Chapter One Hundred Eighty-Four:
"Goddess Shirina?" she was so surprised that she saw her. "But… how?"
Shirina smile at her. "I don't have much time to explain everything, Goddess Aella. But one thing is for sure, I want to save you."
"Why?"
"Because I want you to save my brother, and I know that is what you wanted am I right?"
"Yes. That is what I want but…" suddenly she stops when she remembered the torture that was done to her when she was about to save Hunapo out of the void.
"I know what you have been suffering at the hands of Evil Khawar but for now the important thing is to get you back but there will only be a lack of your return."
"I can accept whatever it is as long as I can go back just to save Hunapo." She answered with full of determination.
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Present…
Sky City
Medea's House
"My dear Aella!"
I immediately heard Kanik's voice and when I finally opened my eyes, he was there beside me. And his face reflected the extreme concern.
"Thank you." I said after I roamed my eyes around my surroundings and I found out he brought me home after the attack that Ozul did to me. I also found out that he aids my wound and now was covered with bandages.
"How are you feeling?" he asked with full of concern.
"I'm fine." I said as I sit up from my bed.
"But you were wounded by Ozul and I know how much it will endanger you."
"I'm a Witch and not just a simple Witch, Kanik. So, I am fine. You have nothing to worry about."
Kanik looks at me with questions in his eyes and I know he will bother to ask me the reason why Ozul attacks me.
"What happened? What is Ozul's reason for attacking you like that? Because as far as I can remember, Ozul won't just attack like that unless…" he looks at me trying to figure out what was the real reason and I notice that he doesn't want to doubt my true intentions. That makes me feel guilty but what else can I do if that is the only way to finally save him.
To do what I truly made of, why Goddess Shirina used everything that was left on her just to save my spirit out of the void and reincarnate me back to Earth.
"Doubt me badly." I answered as I take off the bed while holding the wound inflicted by Ozul.
"What! Aella! I will never ever, going to do that!"
"I know." I answered and get the bottle of the elixir then drink it to finally heal my wound.
"Then, why are you saying that?"
"I don't know…" I said and shrug off and finally I feel fine so I took off the bandages that surrounds my tummy and see if my wound is already perfectly heal. "But one thing is for sure, Ozul attacks me with reasons."
Kanik looks at me suspiciously and that is what I wanted yet my heart aches when I also saw from his eyes the sadness and dismay that I cannot erase no matter what I say and do.
"What is your reason?" he seriously asked.
"It's been so long since we first met, Kanik or should I call you… Hunapo?" I begin and he seems to get it.
"What do you want, Aella? Is that the reason why you had another chance to get back into the world of the living?"
I take a deep breath and instead of answering his question I ask him. "Do you still remember when I try to save you out of the void?"
"Yes. I will never ever forget that. And that's the reason I will never allow to happen again! To watch the endless misery at the hands of Khawar is the one I want to avoid!"
"Then, let me help you to cut your ties with him. If that is, you still trust me."
"I'll trust you. Even if the substitute is my own death!" he seriously answered.
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Underworld
"Haimon!" I heard him as they called me but I was sucked in into a dark hole and whatever I try to flee I cannot do anything and my whole spirit just sucked in through deep.
"Open your eyes!" suddenly a very cold and deep voice commanded me and with a slow motion, I open my eyes only to meet…
"Kha-Khawar?"
"Finally, you're awake." He said then I just noticed that I am tied into something I don't know. "We were at the dark hole, where everything and anything dissolve into nothingness. Nothing but an endless darkness or some call it an endless void."
"What?" I look around and because it was only my head that can move, what I can only look is what I can only see. But to my dismay, he was telling the truth, we were at the void.
"Now you see. This is the world I am living for a very, very long time. And that filthy bitch wanted to me return here into the place I never wanted to go back!" He furiously stated.
"But aren't you from here, so why do you have to object to their wishes?" I curiously asked.
Khawar gaze back at me. "You're right, I came from here." He answered. "I quietly remain in emptiness and have no other concern but to remain silent while the darkness continues only in its normal form. But then, things changes when my brother suddenly became neutral. He felt a great sadness in the light around him, which he wishes to have a companion. And that begins everything! My world suddenly collapsed and everything that I wanted suddenly ruined. Darkness begins to change. Void begins to create an endless oblivion and dark holes are the one that was been created. That causes me to wake up and to start a bloody war between me and my brother. To simplify it, this is all because of him!"
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