Blood Blooms

CHAPTER 4

In the unending meadows stood Karcy gazing silently at the violet sky. Her long black hair tied in a messy but beautiful bun, her charcoal eyes shimmered with despair and longings for someone. Who? She don't know herself. She just stood there waiting for him...

The wind grew stronger and stronger as the twilight faded and night woke up from its deep slumber. Embracing everything in its darkness. Karcy shivered in her plain blue dress as the temperature dropped gradually, still she didn't move an inch. She stood their waiting for him... Her green eyed savior.

He had promised, he would wait.... wait for her. He had waited for her a whole eternity.. He will wait  for another eternity, if he had to...for her. But now when she had returned... back to the Land Of The Lost.. He isn't here. 

The wind screeched in pain. Like it was her inner soul and expressing her emotions. Tears gathered in her eyes making her vision blurry. She was alone, alone again. He too left her alone. When he said he would never. Was it no the right time yet? When will it be the right time then. She was lost, lost in his thoughts to notice her changing surrounding.

 When finally, a strange shuffle in the grass grasped her attention. Her vision  was still blurry cause of all the tears in her eyes, all she could see was a bunch shimmery rubies in the dark.

She wiped them to see clear and her breath stuck.. She was back again here...  How could she just forget about them....? Her biggest fear. Her worst  nightmare..  NO... not again...It can't happen again...  Not when he wasn't around.

She felt darkness surrounding her, engulfing her soul as the Dark Spirit came closer and closer.  Her heart clenched. The Holy bindings tightened caging the beast with in her.. making her groan in pain. Her breathing turned uneven ... as the devil inside her tried to set herself free..  Karcy fell on her knees curling up in a ball, she wished for her death... but she couldn't even get that.. she had to suffer. That was what written in her fate.

The devil started taking control over her. Her breathings became more and more uneven and finally she closed her eyes....

'Karcy... Karcy.. wake up..Karcy..Please...Open your eyes'

'Mom, do something...' Sniffed Kritrim, 'Do something. Her Pulse is fading..'

'Nimi, bring The Red Box ' 

Nimi brought a Hexagonal box from the wooden self and sat beside unconscious Karcy.  Doctor Itiksha opened the box and a honey sweet smell spread in the room. The box contained four small daggers and a little bud. She took out the bud and one of the daggers.

She looked at the kids, ' She would return back only when the Blood Blooms bloom'  And they all took the dagger in their hands. Itiksha murmured something, the  bud elevated a little and started floating in the air.

Continuing the murmurs she took Karcy's hand and placed it above the bud. The other three also placed their hands on the elevating bud. Together all  of the tender hands bore the wound of  misery. Blood dripped, drop by drop; the crimson bud accepted the offering and spread its petals like wings illuminating the whole room with its majestic glow.

KARCY'S POV

ONCE AGAIN, Once again I made my friends suffer just because of me... Once again they put their lives in danger for me... Once Again they parted a fragment of their soul for me... Once again I became the reason of their misery...

My heart clenched at sight of their teary eyes... red and puffy, their wet cheeks,.... all of this for me. They did all this for me. The will do more for me. They will do anything for me. They are the only people who made me feel wanted,.... loved. They are the only people who made me feel alive.