Okay, so this time I don't have an excuse for not posting lately. You'd think that for someone like me, I'd post more often when I have WAY to much free time. Yeah, so, sorry if you've been waiting so long. It summer and I have the power to do nothing productive. But here! Wish I could make it longer, but I'm a little tired. And I hate it when you are left with a cliffhanger and then you have to WAIT! So I feel bad for those who care. So please stop reading this and get on with reading my story! Enjoy~
"I am taking your intelligence." He corrects me. I look paralyzed as I backed away from him.
He then gave a long, crazy, laugh. "I am not taking your intelligence, you silly girl!" He wipes a tear from his eye. He then stops laughing and grins.
"I am not taking anything from you." He explains.
"Why not?" I ask surprised.
"You just got these things. These wonderful things that no one else will ever know the feeling of! I mean, sure people can get there Ideya back, but you got it back through pain and suffering. You waited… How could I take such a wonder feeling away from you?" He asks with a smile.
"Reala…"
"I refuse to take anything from you… And besides…" He pulled out something from his chest. I couldn't react, I'd seen so much.
"I found a replacement." He holds up a glowing ball of green. It had what looked like a spiked crystal inside it and a green colored orb on the outside. It floated above his claw.
"I stole it from that dead woman," He says with a grin.
I then think back to when he pulled her heart out. Did he really pull her heart out? Or was it really just her Idyea, and he had just killed her some other way? Why was he doing this? Was he sparing me from the pain? Maybe it was a trick. He would have to kill me to take my Ideya, which would be freeing me permanently in a way. And he did not want to kill me because he grew to find me entertaining.
I then explained these thoughts to him. After I ended my thoughts, there was a silence between us. He then started to laugh again. "You girl-! Hahaha! You-! You think I would have had to KILL you?! Ha! Stop it! You make me laugh so hard! I have never laughed like this before!" He let go of his control of floating and started to go up to the ceiling, still laughing.
He gripped the ceiling like a cat, trying to stop laughing, and say something to me. "Such fun I have with you!" He comes back down.
"I would just take it from you by sticking my hand into your heart. I can't kill you unless I wanted to." He rolls his eyes. "It is actually a very simple and clean process." He sits down on the ground. I followed and sat down across from him.
He giggled just a for another second, then thought. "I've never done something like this…" He admits as he looks off into space with a grin.
"What? Helped a mental patient escape from an asylum and then NOT take something from her that helps you?" I guess.
"No, I have never sat and talked with someone before. Infact, I never really had friends. I mean, my sibling… When we were little, we got along… Until we got older and NiGHTS became more and more independent and…" He looks down.
"I like you a lot…" He looks up at me with a cold expression. "We can talk and talk for so long and you don't get bored or annoyed and you find my topics very interesting and share a liking with them as I do…"
He went silent to think of what to say next. He then smiles at me. "Come with me."
"What? Can't we rest for a little while longer?" I complain and lay on my back.
"No I mean… Will you come to my world?" He gets a little excited.
I sit back up. "Your home?" I ask.
He nods. "We can be together in a better world." He tilts his head with a grin.
"Reala… I do want to still be with you… I admit it, I don't want you to leave… But I can't just leave this world right away! I want to see this whole world and see what is happening and what I could do in it!"
His happiness quickly vanished. "I can't stay much longer…" He looks away.
"Could I see the world and you come back for me?" I ask with a hopeful grin.
He gave a long sigh. "Turn around." He demands in a calm voice.
"Why?" I ask. But then quickly do so, not wanting to anger him.
After a minute he told me I could look back. He was adjusting his boot and then held out a chain with something on it. I took it and examined it to be a tiny gold chain with a red crystal in the form of a teardrop hanging off it.
"What is this?" I ask.
"You wear this and keep with you." He points.
"What is this?" I ask again.
"Whenever you need me or… You are afraid or in trouble, just hold this to your chest and wish for something. I can't give you everything you wish for, but I can try my best to get close enough. But only for emergencies." He explains.
He then gets up as I examine the chain. He looked out the open window to see night was setting into place and no one was out there still.
"I will be back. I am going to look for something." He gets onto his feet and walks out the door, closing it behind him.
I played with it for a while and found out that I can change the size and length of the chain. I changed it to a necklace and put it on, having the two loose ends connect like magnets behind my neck.
There were all these strange noises outside. They were long and high pitched, some were lower and others seemed to buzz by every now and then. When I saw a small shadow and somthing run across the window, I crawled back into the corner and went on waiting for Reala.
He then came back with a large white sheet wrapped up in his arms. He put it down by the window and spread it out. He then used his finger nail to cut a shape that matched the windows and put it over the window.
"Wait…" I point and get up from the corner.
"What?" He looks back at me.
"No other windows have white sheets over them… What if someone notices it and knows its strange?" I ask.
He sighs and takes it down. He walked over and grabbed the bag full of supplies and set it under the window. He dusted off an area near the window and invited me to sit.
He then stares at me with those big blue eyes of his for a long time. I looked over at him and he smiles. "What?" I ask.
"Sometimes… I forget you really are smart…"
I look down at my legs and smile, blushing to myself as he kept his eyes on me. "Thanks…" I say awkwardly. I did not plan on saying it the way I had, but that was the only way I could voice that single word.
We sat next to each other for a moment in sweet silence until he took the sheet and threw it over me. I took off my jacket and leaned my head against the wall. After a long hour of silence, Reala fell asleep next to me. He was sitting to my right, near the corner and I was under the window.
Reala shifted a few times and then backed into the corner and curled up. I moved a few inches over so I was closer to him and gave him some of the sheet and he accepted it right away. I was going to try and find a way to sleep, but it seemed I already did when I accidentally leaned on Reala's shoulder.
I didn't want to move, so I decided that is where I was resting my head before I closed my eyes. Reala put an arm around me in his sleep, which I thought was strange. The fact that he was sleeping. Does he have a world of dreams he goes to? Or maybe its just meditating, so he sees nothing and he is regaining his energy.
I looked into the sky and saw the brightest star I had ever seen. I wonder if Reala's home is one of those stars. I wonder if there are worlds on those stars… I wonder if I should just go with Reala. And that was all I could think about as I fell asleep.
And this time... I remember my dream. I remember as if I was actual awake and there... I was in darkness. But I was floating around as if I was under water. Then I heard a boom. The darkness slowly faded and it turned more into a dark blue with stars. I still had my eyes closed, but could hear everything.
"What are you still doing there?! I demand that you come back right now!" A voice boomed and echoed throughout the darkness.
"Master, please forgive me! But I cannot do this... You see..." I hear Reala in the distance. His voice was much smaller compared to the other one.
"What do you mean?" The first voice asks slowly, trying to keep their patients it seemed.
"Well... I made a deal with this girl and I have not completed the task yet." Reala tries to sound steady, but he sounded so helpless.
"You... YOU WHAT?!" The voice made the world shake. "How DARE you? Make deals with humans! You disgrace! Why would you... I trained you better than this!"
"Yes master. You did master." Reala surrenders without a fight.
"Then WHY are you acting this way?! What? Do you have FEELINGS for this human? You cannot feel! You were created not to! What is this?" The voice sounds confused and enraged now.
"I... She... I don't master. Once I help her, I will leave and never come back...". Reala takes deep breaths
"No... You must prove to me that you do not feel anything. I order you kill this girl before you leave!"
I could hear Reala's voice shake with fear as he said, "Master... She has feelings for me... Maybe if I let her live and never see her again, it will hurt much longer and she will have to live with it..."
"Hmm... Fine. But do not fail me Reala. Come back soon... I give you a few more earth days..."
"Reala?" I mutter and open my eyes in a daze.
"Finish this task quickly." I hear the last of that first voice.
I then feel his hands on my lower arms as he lightly shakes me. I couldn't see him, but I knew he was there... "Reala... I am having a bad dream... Stop it Reala, I know its you..." I mutter on.
He then wraps his arms around me tightly. "As long as I am here... I promise, you have nothing to fear..." He whispered in my ear.
That's when I woke up to see Reala still asleep. Those words rang in my head. And I could easily replay everything I herd and everything I felt. It really scared me. I hardly can remember a time when I could even remember what my dream was totally about.
But the only dreams we must see are the ones that our mind is trying to tell us something. And if it was important, we remember that dream after we wake up. And if not, its like a faded memory. And like those old memories, we only see in our heads the images that made that memory worth remembering.
I then gave him the rest of the sheet and got up. The sun had just risen, or maybe it was already afternoon… I do not really know how this all works exactly. Because to me, it could be either. But I don't think I slept for 20 hours… After looking out the window I look back at Reala.
Still sleeping… I replay my dream again and realized something. My soft expression turned into a nasty one. "Well…" I whisper under my breath.
"If you are just going to leave me, I'll save you the breath of having to wait any longer…" I grabbed the bag from under the window and threw one strap over my left shoulder.
"I knew you were not going to stay with me… No matter how much I dreamed of it…" I laugh to myself. "But apparently, you have better things and I am going to have to get over you!" I walk for the door.
"Its fine though…" I look back as I was closing the door. "At least I will have you in my dreams…" I smile and close the door silently.
I hate this feeling. Walking down this lonely street so quietly. It was like the old days… Just sitting in bed alone… No one to talk to. I almost forgot what that was like. Reala does not like that silence in that room, so he always tried to break it.
Stop thinking about REALA! He is not your friend and he is NOT coming back! But even as I left the city and followed a dirt path through the hills on the open green landscape, I could not forget nor think bad things about him. Because the truth was, he was my friend and he is not coming back.
And as much as I did not want to believe that, it was true. I am not sure why I thought Reala really liked me… If anything, I was the one thing he wanted to get away from most. I would be that stupid task that he had to finish and then throw away soon enough. The once angry part of me has turned into sorrow and was filled with a strange grief and a gap that was nothing but disappointment. But there was still a small part that really wanted to believe that there was good in him and that he really does like me!
But it was a small fragment that did not help much. But after focusing on that, the thought started to grown and overtake me. But it died a little when I realized I was alone. I look back over my shoulder. Still alone. If Reala really cares, he will come for me... But what if he can't find me, but he does try and look?! I wanted to go back…
But… What if I go back and he does not want to see me?! Just make a choice already! I stopped and thought for a moment. But, decided to keep walking in the direction I was already going. Even if he cannot find me, I have the chain he gave me and I can call for him if I need him. But for now, I have to keep my head up and move forward, with or without him. Because one day, I will forget him. Not that I want to… But one day… I will wake up and not even think about Reala. Because by then… I will be someone else.
P.S. This is not the end! When I finished writing this, I felt like I had ended it, but this is not where I put down the pen! You must know what happens next! But... I'm still working on that sadly... But just so you know, don't freak if you felt like it was the end. I still have at least a really long chapter to write or two more medium sized ones to really finish this. And even then, I might start another story after this one to keep this love I have going. But that's if you guys liked this as much as I have!
Update: Sorry if you noticed I kept updating this chapter. I'll have you know I was re-reading so I know how I'm starting the next chapter, but I saw some mistakes that really bothered me.