Lewis's Time
Everything was silent, that is, before the earthquake began. The ground trembled as though all the gods were pounding it like a drum at once. The cloud-like landscape split open to reveal what looked like the flames of hell. Millions of people, maybe hundreds of millions, were weaving their way through the crowds and crawling up from the chasm in the ground.
"You lie silent there before me.
Your tears, they mean nothing to me…"
The people, the demons, began singing together. They never paused in their movements, and they always stared ahead. They were all men, women and some children; all of them had the marks of the evil and corrupted.
"The wind howling at the window.
The love you never gave,
I give to you…"
For a moment Lewis saw his corrupt side along with Wilbur's, watching him with blood red eyes from the crowd. They wore gray robes and their faces seemed strangely emotionless. A moment later, though, they faded from view.
All of the demons were wearing gray robes. Lewis saw the younger version of Franny walking among them, he nearly reached out to her, but she faded away as well.
"Really don't deserve it,
But now there's nothing you can do,
So sleep in your only memory of me
My dearest mother…"
Lewis looked at the sky, and it seemed as though the stars were raining down around him. They just kept coming down, like luminous snowflakes in the otherwise dark night. The demons were drawn to him. Lewis watched as their faces were lit up briefly by the raining stars but the light would disappear as the stars would rest on the grounds, only for it to repeat with another raining star.
"Here's a lullaby to close your eyes,
(Good-bye)
It was always you that I despised…"
The demons seemed to watch him from a distance, and few would venture closer to him. He saw Goob with them as well, but Lewis didn't dare try to take him out of there. The emptiness in Goob's eyes scared him. It was an emptiness that all the demons shared. It looked like they had no soul whatsoever.
"I don't feel enough for you to cry,
(Oh well,)
Here's a lullaby to close your eyes
(Good-bye)
Goodbye
Goodbye…"
Goob faded away as well, just to be replaced with another demon. Lewis felt more than saw someone materialize in front of him. He looked forward, and surprisingly, he wasn't surprised to see a more wraith like Perfidia.
She leaned forward, to the point where their faces were barely an inch apart. She took Lewis's face in her deathly cold hands and peered in his eyes.
"So insignificant.
Sleeping dormant deep inside of me,
Are you hiding away lost?
Under the sewers,
Maybe flying high in the clouds…"
Lewis felt as though he were being transported through what felt like a portal. He was on the shore of a river. It seemed to be an underground river, since the not-sky was made of naturally formed rock. He looked across the river and saw people boarding what looked like a small cross between a rowboat and a canoe.
A tall skeletal figure in a hooded cloak gracefully rowed the boat across the river. The boat seemed immune to what looked like a roaring tide. In almost no time, the boat docked on the shore Lewis was on.
"Perhaps you're happy without me.
So many seeds have been sown in the field,
And who could sprout up so blessedly
If I had died"
As Lewis watched the skeletal figure help the people out of the boat, he saw it look at him. Lewis got a slight view of what was under the hood. It was a skinless skull, and it was smiling.
This was the River Styx, and Lewis had crossed over to the shore of the dead.
"I would have never felt sad at all.
You will not hear me say I'm sorry.
Where is the light?
Wonder if it's weeping somewhere…"
The vision faded away, and he felt the cold hands of Perfidia holding his face again. She seemed satisfied about something. Her expression changed to one of peace.
She caressed Lewis's cheek gently and kissed his forehead. The minute her lips touched him Lewis knew that she was dead, but held back. Icy tendrils of cold laced his face, the center of which was his forehead.
She brought her lips away from his forehead and held him with a steady gaze. Her eyes were silver once again.
"Please," she whispered in a language he knew was neither human nor star warrior. "Destroy my spirit stone. I do not believe I can go through another millennia tied to this earth."
"Here's a lullaby to close your eyes,
(Good-bye)
It was always you that I despised…
I don't feel enough for you to cry,
(Oh well)
Here's a lullaby to close your eyes
(Good-bye…)"
She faded away, and yet Lewis could still feel her kiss on his forehead. As though possessed, he walked slowly to the center of the clearing where Perfidia's body lay. He gently slid the necklace from his cousin's neck and watched her heart spirit stone swing almost hypnotically. He noticed swirls of silver in its depths, and wondered it there was a chance for redemption.
His hand went to the stone and he smashed it to silver and black dust, and it flew away in the wind.
"Here's a lullaby to close your eyes,
(Good-bye)
It was always you that I despised…
I don't feel enough for you to cry,
(Oh well)
Here's a lullaby to close your eyes
(Good-bye)
Good-bye…"
Lewis's finger pressed the place where the kiss still was. He drew his finger away and saw a lip imprint in blood on it. With that, he felt the icy tendrils finally cause him to fall to the ground, unconscious.
"Good-bye…
Good-bye…
Good-bye…"
A/N
Okay, now I'm desperate for feedback on this particular chapter. I need to know reactions to certain part, dang it! (Especially the whole kiss thing…) Just note that it wasn't romantic in any way. Review please!
Disclaimer: No I don't own MTR, or the lyrics. The lyrics are from 'Room of Angel' from the Silent Hill video game soundtrack. Listen to it, it's spooky and somewhat disturbing, but good.