Who is The Man Behind The Mask? (a Cryaotic Love Story)

Chapter 4: "The Late Night Bar"

Buddy takes us to a building a little out of the village that villaigers were standing outside of. Outside of the building the ground was covered with dozens of bouquets of flowers. 
"I guess they suspect the queen is dead, I guess Krism hasnt told them about what really happened" Buddy sighed "we need to get inside"
I nodded leading the horse around the building "let's go, I don't think anyone noticed us..."
I hopped off the horse, allowing Buddy and the messenger duck to hop into my arms. I carried them inside placing them on the counter. The whole bar was as silent and cold as death. I walked over to behind the counter standing right in the middle closing my eyes remembering the many times I had walked in seeing Cry standing right here. I felt a comforting warmth as the memories flooded my thoughts
"Cry, I need your help" I opened my eyes to the whole bar completely changed, people were crowding the chairs laughing and smiling. At the bar stools sat Felix, Minx, Yami, Mariza, Krism, and my dad. I gasped as tears formed in my eyes "guys, I-I found you-"
I looked over seeing a little girl with black hair and brown eyes sitting on a bar stool at the end of the bar.
That's... me.
She was waving her hand over a drawing but nothing was happening, Colors surrounded the drawing.
"Cry has been teaching her" Minx said to Krism "she wants to learn everything from him"
"Cry!" the little girl yelled "hurry! I'm doing it!" a drawn flower slowly rose from the paper as I heard his laugh echo through the bar "okay okay, alright I'm coming!" he handed someone a drink then quickly sped across the room to behind the bar and stood across from her "there you go! good job squirt!" he gave her a high five "alright now, you got to move your hand like this" he gently guided her hand leading her moves. The drawn flower hovered above the paper and slowly turned into a real flower. 
It was now a light pink orchid that fell down to the paper "see Ellie, you can do anything..."
"as long as you do it with a smile" the little girl finished.
Cry turned to the counter behind him and pulled out a box from under the counter "I got you something" the little girl smiled quickly opening the box pulling the blue heart necklace out
"Cry it's... beautiful..." the little girl placed it on smiling "thank you" 
"It's an enchanted necklace I made, no matter how far apart we are..." he pulled a necklace out from under his shirt, it was an exact match to the one the little girl had except his glowed a reddish orange. "the necklaces will help us find each other again" the little girl smiled jumping from her seat placing her arms around crys neck. He hugged her back.
"don't ever be afriad Ellie, just laugh and the fear will go away" Cry reminded her "now, it's getting late squirt. I think it's about time you and your mom and dad get back to the castle and get some sleep"
Minx stood up walking over to them "he's right sweetie, you gotta big day tomorrow. It's not like everyday you get to turn six" the little girl took Minx's hand yawning
"okay mommy, but can Cry come? I want him to read me a story-"
"not tonight" Dad said sternly but quickly changed his tone "I mean, it's late and Cry has things he has to do here"
Cry nodded "yeah, but I'm sure Snake would love to!" 
"Hell, no" Snake stood in the back of the room with his arms crossed, the girl laughed "can you at least give me a piggy back ride back to the castle?"
Snake looked at her then shook his head smiling "alright, consider this your birthday present from me"
the little girl smiled "thanks Snake!" she ran to him allowing him to help her onto his back. 
the little girl's laughter was all I could hear as my eyes slowly closed.
"no, I... I don't want to leave! I want to see more!" I yelled
"I want to see Cry!" I screamed.
Then, I blacked out.

"she'll be okay, she was knocked out by the magic" a mans voice reassures 
Cry?
"I swear if your magic hurt my daughter I will kill you-"
Dad?!
"She'll be fine Mark, don't worry"
Minx?!?
I slowly opened my eyes to a faint flicker of a lamp in total darkness, I shivered as I felt cold water surrounding me. I felt as if I was laying in the middle of a huge puddle. 
"she's waking up!" I heard Felix yell happily, I looked over seeing he was hunched over next to me holding my hand. I clenched his hand groaning, unable to really speak. 
"everybody get back!" Mark's voice said sternly as he motioned for everyone to back away.
I felt a wave of relief wash over me as Mark scooped me up and held me in his arms. I smiled a weak smile "h-hey... dad" I laughed under my breath "I... I got my memories back" I stopped mid sentence feeling a peircing throbbing in my temple.
"c-cry..." I groaned "I need to see him-"
"no!" dad said angerly "He's... not... well" he muttered. 
"That's because he needs me" I said sitting up "I need to see Cry..."
"No!" dad said sternly grabbing me "I am NOT letting him take you from me again!" fear spread across his face in realization of his words.
I shook my head "dad... just because I love Cry doesnt mean I'll ever stop loving you. I will always be your little girl. No matter what, you will always be my dad and no one will ever take that away. not even Cry"
Dad smiled, tears forming in his eyes as he slowly released me "sorry" was all he could say.
I looked down noticing that my heart necklace was glowing blue, my braclet was glowing purple with magic. I looked around finding Minx who smiled at me, they all seemed like they've already been through hell. Minx's purple dress was torn as if a monster with claws had attacked her. Her face and clothes were cover in blood. "Minx, I know the truth. you're my..."
"Mother?" she finished, her voice seemed as if she was shooken up "yes sweetie, I am"
I looked back at Dad then back at her "you. had me... with... ew oh my gosh why?"
Minx laughed "believe or not I used to be in love with your father before I met Krism... I wanted a child and so did Mark and Krism. So, I had a you with Mark. But, Mark sort of wanted diffrent things for you then Krism and I wanted for you-"
"umm... guyyysss..." Pewds said terrified getting everyones attention as he pointed into the darkness. In the direction he pointed we heard an evil familair laugh 
"its mad cry!" pewds yelled 
"everyone get behind me!" I yelled. everyone did as instructed and gathered into a small group behind me a few feet away. 
I lifted my necklace allowing the light to illuminate the figure in front of me. Crouched over with his back to me Cry clenched his mask still letting out a now light evil laugh. I was scared, my hand trembled as I held the necklace. I swallowed my fears and did something I never thought I'd ever do in a million years.

I threw myself forward throwing Cry down to the ground hitting the shallow water with a splash. I had my eyes closed tight in fear as I wrapped my arms around Cry resting my head on his chest. I held onto him, scared to ever let him go again 
"see Cry...you can do anything..." my voice trembled as I waited for Cry to respond.
please, work.
I felt Cry slowly place his arms around me clenching me close
"as long... as you... do it... w-with a smile..." Cry muttered regaining control.
I listened to everyone breathe a sigh of relief.
I opened my eyes looking up at the blue eyes that looked back at me, a smile across his face.
"Cry...?" I whispered, shaking my head in disbelief
He slowly sat up, he reached over into the water picking up his mask. he slowly placed it back on but I stopped him, I grabbed his mask smiling.
"I told you I'd find you" I whispered throwing his mask to the side pulling him close to me kissing his lips forcefully. The warm feeling of Cry's presence flooded back into me, I breathed in his life, his love. MY body has been craving his warth, the sweet smell of his skin, the comfort of his laughter.
"I never doubted you, Ellie" he whispered moving slightly away "not for a damn second" 
"I'm sorry to break up your little reuien" Felix cut in "but, we should be figuring out how to get out of here"
I began standing up and so did Cry "you're right pewds, let's get going... wait..."
I realized the small group was missing a few people "where is Mariza, and Yami?" 
Everyones faces saddened 
"they... were taken... by the monsta's" Minx said weakly "they were here then those... things..."
"shush" I soothed Minx "it's alright, hey look at me..." I held her shoulders as her fearful eyes met mine. 
"Krism, she's back home waiting for you. She made me promise that I had to bring you home. Now, when in my whole life have either you or Krism known me to break a promise?"
Minx shook her head "n-never" I could feel her trembling under my hands "but what if Krism forgets about me? who knows how long we'll be trapped here!" she was panicking, bad. 
"Minx everything will be okay-"
"No! no it won't!" she yelled clenching her ears stumbling backwards as she backed up from me.
"Minx what are you saying?" Cry asked standing close to me protectively
"t-this bitch is the reason we're here! she should've never come to Victubia!" Minx yells
"yeah, maybe if we kill her we'll be free" pewds adds
I shake my head in disbelief "no, this isn't real..."
"lets get her!" Mark yells as I crouch down closing my eyes covering my ears terrified.
I hear a jolt of magic as I feel someone wrap thier arm around me protectivly.
"it's okay Ellie, they werent real" I hear cry mutter in my ear "you can open your eyes, they're gone"
I slowly open my eyes still shaking in fear as I look around in disbelief, tears began streaming down my face as I looked back at Cry "how can I know you're not an illusion too?" I muttered
he smiled behind his mask "when you were in the real world I watched you, I used magic to check up on you. you had a nightmare when you were eight, you woke up screaming in horror because you saw a man wearing a mask covered in blood. you cried to Mark about it because it felt so real to you. now, how would I know about that?"
I remember that night, it was the first of many nightmares I had of Cry before I even knew that it was him. 
"the memory erase spell that I placed on you was flawed, I'm the only one who could fix it. That's why minx came the next night and brought you Buddy. he had enough magic in him to protect you from the flaws of the memory erase spell. without him growing up I'm afriad you would've gone insane"

"you are Cry, no one else besides Minx knew about Buddy" I let out a sigh of relief "thank goodness" I pulled him in for a hug crying
"it's going to be okay squirt, I'm never letting anything like that happen to you ever again" he whispered into my ear "I promise"