Aww I didn't leave it at that big of a cliffy did I? Lol, well thankies to all the reviews and guess what? Tis finally OVER! The last chappie now, all that is left is a small epilogue and this fic is over and done with.
Pairing: Bakura/Anzu Isis/Shadi
Rating: PG-13 (lowered that rating, originally it was a R cos there was going to be a lemon in it but ff-net got rid of that idea didn't they, lol)
Thankies: To all my readers (X_X anyone else feel as if I am writing a speech or something)
Disclaimer: I do not own YuGiOh just the plot and my OC's, Vipera belongs to Kassie-chan.
Love Doesn't Have To Hurt
Chapter 15
Silence….
No sound…
Just nothing…
The entire heavens laid in silence as time seemed to stop, no words, no movement, even no breathing was heard, it was as if everyone had turned into motionless statues. To the side of the door, Joey eyes were widened in horror, brain not quite comprehending what had happened, mouth open wide, slowly it all began to come together and pieces began to fit, 'Noa, the spear, him letting go and…..'
Serenity covered her hands as she gazed at the sight before her, sobbing openly now, she shook her head, refusing to believe what her eyes were showing her.
Cynthia too had her eyes closed, the pain visible on her face, 'my daughter.'
Bakura had his hands gripped by the side of the window panes, his eyes darting around the room, trying to locate someone, looking to the left, he found her, on her knees, hands in hair as she sobbed, rocking back and fourth. Bakura jumped through the window, not caring if anyone spotted him, his mind focused on one person, "Anzu," he whispered as he kneeled beside her and held her close to him.
No one noticed him though, the moment he jumped though the window, someone else stood up, the ropes, which held her breaking as her wings opened at full force. For a second she could not move, then as if an invisible force pushed her, she stumbled a few feet, hands crossed over her mouth as she chanted, "No, no, no, please no, oh my God! Please no!"
Unnoticed to her, as she chanted she had begun to run her mind and heart set one the fallen angel on the floor, "No! Shadi! NO!" she cried, as she flung herself on the broken angel, while ignoring the red liquid staining her dress. "Please Shadi," she pleaded as she placed a hand under his head, her hand resting on his chest. "Please don't leave me," she cried, unable to stop the endless crystal tears falling from her eyes, "I need you, don't go"
Shadi smiled sadly at her, the toll of death already rising, leaving him unable to speak, with some lasting strength, he raised a hand and stroked the side of her face. "I-I lo..." he began, but got no further, as he closed his eyes forever, his hand dropping to his side as he breathed his last.
Isis sobbed as she clutched the white material he wore, her head on his chest, she whispered, "I love you too."
Noa cursed as he looked towards the scene, his plan had failed, the head angel did not die which meant he couldn't rule this land yet, 'Then again,' he thought as he unhooked a dagger form his belt, 'There was still time.' Slowly moving forward, he tried to approach the hysterical Isis but was pulled back by a firm hand. "Don't you dare!"
Noa scowled as he was pulled back by a brown haired boy, trying to twist his way out of the grip, he raised a fist intending to punch the boy but found someone else grabbing arm.
"Don't even try it scum!" Turning his head around, he saw that he was held by the leader if the angel army, Joseph.
Feeling his hand being twisted until it was painful, he growled as he tried to brake lose but was soon knocked to the floor as he felt a punch in his stomach.
"Tristan," Joey commanded, "Take him to the gateway of nothing, have him placed in mirror of limbo…. The nothing."
"Don't you dare, you bastar…" Noa began but was taken away, to be placed in a world of nothing, one of the ultimate punishments given by angels, to walk forever in nothing, forever.
Joseph turned around to see Serenity and Cynthia free and now approaching Isis, Anzu already by her side hugging her from behind. He couldn't believe it, Shadi was gone, even though Shadi was distant and rather cold like, once you got to know him and speak to him the calmness of his understanding and his knowledge overwhelmed you, he was a big brother.. to them all.
Looking sadly over at the girls, he noticed a figure lingering by the wall, 'The demon Bakura,' he thought, 'So Noa was right, Anzu had fallen into Sin… she was no longer an angel… 'That means Lady Cynthia also fell into sin, but unlike Anzu she was forgiven as she was the queen at that time… but what about Anzu… would she be killed, exiled or forced into the nothing?' Not wanting to think about that yet, he walked closer to the Demon to keep an eye on him but also listened to what the girls we saying.
"Isis," Serenity began, slowly falling on to her knees, unable to say any more, she turned and buried her head in her mothers shoulder.
"Isis.. are you… Isis," Cynthia began, a hand reaching out to hold onto her daughter, which was slapped back as Isis glared up at her mother, pain and anger radiating form her eyes.
"Stay away from me!" She growled as she held Shadi close to her, protectively.
"Isis?" her mother asked, shocked form her daughters actions. Taking a step back, she looked at her daughter, a hurt expression on her face.
"Stay away from me! You lied to us! You… you… this is your entire fault mother! How dare you LIE to us! You knew Malik was your son… how could you mother.. how could you create sin! How could you! There would never have been a peace notion otherwise would there have been?" Each word was said with hate and spite as she walked forward, her mother taking a step back at each word thrown at her, the truth bearing holes within her.
"N-no," Cynthia cried, hands crossed of her mouth, tearing glistening in her eyes.
"YES! This entire peace crap was so that YOU could see your son! You knew that if anyone found out about the peace reconciliation between heaven and the Shadow realm then it would have been a perfect time to start a war. You KNEW BUT still you went ahead and why? For your own selfish needs and because of YOU, Shadi is gone…. he's gone… gone…" Isis unable to handle anymore fell to the floor, resting on her knees, head bent in her hands.
Anzu looked at her mother, the pain and guilt visible, shaking her head she stepped forward and said, "It's not mama fault Isis, she didn't…" However, Anzu words were cut of as Isis's head snapped back up.
"Oh no Anzu.. don't you dare! Don't you dare try and justify the sin you created!"
"I fell in love Isis, how can that be a sin?" she pleaded.
"I'll tell you why Anzu, we are angels, we hold light and hope we don't kill; those angels lying outside out kingdom... you see them?" She asked, as she got to her feet and dragged Anzu outside, "LOOK AT THEM! They gave their lives because they could not bear to hurt another being, no matter if their own lives went they did not stray from what they believed, we believe in good, Shadi believed that and now he is gone.. Unlike YOU, we never gave into temptation! Was it good Anzu? Was it worth losing innocence? Was it worth becoming fallen?"
Anzu couldn't reply, she sobbed as she tried to squirm away from her sister's truth, "I fell in love, Isis," she whispered.
"Well.. at the end love is all you have… you've lost everything Anzu, your wings, your family… yourself… so let me ask you… is love enough?"
Anzu looked up at her sister, her sister's eyes were so cold, it was as if all emotion has fled from within her and all that was left was this breathing, emotionless body.
"What does that mean Isis?" She asked, fearfully.
"It means Anzu… unlike the head council who must have forgiven mother… I have a duty…. A duty to my kingdom which over rules the duties of my heart and family…. Anzu you are exiled from the heavens."
Keith spat on the body of a shape shifter, as they lay fallen on the ground, looking up he saw Yami, who a sword raised to a fallen Gozaburo. Though they had tried the strength of Yami's army was too much and they had overpowered Gozaburo and now he had lost…. Was would be removed from the Shadow Realm forever.
Yami smirked as he saw his enemy plead for mercy, feeling anger and hate raising though him, he taunted, "Did Mako beg like this? Did you spare him mercy as you ripped him apart?" Feeling sadness for his lost comrade. Yami glared his emotions through his eyes, as they narrowed, snarling, he turned his sword and plunged it deep within Gozaburo, satisfied that he was gone for eternity.
"It's over," he sighed, turning around he raised his sword in the air as the demons began to howl and cheer of their victory.
"Yami?" Mai began, a hand resting on her other, where a wound lay.
"How many did we lose Mai?" Yami asked, his hands already grabbing her wounds, the over protectiveness of being a brother rising.
"Malik's fine, he is resting. Keith is fine as well as Pegasus. Seto's arrived back from… from the heavens but I have no idea where Bakura is."
"Bakura…. Bakura is still in the heavens, he has a choice to make… the angel or his identity."
Mai nodded as she found her self being dragged into the medical ward, sitting down she noticed her friend Seto standing in a corner, arms folded.
Walking up to him, she tapped him and asked, "I thought you would be with your angel."
"What happened to yours?" he countered back.
Mai sighed as she flopped onto the ground, "He was too good for me," she replied, daring any tears to fall. Seto tilted his head to the side, while waiting for her to carry on.
"I couldn't bring him down with me, he's too good for that at the end of the day light and dark can never be one, not without some scarifies and I know how much he is dedicated to his Queen, I had no right to take that away from him. At the end of the day… love just isn't enough."
She sobbed the last part out, unable to explain how the blonde angel had stolen her heart. Seto huffed as he sat next to her, he understood, for some reason he found that he couldn't hurt that girl… Serenity… no matter how much he had loved Isis, he sister, her innocence, her purity, it was sort of a barrier, which prevented him from hurting her. He knew he never fell in love with her, his heart if he ever had one was Isis, and nothing could change that… ever.
The silence in the room was deafening as everyone lay in shock at the conversation of the two sisters.
"What?" Anzu whispered as Bakura made his presence be known by standing behind her.
"I-I can't let you stay her e Anzu," Isis said, trying to maintain her stern exterior but the look in her sister's eyes melted that away. "As much as I could re write history or change the facts, at the end of the day you committed sin…. You should be hung for that… but I can't do that too you. So I am going to give you a choice, leave with Bakura and become fallen and demonic, be banished into the nothing…… or both of you become mortal."
Bakura started at the angel in front of him… give it up…. Everything he was… is… could he give it all up… looking at his love, he thought, 'What has happened to me, before I was free, a killer, I knew who I was but now I don't know… I have no desire to go back to my old ways… but would I give everything up for her?'
He was jerked out of his thoughts, when he heard Anzu say, "Send me into the nothing Isis." Seeing Bakura look at her, she raised a hand to stroke his cheek, a single tear making its way down, "I have no right to ask you to give everything up, if you love being a demon so much I have no right to talk it away from you… I- I love you."
Unable to look at him, she walked in front of her sister, head bent, eyes sad, "Do it Isis," she said, her sister fighting with herself.
"Anzu, I."
"No Isis, you are right, you always were… I just was not as brave as you were... I gave in, but I can't feel as it was bad because I know how much I loved him and how right it felt to me."
Isis looked graved as she was about to order her sister to her demise, shaking her head, she looked over at the fallen Shadi, tears coming back to mind, her heart and her duty… both separate… sadly one had to rule the other.
"Angel Anzu Mazaki," Isis began, "A-as your Queen and ruler, I have no other option but to... to."
"Make us mortal," a voice, stated. Everyone turned to look at the demon, who had come to Anzu's side and grabbed her hand.
"Bakura?" Anzu asked.
"Do it Isis. Make us mortal." Isis nodded, the tears visible on her face as she held out her hands, a glow coming from them, the closed her eyes as the light intensified, causing everyone to shut their eyes. As soon as it came it was gone, along with it the two lovers had gone as well… forever.
Serenity gasped as she couldn't see her sister no more, "Y-you never let us say good bye," she sobbed out. "You never let us say GOODBYE!" She screamed as she fled the room, Joey running after her.
Cynthia stood in shock, her baby… she was gone… she had lost another one. Glancing at Isis, she held her hands open as Isis fled into them, sobbing her heart out.
"I didn't want her to go... but I had no choice… I don't want to lose her... but…but."
"You did the right thing Isis," Cynthia said, "You have an order as a ruler and sometimes we have to listen to what is right rather than what our hearts tell us. My baby," she said, hugging her child, "You've lost so much, we both have, I…"
"I loved him Mama,"
"I know you did my child, and he knew that too, it just…. It just wasn't meant to me."
"It hurts so much, I wish I never fell in love it hurts too much, I lost two people I love more than anything… love hurts."
"Yes it does. It can hurt so much, yet it can be the most wonderful thing to ever happen to you, you were blessed Isis, not many people find true love, or any love but you did and for that you should always be thankful."
"Mama."
"Yes my child?"
"Shadi will always be with me."
"I know my child, I know."
'More than you think Mama… maybe every love is selfish…' Closing her eyes, she placed a hand on the lower part of her abdomen, 'He always will be with me.'
On a green pasture, two figures stood, shocked, in love and scared, but most of all together… No words were spoken as one drew the other into a tight hug, vowing to never leave, to stay together forever. And together they were, together yet apart. Could they live with their actions, without people they love? Was love enough? Or is the saying true, that love doesn't hurt?
High above in the heavens, two figures crept as they approached the gates of the nothing, reciting a script they held in their hands they watched as the doors opened, another figure joined them as they escaped, vowing to return… after al they weren't so easy to be rid off.
The End!
Ohh my it's done, Wow, so yes the ending sucked but I think it was the right ending. Isis had a choice one as a sister and one as a Queen… she has to choose the right one… Anyway, it's over an epilogue may be coming but no sequel this fic is over and done.
Thanks so much for reading.
Ja Ne
