The Dark Goddess (2)

The wind blows hard as a loud roar echoes the field. A divine beast soars through the blue sky with his silver wings, beating on his back. The girl chuckles softly as she looks upon the beast and stretches her arm forward.

And he lands inches away from her and strides with power, his marvellous wings spread high, until his furry head touches the small palm of the girl. "Would you like to join me on this journey, Alex?"

He grunts softly while nudging his furry face against the palm of her hand, making a sweet giggle erupt out of the girl.

The goddess walks towards them with a small smile on her face now as she looks at them both. Then her eyes shift on the silver of his wings and she steps forward. Gently stroking the soft feathers, she seems to be deep in thoughts.

"I better prepare for the worst then. Who knows when you might need some kind of harmony in your life? I'm sorry to burden you with such weight, Alex."

And before I could grasp any of this, my world starts spinning again as I see faces, chaos, I see a war. Now bathed in red, I see the girl again but with hair as black as midnight and eyes as dark as coal, in contrast to her heavenly self. But she looks divine regardless.

I walk through her life and meet Aries. But no matter how much I cry out, how much I plead, no one hears me, not even him. "Aries it's me. Aries, I'm right here."

But he doesn't even glance my way. He doesn't even know I exist.

I watch him as he starts to fall in love with her. I watch him as he drives her away. I watch him as he indulges himself in grief. I watch as she takes his hatred, wombs his wrath, shows him patient and teaches him to love.

And I watch her leave him with a promise of another love. So much for her empty promise to be with him in this infinity. How laughable she sounds to my eyes now.

I watch as he now sits in silence, mourns for his lost love. "Aries I'm here." I tell him again and again as tears cascades down his now sullen face. I cannot even wipe his tears dry. So, I sit beside him with sealed lips, as an escort, as he silently sheds his pain and regrets.

I watch as the human Althea enters his life and as he enters a new dilemma, bewildered by the arrival of his new mate. I watch him suffer again. I watch him cry again. I watch his stone heart move a little then break again.

And I watch as she leaves again, blessing him with an eternal life this time. What a joke she was playing.

Tears never stops flowing down my eyes as I pour my heart out. "Aries." I cry out for no one to hear. Then I watch as his hair grows longer, the lines on his face harsher and stubbles on his cheek sharper. I move along the time with him as he falls into despair as he awaits her.

I wonder if it was a blessing or a curse the girl offered him.

And then the night at the club plays before my eyes again. I watch him as he holds her. I watch him as he breaths in relief. I watch him as he gently lays her in his arms and cradles her face in his large palms.

I see the look on his face, the curves on his lips, the twinkle in his eyes as he pulls her into his arms and finally lays beside her. I watch him fall in love with her again.

I watch him fall in love with me.

I take two stumbling steps back and soon my world starts to swirl again and I'm back in the field of tulips by the pond. The girl with the silver hair stands before me but this time, she looks right at me. Her smile now sad, never reaching her vacant eyes. The world had indeed infected her innocence, made her age as it took the light that once held the brilliance in her silver eyes, the curves in her lips.

"Although I managed to save his soul, I failed to protect his body. This was his last lifetime. His soul will never be born again. How naïve was I to think that this was our place in this infinity where I could be together with him regardless of heaven and hell separating us?" She fills me in with sadness puddling in her eyes as she inches closer to me.

"I only ever wanted him. The only thing that I ever desired was to be with him." Her whispers surround me as she integrates and disperse within me, filling the voids of my memories with hers.

Blood red tear flows down my cheek as I stare at the reflection in the pond. Silver hair replaces my dark black ones while my eyes remain the same, one holding the darkness of my past life, the other, the heaven.

Finally, I hear my soul. I understand my heart. But it was too late now.

Aries was gone.

"Aries."

I cry as I fall on my knees and stare at the calm blue sky now hovering with the dark shadows looming from my heart. Endless river of red flows down as I grieve my loss. The other half of my soul. My one true love. My Aries.

Whom I loved before time.

Soft wind blows my silver hair away and in front of me stands my mother who bears the sadness in the glint of her own silver eyes. And there she stands Destiny herself, cloaked in her silky white robe, personifying her false innocence.

"You lied." I whisper broken, numb.

But she has the audacity to shake her head and take a step forward. "You were never meant to leave that land. You were never meant to meet the way you did."

She looks at me with her pretentious sadness pooling in her eyes. "You met him because of your desperation not because of the destiny I wrote for you. I warned you of the consequences your dark self might have on this life. I cannot control the darkness that hold you. I have no such power Althea."

I shake in fury at the lies she was making up. The story she was feeding me to conceal her ugly truth. "But you said I would remember. You lied."

Sighing softly, she takes a step further. "Alex and Harmony were meant to be one before you even met. Harmony was supposed to be beside you when you finally meet Aries. She was the one who was meant to help you recollect your past. That was her destiny. Know this Althea, immortals are not god when born on land. They can't just recall their past lives. Everything went wrong the moment you left the land in hopes to quench your heart filled with darkness."

With empty eyes, I stare at the palms of my hands resting on my lap. "So, it was my fault. All of this was my fault. Aries is gone because of me."

"That is not what I meant Althea. Look what the darkness is doing to you. I already warned you once before, the darkness that you harbour will have its own costs. And as such you have witnessed with your own eyes. I cannot change what's done."

Fury rumbles my heart and my soul as the world goes silent, and I travel through space and into the land of living again. Or rather the land of dead. I hold Aries' limp body close to me. My raging heart defies the silence of my lips as I sit cuddled by the darkness pouring out of me and into the world.

Angry black cloud hovers over me, forming a cloak, a shield so no one could pass through and hurt my Aries who already lay breathless in my arms. The enchantment that separates me from the mundane world, finally breaks free with my hair now flourishing itself into silver.

"Lies. You lied. All you ever did was lie." My voice, a tremble of broken heart, but it was as clear as the red blood siting in the corner of my eyes, making my vision red.

I cup his now cold face, pale and lifeless. The love of my eternity.

"I am no goddess." My trembling lips whispers.

"If I ever was one, I would never let no one separate us. I would never leave you alone to bear all the sadness, the heartbreak." I stroke the stubbles on his cheeks with my thumb, loving the feeling it gave me, but hating the missing sparks, the light currents that once sizzled upon our touch.

"And now you lay in my arms, a reality that only exists in my thoughts. And now I hold you in my arms, I can feel you against my skin, I can love you once again." And finally, a hot trail flows down my eye as I sniffle a sob.

"It's okay my love, I will forever carry you in the small of my arms, in the entirety of my heart and in all corners of my thoughts. I will fill my soul with yours as we join together at last, I will give in to this darkness and free myself of the light that took you away. Only then we can finally live together in the shadow of the darkness."

I bring my face lower to rest on his cold forehead. "I will turn the world dark and the universe a hell. And I will rule over it, with you locked deep in my heart. What I cannot get, I will not let anyone have." I fall into the mayhem of my sorrowed laughter as I once again face the heavens.

"Let the destiny, try and pair the souls together for I will stand above her and laugh as she plays her little game of destiny. I'll let her witness the outcome of the calamity that she has raised upon me as I become the ultimate destruction and ruin the creation of all lives, her paths, her choices. She too will shed tears as I."

The sky crackles upon hearing my vow and the dark clouds threatens the entire universe.

"And all this world will ever witness is chaos. Hatred. And I will become the one true goddess of all. I will be the dark goddess."


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