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firstroseprincess · 2 years ago

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An End and a New Beginning

The King answered the queen's call and met her in an isolated room freed from windows. He felt the room move downwards but dismissed it. He saw his wife facing away from him, kneeling as she caressed a flower-decorated urn on the floor. The room smelled of her sweet scent and something else, something familiar. However, he paid it no mind as this was the first time she called out specifically to see him and only him. At this point, he was happy, the nuisance had died and the children had been born healthy and happy. He couldn't wait to see them. But he worried, was it safe for his beloved wife to be standing so soon? "For what purpose does my beautiful wife request an audience with me", he smiled as if he had won.

She froze as she heard his words and then, she stood. She faced the wall as she felt a coldness going through her, "You made me break my promise, I have taken the life of my beloved due to your words. Are you happy now?. Her voice was clear and soft, so lovely that you wanted it to call out your name. The King could only stare blankly as he tried to get closer to her, but she inched away each time.

"You have taken the last person who ever truly understood me, without lifting a finger", she whispered.

"I felt it was necessary for all obstacles to be eliminated from our path", he asserted.

"And the children? What becomes of them in your grand scheme, my husband?" She smiled but still refused to look back.

"I plan to raise them accordingly, lovingly, and with all I have to give. Of course, you don't have to stay if you don't want to, my dear wife", he smiled sweetly as he tried to reach her.

"It seems you really will use anything to get your way. But, if I may ask, why go so far for someone who refuses to even look at you?", her smile faded as she waited.

"... I wanted to open your eyes. You claim that the last person who really knew you is gone, but, here I am. I have removed every distraction and disappointment from your path to make you see, that no one can understand those like us," he stood behind her and basked in her scent, awaiting her words.

"You speak as if we were meant to be together from the beginning. Tell me, my husband, did you peak into your future, my exalted time prince".

"I did".

"Knowing full well such actions are forbidden, even for you. Tell me, is this what was written down, my dear husband".

" Since we first met, I felt such a strong connection with you, I looked for answers day in and day out, and then I found it. The eldest of us brothers had a premonition in a form of a poem, and I was lucky to read as he wrote.-' the youngest of time and the daughter of rose would embrace one final time// as all can see happily as all things divine//tears escape as roses weep// and she sees herself finally complete// thus all sorrow is freed when time is rewarded before all that is sublime',- I etched every word into my very soul before it disappeared into our catacombs and beyond my reach".

"Ah, and what do you think these words meant for you and me?"

"We were destined to wed, for the outsiders to die, and then you would finally see that the only one you need, has stood here the entire time". His eyes began to water as he placed his hand on her shoulder.

"Why would you think that my feelings would change for you, my husband", her voice shook, and her eyes went wide as she looked at the ground, feeling his hand slither on her arm.

"Because, even now, after all your pain, all my actions, all the heartbreak...you still looked at me as if you were waiting for me. Why is that?", his words inched him closer as his other hand brought her towards him.

She began to ponder as all these years fleeted into seconds."...I believe...I still held hope for my dear friend... to open their eyes to what they were doing". She felt his arms pull her closer into an embrace that she did not resist.

"My dear wife, did you not know I always loved you? After all I have given and sacrificed to be at your side. For what other reason would I have gone so far?", He held her tight as he cried, kissing her nape.

Her eyes lost their shimmer as he bellowed his statement. Her heart ached as she finally accepted reality," When you express yourself in such a way, my eyes have opened to my mistakes. I see my friend was never there, to begin with". She finally turned to see him and pulled him even closer. A euphoric feeling engulfed the king as he finally got what he wanted.

She was more beautiful than before, her eyes clearer than any ocean or sky, her smile more vibrant than any sun, her skin and hair softer than any rose petal or silk. She shined brighter for him and only for him. Then, as if a miracle had appeared, she leaned in and kissed her husband. He happily accepted as he cried tears of joy, but, it was soon over as he felt something pierce through his skin.

Branches sprouted from the ground, through her body, and finally through his as they embraced. Pierced bodies were held tight by contempt and vines as he tried to tear himself away. Both were bloodied, but only the Queen laughed as the vases surrounding them broke and spilled gallons of blood. The streams all flowed towards them and created a lotus seal as they stood in the middle.

Desperate, he tried to untangle himself from her, fighting through the pain, but, she just held him tighter. " Why do you want to let me go now, I thought you loved me. Was all that talk a lie? Or did you just want me when you had the upper hand?", she laughed as he struggled. "Has your mind been corrupted by that human?! Have I not given you all I have and more? What more must I give for you to see that you hold love for me as I do for you?! His confusion made him angrier as he felt her taunting him. " My husband, you need only give me three things and I will return my heart, my body, and my very soul willingly to you".

He placed his forehead on hers" Then ask."

"Give me my sacrificed villagers back".

"...I cannot."

"Return my father to me".

"...I cannot".

"Then, bring back my beloved whom you took from me", she screamed

"I can't give you what is already gone."

Her eyes grew sorrowful as she separated herself from him, freely walking to make sure all of her blood-filled urns had spilled, as she sneered at her husband. " Then, I cannot give you what was never there".

His breathing became more rapid as his arms were restrained and her stare became blank. "Why are you so harsh my wife!? What could a nobody gardener with no last name, no land, no power, offer to the Celestial of nature!?"

As she heard him disrespected her beloved, all the rage and tears she held for so many years escaped her lips, "Everything! He offered me everything! He gave me so much of himself I feel like half of me has died! You claim to know me, and what is best for me, but you never peaked beyond the surface. You claim you have given me riches, power, and opulent gifts. But there is a detail that you missed."

And what would be that which I did not see!", he screeched.

"...That I didn't what any of it. I never wanted a kingdom, I never wanted riches, I didn't need all of these gifts. I just wanted a place I could return to with my beloved. But, look and behold, what a beautiful kingdom it has become. A place I can never leave, and that my children will have to look after."

"My beloved wife please, you are going too far. This will not end well, you have made a vow to never hurt me!"

"We are not beneath the sky at the moment, my husband. We are in a place where neither the sun nor stars will ever see us".

She approached her husband and attached herself again. Roots impaled her body as they melded with him. She began to dig inside his head and cut off pieces of him to adorn the floor. Each time he squirmed but never screamed, only ever glaring at her. " The eye of my husband to guide me through, the hand that has caused me so much sorrow, and the leg that has tainted my home. My husband, your body will be sacrificed to alleviate my burden. When all the blood has left our bodies, the spell will be complete, but we will also perish. But, do not worry, I will be back in no time, you made sure of that”.

She sewed his remaining leg to his stump and his remaining arm to his torso. He screamed as he tried to call for his saints, but he soon recognized the familiar scent that was in the room. She had used his saint's blood for this ritual, and, it was currently surrounding them. “How could you do this, after all I have given you-“. The king was cut off as she slowly began to sew his mouth, his muffled screams vibrating through his chest as she lay her head upon it. “Shhhhh, my dear husband. I agree that you have given me all these things, but, I remember telling you I did not need anything of the sort. I was happy with simple things, the only thing that was a hazard was you. But, there is one thing I want to show my utmost gratitude for. Because of you, I was able to have children with the man I love. I believe that when he turned into your saint, you created a miracle”. As she reached the end of his mouth with the string, she cut it with her teeth, her lips caressing his.

The ritual was nearly complete and she could see the desperation in his eyes. He tried pleading in any way he could but, she began sewing his eye shut too. Slowly, the dull needle struggled to get through the skin, blood seeped through as he moved his head violently from side to side. “I don’t like how you are looking at me, it reminds me of the past. You have forced my hand, my husband. And because you have forced me, I have no choice but to move forward”. Her face showed a melancholic expression, but a smile slowly reappeared as she said the incantation. “ Time has stopped, lives have shattered, stolen years sit upon my head. Pain and sorrow will always reach me, but your touch never will. Until the bloom of another rises to take my stead, then will I be able to reach my end”.

Her light engulfed them both, the room rumbled and their blood boiled as she finished her words. But, it was not as painful as she thought it would be. She held her husband as he panicked, but he quickly gave in as he realized his final moments were here. He stopped resisting and he let his wife embrace him as this warmth would be the last thing he felt. She paid him no mind as she said her final words to him.

“Goodbye, my dear friend ”.

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