Kevin crawled near a pillar and sat there with heavy breaths. "I remember this is the same pillar behind which I was hiding that day." He said to himself in a slow and weak voice. He turned his gaze towards Claire and saw her trying her best to reach to Sky who was on the very edge of his last breaths. She was struggling to even move her body but she still tried to crawl to him.
Kevin took a deep and long breath and looked at the ceiling. "So this is the end. This is how finally dying peacefully feels like. This is how it feels to finally be free from all the burden of this cruel world." He said to himself and closed his eyes.
Kevin heard a little girl laughing and opened his eyes. He saw himself surrounded by a bright white light. He looked around but saw no one there. "King..." He heard a voice and looked at the front to see Lucy standing there. "Princess..." He was more than happy to see her. She smiled at him and knelt beside him. "Finally, it's all over." She said to him.
"Maybe we can now live peacefully in the afterlife." She said to him. "I don't think so." He said and looked at her. "Why?" "Because I have killed a lot of innocent people just for the sake of my revenge." He was in deep guilt. "How can I live peacefully in the afterlife knowing that I am the reason why a lot of people lost their loved ones? Even you also lost your best friend, your father and your brother all because of me." He said and looked down.
Lucy held his hands and made him look back at her. "Don't feel like it was only your fault. It was the fault of all those people who made you go on that path." She said to him. "No matter what happened, you were also a victim at one phase of your life." She gently stroked his hand. He wanted to say a lot of things to her but she slowly started to fade away. "See you, in the afterlife." She smiled widely at him and completely disappeared.
He wanted to yell and scream all those feelings which he was feeling inside but he was not able to. He again heard a little girl's laughter and desperately looked around. "Brother!" He heard a girl say. He then saw a girl wearing a cute dress running towards him with a drawing in her hand. She was wearing the bracelet which he once made for her. "Elena..." Those words left his mouth as soon as he saw her wearing that bracelet. He felt tears building up in his eyes when he saw her.
She came to him and handed him that drawing. "Our family!" She exclaimed and pointed at that drawing. He looked at it and realized that it was the same drawing that he once made. The only difference was that now instead of his father, he saw Elena's picture drawn there. "This is you, that is me and the last one is Mother!" She pointed at all the people in the picture one by one.
Kevin was still not able to believe what he was seeing in front of him. He was able to see his dead sister who was now grown up and was also wearing the bracelet he made for her. "Kevin..." He heard another voice and looked behind only to see his mother standing there. "M-mother..." At this point, all the tears in his eyes began to drop one after another.
He wanted to stand up and run to her to give her a tight hug but he was not able to move his body. "Mother!" He desperately called her but she was not moving at all. She just stood there with a faint smile on her face. "I am happy to see you once again, my son." She said to him. "Me and your sister were left alone in this afterlife but now I have my son with me too." She said in a soft voice to him.
"I know you have done a lot of wrong things but I will not blame you for any of that. You were also a child back then. My child who was too naive to understand the way of this world." She said and a tear rolled down her face. "But don't worry, no one will ever treat you like that again. I promise you." She said and began to fade away. "NO! DON'T GO!" He yelled again but it was late. Both she and Elena faded away completely. "I will always love you, mother."
Claire was finally able to reach Sky and lay beside him. She was breathing heavily and reached for his hand which was covered in blood. She held his hand and looked at him. He also turned his gaze to her and saw tears forming in her eyes. "I don't want this to end." The tears streamed down her face. "I want both of us to live the life we always wanted." She squeezed his hand while sniffing her own tears. "Maybe...we were just not meant to be together in this life..." Sky managed to speak to her.
It was silent for a while before Claire decided to break that silence. "Remember when you told me that I am the sun to your sky?" She asked him scooting even more closer to him.
"Just like how every sunset leads to a new morning, the distance from you made me realize that you are my sun. My sun which will bring a new morning to me."
"Please never leave me, if you do then I will be broken to the core and this Sky will shatter forever."
"Yes, I do remember that." Sky said to her. "Do you also remember the promise I made to you that day?" Claire asked him again.
"I'll never let that day come, this sun will set forever only along with its sky."
"I do remember that too." He said and looked at her. "Then...I think the time for that sunset has finally come...it's the time for this sun to finally set forever." She said to him in a low voice. "I know this sun will rise once again...In some other world or some other life but...we will meet again for sure." Sky said to her and caressed her hand. "I love you." "I love you too."
They both began seeing all their loved ones one by one and were really happy to see them once again. "We all are proud of you both." They all said in unison and began to fade away.
*****
Sky, Claire and Kevin all woke up at once and looked around. Claire's hand went to her forehead remembering that she got hurt there. Sky immediately came to her. "Are you ok?" He asked her. "Yes." She said to him.
The rest others also noticed them and came to them. "Are you ok guys?" Rose asked them. "Rose..." Claire got up and hugged her. "That dream felt so real...I thought it was reality." She was controlling her tears. "Hey...calm down now. It's all over." Rose gently stroked her back.
Kevin was still standing there in pure shock. He was not moving even an inch. He couldn't believe what just happened. He suddenly felt a tap on his shoulder and turned around to see Lucy. "Is something wrong, Kevin?" She asked him. He was even more shocked because Lucy talked to him for the first time without getting angry. "Y-yeah." He managed to utter those words and looked away from her.
His eyes fell on Julia who was still unconscious. He went to her and tried to wake her up. Jake also came there and they both were confused because now everyone was awake except for Julia. "Why isn't she waking up?" Jake asked Max who was standing near one of the bookshelves. "Because she is still alive in the past." He replied to them.
*****
Here Julia finally reached the Sinsila castle but it was too late as everything had already ended. She could see the shattered pieces of Royalty of all the kingdoms. She fell on her knees as she witnessed that heartbreaking scene in front of her. Claire and Sky were lying beside each other holding hands and Kevin was lying along a pillar. The only thing that could be seen everywhere was just...blood.
"NO!!!"
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The Reincarnated Royalty
General Fiction[COMPLETED] A group of teenagers went to an ancient castle on a school trip. After they entered a particular room, they all remembered their past life and the connections they all had with each other whether it be hatred, jealousy, care, or even lo...
