Burning Soul

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‘Take him to his room, damn it’s easier said than done!’

Vivian was struggling to carry Theo on her back to his room and there was no one nearby to help her.

After a while, she was able to take him to his room.

By now everyone was in their rooms, from where their rooms she could see both Aeneas and Dimitri still walking,

‘I wonder what they are talking about!’

She gave this a thought and looked back at Theo sleeping.

‘Hmph, I can’t believe he left me and enjoyed his time with her!’

She walked in closer to him and was about to pinch his face when she saw him in a troubled look.

‘Didn’t he say he’d have no problem,

he surely looks in pain!

Poor thing!’

She placed her hand on his face to wipe off a drop-full of tears that just happened to slip from his shut eyes.

‘I shouldn’t have been so hard on him I think!’

She felt a bit guilty for her being stubborn.

She was still gazing at him when a bright reflection shone upon her eye, it was from the pendant he was wearing,

‘He’s wearing it!’.

He was clenching his hands on the stone of the pendant with a bit troubled look,

she felt a bit sad for him,

it looked as if he was holding on to it due to some bad dream or hallucinations he was going through.

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‘Crap I wasn’t there when he lost his mother!

I can’t even remember how she was.

Is he missing her, if only I could know what is going on in his mind!’

She leaned in closer to him to observe him.

She covered him in a blanket and sat next to him wondering what he was suffering from.

Ever since he was a child, he’d had difficulties sleeping, a long time ago when she was visiting his place, she had seen him wake up screaming and it was a sad memory she had as after the incident he’d stayed low for a while.

She remembered Merida telling her that he’d suffer from such pain every now and then ever since their mother passed away. He couldn’t get over the fact that his mother was no more, and he had to take on a lot of responsibilities later on.

She was afraid of the fact that he might have been suffering through it again. Although she wasn’t sure of what was hitting him so hard in the night, maybe it was something related to his mother or what happened earlier, or her behavior, though it was just a speculation.

Looking at the night sky out of the window she gazed at the distant stars thinking about where they’ve come now, it felt like they were having good times just a while ago and now they were journeying to save the world, it was so fast and crazy that she didn’t get a single minute to rest and think how crazy things had gotten around them in just a while.

Looking at him fighting his hardest every day made her resolve even stronger every time she felt like it was getting harder, she felt he helped her keep fighting, and now it seemed like he was going to keep going on forward.

She knew that he was going to train to death to get stronger and fight his way up, she wasn’t bothered by it a bit but she felt a bit sad looking at him suffering this way.

She took his hand in order to calm his nerves and patted his head,

“There!

You don’t need to keep fighting alone you know; you could always rely on us every now and then when it gets tough for you.”

She was looking at his face which seemed a bit relaxed now,

‘I want to be of help too you know,

after all,

I…’

A slight blush appeared on her cheek making it become peach pink,

it was quite visible in the low-lit room where light from the stars leaking in from huge windows lit up her face.

Her clear white skin was reddened by just the thoughts as she could feel her heart race faster,

‘crap I just noticed he’s holding my hand quite tightly’.

It was a bit late for her to slip from his grip.

Taking a good look at him she couldn’t help but admire how fragile he looked.

…

Just as she was looking at him, he pulled her hand close to him.

‘What…’

This sudden action startled her as she wasn’t expecting this to happen. Her heart racing even faster,

‘What am I doing?

I can’t take on the pressure, this is too much for my heart!’

She thought to herself as he held her arm close to him,

tightly.

Just as she was going through a roller coaster of emotions, she looked at his face which was quite to herself, although he looked calm, she could tell he carried the whirl of emotions.

.

.

…

After staying there a bit,

she tried to loosen up his grip and move as she was also tired and needed to head to her room to sleep as well,

just the moment she freed herself and left his side,

she looked back at him.

He was looking like he was in pain again,

‘Ah!

Really,

looks like I’ll just stay here a bit longer’,

She thought to herself and sat next to him while holding his hand softly.

It was quite late, but she couldn’t see him in pain and decided she’d stay there a while,

After all, she wanted to help him in any way possible.

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…

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“I hope that’d do it for now!” Diablo was standing with a severed head of one of the deities of the underworld’s dark elves.

He had clearly won the battle by a great margin,

there was no way mere dark elves could have repelled a full-fledged attack by one of the higher demon lords,

and Diablo at that!

“Master, I like how you get angry!

The only mistake these filthy rats did was to get in his way!”

Before René could continue Diablo threw a smile from the corner of his mouth,

“Although you can say all they did was to get in his way, for me it was a lot more.”

Diablo was never so caring about anyone ever and for some reason, he was looking after this unknown kid so dearly,

it baffled the arch-demon.

He didn’t dare to push him much and kept looking at him with a strange look in his eyes

“Whose voice does he hear?” He asked after gathering some courage to Diablo,

“You know that answer, don’t you?”

His reply was a bit confusing, but he suddenly realized whom he was talking about!

“Don’t tell me it’s her!

How can she still connect to his soul from the deepest of the hellish planes?”

For some reason, the arch-demon seemed a bit scared, more like he was doubting Diablo.

“Isn’t it getting fun?

What do you think, can we deal with her if the time comes?”

They were both looking at each other in disbelief while the forces on the back rejoiced in their obvious victory.