Chapter 7: Yuuri's POV
A pigeon with a letter arrived this morning saying Wolfram would be coming back tomorrow. I have missed him a lot this week, for whatever the reaso,n I have been thinking about him a lot.
As I put my pajamas on, I do a recount of all the things that have been going through my mind this past few days without him. Specially about my feeling for Wolf.
I'm still not sure about a lot of things, but I think it's time to talk this out with him, maybe if we start slowly... who knows?
I jump into bed, a bed way too large for one person if I may add, and let myself be carried away to sleep.
~ O ~
Someone is humming a melody that I know from somewhere, I'm not sure whose voice this is, but I can smell Wolfram's scent, like flowers and the sun. The melody makes me feel strange, at peace but restless at the same time.
Suddenly I hear something, like glass breaking, and the song becomes silence, silence that hurts the soul and makes my heart shrink.
Even though I can't hear it, I know someone in calling for me. I run, and run, and run. I don't know if I'm advancing at all but I can't stop running in this unknown direction. I have to get there, I have to do something!
And then I see it, far away is Wolfram, his clothes are ragged and he is lying on the floor lifeless. I keep running but I can't reach him.
Above me, a golden light appears, and I can feel a strong pain in my chest. From the light comes out a scream, full of pain and despair. A scream that cries for help in agony.
"Yuuri!" It's Wolfram's voice.
"Save him..." a whisper in my ears, the Maou's soul.
~ O ~
I wake up covered in sweat. And even though I just woke up I'm crying non-stop. This wasn't just a simple nightmare. Something is wrong, Wolfram is in danger!
I dress in about half a second and run to the stables to get Ao. She seems to be as upset as I am and is already awake when I get there. It's about three in the morning so nobody is there to stop me, except for a couple of guards.
There is no time to get to where Wolfram is by horse, so I have a better idea and head to the shrine at full speed. I know it makes no sense, I know the letter said everything was fine now and that he'd be coming back that same morning, but I'm sure about this, something is terribly wrong.
I get to the shrine and pass by a group of maiden without even speaking to them, I go straight to meet Ulrike, they say something to me about not disturbing her, but I have no time for courtesies right now. Why are they all up anyway?
I open the doors and see Murata, Shinou and Ulrike standing next to the boxes, their eyes are on me in one second. I'm trying to recover my breath, they don't seem all that surprised to see me.
"So you saw it too, Shibuya" Murata says and looks at me with concern in his eyes.
"It's true then? What's happening to him!?" I yell, I don't mean to, but I'm really not in my right mind right now.
"Calm down Yuuri, we now as much as you do" Shinou comes out of the shadow. Oh God he's so serious, nothing good can come out of this.
"Lord Wolfram is in great danger, his soul has been crying for hours now, but we were only able to feel it a while ago" Ulrike says and grabs my hand to calm me down. I just noticed I'm crying, I haven't stopped since I woke up, I have no idea why. I cup my face to wipe the tears away, but they keep coming out.
"Is his soul that's crying Shibuya, that's why you can't stop" Murata explains like he was just reading my thoughts.
"I have to get there Murata, I have to help him. I'm starting to lose it here, is as though I can feel Wolfram's pain going through me, he's being tortured or something, I can't just stand here anymore!"
"What do you want to do?" he asks with that expression that means he already knows the answer.
"There is a small lake just five minutes away of where he is, I remember it because Gwendal said Wolfram could use it to put out the fire in the village"
I needn't say any more, the four of us nodded in agreement and headed to the fountain in the middle of the shrine.
"I can't go without you, I still can't direct myself so well" I say to Murata with pleading eyes.
"Are you sure you don't want to wait, wake up Lord Weller for example, we will need his force if we found ourselves face to face with the enemy" he says ever so calmly, but I can see he is almost as worried as I am.
"My power is more than enough" I state with confidence I had no idea I have.
"Heika, just transporting the two of you there will drain a lot of your marioku! You must think of your health!" Ulrike pleads from behind me, but I'm already holding Murata's hand and I'm ready to jump.
"I can do this" I say and look at Murata. He chuckles and looks at me with that face he makes sometimes, the one that gives me strength when I'm running out of it.
"I know" he says.
We jump together and we are swallowed by a whirlpool of water.
Next thing I know we are at the lake. There's a full moon and the sky is clear, so me can see enough to move around.
The tears still haven't stopped falling.
