Ch. 20: Their Song

"Run Eric," Grumpy shouted from the castle tower as Eric ran out of the castle.

Never in his life was Eric was running so hard. He felt as if a new amount of energy filled him and that was love. Love wanted him to get there and that was where he was going.

He looked up at the sky seeing that dawn was trailing behind him. It felt like a race that he needed to win no matter what. "You won't make it time, little warrior," suddenly Eric felt a jerk at his legs. He quickly looked around in pain seeing nothing until he heard the voice again, "Are we having problems?"

"Come out, Andrea," Eric shouted loudly.

"Over here."

Eric turned around suddenly and pulled out his sword. The two circled each other before Eric spoke, "I knew that fall was too easy for you to escape." Andrea smirked slightly as she revealed the small holes on her gown. "I knew that wasn't enough," Eric stated as he looked up at the sky again.

"Dawn is coming," Andrea whispered.

Eric watched as the sun moved over Andrea then over Eric. She opened her hand and let a flame form in her hand, throwing it at Eric. He quickly tumbled and stood back up, shielding himself. He looked up at the sky again then back at Andrea who aimed at him again.

It seemed in that moment time, Eric realized that the only way to get to Kaelyn was to forget simply about Andrea. He dropped his sword and bolted into the forest, forgetting about Andrea. However, Andrea was not going to stop until she was the fairest. She slowly faded away into darkness and released an evil laugh.

"Keep running, Eric," he told himself seeing the cottage in his sight. He looked up seeing the sun racing with him both neck and neck. He reached the door and pushed it opened as he ran up the staircase. "Almost there," he muttered as he pushed the door quickly open to his bedroom and there she was.

Eric released a breath before he walked over to her and kneeled down beside her bedside. He ran his hand against the skin of her cheek before cupping it. Eric then looked up as the rays of dawn ready to enter the bedroom. He looked back, leaning down as he softly whispered, "Don't leave me yet."

Their lips gently touched as dawn took over the room. It is too late, he heard Andrea state in his ear. Eric pulled back, looking down at Kaelyn.

You couldn't save her.

She didn't move slightly and he felt his heart drop as he looked at her body. He closed his eyes in pain as he kissed her forehead, "I'm so sorry, Kay. I'm sorry I didn't tell you how much I love you." He held back the tears as he whispered, "I'm in love with you."

Eric…

She groggily began to open her eyes. She turned her head slightly noticing a knife rising to stab Eric in the back. "Eric," she warned before she pulled Eric's knife from his belt and stabbed Andrea.

Eric looked up as Andrea gasped in pain. Eric grabbed Andrea's wrist and forced the knife to drop. Andrea staggered back as the dwarfs appeared at the doorway, blocking her exit with their weapons. "This is not possible," Andrea coughed loudly.

She watched as Eric turned around and a smile formed on his face. He moved out of the way to show Kaelyn sitting up from the bed with Eric's knife in her hand. "No," Andrea yelled causing Eric to look at her, seeing Andrea's skin slowly shriveling from its youth. It seemed time was going forward for Andrea causing her to be older.

"I told you my Queen, love conquers all," they all heard.

They watched as Andrea's body slowly began to become dust. Grumpy walked over to the pile of dust as he ran his hand through it. He then looked up at Eric before he loudly said, "She's gone!"

A loud cheer came while Eric turned back to Kaelyn. She smiled before grabbing Eric's neck and pulled him in a deep kiss, holding him close against her. He smiled against her lips before she pulled back and whispered, "I'm in love with you too." Eric smiled widely as she continued, "I don't care if you are a commoner or not," she looked up at Grumpy, "I'll stay no matter what."

Then she felt his hand on her cheek, bringing her eyes toward his. Eric shook his head as he rolled up his sleeve showing his birthmark. Kaelyn looked at the birthmark then back at her as he said, "I think that won't be necessary." Kaelyn quickly hugged him and kissed him again before Eric pulled back, asking softly, "Marry me?"

Kaelyn nodded and Eric smiled widely.

"Finally," everyone turned and their eyes widened as it seemed the voice was from Sweetie's direction.

Eric raised an eyebrow, "Sweet?"

Sweetie shrugged before giving a small smile, "About time that's all I'm saying."

"And so Kaelyn and Eric with the seven dwarfs lived happily ever after. Their love proved to be that their love was strong to defeat magic, death, and other dimensions to be together." The Magic Mirror looked up and smiled, closing the book he was reading from before he pointed to the mirror. The mirror began to change to show Eric and Kaelyn holding each other as Eric whispered 'I love you' in Kaelyn's ear and she reciprocated.

The Magic Mirror then stood up from his chair and looked into the mirror repeating the incantation that Andrea once spoke to him, "Magic Mirror on the wall this is what I see now. I see their love is a song, their song that they could play through out time and space. It is something that was destined and meant to last forever and that's truthfully the fairest of them all."

The End

I was thinking about doing another chapter but this sounded like a good ending. Now my friends and followers, I like to thank you for following, reviewing, and doing your thing as readers: reading! You made my days and now, I must think up a new fairy tale to do.

If you have an idea, let me know!

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