I'm bumping the fic up to PG-13 for implied stuff...No lemon for you!
Still going.....
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Chapter 6--Cair Na Escuridão
As the pain sweeps through,
Makes no sense for you,
Every thrill has gone,
Wasn't too much fun at all...
But I'll be there for you--
As the world falls down.
Falling...
--As the World Falls Down, David Bowie
I think she's even more beautiful when she's asleep.
["I know I'm young Eagle, but sometimes with all I've done I feel a thousand years old."]
I think on the inside she's even more grown up than she wants to be. I definitely understand how she feels.
["Eagle--what was it like? Being dead I mean?"
"I really don't remember, I wish I did. Then I could tell everyone there isn't anything to worry about."
"Maybe so. But being here with you I don't worry about anything." She smiled at him and drifted off to sleep.]
He brushed the hair back from her face. So beautiful... I only wish I didn't feel so--
"Gah!" The pain in his chest was back and worse than ever. Eagle began to cough uncontrollably, he covered his mouth and tried to muffle the sound to keep from waking her up. His last cough had been hard and very liquid. As he drew his hand back from his mouth, it was covered in blood.
"My God.." His voice was a raspy whisper. It had been this way the entire time, he'd been brought back and so had his illness. He made himself forget all the symptoms, ignoring them until it was impossible to do it any longer. And I promised her, that she wouldn't be alone...I PROMISED...
Another round of coughing overwhelmed him. Umi began to stir, but didn't wake up.
"What did I do to you Umi?" Panic was creeping into his voice.
He threw on some clothes as quietly and quickly as possible. I
only wanted to make you happy, to be with you. It can't end like
this! There has to be something that can be done--Clef! I have to find
Clef!
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"No... It can't be..." Clef's voice was quiet but desperate.
"Did you finish it, Clef? What does it say?"
He read the final passage aloud, barely able to contain his emotion. "If such power is wielded by a Magic Knight, a tragic death will be undone. After the first night if the deceased does not return to their eternal slumber, the Knight's life-force will be drained away slowly until there is none left. There is no reversal once events have been set in motion--life is taken away to be given to another."
"Umi...There has to be a way."
"Magic this old and this powerful, can't be changed." Clef was shaking and his eyes were gleaming with tears. "Hundreds of years, the most powerful mage in all Cephiro--maybe the entire universe itself and I can't do anything. It's all been worthless everything...everything I've ever done...."
"There has to be something you can do! You've got to! Find an older book! A stronger magic!"
"Umi!" Clef tore open the door and began to run towards Umi's room, running headlong into Eagle in the middle of the hall.
"What the hell are you..." Eagle trailed off seeing the tears in his eyes.
"This is all your fault! She going to die because of you!"
"What are you talking about! I'm the one who's dying."
Clef wasn't listening anymore, he punched Eagle with all the force his small body could manage square into the stomach.
Eagle was seized by an uncontrollable coughing fit, tiny particles of blood stained the marble floor.
"I didn't know I had it in me." Hatred was not an emotion Clef allowed himself, but even he couldn't have held back any longer.
A combination of laughter was mixed with Eagle's coughing. "You don't. I told you--I'm dying."
"That's what the spell said--a tragic death will be undone."
"Ascot?"
"Eagle wasn't killed by his illness. So when Umi brought him back, she brought him back as if he'd never been injured."
"I guess Umi dies for nothing then. Wasting her life for a dead man."
"What are you guys talking about? Umi is fine--she's sleeping."
"You didn't really think she could bring you back without some sort of price did you?"
"Clef?" Ascot tried to interject as softly as possible. "Eagle doesn't look well at all. At this rate he could die soon."
"Your point?"
Ascot sighed heavily. "Umi's energy is being drained into Eagle right? If Eagle dies, the energy won't have anywhere to go--so Umi won't die."
"If that's the way it is, I'll die. I know it probably wouldn't have been possible to save me at any rate. But for Umi, I'll die."
"I suppose we should tell Umi what's going on." Clef began to walk in the direction of Umi's room.
"You won't find her there. She's in my room."
Clef didn't care to contemplate the meaning of that at the moment. "Umi will probably blame herself for this. I only hope..."
The dull thud on the marble stopped Clef in his speech--Eagle lie unconscious on the floor.
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Eaaaggleee!! ;_;
Cair na escuridão means "falling into darkness" in Portuguese. Next chapter!
Ja ne,
Key--Quiet geist filled robot of the Teisuki clan.
