Life Dies In The End

Chapter 81

I smiled as my blade slid across the final Phalanxian civilian. With all of them dead, Father would be proud of Ela and I. We had killed our biggest threat, at the moment, and we'd do the same to the next and the next and the next.

I stepped on the bodies of the dead Phalanxians as I came to Ela's side. Blooded coated her face as her eyes widely watched the blood of the dead cover the once white ground. The Phalanx society wasn't a warrior population, they were only strong in the sense that they had many allies. If we instilled paralyzing fear into those allies, then they would be ours for the taking and Asgard would be stronger than ever.

"You ready to return home," I asked as Ela turned to face me. "And tell Father of our success?"

"Father can't know." Ela answered quickly as she started towards an opening in the bodies.

"What do you mean he can't know?" I followed behind her as confusion filled my mind. "He told us to do this, did he not?"

Ela only continued towards the opening as she ignored my questions. She'd been acting weird recently but she wouldn't tell me why. Nor did I really remember. There had started to be gaps in my memory. I must've just been overworking myself, but I had to keep up with Ela. We had killed the Phalanxians after the previous threats had shown up mysteriously dead, but it was starting to add up weirdly. I grabbed Ela's wrist causing her to spin around quickly to face me.

"He didn't tell us to do this did he?" I spoke only to get a silent glare, so I raised my voice as I spoke once again. "Did he?"

"You know what, no, no he didn't!" Ela snapped as she pulled her wrist from my hand and she stepped closer to me. "And you won't tell him." Ela's hand came to the side of my face as a devilish look crossed her face and everything started to get hazy and a magic flooded my mind. "You won't ever tell him, cause you never do."

A moment later, we were broken apart from each other by the Bi-Frost pulling us back to Asgard. I stumbled away from Ela as we landed in the observatory, but I quickly moved back to her side, seeing that our father stood before us and he was angry beyond any convincing. Frigga stood behind him watching us carefully as Heimdall stood next to her.

Ela had been playing me this entire time, but she had to have some sort of reason. I was the only one she trusted with this. I couldn't turn my back on her, I made her a promise. Even if she hasn't been herself recently. I would help her, I would help her get over whatever was happening and that started with lying to our father.

"So it's been you two," Odin's voice almost sounded as if he was disappointed. "You two have been going behind my back and killing innocent civilians and entire planets."

"We've been helping you get rid of your enemies." Ela spoke as she locked eyes with Odin. "You would never do it yourself so we did it for you. We've been a better king than you'll ever be."

"Being a king doesn't mean starting to slaughter thousands." Odin sighed as he seemed defeated in trying to stop us. "Being king means that you know when to start wars, when to end them and when to make peace." Ela scoffed as Odin looked to Frigga worried, to which she only shook her head and lowered it. A pained look crossed Odin's face before he hardened it. "Who's idea was it?"

"It was Eir's." Ela answered quickly without thinking twice.

Odin looked to me for the truth to the question. Ela looked towards me, telling me to lie to him. Telling me to cover for her. It's crazy what you would do for your family. I took a deep breath before giving my answer.

"It was mine." I spoke without meeting his eyes. "I thought that it would make us stronger. That killing the people who threatened us, would make us better than everyone."

"My daughters, how have I failed you so greatly that you'd do this." Odin's voice was soft with sadness before he turned to Heimdall. "Open the Bi-Frost, you know where." Odin looked towards me. "Eir, I sentence both you and your sister to never see eachother for as long as I live. I sentence you to lifetimes of countless loss and I hope someday you realize how precious life is, for you will live as long as the people you have killed would've." I looked to Ela, begging for her help, but I only got a smile in return.

I thought it was supposed to be used against the world.

I reached out, grasping at straws. Hoping that maybe, just maybe she still had a human side to her. That she would save me from my fate. I already knew the answer but maybe she'd surprise me. Maybe she'd show mercy.

It will always be you and me against the world, forever. When we meet again, you won't ever remember what I've done. You'll never be able to tell the truth and if you can you won't. You'll never turn against me, I've made sure of it. I corrupted you and that brings me the greatest pleasure I could ask for.

I took a step back from Ela as her words cut deeper than any blade could ever. I could feel the tears burning my eyes as I looked at Odin, hoping he wouldn't do this. Hoping he wouldn't do this to his daughter.

"You'll understand someday, daughter." Odin sighed as everything around me began to fade to black. "Both of you will."

Just like that everything was gone. Instead the world around me went dark as everyone disappeared. Everyone except for Ela, but this time she wasn't the old version of herself. This time she was the version that was healing. The version that Frigga was helping grow.

I had finally remembered the truth to that day. There had always been holes. There had always been my unexplained loyalty to Ela. All of it was just her mind tricks. The one spell she had ever actually wanted to learn.

"Hi, sister." Ela spoke her voice stronger than when I saw her in the royal garden. She seemed to have a stronger mind as well. "Mother said you would be back, she also said you'd leave again." Ela extended an aconite flower to me. My favorite, but last I saw her she didn't remember that. "You helped me remember who I was, so I wanted to help you remember the truth. I wanted to show you what really happened when we were banished."

I hesitated for a moment before taking the aconite from her hand. I locked eyes with her, knowing this was who Ela was always supposed to be. Who the real Ela was, before she was buried under the corrupt thoughts in her mind.

"You need to go now," Ela stepped away from me as she began to fade just like everyone from before. "I'll be here waiting for you, when it's your time."

Part of me wanted to stay and meet this new Ela. I wanted to know everything she did, but most of all, I wanted to be with my sister. I wanted to truly get to know my sister. This time without any mind tricks or longing vengeance to get in our way. I wanted to finally be able to live happily with the only person who truly mattered, but now I had more than I ever hoped to get with her. I had my brothers. I had my friends who were basically family. I had my goddaughter. I had Bastard. So, I didn't fight it as I felt a pull towards another world.

~~Hi, Fallen_Angel here. Sorry, I totally forgot to post on Sunday, but here are the last of the chapters now. Have a good day and be good people.~~