Chapter 12
Mythalia watched as Aurora steadied her attack waiting to make her move, while Trakin spoke with Celestin. A crackle of thunder was heard that swathed her outstretched arm spiraling down to her fingers. Her eyes darted from the Aurora's eyes to Celestin's own, and back once again. There was an unresolved tension in the air. A bolt of lightening prepared to attack as it shrouded the four flowers that rested themselves on her fingertips. Thunder crackled and lightening appeared in the clear night sky as clouds quickly gathered in high concentration over Aurora. Suddenly, Mythalia could feel that sense of being watched by one of the two young men below. Taking Aurora's hand, she immediately disappeared as Aurora shot her target flowers missing by a few feet as the two young men looked up to find a no traces of a disappearance act but the stirring of leaves. Celestin turned to the trees, a glare in his eyes.
"Are you alright Celestin? Do you have an inclination as to whom did this?" Trakin inquired kneeling down on one knee to observe the flowers that stood straight as he observed what kind of magic would induce this sort of damage so as to generate the immediate sprouting of roots and penetrate through the forest ground so deep a small vein like tunnel was buried at least five feet deep.
"You should probably leave about now. That attack was aimed straight at you, but missed target."
"Who did this?"
"I have a pretty good idea of whom." Celestin glanced up in the trees immediately honing into location of the culprits, and aiming an attack in their direction forcing them out of their position of hiding. The branch had fallen leading to the graceful landing of the goddess and the fairy, who kept her back turned to the two gods before her. "And what was the meaning of all of this?"
"Aurora?" Trakin called to youthful sprite, whose eyes looked as bitter as the blizzards of winter. Immediately, she glanced at Mythalia an immediate change falling over her countenance as Mythalia closed her eyes feeling the disappearance of her best friend, who now encountered her own problems with love. As Trakin prepared to depart after her, Mythalia held onto his arm, releasing her tight grip and replacing it with a gentler one.
"She does not want you to follow her. Her heart is in the process of making some crucial decisions currently, and she needs some time to ponder on all of this. A lot more has been placed on her shoulders than one could imagine. Should you approach her…don't expect a sign of gratitude or anything of the sort. Just let her be…"
"…" He nodded complying with the requests made by Aurora, "I will see you later Celestin, Mythalia. It was nice seeing you both. Remember what I've told you Celestin." His final words became a faint whisper as he transported himself to some part of the heavens.
"Let's go inside." Mythalia received no reply from Celestin, as she walked up the two stairs to the entrance. Suddenly, as if he anticipated its coming, Celestin pushed her out of the way, as the roots of the plants transplanted by her attack caused the roots to warp around Celestin and shock him with an electrifying shock of energy. Mythalia could only look on in astonishment by his actions, and reliving an event that caused her to tremble tremendously. "Celestin!" As she cried, the snow fairies emerged from the roots stimulating the attack under their control. His attempts of escape were futile as the vines were closely bound about him ready to take his life and pull him under. As Serenata Jade emerged from her shell, shocks of lightening had been aimed at her; as she elevated in the air dodging the attacks, she sped forward at the multiplying pixies. Using her vine whip to decapitate the fairies, which appeared to be gone for a second and resurfaced, she took her hands in an attempt to sever the binding that held Celestin, who seemed fairly weakened by the magnitude of the attack, as electrical impulses ran through her system.
"Don't waste your energy…" he said, trying to break loose.
"I'm wasting it for a decent cause! One that makes sense to me…" Mythalia cried, "Hold on! If these are Aurora's roots from the attack they should…" she concentrated her attack on the circular ring where the fairies surrounded her and Celestin, but to no avail the attack failed.
"This isn't her attack. The position of the attack was straight and Aurora was positioned at a slant…" Celestin tried to explain.
"That means…" she whispered watching as a giant lilac began to rise from the ground. "I have no choice…I must sacrifice my life in more ways that one. Vines can only be cut using their magic…" As Mythalia and her angel danced around the attacks made by the enemy, she manipulated an attack for heart to cut the ropes that bound a weakened Celestin, "This plant is immune to all my attacks." She said closing her eyes as she concentrated on a deathly spell, "Veil of flames that cause death to the plants of life; by the order of the heavens and depths of hell I ask your blessings; Light of the inferno burning all green in sight and creates fear within hearts! Incarceration Fire!" As Mythalia struggled to sustain the power of the spell, her angel retreated from the fires that began to engulf her as she drew on a different external power to light the weed ablaze before further germination. Falling on her knees, her face was dark with cinders of incineration of her angel and the enemy's subject as well.
"Celestin? You alright?" she inquired taking his arm and placing it around her shoulders, as she winced resultant from the damage dealt to Serenata Jade with the fire explosion that occurs with the blink of an eye. Mythalia smiled watching as the moon unnoticeably changed position in the night sky, as she closed the front door and entered his room, the first in the right hallway. Placing him to rest in his weakened form, she stepped up to the water basin before the mirror and washed the dirt off of her face, swaying from side to side. Placing her lips to his forehead, she spoke the words of a restoration spell and fell to slumber next to his face. Daybreak quickly dawned upon the heavens and waves of light shone through the barrier of the window that remained closed, until a pair of hands released the lock that enclosed the room from the rest of the world outside. Next to her face, her eyes flashed open softly to find empty space next to her, as she used her arm as support to elevate herself. Her hair adhered to the side of her face while the rest remained unruly from her sleep in addition to the fight the night before. Sauntering over to the open, small room next door, she leaned over the water and peered at her reflection half-awake. Taking her hands, she scooped up the water and splashed her face with the refreshing liquid. Out of the corner of the room where a chair stood, a voice spoke standing up from his relaxed position, as she exited the small room entering the larger one.
"What did you do to yourself?" he smiled softly, light-heartedness in his voice, "It seems as if a volcano erupted…"
"I think it did…" she looked up from behind the towel that concealed her face.
"It certainly does." He returned her deep and enchanting gaze, which averted their watch from his own focusing on the beauty outside in nature.
Peorth was right. The look on his face is completely different, and so is his attitude. That's a relief. A little rest does go a long way. Shaking her head from side of side delicate yet forcefully, she evened out the kinks in her hair as she spoke clear but soft, "I'd like to go to the waterfalls today if you do not mind, to think. The sound and feel of the rhythmic patterns the falls make allows for deep meditation. In fact, the weather is so beautiful; I think I'll go right now. Would you like to join in?"
"The water or meditation?" he raised an eyebrow as she closed her eyes nodding in agreement at both, "I can meditate I suppose, but I'll watch the other to ensure your safety." He followed her out of the room, as Mythalia stepped outside breathing in the crisp morning air. As the both disappeared to the waterfalls reappearing where the stream ended and the fall began. Celestin and Mythalia remained suspended in the air until she allowed a smile to spread across her face. Taking out the clip that held her long auburn hair, which displayed a radiant sheen in the light of the sun, she smiled for his approval of a favor and handed the lone object into the hands of Celestin, as she purposefully dropped herself into the water; her outfit de-laced of which the lace flew streaming upwards and formed a courtly dress with flare sleeves and a golden rope that was tied about her waist. With a resounding splash, she faded into the mist and foam of the body of water below.
"Mythalia…" Celestin called to the goddess submerged in water not rising out of the mists of the waterfall. Seconds that seemed to be minutes upon hours passed as she remained under water not surfacing. No more than a minute passed, a wave of hair had been surfacing on the clearer parts when a head popped out taking in a deep breath of air. Within the blink of an eye, Celestin appeared at the edge of the waters sitting beneath the tree, as he began meditation at the same time did Mythalia, who placed her hands in prayer form standing where the waterfall mist gathered and the water raining down from the sky was before her. In her heart and singing of a tune, she spread her arms out before her as the fish jumped out of the water touching her hand, which provided them with blessing as she passed her hands beneath the cool touch of the water. They rose up to the heavens carrying the song and imparting their life on every tree, leaf and branch, each bird that flew singing in harmony with the song, and every creature that stirred about on the planet (Author's Note: except spiders…yuck…just kidding. Them as well.). As her song finished, she brought her hands back to their prayer position, as she opened her eyes feeling a renewal of the soul, but some underlying pain beneath. Looking across at Celestin who looked pensive and in deep thought beyond imagination, she smirked thinking of what trick she could play on him. Focusing her energy on a leaf that began falling from the tree, she took her finger and manipulated it to catch Celestin's attention out of his "deep" meditation. Raising his eyes from their closed position, he observed his surroundings to see no one there, no Mythalia in the waters. Standing up immediately, he elevated himself in the sky looking down in the waters to see nothing in there.
"Mythalia…I know you're in there come on…" he said truly acting as if he were her mentor before. A stir emerged from the bottom of the ocean, as he sighed watching as a fish came up and dived back down. Peering down closer to the waters, he suddenly found his face in it, as a push from behind caught him off guard. A resounding laugh was heard from Mythalia's mouth full of mirth and happiness like a childhood innocence that had been lost.
Her hair had dried out with the wind and flowed well beyond her knees and above her feet, "Oh dear Celestin. You should really work on those reflex actions of yours…ah!" She said as he pulled her down into the water as well.
"And you were saying?" he laughed as he disappeared to reappear beneath the tree her had been meditating beneath before. Looking at him with slant eyes, he responded to her disapproval of his actions, "Just returning the favor."
"Favor not accepted…" she turned away her head with closed eyes that widened in response to an unknown stimuli that was calling her. Looking into the distance she could see something in the background. Immediately she disappeared without warning just leaves that left their mark on the never still waters.
Author's Note: Sorry for the delay people….*dodges bananas and tomatoes* Heh heh…Thanks to Liongirl09 ^_^ I have decided to post the rest of the story, which has been done since the summer. The only problem was my ending…I needed to tweak it, and still have yet to tweak it. ^_^ Waiting for someone to do that for me, but I guess I'll have to tweak it myself…-_- Anyway, check out my other story…Shifting Tides of Fate…^_^ That one is all finished but not all submitted, and also Cherry Blossoms and White Lilacs an RK fanfiction…I have yet to finish that one, but there are quite a few chapters posted up already…so enjoy! *runs off to process more of the story*
