The Sirens Song

Flower Petals

(The almighty blue hairbrush, all hail🛐)

Renly's Pov
Kirito and Eugeo had told us to meet in their cabin, so here we were, Taiyo, Aiko, Tsuki, Ojo, Wraith and I were all standing around as Kirito explained "so Eugeo just figured something out and it's really important, Eclipse has a trace on Renly and Eugeo's Dad has a trace on Eugeo, so we need to get rid of those before it causes more issues" I face palmed "how did none of us think of that?.... Taiyo you know how to get rid of traces right?" I turned to look at Taiyo who smiled and replied "yeah I do but I must warn you.... it's pretty painful" Eugeo and I looked at each other, Eugeo smiled awkwardly, Aiko crossed his arms "is there possibly another way that won't hurt them?" He asked, Taiyo shook his head "no unfortunately that's the only way, don't worry it won't kill them unless something goes horribly wrong" the rest of us nodded, Eugeo sighed "alright let's do it" I looked at Taiyo, he opened a portal "we need an open space, so follow me" we all walked through, it was hall with a circle of candles on the ground in the middle of the room, the hall was dark but I could just make out the other candles and books around the room, Taiyo clicked his fingers and a small fire appeared in his hand "alright who's first?" He asked, I looked at Eugeo, he nodded "I'll go first" he responded, Taiyo nodded "stand in the middle of the circle, Kirito and Aiko put some kind of shield uo to protect yourselves, you too Renly" Eugeo walked into the circle and stood there, Aiko pulled me backwards so that I was behind him and put a shield charm up, Kirito put a shield in front of himself as well. Taiyo lifted the his hand and the fire flickered, he walked around the circle slowly with his hand held out, the candles each lit up as he walked past them, twelve candles, why twelve? Taiyo got back to his original spot and looked at Eugeo, the blonde looked so confused, Taiyo got onto his knees on the ground and called out "το σκοτάδι να εξοριστεί" the fire in his hand spread through the entire room, around the circle but never going into it, the whole room was on fire now and Taiyo was just sitting in the fire, he held out his still flaming hand to Eugeo "take my hand" the blonde hesitated "trust me" Taiyo smiled sincerely, so Eugeo took his hand and winced at the pain, I could tell Kirito was fighting the erge to run forward and get Eugeo out of there. The fire gathered up and moved towards the circle, leaving everything else seemingly untouched, the fire got into the circle and surrounded Eugeo, it then spread up and covered the blonde's entire body, he screamed in pain, Kirito tried to step forwards, I grabbed him "just trust Taiyo, it'll be alright" I reassured, he hesitantly nodded and just stated as Eugeo fell onto his knees, Taiyo was still holding his hand "you can't let go Eugeo ok? I'm your anchor to the real world" Taiyo told him, Eugeo screamed again, louder this time, I covered my ears, then I noticed a dark mist crawl it's way out of Eugeo's mouth, he exhaled and a puff of dark mist came out, the fire slowly died down, Eugeo kept breathing heavily. Taiyo let his hand go and looked over at Kirito "the trace is gone, come get Eugeo and make sure you shield him, also..." he looked at Eugeo again "give him some hugs and kisses for comfort" Kirito nodded and walked over, he picked Eugeo up into his arms bridal style and walked back over to his original spot, he sat on.the ground holding Eugeo in his arms, then he put a shield charm up, Taiyo looked at me "you ready?" He asked, I took a deep breath and nodded, I walked over to the circle and stood there, none of the candles were lit anymore, Taiyo smiled reassuringly.

Small Itty Bitty Time Skip
Taiyo did the same process for me, we were up to the part where I was supposed the grab his hand, he held put his hand and I took it, instantly my head started spinning and I felt and burning feeling all over my body, I screamed in pain and some kind of force pushed me onto my knees. My eyes closed and I saw something I didn't expect. I was walking around that island that Kirito had found Aiko and I on, I was collecting fruits to bring back to the cave, I heard footsteps behind me and turned around, somebody jumped on me, wrapped their arms and legs around me, I fell onto the ground with a thud "ow~" I mumbled, the person laughed at me and pushed themselves up with their arms so that they were hovering above me, they had red hair, one of their eyes were blue and the other was green, they smiled down at me "you are a jerk! You know that right Soleil?" I poked their chest, they laughed even harder and fell onto me, I tried to roll them off but they wouldn't budge "come on! I want to collect fruits" I complained, Soleil sighed dramatically and got off me, we both stood up and brushed ourselves off, Aiko walked towards us "Soleil when are you going to stop doing that?" He asked, the red head gave an evil laugh "never! You will tumbling down every time I jump on you FOREVER!!!" He kept laughing and thunder rumbled, Aiko elbowed him "don't make the weather bad just for dramatic effect, come on let's help Renly collect fruit" I chuckled at them and picked up my basket, Soleil wrapped his arms around both of our shoulders and pulled us together "you know.... I really appreciate both of you.... I was all alone before you guys showed up... so I just wanted to say, I love you guys and I wish that we could be together forever" he spoke like it was the end of the world, Aiko and I looked at him "what did you do this time?" Aiko asked, Soleil pouted "why do you assume I did something? Can't I just express how much I love my friends when I feel like it?" He leaned on me "I mean why wouldn't I? Look at Renly's cute face, it's hard to resist" he squished my cheeks, I pouted and puffed my cheeks out "I'm not that cute...." I mumbled, Soleil and Aiko both laughed together, so to prove my point I grabbed Soleil's knife and quickly managed to get behind him, I put the knife against his throat and while I was at it, I stuck my foot out and tripped Aiko over, he face planted into the ground "I'm not cute" I continued to hold Soleil as I pointed the knife at Aiko, he smiled "I feel like I'm being threatened by a Cupcake" Soleil and Aiko laughed, I sighed and gave the knife back to Soleil. The knife had black leather around the handle and a metal Sun charm stuck onto the leather, he had wrapped a moon pendant around the guard of the knife, the blade had Greek writing on it that I couldn't read. As Soleil took back the knife the image faded "Renly! Renly!" I heard someone call my name, the memory wasn't right, I don't know a Soleil, I would remember something like that, unless somebody tempered with my memories, but forgetting a whole person? Forgetting something so important to my life? That can't be right. I became aware of a burning sensation climbing up my throat, I felt somebody squeeze my hand "Renly! Renly come on! Come back to us!" I heard someone yell, I exhaled and felt the trace leave my body, the burning feeling disappeared and I collapsed forward into somebody "are you alright? Are you awake?" The person holding me asked, the frantically pulled me towards them and cradled me in their arms. I opened my eyes and looked up at them, Taiyo was staring down at me, I stared at his blue hair, then at his blue and green eyes, I smiled "I'm alright... why did something go wrong?" I asked, he sighed in relief "he's alright guys! I guess it just took longer than it was supposed to because of how powerful the magic was" he brushed my hair out of my face and felt my forehead "quite warm, thats normal after a spell like that, I'd be concerned it you were cold" Aiko walked over "you feel ok Renly?" He asked, I nodded "yeah, I just.... I saw something.... it was like a memory, you were there Aiko and... there was someone else.... someone I don't remember... it looked like we were all close though.... his name-.... his name was" I paused for a moment thinking, Aiko and Taiyo staring at me curiously, the name slipped away, I couldn't remember "nevermind.... I don't remember" I tried to sit up but felt my head spin, I fell back in Taiyo, he sighed "that'll happen to you, I'll carry you back to the ship- or do you want to Aiko?" He looked over at Aiko who shrugged "you can carry him if you want to" Taiyo looked down, he had a very confused look on his face, then he shrugged and stood up with me in his arms "that settles it then, an emotion manipulation spell has been put onto the liberty" he walked over to Kirito who was still holding Eugeo in his arms "then we'll have to fix that" he agreed, Taiyo opened a portal, but instead of the ship it showed us the library, he sighed "sorry thats been happening-" he stopped talking, then turned to Aiko "take Renly quickly" he demanded, Aiko did quickly lift me into his arms, Taiyo walked into the library, we all followed, he sat down in a chair and covered his mouth. I managed to get out of Aiko's arms and walk over to Taiyo, I sat on a chair next to him "what's wrong?" I asked, instead of answering he made a choking noise, then he continued coughing and making that same noise, I realised that he was actually choking, I hit his back roughly, he coughed out some petals, thats weird, but he kept choking, so I put my hands around his throat and concentrated, the dark magic went into his throat and forced all of the flower petals out, he coughed out all of it. When it was finally finished he fell towards me and rested his head on my shoulder, Aiko walked over "Taiyo.... how long has this been happening?" He asked, Kirito stared at us "was that just because you had an interesting breakfast or is it.... please don't tell me that it's Hanahaki" he pleaded, Taiyo nodded "ok I won't tell you that it's Hanahaki then" he laughed quietly, Aiko and I shared concerned glances. Hanahaki is a disease that makes flowers to grow inside the victim, it's caused by unreturned love, the flowers with continue to grow and grow until it kills the victim, so basically Taiyo is in love with someone, they don't love him back and it's literally killing him. Kirito walked towards us "I thought you were immortal Taiyo.... I thought that you couldn't get diseases" Taiyo sat up straight, he shook his head, weird I didn't know he was immortal, does that mean he's like me? Maybe he can still be killed just not by diseases or old age "magical diseases don't count, I can still get them" he explained, Kirito stared at him "but on the bright side... I'll last longer than most people.... for me the disease spreads a lot slower, I've had it for 4 years now and I've only just found out, so I'll last until at least.... next year" he explained, I'm not sure how that works but Inwint question it, instead I'll do this "why didn't you tell us?! Who are you in love with?! Does Tsuki know?!" I yelled, he smiled at me "you are the first ones to find out, not including Cardinal" he replied, then he sat back in his chair "as for your other questions, I didn't tell you because I knew you'd worry, I didn't want this affecting the quest too much, also the person I'm in love with doesn't love me back.... so it doesn't matter whether I tell you or not" he and Kirito shared glances, is it Kirito? Maybe, I don't know, I pulled Taiyo into a hug, he seemed suprised but gladly hugged me back I fix it, I'll cure him, even if it means letting myself go dark, I'll sacrifice anything, I'm not sure why I'm so attached to Taiyo but... I know that he's my friend and I don't want him to die.

(Hint of the day: one of the characters is known for their Sass)