Chapter 8

I love you and I'm sorry

"Vyse" yelled Siobhan from her impenetrable tomb, but her lips didn't move, neither did her body when she tried to wriggle away. She desperately wanted to cry, but her eyes would not fill. All she could do was stare into the eyes of the man she loved.

Her vision was blocked when a large crack spread across the surface of the ice. Siobhan was terrified; she wanted so desperately to break free. But she couldn't she was held firmly in its icy grasp.

More cracks began to seep into the others and Siobhan knew what was going to happen, all she could see off Vyse body was his feet. She just wished she could mouth a sentence to him before she left him. That was "I love you and I'm sorry."

Then it happened Siobhan felt no pain but as the pieces fell to the floor of the deck, she felt a single of her tears hit the floor as she felt herself disappear into the darkness.

"NO!" yelled Vyse as he saw the ice break and fall to the floor right in front of his eyes. He fell to his knees and picked up one of the pieces of ice and watched it melt in his hands. The tears streamed down his face "Siobhan."

He looked across the melting ice and saw something glitter in the light.

"Vyse..." spoke Aika softly, looking upon the weeping form of her childhood friend "are you ok?"

Vyse said nothing but lent forward and put his hand into the half-melted ice, and retrieved what was glistening in the ice. "It's... its" Vyse clenched his teeth and through his head in the air, "SIOBHAN" he yelled loudly.

Aika and Fina backed off from him in shock, both of them unused and scared of the way Vyse was acting.

Aika gathered up the courage and slowly began to walk towards Vyse. Her legs were shaking more and more with every step she took. She knelt down next to him and put her hand on his shoulder, "Vyse!" she spoke "What is it?"

Vyse opened his clenched fist and inside it was a small silver moon crystal, "Oh Vyse I'm so sorry" she whispered.

"Your not?" he whispered "you never liked her anyway."

"Vyse... I did like her, except I felt she was taking you away from me and Fina."

"Well she wasn't! you and Fina will always be my best friends. Siobhan was something else to me," he whispered yet again, trying to hold back the tears.

"What was Siobhan to you then Vyse?" she replied unsure of his response.

Vyse got to his feet, tears still streaming down his face, he looked towards Aika with his red eyes and said "She was the girl I've fallen in love with."

"In love with!?" yelled Aika at the top of her voice.

"Aika" spoke Fina trying to keep the conversation under control. "We had best leave Vyse alone for a bit, he just lost a... dear friend of his." Aika decided it was best not to make an argument of this and instead nodded at Fina and the two began to walk either side of Vyse toward the doorway.

Aika was in shock over what Vyse had just told them, she had always hoped that Vyse would fall in love with her, even though Fina had got him first she didn't plan on loosing him.

Then it hit her, had Vyse been in love with Fina at all, she needed to ask. She turned around to face him "I thought you were still in love with Fina."

"Heh... Fina was just a crush," spoke Vyse in a harsh tone not lifting his eyes from the floor of the deck.

Fina stopped in dead in her tracks; the words taking there time to register in her mind. The tears began to fall from her emerald eyes, and she ran to the doorway as quickly as she could, there where so many questions on her mind. Vyse never actually loved me? He said he did! Why did he lie to me? Why did he kiss me if he didn't love me?

"That was cruel Vyse" spoke Aika

"You asked" whispered Vyse.

"Hmph" was the only response he got as Aika stormed off the deck to go find Fina.

Vyse was left alone on the deck, the warm breeze providing no company, for the young pirate.

Vyse opened the door to the captain's quarters and sat down on the bed. It felt so quite and lonely in there now. Memories flooded into his mind. I'm fed up of crying he though I won't cry anymore, I want to be strong again, for Siobhan. At that moment he wanted to cry more than ever, just the mention of her name seemed to break his heart. He unsheathed his cutlasses from around his waist and propped them up next to the bedside table. He looked up hoping to see Siobhan's silver moonstone necklace. It wasn't there, Vyse started to panic where had it gone. He began to hunt the room frantically not leaving any corner unsearched. He didn't remember seeing on her that morning, but... then it hit him. He ran straight for the door and headed out on to the deck.

"Miss Aika, Miss Fina" called Khaz from the bridge.

"Yes Khaz" replied Aika clutching Fina as she cried onto her shoulder.

"Is Captain Vyse there with you at all?" he asked.

"No! That... No he isn't" she replied trying to keep her anger for her friend under control.

"Ok that's alright but do you have any idea where he is? Because we can't find him anywhere" asked the young helmsman.

"WHAT?" yelled both Aika and Fina in unison.

"It seems our captain is missing" he replied, "The ship has almost totally been searched so if we don't find him one of you two will have to take charge. Over and out."

"Vyse is missing!" spoke Fina her voice breaking "What if he jumped of the deck and fell into deep sky Aika.

"Don't be silly Fina; Vyse wouldn't do something like that!" But somehow Aika couldn't help but think he had.

Well hear is the 8th chapter at long last. I'm sorry its short but there isn't much more I can put in this chapter without having to drag the next chapter in and I'd rather leave that where it is. Anyway I'll have the next chapter up as soon as I can.

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