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The three walked together on the gravel road
The three walked together on the gravel road. The sky was a dark and cloudy, like it was before. Claire could feel a sinister air among the road she was walking on. Was this how it was going to be in her journey? Her hands holding onto Adrian's .She clasped hard, scared of the outcome. Aries, the adversary monster… She could have been killed, like some of the villagers. Where did it come from? She was curious, but she knew that her curiousity in these times of danger could lead her to danger. However, she soldiered on looking forward holding the hands of her guardian, who will always protect her. He was her loyal, lovable guardian who was always there for her and the only one who loved Claire.
Adrian looked at the girl he cared for all these years. She saw her facing forward to the path ahead. A sudden gloom overcame him and a feeling of despair soon started to pulsate around him. He tried shrugging it off and then picked Claire up and carried her for the duration of the walk. "No one is going to make my little girl walk a long way." he said lovingly. Lisa smirked Claire grinned. Adrian, "Where did those monsters come from?" Claire asked. Adrian felt a surge of anger within him, he didn't know why but he seemed aggravated at the question. "Don't ask Claire…" he said with an underlying tone of contempt. "But I need to…" "You don't need to know anything!" he raised his voice, cutting her off. Lisa then took notice of this and stepped closer towards him, gesturing that she could carry Claire for the rest of the trip. "Stay away from her! You… You are the one that wants her to involve herself with danger." Adrian quickly turning away still carrying Claire with his two arms. "We aren't going to go… I don't want Claire to face these types of dangers."
"But…" the girl explained. "If I'm the chosen one to do this, then I'm the only one who can save the world…"
"Claire's right Adrian, you can't just run off from the things that you need to do. It will eventually catch up to you. You've got to face your destiny." Lisa clarified. "It's going to catch up and make those around you suffer if you don't."
"Yeah…" he scoffed. "I suppose you felt the same way when your sister Diane took the amulet and was cursed by the Mystic wasn't it? You still can't get over the fact that she died from the curse… Just because fate chose her to take the Lunar Amulet and save the world by sacrifice." Lisa clenched her fists and then suddenly put her hand in a large pocket that was on her doctor's coat, gripping something that was inside. "It's not like that Adrian. How dare you raise the death of my younger sister in something like this!"
"But it is the same thing Lisa. Because you are indifferent to Claire, because she's someone you don't even know. You can just easily let her be the "chosen one" couldn't you? You're pretty heartless for a doctor you know that? Pretty damn heartless."
Lisa laid her head down facing the floor. "You don't understand, you don't understand how hard it was to lose someone special to you… You were always the one who could just joke around anything, because nothing bad ever happened to you. At least you weren't the one that had to feel this misery. Misery that fate inflicted on me and my sister!"
"Yet at all this time, you just wanted to inflict it on me… Is that it Lisa? Your loss has to be mine too? Claire happens to be special to me too!"
"Maybe fate just had in store for you as it had for me." Lisa then picked up the object that was inside her pocket. "Oh what, so you are going to shoot me with your alchemy gun Lisa? Just kill me because you can't believe that anyone else held something special to their heart?"
"No!" Claire screamed out. Her amulet, then activating to the astral wand, "Don't kill him!" Lisa shook her head. "Stay out of this Claire! You don't need to get hurled into this." Adrian smiled. "You just want her for yourself so she can save the world again, just with someone else suffering from her loss. Just like you." Adrian put Claire down onto the ground, placing her behind him. "Stay back from this, I'm not going to let her hurt you." He then walked towards Lisa. "Shoot me, go ahead." He said with confidence. "But don't you dare think about getting Claire just to use her as a selfish cure to get you better from your past misery. Things don't go away like that."
Lisa held her gun with her hand readied on the trigger. "I'm sorry," she said, using her opposite hand to wipe her eyes. "I'm sorry that things had to turn out like this… But that's just the natural order of things. You have to do, what you have to do."
The doctor pulled the trigger and a cluster of needles came out of the gun. Adrian closed his eyes. "So be it…" While Claire couldn't look, covering her eyes with her hands. "This can't be happening… It just can't!"