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"And you're sure he's completely dead?" Gareki asked as he,Yogi, and Pastel made their way up the darkened cobblestone steps of the dungeon.

"You saw his dead body, Gareki. Theirs no need for you to question my abilities." Yogi replied exasperatedly, leading the way. "And we got our magic back, didn't we? How else do you explain that?"

He shrugged. "So? That doesn't necessarily mean anything. We don't know these people or their capabilities. They could come back to life."

Yogi sighed and stopped walking before turning to face him, placing a hand on the wall to steady himself on the stairs. "I think gratitude should be in order. I did just defend your honor by killing the very man that laid his hands on you. You're welcome." He tried to keep his voice even but still an indignant undertone was clear despite his preventions.

He stopped walking and looked up at his guardian link. "Thanks."

Yogi lifted a dubious eyebrow.

"I'm serious. Thank you." Gareki admitted more meaningfully.

Satisfied, Yogi turned back around and ascended the stairs. "I'm sure you have nothing to worry about. He's dead. And even if he does come back to life he's going to regret it."

Gareki internally liked the sound of that. Especially since he didn't get his own fight in with the commander. He would've loved to end his life instead of Yogi doing so. But given the likely chance that he would come back to life, then he would have first dibs on killing him on the second round.

"As long as I stab the blade of my glaive in him first," Gareki pointed out.

"Whatever. I've already settled my quarrels with him." Yogi dismissively replied.

"Look ahead of yourselves. The exit." Pastel lifted a paw forward as he hitched on Gareki's shoulder.

They both laid their attention on the arched shaped exit leading into the upper floors of the castle, they'd finally made it after fighting off so many guards. As soon as they exited through they stopped walking and took in the interior of the upper floor of the castle.

Everything was made out of crystals. Harboring the colors violet and purple. Some even being royal blue. Even the furniture was made of it.

Yogi's mouth gaped open slightly as he circled his eyes around, examining it all. "Unreal." He commented quietly.

Gareki walked over to a set of protruding crystals from the ground and laid a finger against it before dragging it down it's smooth sleek surface causing a pattern of frost to linger after his touch. " Eva really must like her crystals."

"Seems that way." Pastel replied, ogling the sealing.

Gareki looked up, eyeing the diamond chandelier. It seemed so odd that a castle would be made this way. But considering that it was Eva's and all that he'd heard about her obsession with crystals then it really wasn't a surprise.

"What are we going to do from here? Find the throne room so we can speak to her?" Yogi asked, breaking them both out of their examination.

Gareki turned to him."Right. I just hope she doesn't plan on attacking us with guards and let us explain why we really came here. She's probably thinking we're Outsiders too. "

Yogi opened his mouth to saw something but suddenly a blast from an attack spell flew through the air towards him.

At the last minute he saw it and casted a shield from his amulet but the strong impact from the blast threw him off his feet once it made contact with it. He rolled against the ground before coming to a sliding halt near the far wall.

Pastel jumped from Gareki's shoulder and ran over to him to see if he was alright.

Gareki glared in the direction the blast had come from before summoning his glaive. He pointed the blade end in that direction. "I know you're there. Show yourself."

A few seconds passed.

He stayed grounded in position.

Keeping his eyes peeled for what was to come.

But once he thought whoever it was that had attacked Yogi wasn't going to come out, the ground vibrated against the souls of his boots before a large bulky figure smashed through the entrance of the hall.

Gareki tightened his hold on his weapon before taking a wary step back from the large creature.

Crystal shards rained to the floor as the black armored cyclops rounded on him with a kick.

He flew through the air fast and hit the wall with his back, causing the wall to crack from his body's impact. He lost his breath before falling away from the wall and fell to the ground on his front.

Small fragments of crystals fell onto him.

Muscles aching from the strong blow, he managed to push himself up on all fours. He slid his hand against the ground and grasped his glaive.

Feeling the firm metal against his palm was a reinsurance he was grateful for.

He glanced all the way up at the cyclops with fearless eyes.

What the hell was a monster like this doing in a Eva's castle. Gareki saw his own reflection in the red iris of the cyclops's single eye. He gripped his glaive as the monster lifted a hand down.

His intention was to grab him.

Gareki attempted to throw a bolt to defend himself but aching muscles had him forced in place. He glanced up again and saw the giant hand right above him now.

"Feuer!"

A large ball of flames slammed against the giant's head, forcing him away from Gareki.

He turned to see Yogi with his arm outstretched as flames engulfed his hand. He advanced over to the Avatar.

"What the hell is that thing?!" Was the first words Yogi exclaimed.

Gareki pushed himself to his feet using his glaive as support. The pain in his back beginning to disperse. "You've never seen a cyclops?"

Yogi gave him a funny look. "Gareki, in my realm the only danger is a dark king wanting to steal my kingdom along with other kingdoms. I don't have creatures like this in my realm."

Gareki glanced back at the cyclops as it moved to it's feet again with a loud growl. "Well consider yourself bloody lucky. Now move!" He yelled and shoved Yogi to the ground as it's giant foot collided with the area they had just been standing in a second ago.

He removed himself from being on top of Yogi and stretched out his glaive towards the monster before focussing his magic within it.

The frost on the black rod glowed blue as his magic surged all the way to the blade making it glow as he threw an ice blast at the cyclops's leg.

It froze his limb in thick ice on impact.

They both got up from the ground just as Pastel hid behind a small protrusion of crystals.

The cyclops eyed them warily as if unsettled by their strong use of magic. He could sense a greater purpose within them. Their capabilities were strong which portrayed a threat in his opinion.

"What is he doing here?" Yogi kept a hand on his amulet just in case the giant lashed out at them he could form a means of protection.

Blue-grey eyes scrutinized their biggest threat. "He's wearing armor with the symbol of a royal. He's assisting Queen Eva."

"As what?" Yogi glanced at him quickly before throwing his eyes back onto the cyclops.

Gareki kept his glaive held out in place. "A guard? An assigned killer? One of those have to fit his occupation."

Blonde eyebrows pinched together at those odds. "Well if he's either of those then he's a threat to us. We have to end him here and now."

Gareki's face hardened. "Way ahead of you." He flung his glaive down. It impacted the ground creating a thick surface of ice that led all the way up to the cyclops's head. He ran up the ramp with his weapon howled back with two hands, ready to swing.

The cyclops saw him coming and jolted his arm up destroying the ramp. But that didn't stop him. He jumped up high and flung his glaive out unleashing a frigid wave of air that froze his eye.

Yogi watched as Gareki landed in a crouch on the other side of the cyclops before holding his amulet out in the palm of his hand.

It levitated and glowed golden as he focused his magic inside of it. He then sent orbs full of his element over sunlight spiraling towards the giant.

The force from the blows knocking him off his feet. Gareki saw the falling cyclops before front rolling out of the way just as he fell.

Regaining his footing he turned and glared at Yogi who shrugged an apology for almost causing the cyclops to fall on him.

Rolling his eyes he dismissed it reluctantly. He walked over to him and they both looked at the struggling cyclops as he scratched his frozen eye.

An unsatisfied grumble vibrated from his throat at the stubborn ice that wouldn't remove itself no matter how hard he carved his nails against it.

In a flash of luminescent sparks, Gareki made his glaive disappear. "He's not getting out of that anytime soon." He turned to go."We should leave while we have the chance."

Yogi clamped a hand on his shoulder, stopping him before he could even take a step and pointed at the cyclops. "I don't think so, look."

Gareki turned his head only to see the cyclops's eye was glowing red and melting away the ice. He turned his body back around until he was facing the scene again."No fucking way. . ." he whispered in astonishment.

The cyclops stood up tall as soon as all the ice on both his eye and leg were melted. Yogi dropped his hand away from Gareki and said lowly," Don't be stupid. The fight isn't over until you make sure it is, remember?" He berated him roughly before stepping towards the giant.

Gareki gave his back a frown as he asked incredulously. "Really? You're doing this now?" He lifted his hands away from his sides to gesture frustration.

"You won't oppose to me being mad at you anymore. Your words not mine," Yogi pressed blandly, not bothering to look at him. He lifted his hand at the cyclops and fire engulfed it once more. He aimed for it's eye.

Gareki sighed."I know what I said. But now you're settling your anger on me when we're in a fight. Really? Now isn't a good time."

"Rather it's a good time or not. I don't care. I'm still mad at you. You think something like what we've argued over could just be settled that quickly. No, it couldn't."

Gareki couldn't believe him. He understood the weight of how angry and disappointed Yogi was at him. But just flat out bringing their argument up in the middle of a fight seemed like he was over doing it.

He just had to bring it all up now at the worst timing possible. Right when he thought things between them had cooled off a little. He'd been wrong again.

The cyclops blasted a red laser from it's eye and Yogi smothered away his fire after not being able to concentrate on his aim and shielded himself as the laser targeted down at him.

"I guess no amount of me apologizing can fix this?" He asked him.

Yogi focused on his shield as it began to crack from the laser's strong impact. "No!"

I must've hurt him really bad for him to say that. Gareki thought. lifting his hand he threw a bolt at the giant's eye causing his laser to stop as he stumbled backwards. "We'll discuss this later. For now focus on fighting."

Yogi's shoulders sagged. "Of course, it's always priorities with you," he said distastefully.

Gareki chose to ignore him as he watched the cyclops gain his footing. His eye was still glowing red.

He shot down another red laser.

Yogi and Gareki jumped out of the way as it cracked the ground in half.

Gareki front rolled next to protruding crystals before raising both hands at the cyclops and shot a beam of electricity. It hit him on the side of his head.

He turned to him before running over. The ground shacking under his heavy footsteps. Gareki moved to his feet and sprinted away from him. Hearing his hand slap the crystals away after being too late to hit him. The cyclops then switched directions before chasing after him again.

His footsteps colliding loudly with the ground close behind. He could feel the cyclops closing in and when he turned his head up a red beam was about to shoot down on him but a second later a ball of fire hit the giant on the head.

He abruptly stopped chasing Gareki and turned to where the flames had come from. His eye landed on Yogi before seeing fire wrapped around his hands. He grumbled finding the culprit, shooting the laser at him instead.

Yogi moved into a run in the opposite direction trying to escape the beam that was chasing after him.

Raising a hand he was about to throw another ball of fire at the cyclops but the beam finally caught up with him and crystalized his leg to the point where it was engulfed in red Amethyst.

He let out a shocked grunt before tripping and fell as the red crystal forced it's way up his torso, chest, neck, and lastly his head. He froze inside of a crystal statue.

Gareki could only watch in shock as the cyclops slowly turned to him next. He tilted his head up to stare right into the large eye of his opponent. "Oh hell," he said in a whisper.

The cyclops shot down another laser at him. But he jumped doing a half cartwheel to the side, landing gracefully on his feet before running all over again.

He heard the laser hit the ground behind him. He could feel the heat at his back as it closed the gape between them. At the last minute Gareki jumped aside into a side roll again and positioned himself in a crouch before twisting around and shot a clean aim at the cyclops's eye with another bolt.

Taking the opportunity to run towards Yogi as the giant covered his eye howling painfully. Once he reached him he kneeled down next to him and touched the rigged crystal surface his body was contained in.

He tried to summon the spell that originally broke ice statues but it didn't work the same for crystal. "It was worth a try." He muttered as he stared at Yogi's paralyzed face.

He looked surprised. Completely taken off guard by what had happened to him.

"What do you think you're doing?" Pastel spoke as he came out of hiding."It's like you have a death wish by turning your back on a fight."

Gareki glanced at the cyclops who was still picking at his eye. "I'm going to fight him once I'm done examining this crystal he froze Yogi in." He turned back around.

"Examining?"

"Yeah, but my magic can't release him. At least without hurting him. I could electrocute this to make it explode. But that'll kill him."

Pastel peered at the containment that was holding Yogi captive before shaking his head. "I'm sorry, Gareki but. . . we may have to leave him like this."

Gareki instantly looked at him. "No," he said sternly, his eyebrows creased together. "He saved me countless times so now I'm obligated to do the same."

Pastel gave him a steady glare. "I know you love him. But this is suicide. You hear me?"

Gareki's hard expression softened a little at Pastels remark. "Why would you think that I love him?" He cocked his head.

Pastel flicked his tail in annoyance. His patience was running thin with this Avatar. "I have a second sense when it comes to those who have affections for another. You could hide it but I can just as easily detect it. Now, we need to leave!"

Gareki's grave expression was back again. He leaned down until they were inches apart. "No means no, Pastel. Me and Yogi may be fighting right now, but that's no excuse for me to just leave him here like this. Learn from what I just said."

Pastel's eyes lingered between both the open hallway he could escape through and to Yogi's contained body. He had to make a choice. He sighed dramatically before choosing to stay with Gareki. "Fine. I'm with you. But only because you're the only body guards that can escort me through Dampis."

The Avatar gave him a curt nod, ignoring the fact that the cat only thought of them as sentinels. "I just need to kill that cyclops and then we can go to the throne room. Hopefully Eva can cast away this crystalization spell." He patted a hand on Yogi's containment.

"Okay." The feline agreed.

Gareki stood up and saw the cyclops recover.

He faced him before lifting a fist and brought it down. Gareki casted a shield right as the giant's fist came.

He pressed his feet harder to the ground as the force from the fist pushed him back. He closed his eyes and concentrated the flow of his magic.

He sent a wave of electricity up the cyclops's arm causing him to yank his hand away.

Gareki dispersed his shield before dragging his arm back into a fist, then driving it forward through thin air. Electricity pulsed it's way over the plains of his arm before darting away from his fist and struck fiercely through the air, headed strait for the cyclops where it made it's impact at his chest.

But just when he thought that he would fall. The cyclops reached down and tried to grab him. Gareki stopped hi flow of static and moved out of the way. Not successfully as he felt his tail being grabbed and the next thing he knew, he was being howled away from the ground.

The giant threw him up before grabbing him again but this time his body was squeezed between his fist, arms forced at his sides as he struggled not being able to use his magic.

He struggled to get free, all the while the cyclops stared at him. His eye once again glowing red. It was brighter up close and Gareki instantly stilled in his struggle.

His own eyes widened at what he knew was going to happen next. He could feel the wave of heat from the giant eye flow against his face.

"You have to be kidding me, don't!" He yelled right as he watched the giant red eye shoot it's laser at him. This time there was no stopping it as his body froze over with the spell of crystalization.

Yogi's POV

Whispers harmonized in my head, all speaking at once in a gush of incoherent words in my language, Rimahakkian instead of the Avatarian dialect I'd been using in the Arcial Realm.

I felt myself closing in and out trying to assess what was being said.

"Wake up. You need to wake up." My father's deep voice echoed all around me and promptly my eyes opened and dilated from the protective golden glow of my amulet that was floating right in front of my face.

I realized quickly that I was hanging upside down and it didn't take the heavy weight of blood rushing to my brain for me to notice it.

The room I was in was right side up. The throne sat a few feet away from me on a small stage of ascending steps. The entire room—even the shiny floor— was made from crystal. Violet made up the entire throne room's color.

But on the stage where the throne was situated made entirely out of the floors crystals were thick large carved Amethyst shaped like daggers that had sprouted free from the ground going in every direction behind the throne. Broadcasting it in all it's worth and from the roots where they based themselves on the floor, they glowed a light pink and purple. The glow surging it's way up making the Amethyst glow. Illuminating the room in half lit darkness.

It was the most amazing and beautiful thing I'd ever seen.

But something wasn't right. Hadn't I just been frozen by the very thing I was calling beautiful. I had thought I was dead for sure after being trapped in that crystal containment without the need to breathe.

It had felt like I was holding my breath. Only for a long, long time.

I looked up to figure out how I was being held upside down only to find my body being outlined in a green hue of light.

It was a levitating spell. I could tell just by the cold slip of it against my skin. I wondered who could've casted it. Had it been one of the guards once they'd freed me from that confinement.

But they would've taken my magic. Oddly enough I felt it flowing through my body but it felt restricted. I attempted to unleash flames from my hands but nothing happened.

Positioning my body upright so I was no longer upside down I tried again. The same result happened.

"If you're trying to use your magic it won't work." Spoke a voice I knew. I looked up to my right and saw Gareki floating upside down towards me with his arms crossed.

"How did we get here?" I asked once he was next to me.

He righted himself. "The cyclops."

"Do you know if Eva ordered him to bring us here so she could kill us herself?"

"I wouldn't be surprised if she did. All the signs are pointing to it. We can't use magic to defend ourselves and we can't move with this levitating spell casted on us."

Sighing I looked away from him only to stare at the glowing background of the throne. "We're so fucked."

Gareki's face pulled into a scowl."Exactly, we are. I wish you hadn't posed yourself as a threat when we first got here. Maybe then we—"

"We what?" I glanced at him, daring him to say this was all my fault when he had just as much to do with the situation as I did.

He kept a steady glare on me. "Maybe then we wouldn't be here like this." He accused calmly.

"I can't believe you right now," I said. "We wouldn't be in this mess if you hadn't screwed up by surrendering to that ass of a commander who double crossed us in the end. And let's not forget he stabbed me because of that."

"It was a simple screw up that had a purpose." He defended." It made sense to surrender. I was trying to get the trust from them so they could allow us to speak to Queen Eva. I was doing us both a favor."

"Some favor." I rebuked.

"I didn't see you coming up with any ideas." He retaliated.

I clawed at my hair with a hand. "Urg! How did I fall for a guy like you?!"

"You don't deserve me and I don't deserve you. We've been through this." He grumbled faceing strait.

I clenched my amulet that had stopped glowing and held it over my heart as I turned away from him, clenching my eyes shut.

It hurt. It hurt too much to love him, to want him when we were arguing like this. There was this shallow ache in my chest every time I would say something harsh to him. I wondered if he felt it too.

I wanted so badly to push away what had happened with us that morning. But the thought of his heartless words kept filling my mind on constant replay. I couldn't forget no matter how hard I tried."

"I'm sorry." He said sincerely a moment of silence later. "Words just found their way out of my mouth without thinking. I didn't mean—"

"Don't. Talk. To. Me." My voice was distant, contempt, and disdainful. I didn't want to hear him speak right now. Not after that last comment.

Slowly I reopened my eyes and stared at the far wall across from me.

"There isn't much I can say to make this better, is there?" He continued to talk despite my instruction.

I turned around and found him floating cross-legged with his arms still intertwined over his chest. "Maybe," I said slowly. "Maybe there is or maybe there isn't. It's up to you."

He stared at me for a few seconds before speaking again,"Yogi, I—"

"And yet every time I'm united with you two there's always something interesting happening. " came Pastel.

We both looked up only to see him hop down the stairs of the stage the throne was placed on. I wondered if he had gotten crystalized too, but I didn't want to ask. The important thing was that he was here and could possibly break us from this levitation spell.

"We need to get loose." I began. "Can you help us?"

"I would've expected two sinful Outsiders such as yourselves to have learned by now that you can't always run from what's coming to you." A bold female voice enlightened.

Gareki and I both watched the right corner of the stage. The shadows there shifted into blue as the feminine figure stepped into view. Her pale bare feet pattering to the ground as she walked in our anxious silence.

All of us watched as the women came into the dim purple light of her throne and stood intimidatingly stern.

Her hair cascaded long, thick, and curly down her back. It was mint green as it placed itself against her beautiful face.

Her attire consisted of a two piece. The top pressing securely over her bosom. Casting itself a royal blue with outlines of silver line patterns that shown and sparkled with miniscule diamonds. Her long skirt silked down her legs the same royal blue as her top was. It laid flat against the floor. A purposeful split in the skirt revealed one of her thighs and lower leg in a sexy manner.

Her stomach stood out in the open and on her naval was a piercing of a diamond hanging there.

I could tell just by looking at her that she would remind me of Queen Larisa off the Ice Kingdom judging by the critical look she gave us.

Her green eyes faded over us. Taking in our appearances.

"So this is all the ruckus my guards have been complaining about earlier today." She said coolly. "I can definitely see the interest."

She descended the stairs, still keeping an eye on us. "I had my cyclops capture you and bring you here so I could finally have a word with you both. It seems my own guards couldn't handle a task. You must be stronger than we all know of. But why cast yourselves in these forms?"

Gareki answered."We're not Outsiders. What you see in front of you now is our true forms."

She cocked her head and stopped a few feet in front of us. "Why should I believe you when you've killed my fleet along with Garth?"

We must've looked confused because she elaborated who she was mentioning.

"He's the man who's the leader of the fleet. Some guards who were still alive warned me about all that you've done. I don't think I should trust you. Even though you," she averted her eyes onto Gareki," look like the prince of the Ice Kingdom and you," she turned to look at me," I'm not sure who you are."

"Please," I begged."You have to try. None of what we did on first arrival was intentional. We felt like we were threatened once we were spotted by your men and we had to take action."

She stood there looking as if she contemplated my words into some consideration. She looked up at me again. "Why did you come here? To steal from me? To murder me? What?" She hastily questioned.

"None of those." Gareki replied. "We only came here to ask for your help."

Her thin eyebrows pinched together. "My help in what?"

Gareki looked down at Pastel. "He explained to us that you had the control of sending us up to Dampis Desert."

She looked down at the cat, just now realizing him sitting there. "Who might you be? Another Outsider disguised as a feline?"

"Neither of us are Outsiders, your highness." Pastel pointed." Excuse my sudden appearance. My name is Pastel, the familiar of prince Nai of Kiridian Empire. Nice to meet your acquaintance." He bowed his head and lifted it up again causing his collar's gem to swing.

Eva stared at him taken by surprise. "The Kiridian gem. So if I do say I believe you could I ask why you are so far away from your kingdom?"

Pastel explained the story of him being stolen by the fire district who wanted the gem for complete control over Dampis desert and Kiridian.

"And these two behind me are going to escort me safely back home."

Her eyes squinted slightly before looking back up at me and Gareki. "So you say that you both are innocent and aren't Outsiders?"

Before I could respond Pastel beat me. "They are more than innocent. They are the descendants of both Ivy and Ashanova."

Immediately the serious look on Eva's face broke with shock. "You're lying?"

Pastel looked smug. "I do not lie when it comes to speaking with a royal. But if you don't believe me I'm sure you can see inside their minds and witness the truth from it's roots. You have the ability to mind read, correct?"

Eva looked back down at him. "How did you—"

"I've heard about you." He interjected. Eva eyed him before turning to me and walked forward until she was a few inches away from my face.

Lifting a hands to my forehead and Gareki's her fingers sparkled as her touch placed itself against our skulls.

I felt this needle sensation on my scalp. It felt like spiders were crawling through my hair and down my neck. I stared strait ahead as she kept her fingers pressed on me.

She closed her eyes and her hands jolted. I wondered what she could see in my mind. Could she see everything.

An uncomfortable feeling went through me as the thought of private memories went through my head.

I tried to keep my mind blank so she wouldn't sort through my personals. I didn't know how this mind reading worked but I assumed the person reading your mind would go through the things you imagined. So I kept my mind blank of anything too personal I didn't want her to see.

A moment later her hands pulled from our foreheads and she looked at us after blinking a few times.

She took cautious steps back. Looking wary. "You both are princes of your own kingdoms. I see that you are guardians too. All that you have been through here you do not deserve it. I'm terribly sorry for all the havoc my men have caused you and for my skepticism. I will gladly show you the way to Dampis."

She lifted a hand. It glowed green.

Suddenly the levitation spell disappeared and we both fell to the ground, landing on our feet. "Thank you," I said and she looked at me.

"Don't thank me. I thank you for your service in protecting this realm. You are doing the people here a greet deal. Both of you are." She nodded at Gareki who returned the gesture.

She turned away and began walking to the exit doors of the room. "Follow me. The least I can do is offer you both new clothes. One thing you should know about Dampis Desert is that it's very windy and sandy. You'll need to be prepared."

You can change into this dressing room." Eva said, handing over folded clothes to me and I grabbed them.

"I'll be waiting outside." She turned in left the dressing room that was filled with hanging armor. Must've been a dressing room for guards. They weren't here though.

It was only me and Gareki. I turned and sat my clothing on the bench, looking up just in time to see him pulling his shirt over his head.

His strong back was to me and on his shoulder blades stood the black engravings of more tribal tattoos I hadn't yet seen.

They were fierce, twisted, and perfect in every way. I wondered if he had drawn them or if someone else had done the deed for him.

He dropped his shirt on the bench, going for the zipper of his jeans and turned to me unaware that I was looking until he looked up. He paused and stared at me through his eyelashes.

An expressionless look on his face. A few seconds passed but it felt like minutes as we stared each other down.

Finally he moved his hands and pulled the zipper down before placing his hands on the hem of his jeans and started to push them off.

I averted my eyes and clenched my jaw at how ridiculous I was being. Just the sexy body of the person I loved. Not a big deal.

I began to strip my own clothes and get dressed.

I stood in a new attire of clothing that consisted of a tan turtle neck-hoodie, sleeveless with a white undershirt that peeked out at the bottom.

Black slim jeans with ankle high sand boots.

I pulled on the fingerless leather black gloves and placed goggles on my head. Lastly I pulled the two white laces of my turtle neck-hoodie just to see if they pulled the fabric correctly. It worked and I loosened the laces once more.

The turtle neck was supposed to be placed and tightened over my mouth and nose to protect me from breathing in sand.

I glanced at Gareki as he strapped on his ankle high black boots. His attire consisted of a Demobaza craft heavy cotton jersey jumpsuit colored in dark grey. Two black laces hung loosely from the black trim around his waist.

The jumpsuit had a retractable hood which allowed it to hang loosely, making it look like an open turtle neck he could strap closed over his mouth and nose and shield the sand away.

Lastly he wore forearm length fingerless dark grey gloves made with leather.

He stood up after he was done strapping his boots and we both left the room.

All three of us followed Eva as she led us outside. It was night unlike it had been when we first got here. Seemed to me we had been in that castle longer than expected. She led us behind the castle walking on a bridge that came and went to it's entrance.

Her long skirt fluttered in the wind as well as her hair.

"Where we going?" Gareki asked her as he looked out over the bridge to the dark abyss below.

"We are going to the circle of Evermore. It is the gate that shall open a path to your destination." She answered.

"Do we have to do something in order to open the gate?" I asked, only assuming we had to.

She nodded. "You'll all need to deposit a treasured memory of the person or people you care for or even love. But the circle will choose which memory it wants from you. So it isn't optional in your case. The circle shows and takes what it wants."

"Well that sounds awfully bold." Pastel chided.

"It does sound intimidating. You all will be fine though." Eva led us at the end of the bridge where a large circle was waiting. It was drawn out in a white paint.

There were four small circles in the path of the bigger circle looking like placements for all of us to stand in.

Eva walked over to one on the right and stood in it's center before ordering all of us to take a spot individually in each circle.

We all did as told, taking our places.

Eva stepped forward into the bigger circle until she stood in the center. And suddenly she started dancing.

But not a party dance, it was more. . . traditional and slow.

She waved her hands moving like the waves of water.

A wind passed us and swirled with her movements as if she were bending it to her own will.

"I'm going to need you all to sit cross-legged!" She yelled over the wind.

Gareki and Pastel sat down. He crossed his legs while Pastel moved his front legs across each other, trying to sit like she wanted. I pulled myself down and moved my legs in front of me until they were crossed.

I placed my hands on my thighs and waited for another instruction.

Eva kept moving with the wind. Her skirt bellowing out in a gust of beautiful dark blue fabric that glistened against the neon lighting of Lim Fay.

And suddenly beneath her bare feet the circle glowed to life a bright harlequin of colors. She backed away, positioning herself in her own circle once more.

She sat down pulling her legs into a cross. "The Evermore is here now! Prepare yourselves and close your eyes! It will choose it's memories starting with you Yogi, then Gareki, and lastly Pastel."

My eyes fluttered closed and I breathed steadily. I waited in anticipation as a heavy weight sunk into me. On impact I lost my breath feeling as though I were choking.

Instinctively I snapped my eyes open. Everyone around me was sitting calmly with their eyes closed. While I was sitting here feeling like I'd just been punched in the gut.

I hadn't expected the ceremony to begin so quickly.

I managed to regain my breath and caught an image playing in the upper corners of my eyes. I glanced up and with surprise I stared at the hologram of me playing with my sisters.

It was placed in a scream of the harlequin colors.

I watched as we laugh and ran through the gardens of the castle. My castle.

The Evermore would take the memories of someone or people you care about or love. . .

I could have sworn an image of Gareki would've been up there. Did this mean I didn't love him anymore.

No. . .no. I still loved him even though I felt broken he couldn't return my feelings.

I wanted the hologram to show him just so I could prove it, but it didn't. Eva had said that the circle would choose which memory it would take. I was now curious what memory Gareki's cared or loved one would be.

That is if he even had one

The heavy weight I'd felt was suddenly gone now. It'd left my body for the next person in line which was Gareki.

I kept my eyes open on him.

He jolted just like I had when my breath had been taken away from me when the sudden heavy weight placed inside my chest. But he kept his eyes closed as he tried to catch his breath back.

I looked away from him and looked up instead and that's when I saw the colors all morph into a treasured memory of his. And what I saw felt like I'd lost my breath all over again.

My confession to him played right in front of my eyes. It was there right in front of me. I watched myself as I ran a thumb against his bottom lip before kissing him.

I questioned what was happening. None of it made sense. These were memories for the people or person you cared for or loved and Gareki didn't love me. He'd made that painfully clear that morning.

The vision could also mean that he cared. But this felt more like love to me. So why did he say he didn't love me.

Unless. . .he lied. But why. Why would he lie about not loving me.

Was it amusing to him to see me so heartbroken from his carless rejection . Was he satisfied with me being hurt by him.

All day I had wondered what had I done, was I lacking something he wanted from me. Was I not good enough for his love. All because of him I had looked down on myself! I didn't want to feel like I wasn't perfect for him, but I had. But all in the end it was all a good for nothing lie.

I didn't know what to feel. Grateful that he did actually love me or betrayed by the fact he had lied about it and made me feel like I meant nothing to myself and him.

I felt my heart beating faster as heat flooded my body. I'd never been so angry.