(Eraklyon)
I'm not free... My blast-it Mother just let it slip with-out knowing... I'll not be safe much longer, that is, if I'm even safe now...
It all came back to him in one rushing instant after he figured that out... All of it came back… All that he had seen and heard behind the impenetrable filmy layer of the unyielding spell.
Musa's face as she died from the draught of gaseous harmoine, the way it had looked as though she had felt actual sympathy for him… And he then remembered what she had said to him; If she knew you were under this spell… She would do anything and everything to save you!
That reminded him about Bloom in her bird-form, sitting silently and cocking her head at him as he pet her.
"Dear god!" Sky yelled. "I must get to Bloom and tell her the truth!" Then he let his mind wander for a second.
What if she won't listen to me? He let out a low gasp. What if she doesn't believe me if she will hear me? My God! What have I done to her? If I hadn't done something to her... Which I still can't remember what... She would of listened to me and done everything in her power to help me... Why should I even bother?
His conscience already knew the answer... Because you love her...
"I know I love her!" Sky screamed at the empty space surrounding him. "But does she love me?"
Yes, but she doesn't know it anymore. A part, thus far, unknown to him said. And, thou naive mortal, her heart belongs to another.
"What?" He muttered.
You heard me... Even if she does love you, as long as her young man lives, she will never become yours. His mind snickered at him…. What is that? He asked himself.
"No..." Sky whispered, letting the question pass for a moment.
She loves another my darling... The thing went on, and to the thing's amusement, it continued to freak Sky out even further.
It took him a moment, but Sky finally figured it out…. He knew who this voice was; he'd heard it many times before…. Even though it was speaking in his head, the cackle that shaded the words was unforgettable; especially if you've heard it ever since you were a babe.
"Mother!"
The cacklish tone of voice seemed to smile, but just drove straight on in her torment. You couldn't have possibly thought that I didn't know the spell had worn off again!
The King started to furiously rip at his head... Hoping to high heaven that each strand of hair he removed would take a piece of the voice with it...
Tsk, tsk, darling, you can't do any harm to me... And, even if you could get to your precious Bloom, which I may well let you for the fun of it. Sky's mother, Scariialla, snickered in his mind. She wouldn't help you... She loves that perfect Prince Charming of Vitalion... Plus, she hates you to the very core, she knows what you did to Musa, and she knows what you are doing to Techna. She wouldn't believe anything you said.
"How can you do this to me, your child!" Sky inquired.
Because, sugar, the troops refuse to listen to a lady, even if I am their queen. She seemed to be grimacing at that moment, Foolish mortals!
"Why do you keep calling us mortals?" Sky said, vexed.
Because my dear, that's what you shall all be, compared to me. For you see, once I destroy all of the realms I shall retain into my possession the ability to become immortal! No one will ever call me a weak little queen again!
"Oh crap!" Sky yelled.
His head then started to throb as his Mother let out one of her famous high pitched cackles and left him.
The headache took its sweet time ebbing away, but finally let off as the last eminence of his Mother's perverted thoughts left his psyche.
The King's eyes slowly drifted over his surroundings once she was gone and finally brought himself to say the thing that was one of the only truths left to him… "If she becomes immortal... This universe is doomed..."
And so he sighed; then slowly got up off of the cold packed dirt and stretched his aching legs in exhaustion.
What am I to do? He wanted to know of himself.
Bloom... His conscience said, finally chiming in; or rather, reminding him.
"What good will she do me if she loathes my very existence?" He said back to it, thinking that this was something decent to talk to.
Bloom. It said to him, yet again.
"She won't believe me!" He said relentlessly.
She is the key, Bloom is the only one, she is the only hope that this universe has left, if you do not find her, and tell her the truth... Who will?
"She hates me!" Said Sky stubbornly.
Love...
"She doesn't love me!" He spat back.
She loves the Prince.
"Damn it! I know that already, do you have to rub it in!" He continued to curse for quite some time after this.
Once he finally relented, his persistent mind continued… She loves the Prince... But she loved you first... And the Prince will not always be there... Whispered that all knowing part of him.
The King gasped and whispered; "What's that supposed to mean?"
Life is a journey... All answers are given in time... The answer to this one lies only around the corner... You only; just need to look for that corner… It remained quiet for a moment. The Prince has served his purpose... His time is limited...
"What?" Fear started to well up inside of him, his body starting to shake with it… Trying to shed it.
Bloom... Was the only thing it said, not attempting to soothe him in anyway whatsoever; and Sky was then alone, except for the questions buzzing around his mind.
He had gotten the answers to those few questions by himself, his conscience knew so many things, but it very rarely found call; to actually give him the answers on his own, without making do something first… To deserve them… Without feeling pain first, he would go on suffering… That was his curse…
For the first time in his life, Sky let the tears fall down his cheeks freely, and he whispered her name….. The name of the woman he loved so much… The name of the woman who would soon become this world's savior… The person who loved him… But would never admit it again… Unless she found reason… "Bloom..." Sky said to himself and got up to find a portal before his Mother overtook him again.
And in all hope… He whispered her name once more, as if it were a prayer… And ironically… He prayed when he said it. "Bloom..."
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Hey! Thanks Nisa! Anyway, I did end up finally getting my penname changed... It is now Winged Rose, Instead of Crystal Hauntress, or Rose Petal. So...
-Winged Rose