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Chapter five
"Clarissa, why are you doing this?" Vaughn asked.
"I have no purpose anymore. I have to find out who I truly am," Clarissa replied.
"Things could always stay the same."
"No, things would never be the same."
"Why are you acting this way? I feel like I want to help, but I don't know how."
"It's ok," she smiled, "I like to work things out on my own. Lately, though, I've kind of lost myself. Well, not really, but, I just feel dissapointed. I wish I could go back to the way things were before, but you can't change the past. I wish that I'd be happy again. I feel like I'm lost in my own thoughts. You know how crucial that is? No matter how much I want you to say that everything's ok, you can't convince me not to do this." Her eyes glowed, reflecting in the sun. Clarissa turned her back towards the sun, facing Vaughn. She sighed heavily. "I hate it. Sometimes I regret that I even came. Sometimes I wonder why it all happened to me. But the worst part is that I can't go back."
"You're really going to end it, aren't you?" he asked. Clarissa nodded.
"What she wants is to control all of Gaea. I can't let her do that. Closing the gate is best for the future," she explained.
"How do you know that your pendent is the one to destroy?" Vaughn asked intentively.
"Two were made when Atlantis was destroyed. One was for Earth, one was for Gaea. Your pendent came from," she paused before saying the name, "Hitomi, and she got it from her grandmother, and her from Allen's father. So that pendent must be the one that connects the gate from Gaea. Mine also came from my grandmother, and her from her grandmother, and generations before. Mine was the one ment to stay on Earth. Mine connects the gate from Earth. There's also one catch, they both have to be used at the same time for the portal to open. It just so happens that I was thinking about Gaea when Hitomi left. But that was never a problem. So you see, it's going to happen, soon. But it's for the best." She smiled weakly.
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Clarissa shifted positions in her bed, trying aimlessly to get to sleep. Things were on her mind, of course, the obvious. She couldn't stand to keep her eyes closed long enough to get his over with. Clarissa found herself walking towards the door, opening it, and walking towards a room, Tren's room. She stood at the door, with her hand on the door knob before she caught herself standing there, wondering how she even got there. She shook her head and then found herself walking to Van's room and opening the door. She noticed he wasn't asleep, either. He look up when she walked into the room, getting a worried look on his face. She rolled her eyes.
She answered the look on his face with two words, "Couldn't sleep." She shruged. She shook her head. "I'm probably worried, though. What if everything goes wrong. What will happen then?"
"What do you want to do?" he asked, "Go on living like this every day? You have to try, but I'm not going to force you to go to sleep."
She smiled, then rubbed her eyes, "I'm so tired, though." She came over and sat on the bed next to him. "You have to promise me something, though." He nodded. "You have to promise me that when everything's over, we'll live to be gray and old." Clarissa laughed.
Vaughn nodded, "I'll promise you that." Clarissa had already fallen asleep with her head resting on his shoulder. He smiled as he lifted her into the bed.
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"A thousand years of suffering and the diamond is still cut. A thousand years of pain and the blood still cries. A thousand years of hell and the truth is soon forgotten," Clarissa whispered standing one a balcony. The same balcony that she had stood at the other night when Victoria came. A light glowed in her eyes as she watched the portal appear, coming closer until it reached the hieght of the balcony. She stepped back, waiting for Victoria to enter. When she did Clarissa said, "Victoria, I've been waiting for you."
"No, it is you I've been waiting for," she answered.
"What do you want with me? Or should I rather say, what do you want with us?"
"You know what I want, and I'll do anything to get it, anything."
"A thousand years of suffering and the diamond is still cut. A thousand years of pain and the blood still cries. A thousand years of hell and the truth is soon forgotten." Clarissa closed her eyes, and made a wish and Vaughn appeared beside her. Victoria soon became confused, looking from Clarissa to Vaughn. "This should be you epitaph, don't you know? It's been said for a thousand years, even before the three were prophesied. A pure ingenious of luck that sprung apon the person that foretold this." She shook her head. "Well, end it, kill me already!" Victoria still was confused, but soon became aware of what Clarissa was doing.
She took up a sword as Clarissa nodded to Vaughn. Victoria ran at Clarissa, put another portal had appeared and pulled them all to Earth. Clarissa landed suddenly with Vaughn, hard on the ground. Victoria appeared moments later, still charging at them. Before Clarissa could get back, Victoria's sword hit metal, Vaughn's sword and she opened her eyes. Victoria and Vaughn started vigourisly sparing. They swayed from side to side, so fast that it was impossible of keep up with all of it.
Soon, Victoria was laying on the ground, with Vaughn's sword at her thoat. "If you ever, try to even kill her again, I swear you will be dead." He removed the blade from it's standing. "But I am not the one to kill those not posing threats, innocents. Even though you are on the line between the two." He went to go stand by Clarissa, as she made a portal.