XII : Bohemian Rhapsody IV

As our carts travel slowly into the damaged bridge of the main island to the third island, I took a deep breath and asked Galileo to stop the cart, he gazed into me but without any questions he commanded my request, I stood and with a gaze from each member of the White Queen I gave them a smile and I dismounted the cart, they all looked into me quite concerned before Galileo continue to command the horse, but I ignored them, I watched them go and I was left alone in the bridge to the third. I took a deep breath and felt a spirit traveling around my body; it was touching my body however I pretend it was just an illusion. I took a deep breath before looking into the sky and seeing a sign of light for the first time. It was pointing in the forest at the north, beside the kingdom, a surprisingly small forest that survived everything.

I'm planning to purge this place like the fourth island for it was inherited by the half spirit of Beelzebub, but I need my personal guide to answer my question. I broke down on my knees and closed my eyes as I start to pray, similarly to what I did on the mountain of Deacon during the blood and acid rain, asking to the heavens above, to show me the one and only the true answer. Everything was dark, as I pray, no signs of answers we're appearing, I called the prophet and he has no response, I used my power to call those who is close to him, hopefully helping me to get his attention but nothing happened. I opened my eyes to see Grave sitting at the rails of the bridge, he was gazing into the kingdom as well and the light on the sky was slowly fading away as the clouds cover the light.

"What am I supposed to do next?" I asked. "You've said that… I earned a progress, are you referring to the multiple versions of me that I've still yet to understand… the prophet said that you'll be guiding me in my journey… go on tell me what to do!" I was expecting him to stood and coldly speak to me but instead he looked away and remained silent, not even giving me a single word. Even his snakes faced me away as if I was no one.

I just went silent and waited for his response, but there was none.

He took out a bottle of his potions and casted them at the bridge of the main island where an army of souls and spirits stood strong and they all marched towards my direction, however they didn't seems to be targeting me, they just slightly moved me aside and marched to the third island. I gazed into Grave but still no words have left his mouth. When the army of souls and spirits all entered the third island, I returned to the middle of the bridge, and I ignored Grave so that I can focus on what my heart is trying to call from earlier, I fell down on my knees once again and prayed to the prophet. I didn't see anything, pure darkness, and then I slowly felt tired. I feel sleepy, and I saw a purple spirit dancing from left to right and I heard her laughing like a child playing chase. I followed her direction before I felt a slap from my cheek, and I'm faced to face with one of the snakes of Grave.

"Your not praying to the prophet for he's the one who will call you in the right time, that spirit your playing with is that devil trying to get your attention, I still don't know how are you gonna defeat that monster, but your fate is already written in the books, just follow along the path of your own fate." He stood up and gave me his hand I he helped me stood up with my own two legs. "There has been a chaotic event on the third island, happening since the first batch of carts arrived, they are colonizing the citizens of the third island, creating false religions and fake doctrines all relating to you, you present yourself as a prophet now everybody's thinking you are a prophet, but in reality you are called by the prophet but not a prophet yourself. Those religions are causing chaotic drama that makes Beelzebub jealous for she wanted to be worship as well, similar to how she ruled when she had the ancient crown over her head."

"What you want me to do?" those we're the only words that my mouth spoke.

"Change the course of time." He whispered in my ear before vanishing like air. I look up again in the sky and another thunder struck, but this time it struck onto the head of the Black Queen.

Her hair started burning and before I knew it, the fire was already huge, it travel into the kingdom and it burned most of it, since her body is rotting and dry, her body was quickly became a million piece if ashes on the ground and her bones fell to the ground as the muscles lose its ability to hold everything in place. The kingdom continued to produce fire and I felt something unusual, I turned around to see a strong lighting struck at my back. I closed my eyes and my ears were screeching a very annoying sound, as soon as I opened my eyes I saw the prophet facing back at me. As per usual he was with the two men besides him, Grave was ignoring my presence but I could sense he's pretty annoyed for he was summoned after just living me alone. He took out one of his potions and just stared at it avoiding eye contact.

Meanwhile the man with a child was facing my direction however the light was blocking his own face, and as per his child she's gone and I don't know where she is. The prophet turned around me and for the first time I saw something odd about him, he's not in his usual mood, I don't know why. His face isn't visible but I could tell the disappointed face he has.

Did I do something wrong? I don't know.

"Congratulations on unraveling the truth Joseph Castlevine you have succeed in surpassing one of your variations from the past, you've finally know who was within the Black Queen." He cheered for a second before stopping to give his angry expression. "However, the people are now celebrating by performing ritual that is against me, creating false religions over me and being manipulated by the spirit of Beelzebub, all thanks to your works." There was a sarcastic tone within his voice and I could feel his wrath over me, I didn't do anything against him though, I only followed his own commands, his own writings.

Why would he blame it to me?

"Joseph Castlevine, this will be the last time that I'll be speaking with you I am taking everything that I've gifted to you for you've have betrayed me with your religion!" His voice roared like the thunder that struck earlier and he slowly faced me and this time, his face were visible in my eyes, he just looks like an homeless old man, yet his presence if different now, he seems to be more powerful than before. So this is the prophet?

"Can't believe that you're blaming everything to me now, you're the one who showed me what to do, and you're the one who wrote these fantasies that is unnecessary to the world, why are you putting blame on me? You wrote in one of your chapters. "I can't believe these words are coming out of my mouth, I feel powerful by just simply speaking the truth against someone higher than me. "'A false religion rise when a man dies, a dead man would be worship has his soul burns in the deepest part of hell, his name is known in every corner of the nation and he… he was just a poor man.' Clearly that's me, false religion about me, I'm a walking dead body after all that I've been through and my soul would also rot in hell one day… why am I to blame, you've called me for no reason to mock me in the end. Fool!"

He looks in my eyes for a second and quickly he spits into my left eye, and I knew that it was acid, but the acid was so much stronger than what the acid rain did, it burned my eye and blinded me, I was a burning pain but I ignored it, I tried to move towards his directions so I can land a punch over him but I quickly fell as he threw a rock over my head knocking me over. Grave then stood up and walked away the man beside the poor old man just watched him. The prophet then pulled out a sword and raised it up high in the sky; he looks into me for a few seconds before swinging it. I closed my eyes.

"Joseph! Joseph!" I heard Valkyarie's voice calling me; I opened my eyes and quickly stood up for she has been holding me over on her lap. I look around to see us both in the dessert on the third island. "Oh my lord, what happened to your eye? Why are you blind on your left eye?" She asked and noticed she's right. I pointed to my right and she quickly stared at the prophet standing on our right. I stood up and she gazed into the prophet and there were an odd silence between the two.

"I've killed you once, want to do it twice?" She asked as the prophet stood there silently gazing at Valkyarie. "You must have been the one, who blinded my love, tell me what he did? You must be the prophet that we been following, or else Beelzebub a shape shifting beast killing the innocent child of the mother of the Black Queen… tell me who are you? The prophet from my past life, or a demon present in my new life." I looked into her beautiful eye and noticed her beautiful eyes. I failed to notice it before, maybe because were always in a statues of drama or battle. Now thus is just a moment were we wait.

The man standing was the true prophet, and I sense he's not here to bring peace, but rather more destruction. He has betrayed all of us humans, and I'm a fool to fall.

He didn't spoke a word he just raised his sword again up in the air and the two clashed before I even have a chance to speak, to my surprised I have a sword on my left side of my body, so I pulled out the blade and helped my wife within the battlefield. I swing my sword and hit the prophet on his side, however it didn't seems to be a problem for him, it didn't even bleed. Valkyarie then slash him in the neck and it made him fall to the ground, but he quickly moved away and stood up again.

He then dashed towards me and I quickly defended my side with my blade and quickly I kicked the sand to blind the old man but before I even have a chance to react he pushed me and behind him was Valkyarie jumping from the air to a great momentum with her axe on the air. But the prophet avoided it and it cause a huge cloud of dust.

It's much harder for me to see, I'm a blind man in a sand storm. But I sense his presence, I took a hard grip from my sword and as soon as I felt his movement I slashed him, but instead of his blood travelling my sword, my blood travelled into his. He stabbed my right arm and it was quickly burned by his light. Valkyarie chase him down and I quickly took one clean cloth and tied a knot over it to avoid further bleeding.

I ran to their direction where they are battling one vs one, and from a distance I felt like seeing a shadow, which bothered me for a second but ignored it considering their speed in the battle, it must me them, I run with wife to chase the false prophet and eventually I stabbed him in his stomach, but he grabbed my blade like its nothing and breaks it in half by his power of heat. He then throws me a set of fire Balls which hit me a few times but I ignored it and continued to attack.

Valkyarie activates her potion and drank it all, she became faster than usual and she manages to catched up to the prophet to which she tackled him to the ground and continues punching his face til he started bleeding, the prophet manages to took a sharp stone and stabbed her, but Valkyarie knowing her background and race, was brave enough to handle the pain.

I took a chance to kick him in the face and I took his sword fallen a few steps a way and raised him above his face. His eyes widen and Valkyarie started laughing.

He looked to her directly and there was a small silence again before he stabs her again on Valkyarie's left shoulder, which cause for a deep wound and quiet a number of blood lost. But her face shows that she didn't mind the pain.

I look into her eyes and she said yes with those look. I raised the sword higher and I stabbed the Prophet's face with his own sword. He quickly panicked but Valkyarie continued to punch him bare hand, until he was not moving.

"I can't believe I've killed him again, but this time I've killer him with you… my love." Her tone was different, but from a glimpse of my I saw spirit traveling fast. Before I could even react, my lover, Valkyarie fall to the ground as Beelzebub blew up her head into millions of pieces.

Her body fell to the ground and she kicked Valkyarie on her left and the devil's eyes we're full of joy.

I fell down to my knees as I stare into Beelzebub's demonic eyes. "Love me now my sweet little Joseph Castlevine." She spoke gently, she slowly got close to me and before our lips touch each other, a single tear dropped of my cheek.

For unexplainable reason, I've managed to touched and pushed her spirit away, she rolled over the dead body of my wife and instantly she showed me a face that I wish I never got to see.

She grins her mouth wide and puts on the mask. She's laughed, slowly and silently, until her laugher build up into something that broke my ear, I tried to stood up but I'm weak mentally and physically. I can't move, and when I did stood up, Instantly fell to the ground to notice these strange stick man spiders with a baby's head, monsters from multiple corner's of hell, and the blasphemous images that this devil summoned to put a shamed on me.

With my shaking hands, I pulled out my sword and stepped back. I couldn't do it, I'm too scared at this monsters, I've never seen them before. Why does these creatures live? What are the purpose? I could fight them if I'm with my wife, but unfortunately she's dead.

I know, I don't believe that she's dead and gone, it must be a nightmare! A fear development by the devil herself! She's playing around with me. I run towards the spirit of the devil, standing there staring at me.

"Oh, sweet Joseph I knew that your steps would always lead to mine!" Her teasing voice rings into my ear, directly to my brain. "But I'm sorry, I think its too much." She fades as the wind blows and I quickly felt a stab from my stomach, I looked into it and saw it was an spikey leg of an skinless spider, its blood was boiling like lava, and I couldn't bear the agony.

I was about to pass out but I felt the air traveling at my back, only to realized I've been thrown by the spider leaving me too bleed and hitting ny back into the giant hard rock on this hot dessert. My blind eye has completely lost it's vision, and the only eye I have, its blurry already.

I started to cough blood and I felt another touch, i gazed into it to see a group of ogre's with a sharp blade, and quickly took my body and started pealing my skin off, one of them grabbed my head and opened my eyes wide open directly to my legs where they started.

I could see my muscles, my bones, and my blood, they then proceed to broke my fingers in my head one by one, and honestly I couldn't describe this feeling. Someone, please someone... Help me.

They took a bag full of insects and bugs and put in into my stomach, they opened the bag and these bugs started crawling into my skin, then then punched my in my stomach which cause me to bleed more and then proceed to feed me with dead bugs with the mixture of my own blood.

They took an potion and poured into my wounds and they started to sprout fungus, and they quickly felt poisoned, it traveled into my dead eye and I quickly see nothing but pitch black, they landed another punch in my stomach and into my head.

"Joseph Castlevine, wake up, the devil is giving you a phobia!"

In a blink of an eye, before I knew it I was face to face with the true prophet, and I am healed. Was that all a dream of manipulation?

"Joseph Castlevine, you have been manipulated by Beelzebub, Grave was trying to rescue you both but he can't, for Beelzebub's power is too strong... she put you in a replicated world outside this world and fused it together to create this alternate reality, if you understand my point." He then stopped for a moment and raised my head up. "Joseph Castlevine, I'm sorry, but please bare the pain that your wife, Valkyarie is dead, and those monsters they were illusions and you just passed out after receiving too much, your heart is broken, literally... I'm am really, really sorry." I failed to protect her.

She was in front of us, ready to celebrate the victory, only to be defeated after a second past.

I was transported back to the land, and I noticed her dead body covered in an expensive cloth on a camp somewhere in the third island. I could tell that were near where she passed away by temperature. The sun was brightly shining on us, I don't know how, but she felt like a sacrificial lamb. Outside was the sound of people crying, and even after all of this feeling of agony and loss of love, not a single tear can drop of my eye right now... I'm a fool.

Can I cry over the lap of the gods when i tell them my story?

I can't believe I've wasted my life prioritizing myself and the others over my own family, I loved her blindly for such a short period of time, witnessing her death face to face, it hurts me, I want to do something but I can't. Or maybe I can. Can't believe I can love her just to die, I drag her into this.

All this time, stories about my variations has been told to me, variations of failed and successful self. They all travelled this land, and since the beginning Grave showed me the answer to this problem, I want to fix everything but the concept itself scares me. Nothing really matters though; any one can see why I would do it. Nothing really matters to me at this point, if I mess up, sure my variation can help me fix it. He can suffer the same sufferings that I've breakthrough, but he would have a better ending. I'm doing this for my love, no more sufferings for the people, I'm suffering for myself.

After all my fate is written already.

Anywhere the wind blows to lead me I'll follow for my true love.

Grave can't resurrect, but Grave himself said earlier "Change the course of time." I saw him reset time when he beheaded the Black Queen; he must have known something that no one else knows. But how did he attain those knowledge, luckily he was behind me.

"So, you want to know the 'Innuendo'?" he whispered and without hesitations I gave him a nod.

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Bohemian Rhapsody Arc Finish

Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

Rock section - Outro