I... chanced upon the Crimson Ending recently... And was inspired to post it from Mio's POV... No clue if this has been done before. xX
Warnings: Severe angst; hints of twincest if you're into that kinda thing and look uber uber hard for it, Mio POV, UBER SPOILERS.
Disclaimer: I do not own Fatal Frame 2 in any way shape or form. Trust me; you'd be seeing so much more of Mutsuki if I did... X3
Again, UBER SPOILERS. If you want to finish the game and find out about the ending by yourself, DO NOT READ.
Owakare
A fanfiction by Shayde (AKA Hino Akai)
'We were born together. But we have to live, and die, separately. I knew this. I knew.'
"Mayu..."
I had trouble finding my voice as I stepped towards my twin. My beloved Mayu. She scared me so much when she ran off in the village... This time most of all... But it was ok. We could go home. We could escape! Itsuki found the way; we were going to use it!
"We'll be together. We will."
I walked slowly. I didn't want to antagonize the Priests standing around us. After fighting the Kusabi, my good film was nearly spent, and I was tired.
'We can't be together forever.'
I stopped. My dear one was only a few feet away now. I have a feeling my eyes were slightly wide as I looked at her. I barely noticed the clanging of the Priests' staves as they hit them against the ground in unison.
'But... with this... we can become one...'
She laid back against the stone pedestal, eyes never leaving mine. What was she saying? What did she mean? I followed her, leaning over my precious Mayu and trying to reach an understanding.
Her hands found my wrists, and with that guidance my hands found her throat.
'So it's all right...'
No. She couldn't mean... Not the sacrifice... No! We were going to get out! We were going to be together forever!
I know my eyes widened as she said that. Then my beloved one was pulling me down, into arms I'd known for forever. Arms that were always there to hold me close when I needed it. Arms that had always sheltered me even as I protected the one I held nearest to my heart. Arms that I always expected to be open to me for all eternity and longer.
'Kill me.'
These words she whispered into my ear, a sick, sadistic imitation of all the times she'd pull me close and whisper a secret, or encouragement, or endearment.
My heart pounded. No... How could she do this to me? How? She was my sister! My other half! The better part of my soul! Did Itsuki feel this way when his own brother put his hands around his neck and pleaded for the sake of twin girls? Twin girls who separated and destroyed this village?
The pounding of the staves throbbed in my ears. How could she do this? Was Sae possessing her again? Was this how Yae felt when faced with her sister's eagerness?
At the very thought of Sae I could hear her in my head. Telling an oblivious Yae that she had been waiting since birth by way of Spirit Stone. Waiting for her twin to kill her.
The staves stopped and I returned to myself. The fluttering pulse beneath my hands was no more.
Slowly... I pulled my hands back... There... There on my sister's lovely, pale throat... A butterfly left by the palms of my hands...
I stared as it glowed, turning into a butterfly like the ones she followed... The ones that lead my dear one into this village... And lead me in after...
The Priests rejoiced behind me, celebrating a success they had been denied for so long.
I almost didn't notice the Mourners approach... until they moved her. Until they touched my darling sister with hands cold and grimy from death. Until they lifted her, swinging her like she was nothing but a sack to be loaded onto a cart. When they released her, I saw the frail body so similar to mine for a second more... and it was gone.
It... It set in then... Mayu... My Mayu... My heart and soul and life... We'd been together since birth... Since beyond birth...
And I killed her.
I shook my head wildly, lifting my hands and staring at them. I killed Mayu with them. I took the life of the one I loved most. The pain throbbing with the beat of my lonely heart was excruciating. An idea occured to me in that moment, and I rushed to the edge of the Abyss.
I thought... I thought that maybe... if I jumped... we could be together again...
But the butterfly stopped me... flying level with my face... and speaking... Speaking in a voice that was Mayu's... but not...
'Thank you...'
"MAYU!"
I watched with a shattering heart as it flew upwards, away from me.
Moments later I was running through the woods, chasing it. I was sobbing, and I knew I should be stronger, but I couldn't. Not with the shimmering butterfly that was my sister so close but so out of reach.
"I'm sorry! I'm sorry!"
Misono Hill was aflame with butterflies. Somewhere deepin the part of my heart that pitied this village, I was... happy somehow... One of those butterflies was Azami, who helped me free her sister. There was one for every one of the twins who had to feel the pain of being killed by the one closest to them. And they were all free. But... where was my butterfly...? Where was my darling one...? I couldn't tell anymore.
She moved then... Going against the tide of crimson and golden wings... Coming back to me... I reached out...
She touched me... Her wings brushed my fingertips... She was leaving again...
I watched in partial horror, partial sorrow as she fluttered back, leaving me behind as she faded into nothing.
Like I had left her so many years ago.
Without knowing it... I fell to my knees... and cried... criedas she did whenever I left her... alone in the dark...
This was our favorite bench... Once upon a time...
I stare into the light as my throat burns softly with the butterfly... The butterfly I singed onto my own butterfly's throat when I killed her with only my hands...
'Didn't we always promise each other...? Together... forever...'
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