dares come near me. The weight of the world on my shoulders is painful. I share the burden with my friend, Crysta. We travel and frighten the people we know and love away. It's only to protect them. When we separated to buy our own food products, I bump into you. "Yoko?" I can't believe you remember me.
"What do you want?" I say coldly and with malice lined in my voice. I glare at you. You look at me surprised. When you grabbed me by the shoulders and shook me, I pushed you away. "What is your problem? Don't touch me!" I yell and walk away.
"Yoko, what happened to you? You're not the girl I used to know. You're gone. Your spirit and soul gone." You whisper. I walk away feeling nothing of our encounter,
Blood falls from your wounds
We stand up together with you leaning on me
Despite the pain we both feel, we leave
I tell you one thing and you smile through the pain
Tala
The flesh is torn at where Boris and the rest of those Biovolt cretins harmed me. They've long since healed but are reopening again. Boris stabs me and Yoko runs in. "You! I'm ashamed to be related to you!"
"My granddaughter must be disciplined." I get over the shock that you're related to him as I watch him stab you with the knife. Our blood mixes on the knife as Boris grins diabolically." I should just kill you while I'm at it, shouldn't I?"
"Boris, shut up!" A female figure is at the door. "Yoko, you okay?" You nod.
"Yeah, Crysta, I'm fine."
"Boris, run far away from here!" Crysta takes a gun from out of her bag and aims it at Boris. "Boris, I already called the cops, so run!" He runs away in horror. "I'll get the others out. Yoko, help Tala." She walks out.
"Tala, stay there." You stand up and walk to where I lay. Your gentle hands over my wounds are very soothing. "I don't have anything to patch up those wounds. I'm going to help you up." I was in pain and so were you but we both fought through the pain and walked out the door.
"Redemption does not exist. Why do people believe in it?"
Repeating it back, "Redemption does not exist,"
Then you add, "for both of us.
It will for me if you are by my side."
Yoko
As I patch up Tala's stab wounds, I growl inwardly at how much my grandfather hurt him. I love Tala too much to see him get hurt. I felt a blush creeping up onto my cheeks but I was able to cover it. "Yoko." Tala called to me. I approach him, trying not to make the cut on my arm worse from moving.
"Yes?"
"Redemption does not exist," Why are you repeating it back to me? "for both of us. It will be if you are by my side." I jump slightly and let down my barriers. I hug him tightly and smile at him. It's been a long time since I smiled. I sing the chorus of a song that I liked.
"Everything is real
The bliss, the emotion, every touch
Tomorrow comes again
To watch me fly up to the sky
Why me? Why not you?
I can't believe that I can love again"
You look at me and leaned in. I did likewise and our lips met. We shared our first kiss. Did that mean you love me too? "I love you."
Salvation does not exist for anyone
The only way it does
Is if we keep our loved one close
And our hearts together
(Mansion) /Five years later/
Tala
We're married and are expecting. We are going to have twins. We survived through the torment and the obstacles. We loved each other since we were young. I guess this is our happily ever after.
Dementedness: The poem is something I wrote for English class. It was meant to be me and a guy I used to like. R&R.
