143 Survive
Hazy... Pain... Tired...
This was how Gray felt at this moment...
Gray's heart and mind were in a chaotic state, that he started losing himself from the agony he was in... Was it a second?... Was it a day?.. Month, year?
He doesn't have any notion of time inside this pain...
His mind was able to feel the pain clearly more than anything, not allowing to think of anything else but the pain...
Pain... Pain... pain...
The deep pain... That his soul can't handle...
Till finally, a new emotion bred inside him... A tired feeling...
'I don't wanna feel pain anymore... Let me rest...' Feeling all this pain, Gray's numb spirit started falling apart...
He really wanted to give up at this moment...
He never felt such pain before...
The last time the crown awakened, he felt a huge pain... But not like this one... He never imagined that pain could reach this level...
If the fifth awakening pain reached this level... What about after this one? How many times will the crown awaken?
Gray couldn't think clearly, nor had the ability to think... The pain was like waves. Drumming his mind to stay unclear...
'Can't you handle a little pain like this?' Suddenly, a calm and cold voice of a woman appeared in Gray's mind, saying these words calmly...
'But it's so painful...' Gray didn't know nor had the ability to think about who was talking to him... Just respond weakly...
'...' There wasn't a sound after this only an endless pain... As if what Gray heard before was only an illusion...
'Survive...' But then the voice sounded again from the deepest part of Gray's soul... But her last word was simple... Just telling Gray to survive...
'Survive...' Hearing the voice again, Gray's mind still filled with pain... But the word *survive* became a seed and kept repeating inside his mind...
'Survive... I should Survive' Not knowing how many times Gray repeated this word unconsciously, till another three words appeared...
'Yes, you should...'...
Death is the scariest thing for the living... Within all this pain, Gray who wanted to give up his life finally thought clearly... The moment he thought of this a very strong desire to survive bred inside his heart...
Death? He doesn't wish to die like this!
Maybe it was fear or might be a desire to live, or it might be something else... Suddenly Gray felt his mind was cleared forcefully...
'Survive... or I'm gonna die! Can't die here!' The little bit of sanity inside his mind started to run wild for a second.
Not wasting his thinking about who he was talking to, even though Gray's mind was so clear at this moment, and only focused on what he should do...
That is to survive!
With all that he got, Gray focused his mind, on his hand, and while bearing all the pain, he moved his right hand toward his chest.
But moving his hand in such a pain? Gray felt as if his body was under a huge mountain of pain preventing him from even feel his body...
Only then Gray felt something warm touched his body and a gentle touch supported his hand to move...
Gray felt the sharp pain from his moving hand as if his bones were being crushed to dust...
But he didn't care about this little pain since he was in the ocean of pain at this moment...
Just moved his hand toward his chest...
And without even feeling what he touched, with the last ray of control in his mind... Gray gave an order...
Order to the crown that was sucking his life like a bottomless pit at this moment!
*merge*
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Perona and Nagini found that the necklace around Gray's neck that was already covered with Gray's blood shined brilliantly and a golden-white flame appeared and directly washed Gray's body completely!
This flame was so pure, and weirdly it didn't give any feeling of distraction but gave a warm and gentle feeling...
Nagini looked at this flame and widened her eyes... This flame... Felt so familiar! But strange at the same time...
Familiar as if it was a part of her own flames... But weird that it was not hers...
It was also at this moment, Gray inside the flame, moved his hand slowly...
With a slow movement, Gray's hand fell on the necklace on his chest...
*BOOM*
The moment he touched the necklace... a weirder phenomenon appeared...
The flame suddenly became stronger which directly blasted everything around... And even carried Gray that was in the center of the flames off the ground...
The flame color became more and more golden while the breath of life from it started spreading around everywhere...
A very strong breath of life! As if the flame in front of them was a life fountain that had been opened suddenly!
But what was more shocking...
Was Gray who was already inside the flame center...
Gray should be on the verge of dying at the moment... But suddenly, Gray's body that was being destroyed by the black light started healing...
The blood on him disappeared and the cracks around his body started fading away... the bloodless skin started slowly regaining its blood, and the weak breath around him stopped getting weaker!
And soon enough the flames also started changing shape.... the flame-shaped two phoenix wings and slowly a phantom of a familiar woman with a flame star on her forehead appeared and hugged Gray from the back...
While the gem inside the necklace suspended in front of Gray was giving birth to more flames making the scene more and more real!
The gem looked so beautiful more than any time right now... At this moment, it really shined with thousands of colors, shining brightly in front of Gray, it looked so holy and beautiful as if it was holding a sun inside it!
Perona who watched all this was completely in shock at this moment!!!! Especially seeing the woman that suddenly appeared!!!
Who was the woman that the flame mimicked?
Because the woman's shape was made of golden flames the shape didn't take any other color, so her face was not clear... But even so... the extremely familiar face was directly recognized by Perona...
"Tauriel!???" Perona looked at this and said!
The woman who appeared was Tauriel!!!!
How? Why?...
Perona felt very wrong at this moment... She couldn't understand how Tauriel appeared here!
But then she shook her head and looked carefully... This wasn't Tauriel, but the flame took Tauriel's shape only!
But this was still weird for her! Why would the flame appear like Tauriel?
A million question marks appeared on top of her head at this moment...
The flame around Gray kept healing Gray's body from inside to outside, while the crown became more tyrannic and started devouring even the flame around...
One black one golden light around Gray...
It became more like a cycle... The crown damaging him while devouring his life, while the necklace was fixing what the crown destroys...
But this didn't hurt anymore... Or it can be said Gray who suffered the huge pain, started feeling relief... His soul that was tortured by pain in the process calmed down so much...
He was able to hear the familiar voice of a woman whispering in his ears... This sound... As if it was a calm song healing his soul... pulling his weak soul away from death...
Such a beautiful sound... He heard it before...
In a few minutes, finally, the crown calmed down and the black light inside the golden flame disappeared showing Gray's face again...
The crown fifth awakening finally... ended!
And Gray who was supposed to die today... survived!
The moment the crown calmed down the flame also started calming down...
And Gray who felt the pain disappeared, opened his silver lifeless eyes a little bit...
"Tauriel... So... It was your ..." Tauriel's flame face was reflected in his eyes, which made him call her name gently, and a weird sense of relief filled his soul... So he closed his eyes and completely lost consciousness...
He survived... And his body was healed... But his soul and mind were already tired...
The flaming Tauriel looked at Gray's face that was already healed by her and slowly started fading back to the gem, not showing any emotions...
Within a few seconds, the flame was sucked back to the gem again and Gray who was suspended in the air slowly fell down...
But before he reached the ground, Nagini and Perona already caught him...
Looking at Gray who was completely healed and nothing wrong with him, both Nagini and Perona looked at this with shock...
"Shaa" But then Nagini knew that they shouldn't stay here anymore... The flame reaction just now might attract undesirable trouble... So she directly carried both Gray and Perona on her back and flew up...
She should find a safe place to let Gray rest in right now!
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(Author: Yo... Sorry, everyone! I know that these days I didn't write anything, but life gets super busy sometimes!!! And the problem is... Things didn't end here... Anyway... Thank you for waiting, and sorry again, I know how bad the feeling of waiting for a new chapter to be released XD I'll try my best not to make you wait more next...)
