*Woman's voice "You know they sacrificed her, they left her for dead! There's no reason she would EVER want to return home to her girlfriend! ", *different voice "Listen to me! You can't decide everything for her!". "I am the reason she is alive, for god sake, are you defending the monsters who did this to her!?", "Jin, you know I care about her just as much as you do!". "Maybe you should look up the definition of caring, because if this is how you care for people I feel damn sorry for the people you hate".
She storms into my hospital room, it's obviously been days since the attack but I can still only see her covered in my blood covered screaming for whatever evil was ripping me apart to stop. (Imagining the attack ) "STOP, STOP, SHE'S DYING. LET HER GO. ALINA, HELP ME! ". "Kiarra, Kiarra." "Jin, how long has it been?", "A...A. A month". "Where is Alina?". "She's been missing... since the attack. Why, do you care?". "She is my girlfriend! I was going to propose". "Kiarra your only eighteen...", "I'm legal!". "She's a Morrayie!", "The rival between human and underworld beings..", "demons", "she hates that word", "you care because? ". "What is wrong with you?!?", "I saved your life, Alina was the ...". "Don't you ever, use the love of my life's name the way you just did". "Do you what she di. .....".
Without a second thought I jumped out of the hospital bed, ran, ran, ran and ran. Running down the stairs of the hospital and out the door I felt weak. Running in the rain at 1 am didn't help me either. I ran into an alley, my feet so cold they hurt. Alina loves me. Doesn't she? I know she does. But then, why isn't she here. She always talked about a paradise. She said that she could finally be happy if she went there.She said all the gods needed to take her there was a sacrifice.Maybe she finally found one, maybe she is happy in her paradise. But she always promised... that she'd take me. I know she hurt me at times. I know the scars the painted me where from her at times where her fault. But when she wasn't flying through the night or getting drunk and running away she was my reason for life.
I need to find her. I need her to know I still love her. I need to find out why she isn't here. Everyone is saying that she has done something wrong. They are all liars. Every single one of them! It's so confusing to me how the world works, and why society has to make it so hard to be happy. I was slowly getting tired, I was after all supposed to be in hospital for at least another week. I need to rest. Tomorrow morning I need to find Alina.
It's crazy to think that my relationship with Alina , which I thought would be frowned upon (as we are both female) ended the war between human and Morrayie. I guess partly the reason I don't and probably will never believe what they said she'd "done wrong" is because, they have never liked her kind. I don't want to sound like I'm sugar coating what they did. That it was acceptable to murder almost half of the human race in less than a year. But if we didn't attack, they wouldn't have either. It's like the world can't handle a beautiful thing. The few Morrayie that still exist need to be protected. Humans crush everything. It's as if the second they find something that isn't like them they need it to perish.
Alina was the only Morrayie that they let stay on the surface of the Earth with being locked up, tortured or experimented on. She was the ruler of the underworld, which made it slightly more dangerous for her on the surface, most people still blamed her for what we called the half death. When I met her was during one of the fights between the Morrayie and the military. That was the first time I had ever witnessed murder. But if you had seen what they tried to do to her people, women and children, and her ability to protect what she loved, maybe you'd fall in love with her too. She looked at me in disbelief, her strawberry blonde hair blowing into her eyes, as she levitated above the death that continued below her. The sky was red as ever and she turned to her general "I THOUGHT ALL THE HUMANS WE'RE EVACUATED, WE DON'T WANT ANY MORE INNOCENT BLOOD ON OUR HANDS!". He responded "Your highness my apologies for being so careless, I was under the impression that they were evacuated too". "AGH. DON'T KID YOURSELF. NEVER APOLOGIES TO ME. YOU KNOW YOU'VE EARNED YOUR RIGHT TO BE MY EQUAL. JUST GET JAKE TO TAKE HER HOME!" she said to him. A few seconds later I was sweaped into the air by a black haired boy who looked about 16 years old. He asked were I lived, I told him and I was dropped of there before he zoomed off into the sky in the direction of the fight.
A few weeks later I got a knock at my door, I opened it and there stood the woman I had thought was the most gorgeous woman I had ever seen. From the fight, from my understanding she was the ruler of the Morrayie. At my door she stood in stilettos, black skinny jeans, a sweater as it was raining and her lips were scarlette red. "Hi, My name is princess Alina, I rule the underworld. However there is no queen so you shall adress me as if I am the queen. Understood". I stared at her in silence. She giggled "I'm kidding" she said with a smile, exposing her snow white fangs. "I'm try to be normal in my spare time, when I'm not committing genocide" she laughed. There I still stood....silent. She obviously sensed how uncomfortable I was, as she asked(her smile fading) "may I come in?". "Sure" I finally managed to say.
We were joined by the hip since that day. She asked me out and I just kissed her. It's was easier for her, anyone who was homophobic to her she could just decapitate, she wouldn't. But she could. She is such a hilarious, smart and gorgeous human. I mean Morrayie. I was slowly waking up from the daze that brought me to remember how I met her. I stood up quickly and rushed to the nearest bus stop. "How much for a ticket? ". "That will be 20... I mean free for you". "Haha. Fred I missed you." I laughed. "So where you headed?" he asked. "The gates" I said. "um.. I can take you half way" he said, his voice quivering. "Deal".
When we reached the gates to the underworld I could already feel the heat and hear the screams. I stepped out. They killed humans on sight. *So progressive* ( eye roll), I guess as the species that killed 7 billion of there kind I shouldn't be talking. I walked towards the steal bars that separated our two world's with purpose. "HALT!". Words I expected. "Oh, sorry ma'am". "Yes, JAKE, let me in". The gates opened. I stepped in and was directly taken to the palace. I walked in hesitantly. "Darling". Sh*t. Alina's mom is home. "Mrs.Toshū". "It's ms now dear, Alina's father got bored". Wow. "So your looking for her?". "Yes" I responded.
"Hmm. She's in Shi no rakuen, aren't you supposed to be dead", "Apparently so" I replied, "Wou. .. ld you know how to get to, Shi no rakuen". Her eyes filled with an evil I had never seen before. "You know you aren't the best with death, darling" she said with a smile. "I know I have to make a sacrifice." I said. Then turned and left. The next day I called my best friend. I love you Hannah, but I need to find Alina. Please forgive me. She came over. I've always been the less sane type, but I've never had to cry at a funeral I was the cause of. I'll miss you Hannah. I will always remember you.
That night I went home to my apartment, I didn't sleep at all. Frankly I was afraid of realising what I'd really done. I was still in denile,If I came to my senses I could never live with myself. Hannah deserved to live, she helped me through my first breakup, she taught me how to do makeup in 6th grade. She took me to pride in 9th grade when I came out and no one accepted me. She got me my first pet, she organised the funeral for the ant we accidentally killed in 1st grade and I couldn't stop crying. She... would have been the maid of honour at my wedding. She was about to be signed for a record label. She deserved the world. And I took that....
Download NovelToon APP on App Store and Google Play