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Hope you enjoy the 4th installment of Entangled!
Chapter 4
The thorned vines which covered the floor suddenly flooded back revealing the rust red dirt which lay on the floor. There were three figures in this dim cave with the red dirt.
Two were circling each other one wary and stiff, the other calm and relaxed. Suddenly the wary one launched himself forward fist held out. On that fist was a glove which omitted lasers of light. The calm figure just stood there and watched. While in midair two thorny vines reached out and grabbed the leaping man. The now subdued figure was Helia.
A eerie laugh filled the room echoing. It came from the standing figure that now cackled with sheer delight at the pain of Helia who hung there withstanding the brute strength of the vines that now whipped at him.
The last figure lay on the floor motionless. The figure on the floor was Flora. Her vision swam, head ached, and she couldn't move a muscle. Her forest green eyes were fixed on the two figures which were now exchanging blows…and Helia was losing.
Helia's laser glove was meant for restraining an enemy not fighting one and this monster was too large to restrain. Helia was covered with bright red scratches from the flailing tendrils, these scratches oozed the bright red, life giving liquid, his face pale and sickly, and his midnight blue eyes turning dull and glazed. He looked as if ready to collapse.
Flora's voice ached to break out and scream out for Helia to run and leave her. Yet no air would burst from her mouth no matter how hard she tried. She was helpless. Suddenly the loud voice that belonged to Thorn pierced the air.
"Why don't you just leave instead of trying to destroy me using those pathetic strings of yours. It might make this game more interesting." sneered the powerful plant.
"I am not such a fool to leave the one I love for my own life.*" cried out Helia passionately, his eyes flamed with fires of love and compassion.
"Well then you both shall die here together!" boomed the ruthless plant.
Flora's breath caught in her throat at the words Helia had spoken as hot tears trickled down her face leaving wet trails behind in their wake. With no thoughts of her own health and wellness she transformed using the last reserves of energy she never knew she had.
Using the sudden burst of adrenaline had pushed her up, she flew up and her powers came out in the form of a huge Venus flytrap which promptly swallowed the tangle of vines and thorns. Within a few minutes the large "plant" had disappeared down the gullet of the gigantic Venus flytrap.
With a flick of the fairy's shaking fingers the Venus flytrap shrunk to back to it's normal size and once again ate small flies instead of giant monsters.
With the shrinking of the flytrap Flora sunk to her knees, face pale and bloodless, eyes dulling and glazing, her breaths becoming more labored, and her body loosing warmth and body heat and turning colder by the minute.
Her head swam as she saw Helia's horrorstricken face as she fell to the blackness that claimed her. The last thing she saw was his midnight blue eyes locked with her forest green eyes. Her last coherent thought was Goodbye my first and only love.
Helia was petrified at the sight of his loved that was now dieing within reach and there was nothing he could do about it. His feet carried his body towards the motionless girl that was now lying face down in the dirt. Her caramel locks spread out muddying in the dirt.
His slim, trembling fingers rolled the lifeless girl to lay on her back. Helia's pale fingers worked to wipe away the dirt that now lightly coated her face.
His long hair normally in a ponytail was now loose and hanging over Flora's inert body. The hot tears that he had been holding back cascaded from his midnight blue eyes down his face betraying the sadness and longing he now felt.
The tears he cried fell glittering in the dim light that came from the hole in the ceiling, to land on her face and left tracks in the rust red dirt that he was unable to wipe off. His fingers lightly brushed her neck and felt something there other then the makeshift bandages that he had so carefully tied there.
Helia pushed the cloth to the side as he swept his fingers over her neck once more and there it was again! Helia moved his clammy fingers to feel her cold skin once again and found something pulsing there. It was her heartbeat.
He felt the first glimmer of hope spark inside him as soon as he felt that faint but pulsating beat. A wide grin overtook Helia's face. Flora was alive! Soon that smile fades how would they survive. They were lost underground and both in need of immediate medical attention.
A strong determination settled over Helia and the fire lit his eyes once more. No matter what would happen Flora was getting out of here alive…it may cost him his life but she was getting out of here.
A jolt of adrenaline shot through his veins as Helia hoisted Flora onto his back his teeth clenching together pain coming from the scratches which covered his back. His feet staggered forward carrying him towards the circle of light their enemy had left and his fist raised.
Salty sweat poured down his face stinging the scratches that still poured blood. Both dripped into his midnight blue eyes forcing them to close against the liquids. Blindly, step by step his bruised and battered legs stepped forward into the dim light.
His dirty, beat face looked up into the weak sunlight and saw hope for at least one of them. The sunlight shone on his face as he raised his fist towards the hole and allowed the laser glove that had served him well during his years at Red Fountain release a burst of lasers and let them attach to the sides of the hole.
Helia along with the limp Flora were now being lifted into the air towards freedom towards air and sunshine. Hope once again blossomed in Helia. Maybe both of them could get out. All of that was suddenly gone with the sound of crumbling dirt.
As they fell for the second time Helia did what he did earlier. He wrapped his body around Flora's before the crushing impact of the floor. One last look at the girl he loved before all went black.
This was what their friends found when they finally found the widened hole. Helia laying beneath Flora both of their eyes closed, both at peace because they were together.
*I got that from an Inuyasha film but I don't own that either.
Don't start crying yet. There's going to be one more chapter but I'm not sure how it's going to turn out.
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