Disclaimer: The characters from Wolf's Rain, again, belong to BONES. White Rose is based on my past RP's and the Scarletsong Hwit, who I called her Huea, belongs to Interactive Imagination.
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Previously...
Blue helped me with removing the collar that drove me nearly insane, and both of us ran. I didn't have the intention to run away anymore, and I decided to make it up for what I did in the past. I was one of Jaguara's tracker wolves. Trying to get rid of this grief, I made a promise to Blue that I'll return and she'd wait for me. While I was on my way, I saw the girl Toboe and I helped out during the day. I'm not sure if I'm seeing things, but this kid's got wings, pure white wings. That would explain that scent. Anyway, I shook my head and dashed to the keep. Is the rest of the pack safe? I still gotta keep moving...
Chapter 4, Descisive Pursuits
Kiba's POV
From birth…I felt despair…yet hope to achieve in searching for Paradise. For a while, when I encountered the Lunar Flower Maiden named Cheza, my instincts told me to protect her. She said that she can open Paradise somewhere. We were not alone, but four others of my species supported us, searching for the same thing. But certain humans, the Nobles, captured Cheza, but we found out that she was being held in a keep different from Darcia's. We arrived, but later when we split up and entered in the keep, Tsume and I got separated, and ambushed by armored soldiers. My stamina gave way, and even I was abducted…
I can still hear her voice, and she was able to hear mine. The only way to leave these binds is to hear the song that made us wolves become enraged, and it may help me escape. So I was about to ask her to sing when I smelled the familiar recent scent that the others talked about, but stronger than last time. I felt hands undoing the binds on me, and a voice telling the owner of those hands…
"Leave the wolf be, for whom was chosen by the flower."
That was one of Jaguara's followers, who came back when the cloaked child arrived. The child, however, responded to the followers…
"I'm only here to help many, including the remaining wolves. I hate to do this to you against your will, but this…is for your own good."
Immediately, the girl jumped high, and to my surprise, the masked followers got knocked out in a split second by a shinning staff. Could she have done this against the soldiers to enter the keep? She came back to me and asked while finishing the release.
"Are you injured?"
"No… I'm alright. The blood extractions are no threat to me. But thank you for your concern, and freeing me. I must ask you something before I save Cheza."
"Go ahead and ask."
"My fellow wolves picked up your 'divine' scent."
"Oh?"
"Yes. Since you're not human, why are you here?"
"I arrived here to ensure peace for Paradise. There are more to answer, but you must hurry. Time will run out soon. If we meet again, I'll tell you everything."
"Understood."
I saw the girl already left and in came a few of the fabled winged race, coming to pick up the masked and cloaked humans nearby and vanished immediately in a flash of white light. Now free again, I rushed to the area where Cheza is being held. As I arrived, I was blinded by an unknown surrounding. The so called angels or the child were not responsible for this, but someone else. But who, I wonder.
Hubb's POV
In the beginning, I was an average, mild-mannered man who was once married a researcher, Cher. But our lives changed overtime when the Book of the Moon's prophecy has started to occur. We were trying to figure out its meanings, and some were right recently. Cheza was synthesized, wolves survived the noble attacks, and the big talk about Paradise, too.
I was currently confined in a cell in who knows where. A while ago, an old woman and another man were locked here. But as soon as a kid got thrown in, a few soldiers shot the old woman. When I saw her, she was really a wolf, and so were the other prisoners.
"Okay, all clear."
I thought I was hearing things when a voice spoke above in the ceiling or an air vent.
"That voice…"
"Geronimo!!"
"Hm? Where's this scent coming from?"
Fortunately, the other wolves heard it, also. Just now, a girl dropped into the cell with a bird flying behind.
"So…um…we meet again."
"Am I glad to see you! Can you help us bail?"
"I'll try…"
The girl's bird appeared to examine the bars. When the creature perched on the child's shoulder, she understood what the bird is trying to say through its swaying head. Through surprise…
"However, it's going to malfunction soon."
"What?! You can talk on your own?!" I asked.
"Hey, there's no point in staying typical to humans longer now that this world's dying. Besides, most of your kind have been picked up by angels into a huge Ark, a refuge ship. Long story, though."
"The red light's blinking", the girl spoke. "Any ideas, Huea?"
"I think there's a chance that the wolves here can charge through the doors now" the bird answered.
Then it hit me. I gave a pointer to the wolves to charge at the same time when the light blinks again. The other wolves escaped the cell on their own from the malfunction. It looked like the cell is dead now. The girl opened the door and I walked out. As soon as I left, the third wolf arrived.
"Looks like I came too late."
Tsume, whom the younger-looking wolf named Toboe called the gray one, felt furious about the collared wolf's betrayal. But his collar was gone. Toboe cleared things up and the child showed support when she helped the wolves out earlier before the capture.
"You can make it up for what you did by helping your kin like when I saved your hides, including the one with the white fur."
"What?! Kiba's somewhere near?" Toboe asked.
"Yes. I released him minutes ago, and he left to save the lunar flower maiden."
"Where are they now?" Tsume asked as well.
"By the tracings of green aura, which only of my kind can see, I'll guide you to them."
"Please, lead the way!" Hige, the once collared wolf, blurted out.
"Will do", the girl responded.
The other wolves escaped the cell with the third who came to get them. I was even more surprised when the girl left with the wolves…angels arrived, asking me to go with them. But something told me that I shouldn't yet, so I suggested to them not to pick me up yet, but they can when anything bad happens.
As they disappeared in an illuminating flash, I left through the halls of Jaguara's keep. I had to keep moving and help as much as I can.
Tsume's POV
Being an exile was sheer torment back then, even now. I felt a bit better when I had human allies and a child who looked up to me. Unfortunately, when Kiba arrived, things have changed, and worse, my gang shunned me when I couldn't help Gehl. In a sense, it's an emotional scar, like the scar on my chest I've received from the alpha male, a reminder of my sin…
With no other choice, I joined Kiba, though I don't trust him that much. Toboe sort of encouraged me to go with them. As time passed slightly, I picked up the lovely scent. It was the scent…of a mysterious young girl. All I can see were her sky blue eyes and bits of brown hair. Her speed was remarkable and inhuman as she ran with us. I was curious about her motives, but now was not the right time. Currently, Hige, the runt, the cloaked child, and I were dashing down the hall to join Kiba.
Time passed a bit as we proceeded to the huge room. For a few seconds, we saw strong light, but it diminished when we stopped, revealing three humans and Cheza, who seemed weak, meaning that she's blooming? Cheza whispered something to Cher, but she said:
"No….it wasn't it, Cheza."
From the other side of my sight, Darcia, who Kiba once fought, got stabbed, but it seemed the vital spot was missed. For several seconds, swords clashed between him and Jaguara. The four of us could've sworn that Darcia flinched suddenly. Jaguara told him that the sword she used to attack was soaked and dried with poison. Hige rushed to stop Jaguara's finishing blow, only to get wounded himself.
"AAAHHH!!!!"
It wasn't Hige screaming in agony, but the girl charged with the same, swift speed, deflecting the second sword attack away with a swing of the staff. Was it a battle cry?
"I won't allow you to harm them any longer!" the girl shouted as she shifted to a different stance and casted some kind of spell while twirling the staff with one arm.
But Jaguara retaliated the staff blow, slashed the child's torso and damaged the cloak, tossing it aside before casting her own faster, thus, paralyzing the kid in a circle.
"Ugh! Can't move a muscle! Wait…the scroll…"
Kiba arrived in time, but got stunned in place by Jaguara's spell. However, Toboe ran to the ditched cloak, while the small bird, Huea, took out the scroll quickly, tossing it to the girl, whose wings appeared from the spell. She opened the scroll and read it out loud:
"Crux australis supernus clueo…
Recido vester splendeo pulvis abecio
Immundus ilustris papillary
Ipse facies vicem…
Fundo vester ilustris alius exonero!"
The scroll floated above the circle, letting out a star upward. Seconds later, five beams came down to the two circles, vanishing them without harming the angel girl and Kiba. While she used the scroll, Kiba was able to withstand Jaguara's spell it until the circle got dispelled, and Hige attacked her once more. With that diversion, the angel casted one of her own spells on Jaguara. She twirled her staff again and shouted:
"Sonic Gale!"
She swung her staff and an airy blade took form as it glided at full speed. It hit Jaguara, but it only damaged the armor and pushed her backward instead of harming her own flesh. The girl and Hige suddenly flinched from their wounds. Toboe and I rushed to drag them away to safety. The child's very light since she has wings. As we kept pulling…
"Tsume. The girl's wings! They're…"
"What happened to them?" I asked as I kept dragging Hige.
"They're turning light purple!"
I checked the wings, and smelled a hideous scent mingling with the blessed other. Both of us realized that the angel has been poisoned along with Hige. And the child is panting heavily from the intense beating of her absorbed heart. For a second, I saw Darcia already incapacitated Jaguara and asked Kiba something. I couldn't listen to it as I felt worried about the girl lying there in pain. Hige seemed to endure the poison a bit.
"White Rose!" Huea shouted as she flew to her friend. "You're hurt!"
"Huea…It's okay… I'm alright…"
"Do you still remember the detoxifying spell?"
"Of…course… I do… Hold still…Hige…" White Rose answered weakly as she focused and placing her hand on Hige's wound.
"Venom running within us…
Join the purification
And envelope from it…
Be…gone…"
Her hand and the rest of her body glowed sea green as the spell took effect on both her and Hige.
"Dilute!"
The color on White Rose's wings faded to pure white, and Hige felt healed a bit after the poison has been removed. Both of them stood up. Kiba approached to us after Darcia left.
"Everyone okay?"
"Yeah, we are." Toboe answered.
"Okay. Let's get Cheza, and get out of here. The keep will collapse soon."
After White Rose grabbed her tattered cloak, we all ran out, and Cher left, too. White Rose faced us, but she was really facing Kiba. I wondered why, but something told me that she wanted to say something. Something crucial.
"Okay, Kiba. I kept my word on reason; to ensure the peace of Paradise, I must retrieve an enchanted yet cursed organ. If I don't, Paradise won't be Paradise for long. I also came here to save the remaining humankind."
When we exited, the whole city was empty, and a ship floated above us. And worse for Hige, Blue is gone. There's no way she could have been picked up, too. Hige noticed this, too, knowing him.
"From my eyes earlier…" Huea said. "That she might've left with that old man with the firearm. He probably refused the angels' offer due to his vengeance."
"Oh…that's a relief. That…explains the ship and the soldiers already abandoned. I hope I'd find her again" Hige spoke.
"I'm sure you will" White Rose agreed.
"So, what are you going to do…White Rose?" Toboe asked.
"Um…" the child thought immediately.
"I know you want to stick around, but you have to board the ark. The other angels are waiting for you. Details soon." Huea reminded.
"I'm sorry, guys, but you're on your own. Good luck in finding Paradise. I'll come back when it's open." White Rose said as she took off her cloak and took flight.
"Wait!" Toboe shouted as he took off his bangles. "If you're really gonna come back… Take these!"
He threw the bangles and the girl caught them.
"Three bangles?"
"I want you to hold on to them and return them to me when we meet again." He said.
"Okay. I'll keep my word…Toboe." she agreed.
"YOUR HIGHNESS!! FINISH TALKING AND HURRY UP!! THE WORLD IS GOING THROUGH THE PHOENIX EFFECT!!!" an angel shouted to her.
I was shocked when I heard the first two words shouted to the kid. Ever since I smelled her scent, hearing her soft, childish voice, and seeing her…beautiful face and form. Not to mention her courage and abilities. Why am I getting these feelings about her when she's near me? And Toboe developed the same feelings for her, but is too shy to tell her. Hold it…I'M not shy, but just had a plain helix.
"A princess?" I muttered in wonder as we all watched her and her feathered friend flying away.
"Let's meet again, next time, in Paradise!" she shouted the last time before vanishing into the ship.
Those seven words were carved into my heart as I hid my tears from the other wolves and Cheza. But Toboe couldn't. We left into the glaciers and Toboe still felt sad. I couldn't help, but asked without telling him about my feelings.
"What's wrong, runt?"
"The minute she left us, I missed her already. I mean, White Rose helped us and I never got a chance to thank her for all the trouble she went through. If we do meet again in Paradise, I will thank her with my deepest gratitude."
"Are you having a… Ow!" Hige accidentally hit something, but continued running. "Never mind."
White Rose's POV
The ark left the planet for a while and we waited. A few angels waited outside, checking for a few humans to give some kind of signal from the planet. But what I saw was that the planet, gradually, is being coated in ice. Huea watched, too, being perched on my shoulder. We heard various conversations among human refugees, all among nobility or poverty, or juvenile and matured. And some included a common question.
"Where are you taking us? And what are we waiting for?"
An angel knight responded.
"First, we're waiting for this world here to be reborn and this child will descend to retrieve something important immediately. Second, if she succeeds, or if anything happens to her while getting this item, we'll leave to the planet of the Oceroti, the plant-like, dryad look-alikes. You'll stay there for a while until you'll be sent to different planets where other elemental races live. Don't worry. Each of those planets have enough oxygen for all of you to breathe."
"Are these races going to treat us differently?" A woman asked.
"No." an angel acolyte answered. "We of the nine elemental races, the Guardians, show respect to other sentient beings equally. Each of us do not use or treat various people like animals or property."
"That explains the message this girl spoke back in the city." a man said.
All I did was blush. I noticed that the civilians, except for those dwelled in the slums, who were once mindless regained their senses now after the cold broke Jaguara's spell. I walked to one knight, asking her a question about the Trial's process. But she spoke:
"So far, so good, but the true goal lies in the organ."
"Oh, that's right. So…how much time do we have left until the planet's rebirth?"
The lady knight checked her watch and answered "Four hours, and…"
"What's wrong? Minutes included?" I asked.
"No. You need to rest. Though you're cured of poison, you need to heal through napping and you have absorbed a medium wound. You'll be needing your stamina and well being for the last part of the Trial. You never know. But first, before you snooze, you must be famished after fighting. Once you're done, come back to me and I'll take you to your cabin for your rest."
I've heard my stomach growl as I saw the refugees eating the food my fellow angels provided. And the working angels ate, as well. I had a seasoned, diced gorgon chop with fresh field onions, overripe tomato slices each in ten pasties, also a few veggie and cheese pasties (Probably for vegetarian refugees). I drank plenty of cooling nectar and water afterwards. Huea ate some fruit, nuts and water, too.
While we were eating, both of us saw a blonde lady, who looked awfully like the woman whom I helped back in the city from the guards. Was she picked up, too? I noticed a wound on her back while a few angels are tending it with revitalizing spells. I have yet to learn those high-class spells. Having that huge appetite like the others, I ate some more and drank one more glass of water. As I guided through a hallway by the same lady knight, Huea talked to me.
"Hey, White Rose?"
"Yes?"
"About the last part of the Trial, I must tell you that…"
"Don't be afraid to tell me. I'm listening."
"You'll…be on your own. All I did earlier was to guide you when being in Lost City. Your mother knows you quite well that you can't handle or understand most advanced technology, even human technology which I helped you with. That's why she enclosed the ring in that letter."
"I guess I should be grateful that she sent you to help me."
"I'm flattered to hear it. But, before you take a nap, you gotta undream me. This is as far as I go in the Trial. And also, make sure to jot down what you did in your journal. 'Cause if you don't…the Trial's end could get out of hand, and you might end up six feet under. You would have to try again from the start."
"Are you saying that this journal was crafted by a chrono mage?"
"Maybe. I think it's one of those journals that turns back time whenever its owner gets…er…what was that word…?"
"Incapacitated?"
"Yeah, that's it. When the owner is done for."
The conversation ended when I entered a simple cabin with a small bed and sat. I undreamt Huea.
"Good luck in advance, White Rose." She said as she sent back to the dream realm.
I took out the journal and wrote at least two paragraphs.
X year, X month, X day, harshest blizzard below.
Two days ago, it was the day that I took part in the Trial that all mature cherubim must take at a peak before the opened doors to adulthood. Musashi and the youkai Zashiki-Warashi supported me as we headed to the almost barren world. But the journey went bad as a lightning storm separated all three of us. Gomez, my close Furok companion and guardian, protected and encouraged me to resume the journey. We found the abandoned cathedral, which seals a gate to the dying world. We braved through the brambles, and took the investigation alone as I entered. After looking at the hideous surroundings, I found the book that contained a clue for a key to the gate. It seemed more like a puzzle to me. After I lit all the candles by the altar, I entered the secret passage. At its end, I found a slab in the wall and a scary-looking mirror. I read the slab's inscriptions out loud and the ground shook and crumbled. I fell in while being paralyzed and saw an unknown figure looming above me.
I arrived to the dying world, and found a portal, thanks to the ghosts of a slain folk. I wound up in a glacier, then dashed out of there. I felt weak from the cold, and got picked up by some humans in a truck of some sorts. Later, I came to the city. I dreamt a feathery ally before going in. Guards were everywhere, but not in the slums, where I fell into by accident. Fortunately, a couple of wolves helped me twice. Back in the city, I bought a useful spell scroll from a lone book shop in an alley. Later, I helped a human woman and a wolf-dog from a few soldiers. I encountered an almost old man who asked me a few questions and gave me an empty satchel. I left and Huea helped me with the controls for the shield. Soon as the ark came by the crystal's signal. I breached the keep and helped another wolf and the others in two different places alternately. We fought Jaguara, the noble who was behind all this killing in the past. I did my best in combat including the scroll I've used to dispel Jaguara's gravitational paralysis. Unfortunately, the poison from her sword almost got me and a once collared wolf named Hige. Quickly, I removed the poison from both of us with one of my spells. After the lunar flower maiden reunited with the wolves, I flew away to the waiting ark, and waited for last part of the Trial…
Ten minutes passed as I wrote the entry. I closed the journal, napped away and killed the remaining time. A couple of hours later, an acolyte woke me, telling me it was time to wrap it up. On my way to the airlock, I saw a man who looked awfully familiar. Like that woman from earlier, his wounds and vital spots are tended by a few healers. A few steps remained while I was escorted to the airlock. I was afraid of the upcoming moment. It's not the vacuum, for our wings produce a barrier of oxygen when we travel to space. The cursed organ is down there on this planet below me.
The door of the airlock closed behind me. I shivered down to my toes and wings as the door to outside the ark opened and my wings began their work of the spherical oxygen production in response. I looked down once more, gulped one time, and spread my wings before swooping down like a condor. It feels like that I'm a comet cashing down along the way, but it was the starry bracelet that provided such descending speed. The barrier adjusted to the atmosphere as I entered the reborn world.
When I breached the greenery, the wings stopped giving off oxygen when they neared plant life. I stopped in midair, checking for something abnormal in the scenery. When an area is nothing out of the ordinary, I flew to another area. On the second time, some wasn't right as I picked up a sight of a red and black aura originating from a spot near a lunar flower, which I guess was the last place where Cheza stopped and sowed. I looked down and saw a black and gold eyeball, including a bundle of nerves. It freaked me out at first, but nothing murky released out of the eyeball…
"I must make haste now." I told myself before picking up the eyeball and storing it safely in a special satchel. "Now that it's done, I have to fly back up to the ark."
I ascended again, and checked Mom's letter. Strange as it may seem, it didn't disintegrate.
Weird. I got the organ, but did I overlook something? Wait…I'm sensing a disturbance, as if something knows I'm here, and…the aura is surrounding me?
My thoughts were confirmed as the smoke-like aura surrounded me, and weakened my stamina. The last I felt was my wings gave way to instant fatigue and began falling…
Darcia's POV
From my past… I had joy being with my beloved Harmony. She was indeed precious in my time among the living, but everything changed. Harmony died, yet I can still see her with the wolf's eye in my left socket of my skull. I received an unknown feeling in my heart. It was not the same as before, but it has been said that when a human lost someone important to them, they lost their soul as well.
My encounter with the wolf "chosen by the flower" compelled me to seek Paradise. I've sought their destination to save Cheza, the lunar flower maiden, who is held in Lost City. There, I entered Jaguara's keep with a normal human woman since she, too, is finding Cheza. When I've found Jaguara, a fellow noble behind the wolf hunt and lost lives, I was deluded by an illusory realm. But the eye saw through it, forcing me to attack her. As the short duel passed on, I was infected with venom of her sword. I was "assisted" by the white wolf's pack and their new ally, a cloaked young girl with the gift of magic, though it focuses more on healing than slashing with wind. Jaguara repelled a fraction of the pack, but the child cancelled her spell that uses massive gravity by a simple, enchanted scroll, which immediately burns into ashes after its effect. Though one of the wolves and the seer child got the venom absorbed, it was already purged by a healing spell from her. After a little talk with whom they call Kiba, I left the crumbling keep.
As I left the city, untreated, I heard the sounds of a gigantic hovering vehicle that began ascending into the skies. Slowly, like the poison, I grew obsessed and calmly aggressive. I've killed the "survivors" while I became a wolf from a spherical stone. I thought I would enter Paradise, but it gotten worse by consumed poisonous blood of Cheza from ensnaring my teeth into her sowing form. I crept, sluggishly, to the underground water, but it's wrath annihilated me in a shock-like force.
I was supposed to dead now, but why am I hearing sounds of small flapping, flowing of water, the wind blowing, and large gliding coming near me? I finally opened my "eyes" and "saw" the sea green robe, the fluttering opened, olive green cloak and brown hair flowing in the flight followed by more wind from her pure, enlarged white wings.
I realized that I'm seeing her from the palm of her hand, sending me into a small darkness. Hmmm… If I am in a small room not larger than the angel's hand, then I finally figured out this awkward feeling; I am possessing the wolf's eye. How did it survive the shock? Unfortunately, I felt some power building up within me as I conjured a hypnosis spell, a remaining ability that stayed even after becoming a wolf and died. The aural smoke evoked from the eye and gradually took away the young girl's consciousness.
If I were to emerge into Paradise, this would be the opportunity for me to strike!
The shadows engulfed my sight and the child, taking her into my mind. Finally, I stood up, seeing my own hands, yet I can see my claws also. My sword was with me in my human form. Bearing my fangs, I crept to the unconscious winged form. She seemed peaceful in that state, but it doesn't entrance me due to my determination. I withdrew my blade in human form, while readying my claws in wolf form. But when I attempted to attack, the angel's eyes opened and vanished upward. I looked up and saw her wings still out and stayed open without flapping. She spoke…
"Where am I? And what did you do to me?"
"I haven't done anything…yet. I merely knocked you out. First of all, how did you survive earlier?"
"I didn't stay here too long; I was temporarily picked up by my fellow angels from the ark. We waited for this world to be reborn, like the phoenix from the ashes. When the ice thawed, I came back to get your cursed eye, to prevent most of the negativity from Paradise. That is until I was caught."
"I won't let you off easily. I shall emerge into Paradise and no one like you will stop me!"
The older cherub became bold, declaring to me, and reaching for her staff, which resembled a Shakujo…
"No, Darcia. It is I who will not let a snake such as yourself into Paradise!"
I readied my sword and dashed forward. The angel seemed ready to parry or avoid. I raised my sword, but I transformed into my wolf form an a split second, slashing her with my claws. She attacked with an aerial dive and a whack of her crosier, but I reverted, and parried the blow with my sword.
"Nngh!" She grunted as she tried to shove me.
In response, I lightly shoved her back, knocking her off her feet. But she performed a second of a cartwheel and she regained balance. Next, she tried to cast a spell that releases a gusty blade. Seeing the spell before, I jumped, and struck again from behind.
The child cast a spell a few times to heal some of her wounds she received from me, while she evaded some of my mauling blows. But thanks to this shadowy surrounding, I jumped higher than I normally can, and slashed her effortlessly.
I repeatedly shifted between human form and wolf form to keep my opponent off-balance. She was on the "floating" ground, appearing helpless. Back to my human form, I approached to her, jerking my blade slightly. I thought I was going to finish her off, but the energy of the wolf eye was bright red, floating to the angel. It attached itself, and starting to burst into flames. I heard her shriek in fear, but her skin, hair and clothes did not appear to burn… Is the curse truly a curse…? The mysterious flames, they seem, altering her light green robes into a set of bright red, brown and black articles and a big, plumed hat appeared on her head. Along with these, the brass Shakujo changed into a green, spiny whip.
The angel child struggled her way into standing up, glaring down with confusion. What she appeared now, she resembled a witch.
"Huh?" she spoke surprisingly, "What happened to me? Is this your doing?"
I merely answered with a small turn of my head. In a split second, I attacked her.
"Swirling Fire!"
But in response, she brandished her whip around her lithe form, creating a burning, spiral barrier that made my left forearm catch fire. I jumped backward with a wince of pain. I tried to douse the claw fire, but it spread quickly to my rib cage, head and tail. I couldn't scream, yet this fire is far worse than the poison when I was alive. I found out that I'm weaker when I tried to lunge forward at the angel, she lashed at me with the tiny blades from the dragon tail-like whip. I got thrown back, and I felt much weaker.
"The wolf eye…now has a will of its own? My left vision…is becoming red…then ablaze."
My soul was released from an unknown energy and my body began to give way to become the ethereal shadow of my existence. The child looked into my soul, seeing my former self and Harmony. Before I put myself to eternal rest, I heard her speaking to me…
"You didn't lose your soul. But once your soul leaves Paradise, there is a chance that you will go into purgatory, and Harmony will forgive you once you join her in the end."
"If this eye is merely a relic…take good care of it… And…before I…finally rest this soul…" I asked her… "Can you play the song…that I have once heard in Curios…? It should…relax me…"
The girl took out a pan flute, and played the nostalgic, yet bittersweet melody. Though the wolf's eye returned to the child as a wisp of flame, I listened to the song…and looked back into my past with my greatest joy. Slowly, my lids became heavy as I have, literally, been taken away by this sight.
"I'm, sorry…Harmony…"
(To be continued)
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Another chapter done. Is my writing for the fight scenes okay, or just, plain so-so? Please review.
