Author: The Dark Crystals
Title: Another Has Slipped Away
Author's Notes: I do this for my own sick pleasure. That's right I'm sick….But I don't care!!!! Kain and Cecil are one of my favorite pairings of all time. Plus I just love the 4th game. (Especially Cecil}. Anyway you may not enjoy this, and It may not make sense at first, but if you know the game, then it should fit in. Well enough with my babbling, and lets get a move on things!
Chapter 1: The Choosing of Destiny
Kain walked the corridors of the hallway. He had just delivered Cecil to the tower of Babel. 'Cecil, wanted to forgive me, become friends again. How can he want, to be friends with me again? After all the things I have done to him and his friends? And the things I want to do to him….' Kain shook his head. Cecil could be so naïve at times. Had Cecil noticed the longing gazes, and the jealousy that was apparent on his face, when Rosa and him would share an intimate moment.
Kain had not realized that his oldest, childhood friend would mean the most to the world to him. That friendship, would turn into something more and he finally understood his relationship with his best friend. He was falling in love with the man. All the ways Cecil moved, how his rich voice sent electricity through his spine. That he was his shining star, and perfect as can be, from the shining mass of silver hair to those beautiful sapphire blue eyes. But one thing was always a road block, to tell him anything about his feelings, Rosa….
Rosa had noticed, and would smile to Kain while being so close to Cecil. She knew exactly what he wanted and she wasn't going to share. Rosa then told the lie that Cecil and him were fighting for her affections. Thus the little game of so called 'Winning Rosa's Love' had begun and Kain played along. Truly, Kain had no interest in the maiden, that everybody simply adored. Even Cecil, to his outmost disgust, adored her, and then Rosa would try to act like she was his friend. Would bat her eyes constantly at Cecil to get his attention.
Its not that he hated women in general. Oh, no he liked their company all too well. But something always reminded him of Cecil. By the way the girl smiled, or how her eyes glowed with a certain happiness. It was the same damn things that he had noted with Cecil. You might misunderstand, Kain was not a homosexual. He really loved women that much. Never, and still not attracted to men. But there always exceptions to a rule. And that exception was Cecil. Cecil was put into another category by himself. Sure, he slept with Goblez, that sick sadistic bastard, only to please his master.
Damn, Goblez especially reminded Kain of Cecil. The long silver and just the body language reeked of Cecil. But the difference was when he stared into Goblez's eyes, violet hues watched him, not sapphire. He so desperately wanted to see sapphire eyes staring at him with love and affection. Wanted to feel a sense of peace when he looked into those beautiful, beautiful eyes. But the eyes Kain stared into were turbulent violent eyes, that shone with lust, and possession. Violet, that's not what he wanted, sapphire, all he wanted was sapphire.
The worst part about it was that Goblez saw right through him. Just before leaving to get the Earth crystal from Cecil, Goblez had asked if he had wanted Cecil. How could he not? His desire since the first day he met Cecil, to the day 4 years from now he sorted out his feeling that were there all along, and even now he desired him. Yet Goblez offered if Cecil proved unsuccessful to give Cecil to him. Is that what he really wanted? To take Cecil, for his own? Lavish him with sweet kisses and hear those wonderful moans escape from his lips. But what if Cecil did not feel the same way? Then it would be like rape….
Kain could do no such thing to his best friend. But maybe he could coax Cecil into his way of thinking, make Cecil love him? That would not be love at all, and if true love was what Kain was waiting for, then he would have to wait for Cecil, until some notion was brought up. Or at least a hint, intimation or even just a damn clue!! Cecil could be so naïve. Probably about the whole male/male thing anyway. The man never saw anything past what his King had told him. Of course in the stricter days of the kingdom, such relationships were forbidden. What a bunch of bull shit….. And of course Cecil had to be the knight in shining armor with his beautiful maiden. The whole town was planning a wedding for Rosa and Cecil since they were twelve years old. How disgusting that was.
Kain sighed Why did he have to love Cecil? The man is so in love with that blasted woman. He sees nothing else but her. Kain remembered the day Cecil asked him how to tell Rosa that he wanted more than friendship with her. His eyes took on such an innocent glow. So new to these feelings and so immature on how to express them.
"Why so blue ?" a voice came.
"Valvalis" growled Kain knowing the voice of the wind fiend all to well. How many times had she beckoned him to her bed? Yet he put off all her advances.
"I have not come to play today. I am hear to tell you news." she materialized in front of Kain with a wry smile on her face.
He stood anxiously, wanting to know if he would be rewarded with such a prize as Cecil. "And what may that news be, woman" Kain had no patience with this fiend. Out of all the fiends he was able to stand was Rubicant. The man had class which the rest of them obviously lacked.
"Woman? Tsk, Tsk treat your superiors with respect little dragoon" Valvalis waved a finger in his face.
"Superiors….funny I thought Goblez was my one and only superior"
"You are a fool. You do not see the grand scheme of things. There are higher powers than Goblez"
"Like yourself?" Kain laughed at the woman. She could be such an airhead……literally.
"No, I am weaker than Master Goblez but my brothers and I serve him in fear of …."
"In fear of what?" Kain was becoming agitated with her constant ramblings
"You will find out soon, soon" Valvalis tossed her hair to one side before continuing. "By the way I am suppose to inform you that your darling Cecil is almost to the door where Rosa is contained. I want to know if you'll stay with the little tramp or greet Cecil with Goblez, either way I don't care"
"What has this got to do with you?"
"Seeing as Goblez thinks its annoying with our bickering. He wants one of us to stay near the slut while the other one, …..welcomes our humble guest"
"I am to choose?"
"Why yes, wonderful isn't it?"
"Why don't you make the choice?" questioned Kain getting suspicious over the whole ordeal.
"I don't give a rats ass Kain. Let's just say, I'm being nice. Please don't take long, I'm sure you'll get your lover boy in the end"
"DON'T YOU EVER SAY THAT AGAIN!!!!" Kain poised his spear at the wind fiends throat.
"My my, getting a little testy aren't we now? You forget boy that I'm…"
"I know what you are" Kain interrupted. "But you forget that of all things that reside in this tower, I can kick your ass, bitch, to the moon. Understand darling?!!!"
"I get the point" she said with dry humor . "So make your decision" Valvalis was unfazed about Kain's attempt of a threat.
'This could be a decision that alters all events. This could make things better or worse. I hope I choose the right one, not just for my sake, but also for Cecil's'
* this fits in the storyline, so far. I'm going to do one scenario and then the other. So you get the real ending like in the video game with a little twist and then a total new ending, that would happen if this event had occurred. Oh yeah, before I forget….Thanks for reading, thats if you did?*