"Moonlight Encounters"
by: Jiyuu Illusions

The characters here do not belong to me. This is the last but this is still shounen-ai. You can read but I'm warning you that this is shounen-ai. Not meant to insult though... Once again, be careful!! ^^ This part, it's McDohl speaking... hehehe ^^

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"Moonlight Encounters"
Chapter Three: Last Encounter

Luca Blight is an interesting person... Strong and cruel. But when he looked at me, it was different. Everyone thought, or rather, knew that he was blood-thirsty but to me he was gentle and kind...

No one knew of his secrets other than me though it's been a while since I last saw him. That was during the full, pale moon. That was the night he first kissed me... I have never seen anyone as determined as he to be caged in eternity with me but I don't want him to be...

...It is wrong...

...It is a sin to love someone like I.

I never wished to be immortal... I never asked for this cursed body... But I cannot change the tides of fate as well.

Sad but true...

It's been more than three years, Luca... You have not changed much except now, you are bathing in your own blood... As you said, it took hundreds to kill you... but you killed by the thousands... Giving me the souls I needed...

I wonder... did you know?

The soldiers have left... That boy who is much like me from before... They all left, leaving you alone with me. The fireflies dancing up in the tree, you are now leaning on... Blood staining the white, winter snow...

I walk towards you from the shadows and I knew you still alive, behind me, bodies of other soldiers lay, dead and forgotten... Their souls swirling around me.

"Luca..." I whisper.

You raise your head, smiling as you hear my voice. I can see your blood streaming down your face, dripping on your once, silver armor. You reach out for me.

"You have come..." You whispered, hoarsely and coughed out blood. But there was a hint of longing in your voice.

"Yes, but..."

I turn my head away. Such sins are not meant to exist. I cannot take you along with my curse. I cannot love another man and yet...

...and yet I do...

I hear you sigh, pained though it was. I turned back to you and you smile at me. Peaceful, and true. I have never seen you smile like that, even as I watched you from a far. You seemed to understand my silent thoughts and you heard my unspoken words. It was just like you to understand me...

Maybe that's why I loved you...

...something truly wrong...

The fireflies danced around us, under the full, pale glow of the moon. They seemed to know and yet they do not know what is happening around them. All they know is that they were free from that wooden medallion hanging from the tree.

That was enough for them...

I knew you were slipping away but I cannot let the Soul Eater take you. Not ever.

"Luca..." I whispered again.

Despite the pain of death, you managed to shake your head, still smiling your sad, peaceful smile.

"I understand..." You said. "...such thing cannot be... But I..." You started coughing. "I was...happy...to have seen you...before I go..."

I nod, tears threatening to spill but they did not.

"I never asked you..." You continued. "...what your name was...?"

I bent my head down. I knew death and its signs and I knew much, much more than just that...

"McDohl..." I whispered. So softly I doubt you could even hear me.

But I knew you could. Because I knew who you were.

"Then, McDohl... someday... perhaps..."

Without finishing, you left, along with the fireflies. You flew to someplace I can never reach you. I was doomed to be alone from the start but then... someday... perhaps...

"...Perhaps..." I whisper.

I looked up at the sky where the full pale moon was, bathing me in its silver, pale light. The moon was the only witness to our encounters for the past few years. Though those encounters were stolen, brief moments, I will treasure them...

...While I am caged in eternity.


The End!! ^^