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A gentle breeze carried out the leaves throughout the empty secluded island in the middle of nowhere, away from most civilization. A place where one could use as a resting home away from anybody that could disturb the sounding peace. A place suited for the haunting memories of the dead, yet a person still lived peacefully in that island all by himself without the help of anyone.
A lonely figure walked up to an overgrown tombstone with an encased box of dripstone holding a bundle of hyacinth flowers, a flower that once represent the love that they had. He reached his hand for the box reminiscing the past where the owner of that dripstone was still alive and well. The engraved word written on the box is “Fluixon”, a man that was once blinded by the goal he had in mind; a man that was once so full of rage; a man whom the lonely figure had loved with all of his heart now lies in this secluded area where no one would come and visit other than his beloved “friend”.
“Don’t you remember the first day we were stuck in this island?” he asked, while his gaze fixed on the birds flying in the skies as if it’s mocking his loneliness. His hands were restless, the purple from the flower bled through his fingers making it stained in his hands as he kept fiddling with it.
“We were …happy” he paused for a moment, then “…No, I was happy. You were scared of the possible outcome of island 1 invading us; you were scared our peaceful days in the island might fall apart; you were scared that you might one day lose me…” his swelled eyes continue to let out tears that has been screaming since the day that he died.
Until now, he still remembered how he ended his life. How he was lying on the ground as the crowd cheered that the traitor has been killed; how his heart started to pump faster and faster as the other pump slower and slower; how his hands and feet are numb from the fact that he killed the person he loved most; how he was gaping his mouth trying to say “thank you” and how he… stood there, frozen and silent watching him dies as if it was something worth more than his love for him. He stood there, watching as the world around him fall apart more than it already is. He didn’t want to kill him, he wanted an explanation; a closure; … an apology.
Though, it did made him happy how flux stood infront of him before the battle. It made him realize, that the man standing infront of him cared and that he always will be.
The lonely figure sat there for hours on end talking to an imaginary figure of a man in his twenty, where he would occasionally laugh, smile, angry, and in each time he would ended up looking endlessly into the skies with tears in eyes. He knew his hallucinations isn’t real, he knew it more than anyone. Afterall, he was the one who ended his life. It doesn’t matter to him how the world views his closes “friend”, in his eyes whatever flux did is the best possible outcome for them both.
A figure appeared next to him out of thin air holding a book and quill in his hands, his whole face is covered with small white wings; similar to the one he have. The figure appeared to have dyed his white hair blue and black in a specific area in his hair, making it seems like an eye. A very specific trait that only one person could have.
“Greetings, Angel 91, codename Saparata.” The figure spoke out, not even glancing his eyes to the person he’s talking to; his eyes fixated on the book hes holding.
“…Greetings, Angel 07, codename Eggchan. I take it youre here because of an important mission from above?” he smiles professionally, what an odd timing for an angel to appear as hes mourning the death of his “friend”; or one could say situationship. Either way, the angel saparata; or as the locals call him “Saps Saparata the hero of the world” is distraught by the fact that a high ranking angel has come to his humble abode
“It appears here that you have violated the laws of heaven multiple times, more than I could count with a human body. Shall I list them to you?” for the first time after a couple of minutes since his sudden appearance, eggchan glanced at saparata. As shocked as he is by the amount of violation that this person have in his track records, he is much more surprised that an angel could cry by looking at his swelled eyes. For a high ranking angel; more or less a seraphim, egg have zero to little experience when it comes to emotions. As powerful as he is, his only flaw is emotions; his eyes dazed as he watch saps wiped his tears away.
Saps looked at the pitiful seraphim dazing at the slight sight of emotions, he stood up from his leaning position. He dusted off his white robe that hes wearing, quite an interesting fashion taste one could say; especially at this day and age. Saps stared at him for quite some time, his eyes glanced at the normal suit angels tend to wear on earth business.
“For a seraphim you sure are interesting, the rest of angels in your ranking would’ve have a much composed expression when exposed to their flaws; yet here you are flustered at the sight of it. As for my “crimes”, the jury have not been touching this subject for a long time since they “devoid” me from the source. So what exactly that THE Seraphim need from me?” he mocked the seraphim with his weakness with a stern voice and expression. On the other hand, the seraphim quickly regained his composure.
“I’m here with an offer, one that you might want to hear that is.” Egg looked at the vast sea infront of him, how calm the tides are; how soon the calm tide wont even exist once the process has been done. ‘May the gods have mercy on their souls’
“An offer? So youre here for a personal business, and judging by the fact you came here on a whim without much proper thought of the dead. I take it youre ready to forsake the heavens for that sole goal in mind?” saps scoffed at the seraphim infront of him, ‘what an idiot’ he thought. Even the highest ranking angel would be scared enough to do their own bidding, yet lies here a seraphim having a set goal in mind doing whatever it takes for it.
“…I can revive him.” Egg lowered his wings that covered his face, and looked at saps dead in his eyes. For once in weeks since the passing of his dearest, saps found hope; his eyes glimmered with the thought of being able to spend time with him again.
“I see youre intrigued, as any offer usually goes this one is no different. You’ll be able to see him alive and well, even interact with him as you see fit. I’ll even give you a portion of the seer power just to see into the future; his future specifically. A good offer isn’t it?” egg grinned at the offer he was able to make, to him it’s like dangling meat infront of a tiger; a starving one at that. With that offer he can make saps do his biddings, he can hold him at the palm of his hands. ‘Heh, wonder if wemmbu gonna be proud of me doing ts’ he thought to himself.
“…Too good of an offer.” Saps knew he wants something, something big and bad is coming; yet he wants to meet him, atleast one more time.
On the other hand, egg was overthinking the words he said. ‘OH MY GODD, this chud ass bro. Just fucking say yes already, im here acting all nonchalant; yet bro keeps on moving to different thought process. If you wanna meet him so much jus-‘before he can even finish his thoughts, saps looked at him; his eyes glimmered once again.
“I’ll do it. So what is it that you want me to do?” determined to meet his dearest once more, he said yes to the offer; a one in a million offer, when else will you be able to meet a seraphim trying to make an offer? As shady as it is, the only person that can do that is the seraphim infront of him; as he is the gods’ favorite.
“Very well, I take it youll do anything based on that response?” egg looked at him enough to understand he’d do it. Saps eyes has been glimmering since the mention of flux reviving, even now hes imagining what it would feel like walking on a breezy meadow with him; exploring the vast world that exist. For once in weeks hes happy, happy for what is to come; happy for what will come. Egg can only sigh at the sight of this man infront of him, that’s what he gets I guess for playing with someone’s feelings. He knew of what will come his way, and how this man will ended up doing for it. ‘Wemmbu will do the same as him if something ever happen to me’ he smiled.
“Alright. Once youre there you will receive a necklace, keep it to you at all times; whatever you do, do not lose it or you will be unable to look into his future. Though, I must explain one thing. As you know reviving someone always comes with a cost, I’ve looked at his; you’ll see when we get to it.”
Egg reached to one of his inner feathers and plucked it, his feather slowly turned into a ball; a purple ball that quickly form a massive energy surrounding it. The wind in the surrounding areas are affected by it, a small gust of wind slowly get stronger and stronger each time, creating a massive vortex of time that sucks everything in its timeline. Saps looked shocked at the sight infront of him, how can a feather turn into something like that. The world around him started to regress, it regressed so much that the only being sitting in midst of it all looks still even though their memory of what happened still persisted through.
“Egg! I thought youre reviving him! Stop this instantly! Youre sucking every timeline of this world, this could create a catastrophic event for the rest universe!” he yelled as egg kept forcing his way to make what saps want happen and what he also want to happen.
“This is the only way for it to work! This is where my end of the deal comes through.” Egg shouted back at saps, claiming that for it to work he will need to sacrifice an entire world and its timelines to be able to revive flux while also achieving his end of the deal; reviving wemmbu from his world. Saps couldn’t bear the thought of destroying a world just to create another where he could finally live as one with flux, so he chose to look away from all of it; it was all for him.
Within only a few minutes the whole world was almost pitch black, the building that he built with flux was gone; the cave they mined together in; the bridge that saved him from his pursuers and the tombstone he decorated with flux’s belonging, gone in an instant. Out of thin air, flux’s body appeared infront of him; so is another figure next to egg. Saps couldn’t believe it, his dearest is infront of him; breathing, alive and well. As beautiful and handsome as the day they first met under ish guidance, he let out a tear in his eyes.
From a far a figure is fast approaching them, trying to stop the madness that they created; the end of the world. The figure was none other than ish, he is filled with rage by the betrayal of saps destroying the world he created with his own blood, sweat and tears. Saps knew how much this world mattered to him, yet despite all that he still chose to destroy it for a single person; all he could do was look away from the guilt that he felt.
They created a shield from the ball’s energy, enough to buy them some time to fully finish the process of the revival. Egg knew that Ish would be coming for them as soon as he started this process, yet he did this without much preparations. He know that he couldn’t prevent the future, but atleast saps is able to do it; whether he follows through with it or not once he saw the future is all up to him. Afterall, he wouldn’t remember much after this; this process took more parts of him than it did to saps.
”Listen to me! The necklace that you will receive is only a portion of what I could siphon from the source, so as long as you keep it with you; you can prev-“ his voice got cut off in the midst of it. A loud bang hit their ears along with an electric zap hitting the purple ball that egg was holding the entire time before they could react. They only had a few second to react, saps tried to reach flux with tip of his finger that is stained by the hyacinth petals that he fiddled with. While egg spread his left wing trying to reach wemmbu and his right wing to shelter them both for the upcoming impact; his hand is still holding the ball that is about to shatter, making last seconds adjustment as the figure is trying to break the shield that they made.
The ball shattered creating a giant wormhole, the impact of it hit the both of them. Thankfully, saps was able to shield flux’s body with his wings. As saps hit the ground his wing are no longer useable, both wing were damaged from the impact. In the ring of his neck appears a necklace with a purple gem; a zirconian gemstone, the same color as the ball that was used to transport them both. As for egg and wemmbu was nowhere to be seen, saps passed out with flux next to him; sleeping soundly in his arms.