Epilogue
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hi, all you people. here it is. the final chapter. usually, i'd be soo happy and hyper and wishing you all well, but the bad day has shown its ugly face again. i swear, someone up there hates me...
here it is. first, i wake up FIVE minutes before i have to leave for school. second, i somehow get a cult. people are worshipping me and my pictures, and calling me master, and it's scary. someone bit me. another person ate my oragami gun. i forgot to pack my lunch. i almost died of dehydration cause i was being nice and gave my drink to a friend, who downed the whole thing. i got hit in the face with a pingpong ball, a tennis ball, a fountain pen and a basket ball, and if it weren't for my glasses, i would be eyeball-less. i broke mum's floppy drive, so that means no more stories or pictures. i had to upload this chapter THIRTEEN times before ffnet would accept it. then, it took another TWELVE turns until it would let me edit it - in the HTML mode, which means all these wierd codes keep staring at me.
alright, i'm shutting up now. the song at the end isn't mine, it was written by BREAEDEN SWORDWIND. all credit goes to him, not me. however, mr/mrs/miss i like to delete silver thorns' stories, he wrote it ESPECIALLY for this, so you can't delete it, got it? i have permisson, and the emails to prove it. delete this and i WILL disembowel you. and i'm not kidding. read now, and review, cause it's the LAST CHAPTER. reviews will cheer me up.
oh, i've just discovered what slash is. (bangs head repeatedly against wall) MENTALLY ( ow) SCARRED (ow) FOR (ow) THE REST OF (ow ow ow) MY LIFE (attempts to knock self out).
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Albel stared out of his window, replaying the words Hikari had spoken, just before she had left.
He sat quietly on the roof of the Nox mansion, unmoving, even as the icy wind whipped out his braids, blowing silken strands into his eyes. Gone. Just like everyone. Gone. He shouldn't be alive. He was living on borrowed time. Time stolen from his family. His friends. Artemis…
Hikari sat down beside him. "I thought I'd find you here."
He said nothing.
"Albel…I just wanted to say goodbye. I'm leaving. Going to go live in Kirlsa or something. Set up the little store I always wanted."
He nodded. "Have fun."
"I will." They stayed there in silence for a while. Finally, she began to climb down. "Albel. Look after her. And stop being an idiot. You'll never know what you've got, until she's gone. Don't let that happen to her."
It was an age-old saying. 'You don't know what you've got till it's gone.' And, if he was right, everyone he was ever close to would die. Staying away from her would be the best.
Didn't make it any easier.
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Nel slipped into his room, quiet as the shadows. "Albel?"
He was sitting on the bed, staring at the little portrait of his family, the guitar resting on his lap. Looking up at her, he couldn't help a shadow of tenderness creep into his gaze. Despite her wounds, she would always insist on healing others before herself. At the sight of the scars on her cheek, he looked away guiltily.
"Don't worry. It wasn't your fault. Under those circumstances, I would have done the same."
He shrugged. She may be right, but it didn't get rid of the guilt.
"Are…are you okay?"
"Did you know, rats are one of the only animals that kill for pleasure? For the thrill of it? I don't see why people hate them. They're almost…human."
"Albel?"
Sighing, he looked up at her again. The emptiness there, the self hatred, it was so powerful she stepped back slightly.
That's right. Leave me to my darkness. Don't blame you. It's either that or face the curse.
"Why are you here, Zelpher?"
He noticed her gaze kept slipping to the guitar.
"Please…don't stop…"
"…You'll never know what you've got, until she's gone…"
"I'm glad we were created. Otherwise, I would have never met you…"
"Don't stop…"
Picking up the guitar, he began to play for her. Her look was of surprise at first, but it quickly turned to one of awe as the music took its hold on her. As always, when he played, he felt free of the shackles that bound him to his sorrow, free of anger. Every emotion fell away as he grew wings and soared above it all.
Salt sea rolling on and on
And I made this for you
Upon a tiny skiff I take
Into the neon blue
The sky turning red
But that's all okay
Magenta-coloured ocean tides
Were never in the way
But do you look to a horizon
That's draped in black and white
From the darkness sky and moon
And think that this is right
Hanging off of heaven's cliff
I might as well just fall
Green-eyed angel takes my hand
And listens to me bawl
Like a baby and maggot
And then begins to lift
I begin to struggle in the light
I want my darkness in the rift
Space and time collapse as one
And give a feather to me
The say it's from an angel
One I'd die to see
And then I grin
Barkeep looks at me
He hands me gin
And a liquor sea
No thanks I say
He looks away
Two eyes in the back
Of his head are black
Closing his eyes, he blocked it all out. Nothing else mattered now. Just sinking away into this sweet abyss…
I'm drowning
She helps me
I'm drowning
Blood-red buoy
She won't let me drown
As we float apart
She starts to sink
I float away
I'm just a cripple now
I'm weaker than before
She's gonna go away across
The border evermore
I start to smile now
It's so familiar
The tapeworm in me now
Is oh so similar
To what it used to be
Pyre's not man-made
Just when I thought it all
Might just go and fade
He could feel her jewel-like eyes watching him as he sang, playing his heart for her.
I'm drowning
I can swim
I'm drowning
With my two dagger fins
The water's frozen
The cold wind blows
Two snowflakes less a dozen
I steal her scarf and go
Against the cold wind I went
And ended up back home
Back among my 'friends'
And back to all alone
Mountains are in cold relief
And looking very dead
Only fertile valleys grow
That fruit so ruby red
You are inside of me
I hope that I'm in you
Oh wait that sounded wrong
I didn't mean it to
A shadow of a smile touched his lips as he heard her chuckle softly. Voice as sweet as salt…I'm surprised she's still listening.
I'm drowning
I think of her
I'm drowning
She's gone in a blur
Water's rushing in
I let it take me down
To that horrid place
Where I can be found
God and Apocalypse
Oceans in the sky
Made of points of light
All blinking goodbye
I hope they look at you
I hope that I can hide
The nightingale whispers
Of my shallow pride
I am tucked away alone
Deep beneath my skin
Maybe that angel girl will leave
If I don't let her in
I think that I just forgot
Who the hell I am
The actor forgets his lines
And mews just like a lamb
Faking for her now
As I write this down
I lie so well that I believe
That I won't run aground
And so my ship is set
In the fuchsia flows
Of the sea that takes
Me to the one who knows
The music quietened, and he opened his eyes, looking straight at her.
I hope that she likes me
Before I realise
That I might drown inside of
Those leaf green eyes
Beat against the sea
My currents want back
I see a gull that flies with me
Away from the white and black
The sirens can't tempt me
Charybdis won't swallow me
The only thing to fear
Is inside of me
He stopped playing, staring out of the window, breaking away from her gaze.
I forgot just why I sang
Oh yeah, I guess that I am dumb
Trade two daggers for a fang
That's nerveless and numb
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Nel didn't sleep at all that night. Instead, she lay awake, sitting on the windowsill, watching the moon make her way across the velvet sky. The music had stopped, yet it still played within her mind. Closing her eyes, she saw only crimson orbs. The music kept on playing.
Wait…
Green-eyed angel…leaf green eyes…steal her scarf and go…
She smiled slightly. Maybe there was a chance. Maybe.
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i don't like this ending. however, it will have to do. if you ARE going to review, i'd like you to do something for me. those that read until the end will know what i'm talking about.
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what you like
what you don't like
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what you think of the plot
an overall rating
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so please. it'll help lots. yeah.
like a big orange and hyperactive tiger once said...
ta ta for now.