We rewrote the stars -Rayllum AU (book 2)

Rescue

Soren walked through the halls, bored. He was escaping the never ending ball preparations. He looked up and groaned when he saw Ethari running towards him. Great, time to lift heaving things again.

"Your majesty, what seems to be the trouble?"

Thank god he can't hear my annoyed tone. 

"Have you seen Callum and Rayla?" He panted, fixing his robes. 

Soren perked up. "No your majesty, i haven't seen them in hours."

"Oh enough with the your majesty." He scolded, glancing around. "Well.. if you do see them let me know as soon as possible. I have a ball to plan."

And with that he walked off gracefully, leaving Soren confused. 

Soren sighed and walked towards Ezran's room.

"Ez?" He called out, knocking gently. 

"Come in."

Soren walked in, seeing Ezran cuddling with Rayla's pet dragon Zym. "Hey have you seen the  power couple?" 

Ezran frowned. "No i haven't seen them since this morning."

Soren groaned and pulled at his hair. "Damn it i thought they would be with you!"

Ezran sat up. "So you're telling me they're missing?"

"Pftt, they might just be running late." Soren said nervously. Ezran sighed.

"Soren Cal is never late to balls, he loves the food." 

Soren went and sat down with him. 'So where are they?"

And just as if someone was listening to them, a flash of lightning struck outside onto a certain spot. 

Ezran stood up and looked out the window and looked at the clear sunset. "What was that?"

Soren got up and looked out the window. "It's Callum's distress signal." 

...

"FUCK THIS!" Soren screamed, clinging onto Ezran who was riding the horse like crazy. He gripped his bag filled with rope, first aid and everything needed for survival.

"LANGUAGE SOREN!" Ezran yelled over the galloping of the horse. 

"DO I LOOK LIKE A GIVE A FUCK ABOUT APPEARANCES RIGHT NOW?!" Soren yelled back. Ezran just gave him a look and made the horse stop. He hopped off and held his hand out to Soren jokingly. Soren rolled his eyes and hopped off the horse. They walked into the infamous forest path, looking for their friends.

"CAL? RAY?" Ezran called out, cupping his hands.

"STARGAZERRR?" Soren screamed into the forest, making Ezran wince.

"Shut up Soren, you'll wake the wildlife."  Ezran whisper-shouted. Soren gave him a look.

"I don't give a damn about critters right now Ez!" He exclaimed, stopping suddenly when he saw a rope bridge. Ezran stopped too, eyes wide. The looked at the broken wood pieces, some covered in blood. One wood piece had an all too familiar bag hanging off of it. 

Ezran turned to Soren, fear evident in his eyes. "You don't think?"

Soren stayed silent, trying to slow down his breathing.

Breathe

It's okay.

Breathe.

But he couldn't.

His knees gave in on him and he fell to the ground, clutching his chest.

"Soren!" Ezran exclaimed, grabbing onto him.

He got on his knees in panic, facing Soren. He had tears rolling down his cheeks.

"Breathe Soren. Okay? Breathe with me."

Soren nodded shakily. 

"Breathe in for 1-2-3." Ezran explained slowly, sighing in relief when Soren calmed down. Ezran sat next to him, eyes lever leaving the bloody bridge.

"You wanna talk about it?"

"Do i have to?"

"I can always tell Runaan."

Soren sighed. "Okay you win, this is how dad died." 

Ezran's eyes widened in shock. "Soren you never told me your dad died."

Soren chuckled and wiped away his tears. "He really was a horrible guy, honest! I'm just scared that the same thing just happened to Callum and Rayla."

Ezran took shaky breath and opened up their bag. He grabbed the rope and showed it to Soren.

"Thank god we packed this then." Soren nodded and got up. He walked up to the nearest tree and tied it. He tossed it to Ezran who the tossed it into the ravine. 

"I'll go first." Soren mumbled, sitting on the ledge and looking into the darkness.

"How are we gonna see?"

Soren sighed. 'We're not."