1 year later...
Where do I begin? Ever since the Northern Village fell...since Cecilia and Gale died. That winter was the worst I had ever seen. The Vale government under the control of Carren Rhodes has done more than I had ever imagined. The entirenty of the continent fell under military rule. Gale leading the Resistance of Humanity...it fell without proper leadership. With Military renforcements coming in from Atlas, I wasn't sure what to do but hide. Hide from Carren, hide from the man known as Edric. However, they weren't a problem. Kyran...still hasn't regained his memory. A month after we washed up on the beach. He spends every moment trying. I can't tell him because I don't know much about his entire past. Everything I read is fake, none of it real. I can't tell...I wish I could though.
"Weiss..." Alex said walking up beside me staring at the sunset. He had kept watch over us for the last year. Doing everything he could to help me...and Kyran.
"What is it Alex? Come for an update on Kyran?" I asked him with my hair waving in the wind.
"Yes...for the time I have been doing this. Taking care of you both. I need to know, has he?" Alex said.
"No...no he hasn't. He keeps trying everyday though. I am trying everything I can though." I pleaded with him.
"I'll give you two...one more month. Then I have to start thinking what is best for Sara. You better get on it." Alex finished as he began walking away.
"Sara...she isn't your daughter. Am I right?" I said still staring at the sunset.
"No...no she isn't. Goodnight." Alex said walking back inside. I sighed following shortly back inside away from the ocean smell. The house was small yet it felt like home. I walked into the room that me and Kyran were first in a year ago. Opening the door, I saw the man looking at a giant paper covered wall with lines each connecting.
"DAMN IT!" He yelled slamming his fist into the wall. His frustration was clearly rising with each day.
"Still nothing?" I asked him smiling. He turned around sporting a black stubble smiling.
"No...nothing, I just can't remember. I have connections to the name Kyran and this man known as the Black Lightning yet I don't know anything. There is a man named Gale, Cecilia. I have a feeling I know these names yet...I am just missing one cruicial piece. I don't know. I am about to give up here." Kyran sighed sitting on the bed frustrated beyond belief. I sat next to him putting my arm around him.
"You just need to find it then." I said placing my head against his shoulder.
"What do you know Weiss? I mean, at some point you must of known me. You know my name. How do you know me?" Kyran asked quietly.
"Everything I told you already. I was a friend at once in your life. You left for many years and well...that's it. I am sorry I really can't help Kyran." I said comforting him.
"Who was I to you Weiss? I mean...before I left." Kyran asked smiling. I blushed a bit when he asked that.
"You...you were a dear friend. And you left...you hurt me in more ways than one. It was hard having you gone Kyran. I am glad you're back." I said smiling, inside I was completely embarresed from the lies I was telling. If he found out...
"I am back, so don't worry about that. I have to ask though...did I ever like you at some point? Cause, I had a feeling I did." He said chuckling as the blush in my cheeks grew even more. What the hell was he thinking?
"I..I...I think you did. Why?" I said laughing nervously.
"Well...I don't want to cause alarm to you Weiss but...I think I am in love with you." Kyran said smiling genuinly as my cheeks were beyond flustered now.
"Wha...what? You are?" I asked as he smiled more. The embaressment was completely absent to him.
"Yes I am...I'm sorry if I brought this down on you suddenly...I mean if..." His talking was interrupted when I kissed him lightly. I was taken aback once I realized what I had done. I...royalty in love with...a former subordinate who I used to do my dirty work. This was wrong...beyond wrong. I was using him again and he didn't even know it. What the hell was wrong with this...with me?
"No...no its okay. I want to spend a little more time with you...if that's okay?" I said with flustered cheeks.
"Its fine Weiss, its completely fine..." Kyran kissed me as he chuckled.
What the hell have I done? Why?
The next morning...
Who was I? Over a year I was told I was here. Living under someone else's roof. Yet, where was I beforehand? I had to have known someone else over my years. My name is Kyran Rhodes...but everything after that. Is a complete blur. I had to know...I just had to. I turned my head to see the snow angel was sleeping peacefully next to me. Weiss knew me, but there was more than to what she was telling me. I just couldn't read her though. I had to find out now...I wasn't waiting any longer. Quietly, I got up from the bed as to not disturb Weiss, putting on a basic set of clothes. Tiptoeing towards the hallway, I listened closely to notice, there was no one up. At least not this early. Heading towards Alex's room, I wanted to see what he had on me. What he knew, I don't care if he kicked me out for what he did. I had to know. I pushed the door opened quietly to find Alex had left for hunting early...good.
The room was old and dusty but very well used. If he wasn't out hunting to taking care of Sara, he was in here the majority of the day. Out of all the items in his room, only two stood in particular out of frame. One being a single edge katana in a black scabbard and on the hilt...a silver angel pendant on a rather worn chain. The pendant piece however, was completely unscathed by any damage. Why out of all the items in this room, were those two important? I reached and picked up the suprisingly light weapon as it was almost weightless. I put my hand on the hilt as faint voices spoke in my head, ones that were familiar yet very faint.
"What are you doing?" A man demanded behind me as I quickly drew the katana aiming the tip of the blade at...Alex's throat as he stared silently yet surprised at me. "How in the hell did you do that?" He asked quietly with the blade still trained to pierce his throat.
"Do what?" I asked him.
"How did you draw that blade?" He asked.
"I just did. Why? Is this blade something special to you? Is it cursed or something more?" I asked ready to kill him in a moment's notice.
"For the entire year I have done everything, I mean everything to try and unsheath that blade and it wouldn't open. Yet, you just unsheathed it with no problem. Tell me why." He asked pushing the blade away as I lifted it up once more.
"I don't know!" I yelled as he stood definantly with a blank face.
"I finally figured it out. I was just missing that one final piece. Only one man could wield such a blade flawlessly. One who is only able to use it. The Legend is true my friend. I know who you are, what you are. You are the holder of the rare Ethereal Grimm, the Lightning Vigalante deemed by the public. Aside from it all, you are the Black Lightning. One who will either destroy humanity...or save it." Alex finished as the words of Black Lightning echoed in my mind. That...that's who I was? A...monster to kill all of humanity? My hand touched the silver pendant as a flood of memories came back to me almost instantly. The Order of the Black Rose, Royal Military, Raynes, Flyresa...all of them. All the pain, suffering, loss. And...and Weiss, no...no. I dropped the katana as I collapsed on the ground in shock from what I just saw...what I experienced. Oh my god, what happened to me? Where was? Where was Ariana? Trying to comprhend everything I had just seen. Weiss came running in the room seeing me huddled up trying to make all the painful memories stop.
"Kyran! Are you okay?" Weiss asked as I pushed her hand away from me.
"Get away from me...get away." I was panicking. What the hell was going on? Why...why now? Why?
"Go AWAY!" I yelled as my hair flashed into a pure snow white and eyes sky blue. Seeing the transformation...only scared me more. I fell to the floor once more as Knives and Weiss just watched everything that was happening.
"Why...Weiss?" Were my final words as I dropped to the floor from pure exhaustion. Knives and Weiss ran over checking to see if I was still alive.
"What happened to him Alex?" Weiss asked.
"From what I saw, he regained every single memory from now to his past. The burden was too much on his mind, thats why he passed out. Come on Weiss, help me out. Who was he to you? Don't lie to me either." Knives asked as Weiss remembered the horrible things of the past. Her tears reflected all the things that had happened to him.
"I was formerly his higher up in the Royal Military. In ever sense of the word, he hates me for what I did to him." Weiss cried softly.
"What did you do?" Alex demanded,
"I...made him kill an...entire camp of civilians. And it haunts him...and me to this day. I want to forget, but I can't. No matter how hard I try I just can't. I don't think he did either." Weiss spoke.
"There is something more to this...isn't there?" Alex questioned as he knew he was right.
"I...I slept with him last night." Weiss said shamefully.
"Dear god, let's hope he is in a forgiving mood when he wakes up." Alex finished as he carried Kyran's unconciouss body back to the room.
5 years later...
At the time...he was right. I was angry. I hated Weiss for what she did. However, throughout these years, there was something far...far worse, than what I did. But rather...what Edric did.
