The rapture
Those eyes told me everything. She was disappointed on me, and I understood it. I could tell how bad I must have been seen, packing up all the stuff, giving one last glimpse on the house that once upon a time was my home too, and my tears… those pathetic tears that fell from my face shouting out loud that I was backing off.
"Is this it?" Melanie asked kind of angered, kind of sad "After all what we've been through, you just… walk out?"
"You have no right to tell me that." I replied softly, but my voice started to turn aggressive "You were the one who told me to give up in the first place!"
"And I was wrong! Every single time I did!" I was about to leave the house, but she walked towards the door and covered the latch with her hand so I couldn't open the door "Please, not now. We've just found him."
"And it went down perfectly."
"We just tried once! We need to give it another shoot."
"So we wait another four years to talk to him again," I replied annoyed "and when we find him the power of love will bring him back… bad news Melanie, that shit doesn't work in reality!"
She sighed and she thrust me backwards, away from the door.
"You know I have to stop you."
"You can try, but you know I'm going to force the exit if it's necessary."
"Hence I brought help."
I was caught off guard, at the moment Melanie whispered "hence" someone already knocked me out.
Pitch black, nothingness. Was it like this for Matthew every single day? If it was, I had to stop it, even…. Even if I had to kill him.
I gave a sad glimpse to the room where Maquiel was locked in; I knew it wouldn't work for long, her super strength would take either the door or the wall down, but I didn't know what else I could do, but winning some minutes at least. I gave up my resistance and I fell on my knees in front of the door and started crying. We were losing everyone. Link's thin and strong arms surrounded my waist.
"I'm losing everyone." I said faintly.
"No, you are not."
"Just look around you!" I shouted "First it was Gabriel, then Matthew and Robert, Ash is about to leave, I'm certain, and now Maquiel. I mean look At Robert killing with his mind! And now Maquiel is about to serve as Pit's puppet… we were supposed to hold this side, the side Matthew created… I don't know what to believe anymore."
"No!" I shouted as I struggled to break the hug "I've got enough of you too! Acting like you love me, when you just love Zelda! If I was off dead and she was around you would leave too!"
"That's not…!"
"Get off me! Take your hand off me! Now!"
My words caught him off guard and I pushed him away from me, thrusting him towards the wall, while I ran to the main door that leaded to the garden. I didn't know where I was heading, but I wanted to be as far as possible from him. I opened the door that leaded to the street road with by kicking it and I ran for a bit in a straight line, crossing the street, heading nowhere until I stopped around a park bench to shed some tears. I looked upwards.
I knew Pit had evil intentions for Maquiel, he was self righteous, I didn't buy his words about Palutena for a bit, and Robert was losing himself on the path he was walking, all because of Pit's puppet Lucario. At this rate my brother would…
"I need some help." I said as I rubbed my eyes with my palm.
I wasn't sure who I was talking to, but I just hoped that a god out there would have mercy on us.
I looked next to me and there was someone. My eyes burnt on rage when I saw Kirby at my side. On the last four years he was hardly ever away from, only those times in which Pit wanted me and Maquiel to be left on our own. I looked at him with rage, while his face remained calmed.
"What do you want from me?" I asked as I felt like hanging him (it'd be a futile attempt as he has no neck) "What has Pit ordered you to do?"
But he wouldn't answer, he wasn't able to talk, only his face could tell us something, but right now he was locking every single thing that he could have said. I could only read on his face a phrase "go home."
"Why are you following Pit?" I asked "Why do you trust him? What do you really want to achieve?"
But Kirby wouldn't answer; he was cold, only expecting me to walk home. He was some kind of a guardian around me, I knew that much, he was watching every move I made, even while sleeping; I'd find him staring at me at some times. I felt a huge amount of hatred around him back there, I just wanted to get away from him, and as he wouldn't leave until I walked back home, I did so.
Kirby stopped following me, he could detect that I was really going home; otherwise he would have followed me. He was a whole mystery to me, a great and skilled fighter who was hiding his true self. He wasn't how I exactly pictured him.
I took a deep breath while walking back home, ashamed of my words. I tried to keep my cool, I had to be strong or we would Maquiel too… it was something we couldn't afford.
I stared at the entrance door and I started whining one more time before rolling the latch. I found Link, who was about to run his way out of the house.
"It's not true," he said leaving aside any other question or comment he had "Even if Zelda got her own body, I could not harm you. I never said anything because I thought you'd never accept me as the same, as a human. I swore to protect Zelda until the ends of time, I'm bounded to her because of that, and I love her, but that can't be compared to what I feel towards you. She is the woman I care about, the woman I must take care of, but you are the woman that I love Melanie, you are the one who I truly love."
His words gave me both a warm and cold sensation on the chest. On one side it was my heart full of excitement, beating fast as my face turned red, and on the other side there was a hurt Zelda, whose feelings filled me with an ice cold sensation. She loved his protector as I loved him too. It was a love triangle.
"I'm sorry Zelda." I thought
She wasn't angry at me, she was angry at him.
The kiss wasn't avoided, I received it happily as Zelda's heart broke in million pieced. In the end, I was the one who won his heart.
It was rare, but soft. Link was being a real gentleman; his hands rubbed my hair softly as mines crossed around his back.
I felt bad for Zelda; because I was sure the situation was all the way around. It was the best and worst experience so far for me, the burning love on Link's lips and tongue was enough for me to forget about everything, but Zelda's pain that was holding tight on my chest. She didn't hate me, although she felt a burning jealousy. She despised Link for this betrayal, but was it really a betrayal? At least that was what she felt.
I remained close to his chest, hearing his heart beats.
"Even if everyone leaves you, I won't. I love you Melanie."
"I love you too." I sighed "I'm sorry, I'm kind of moody today."
"Yeah, I noticed."
"But I still don't know what to do about Maquiel."
"She just needs time and support. And luckily Sophie and Salaric are coming home today."
It would be great to have mom back after three weeks, she had to enjoy her honeymoon with Salaric in order to be ready for the war. Support was here, but there was one thing we were lacking; that was time.
"Sir, I brought you both Lady Sophie and Mister Salaric."
I didn't know why Wolf might have wanted both, but I went through a hell in order to trap them both. Salaric turned some of my comrades in trophies before we could inject the shut down on both of them; I almost fall on battle with him. He was too fast for my sword to reach, if it wasn't because of Falco I would have certainly been killed, he wouldn't even turned me into a trophy, those eyes were ready to kill, all in the name of Sophie. And here they were now, asleep in Wolf's mercy.
The castle was even bigger than the last time I was here, and it was changed from the inside too. The corridors were no longer empty, but full of people and smashers working, something had to been put on. There was some kind of bed in the center of the room, a litter. Salaric was put on it.
I was staring at the surrounding of the room. The stone walls made the environment to feel frozen, the whole space was huge and empty, every word had echoes, and there were only a few windows so the space was dark.
"Great job Meta Knight." He said "After I finish with Salaric I need you to imprison them."
"Yes, sir." I stared at Sophie, her golden curly hair covered a face those twelve hours ago was full of hatred and sorrow; she knew that it was his son who commanded the rapture. I felt pity on her, we ruined the moment in which love burnt in both of their eyes. And she had something else to take care of "Sir… I'm afraid that Lady Sophie needs special treatment."
"What do you mean?"
"She is pregnant."
Those eyes didn't belong to Wolf, but Matthew; the surprise. Wolf was little worried about such a thing, he could handle her and treat her according to her pregnancy, but it was Matthew's eyes through Wolf's only eye, he didn't expect it, and he was puzzled about what he felt.
"Lock her in a separate room from Salaric, and be sure that it's a good one."
"Yes, sir."
"Now, let's take care of these guys."
It was bizarre to look at this. My eyes stared with terror how Wolf's claws were piercing around Salaric chest, but no blood came out. Salaric woke up suddenly and started screaming, but he couldn't move. His yell was filling the whole siege castle as something was coming out of his chest. It was a blue and a green light. The green one made its way out of the body and escaped from Wolf's hand; no, it didn't escape, Wolf let it go. And the blue one was kept on his hand until he threw it to the floor. It was like a spark that grew bigger and bigger until it took a material shape. My eyes opened wide when I recognized the shape. It was Sonic. The green spark must have been Yoshi.
I stared at Salaric's chest, and it wasn't open anymore, it was like it was never opened.
I stared with fear at Wolf, he was able to take a soul out of a shape shifter, it scared me to think how many of his powers I was ignoring.
"Salaric must be the only human who can withstands having two souls at once." He commented.
"Is he ok?"
"Yes, he is alive, just shocked."
"And what about Sonic?"
"He's been caged on Salaric's body for four years, it's usual that he can't regain his consciousness right away."
"What are you going to do with them, sir?"
"Salaric might be the key." He said "So I got to put an eye on him and as for Sonic… you might let him go."
"But sir…!"
"He is going to help us fight Pit, even when he doesn't want to help us at all. It's better if we let him act on his own, giving him the illusion of freedom."
I wasn't going to argue with Wolf, I didn't find in myself any way of doing so. I feared him, my whole entity was afraid of the smasher in front of me. I took Sonic's body and I headed out of the room, leaving an exhausted Salaric and a fainted Sophie lying in the ground. I was wondering if I would be the next lying lifeless on the ground.
