Forbidden
Author's Note: This story is written in Raine's point of view. Heheh...just in case you didn't notice...Sorry all, I didn't feel like the usual "muse" thing...and besides, I'm running out of ideas, anyway. 'Forbidden' is OOC...won't give out any spoilers here (yet)...but rest assured that this is RaineKratos all the way!
Pairings are:
Kratos Raine
Kratos Anna (mildly...just to satisfy purists...)
Zelos Sheena
Lloyd Colette
Yuan Martel
Genis Presea
Well, I hope you enjoy! This is my first story in first-person POV...hahaha, you get to read the first...Oh, and by the way... This piggybacks off Daphne Du Maurier's "Rebecca" if any of you romance/suspense novel readers notice.
-There has always been a tale about the famed Aurion estate. How the current master's late wife still walks amongst the living. Hauntingly beautiful, with brawn and brain to boot, everyone says "no one can replace her". As soon as the second Mrs. Aurion steps into the house, she feels a presence that was lost, but not forgotten, a phantom preserved as perfectly as if she were alive; as she treads in the shadows of her predecessor, she is determined to uncover the lost, chilling tale of Anna Aurion.
My name is Raine Sage.
You may recognize my name; all of us became quite popular after the Journey of Regeneration. And by Journey of Regeneration, I didn't mean the ritual of the Chosen- I meant the quest my friends and I unwittingly embarked on to reunite the two worlds of Sylvarant and Tethe'alla. It has been years since the famed incident, indeed, now our names lay covered in dust in the great libraries; but I still remember it all clear as day.
Many of us have already passed on. Regal, for example, was the first to go. After seeing the destruction of the Ex-Sphere mines and fundings, he was found dead in front of Alicia's grave in the Sky Terrace. The cause is still unknown. He now peacefully lies next to Alicia.
Sheena and Zelos were wed shortly after the World Regeneration in Mizuho. Because she had carried on the duties of the next chief, the two couldn't move to Meltokio, as originally planned, and Zelos moved to hidden village. Sheena gave birth to one child, dubbed "Mithos". Don't ask me why they would name a child so, especially after what had happened to us all, but I heard it was because Zelos felt sorry for the little guy. Luckily, Mithos was not blonde at all; he was a fair child with dark hair and a mischiveous smile. He took after his father in personality, which was a bit of a shock. In no time, he had flirted and driven every lady wild.After many, many years, I heard news that Sheena was murdered by Kuchinawa. Zelos, of course, killed Kuchinawa, and was left to take care of Mithos. He took on the position of the Chief and guided Mizuho for the remaining years of his life, and passed the role to Mithos when he, too, died.
Colette and Lloyd married several years after the Regeneration in Iselia. Colette had twelve children (each named after every month in the year), and lived with Lloyd at Dirk's house. Three of their children, I remember, were as bright as their father, and, with much practice, was finally able to count to one hundred at age nine.Five of their children were clumsy, tripping over logs and such daily, and one child even resembled Kratos. Another child was like Anna, I presumed, and the last two were as calm as Frank and Phaidra. Lloyd became a skilled craftsman, and Colette became a reknowned speaker (though still clumsy as ever) against prejudice. Lloyd died at age 75, because he felt "young again" and had pulled out his old swords and accidently knocked himself into a coma, which he never came out of. Colette tripped over the family dog and broke her back two years later. One year after she smashed her spine, she died. Both are buried next to Anna. As for their twelve children, each had moved into a different city, and persued their own dreams.
Presea, who grew to be a splendid young woman, married my younger brother, Genis, after ten years. She bore him two children, one whom he named "Alicia" after her sister, and another "Virginia" my mother. Alicia was like Genis; she loved to study and had a habit of getting smacked. Virginia was like Presea; quiet and sweet, and loved the outdoors. They lived quietly in Ozette, which had been rebuilt with the Lezareno Company's funds. Presea Sage died from old age at 89. Genis, too, died the day after from grief. This, to me in particular, was a great shock, because half-elves are generally long-lived, and can live several thousand years. I haven't heard from Alicia or Virginia since.
As for me, I never married- nor saw anyone- the day Kratos left for Derris Kharlan. After Genis moved out of Iselia, I lived alone and taught school until one day, fate had it that I, too, would move to Asgard. There, I preformed as an acolyte again. The people were pleased that I had returned to the Wind City, and the little town soon became a bustling community, with all the tourists that came and went. Always, though, I felt strangely empty, my soul desired something...someone, I should say, in my life. Of course, Linar was delighted I had returned to Asgard to preform, and he showed up to nearly all my preformances, but I never really took an interest in him. Harley, it would seem, was also in the crowd at most of my preformances, until he married Aisha. The trio moved to Sybak, and I lost contact with them.
But that someone was yet to come. I knew he would never come back, though. I told myself "He's forgotten about you. He doesn't care, his heart still desires another," but it seems I was wrong. It seems he had come back for me, if that's what you can call our little coicidence. But it didn't matter to me at first. He had come back.
But now, two thousand years later, when I have finally become an old woman (you can tell by the creaking in my knees), I often dream that I could do this all over, from the beginning. There were so many mistakes I wish I could redo, but time is not so forgiving. I think so, when my fingers close around the cast iron gates of the estate, and I close my eyes, hoping, hoping that if I close them long enough, I would be, once again, in Luin, sitting in the little restaurant, right before I saw him. But when I open my eyes, all I can see is a once-beautiful mansion, gray with age, ivy growing slowly up its sides, and a yellowy, patchy looking lawn, that had been green and alive, and wild, overgrown, blood-red roses. I can never go back, now, that is certain.
Amazon Bunny: How was the prologue? Sad? Angsty? Forlorn? Heheheh... Don't worry, it gets really good later... Don't forget to leave comments, you know I loooooooove em!