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The girl looked down at the bodies and then proceeded to hide away the sword. Her eyes closed momentarily and she put her head in her hands. The pain always came after she exhausted this much energy….and it wasn't even a lot. She kneeled down and rested her head as low to the ground as she could get it, trying to ease the pain. Grimace after grimace passed across her beautiful lips as the pain coursed through. After a couple of minutes it ceased and she was alright to stand up. Now the emotional pain came…tears welled in her eyes as she looked to her beloved lying on the ground. Was he dead? Was he okay? What had they done to him?
She took small steps, very slowly, over to him and kneeled down next to him, placing his head in her lap. No sooner had she done this, a soft moan came from his throat. She jumped slightly, expecting the worst and leaned her ear closer to his mouth. He was breathing!
"Dyrian can you hear me...Please say something, do something if you can hear me…" she pleaded with him, her voice now soft and full of hurt. She waited what seemed a lifetime when his lips parted and air passed through them in an attempt to say something to her. She leaned even closer as she looked at his closed eyes as he continued to repeat what he was trying to say.
"….I…love…you….Serenity…" came the almost inaudible words from him. His eyes flashed open for no longer than 10 seconds and he took in her smiling face. The green brilliance of them captured her and she was lost in the security of their memories. His eyes then closed and a small smile tipped the edges of his mouth. That was when his breathing stopped. The fingers which Serenity held in her hand loosed their grip and fell against hers.
"Dyrian! No…no…no…no…Please darkness, don't do this!" Tears began streaming down from her eyes as she picked his head up to her chest and held him close. Hard gasps and sobs escaped her small body as she laid her head on his and encased him with her arms, as if not letting his life leave him.
"Dyrian, please come back…..please come back to me…" she whispered through her tears.
The sun in the distant began its descent to darkness in all its glory of reds, purples, oranges, and pinks. The clouds seemed to pick their way through the beams of light. Finally the black light which the kingdoms knew all too well…sprinkled with its white celestial bodies seized the skies. It was the end to most things…as well as the beginning to many others.