Time of Dying

A Hagi story based off the song "Time of Dying" by Three Days Grace

Lulu: This stupid "story" thing's confusing me! How can this be chapter TWO!!?

Aldedron: *sigh* Time of Dying is basically a SET of books. Book one was finished with the end of the "First Story". Now, we're on book two. In other words, "Second Story"

Lulu: Baka apprentice—

Aldedron: Don't even start that!!!!

Lulu: *frowns, crossing arms and looking away* *mutters under breath* Baka

Aldedron: *overly-cheerful* That's better. Don't go DGM on me, Lulu. Only Amshel's allowed to say that, 'cause it fits him so well. On to the story!!

Hagi entered Saya's room, closing the door behind him silently. To ningen, the room would be pitch black, but he could see all obstacles clear as day. He pulled open the curtains, casting the silver moonlight into the room. The stars twinkled hopefully outside. He saw a shooting star and his eyes shut as he made a wish. Let Saya wake, he silently prayed.

His eyes opened again slowly. The silver moonlight reflected off his gray irises almost poetically. The white looked like the tears he refused to shed and revealed the true sadness he was suffering – an insurmountable grief within his tamashi (watch Soul Eater!!). He turned to look at the coffin covering the floor. His eyes returned to the shadows as his emotion once again disappeared.

Saya… he thought miserably. He was already alienating himself from ningen. He no longer thought of himself as one of them, even though he had been for twenty two years of his life. But how each thought of Saya was what created this rift. Hagi had acted similar to a Chevalier upon meeting her and acted protectively from the start, so the alienation had begun then. And now it was complete. No longer was he capable of understanding ningen opinions about Saya. Those ten years had been the eve of the rift and now it was too great to be leapt across. He was completely… and entirely alone.

He had only realized the alienation in his later years at the Zoo. In the beginning, the first week, the servants were very interested in him, being so young. And they had warned him of Saya. They had warned him that she was a monster. But when he first saw her, she wasn't some frightening monster. She was the most beautiful girl he had ever seen. The servants persistently tried to get him away from her, once they had become closer, to no avail. Gradually, they began to avoid him just as they did her. Then, three years ago, one of them threw a rock at Saya. They did so quiet often, and usually stopped and left once he stepped in. But this time, the servant did not halt. Instead, they threw rocks at him as well, screaming that they were both monsters. That was when he first realized the formation of the rift that had begun seven years beforehand, upon his accepting Saya for her oddities.

When he first noticed the rift, he had not thought much of it. They were merely superstitious peasants who feared the unknown. But when he had spoken with anyone who knew Saya was… different, he noticed that they acted exactly the same way. And these people didn't believe in superstitions. Or God, for that matter. It was then that he was forced to face the fact that he and other people were different in their perceptions of Saya. To him, she was a beautiful, harmless girl. To them, she was a bloody monster. He didn't understand why they didn't see her for who she really was and they didn't understand why he didn't see her for the murderous monster she was. Now, he couldn't even fathom their fear. At one time, he could at least be surprised by her actions. Now, that was impossible. He had given her his blood, for crying out loud. There was no going back. No sewing the rift together again. It was already too wide… to late…

He dropped to his knees and slid the lid off the coffin. Inside, was a cocoon. It had begun forming only an hour after she fell asleep. That was when they knew, she hadn't simply fainted. She had lost all consciousness completely and would not wake again. Over the next couple hours, she had gradually been covered by more and more of this strange material that was soft inside, but hard outside. After only about five hours, she was completely covered and very little heat came from within. Her body temperature had been lowering ever since that night, and now she was as cold as death.

But if he put his ear against the cocoon as he did now, he could hear her faint heartbeat. It beat slow, but strong. It proved she was alive. It was his only solace. If she had died… before she could fulfill her dream… if she had died... by something other than his own hand… he would have broken his promise. As much as he hated the whole promise, he would never betray her or his word to her. Her wish was death by his hand and he would always fulfill her wish. And she wasn't dead. She was alive. Alive. Because as long as she lived, he would be able to go on as well. Without her he was nothing; he had nothing.

He hated ningen. They rejoiced with her sleep while he grieved. Even though her sleep was a damper on their schedule to kill Diva, they were still relieved by it. They seemed very contradictory, to him. How could he and Saya rely on such contradictory ningen to assist in killing Diva? In the end, they'd just turn and try to kill them. He saddened at this thought as he they wouldn't have to.

He sighed depressingly, pulling the lid over the coffin again. It didn't matter, though. Saya had agreed to Red Shield's plans before she fell asleep and he would not disobey her wish. The decision was final – he would assist Joel II.

Aldedron: The Rams are getting slaughtered by themselves!!!

Saya: *annoyed* Is she watching more football?

Serin: Yes. The Seahawks are on

Aldedron: Twelfth man! Oh yeah!! The crowd was so loud, the person who snaps the ball couldn't hear the quarterback and he's waving his hands as if to say "Snap the damn ball already!!" and they got a delay of game!!!! I can't stop laughing!!!

Saya: …

Aldedron: Houshmandzadeh! Oh yeah!! That's the most awesome name ever!!! Oh yeah! Go Butler!! We've almost got our first touchdown of the game! We'll be the first to put something on the board—

Lulu: Touchdown!!!

Aldedron: Somebody just realized they weren't doing their job! The entire time we had the ball, they had STL highlighted like THEY did. Then, we scored the touchdown and they gave THEM the points!! FINALLY, they JUST fixed it!

Saya: *disappointed sigh* So the person writing this fic is a football fan. And a SEAHAWKS fan, too

Serin: I know! The Seahawks SUCK!!

Aldedron: While you are correct, it's still awesome to watch them. The Tigers suck, but they've got the Red Wings to fall back on. We've got a sucky football team, too, but no hockey team to fall back on, so everyone just loves the football team! And the Mariners have sucked a lot lately, too, so… yeah…

Saya: This is just pathetic…

Aldedron: Oh yeah! Tatupu just tackled the quarterback and they've lost yards!! Oh yeah!! Now they'll have to punt!!

Serin: I'll cut it off here before she makes you readers go insane, too…

*everything goes black*