I Scored Myself A Mate

"We have been searching for three years now" Mark said and released a sigh. "Asmodeus is freaking out with all these elves back there" he told the white haired man and he laughed.

It was past midnight. The breeze of the night moved slowly through their hair, creating music through the rustling leaves while their little fire accompanied the rhythm as it burned steadily. The general was looking at the stars, little spots in the midnight sky, the moon hidden. Allias loved the starry sky, he always smiled as his eyes mirrored the shine of the stars.

"Time passes by fast." He whispered.

"Tell me about it. Also when did you pick up smoking? What is this?" He asked him, seeing a cigarette resting between his fingers. 

"We have been traveling for three years together and you didn't notice?" Theseus asked him and Mark scoffed. "It's like the ones you have in the human world, a bit different though not so...broadly produced?" He said, questioning if he had phrased his words right. 

"I see. I don't get it but oh well, you do you. Anyways, where will we be going tomorrow?" Mark asked the general. Theseus kept to his thoughts for a while, recalling Allias' last letter. Once he believed that the veil was small, the kingdoms fitting in the palm of his hand but now, every territory, every village seemed so vast and his king, his lover was somewhere out there, hidden.

"I think we should stay a bit more here. The elf nation is big. We could ask around in the main village." He told him. 

"Who will know though? We've asked almost everywhere. No one knows an elf with the name Allias. We've scattered everywhere your little sappy letters but nothing."

"They are not sappy. They're my feelings."

"Sounds the same to me. Still, we should have hired a witch. It would be a lot better." 

"No it wouldn't." Theseus argued. "The fact that it's still snowing in the elf kingdom means that Allias' magic has been suppressed. It would be almost impossible to spot him. The easy thing with Allias was that his magic was so strong you could sense it from miles." Theseus explained. Mark frowned, scratching the top of his head dissatisfied. They had to find him.

"I'm not giving up" the red haired man said out of the blue. "I am not going back home until we find him."

"I'm not giving up either. Even if it means I will have to camp in horrible villages for the next five years with you."

"Hey! What's wrong with us camping?"

"You snore too loud, man." Theseus told him with a grin resting on his handsome face. He brought his cigarette close to his lips, releasing a cloud of thick white smoke as his lilac eyes focused on the sky again. "As long as we're under the same sky, then I'm fine. I can hope."

"He is not dead right?" Mark said, sadness lingering in his eyes.

"No, he isn't. He can't be. He is Allias after all. He is just out there. Waiting. I am sure." Theseus said, making the exorcist smile when footsteps were heard. Mark turned his head seeing a familiar figure approach. It was Kage, one of his familiars.

"Did you hear anything?" Mark asked the demon spirit. He looked as if he fitted perfectly in the scenery. The thick woods and the dark sky. His pale skin and bottomless eyes. It matched the night so well. Kage looked at his master, getting closer and sitting down on the damp grass before he spoke.

"We have searched the most busy areas during the night. I talked to a lot of people, some were scared though since I was a demon. Still I heard something."

"What did you hear?" Theseus asked, getting his eyes away from the midnight sky and focusing on the spirit. 

"You had given one of your diaries to a merchant that does business here. After he sold the diary to a woman and a man they went into town looking for him. They asked where he had gotten it, who gave it to him." Kage told them. Theseus was at the edge of his seat, waiting for the spirit to finish. "The merchant said he didn't know where we lived, that we were travelers and the two people left shortly after. I asked him how they looked like"

"And?" Theseus asked, urging him to speak faster. Get to the point and let them know if finally after three years of endlessly searching for him he had found him.

"They said the woman was an elf, she was named Naila, she is a doctor. Her companion was a man, her helper. They say she saved his life from a head injury. The interesting thing is that he is an elf but his name is ….Alex." 

Theseus took in a deep breath. Slowly a rose of hope began to bloom in the garden of his heart. For years it was a dried out field, forgotten and let go but now, as he heard the name Alex, as he listened to Kage he felt as if something inside him had woken up. Just by the sound of his name, he felt like he came back to life.

"You think that he…" Mark mumbled, looking at Theseus hastily and the elf general shook his head in agreement.

"Yes. It's him. He can't be anyone else. I am sure. Who else would be an elf called Alex?" He asked.

"So...we found him?" He asked, his voice filled with excitement. A bright smile appeared on his face.

"We found him!" Theseus exclaimed. "Tomorrow, we will go into town and search for that doctor."

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Hello! How do we feel about the ending? I will start the romantic stuff now...hehehe you guys deserve it. Thank you for all the support. It has been a long journey and some of you were here from the start.. I hope you will enjoy the final arc.