Hearts in Ice
Chapter Eight: Crying in the Rain
Summary
I have decided not to spoil the chapter! MWAHA!
Note
Sorry about the late update! I have been suffering from the dreaded writer's block and it has royally sucked! And, I want everyone to meet my new co-author, Mud! Mud is my, yes people, pet chicken! She's a Black Giant, and if you have never heard of them, they are black chickens that get really big! She is currently sitting on my left shoulder, so don't forget to acknowledge her too!
Tidus looked at the brown haired man with utmost disgust. Dina sat on the ground, the tail of her powder blue gown clenched between her fists.
"Your a liar, you are nothing but a liar!"
Yevon looked at the angered gaze on the blonde boy's face and laughed.
"You dare call me a liar when I have known her true being for a millennium?! Observe!"
Yevon grabbed a handful of Dina's coco brown hair and pulled her neck back to reveal the red puffy lines on opposite sides of her neck. He withdrew the icy necklace from his pocket and draped it around her pale throat, closing the silver clasp and dropping her hair from his clutches.
She didn't fight her transformation as Shiva's powder blue skin began to cover the once cream color of Dina's skin. The deep brown hair turned cerulean, and the one strap down faded into the normal attire of the Ice Queen. She looked up at Tidus with her saddened blue eyes, silent and waiting for a remark.
Tidus looked at the Aeon of Ice with a shocked look. Shiva saw the furious look on his face, and finally broke down in tears of utter guilt.
"I didn't want you to be hurt! I didn't want you just to love me because of the way I look! So I became who I was one thousand years ago in hopes that you would love me for who I was!"
Tidus turned his back towards the blue lady and sighed, his breath shuttering with unshed tears. He looked up at the sky, then looked down at the ground.
"I gave up my love for Shiva, so I could be with Dina. Then, some freak starts beating on Dina, then she transforms into you! What's the deal?" Tidus screamed angrily.
Shiva looked down at the ground, and began her tale.
"One thousand years ago, I was a priestess at Macalania Temple. My name, was Dina. I was ten years old when I left home and helped with the construction of the Temple. Yevon and I met there, then he proposed to me when I was seventeen. Then the true Shiva came and told me that Yevon was planning to try and take over Spira with Sin."
Tidus looked away from Shiva's hurt face, and turned to the brown haired man that still remained nameless.
"You must be Yevon then." Tidus asked, his voice a mixture of several emotions.
"Very good, Tidus. But that doesn't matter now. Continue with your story."
Shiva shot Yevon a hate filled glare, but continued nonetheless. And Tidus swore that the air around them dropped several degrees as the Queen of Ice told her story. Yevon knew very well why the temperature dropped so suddenly.
She was pissed off.
"I was angry, I felt betrayed. Yevon had said that we would create a better Spira for the people to live! She told me of all his evil intentions and how he planned to slowly destroy the land. So, I joined with the original Shiva, and this is me now."
Tidus looked so confused at that moment that Yevon took the liberty of explaining the situation himself.
"That necklace she wears holds her powers, and it also holds her appearance she dons as Shiva."
Tidus lost the confusion for a moment, until it returned full force just seconds later.
"If that necklace makes her look like Shiva and gives her the powers of the Aeon, then can't she just dispose of it?"
This time, it was Shiva that answered.
"No, if the necklace is discarded, then the lack of the ice powers it holds will eventually kill me. I need that necklace to live to make a long story short."
Tidus looked away from her, she picked herself up off the ground and started towards him.
"Tidus, I'm sorry. If I had known you loved me as I really and truly am, Dina would have never have came into your life. Let's just,"
Shiva let her arms drop to her sides, Tidus turned to face her, Yevon watched with a smirk.
"Let's just start over from the very beginning."
Tidus just shook his head and turned his back on her once again. Yevon watched from afar as Shiva's world fell apart right before her.
"I'm sorry, Shiva. But I don't know you anymore."
With that, the blonde Blitzball hero disappeared into the depths of Macalania Woods, leaving behind a shattered heart.
Yevon laughed triumphantly and approached Shiva, maniacal glee beginning to come into the harsh laughter.
"You can't even keep a simple lover. Aren't you ashamed of yourself? Tsk, tsk, tsk."
With tears flooding her blue eyes, Shiva sunk to her knees and looked down at the ground, her throat stinging with unshed tears. Yevon gave a snort and began to walk away.
"Your pathetic."
She turned to face him with a fury filled look, sending shocks of fear up his spine even though his back was turned to her. He turned to face her, and what he saw then frightened even him. Shiva's aura was burning brightly with pure hatred, the typically blue light surrounding her was beginning to turn white. The Ice Queen's wrath was focused on Yevon, and this wasn't merely a threat. The intent to kill burned deep in Shiva's eyes as she watched fear spread across Yevon's face.
"Love has never done anything for me but heartache and misery. And you are the one to put me through all of this tragedy! How dare you call me pathetic!"
Yevon said nothing, but left as quickly as possible. When he was gone and she could no longer sense him, the Aeon looked up at the night sky. A solitary raindrop splashed on her cheek, it's siblings soon to follow.
"How much love could there have been between us if I couldn't have told him everything?"
Her voice cracked, then she let the tears pour freely as the rain covered her body with a cold blanket.
He had finally made it back to camp and found everyone sleeping peacefully. Some stew was stone cold in the cooking pot, he passed it and moved to his tent without a second glance. He pulled the coverlet up to his shoulders and wrapped his arms around his squishy pillow. He saw his pack and reached into it's dark depths until he felt his worn leather sketch pad. He flipped through sketches of scenery, plants, some animals, then he came across Shiva. Closing his eyes, he slapped his sketch book closed and rolled over on his side. Then, all of Shiva's words came back to him.
It hit him twice as hard as before, making the young man bury his face in his pillow.
And cry himself to sleep.
END!
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