When I wake up I see Vera sitting beside a strange man. I am now completely awake. I'm still denying she is my sister and Waverly is my mother but she may or may not know this man and if she doesn't that's bad. I walk up to her she sighs and rolls her eyes. Seeing her with him creates a pang in my chest.
Aislon. We aren't anything but the doesn't mean I don't like him. I don't know where he went and I miss him. I lecture Vera and just to annoy me just walks over and holds his hand. I sigh.
"I guess we leave today" I say and we begin our walk. We are still in town when Vera collapses. My first instinct is to find a communication shell. I sprint to the beach and dig around in the dirt until I find one. I phone Aislon. "Hello?" He answers. "Aislon! You and Waverly need to come quickly and tell her to bring some medicine!" I yell into the shell then hang up. I sit back on my heels and run my fingers through my hair.
Worst 4 days of my life!
Waverly and Aislon emerge from the water already with legs. I run up to them. "Mia what happened?" Waverly asked me. "I don't know, it's Vera" I say. We walk over there and that guy is sitting beside her. "Who's that?" Waverly asks me. "I honestly don't know he kinda just showed up" I respond and she runs to Vera's side. Vera's shaking.
"Must be strange seeing your little sister with a guy"
"She is not my sister" I say with a laugh. He looks at me unbelievingly. "It's the truth. She's not my sister" I say hitting him in the stomach. He looks at me. Almost adoringly. I reply that look. We get closer, then closer until our lips are almost meeting until we hear Waverly yell "I'm loosing her!" I turn my head first. Aislon looks hurt. I mouth the word sorry to him and head over to Waverly. She has two fingers over Vera neck. A tear streams down her face. "Nothing". I kneel beside her and hug her as she cries into my shoulder. A tear streams down my face. I was hoping Aislon didn't notice but he did and walks over to me. I cry into his chest. He lifts my chin with his pointer finger. "She'll be ok" he whispers. I shake my head and he pulls me closer to him. Finally our lips meet. Pure bliss. We go until we both can't breath anymore and pull back. Waverly is still crying into my shoulder.
Vera's gone. Her wrist symbol has completely faded, as dead people's symbols do.
"I want to bury her" is all Waverly says. "Ok" I whisper into her ear. The guy whose name I have yet to discover picks her up and we walk towards the beach.
3 hours later
Aislon digs up a grave and that guy carries Vera out in a coffin and places her in. We fill the whole back up. Waverly is sobbing and Aislon is embracing me and I have my face nestled into his neck and my arms straight down. He plays with the ends of my hair. It's calming.
"We have business to do" Waverly finally says pulling herself together. I nod. A Queen. Needing to be gone. I couldn't do it on my own. "But I.... I can't do this on my own" I say and start to sob. I'm scared. Very, very scared. We start walking down the beach, leaving Vera to lay there. Her lover is kneeling beside the grave, crying silent tears. I understand no that what they had was real.
I'm fighting this war by myself now.
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Sorry for another really short chapter!!!!BUT THEY KISSED!!!!!!!!! YAY!!!!! THERE IS SO MUCH IN STORE FOR THEM. OH!!!!!!!!!
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The Changeling Prophecy
FantasyMia and Vera were separated when Vera was just a newborn and Mia was 3 years old. Mia was sent to live in the ocean and Vera lived her life on land. The farther away they were from each other the better.
