wow...lately there's been a lot of DK fanfics...

now, answering some reviews...

-sessmoharuobsessed-- now, now, don't jump to conclusions...

-knowwii-- yes I've read the 13th volume of Dragon Knights.

!!!...sorry, if I didn't answer your review. I'm fairly busy...

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Italic is now Cesia's thoughts...heh

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Break My Heart

Chapter 17

Blood was all over her dress.

Vierrez laid in Cesia's arms, his heartbeat gone.

Vierrez...you can't be dead yet. There is still something you have to do in this world, right? ...I never knew this was planned in your future. Had I known, I would've talked to you sooner...

"Cesia..." Rath spoke meekly, "I...are you...."

"Rath, it's okay." I said.

But it isn't okay. Did Delte not see this in Vierrez's future? I asked her, "What has fate in store for him?" Her cards did not mention death, only a feeling of angst. I looked into my glass ball. I never saw him die, so how can he...just now? Did the stars shift in their alignment?

A feeling of...angst. Was that present, or past, or future? In the past, it was sorrow. At the present it was happiness. In the future, it was angst. I never asked Delte what was the meaning, the relative event of these cards. Maybe I should've.

Rath stood under the tree with Cesia, a bit uselessly, since he didn't know how to help her. With a sword in hand, stained with blood, he dismissed it. Silence is all you can hear.

"I can't leave him." Cesia spoke. By 'him' she meant Vierrez.

"Well, yeah, both of you were friends..." Rath said, trying not to act too casual, since normally nobody overreacts about him killing. And that he kills all the time.

That spell...to revive a spirit...

Rath stood awkwardly beside Cesia.

...Fedelta told me...but I can't remember the spell clearly...what am I supposed to do? He only mentioned sincerity...I tried to use it once, when Gil was injured but he would've died anyways because I messed up the incantation so badly.

Is there an incantation?

"Rath...please, leave me alone for right now." Cesia whispered.

Rath reluctantly left her there, and went back to the masquerade.

"What am I supposed to say?" Cesia said to herself. Her eyes shimmered, "What did I ever do?"

Tears freely flowed down her cheek.

Sooner, or later, Vierrez will have to be burried. He's a bit of a drifter...so only I will be there, at his funeral. And when that day comes, I would never leave this place. I will always remember this place.

Rath...what will I say to him?

How will I tell him this? I mean, this is about foreign relations, Nadil thinks that I should chose Kharl of Southern Dusis. But at the same time, I've been good friends with Rath. But really...what can I say? When can I say what I want? What I want to do?

With Arinas on my shoulders, I can never be free from its grasp. Never.

Does anybody understand? Everything I do, I have to do it for the people who live for me, who live under my rule. Just because I live in a grand palace, a beautiful environment, never in poverty, and what else? Everything. I have everything that everybody wants. And yet, there is something everybody has that I want.

I want to do things I like to do. I want to do things, where I don't always have to be under pressure, in the spotlight, at the center of attention. I just want to relax--I want to be myself.

Alright, maybe I don't mind ruling over this land. I like to work, and improve the life around us. Doing my work selflessly. But if that means to take things into a personal matter...

All I'm trying to say...is that..I...

"I-I...I've always cared about you, Vierrez." Cesia gasped for breath.

"Now, would you ever tell me that you love me?"

A voice, Cesia turned, it was Vierrez.

"Are you suprised?" Vierrez's laugh echoed, "Did you think I would leave so soon? The is more to the Second World than what you know."

"The Second World is where the spirits reside?" Cesia asked, her crying became less.

Vierrez smiled, "I would never leave your side."

"You don't sound like Vierrez." Cesia said skeptically.

"What do you mean?"

"Vierrez never speaks like that."

"Maybe...it is because now, I just barely exist. Now, I'll never have to face you physically. It's a bit like how some shy girls tell one of their friends to tell the man they like, that she loves him."

Vierrez cupped his hands around Cesia's face, "Besides, didn't you say that you cared about me, only after I passed away? It's just the same. It was your sincerity."

"So...now, you'll always be here, right?"

Vierrez's smile fadded.

"I would but I can't. I can't stay as a spirit, and keep wandering this world. I need a body, or I may never be able to reincarnate. A body...like a tree."

"Just stay here, I like this place." Cesia leaned on the cherry tree she, and Vierrez were under, "I'd come here everyday just to be here with you."

Vierrez smiled, and bent over Cesia. As he tried to kiss her lips, being a spirit, he slipping through, and resided into the tree.

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For Arinas, Cesia married Rath, she still liked Rath, and treated him as a close friend, now her husband.

Cesia kept her word, and always came to Vierrez every morning, under the cherry tree.

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-haha! it's done. I know a lot of people here are CesiaRath fans. as for me, I like Vierrez ....

-snake

-finally done. now on to my story: My Only Son.