Something Happened

The man with a black coat who had her in his embrace was crying like there was no tomorrow. He took her body tightly, he was afraid to lose her body, like she'll have not a place to return.

He said, "My dear, let's go home. Let's go together."

There was a deep and ruthless look in the man's eyes. Making his purple eyes shine under the green light.

Despair, fear, pain, and hate were written all over his face, and a gloomy aura came out of his body.

"I've lost you, there is nothing for me to continue living here. Maybe, maybe, that way I can come to you sooner."

In the middle of the night, when only the wind and the nightly animals can be heard.

Many years passed since they met each other. On a day like today so years ago, she was the little beauty who broke into his black and leak world, making him fall in love with her. It was the day that he gives her that ring, that damn ring, that brought them to this.

But now, so many years later, she was just a pool of flesh and broken bones.

With painful bloodshot eyes, "This grudge will stay in my heart until I got rid of them, my love. Then we can be together in the afterlife."

He was resigned to death, without meaning to live, so for that reason, he didn't care about anything else after his revenge.

When he was going to get up and take her body away, a group of wolves came and surrounded him, without his notice, because he was so engrossed in his pain.

A silhouette wearing a purple coat covering her head came from the back of the wolves. The silhouette was supporting a staff taller than her own height.

The staff's body is made of dark blue wood, and on some sides has several bright blue leaves. The head of it is in the shape of a huge curved animal claw. In the center of the curve, there is a deep blue glowing gem. Besides the curve, there is a black metal hanging, but it is hidden in the dark. If not for the blue light of the gem, it could go unnoticed.

The silhouette raised her wooden staff and the blue gem lit up, a light flew out of the gem and reached the lady's body.

The lady in the man's arms, under the blue light covering her body, opened her remaining eye with difficulty.

"Te… a… cher." Her hasty breathing continues.

"We don't have much time. Your soul is still on your body, but your body can't hold on anymore." The voice of an old woman sounded in the deep night.

She saw the lady's sky-blue eye reddened, and she did not want to scold her but have to tell her the consequences of her actions against her advice and warning.

"I told you, don't use the ring. That ring chooses its master at the right time. You might be its rightful owner, but it's not the correct time to wear it. Now, the consequences are here. Neither of you can continue living anymore. Once one of you dies, the other will follow shortly." The solemn tone in her voice made the atmosphere heavy.

A gloomy silence befalls on the dark woods. Neither the animals nor the wind made a single sound.

"…"

The man was the first to break the silence.

"Sorcerer Rea, can you tell us a solution?" Not reconciled to his and his beloved fate, the man gritted his teeth and asked.

~Sigh.

In the silhouette's eyes, Sorcerer Rea saw the pain, sad, hate, love, and ruthlessness that was painted on his face.

"It's not entirely impossible to make a solution, but… there is a price to pay to change the fate of another person, not less as one powerful sorcerer and a magical being."

"Tea… cer… plea… se." the hope on the lady's face made it impossible for the Sorcerer to decline their request.

"… Okay." The Sorcerer Rea answered, resigned to her apprentice.

The Sorcerer Rea started to draw a circle and some unknown golden and purple runes around the man and the lady's place with her wooden staff, leaving both of them as the center.

After drawing, she started to speak in an unknown language and the runes lit up, moving as they were fighting to get out of the ground. After a couple of minutes of doing the same, the runes flew out of the ground.

The man saw the lady in his arms with a tender expression.

"My love, we will meet once again. I love you." The man's whisper fell in the lady's ear, and she teared up with her remaining eye.

He lowered his head and seal her teeth with his lips. Like a kiss. She felt ashamed, she did not have lips, but the man did not care about it and just kiss her teeth.

The golden and purple runes danced around both of them and then flew to their bodies. The purple runes entered the lady's body and the golden runes entered the man's body.

.****.

"Ah."

"HUFF HUFF"

"Haa haa"

"What… what was that!?"

Rosella's breathing was hasty, her heartbeat faster, and she felt her blood boil.

"What is this situation? Was that a… dream?" frowning, she tried to calm down.

Inhaling and exhaling.

After a few minutes, she calmed down. Her steady breathing and heart made her able to analyze what she saw.

Rosella lowered her head. She pursed her lips and swallowed her throat, but she still couldn't hold back her tears. As soon as her vision was blurred, bean-sized tears fell on her clothes.

~Sniff sniff

She was on her bed, hugging her legs, crying so pitiful.

The dream was so real, that she felt the pain, unwillingness, and the hatred in the lady's heart. She can't come back to her senses for a long time.

Looking out of her window, the curtains were covering the view, but the sunlight went through it, making her realize that it is already morning.

But she can't hold back her emotions or her tears.

She felt some familiarity with the man, but the more she tried to remember his facial features, the more blurred it becomes.

Confused, angry, and disappointed, her heart feels down.

~KNOCK KNOCK~

She did not bother with the person on the other side of the door, she wanted to be alone.

~KNOCK KNOCK… KNOCK KNOCK~

This time the knock was faster and urgently.

"Princess, something happened. Are you awake?"