Anemoia Echoes

Last Step (52)

Dartz was taken aback by what Sorano was doing. She watches that Sorano was gently touching Deyla's face. She couldn't understand what was happening. The name Sam was mentioned by Deyla to refer to Sorano. She could only watch and felt her heart sinking. She tries to figure out the whole meaning of this. "What happening..."

Sorano slowly held her hand against Deyla's face. "...Why...did I...mention your...name...so personally..." She felt her life fading as her hand slowly shook in resistance to the weakening body to keep her hand up.

Deyla pressed down on her wounds to block it but it was useless due to the bullet of the sniper punching a hole through Sorano's body. "Sam! Don't you remember us... we're your friend..." She held Sorano close to her body. "We're your friends!" her tears drop down onto Sorano's face. "I don't know why... but all sudden when I remember you..." She kept crying more. "When I pulled that trigger for the last time, I remember..."

Sorano hand slowly grabbed Deyla's hand that was on her wound. "Sorry...I don't...know you..." She held Deyla's hand tightly as much as possible. "but...I feel...this warm...feeling..." She smiles and closes her eyes at Deyla. "it...makes me happy...seeing...you...guys...even though...I...hate..you..guys."

Shaman walked over to them and sat next to Sorano. "What is that supposed to mean?"

Sorano coughs blood. "Don't...ask...me...baka."

Deyla looks up at Shaman and Dartz. "You guys don't get it? This is Sam! our friend from our reality." She was desperate to make them remember.

Both Dartz and Shaman shook their head. "No...I don't remember it at all." Dartz replied and she walked over to them.

Consta slowly got up still having feathers stuck inside her body and it wasn't as bad as it looked. "It is like Aika...remember Aika like you guys did... Deyla..." She felt it was hard to speak due to the pain. "Deyla is the only one who remembers..." She went over to Tiger who was unconscious to check on her.

Deyla felt like this was her only burden. "Impossible...I can't be the only one..." She looks down. "Why only me!"

Shaman looked over at Deyla and held her.

Sorano was slowly fading away her body breaking slowly like Aika was in Subjugation in Teresa. "...I'm thinking...why...big sis... and...bob...trusted...you guys..." She looks at all of them. "...I'm defeated..." She had a comfortable smile. "Whatever...you guys have...or...you..." She had tears dropping down her cheek. "You're releasing us...from our...destiny..." A tree began to grow right behind Sorano's head from the ground. The world began to heal all of the Heroes of the Horizon.

Deyla held tightly to Sorano's hand. "No..." She just murdered her friend and the guilt of it weighed upon her shoulders. "Sam...I just remember you...and you're going to go away..." Then she felt another hand placed on her back. Tiger had woken up from her unconscious state and placed her hand on Deyla's back to comfort her. Meanwhile, Consta stood next to Dartz.

Sorano hand's crumbles in Deyla's hand turned into broken dust like shattered glass. "Deyla...Shaman...Tiger...Consta...Dartz...help big sis...Aika...from Saikai.." She looked at each of them carefully after speaking each of their names. "If...I'm Sam...then my apologies...friends." She had a big grin on her face. "Thank you..." Suddenly her entire body collapses into a broken glass of Horizon Energy in Deyla's arms then fades away into the wind as the Tree springs into life before the Heroes.

Deyla screamed out to reach out for the particles before Shaman held Deyla tightly in a hug. Then Tiger suddenly joins in on the Hug on Deyla. Even Consta felt like she had to join and help out.

Dartz watched them in silence as she felt like this entire thing wasn't to be like what she thought. Just as she was about to make a step to give a hug she felt a hand on her shoulder. She suddenly turns to look. She spotted Rigel with Roz Asteri. "What are you two... doing here." Saw that Rigel was no longer in a hospital gown but in his usual outfit.