Soulless-Septiplier

Long Live The King

"Jack! Can we talk? Please?" Mark walked closer, "There's something I have to tell you...alone?" He looked over at Shemal, he waved us away and we walked where he couldn't hear us,

"What did you want-" I turn back around to see Mark, he got really close to me and put his hand on my arm, tracing it up to my shoulder then pulled me in and kissed me...on the lips. I was weak at the knees, it caught me off guard, I place my hand on his shoulder to balance myself, I could feel him smiling. He pulled away and I frown,

"Jack I do care about you...Shemal played me. He told me you didn't want me, he said you were happier without me and I believed him. I was an idiot and I'm sorry. I should have known that what we had was real- IS real-"

"Playtime's over, kids. It's time to die, Jack." He walks closer, "You'll never see him again. And you'll give up your place as the Devil over your 'overwhelming grief for your true love.' How thoughtful, how sad, how...pathetic." Mark looked up at him and started charging at him, I stopped him and looked at Shemal,

"This is my fight, Mark. If I die, whatever you do, do NOT give up your place. You need to feel important and worth it- because you are. Don't let my death ruin your future." I walked closer to Shemal, taking my hand off Mark.

"Jack-"

"Stand back, Mark." Shemal cracked his knuckles,

"Jack, you can't fight him, you are an angel. You won't be allowed back in heaven."

"I'm not going to fight him. I'm just going to try to survive. If I can't, don't cry over me." I smile back at him.

"Enough talking, kid. Let's get this over with." Shemal chucks a fireball at me, I am able to dodge with only a spark on my sleeve. He was angry, he threw another and another, each one bigger than the last, closer and closer. I was sweating and out of breath, I removed the jacket and stood up straight. He got closer and pushed me over, my head hit the ground, I held it as I stood up, staring him straight in the eye. He picked me up and threw me against a wall, my spine hit the bricks and I coughed up blood. I took a deep breath and stood up again, he was furious, "Why won't you just give up?!" Grabbing my shirt, he pushed me back against the wall, not breaking eye contact, I wiped the blood on my lips and chuckled. Shemal looked at me with fire in his eyes. He moved me away from the wall and started pushing me around, knocking me over and picking me up. "Just die. You have nothing to live for and you know it. You will never be happy." He pushed me to the ground and put his foot on my chest,

"I'm. not. giving. up. this. time." It was getting hard to breath, I grab his foot and move it off of me, standing up. He smiles and pushes me back. I look over my shoulder to see we were near the edge of a cliff leading off to a river filled with souls.

He chuckles, "If you fall, you will never come out." He walks closer, causing me to back up , I could feel the rocks crumbling under my feet, I look over to see them falling in, I grab ahold of Shemal's shirt and he smiles..."Long live the king." He pushes me over and I start tumbling down the cliff, falling and hitting myself on the rocks. My shirt was ripped off, causing me to cut myself on rocks.

"Mark." I whisper to myself as I close my eyes. I feel a pain in my back, I open my eyes to see I am floating above the lake, I blink a couple times, not believing my eyes, I look at the reflection...I-I have wings! I have wings!! I shoot up the ledge and soar high above it, seeing Mark on his knees, crying. He did it. He gave up his place as devil. As I start flying down I see Shemal push him off the cliff. "MARK!" I dive down and grab his hands, trying to stop myself, I can't control these wings! God dammit Jack! Pull! I heave him up back onto the cliff and hold him tight,

"Jack. I-I couldn't do it. I thought you were gone."

"I'm right here." I stroke his silky, black hair. He grabs my shirt, he looks so helpless. We were just sitting on the ground, Shemal came up to us and chuckled,

"Cute. You finally got your wings back. I knew I couldn't keep them away from you that long."

"You took my wings?"

"Of course I did, dumbass. I needed you to suffer after what you took away from me."

"I didn't do anything to you."

"You took my life away, brother."

"Brother?"

"They told me you were powerful," He chuckled, "You were the one that was going to save them. I was just in the background of all your achievements. The big brother that couldn't do anything right, the throne was rightfully mine...and they wanted to give it to a baby. I couldn't let that happen, if I couldn't be king of the angels than I'd be the devil. But of course he would fall in love with you, So I had to kill you, and make him give up his throne. And well, lookey here, you didn't die. You were born to give up and yet for some reason you keep coming back." At this point I was standing,

"I would have helped you." Brother? I don't even know what I'm talking about, I started walking towards him,

"Now you don't have to." He laughed and looked at Mark. I looked at him, then back up, Shemal was gone.