Lyon is the son of the kings of his planet, and he fell in love with the prince from the planet their parents had an alliance with. 

They met in secret every time his parents came to Lyon’s planet, and they fell in love. His name was nox, and to Lyn, he was the most beautiful person ever.

He knew everything about plants and flowers, he had some control over them. He taught Lyon about portals, and in turn Lyon taught him the violin. They found a way to communicate using small portals and violins. 

One day, lyon said goodbye to his parents as they were leaving for another planet.  

He always had free time when his parents left, time he used to talk to  nox. So the third day he went to his room, closed the door so that none of the castle's employees would walk in, and took his violin. He slowly started playing, to alert nox. No greeting. Strange.

He picked up speed, knowing this would certainly reach him

No response.

So, hesitantly, he opened the portal a little more. And he saw no one 

He left and went to bed, feeling uneasy. Nox always answered. Then again there was this one time when he had a long dinner to attend. That must be it, he has an event.

The next day passed, and Lyon got no response 

And so passed the next day, and the next, until the 4th day, when the butler who was about to serve Lyon breakfast said this.

Sir, you have a letter

A letter? Addressed to him? Huh. Maybe it’s nox! Maybe he’s alone too, and he got time to write!

He excitedly opened the letter, and started reading with a grin on his face

Grin that was abruptly wiped form his face as he red the paragraph

“ dear Lyon. I’m Nox’s sister, Lavender . I know that nox considers you one of his dearest friends, so it only feels right to notify you of this immediately. Nox was badly injured in a battle against a kingdom allied with yours. We don’t know who planned the attack, but we managed to save nox. He is in the hospital wing, but it doesn’t look so good. I’ll keep you updated”

-lavender 

So that’s why nox didn’t answer? He was sick this whole time? 

A million thoughts raced across Lyon’s mind

What if he died? No, he’s strong, he’ll survive 

What if his parents planned the attack? 

They couldn’t have, right?

That’s not how it works 

You don’t betray people 

You can’t do that 

Can you?

Days passed, and the only things that Lyon did was wake up, eat a piece of fruit, practice the violin for 4 hours, lock himself in his room reading, and stay up until 4 am just to see if nox would respond. As long as the portal is there, nox is fine.

Until a week after

He woke up, and didn’t check the portal

He went to get his usual piece of fruit.

He sat down

“You have mail, sir’

His heart stopped

He cautiously opened the letter, took out the paper, and stated reading

“Dear Lyon. Nox has passed. He died in his sleep yesterday, and I thought you deserved to know. The funeral is tomorrow, please come. He told me about you and him, you have to come”

Lyon was devastated. His best friend, his only friend, his lover, his soulmate had died.

He felt as though a piece of him was gone. The air felt empty 

He got up, wiped his tears, said thank you to the maid who gave him the letter, and headed upstairs

He opened the door, and tried to calm down, but the room felt different, the portal was closed, the flowers on the wall were even beginning to fall off, and he knew they would stay for long.

Like nox.

He attended the funeral, he mourned, he cried  in front of someone for the first time ever since he said goodbye to nox after his last visit.

Days passed. Lyon didn’t talk to anybody, he only played, and played and read.

He was adamant 

He would turn back time 

He would bring him back

No matter the cost

He finally found it, the spell. Ironically, it needed a portal

As he was preparing to do it, his parents walked in.

Good morning, Lyon

“Is that all you’re going to say to me?” Said Lyon, clearly about to cry 

YOU BETRAYED THEM

YOU KILLED NOX

I’m sorry, but it was our alliance with them, our one with the most powerful planet. Even so, you’d only met a few times- said his father, wit seemingly no care in his face

WE TALKED EVERY NIGHT

WE WROTE TO EACH OTHER

I LOVED HIM

You…….what?! Said his father, angrier than before 

Yes. He was my soulmate and you killed him.

He turned and walked away, ready to finish the spell

He powered the last rune, and hit it. Time started to go back, he’d done it.

Until his father walked in.

He got so scared he dropped the spell, and in turn merged the past and present, destroying his room in the process.

YOU WERE USING DARK MAGIC?!

skip to a week later, Lyon is in  court. He lost 

Well, he’d already lost. He was always lost without nox.

He accepted his fate, walked through the portal, and left his home.

He’d been exiled from his home for defending the ones he loved

He arrived in yunid’s world. And spent 13 years there. 

He made a notebook, and tried to replicate the way nox delicately pressed flowers and leaves to collect data, his meticulous writing, to no avail. It looked like a mock of the real thing, it only rubbed salt in the wound. It hurt

Then, as if things couldn’t get worse, he started to die too. He knew it, the air in this planet  was slowly killing him. He tried to stop it at first, but stopped caring about 7 years in. 

He had accepted it

He was dying, and there was nothing he could do about it.

That was until he met yunid.

She gave him a chance, a chance to make  him live for at least 4 years more.

He took it

Who knows, maybe he could finish that spell. If he could find a power source…

He did. A beautiful crystal. Purple when not powered, but turned a greenish shade of blue when energy was fed into it. 

The same colour as Nox’s favourite flowers he would send with every letter.

A year later, he finished it.

He knew it would have horrible effects, much larger than the ones in his room. This could easily damage half of the country. 

Did he care?

Absolutely not.

He’d been living for 14 years in a world that was killing him, why wouldn’t he kill the world too?

He was warned not to do it, yunid tried to stop him. Nat tried to stop him

He didn’t listen 

This was his moment 

He stepped into the runes, and started the spell.

The walls started  to shake.  The columns fell, the trees died

He didn’t stop

He had already stopped once

He wouldn’t mae, that mistake again 

As the last tree in the forest burned, he saw a light.

The same light he’d seen in his first attempt.

This was it. He was going 

Until…

*bang*

With a swoosh an arrow fired by yunid pierced through him.

This was it

He was dying 

So this is what death feels like

It’s peaceful 

It’s finally quiet for once

He thought he’d be there forever, floating in an empty limbo, alone with only his thoughts

But then he  saw something, 

He could see a glass wall. And when he looked through it, he saw none other than his soulmate, there, as beautiful as he last saw him, only much older now.

As they both faded away, they said their last words

• I’m sorry 

                      I’m sorry-