“Yana, please let me talk to you again.” Yana scoffs and faces Radial,
“We already talked and remembered why we need to talk again. You’re awake and that’s all that matters.” Radial and I connect eyes. Silence, but you could tell he was annoyed that I was interrupting his experiments.
“Yana-”
Radial groans, “Novus, you are still recovering. We don’t know how your body will react to your new powers, please go lay down and let me work.” Yana nods, I twiddle my thumbs before finally leaving his lab. The world seemed different now, everything was silent, nothing seemed right. What happened while I was gone? Rave was supposed to take over. He probably freaked out, everyone went into a panic. Now I’m awake, I'm the queen and everyone is waiting for me to make a move. Yana and I talked while in my head, there was something, something there she refused to tell me. I want to know her, I want her to talk to me again, I want-
“Princess,” Yana, “Oh, well I guess you’re queen now aren’t you?”
“Princess is fine. As long as you talk to me.” Yana doesn’t smile, her eyes trace down to her shoes she sighs,
“Look Princess, it might be awhile before I’m able to tell you my whole story. I will though, okay?”
I nod, the world falls silent. We stood awkwardly next to each other, I couldn’t tell if she wanted me to talk, or if she was trying to find the right words, “Yana-”
“Why do you trust these Pure Lights?” she spurts out, scaring both of us. Amelia walks by waving at the both of us. Yanamarie stares uncomfortably then smiles at Amelia. She didn’t trust her,
“What’s wrong? Did Amelia say something? I..I can talk to her!” the words came out rapidly, like I had no control over my own mind,
“I just,” Yana says, interrupting my words, “want to know why you trust each of them so much.”
Silence again, who do I trust? I close my eyes allowing the words to take over, “I’ve known Rave, Radial, Liam, and Opal since we were all children we went to school together. They never keep anything from me, we’re all extremely close.”
I hear Yana laugh slightly, I open my eyes to find her staring intently at me, smiling, “Well go on, how about Raisa and Amelia.”
I close my eyes before the heat rises to my cheeks, “Raisa, saved me. When I was younger, I was on Earth. I completely lost my memory.”
“Because of the Demon rebellion, I remember that well. He didn’t even know such a thing would happen.” Yanamarie sighs
Even with my eyes closed, I could feel us becoming closer, our arms were interlocked. She held my arm with an intensity, I could feel the longing. She didn’t want to let go, I continued, “Raisa brought me to Rave, and then,” I squeeze Yana’s arm, my mind trying to forget, but my body refusing, “Kito.”
She becomes stiff, she knows what he did, “Princess you don’t have to talk about him. In fact, don’t talk about him. What happened after you left Daemon?”
Now my head laid on her shoulder, her hair drifting across my face, “I ran away, leaving Rave, leaving Kito, and met Tenius, he introduced me to Amelia,” I pause, how much did I actually know about Amelia? I know more about Tenius than her, I’m closer to Tenius than I am her, “Amelia showed remarkable signs of light. I assumed, she was a Pure Light.” I assumed.
“You assumed?” I did, “Princess, why do you trust me?” I raise my head, our skin touches, our eyes glow a bright blue and Yanamarie pushes me back. Both of our hands shook,
“Yana you’re my-”
“Soulmate, how surprising,” A deep voice appears behind me, the smell of darkness makes me sick, my body wobbles and Yana catches me, “Yanamarie, this is what you do once Master decides you’re worthless? You become weak and fall in love?”
She says nothing, but holds my arms tightly, I look at her, she is focused, but distracted, “Yashiro. You have no place here.”
That name, “On the contrary Yanamarie, my place is here, beside Novus. Killing her finally, ending this cycle surely you remember this after 247 failed attempts, reset after reset.”
“Stop it!” she shouts
“This is my business, not yours anymore.” I opened my eyes, the man stood before me black liquid dripping from his eyes, I laid on the ground where Yana no longer was.
“You’re the Unspoken for this generation, or this reset.” I say, standing up on my own
He laughs, it chills my spine causing me to shake, “So you do understand resets. Or is it your new found power?”
“I’m a Watcher of Time now, why wouldn’t I understand resets?”
He sighs twirling around the dark room, “Because you never remember them, Novus.”
Just him saying my name made me sick, this level of darkness was more than Yanamarie ever had, “Only Guardians-“
“Yes, yes only Guardians of Time remember resets, and people like Yanamarie.” Yashiro says annoyed, but underneath he smirked, because he knew my interest had been caught,
“Yana remembers?”
“Oh yes, she remembers everything. Well she tries to, once centuries pass it t hard to remember it all, that means she remembers every time she killed you, or I did.”
The brambles appeared, is this what she kept from me? Why is it so hard for her to get close to me? “Why are you telling me this?”
“Because we can change this, if you come with me, I can finish you off and we don’t have to keep resetting. You save Yanamarie, and yourself,” He touches my cheek, darkness swirls around. The black liquid drips from his eyes onto my cheek, I grab his hand, pushing him away, he sighs, “you always push me away.” He strokes my neck and the cold shivers down my whole body.
“Ple...Please, stop it.” His smirk turns into a smile as both of his hands grab my neck, the brambles come flooding up. I gasp for air attempting to find the right breath, tears pour down my cheek, the brambles attack my finger, tingles and pokes, static is all I feel and see. The world becomes dark as I choke on the last thing I saw, a rose coming up through the brambles.
“A last parting gift, before I actually kill you.” darkness courses through my neck, the brambles disappear, I scream and light flashes. Yashiro is gone, my eyes glow bright blue, Yanamarie holds me tightly in her arms, rose petals escape my mouth, but they were liquid, my body was covered in them. My body was covered in blood, I heard Yana’s voice in the back of my head, but I saw Amelia in front of me. She’s smiling, she says something, but I can’t understand, Yana’s grip tightens. I can’t feel pain, I only feel calm, for once in my life I would’ve wanted Liam to be here, I was scared of what the darkness would do to me.
Now Rave is running over, a bright red staff appears in his hands. He pauses, staring at me, looking at my eyes, then his eyes drift down, horror strikes his face, there was something wrong. Blood drips from Amelia’s hand as she summons crystals. I close my eyes, the noises around me sounded like an aura trying to talk, get my attention. It was like a dream, a painful, beautiful dream. Then reality hits, I gasp for air jolting up, pain wraps around my neck and travels down my spine. That's when I realized I was no longer in Yana’s arms. Instead in Opal’s bed, she worked quiet like a mouse, her ears perk when she notices me, “You’re awake! It’s been 2 days! How do you feel, does your neck still hurt?”
“Wha..what happened.” Silence, her body lowers, sighs, and begins to check my vitals,
“Amelia, works for the Unspoken Complex,” Rave’s voice rises as he walks into Opal’s room. A bandage covered his arm, “Yanamarie saved you. I distracted Amelia while Yana ran to Opal. You were already gone before she reached the infirmary.”
“Where..is she?” It hurt to talk, my throat burned every word, every time I closed my eyes to stop the world from spinning the feeling persisted, I felt awful.
“Amelia left with Yashiro, and Yanamarie is in the garden with Radial right now, don’t worry about her, worry about yourself,” Opal sticks a thermometer in my mouth, “Yashiro caused mild asphyxia, unconscious, but thankfully not death. He used the darkness to create a permanent mark on your neck where he strangled you, but otherwise your body is physically fine.” I touched my neck, the tears began to pour, this was the beginning of the end.
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