Enchantment

Long Speeches and Prepation

Reason POV

You're worthless.

Everyone is better off without you.

Darkness is what you are.

You can't blame anyone for the amount of distain you fill in the eyes of others.

I tug my hair with one hand and bang my ear with the other.

These voices aren't mine but they speak with truth. I am nothing, I do not matter.

Melody is far away doing the Gods know what. I can still hear her sweet words, whispering in my head. That keeps my sanity as I rock back and forth.

My life has become this. I finally see the Darkness in me but the Light Melody carries shines through her and into me. At least it used to.

Melody is the girl beyond my reach, I was will to give her everything.

Stop being a bitch.

I have to shut my emotions off. Closing my eyes, I say, "Mel, wherever you are, you have my heart. Or what's left of it."

I take a steadying breath and stand.

I allow my face to show how I am inside, which is empty.

Sometime later the important people are gathered around Melody once again. She explains how two Gods basically kissed her ass.

She's going to win this war, retake her kingdom and rule as a gracious yet regal queen. She doesn't need me. She never has. It I who needs her.

You're so pathetic, I can't.

So I'm pathetic for loving a girl? I argue with the ominous voices.

Yes, they hissed. Look at yourself.

It's right. I cared too much, I opened up, bared my heart to another but Melody, my Beloved, will never be my regret.

I feel a hard poke on my shoulder.

Kyle, awesome, this moron. Melody's right hand man. I envy the relationship between the two. Should they choose, they could easily be together, a perfect couple. Water and water but fate decided to pit water and fire against each other for nothing more than a good laugh.

"You're a butthead and I don't like you very much," he states, "but you're and Elemental, Mel's Beloved and pretty badass. In a weird way."

"Get to the fucking point," I insist.

"I see what's in you and you do nothing to fight it. Why?" he blurts.

I cock my head and frown, "What's in me?"

"Darkness. It's like a gum, or a web, sticking to you. It can be moved, if you'd fight it." He informs.

I roll my eyes, "That's always been there,"

"Actually, it hasn't."

"Yeah, how would you know?"

Kyle shrugs, "When the Black Eagle killed me, when I felt his touch, I can't explain it. Pure Darkness entered me so I could die and I felt it seep inside me. All the Darkness you can imagine in a place it shouldn't be. I was revolted."

"The fucking point," I repeat.

"I know you accepted Darkness, hell, you welcomed it. Why?"

"Because that's who I am."

"Bullshit,"

I blink, experiencing deja vu, "You sound like Melody," saying her name made my chest feel lighter.