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Macy PoV
"We love you Nick. Fight her, you can do it." I whispered. Walking closer to him.
He screamed a yell of pure agony as shudders shot through his body. His eyes rolling back into his head. His hands tugging on his hair.
I reached my hand but got held back by Kevin's on my shoulder; I looked back and saw him shake my head. "He has to do this alone, don't give Nalaii something to threaten him with." He spoke, wisely, for Kevin.
"His pure soul is now fighting with Nalaii. We can only hope he wins, Nalaii is the strongest dark spirit to have ever excisted. Even if he wins, I'm not sure if his life-energy will be enough to…" Melody didn't finish her sentence.
Black smoke circled out of Nick's mouth and from his body, his eyes open as black tears ran over his face.
"Nick." I whispered. Falling on my knees on the blue water. No nemphea's in sight. Only the tormented Nick and my longing towards him. To comfort him. To make it all better.
A tormented scream left his lips again and I winced. Not knowing if this was good or not.
"Nick." I whispered.His eyes found mine, an astonishing kind of golden-brown mixed with pitch black.
"Macy." He whispered back. "Joe, Stella."
His breath was rapid now, panting as the smoke seemed to come of every part of his body. Tearing every same part of his body apart. Black blood running over his pale skin.
"Kevin." He breathed, reminding himself what he was fighting for. "Melody, Amelia."
Tears ran over my face, Kevin's hand returning to my shoulder.
I looked back and saw a pained look in the oldest brother's eyes. Melody hugging Amelia close, Joe hugging Stella.
I looked back at Nick. Shudders, coughs and mysterious scratches all over his skin now torturing him.
I gritted my teeth, I wished it would stop. Hadn't Nick suffered enough already?
Suddenly, my wish got granted. Nick's eyes returned to a surprised brown, his body relaxing. His breathing normal, his expression tired and worried.
I didn't dare hope, though I whispered, hoping for mercy: "Nick?"
"Go." He whispered. More then fright in his voice. His voice was terrified, so extremely scared I shied away from him instinctively.
"Go, now. Get away." He panted, his body rocking.
"What?" I began, before Kevin pulled me back. Pushing me down on the hard surface of the water. Though my eyes stayed glued on Nick.
His body seemed to explode. Pain as I had never seen it before visible on his face. Black strings of smoke ripping itself from him. Straight towards us…
I heard Kevin scream when it hit him first, as he was trying to shield me. Gasping for air he collapsed next to me. Hands rising to his chest, where it had hit him.
I saw the smoke, the remains of Nalaii, speed to Stella, Joe and Amelia and knew what Nalaii was doing.
Six souls to restore her powers. Six souls to make her to what she once was.
Nalaii was trying to regain her powers by draining the six pure souls!!
Then, Pain hit me. Along with the screams of my friends. A pain like fire, lightning and ice made its way through my veins. Barbed fangs and claws hooked themselves in every part of my being as I screamed. Screamed for it to release me. Screamed for it to end. Screamed for death.
Melody PoV
I watched as the smoke hit the souls and my precious Amelia. Knowing what was happening and torn. Torn between what I wanted and what I had to do.
I heard their screams and saw their bodies, so visibly in pain.
Stella, on her stomach, bleeding on the inside. Kevin, reaching for something to grasp on the surface of the water, not finding anything. Joe, arching his back as invisible whippings hit him. Macy, curled up into a ball, sobbing.
Amelia, o god Amelia! Her little body was rolled on its back. Her eyes closed, trying to block it out.
I averted my eyes, trying so hard not to let my emotions control me. My instinct to protect her.
So I watched Nick's body, so exhausted from the fight that it couldn't even move. His life-powers so drained he couldn't fight anymore.
My hurt body protested as I rose, my wings limp, my tail dragged behind me.
I knew what I had to do. I knew what it would cost.
My one chance, Amelia's eternal resting.
I had to open a port, as guardians are allowed to do. Once.
We were only allowed to open one gate, witch was supposed to be the gate to the eternal resting place, when our souls were ready to go.
The soul then got a choice, take us with them or… not.
If not, we would stay behind, forever locked into the waiting-world.
I watched Nalaii drain these souls who had helped me and protected my loved one so many times. I thought about the innocent, unknowing souls and their guardians in the living world. I knew what would happen if I didn't do this. They would suffer once again from the hand of Nalaii. Even though it went against everything I was. Even though I would break my promise of protecting her no matter what.
"I, Melody, guardian of the world belonging to the soul named Amelia, demand the opening of the gate to the underworld. The eternal cage of Nalaii." I screamed. The legendary words pounding in my ears. Draining whatever energy I had left.
A hole, like cut out of the air, dark as the crescent moon, appeared.
The giant mouth roared its hunger for a soul. Nothing like the sweet gates to what humans call heaven.
"Gates to the underworld. I ask you to take the soul Nalaii, her time here is done." I continued, gritting my teeth at the change of names in the verse.
A scream, yelled with a voice I hated, was heard. Wind blowing around me, darkness fell. Everything in Amelia's world out of order.
Smoke appeared again, forming the shape of a large human. Flaming like fire, glowing black eyes, even in the darkness. Roots still resting in the souls.
"You foolish dragon." She screeched, the wind pulling at her features. "You will regret this, you can't defeat me!"
The black smoke, still attached to the souls I loved, kept her from being dragged into the gate.
Wake. I begged silently. I can't do this alone.
Nalaii laughed. Though I noticed her torture and draining of the pure souls had stopped.
"You can't win." She said, smiling. "I am the most powerful spirit to have ever lived. Do you really think a worthless guardian can stop me?"
I averted my eyes, again. I knew what I had done and did not regret trying.
Then, out of the blue, a voice. Multiple voices, were heard.
"Maybe she can't." Macy breathed.
"But you said it yourself." Kevin continued, panting.
"Six pure souls and a guardian, that's all it takes." Joe smirked.
"And if I'm counting right." Stella said smugly.
"That is Eksely." Amelia told Nalaii.
"What we. Have." Nick's voice came. Ever so weak.
His limp body, still attached to Nalaii, walked towards Macy. Pulling her up and hugging her for a brief moment. Receiving multiple relieved looks from his brothers and Stella.
Supported by Macy, he closed his eyes. His friends following his example.
There they stood. Three brothers, a blonde, a brunette and a toddler. Completely motionless on the blue water.
The smoke started to stir. Turning from pitch-black to pure white. The strings detaching themselves. Trying to get away from Nalaii's opposite. Pureness and love.
"What?!" Nalaii screamed. "This isn't possible!" Her form decreased visibly. "I'm the most powerful the universe has ever known."
Now loose from her anchors. The wind got a hold on her. Dragging her into the port. "No!" she yelled. "This isn't possible."
"Everything's possible." Kevin disagreed. Joe and Stella nodded.
"With love." Nick said, fire burning behind his eyes. Then, he looked down at Macy, adoration on his face.
"Melody." Amelia's voice said and I saw her running towards me. As fast as her little legs could carry her. A smile on her little face, her hair blowing in the wind that dragged Nalaii down.
"Love." I repeated, staring at her.
"I Nalaii, soul that walks through Melody's gate, choose to take the guardian with me!" Nalaii yelled, a glare with the purest form of evil in the black eyes directed towards me.
I froze, as did the others. Even though they did not know the old verses, they knew what this line meant.
The wind started to grab me too. Kicking my legs from underneath me. My wings flapped uselessly against the pull. My nails and scales scratching on the watery surface.
I looked up and saw the frightened faces. Stella half reaching her hand out for me.
The most heartbreaking though, was Amelia's.
"I love you little one." I whispered, knowing she would hear it. And she nodded. Understanding.
"Don't say farewell so soon, guardian." A low baritone voice, full of authority and louder then any I had ever heard said.
For the first time there was fright on Nalaii's face. "Amun." She whispered. "How?"
"I am not called the protector of souls for nothing." Amun answered. His form, though staying vague, appearing above the water. "Sister Nalaii, you have broken your bonds and threatened my world once again."
Nalaii stared at him. The wind still pulling both of us.
I noticed Kevin had walked over to Amelia and had her now securely in his arms.
"Go back to where you belong, Nalaii, to the Hades and your damned nemphea's." Amun demanded.
Nalaii got thrown back. Face-first into the port.
"Close." Amun said and the hungry mouth, keen on grabbing me to, closed. My body falling to the ground, though I landed soft.
I looked up, into the Egyptian eyes and knew it was over. My job had been done well.
Nick PoV
Fighting with Nalaii had been one of the most painful and hardest things I had ever done. Her presence, pushing on my mind had almost gotten too much. Then the heart wrecking screams of my friends, Macy. Almost worse then the pain that came after that.
Now, being held up by Macy. Knowing it was over when Nalaii disappeared and the world around us started to change. I knew I would be sore, but it seemed worth it as the world started… Breathing again.
The water beneath us lost its unnatural blue colour and started to look like actual water. The trees around us also lost their perfection. Apples and cherries growing everywhere as the leaves turned several shades of green. A pleasant, normal wind made the leaves move softly.
I inhaled this all and smiled. I looked down at Macy who took it all in with amazed eyes and her mouth slightly open. Almost like her fan-girl smile.
Definitely worth it.
"Soul Amelia." The god Nalaii had called Amun said. "You indeed have a beautiful world."
Melody flew towards Kevin, her legs probably not able to carry her and took Amelia from Kevin, who stepped back to us.
"Tell me, little soul. Do you wish to go to my world?" he asked and I saw Melody's face lit up. Only for Amelia.
"Only if Melody comes with." Came Amelia's certain answer.
"Your guardian certainly deserves that. She deserves so much for saving the world of the living even against her instincts. Risking everything she loved. You behaved like the purest soul Melody. That's why I have decided to grant you the blessing of life."
Melody's eyes grew wide as Amelia hugged her guardian. "You are soul!" She babbled and Melody looked down at her with love.
"Only if I can stay with her." Came her answer and I saw tears appear in all of our eyes at so much love and devotion.
"Very well then, come with us and live among your equal souls." Amun said. "Say farewell to your friends now. The eternal resting-place awaits his hero's. As well as the living world does." The Egyptian eyes now looked at us.
We all walked towards each other and when Kevin took Macy's position of helping me, the two sisters fell into each others arms.
"I loved you from the very beginning and never stopped, never will stop doing that." Macy whispered.
Tears ran over their faces and joined, before falling into the water below.
"I love you too, Mesie." Amelia said, before looking up to all of us. "I lob you all." She looked at me. "Thanks for saving me, pretty boy!" she said hugging her sister close for the last time.
She floated up, out of Macy's arms, who quickly ran back into mine. Towards Melody and Amun. Reaching her guardian's arms first.
"Words can't describe how grateful I am." Melody said, love in her cat-like eyes. "You have all been so good, pure as your souls are. I will be eternally grateful, to all of you. You hold my love, until we meet again. Witch we will."
A white light, cliché but true, appeared. Amun's eyes watching it all.
"Goodbye." They mused together. The toddler and the dragon-girl. Before they disappeared into the light, towards their eternal resting place.
Yay, I love semi-happy endings. ^.^ a picture of Amun can be found in my profile…
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