The Young Masked King: Jester King

Chapter 10:

Chapter ten: "Where everything is clear as day, where everyone will be dark as night"

*Dominique..., An hour before her awaking

"What's wrong... are we too late? Is my favorite version of Ganymede... Is she going to leave too?" Lady Proxima muttered with her shaky breath.

"No, not yet...but she'll be there soon, and you, and Dominique too. I wanted to be the doctor when that happens, so please don't worry and let's all leave this to the Young Masked King, shall we?" With shuddering bodies, Me, Lady Proxima and Earth then leave the premises leaving the two monsters in one room.

But in a split second of me turning off my gaze between Earth and Sedna, I had noticed a thread-like string wrapped around Earth's face. Supposedly, I shouldn't have saw that but seeing it again made my body move at its own, struggling to cut off the straps of Ganymede's words that were bound to control myself to go berserk, yet it failed. My legs suddenly spring its way to lose at Lady Proxima's and Earth's gaze and quickly went inside again of the clinic, my arms then acted alone while locking up the room. I immediately sprinted towards Sedna and checked her vitals.

"Thank God!" I whispered when I found out that she's alright. I was going to turn my back to face the door when my memory kicks back, realizing that the Young Masked king has his face exposed and his childish game on seeing it made my body to stop in an instant.

Right after I halted myself, the Young Masked King's arms began to wrap my shoulders, his head seated near my face while his warm breath tickles my neck.

"Coyotes and Guacamoles!! That was close for you to see my face for the first time...I'm very disappointed Nique, you promised!" He complains while reaching his mask at my hands. I quickly gave it to him while my head tilted down, facing the floor.

"I'm sorry if I broke our promise... but, I could do one thing, I could be the one who wear it to you!" I turned to face him still with my eyes looking down the floor. I slowly tilt my head up until I finally see the combination of bandages and surgical tapes wrapped around his arms and neck, yet there is something bleeding and was currently dripping its mess at the clinic's tidy tiled floor.

I reached my hands and gently placed his mask at his face, then quickly tied it. After I secured the knot, I immediately faced him with a smile at my face, it seems like forever when I smile with no reason at all.

"That's better, smile for no reason, start acting more like you Nique. This past days with her you acted more like Ganymede, a very hard shell at the outside but has a soft heart. Aren't you should trust yourself at this process than the Ganymede's harsh words personally molded to contain your storm inside?"

"I can't just bring back a tortured child back in the frontlines, Siri." I remarked "I can't act as my old self again, this person standing in front of you is the product of all the tears, stress and guilt that kid had experience. Lady Ganymede just molded it properly and maybe because of her harsh techniques, I applied it to Sedna because I saw my old self at her and I wanted her to walk to the right path and not the way I've been through. She is a true wonder, a diamond in the ruff."

I don't know why I'm feeling or thinking this, but I could sense that the Young Masked king is smiling at me, courteously smiling at me. He then walked up to me, placed his hand at my shoulder then the other at the knob of the door.

He whispered "I'm grateful you had learned and grown, so please don't call back the boy who was drowned for he only lives at ma petite marionette's and Mikolo's mind, not in this world." Right after that, he opened the door and greeted Earth and Lady Proxima that was waiting for me at the back of the door. I turned around and joined the two ladies while Sirius waves us farewell.