Red son was trying his hardest to make it to the castle. He stopped to pant before hearing his fathers roar. He immediately started running again. He heard his mother yell as well and ran faster.
He would never be able to run this fast but something was pulling him toward Mk like a magnet. The force was so strong he resisted stopping.
Upon finally arriving, the entire castle was already almost destroyed. The roof still barely stood above their heads.
He saw his fathers corpse. His eyes made their way to Mk immediately. He was sitting hunched over in front of Mei's corpse looking absolutely defeated.
Red son was scared.
He couldn't process anything. He stood in shock until Iron fan spotted him.
"Son. So glad you could make it."
Hearing those words, Mk looked up to see a shaking Red son.
Mk glared at him first with anger, but then with hopelessness. Something Red son had wished to never see in his eyes he adored so much.
Iron fan held onto Red sons hand and made him create a blade from his fire powers. He gripped it in confusion.
"I want you to take the final hit. I'm too weak."
"What?"
"KILL HIM. I WILL NOT REPEAT MYSELF."
Red son stared before Mk. He was still hunched over in defeat.
"This wasn't part of the deal. If I tricked him, you said you and father would forgive me."
Red son panicked slightly.
"Don't question me, boy. You know I could never forgive you for your failures."
Red son glared at his mother in pure anger before launching himself into a fire blur straight for her, pinning her to the barely standing wall.
"S-son..?" She barely muttered.
"Mk taught me so many things that you never showed to me. He showed me forgiveness, affection and how to LIVE!"
Iron fan grabbed his arm as he kept trying to lower the burning blade into her.
"Can't you see he only did those things out of pity! You were weak so he pitied you."
"I DONT CARE! IT WAS THE HAPPIEST I EVER WAS!"
Red son tried to drive the blade closer to her chest.
"But Red son. I love you." She panicked.
"You only say that because I DO things for you! Mk loved and accepted me for who I was! I didn't have to be locked in a closet of mirrors or be forced to make armies! I was myself and he accepted that!"
Iron fan was shocked for a moment before laughing.
"You idiotic boy. Love will never find you."
Upon hearing that, red son was swallowed by rage. His body coated itself in flames. He shoved the blade into his mother in pure rage, setting fire to anything flammable around them.
Mk stood in shock. Did Red son actually mean that?
He wasn't Red son anymore, but an angry flame willing to destroy anything in its path no matter the importance.
He sat atop his mother driving the blade in and out of her repeatedly despite her already being dead. Her lifeless body catching fire and charring.
Red son yelled loudly in rage and the entire room was engulfed in flames.
Red son just wanted to be happy alone with Mk, but now, he was an untamable fire, unrecognizable.
"WHY AM I SO WEAK!?" Red son yelled out amidst the loud burning noises.
"WHY AM I NOT ALLOWED TO BE HAPPY!?"
Suddenly, a hand touched Red sons back through the flames. he turned around and stabbed without thinking. The soft reassuring touch was warmer than the flames that had engulfed everything in sight. He recognized the touch as soon as it was too late.
Mk glanced at his stomach. It was bleeding fast. Red son was in shock.
Despite bleeding out, Mk hugged Red son tightly. As he did, the flames disappeared.
"It's okay, Red son. Heroes can cry too."
Hearing words of reassurance despite what he just did forced tears to form in his eyes. He didn't try to stop them.
He gripped onto Mk's back which was now covered in blood and burned badly.
He sobbed into his shoulder. He mourned all that he lost. The experiences that he had shared with Mk now nothing but a distant memory.
Mk's grip slowly loosened and he mumbled something.
"Red... thank you... I.. "
He began to weigh on Red son and they slowly sat down. Red son still held him.
Mk looked up at Red son. His eyes began to fill with tears.
"I... I'm so happy I met you... I... love..."
A single tear fell from one of his eyes and he couldn't finish his sentence.
Mk was dead.
Red sons tears fell onto Mk's face as he gripped his hand tightly.
"Mk..?"
His body didn't move.
"Please finish..."
Still nothing.
"No, no, no, no, no.... MK WAKE UP!"
He tried to shake his body, panicking uncontrollably.
In that moment, Red son realized that the feeling pulling him toward Mk that whole time, was love.
Red son had loved Mk. But now, it was too late.
"Mk please... I love you too.."
The sun began to shine through the cracks of the roof as Red son continued to sob uncontrollably whilst trying to wake him up hopelessly.
The day had begun. The day Red son lost everything.
End
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Eventide ~ a spicy noodles fanfic
FanficRed son has a complicated relationship with his parents. When his mother demands he trick Mk into becoming friends to get valuable information, he accidentally becomes close. Will he choose between his family or a boy he hardly knows? TW: child abus...
