Legend of the Mystic River

Chapter 3: Doom to Demise

Keratsu saw Meratsus bonnet on the floor." Oh, no....Meratsu"........

Mom and Dad saw right away what he meant. Their eyes bulged out.

"She isn't supposed to know!" yelled Mom.

Dad: Little brat eavesdropping!!

"Meratsu!!" Keratsu called after his sister. He grabbed her bonnet and raced out the door after his sister before the evil and cruel stepparents had a chance to reply to the situation they were in.

With the flower still rested in her hand, Meratsu ran toward Sunset Cliff with full speed.

"Meratsu, stop!!!" he yelled.

She finally stopped at the edge of Sunset Cliff. Tears felled out of her eyes as she tried to find her voice to speak. She roughly wipes them away.

Keratsu came up from behind her. "Sis...," he started.

"No!" she yelled at him.

"You lied to me!! Everyone lied to me!! You don't trust me anymore do you??" she cried, her voice muffled with tears making it more difficult to speak than it is now.

Keratsu tried to clam down his sister with words. "No, sis, you don't understand!"

"Oh now I don't understand? "she shouted toward her brother, "I heard everything you said back there behind that door!! You don't have to lie to me anymore!!"

Keratsu didn't know what to do anymore. "Sis, you heard what they said, if I told, they'll throw us out!!"

"Maybe..," said Meratsu, a little calmer, "But you stilled lied to me! When I asked, you always said that our parents are on the other side of the county ever after you knew that they were dead!!!"

"But-,"

"No but," Meratsu yelled behind her," I hate you! I hate you!!

With anger and hatred all clogged up inside of her, Meratsu threw the flower pass the cliff into the water. As it sailed its way into the air, it sparked and shine in the sun. As it landed in the water, it started to sink right away. Keratsu thought it was so strange. He learned that when a flower landed in the water, the air filled the flower through the stem causing it to be floating continually on the surface of the water and then........( you don't care, do you??)

Keratsu stared as the flower sinked toward the bottom. He stared and stared until it was out of sight. Sunset Cliff river is so clear and deep that the flower sinked even deeper.

Meratsu continued to stare out into the horizon. Her eyes still wet from tears.

"Meratsu, I-"he was cut short.

Meratsu turned around immediately.

"What?" she yelled," Do you still want to lie to me even more?? Do you want to torture me even further then I am now??? In the whole family, I thought I could trust my own brother.......but I was wrong! I can't trust anyone anymore!! My own brother even lied to me!!! "

Keratsu was speechless. He felt he had let down his sister. He had promised to take good care of her since their parents were "away ".I've failed my job as a brother, he thought painfully inside his head.

He stared as his Meratsu continued on." And all this time I thought our parents were still out there somewhere thinking about us. Every day and night I hoped a miracle would happen and we would get out of this nightmare. Instead, I took the wrong path and felled even deeper into the darkness!!!"

She took a step toward the cliff. Keratsu moved forward to her.

"Get away from me! I hate you, Keratsu!!!"

Keratsu tried to get closer to his sister and explain. But, she wouldn't allow it. As he came closer, she frantically waved her hands as if trying to shoo something away. And that something was Keratsu.

He quickly takes a step back, afraid he had trumped his sis.

"How could you have lied to m-," she started.

She didn't have the chance to finish her sentence before she went trembling through the air toward her doom beneath. The ground beneath her disappeared away leaving Meratsu trembling down.

"Meratsu!!!!!!!!!!" he yelled after her as he stared wide eyes as if he couldn't believe the horror in front of him that was happening.

He took a big leap toward the cliff hoping in wish to help his sister. But, he never got there in time to rescue his sister.

Meratsu let out a final piercing scream that pierced the evening air.

The next day, everything was out. Rumors were spread throughout the town that day. When Keratsu took a glace at the day's newspaper, the headline was as clear as ever.

HEADLINE

Asakimi girl felled off Sunset Cliff to her own demise...............................................................

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