Hey everyone! Sorry for the long wait for this chapter but college really be beating my ass ;-;. Especially since i have to take english classes to move on. I mean seriously who idea was it to make english a class. Anyways this chapter was gonna be longer but it was to big and to much typing. So it broke into 2 chapters hopefully the second half wont take long to post up. And just to remind you even tho it takes long to post a chapter im not leaving this story unless i say so. so if it takes awhile its just i got caught up with school work. hope you guys like the chapter.
Chapter 4: Time for mourning
Crystal walked across the battered land around her home. She sees King orion and walks to his side looking out to the many men and women helping each other. She sighs "it took a war and thousands dead to finally have us work together."
"If only there was other ways for us to come together" he replies. He looks down to the blood soaked sand under his boots.
"We got a message from Kings Alrick and Kazuo" she looks up to him when he turn to her in surprise "they got word of what happen" she continues "someone here must have sent a message out but they both surrender to you".
Orion looks at her in silence then faces back in front of him thinking. "It took me showing my true power to bring this war to an end" he thinks with a frown on his face. "Very well" he finally speaks after a couple of minutes "May I use your communications hub to speak with them your highness?"
Crystal gives him a small smile and nods "yes you may".
Before he leaves orion looks to the boy still holding the empty body to himself. "Is he yours?" he nods to the boy.
Crystal looks at him with a questioning look then looks to the direction hes staring only to feel her heart drop to her stomach. "yes" she says sadly.
"May I ask what he is?" orion looks to her seeing the pain in her eyes.
She looks away from him back to kronos. "He just has a unique abilities" she responds "please I will like to deep quiet about him" she looks to orion "please".
"Very well" orion runs walking back to the city "but" he stops "when you both are ready I would like to know about him" he finishes and walks away.
Crystal jogs towards her two adopted children stopping next to Zeria with tears in her eyes. she kneels next to Zeria and hugs her.
Zeria quickly hugs her back crying into her shoulder. "Hes gone mama" she gasp between sobs "vaz is gone".
"I know my child" she kisses her head "but he will always be with us".
She hears footsteps running towards them and instantly knows who the two women are once they stopped. She looks up from Zeria to her birth daughter Jade and Zeria's girlfriend Ella. Both women eyes were wide and filled with hurt at the sight before them. Ella runs from them and hugs her Zeria from behind crying into the back of her neck.
Zeria only grabs Ella's arms that are wrapped around her and holds them tight with her head down.
Crystal sadly looks to her daughter who had tears running down her cheeks. Crystal runs up and embraces her feeling the tears in her shoulder.
After a couple more seconds Jade moved away from her mother then slowly walked to Kronos. Kneeling down to him she hugs him and cries into his armor. Kronos continued to cry and scream into vaz empty body holding on tight.
Queen Crystal stood by watching her children mourn over their friend who they saw as their brother. She turns to her name finding Don and a young soldier from Vacuo.
"Your highness its his turn" the soldier nods to vaz body.
With a deep sigh Crystal nods, she moves to Z and Ella's side who are still holding on to each other already silent having run out of tears. "Z its time to move, please get your brother" she says sadly.
Both girls look up at her then slowly got up. Ella moves to Jade, slowly helping her up and answering the questions Jade ask her.
Zeria went to Kronos struggling to move him as he fights her to keep a hold of vaz's body. Zeria lets out a long breath and puts more force on moving his hands with Kronos fighting and beginning to growl at her. "Kronos!" Zeria yells hearing his growling then holds him tight as his hands left vaz's body and clung to her. As she picked him up she felt a chill go down her spine with her aura fighting back a dark essence trying to envelop her. She looks down to see the skin around his left eye cover half his face but slowly starts to recede as his he relaxes into her arms. Zeria quickly looks at crystal who seen it too. "Mom?" she questions with concern in her voice.
"I know but I'll explain later. We need to get you and your brother back home".
Zeria just nodded and carried Kronos away with everyone else following. She wanted to get away from this hell, to get her family away from all off this death around them. But most of all she couldn't look at her adoptive brother's body laying lifeless on the ground anymore.
The queen stopped only to tell the young soldier to put vaz's body on the side so they can give him a royal burial having consider him her own blood than adoptive. Now thinking she consider all three vaz, kronos, and Zeria her blood like Jade who was the last family she had until they came into her life. But now she lost one of her children in a war of senseless power over territory. Crystal slowly starts to walk staying behind her family watching them with guilt in her heart and more tears in her eyes.
Later in the day Crystal stood in her kitchen watching the pot on the stove. Jade is at the counter on her right cutting some vegetables. Her mind wonders to the events of today and the losses they suffered.
Seeing the look her mom has Jade poked her shoulder to get her attention. {"I got this mom you can go check on the others"}Jade moves her hands while walking to the pot.
She only nods and heads upstairs passing meridian who was sleeping on the floor in the living room having finally getting a break from the hospital. Crystal watches her sleeping for a few more seconds knowing she cried herself to sleep once she was told what happen to vaz. Walking through her home slowly she goes up the stairs and finally reaches the bathroom where Ella is helping Kronos clean the blood and dirt off him with Zeria leaning against one of the walls. She sees Kronos sitting in the water of different colors with a blank stare he gives the water is what draws her attention having scare and hurt for him. She knows the young boy has already been threw to much in one lifetime and yet he still a child with many decades ahead of him.
"Hey ma" Zeria spoke noticing her mother at the door. Ella turns to give her a small smile then goes back to what she was doing. Crystal always consider her and Meridian as part of the family and when she found that Ella and Zeria were together she was ecstatic to have them in her children's life.
"Dinner is almost done and Don is on his way" she waits until she gets a nod from both women "okay see you downstairs". She leaves not being able to take the pain of seeing Kronos in this state.
After dinner Crystal put the last of the dishes away and walked to the living room to find all her children there. Jade sat on the couch reading with one hand while the other hand played with Kronos hair who was sleeping next to her with his head on her lap. Zeria slept on a recliner with Ella sleeping sideways on her lap. Meridian still slept on the floor but closer to the couch near Jade and Kronos. Don was sitting on another couch surrounded by folders having to read each one for every patient he had.
The young man is a long time friend to Jade and when when she meet him the first time she wanted him to be there for her children. She was happy having learned he wanted to be a doctor and helped him anyway she can. She giggled a little thinking that she would have adopted him too if he hadn't already had a family. She kept close ties to his parents and always included them into her growing family. I'll be waiting for many grandchildren she thought looking over her family then a knock on the door broke her from her thoughts.
Don was about to get up until Crystal signed that she will get it watching him nod and get back to his work. She opens it to her surprise to find the king of vale standing there.
"Hello your majesty, may I come in to speak with you?" he asked.
"Yes" she answers while letting him in and guides him to the dinning room between the living room and kitchen. Both the queen and king sit across from each other with the kitchen behind crystal and the living room behind orian so she can watch her kids.
"Both Alrick and Kazuo agreed to meet for the peace talks. Their armies are retreating on all fronts and we are waiting word for a place to meet".
Crystal stayed quiet from the information.
Orian watched her carefully trying to read her expressions.
"Should we?" she says quietly.
Orion gave her a questioning look surprised by what she said having almost not heard her.
She looks at him with anger in her eyes "should we make peace with those responsible for so many dead?"
Orion sighs looking over his shoulder to the people behind him then back to her.
"They did start the war but after a decade of death why would we not try to end this war no matter what" meeting her eyes with his "even if that means making a truce with them".
Crystal sighs "very well. Where would you recommend we meet?"
"I'm thinking the island of Vytal north of Sanus not far from my kingdom".
"Very well, shall we meet in in 5 days from now?"
Orion looked down knowing why she asked for that much time.
"Yes that would be good, I'll talk to Alrick and Kazuo about the time and place."
Both rulers got up and walked to the door with orian taking a quick glance to the sleeping people in the main room. The doctor, the nurse, the sniper, the interpreter, the princess and the boy with dark aura.
Stepping out he turns to thank Crystal for letting him in and talk soon after he was walking down the street until she couldn't see him anymore.
Crystal walked into the house taking a quick look to see if her children where okay and covered before heading up to her room.
Walking into her room she went straight to bed and laid there with tears beginning to fall from her eyes again.
Kronos woke sensing sadness coming near him and got up from where he was looking to see everyone has fallen asleep. He followed his senses to crystal's room finding her crying into her pillow. He went to the side of the bed and laid down next to her reaching to grab her hand. Crystal looked up to see him and hugged him close to her. Soon enough both of them were crying not stopping until they both had no more tears and fell asleep.
The next day, they all stood on the outskirts of the city lined up with the queen of the kingdom and her family standing in the front.
The bodies of those from Vacuo lay on sheets of fine silk with objects of their families near their them. Those who had no families had gifts from close friends and flowers native to Vacuo given to them by the royal family for their service.
Those belonging to the other kingdoms who stayed to help with the cleaning of the dead and preparing the burning stood next to the citizens of the kingdom. Their dead lay in their own traditional burning rituals.
Once everything was ready they started the fire. The small flame followed the dust trail until reaching the bigger pile of fire dust in the middle of the bodies. The fire soon started to spread quickly consuming everything it can reach creating a giant pillar of black smoke in the sky.
Kronos watched standing in front of Jade with her hands on his shoulders. He moved forward walking towards the massive flames. Jade tried to reach out to stop him but her mom stopped her shaking her head. They watched as Kronos entered the flames his semblance activating covering him a red aura. He reached Vaz burning body and placed a book on him. The book beginning to burn once he let go of it.
"Brought you something to read so you don't get bored on the other side" kronos said with tears down his face. He waited for an unknown amount of time until everything around him was reduce to ash. He came out of the smoke to find his family waiting for him.
Jade grabbed him and held him tight while everyone else stayed close. Crystal was off to the side talking to someone from Vale but kept her eyes on those two.
"Preparations have been made for the meeting and King orion will be their first to welcome you all" the man said.
Crystal turned her attention from her kids to the ambassador. "Very well I will be arriving with my escort at the date chosen. Will we be able to bring others to the meeting?"
"Yes, although King orian opted to enter alone, you and the other leaders are allowed to bring two people with you."
"Okay, thank you. We will be leaving soon to start our journey."
"I will relay this to the king then your highness. Good day and safe travels" he gave her a smile.
"May the gods bless you with safe travels as well" she replied and returned to her family when the man left.
"So?" Zeria said when she seen Crystal joined them.
"Pack up we will be heading towards an island north of Vale called Vytal."
Hope you guys like that and dont mind the small mistakes i make. im not really good with english. Next chapter be up soon maybe between after christmas and before new year but i dont know yet. Already have the next part written so it shouldnt take that long. see you all next chapter.