Trinity of the Heart
Chapter 15
Author's Note: I'll do this chapter in my normal writing form and you guys tell me which is better ok?
Osara yawned and grabbed a brush from the dresser. Like everything else in the room Betherla had given her, it was red.
"I love it." She grinned and began to swing the brush around like a sword. "Too bad nobody's around to hear me talking to myself. Like someone…oh, I don't know. Lily." Lily suddenly fell out of the closet, blushing.
"I-I'm sorry miss Goddess…" Lily mumbled. "I just…well…I wanted to see if you're really…you know."
"Nope, the rumors are totally wrong!" Osara beamed at her. "Hey, can I brush your hair? I've been wanting to ever sense the day I saw it."
"Uh, sure Goddess!" Lily sat down on the dresser stool. "Can I ask you something?"
"Course you can. But will you ask?" Osara ran the brush through the girl's hair.
"Um, yes well." Lily was silent, trying to find words for her query. "Why don't you age?"
"Oh, well see I'm dead. Technically speaking I should be but obviously I'm not." Osara flipped the brush in the air a few more times before continuing. "Well, see there's this spell and it's pretty hard to do but it will stop the aging process forever. After I got revived, I had to cast it or else I'd never see you guys!"
"…Why did you let Valen do this to us?" Lily shut her eyes. "You knew this would happen…so…why?"
"Everything worked out." Osara smiled. "Rue's got himself a hot chick, Runeis lucked out if I do say so myself, you've got yourself a cozy family with a sweet title and the others will have their time."
"How many others did you make?"
"Ohhhh…lemme think here." Osara stopped brushing and rested her chin on Lily's head. "There's Rue and Ruenis, You and Aqua. Uhh…there's Aura and Aurora and then there's Sakura and Miki so that makes eight puppets!"
"Where are the others?" Lily asked, tilting her head back.
"Like I know?" Osara sighed. "Maybe two in every kingdom? Sounds right to me."
"I see…I guess that's everything." Lily fell silent and let Osara finish her hair. But I wonder she thought why Osara created us in the first place? To help Valen or…something else all together?
"So that's it?" Toch frowned. So far, King Betherla was being a real pain in the ass. He refused to keep his end of the bargin. They had made sure Mint arivibed safely (more or less) and now he backed out?
"Listen, this was the deal." Blue shook her head. "Either you go with it or else we destroy your kingdom!"
"But this isn't right!" Betherla shouted. "You said all I had to do was keep them here for one day and then you'd let my kingdom stay under my control. But this-"
"-is exactly what we said would happen." Toch finished. "We SAID that if you keep them detained for 24 hours, we'd let you keep your kingdom on one request. You agreed and now we're here for the payment."
"Listen, I don't care about the two boys but Lily?! She's my heir! This kingdom might as well be destroyed if she's not here!"
"Too bad so sad. Does my face look caring?" Blus grabbed Betherla. "Now hand over the puppet girl and we'll spare you."
"You are a king." Toch said. "The well being of you people should be before anything else."
"Yes but…but…but Lily is my daughter!" Betherla cried. "I refuse to give her up without a fight!" Betherla drew his sword and calmly stood his ground.
"Oh, you're a stubborn one eh?" Toch smiled and held up his hand palm up. "What can you do right? Sorry but I'm in a rush so I'll have to kill you now." Toch closed his hand into a fist. "Niri Ra!" Seven long spikes made of earth burst forth from the ground and, like homing missiles, slammed themselves into the king. He screamed in pain as two of the spikes nailed his feet to the ground.
"Hmph, sorry king but we've got plans." Blue said over the king's cries of agony.
"W-what…are…y-y-you?" Betherla managed to ask.
"Us? We're Gods. Ja Kay!" She threw out her hands and a burst of water, strong enough to rip flesh, flew out, striking the king. Betherla was ripped from the earthen spears and threw aginast the brick garden wall with a hurricane like force. Toch and Blue smiled at each other.
"Now our plans will finally continue." Toch said. "No one will stop us!" The two joined in a disturbing laugher, their voices filling the night.
The sickening crack of bones outside, accompanied by twisted laughter was enough to wake anyone up, especially Rue. The young man jumped from his bed and looked out towards the garden. It was night and he was unable to see clearly. The laughter had stopped when he woke up.
"Maybe I'm hearing things…" Rue said, though his tone was doubtful. "Or maybe…" But Rue shook his head. "I should just go back to bed…"
Ruenis, who was 'sleeping' in the next bed over, had heard everything: Betherla's protests, Toch and Blue's attack and the King's death. Ruenis turned over and finally decided to tell Rue, only to see the boy was fast asleep again.
"Betherla…" Ruenis muttered. He thought about it and decided that it was his turn to save the day. Ruenis jumped out of bed and ran out of the palace, into the garden outside.
"Wow, it's flooded." He whispered. Indeed, water had drenched everything. Most of the plants had been uprooted and the entire area was a mess. Ruenis slashed through until he reached the garden wall.
"I wonder where they went?" He turned around and saw a terrible sight. King Betherla's beaten, bloody body. He was missing half his legs and his left arm was barely still attached. Ruenis was too horrified to move, he merely stood frozen in terror. It was something he had never seen before.
"Hey kid, this isn't the night to play hero." Ruenis spun around upon hearing Toch's voice but he felt something heavy come down on his head and his world went black.
"So, I should go to sleep now." Osara yawned. "I mean, it's like 2:00 in the morning and I've answered all your questions right?"
"Er, no…" Lily said honestly. "I do have just one final question."
"Shoot then." Osara said, lying down in bed.
"Well, if you can make puppets, can you control them?"
"Well yeah." Osara stretched.
"Have you ever?" Lily asked.
"Ohhh….let's see…yeah. Just to test you guys, see if all the kinks were worked out." Osara smiled. "Uh, well, just so you know…my parents, you remember them right?"
"Yeah." Lily shivered. Toch and Blue had always hated her.
"Well, lately they've been on Valen's side. They really want him to get 'it'." Osara paused. "So be careful."
"I will." Lily sighed. Why did she have such a bad feeling?
"Well, night Lil!"
"Good-night God-I mean Osara." Lily grinned and Osara started to laugh.
Lily walked down the hallway, the silence bearing down on her. She wondered if her father would be angry with her. She did have many duties to attend to in the morning. Deep in thought about her plans, she didn't notice the two shadows lurking near her.
"Well, hello Lily." Lily froze.
"Blue!" She cried. Blue stepped out of the shadows.
"Guess what Lily? You're Queen now. We've just dealt with Betherla. See, he refused to help us. Idiot." Blue smiled as Lily's jaw hung open.
"Y-you murdered him?!"
"Not murder." Blue shook her head. "Such a nasty word. We just had to silence him. Anyway, since you're Queen now…you are going to work with us."
"Never!" Lily stood her ground. "If I scream, Osara and everyone else will hear and then you'll be taken down!"
"Well, that's true…" Blue sighed. "Wow, our plans are ruined. Oh, no wait…" Blue snapped her fingers and Toch appeared, holding a unconscious Ruenis.
"Ruenis!" Lily cried.
"Here's the plan: You give the kingdom to us when you become Queen and we'll let Ruenis go." Blue extended her hand. "So, got a deal?"
Author's note: Short and sweet, like it?
