Heart Of Stone - Episode 109&110&111

 

HEART OF STONE

Heart Of Stone - Episode 109&110&111

 (..Sold•To•The•Pit•Of•Hell..)

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By: Naomi Cindy B.

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[Jazz Bar]

As Cheyenne's eyes met Sage's own, she wasn't aware a tear had dropped from her eyeballs. 

She was only alerted when it fell on her cleavage, and then the loud thudding of her heart as Sage's arm stayed belted on her waist.

He's crying too, but his are tears of ultimate joy.

He looks so worn-out, tired like he lost sleep for days which is true.

"Che," he whispered, the sound of the drinking people around them nearly drowning it as his voice was too emotional.

"Sage" she replied, not believing the amount of emotion stealing her own voice too.

Slowly, Sage let go of the waist, and her hands immediately reached for his face, touching...

"Sage," she repeated, smiling with the tears of joy.

"Che, it's me. Your crybaby co-knight whom you said you didn't love" He replied with a bigger smile.

"You f+kin jerk!" Cheyenne broke into real tears, hugging him like her air, her breaths.

Sage's arms went gilded around her, grip too tight that it's even painful on their skins.

"I had a hunch on Saturday and I've been waiting here since then. I knew it was you..." He sniffled.

"I've been searching senselessly too. I just knew you were somewhere, but I never expected it to be here. I missed you so much." Cheyenne hiccupped.

"I missed you more, growing up with my last life memories was torture," he replied, resting his chin on her shoulder properly.

"Me too, I was—"

Cheyenne stopped talking, gasping and breaking the hug suddenly.

"I nearly forgot! My sister! She went missing and I have to find her!"

"Your sister?" He blinked, and she nodded, pulling him out of the bar.

Her phone rang.

--

[Morregan Health Hospital]

"Make way, f+kin make way!!" Rivera shouted at the top of her voice as she ran with the paramedics into the hallway, pushing Caspian's wheeled stretcher inside.

Caspian's head is wrapped with a white shawl, but even the shawl is soaked with his blood, everywhere's red, and he's deeply unconscious.

After his head pounded the ice earlier at the frozen ocean, he got a terrible crack in his skull, and it has been going from bad to worse.

The patients on their wheelchair in the hall quick moved aside, and the doctors running on shifts gyrated when they saw the face of the person laying on the bloody stretcher.

"Caspian Yusluv?"

"It's him!"

"Geez! How did that happen?"

"Oh my gawd is he gonna survive?"

"Move!!!" Rivera pushed an intern out of the way, and they were directed to the emergency unit.

Arriving there, Doctor Blaise was already waiting.

As Caspian was moved from the stretcher to the bed, Rivera stepped aside and let Blaise do his job.

Blaise got to work on the cracked skull, trying to stop the bleeding first.

Rivera stood by the wall outside, panicking.

"You're a fae, not human. You should be able to heal him!" One of the harem guards said beside her, but she's not even in the mood to reply.

"Wait...do you only have wings to fly? Is that the only ability you posess?" The guard continued egging her.

Rivera gifted the guard a kick, and he fell to his knees forcefully.

"I'm a fae, of course my healing ability is limited. I can't heal such deep crack on his skull. I can only wait for the doctors to perform surgery and do my own part afterwards, so quit ranting on my face and let's just await the best!" Rivera spat.

The guard stood, rolling eyes and stepping back.

Another guard came in with a squad.

"Lady Katherine has been taken back to the harem. She's getting surgery at home since you've ordered us not to bring her to the hospital." He reported.

"We can't bring her to the hospital, the harem is safer now that the bastard got the ice mantle. Who knows when he might plan to kidnap her for himself?" Rivera replied.

"But according to you, the fire mark on her back glittered, doesn't that mean he got her powers back? And if she got her powers back, it'll include her memories, I mean memories of how the bastard killed her. She'd hate him more." The guard said.

"The mark glittered doesn't mean she has her memories back. I and boss made sure her memories and powers are sealed  The glitter was just a glitch cos the bastard kissed her." Rivera replied, sighing.

"How's her surgery going?"

"The doctor said the piece of glass really grazed her heart, resulting to  blood loss, but she'd be fine after replenishment." The guard reported.

"And the idiot Kade?" Rivera asked.

"He's in the crib at the harem, we're waiting for his fate." The guard further provided.

Rivera took a deep breath, and Doctor Blaise came out of the EU.

"We managed to stop the bleeding, but there are too many concussions, and the crack is in his occipital lobe. I and my team are currently preparing for surgery." He reported.

"Good," Rivera sighed.

--

[Ryker's One Room Apartment]

Standing in front of the long covered mirror, Ryker looks hopeless.

He's shirtless, black slacks hung low on his taut waist, and his palms are soaked with Shayla's blood.

His body still has the three bullets from Caspian, and he's groaning as he watched blood trickle out of them.

He unveiled the mirror, looking at his own reflection for a minute before sending his punch into it, shattering it to bits.

Earlier when Shayla's back tattoo glittered and carried Caspian to the ice, he had a little hope.

Very little, that she was back, but the hope crashed as fast as it came cos she never woke up.

Her mark only reacted that way cos Caspian was shooting him.

She hates him, but her mark doesn't. She hates him, but her soul and subconscious is still protecting him instead of taking his healing.

Does he even deserve that?

He had to let Rivera take her cos him doing it would have been greedy.

Also, he let them take Kade cos only Shayla has the right to kill that dog.

He killed Liza in Luminaria, he won't make the mistake of doing the same to Kade.

Shayla deserves to exact her revenge by herself too.

His hand went up to his bulleted body, and he removed the bullets from his flesh one by one, dropping the three on the ground.

The wounds healed immediately, and arms wrapped around him from behind, causing him to look up.

"Don't you pity me?" Pearl's voice came, her fingertips entering his bellybutton space.

Judging by the cracks in her voice, she's definitely crying.

"Don't you? I've loved you for two lifetimes, and this is the third one, but still...you don't see me!" She complained, running her fingers up on his chest, caressing.

"Get off," Ryker said, silently but with enough toxicity.

"No, I refuse to." She tightened her arms around him.

Ryker went down, slipping easily out of her grip, then his hand went up to grip her by the hair, flinging her forward and thudding her body down on the shatter of mirrors.

"F+k!! How longer will you hurt me? How longer!!!" She cried, bleeding from the arms, legs, back, face, tummy and every visible part of her skin. The mirror shards hooked clustered in her flesh.

"How did you enter?" He muttered, taking one step away.

"Cos this is an unguarded apartment for crying out loud! Anyone can enter! Your fake life apartment! You're not poor! You're only punishing yourself for what? That bî+ch? What does she even know about you! Nothing! No one knows you better than me! No one deserves you better! Why not just look at me for once, please..." Pearl stood, looking pitiful in her bloody state.

"In this lifetime, I was born without a mantle at all. I'm a weak human who has to rely on guns and bullets to fight enemies, so I'm begging you, genuinely. Be mine, and I'll be yours for the rest of my life! Aren't I pretty? Aren't I? I'm prettier than her so..."

Pearl was already on the ground again before she could finish.

Ryker waved her off, and her body swept the shards of mirrors once again,  giving her more deep cuts.

Her blood painted the oakwood ground, and one of the shards even pierced her eye corner, nearly blinding her, but it wasn't over.

Ryker removed the metal mirror frame and folded it, bringing it down on her body—the middle of her tummy.

Her ribcage broke in one part, and the bone protruded out of her tummy as she screamed out again, crying in blood and pain, sweat and tears.

"Don't ever compare your pathetic self to her, and a bî+ch? Look at yourself in the mirror, you'll find out who's really one. She doesn't have to beg me for attention like you do, but she still has my everything including my life and heart!" Ryker growled, each word meaningful and emotive.

Pearl's tears paused, and she pushed out strangled breaths as the last word echoed in her ears.

Heart? 

His heart?

Is he really in love with... Shayla?

"Get up, and get out. You'd be dead already if you did this in Luminaria, but you're lucky my bloodthirst is in half right now. Get lost!!" He yelled.

Pearl crawled out of the room, her blood forming a trail.

As she crawled, her tears mopped the ground, and her heart.

If she can't have him this lifetime as a powerless human, then living is meaningless.

She doesn't deserve to live.

After she left, Ryker threw on a cotton shirt and left the room too, returning to the living room.

Lilith is still unconscious on the couch, no idea why she has been out for so long.

Then... Jenna is sitting on another couch, looking calm.

She's the only one Ryker took from the frozen ocean.

He had branched at an hospital to have her wounds taken care of before taking her here.

Her wounds are very minor.

Also, she gave him her sister and mother's mobile line, so he has called them to come pick her up.

Ryker squatted in front of her, and she blinked cutely, reminding her of Shayla's cute blinking attempts.

"I'm sure the wound on your knees wasn't caused by the accident," he glanced at her knees.

"I met Katherine at the museum, and I was persistently calling her, so she.... pushed me mistakenly." She replied.

"Katherine?" He looked up.

Jenna nodded.

"On her behalf, I'm sorry." He apologized without hesitation.

"No no... it's not necessary. I still love her, and she's my role model cos she's pretty and has long hair like me." Jenna replied, and Ryker pressed his lips together in the corners.

"But...who are you? Why are you kind to me? You even helped me call my sister and mom" Jenna asked.

Before Ryker could answer that, Lilith was awake.

She jumped up from the couch behind.

"Oh my head!" She held her temples, seeing Jenna with Ryker.

"I passed out for how many minutes, and there's already a kid here? Also, what's with your bloody hands!" 

That was all she could say before the door bursted open.

Cheyenne and Sage rushed inside with Mrs. Wyoming.

"Cheyenne!" Jenna smiled.

"Oh my baby!" Cheyenne knelt completely in front of her, hugging the little girl and checking out her subtly wounded face.

"Gosh, thankfully we have you back now. We were running wild with thoughts,"

Mrs. Wyoming knelt too, taking Jenna from her.

"I already scattered the museum with cops,never knew you've gone as far as this place...I'm so sorry I should have been more careful." The woman said, rubbing Jenna's face.

"It's not your fault, mum, Cheyenne, I'm fine now." Jenna smiled.

All these while, Sage is still not far from the door where he stood.

His eyes are impossibly wide, filled with emotions all-over again as he stared at Ryker.

He's the first person he saw when he entered earlier, and Ryker is looking at him surprisingly too.

"Sage," he muttered.

"Your Lordship," Sage replied.

That single word made Cheyenne shoot up, her eyes popping wide.

Her shoulder bag fell, and she covered her mouth with her palm.

"You made the call, your lordship?" 

Ryker nodded, smiling lightly.

"My lordship!!" Sage bursted, breaking into a small run to him.

He hugged Ryker dearly.

Cheyenne joined the hug, triple hold.

"You dunno how hard I've been searching for you using my parents network! I searched like crazy!" Sage wailed.

"Me too! I waspulling all nighters. I didn't know today would be the day I meet you and sage!" Cheyenne added.

Ryker hugged them back with one arm each, another subtle smile escaping his lips.

"By the look of things, you both got reborn into affluent families, that's the best news I've heard in this lifetime." He said.

Mrs. Wyoming, Jenna and Lilith stayed quiet, wondering what's really happening.

"Am I the only one not understanding?" Lilith muttered.

"You just said my mind, young girl." Mrs. Wyoming sighed.

"Reborn? Think I heard that in church before." Jenna mumbled.

The knights didn't break the hug for so many minutes, and when they finally did, they sighted Lilith, and their protective instincts kicked in.

They both literally flew to her.

Cheyenne grabbed her neck, and Sage gripped her hair, the attack so cleanly and intentionally done.

"What are you doing here in this lifetime again? To cause trouble like you always did?" Cheyenne spat.

"Huh? Banshee?" Sage added.

"Let me....go!!" Lilith screamed, struggling.

"She wasn't reborn with memories, let her go." Ryker said behind.

They both quickly let go of her.

"What was that? I did nothing to deserve neck grabbing and hair pulling!!" She yelled at the two, sneering before going to Ryker.

"Look, boss. I dunno what this madness in your house today is about, and I don't care about how you're going to get cash, but you better send me money for beverages and tonic cos my blood is dry! Ugh!" She snarled at his face and left, slamming the door.

Sage and Cheyenne laughed out loud at the same time.

"She's very funny in this lifetime, how did she end up working with his lordship?" Sage said.

"Beats me, she's now cute." Cheyenne replied, sighing.

Mrs. Wyoming eventually left with Jenna, leaving the knights with their newfound lord.

"Please...tell me this poor house is a play, I can't imagine you with porness." Sage said.

Ryker settled on a couch, his mind wandering around Shayla, so damn worried about her health.

"It's self-punishment for killing her, and our baby." He said.

"Her ladyship was pregnant?" Cheyenne's eyes widened madly again, getting another shock.

Ryker shut his eyes.

"Oh...the resentment of a pregnant goddess is bad." Sage muttered.

"Why am I having this hunch that she's Katherine though? I saw a drawing of Katherine and she's exactly her ladyship." Cheyenne said.

"She is," Ryker opened his eyes, leaning forward.

"She is???" Cheyenne and Sage chorused.

Another shock.

"And she's getting married to Caspian, in three days." Ryker replied, the words bitter in his mouth.

"What!!!" The knights let out another loud chorus.

"I'm going to go stake out at the harem gate," Ryker stood.

"We'll follow you," Cheyenne said.

"No. You both go to the glass mansion, find the new key card in the bedroom drawer, south part." Ryker explained, getting out of the house.

--

[Cold-Hearted Harem]

The wound on Shayla's chest has stopped bleeding, thanks to the doctors professionalism.

But the blood transfusion is failing presently.

Her blood group is weird and isn't even anywhere in the blood banks, so they had to risk using the closest one to her blood colour.

But as the blood entered her body with the pipes, it left her body through her mouth and ears.

They had to discard the blood bags and get the pipes out of her body, then they started looking for alternatives, calling Rivera to inform her of the latest development.

They were still on the call when Shayla regained consciousness.

Pale lips, white eyeballs, overall pale face and fragile body. It's like she lost pounds of flesh within that small period, and her legs are shaking on the ground as she stood.

"Ma'am, it's only advisable to lay down right now. Your condition is too critical." The doctors adviced.

"Jenna, the kid. Where's she?" She asked weakly, holding the drip stand beside her bed for balance.

"She was taken by the other man," the doctors replied.

"And the hoodlum?" She asked, holding her chest.

"Kade? He has been locked in the crib," the doctors replied.

Shayla made her way to the crib, holding the wall for support as she walked the ground with turning eyes, painful chest and empty tummy.

She feels totally hollowed out.

No amount of plea from the doctors and guards could stop her till she arrived at the crib.

The door was opened for her, and she picked a rusty knife from the ground, staggering inside.

A guard quickly held her before she could fall, but she detached and went in fully, meeting Kade on his knees, tied to metal bars on the ground.

He must have been horribly beaten cos his clothes are torn with his flesh, few of his tooth are on the ground, and his eyes are nearly not in the sockets anymore.

Like a living dead.

Using the knife blade, Shayla raised his chin, and he smiled vengefully as their eyes met.

"Do you know...that in our last lifetime, I was your twin? We were both not only birthed by Liza, but our father was also the same! We both have same human father who was killed immediately you were given birth to. But me...I stayed in the womb for extra five years, cos of what? Cos you're the goddess who's not supposed to share a womb with anybody at the same time. Your powerful aura held me back in Liza's womb for five extra years!"

"I used to say I hated you because you shared a mother with me, but truth is I hated you cos you were birthed before me, and because of you I had to spend five extra years! Another truth is that...you gods will always be the cause of the misfortunes of humans. To exist, you'll trample on anyone! You all and the deities in your heavens are all hypocrites!"

"I didn't choose to be a goddess," Shayla's powerful voice dropped, and Kade shivered hard, the the blade on his chin burning hot.

"I didn't chose to share a womb with you and I didn't chose to hold you back for five years! Pushing faults around? Blame the heavens! Blame the gods hierarchy. I'd have spared you if you didn't involve a kid, but involving a kid was mindless, and you'll pay with your life!" 

She jammed the knife into his neck, slicing his throat easily.

Kade fell to his death on the ground, and she dumped the bloody knife on his body before stumbling out of the room with tears in her eyes.

She went on her knees, and the guards all knelt around her, waiting to pick her up but also scared to touch her since everyone knows her bad temper.

She's too weak. Losing blood is too dangerous for a goddess since every drop of her blood is priceless.

She needs to replenish her blood, or she falls into a deep sleep which she doesn't even want.

She crawled back to her room, ordering for a full plate of fruits salad which was immediately brought.

She ate it all without leaving crumbs, gathering little energy with that, then she sat balled on the foot of her bed.

She took the watermelon bracelet from where she dropped it last night.

Her tears dropped on the bracelet beads before she knew it, and she folded her palms tightly on it, shoving her red sickly face into her weak knees.

Her body temperature so fuckin hot.

--

[Morregan Health Hospital, Next Morning]

Caspian's surgery is over, it was marked done at 7am.

Immediately Caspian was wheeled back to the ward, Rivera did her little healing work since the damage is now minimal.

She exhausted a lot of power from her core though, but it was worth it.

Caspian's eyes opened, and he sat up in bed, catching his breaths as if his whole unconsciousness was a running marathon game.

"Katherine is home, and the doctors say she's in her room, better than before. She still needs blood, though. She reported.

"No other blood is suitable for her if not her partner's blood, but I won't allow a drop of Ryker's blood in her system. At all. How could the heavens play this game on me? How? How could the mantle be in him? He froze the ocean, meaning he's even more powerful than his last life, meaning the mantle is his originally! Meaning I won't ever get to have the mantle in me! My long life is a punishment my the heavens, and very soon, even my wealth will start going down! The moment she gets too close to Ryker, my life is over!" Caspian ranted, jumping off the bed.

"That can't happen...it can't.." he shook his head, obviously scared.

"You sealed her memories and powers, and the mark glitter was only a glitch cos the seal was getting weak. We only have to rebuild it with my wings, and the seal can only be completely broken if she stops hating Ryker. She still hates him, so why are you stressing?" Rivera said.

"That's right!" Caspian snapped his fingers.

"About how she needs Ryker's blood to heal properly, if she doesn't get the blood, she'd fall into a deep sleep for years, and that's even better. After all, she'd still wake up." Rivera continued.

"You're brilliant!" Caspian gasped, grinning again.

"Also, the wedding is still holding in three days, I found a capable witch to lift the hex, and you can finally have her in bed." Rivera said.

"What would I have done without you? You're the best!" Caspian laughed, getting the drip clip away from his finger.

"C'mon, get the witch, let's go home and lift the hex, right now!" He ordered.

Rivera followed her out of the ward.

A minute later, Doctor Blaise entered, but he was shocked to see Caspian gone. He rushed out to the EU reception, knocking the nurses table.

"Caspian Yusluv, where did he go?"

"He left with his female guard just now, and he looked fine." The nurses reported.

"Looked fine? He was wheeled out of surgery less than an hour ago! A surgery on his skull!" Blaise said shockingly.

"He looked really, fine..." The nurses repeated like they're under a spell.

"Doctor Blaise?" 

The call of his name made him turn, sighing out loud when he saw Winona and Kasia behind.

"Next checkup is next month, my misses." He said jovially.

"Kasia teaches in a daycare, and she brought one of her pupils, so I tagged along. It's not about our ulcer this time around." Winona cleared.

"Oh? Bring me to the kid then," Blaise replied, and he was led away.

Astor appeared from the last corner of the hall with folded fists, but he didn't stay for long before leaving.

--

[Morozov Residence]

Xena spent the night at Anatoli's cage room, spraying the rat man with pesticide and making him sick to the bones and blood.

She has burned him with fire on the head, pulled his limbs apart, removed his teeth.

She did all that throughout the night.

This pesticide is her last resort, and she's crying regretfully as she sprayed 

Thinking of how Soren hates her madly in this lifetime is traumatizing, she just wants to die.

If she didn't hate Ryker stupidly, if she didn't envy Shayla foolishly, maybe Soren wouldn't grow this intense hate that burns.

She could still remember how he told her on their wedding day that he'd torment her in every lifetime, and he's really doing just that.

She sniffled, and her nose hurts from overdoing it.

"I see you're determined to kill Anatoli today. Thought I was the only one obsessed with hurting him," Rumi commented, entering the room.

She's carrying Sensei, and she dropped the rabbit on Xena's head.

Sensei jumped from her head to her arms, but Xena still didn't turn.

"You ok?" Rumi turned her face, gasping when she saw the tears.

"Twin sis!"

"Soren is at my ballet center too, and he already hates me!" Xena hiccuped.

"Soren Millions?" Rumi frowned.

"He's now Soren Harland. He saw your small picture in my keychain and said he likes you. Rumi, he likes you, not me." 

"Wh...at??" Rumi blinked.

--

[Dominika Petals]

The shop is big enough to serve flowers to the whole neighborhood, and though it's still very early in the morning, the sign in front of the shop says CLOSED.

Dominika is inside with Astor, and their discussion seems heated.

"You saw the West Palace family in the hospital? They reincarnated?" Dominika said shockingly.

"I took a coworker to get colostomy, and I saw Blaise as a doctor, I can't mistake that red hair. Winona and Kasia came as his patients, they had ulcer." Astor replied.

"You ate their cores, and they still reincarnated with ulcer, only means they've got strong relentless souls." Dominika shrugged.

"Strong soul or not, I'm killing them again!" Astor threatened.

"Are you crazy? Kill them again? For what? You had your revenge in their last life! You wiped out the family for what their ancestors did, so why do it again this lifetime!" Dominika objected fiercely.

"Cos I hate to see them alive after what their ancestors did to my wife!" Astor argued.

"Are you serious right now? You're going too far! I was there when your wife gave birth to Faye, and you know what she said last? Tell Faye and Astor to be good. You killing the West Palace family in their last lifetime was already cruel but enough to satiate your anger. I will never support you doing it again, think your wife would be happy to see you do it?" Dominika cautioned.

"I'm doing it, you can't stop me Dominika," Astor shook his head adamantly.

By the door, Faye stood.

She was coming to the shop to get Astor when she started hearing the conversation, and she stood here, listening till the end.

She touched Blaise's core in her pocket, gulping.

--

[Cold-Hearted Harem]

Rivera and Caspian picked up the witch from a tarot shop on their way home, all ready to lift the hex when they arrived, but on getting home, Shayla was nowhere to be found.

Not in her room, not in the hall. Just the guards, and Kade's body in the crib. Even the doctors have no idea.

"Where is she?" Caspian asked, very low but hard.

No one could provide an answer.

"Where is she!!!" He yelled impatiently, pulling out his gun and aiming at two, shooting them down to calm, but it did nothing.

"Where is my fiancee!!!!" He gnarled, shooting the third.

--

Meanwhile, Shayla is outside the harem gate.

She was already out before Caspian arrived earlier, she just waited for him to go in before she moved her car, slowly down the lane.

Eyes and face is still pale, and she looks terribly sick, her hands barely gripping the steering wheel well.

Tears dropped from her chin to her laps as she's wearing bum shorts.

No destination in mind, she's just driving, with wounded chest, blood-starved system, and sick essence. She can't even feel her own movements, but she's conscious enough to know a car has been following her, slowly like a trail.

The car has been following her since she drove out of the harem lane.

She overlooked and continued driving, neither stopping nor halting till a destination came to mind 

The bridge where she fell last night.

She drove there, and she wasn't surprised to see the ocean is still frozen, but there are red RISKY tapes surrounding it like snakes, to keep people from climbing the ice.

She got out of her car and climbed anyways, walking barefoot on the ice and wiping the tear on her chin.

The ice felt hot on her feet cos her warm aura is easily making it hot, reddening her toes, but it's not as cold as this feeling pulling at her chest and threatening to tear it apart.

The memories, they're too heavy to carry, and the remembrance isn't bliss at all.

She could still see the sword in her tummy, piercing her together with him, she could still hear the cries of their most baby, but why can't she hear her own heart shattering?

Why is her heart still beating as if everything's fine?

Why is it still functioning well?

Why?

Just why? 

She felt something pulling at her smallest finger, and her eyes went down to the finger.

She raised it, and at the base of that finger, a dull red thread curled, pulling occasionally.

The thread extended with a line from her finger, and she looked forward, tracing where the other end of the rope will be.

Her feet moved slowly from her position when she saw where the thread ended at.

It's on the smallest finger of another person who's also standing on the ice with her, behind her.

She'd recognize those fingers even if they turn to ashes.

Her eyes went up.

The moment she saw Ryker, she turned around, her steps crazily quick as she walked away.

With a desperate run, Ryker was with her, hugged her from behind like she's everything that matters.

Like she's every importance, every essence, every length and breath of existence. Like she's the reason.

His voice was heavy with both guilt and starving emotions as he talked..

"Sorry won't fix the mess I made, and I don't care if you're with your memory or not, but please...don't run away from me. I thought I'd be able to take it, but I'm weaker than weak when it's about you. Please look at me, for once... please...

Shayla tore his arms away from herself, facing him and throwing a hard slap at his face.

"Good. You're doing well." He nodded regretfully, which cheek burning.

Her eyes were already red and teary as she brought her hand down to the thread on her finger.

She cut the thread to pieces, throwing it at his face.

"Hate can't even explain what I feel for you... leave me alone!!! I'll just go to the Forsaken Vale and forsake my mantle like Caspian did. I'll become a long-lived human like him and be with him forever cos I love him now, not you...a baby killer!" She ranted, her voice painful, hurtful, too much.

She was breaking as she talked, and her voice might be steady, but she looks so much apart, and her eyes are so dark and cold.

"You got your memories back..." Ryker muttered.

"Don't come closer, and don't worry, I'll send you an invite to my wedding party in three days, and you dare not make that wedding plan you terrible baby-killer bastard!" She spat, returning to her fast walk.

Ryker followed again, grabbing her for the second time.

She looked back, gave him a slash on the chest with her hand.

Ryker fell back on the ice, bleeding from the mouth as his insides turned overly hot with that one strike.

Her eyes was gold for a second before she balanced back on her feet.

"Don't touch me, you're nothing to me anymore!" She said, wanting to continue her walk again, but...

She noticed something pulling her finger again, and she checked to see it's another thread.

A new thread has grown, connecting her to Ryker again.

She cut it like she did the first one, and another one grew almost immediately, frustrating the hell out of her life.

"You damn ugly thing! Why not leave my fingers! I do not want to love this scum! I don't want to!! Please just...get away!!" She yelled frustratingly.

In anger, she threw her burning Firestone of fire at Ryker who's still on the ground.

He didn't move, so the fire landed on him, burning through his clothes and extending to his skin.

Shayla's eyes widened, and she let out an unplanned gasp...

"Ry!"

TBC.

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