INEFFABLE

Movement

POV- Perseus, Prince of flowers.

       I didn't know what to do with the captives. To let them go? Or not? If I let them go I could risk them telling things to the other worlds. I had to be focused on my sunshine right now. She was lost. I had no idea as to where. She could be light years away by now. I was frustrated. She meant everything to me and I couldn't lose her. It just wasn't on my list of priorities.

      I promised her.

      I felt somewhat awful for threatening the golden woman. She wasn't my sunshine though, so I didn't care. I decided to let them go. I didn't want anyone else here. I went to my cell section downstairs and let them go.

      "Fuck you," said Narcissus as he spat at me with strong vines wrapped around his hands.

      I said nothing but stared at him. Just what was his power? What did he have that I didn't? He was confusing to me for sure. Him and Abanus scurried out and I slammed the door after they went out and dropped to my knees. I missed my sunshine. I hope she was somewhere she could bathe in the sunlight. I needed her or I would go mad. I should've threatened them on the way out.

I hope there wasn't anymore visitors. I don't want people here. I had been hidden for plenty of years before some ship discovered me. The people back home traced coordinates and then the rumors began to spread. I'll fight them off. I was sure of it. Just as I thought such thoughts, my temple began to shift. I ran as quick as I could, but it looked as if I was running forever. The temple turned into a tunnel and I kept running through it endlessly. Bells rang throughout the tunnel. They began to drown out my ears. The walls flew by faster and lights began to flash. They began to blind me as I tried covering my eyes.

"STOP," I cried.

"No," a strong voice echoed in the halls.

The word no kept echoing and my cries kept echoing in the tunnels too. I fell down and looked up. I was back in the temple. I was covered in sweat and my hearts were racing. I had two. I looked around worriedly and I felt sick. I felt like my entire body was about to collapse.

       "31." the voice came back.

       "What?" I heaved between breaths.

        "Seconds. 31 seconds. That's how long you lasted," a scoff of disappointment came with the voice.

"That bad?" I looked at the ceiling and I kept gasping for air.

"You can say that," The voice said.

"Show yourself," I stammered as I looked around.

      There was no reply. Not even a breath was heard. The stones in the ground began to look as if they were melting. They shifted around and I watched as they slowly turned into a picture.

      Three eyes.

      Whoever spoke to me must've had three eyes.

      It couldn't be...

       "Ah, Guardian of the worlds and ruler of the space between them huh?" I should've known.

"Indeed you are correct," she said as she walked out of the shadows.

She looked like the legends described. Long braids that changed colors with her mood. Three eyes but one stayed closed due to the instability of the worlds and the space between them. She had tears coming down from her eyes. She had a storm behind her eyes. She was silent as she looked down at me.

"Well," I mustered up courage to speak, "what're you here for? I don't have anything for you."

      "I'm looking around. Rumor spreads that this place is a new planet," she replied.

      "Is that so? I don't allow anyone here but my sunshine. I don't people ruining my paradise. Theres a reason I haven't let people discover this place," I crossed my arms at her.

       "That's unfortunate. I can make a deal with you," she offered.

      "Enlighten me," I huffed at her.

      "You let me map this place out to register it in my system, and in return I'll make sure nobody else finds your planet ever again," she offered as she held her hand out.

      "Deal," I sighed as I shook her hand.

      "Before I go, have you heard anything about this group?" She pulled up a hologram and showed two figures to me.

      They were sketches. One dark, hooded figure. The other was more unique. A pink figure with what looked to be a gown. I couldn't tell that much more.

      "No, I haven't ma'am," I coughed a bit from earlier, "Sorry."

      "You are forgiven. I will be on my way. Is there anything else you'd like to request from me before I leave and explore your planet a bit?" She asked the golden question.

      "I need you to find my sunshine for me. She's lost," I said as I began to sit on the steps of my temple.

      "What does your sunshine look like?" She asked me.

      "She's warm. She helps my world heal and she helped me grow as a person. She kills off loneliness and she isn't Hope. She's my sunshine and I need to get her back," I replied with a hint of desperation.

"I'll keep an eye out," she said as she wiped the tears from her eyes and turned away from me.

"thank you so much," I whispered to her as she pushed open the doors.

"Save your tears," she said quietly.

And that was that. The doors slammed behind her and I was left in the darkness with some of my glowing flowers on the stone ceiling. To live in sorrow is not the best way to live one's life. To live and feel pain in your heart is worse. My hearts gave me troubles by the day now. I covered it all up with the prettiest of flowers, but yet the thing I needed was my sunshine. My flowers could not bloom without her. She was my hope and my light. The movement of the blood in my veins NEEDED her. I needed her more than I needed the air in the skies or the petals on the flowers. The wings on a dragon and the wind rustling through the trees.

She was just what I needed. The wind and the bees flying through the skies on earth. The last Ekkwa making the scythes. The water splashing through the planets in the Universe. She was everything to me. She was everything that I needed. She was what everything needed.

My movement.