Chapter 7
Why?
It was a wonderfully warm morning on board the Delphinus, the early morning light shone delicately through the window. Vyse stirred and slowly opened his eyes. A warm hand was gently placed on his cheek and Vyse stared in front of him to see Siobhan staring lovingly at him. He smiled back and lent forward to kiss her softly on the lips.
"Good morning." whispered Siobhan as she snuggled up to his well toned body.
"Good morning my love," he whispered as he wrapped his arms around her.
Siobhan let out a small gasp as he clutched her in his grasp, she moved her hand away from his face and placed it underneath his t-shirt and rubbed it over his bare chest.
Vyse clutched Siobhan with one hand and rubbed the other over her waist, the feeling of her silk night dress under his hand. She breathed gently against his chest and closed her eyes and whispered rubbing his lightly tanned skin "Vyse I love you so much and... I can't picture my life without you anymore."
"Siobhan neither can I, you mean everything to me now," Vyse whispered placing his forehead against hers and staring into her soft hazel green eyes.
"We won't part ways will we Vyse?" asked Siobhan still rubbing his chest.
"No! I won't allow it," said Vyse drawing her closer to him "I can't bear the thought of living without you."
"Is that a proposal?" Siobhan asked jokingly seeing the stunned look on Vyse face she said "Vyse I was only joking."
It had hit Vyse at that very second that his relationship with Siobhan was getting extremely serious. He jolted himself up in the bed, he had a dream the previous night of Siobhan and his wedding night where they said there vows and everyone seemed to be happy, except for Aika and Fina who glared at them with fiery eyes.
Only then did he realize that he would have to tell Aika and Fina about his relationship with Siobhan.
"Vyse?" asked Siobhan who had a worried look on her face from Vyse expression "I'm sorry I was only joking," her voice began to trail off as she fought back the tears.
He doesn't love me at all she thought, he was just seeing how far he could go with me.
Vyse turned to face her after he heard her whimper slightly. "Siobhan what's wrong?" he asked worriedly as he slid next to her and cupped her body in his arms "did I do something wrong?"
Siobhan put up little resistance and softly cried in to his chest clutching his shirt "Vyse I think I should leave," she whimpered trying to release herself from his grip.
"Why?" yelled Vyse "what did I do tell me?" Siobhan turned to face him, her now red eyes glaring in his direction.
"You have been using me haven't you Vyse," she yelled her hands covering eyes "how could you break my heart like this I thought we had something special not just love but TRUE LOVE" she screamed evident as her heart was now broken, quickly made her way towards the door.
"Siobhan! NO," yelled Vyse as loud as he could and gripped her arm before she made it too the door.
Siobhan tried to rattle Vyse off her arm but his touch made her feel weak and she collapsed, she knelt on the floor, crying.
"Siobhan what did I do to upset you this bad," he whimpered kneeling on the floor next to her his grasp had slid down her arm so he was now holding her hand.
Her eyes closed as tears soaked her cheeks "it was only a joke Vyse but you took it seriously I thought you loved me the way I loved you, but it's obviously not the way it is, you don't love me at all do you."
"I love you more than anything in the world Siobhan I would die if it meant I would be able to be with you," he yelled pounding his fist against the floor, his eyes shedding several tears.
Siobhan opened her trembling eyes and stared into Vyse' as he knelt next to her, she could she he was telling the truth she didn't know how but she could see he did love her more than she thought.
"Vyse," she whispered her voice still shaking "why did you take my joke seriously?"
"I was thinking about our future," he whispered "that's why I was taking it seriously," whimpered Vyse slightly drying his eyes.
"Our future?" said Siobhan very confused.
"I had a dream last night that upset me you and I were both so happy and so was everyone else until I saw Aika and Fina they looked like they really hated me for not saying anything about the way I feel about you" he whispered tightening his grip on her hand.
"So are you going to tell them?" she asked turning her body to face him.
"Yes because then I'll feel better, so I can concentrate all my feelings on you and only you," he said managing a small loving smile.
"Oh Vyse," said Siobhan tears of joy now streaming down her face as she flung her arms around him and sat with her legs wrapped around his body "I thought I was going to lose you," she whispered her head next to his.
"You'll never lose me," replied Vyse quietly as he pulled her as close to him, one of his hands tightly wrapped around her waist whilst the other placed lovingly in her hair.
"I love you Vyse," she whispered stroking his back with her soft hands and holding him close to her.
"I love you too," said Vyse lifting them both on to their feet.
The two knelt their, for several minutes in each others grasp Siobhan began to calm down as Vyse rubbed his hand gently around her back, whilst the other gripped her tightly next to him. Siobhan held onto him dependently her head facing inward on his shoulder breathing gently down his neck.
Eventually they separated and they stood in front of each other their eyes both red as they stared lovingly at one another.
"Vyse," Siobhan whispered calmly to him "I'm sorry for the way I acted I jumped to conclusions as per usual," she turned her head towards the ground.
"Hey," said Vyse gently placing his hand upon her cheek and stoking it with his thumb "it doesn't matter; I was kinda acting a bit weird about that dream I had."
Siobhan walked over to the window on the opposite side of the room and rested her hands on it and stared outside as the sun shone brightly over the land of the red moon.
"You know," she said a smile cast wryly across her face "this kind of weather is perfect for training."
"Training?" replied Vyse walking over to the window and staring out.
"Yeah this is the kind off weather I use to train in with Cyprus on Horteka," said Siobhan drifting into past memories.
"Well I'll train with you if you want?" said Vyse "I want to see how good you are with a blade anyway," he said once again lifting her hand from her waist and cupping it in his own.
"Would you?" asked Siobhan a little confused "but Vyse I know you may find this a bit funny but I haven't really trained with other people I really have just trained on my own so I don't know how good I am or not."
"No problem, just try your best and I'll grade you after," said Vyse teasingly as he kissed her hand.
"Well I'll try my best to please you Captain Vyse," said Siobhan playfully as she enthused with a piece of Vyse chestnut hair.
Vyse lent into kiss her but the ship began to shake throwing the two of balance and both of them collapsed on to the floor.
"Vyse are you OK?" asked Siobhan lifting his head into her arms and looking down on him worriedly.
"Yeah I'm fine," groaned Vyse sitting up from his collision point on the floor and rubbing the back of his head.
"Captain Vyse," called Khaz down the communications pipe on the bridge "we need you up here right away were under attack"
"Who by?" yelled Vyse.
"They seem to be black pirates but there is something different about this ship," replied Khaz.
"OK I'm on my way and I'll bring Siobhan with me alright Khaz," summoned Vyse.
"Yeah that's fine," said Khaz confusion evident in his voice "One more thing Captain."
"Yes Khaz," said Vyse sarcastically.
"There um.trying to board us," replied Khaz quietly.
"WHAT," yelled Vyse jumping onto his feet?
"Vyse," yelled Aika pushing young Khaz out of the way "meet me and Fina on deck as soon as possible these guys aren't fooling around."
"OK," called Vyse quickly grabbing his cutlasses and making his way towards the door.
"Vyse," whispered Siobhan placing her right hand on his shoulder.
"Siobhan," he whispered coming to a halt "please wait here, I don't want you to get hurt," turning to face her and placing his hands upon her shoulders.
"Vyse there is no way you're leaving me behind," said Siobhan furiously "besides the famous Vyse the Legend cannot go into battle in his nightclothes," she continued, cooling down slightly and tugging gently at his shirt. "I can be of use to you, I won't get in the way I promise," She went on "please Vyse the least I can do is heal you when you need it."
"Alright," said Vyse admitting defeat "but promise me if things get ugly you'll back down OK."
"Yeah," said Siobhan flinging her arms around him and kissing him quickly on the lips.
"Come on we have to hurry up," called Vyse grabbing a spare change of clothes and heading into the bathroom with them.
"Hey Vyse," called Siobhan, "um. can I borrow a pair of your trousers, cause I can fight better in them?"
"Sure there in the second drawer" replied Vyse continuing to change.
Siobhan quickly ran to the chest of drawers and grabbed a pair of Vyse black trousers and put them on, they were a little bit too big but they would do fine for battle after she had put her belt around them. She then put on her usual black t-shirt and placed her feet in her socks and boots. Now she wrapped her hair in her bandanna and drew it behind her shoulders and quickly got up from the bed and ran over to the other side of the room to fetch Cyprus from its sheath.
"Ready?" asked Vyse grabbing his cutlasses and making his way towards the door.
"Yeah just a little nervous that's all" replied Siobhan getting on to her feet and following him out into the hallway.
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Where the heck is Vyse thought Aika, what can be taking him so long.
Just then the deck door screeched open and Vyse followed by Siobhan entered the deck.
"Vyse there you are," said Aika a little peeved. "What the hell is she doing here?" Yelled Aika pointing to Siobhan rebelliously, now she was red in the face with anger.
"She's come to help Aika," he smiled daringly "is that a problem?" he said sarcastically as he looked over at the enemy ship.
Aika still red with anger was about to speak, when Fina beat her into the conversation.
"There hasn't been much movement in a while now," said Fina a little worried as she wandered over to the side of the ship. She stood their overlooking the ship and thought I can sense something vile is going to happen, But is this just the calm of the storm, before the rain begins to fall.
Siobhan gripped onto to Cyprus not sure what to expect she too could sense the disturbance. "Vyse," she whispered "Keep up your guard at all times I can sense something is wrong."
Fina turned to face her she knew there was something different about her, something she had only ever sensed in Ramirez.
Her eyes were diverted. "Where did you get that?" asked Fina but by the tone in her voice it seemed more like a demand.
Siobhan followed Fina's gaze and noticed that it led directly onto Cyprus. She turned her head so it faced Vyse she looked at him for support she had no idea how to answer her question. He nodded and mouthed "Tell them."
"I. I've had it with me since birth," she whispered quietly.
"Liar," yelled Aika "You stole it from somewhere there is only one person who we know had a blade like that and that was Ramirez."
Siobhan took a step back Ramirez she thought that name I recognize it somehow. Wait was it him, it must be.
Vyse was expecting to see shock on Siobhan's face but instead she smiled.
"Hey, what are you smiling at!" bellowed Aika.
"Siobhan," whispered Vyse. She diverted her smile onto him.
"I'm starting to remember something Vyse, I can't believe it I remember him," she said almost joyfully.
"Who do you remember Siobhan?" asked Vyse.
"Ramirez," she whispered "I remember him."
Fina remained quite, instead of talking she continued to gaze at Siobhan and the weapon she held in her hands.
"How did you know Ramirez?" asked Aika her tone more calm than before.
"Did?" Siobhan whispered her voice small and frail.
"Yes, Siobhan Ramirez is dead," said Vyse reaching out to place a supportive hand on her shoulder.
She backed away "NO, he can't be, how did he die?" she pleaded Vyse to tell her.
He could not make eye contact with her "I. we," he could not finish.
"We killed him," said Aika for him "and we have no regrets about it." She looked over to Vyse shamelessly and smiled.
"No!" whispered Siobhan tears welling up in her eyes, she took a step back from Vyse and collapsed onto her knees "No he can't be" Siobhan buried her head in her hands and began to shake it rapidly "RAMIREZ," She cried.
Vyse knelt down in front of her "Siobhan you have to understand we had to kill him or everyone else on Arcadia would have died, he was Zelos' host and we couldn't separate him after they merged," Vyse seemed to almost be pleading with her.
"Vyse, you did what you had to, but now that I know it was him, I wish it wasn't." Siobhan took a deep breath and continued while drying her eyes. "When I knew him he was so loving and caring, I never knew he was capable of destroying the world in which he loved so much."
"Hello!" called Aika waving her hands in the air. "Excuse me but some of us don't get what you two are droning on about,"
"Oh come off it Aika," yelled Vyse "haven't you figured it out yet Siobhan is a Silvite."
Both Aika and Fina took a step back from the kneeling pair, Vyse lifted both himself and Siobhan onto their feet. Both Aika and Fina stood still dumbstruck with shock were stunned by what Vyse had just unfolded for them.
"A Silvite?" whispered Fina, she stood their unsure of what to think she knew there was another child on the Great Silver Shrine other than her and Ramirez but she was forbidden to talk to them, the elders said that the child was unworthy to talk to Fina. They said that the child was impure; and it was certainly not a good idea for her to get on the wrong side of the elders. Over a time she and Ramirez became better friends, and the child was never mentioned again, for reasons she did not know.
Aika did not want to make eye contact with Vyse she hated seeing him when he was angry. Instead she looked at Fina whose gaze was locked impenetrably on Siobhan.
Vyse followed her gaze and continued to yell "Siobhan is a Silvite Fina if you don't believe me come and look at the marking on her arm."
Siobhan was still a little shaken. Vyse had just revealed her life secret to two people she barely knew. But she was glad she didn't have to tell them herself.
Fina made her way over to him "Vyse I do believe you" she murmured "but I would like to see it anyway."
Vyse nodded and looked at Siobhan he could see how nervous she was, he stepped up to her and smiled. Siobhan smiled weakly in reply and nodded, allowing Vyse to show Fina her secret marking.
Fina backed away astonished, a hand in front of mouth "It was you!"
"What Fina?" asked Vyse.
"You were the banished child! The child who the elders had forbidden," spoke Fina her voice shook as she spoke her races illicit words.
"Banished?" Vyse looked astonished glancing back and forth at the two Silvite women. "What are you talking about Fina? Why would the Elders banish Siobhan?"
Tears began to stream down Siobhan' face, she bowed her head "It all makes sense," she spoke in a low voice.
Vyse stared at her for a long time not sure what to say to her. He finally decided to move to her side, he took her in his arms and she cried into his chest.
"Vyse, what do you think you're doing?" asked Aika dumb folded.
He did not have time to reply when the entire ship began to shake.
"What the hell!" called Vyse noticing the enemy ship bombarding them. He moved away from Siobhan and ran towards the edge of the ship.
Fina fell to her knees and abruptly felt a cold blast of air pass in front of her face and head in the Siobhan' direction.
The breeze drifted across the ship and surrounded Siobhan' body .She gasped and then began to cry out in pain as her body began to be shrouded in ice.
Upon hearing Siobhan cries Vyse jolted around to see the ice slithering up her body at an alarming pace. Both terror and fear overwhelmed him and he began to dart towards her. "SIOBHAN!" he yelled at the top of his lungs. Siobhan looked at him terror in her eyes but before she could reply to his calls her body was fortified in 5 inches of ice.
Vyse was too late.
He could see her terrified expression from the outside of the ice. "SIOBHAN!" he yelled again, his voice full of panic as he pounded his fists against the silver colored ice.
There was no reply to his calls. Suddenly the ice began to crack and Vyse halted his beating against it no, please no thought Vyse. The cracks seeped across the entire surface of the ice. All Vyse, Aika and Fina could do was wait and se in horror the inevitable that was soon to happen.
Why thought Vyse as he watched his love fall between the hands of fate is 'this' how it ends Siobhan please don't let it end this way. Vyse looked into her terrified eyes and felt his own fill with tears as he prayed for her to be spared.
To be continued
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Why?
It was a wonderfully warm morning on board the Delphinus, the early morning light shone delicately through the window. Vyse stirred and slowly opened his eyes. A warm hand was gently placed on his cheek and Vyse stared in front of him to see Siobhan staring lovingly at him. He smiled back and lent forward to kiss her softly on the lips.
"Good morning." whispered Siobhan as she snuggled up to his well toned body.
"Good morning my love," he whispered as he wrapped his arms around her.
Siobhan let out a small gasp as he clutched her in his grasp, she moved her hand away from his face and placed it underneath his t-shirt and rubbed it over his bare chest.
Vyse clutched Siobhan with one hand and rubbed the other over her waist, the feeling of her silk night dress under his hand. She breathed gently against his chest and closed her eyes and whispered rubbing his lightly tanned skin "Vyse I love you so much and... I can't picture my life without you anymore."
"Siobhan neither can I, you mean everything to me now," Vyse whispered placing his forehead against hers and staring into her soft hazel green eyes.
"We won't part ways will we Vyse?" asked Siobhan still rubbing his chest.
"No! I won't allow it," said Vyse drawing her closer to him "I can't bear the thought of living without you."
"Is that a proposal?" Siobhan asked jokingly seeing the stunned look on Vyse face she said "Vyse I was only joking."
It had hit Vyse at that very second that his relationship with Siobhan was getting extremely serious. He jolted himself up in the bed, he had a dream the previous night of Siobhan and his wedding night where they said there vows and everyone seemed to be happy, except for Aika and Fina who glared at them with fiery eyes.
Only then did he realize that he would have to tell Aika and Fina about his relationship with Siobhan.
"Vyse?" asked Siobhan who had a worried look on her face from Vyse expression "I'm sorry I was only joking," her voice began to trail off as she fought back the tears.
He doesn't love me at all she thought, he was just seeing how far he could go with me.
Vyse turned to face her after he heard her whimper slightly. "Siobhan what's wrong?" he asked worriedly as he slid next to her and cupped her body in his arms "did I do something wrong?"
Siobhan put up little resistance and softly cried in to his chest clutching his shirt "Vyse I think I should leave," she whimpered trying to release herself from his grip.
"Why?" yelled Vyse "what did I do tell me?" Siobhan turned to face him, her now red eyes glaring in his direction.
"You have been using me haven't you Vyse," she yelled her hands covering eyes "how could you break my heart like this I thought we had something special not just love but TRUE LOVE" she screamed evident as her heart was now broken, quickly made her way towards the door.
"Siobhan! NO," yelled Vyse as loud as he could and gripped her arm before she made it too the door.
Siobhan tried to rattle Vyse off her arm but his touch made her feel weak and she collapsed, she knelt on the floor, crying.
"Siobhan what did I do to upset you this bad," he whimpered kneeling on the floor next to her his grasp had slid down her arm so he was now holding her hand.
Her eyes closed as tears soaked her cheeks "it was only a joke Vyse but you took it seriously I thought you loved me the way I loved you, but it's obviously not the way it is, you don't love me at all do you."
"I love you more than anything in the world Siobhan I would die if it meant I would be able to be with you," he yelled pounding his fist against the floor, his eyes shedding several tears.
Siobhan opened her trembling eyes and stared into Vyse' as he knelt next to her, she could she he was telling the truth she didn't know how but she could see he did love her more than she thought.
"Vyse," she whispered her voice still shaking "why did you take my joke seriously?"
"I was thinking about our future," he whispered "that's why I was taking it seriously," whimpered Vyse slightly drying his eyes.
"Our future?" said Siobhan very confused.
"I had a dream last night that upset me you and I were both so happy and so was everyone else until I saw Aika and Fina they looked like they really hated me for not saying anything about the way I feel about you" he whispered tightening his grip on her hand.
"So are you going to tell them?" she asked turning her body to face him.
"Yes because then I'll feel better, so I can concentrate all my feelings on you and only you," he said managing a small loving smile.
"Oh Vyse," said Siobhan tears of joy now streaming down her face as she flung her arms around him and sat with her legs wrapped around his body "I thought I was going to lose you," she whispered her head next to his.
"You'll never lose me," replied Vyse quietly as he pulled her as close to him, one of his hands tightly wrapped around her waist whilst the other placed lovingly in her hair.
"I love you Vyse," she whispered stroking his back with her soft hands and holding him close to her.
"I love you too," said Vyse lifting them both on to their feet.
The two knelt their, for several minutes in each others grasp Siobhan began to calm down as Vyse rubbed his hand gently around her back, whilst the other gripped her tightly next to him. Siobhan held onto him dependently her head facing inward on his shoulder breathing gently down his neck.
Eventually they separated and they stood in front of each other their eyes both red as they stared lovingly at one another.
"Vyse," Siobhan whispered calmly to him "I'm sorry for the way I acted I jumped to conclusions as per usual," she turned her head towards the ground.
"Hey," said Vyse gently placing his hand upon her cheek and stoking it with his thumb "it doesn't matter; I was kinda acting a bit weird about that dream I had."
Siobhan walked over to the window on the opposite side of the room and rested her hands on it and stared outside as the sun shone brightly over the land of the red moon.
"You know," she said a smile cast wryly across her face "this kind of weather is perfect for training."
"Training?" replied Vyse walking over to the window and staring out.
"Yeah this is the kind off weather I use to train in with Cyprus on Horteka," said Siobhan drifting into past memories.
"Well I'll train with you if you want?" said Vyse "I want to see how good you are with a blade anyway," he said once again lifting her hand from her waist and cupping it in his own.
"Would you?" asked Siobhan a little confused "but Vyse I know you may find this a bit funny but I haven't really trained with other people I really have just trained on my own so I don't know how good I am or not."
"No problem, just try your best and I'll grade you after," said Vyse teasingly as he kissed her hand.
"Well I'll try my best to please you Captain Vyse," said Siobhan playfully as she enthused with a piece of Vyse chestnut hair.
Vyse lent into kiss her but the ship began to shake throwing the two of balance and both of them collapsed on to the floor.
"Vyse are you OK?" asked Siobhan lifting his head into her arms and looking down on him worriedly.
"Yeah I'm fine," groaned Vyse sitting up from his collision point on the floor and rubbing the back of his head.
"Captain Vyse," called Khaz down the communications pipe on the bridge "we need you up here right away were under attack"
"Who by?" yelled Vyse.
"They seem to be black pirates but there is something different about this ship," replied Khaz.
"OK I'm on my way and I'll bring Siobhan with me alright Khaz," summoned Vyse.
"Yeah that's fine," said Khaz confusion evident in his voice "One more thing Captain."
"Yes Khaz," said Vyse sarcastically.
"There um.trying to board us," replied Khaz quietly.
"WHAT," yelled Vyse jumping onto his feet?
"Vyse," yelled Aika pushing young Khaz out of the way "meet me and Fina on deck as soon as possible these guys aren't fooling around."
"OK," called Vyse quickly grabbing his cutlasses and making his way towards the door.
"Vyse," whispered Siobhan placing her right hand on his shoulder.
"Siobhan," he whispered coming to a halt "please wait here, I don't want you to get hurt," turning to face her and placing his hands upon her shoulders.
"Vyse there is no way you're leaving me behind," said Siobhan furiously "besides the famous Vyse the Legend cannot go into battle in his nightclothes," she continued, cooling down slightly and tugging gently at his shirt. "I can be of use to you, I won't get in the way I promise," She went on "please Vyse the least I can do is heal you when you need it."
"Alright," said Vyse admitting defeat "but promise me if things get ugly you'll back down OK."
"Yeah," said Siobhan flinging her arms around him and kissing him quickly on the lips.
"Come on we have to hurry up," called Vyse grabbing a spare change of clothes and heading into the bathroom with them.
"Hey Vyse," called Siobhan, "um. can I borrow a pair of your trousers, cause I can fight better in them?"
"Sure there in the second drawer" replied Vyse continuing to change.
Siobhan quickly ran to the chest of drawers and grabbed a pair of Vyse black trousers and put them on, they were a little bit too big but they would do fine for battle after she had put her belt around them. She then put on her usual black t-shirt and placed her feet in her socks and boots. Now she wrapped her hair in her bandanna and drew it behind her shoulders and quickly got up from the bed and ran over to the other side of the room to fetch Cyprus from its sheath.
"Ready?" asked Vyse grabbing his cutlasses and making his way towards the door.
"Yeah just a little nervous that's all" replied Siobhan getting on to her feet and following him out into the hallway.
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Where the heck is Vyse thought Aika, what can be taking him so long.
Just then the deck door screeched open and Vyse followed by Siobhan entered the deck.
"Vyse there you are," said Aika a little peeved. "What the hell is she doing here?" Yelled Aika pointing to Siobhan rebelliously, now she was red in the face with anger.
"She's come to help Aika," he smiled daringly "is that a problem?" he said sarcastically as he looked over at the enemy ship.
Aika still red with anger was about to speak, when Fina beat her into the conversation.
"There hasn't been much movement in a while now," said Fina a little worried as she wandered over to the side of the ship. She stood their overlooking the ship and thought I can sense something vile is going to happen, But is this just the calm of the storm, before the rain begins to fall.
Siobhan gripped onto to Cyprus not sure what to expect she too could sense the disturbance. "Vyse," she whispered "Keep up your guard at all times I can sense something is wrong."
Fina turned to face her she knew there was something different about her, something she had only ever sensed in Ramirez.
Her eyes were diverted. "Where did you get that?" asked Fina but by the tone in her voice it seemed more like a demand.
Siobhan followed Fina's gaze and noticed that it led directly onto Cyprus. She turned her head so it faced Vyse she looked at him for support she had no idea how to answer her question. He nodded and mouthed "Tell them."
"I. I've had it with me since birth," she whispered quietly.
"Liar," yelled Aika "You stole it from somewhere there is only one person who we know had a blade like that and that was Ramirez."
Siobhan took a step back Ramirez she thought that name I recognize it somehow. Wait was it him, it must be.
Vyse was expecting to see shock on Siobhan's face but instead she smiled.
"Hey, what are you smiling at!" bellowed Aika.
"Siobhan," whispered Vyse. She diverted her smile onto him.
"I'm starting to remember something Vyse, I can't believe it I remember him," she said almost joyfully.
"Who do you remember Siobhan?" asked Vyse.
"Ramirez," she whispered "I remember him."
Fina remained quite, instead of talking she continued to gaze at Siobhan and the weapon she held in her hands.
"How did you know Ramirez?" asked Aika her tone more calm than before.
"Did?" Siobhan whispered her voice small and frail.
"Yes, Siobhan Ramirez is dead," said Vyse reaching out to place a supportive hand on her shoulder.
She backed away "NO, he can't be, how did he die?" she pleaded Vyse to tell her.
He could not make eye contact with her "I. we," he could not finish.
"We killed him," said Aika for him "and we have no regrets about it." She looked over to Vyse shamelessly and smiled.
"No!" whispered Siobhan tears welling up in her eyes, she took a step back from Vyse and collapsed onto her knees "No he can't be" Siobhan buried her head in her hands and began to shake it rapidly "RAMIREZ," She cried.
Vyse knelt down in front of her "Siobhan you have to understand we had to kill him or everyone else on Arcadia would have died, he was Zelos' host and we couldn't separate him after they merged," Vyse seemed to almost be pleading with her.
"Vyse, you did what you had to, but now that I know it was him, I wish it wasn't." Siobhan took a deep breath and continued while drying her eyes. "When I knew him he was so loving and caring, I never knew he was capable of destroying the world in which he loved so much."
"Hello!" called Aika waving her hands in the air. "Excuse me but some of us don't get what you two are droning on about,"
"Oh come off it Aika," yelled Vyse "haven't you figured it out yet Siobhan is a Silvite."
Both Aika and Fina took a step back from the kneeling pair, Vyse lifted both himself and Siobhan onto their feet. Both Aika and Fina stood still dumbstruck with shock were stunned by what Vyse had just unfolded for them.
"A Silvite?" whispered Fina, she stood their unsure of what to think she knew there was another child on the Great Silver Shrine other than her and Ramirez but she was forbidden to talk to them, the elders said that the child was unworthy to talk to Fina. They said that the child was impure; and it was certainly not a good idea for her to get on the wrong side of the elders. Over a time she and Ramirez became better friends, and the child was never mentioned again, for reasons she did not know.
Aika did not want to make eye contact with Vyse she hated seeing him when he was angry. Instead she looked at Fina whose gaze was locked impenetrably on Siobhan.
Vyse followed her gaze and continued to yell "Siobhan is a Silvite Fina if you don't believe me come and look at the marking on her arm."
Siobhan was still a little shaken. Vyse had just revealed her life secret to two people she barely knew. But she was glad she didn't have to tell them herself.
Fina made her way over to him "Vyse I do believe you" she murmured "but I would like to see it anyway."
Vyse nodded and looked at Siobhan he could see how nervous she was, he stepped up to her and smiled. Siobhan smiled weakly in reply and nodded, allowing Vyse to show Fina her secret marking.
Fina backed away astonished, a hand in front of mouth "It was you!"
"What Fina?" asked Vyse.
"You were the banished child! The child who the elders had forbidden," spoke Fina her voice shook as she spoke her races illicit words.
"Banished?" Vyse looked astonished glancing back and forth at the two Silvite women. "What are you talking about Fina? Why would the Elders banish Siobhan?"
Tears began to stream down Siobhan' face, she bowed her head "It all makes sense," she spoke in a low voice.
Vyse stared at her for a long time not sure what to say to her. He finally decided to move to her side, he took her in his arms and she cried into his chest.
"Vyse, what do you think you're doing?" asked Aika dumb folded.
He did not have time to reply when the entire ship began to shake.
"What the hell!" called Vyse noticing the enemy ship bombarding them. He moved away from Siobhan and ran towards the edge of the ship.
Fina fell to her knees and abruptly felt a cold blast of air pass in front of her face and head in the Siobhan' direction.
The breeze drifted across the ship and surrounded Siobhan' body .She gasped and then began to cry out in pain as her body began to be shrouded in ice.
Upon hearing Siobhan cries Vyse jolted around to see the ice slithering up her body at an alarming pace. Both terror and fear overwhelmed him and he began to dart towards her. "SIOBHAN!" he yelled at the top of his lungs. Siobhan looked at him terror in her eyes but before she could reply to his calls her body was fortified in 5 inches of ice.
Vyse was too late.
He could see her terrified expression from the outside of the ice. "SIOBHAN!" he yelled again, his voice full of panic as he pounded his fists against the silver colored ice.
There was no reply to his calls. Suddenly the ice began to crack and Vyse halted his beating against it no, please no thought Vyse. The cracks seeped across the entire surface of the ice. All Vyse, Aika and Fina could do was wait and se in horror the inevitable that was soon to happen.
Why thought Vyse as he watched his love fall between the hands of fate is 'this' how it ends Siobhan please don't let it end this way. Vyse looked into her terrified eyes and felt his own fill with tears as he prayed for her to be spared.
To be continued
******* Hope you like d the chap ^-^ sorry it took so long for me to update. I do not own SOA or any of its Characters. Siobhan is my creation and therefore belongs solely to me.
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