Chapter 6

"Dun dun dun dun dun dun dun." Serena rocked back and forth in her chair humming to herself the locket song, a song she hadn't heard in so long. A song that made tears drop down to the knitting. It soaked the material.

Soon she dropped the material in such frustration she was about to scream. "I know he was here. I felt him." She sat looking up at the stars.

"Tell me please what happened last night." She begged the gods with innocent tears in her eyes. Why do those in the control of fate have such dislike for her.

She looked back at the floor asking the ground below her feet and like the stars above they had no answers for her. Just dirt.

Then an odd idea popped into her head, well more like a need. She wanted to take a walk. She thought it would clear her mind or get her the answers that she needed. So she got up and held onto the arms of the chair to lift her up. Hoping that she wouldn't just topple over.

Her body seemed so old and crippled now. As if her broken heart had effected her body in some weird kind of revenge. But in some sad way Serena knew it was true. That something was acting their revenge on her. The revenge of an angry god maybe.

She thought of all this as she walked to the door with the cats behind her. The little pats of their feet quiet so they did not echo off the walls as she walked down the corridor that took her to the garden outside.

She tip toed her way until she had finally reached the cold dew covered grass. She took off her satin slippers and seeing that no one was around she put her dirty feet onto the beautiful green grass.

Her feet felt almost heavenly as she grasped the pieces of the grass between her toes. She began to walk across it as if they were clouds she was afraid she would fall through. Lightly so no one would hear her and come running to see who it was. But it looked like no one was even awake at the castle so soon took no caution in her steps.

She walked around the crumbling gray stones of the castle walls. Until, at the next corner, she saw a light shine around it. She kept walking and as if the wind had picked it up from a far away place she had heard her locket play.

Well she looked down and saw that it was not open, but that did not stop the song from tugging at her ears. It must of been one of the servants who was the poor soul to work so late?

She kept walking to find her answer until finally she spotted him.

Her feet stopped moving as she saw the servant boy. THE servant boy. The one that knew her name and the one that she couldn't take her eyes off of. Even now his blonde hair glowed in the simple light that came from the lantern he held in his hand.

"Dun dun dun dun dun dun dun." It was coming from him. He was scraping something onto the wall and humming the tune. She walked closer carried by her curious feet.

She stood right behind him when she first spoke. "Um, excuse me..." She startled him and he turned and dropped the lamp. Setting a small flame to the grass. She ran and stomped on it as if she was a lunatic as he just watched in awkward aww. The fire was already out when she realized she had stepped on it with her bare feet.

"Ouch!" She hollered out in pain as she hopped around like a complete maniac. Her foot burned and she tried to hold her foot in one hand but that would just make her topple over, but once she did get a hold of it and look at the wound she lost her balance and she did exactly that.

"Ahhh!" She screamed until she felt two arms wrap around her instead of feeling the hard ground hit her back. She felt safe and warm, but when she looked up to see him staring at her she started to blush uncontrollably.

She felt even more of the burn on her cheeks as he lifted her up so he could sit her on a chair. She took a deep breathe to compose herself as she was safely on the chair. She looked down at her foot and the skin on it was raw where it burned.

"We better get that bandaged." He proclaimed stating the obvious and pulled out a wrap of clothe from his pocket. When the pain slightly subsided she continued her thoughts of the locket.

"Um, where did you hear that song from?" He studied her wound a little more intently and started to wrap it.

"You know, the one you were humming?" She pushed. He finally decided to look up at her as if ready to answer her question. He wouldn't be able to ignore it for long.

"I used to live on the earth. I knew a man..." Her breathe caught as he stopped to look at her reaction. His eyes wide and confused.

"Something wrong?" She shook her head and he continued with wrapping the wound. "Well he told me of this beautiful girl he knew back at the moon, and he told me of her beauty. We became friends and he showed me the locket he wanted to give to her." She smiled sadly to herself.

She couldn't believe it. She now knew a man who knew of Endymion, and some how she became happy at the thought that he spoke of her to his other friends it made her feel special. Almost as if he wasn't completely gone.

"It played that song, and since I heard of his death I vowed to find that girl so that I would know such a beauty exists." He let her foot slowly drop onto the ground. He looked up to her and smiled. "Good night miss." He turned and walked away, but she stopped him.

"Did you ever find her?" She asked and he turned to her with a smile on his face. He nodded to her and walked back to her. His blonde hair now only slightly visible by the lantern's light.

"I found the locket anyway, but it seemed..." He stopped, a sad smile reflecting hers covered his face. "It seemed the beauty has died." He stood staring at her for moments and her eyes held the dew on the ground. She knew it was true, but how could a complete stranger possibly see that she had died inside?

"Do you need help to your room?" It took her a little while to nod to his question. When he lifted her up and placed her arm around his shoulders she noticed he only touched the clothed part of her skin. Avoiding her skin, and as she realized he had done this the whole time she became angry.

"I guess the servants told you of my curse." He didn't act surprised. Just nodded and kept walking with her into the castle and up the steps.

"I would appreciate if you told them to be out of the business." He laughed at that. As she hobbled along tired.

"Doesn't it seem funny to you that you complain that they are in your business, but you are the one that read their minds." He laughed and her eyes objected.

"I haven't read any of their minds on purpose it is their own clumsy fault not mine." She squealed right before a long heavy yawn. He yawned too and they both realized they were very tired.

They were in silence after that. Until he felt her body go limp and her snores echoed through the corridor. He smiled at her and lifted her up into his arms, and carried her up the last few steps.

She stirred as he touched her skin and she began to mutter in her sleep a name he hadn't been called for so long. "Endymion." She called out and he smiled.

"I'm here Serena." He whispered into her ear and she smiled in her dreamy she did so well. He took a moment to examine her and she had changed so much since he had been so close to her. He didn't even recognize her when they first bumped into each other.

Her skin was even paler, it looked un healthy. Her hair dragged on the floor as he walked and he had to walk funny just to avoid it. The brown of it causing no light like it used to.

He sighed knowing she had changed, but what could he do about it now. He wiped her bangs out of her face as she laid in her bed, but he could not bring himself to leave her. He traced her face with his fingers and placed his hand on her chest and traced the locket that lay there.

He popped it open and as expected the tune played across the moon, out the balcony, and into the night. He listened to it for moments before he held her hand and kissed her on the forehead.

"I love you Serena, and I'll never leave you, okay?" She nodded silently in her sleep and he walked out of her room. He stayed by the door way and listened to her startled out of her dream. "Endymion?" She called into the night and he left into the corridor back to the garden.

"Dun dun dun dun dun dun dun.' He whispered slowly to himself as he went back to his work as a servant. His eyes wet, and his heart broken.