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2. The fire burns brighter

It was early in the morning and you had just gotten up to use the bathroom but you were startled by the rapid pounding on your front door. You ran downstairs quickly and opened it to see a broken Meulin. She hugged you tightly and started crying her eyes out on your shirt. "Meulin what's wrong?" You asked frantically. She gripped your shirt tighter. You got that same feeling you did last night when you were sitting next to her. You shivered slightly. She looked at you with teary eyes. "H-Horuss is...." she couldn't finish her sentence before balling her eyes out more. From her actions it was obvious that he wasn't well. "What happened?" You questioned and she looked at you again before grabbing your hand and leading you outside. She led you around for a bit and stopped dead in her tracks. Trolls were surrounding something but you caught a glimpse of what 'it' looked like. His face was crushed to where if he hadn't had his torn up clothes on then he would've been unrecognizable. There were burns and cuts littering his body. It looked like he had been tourtured before brutally slaughtered. You gasped as tears welled up in your eyes. Meulin buried her face into your shirt to cover her eyes from seeing the horror show. You led her back to your house and sat her down on the couch. "I-I don't know any troll who would've evfurr want to hurt him." She said sadly as she rubbed her eyes. "I don't know either, but whoever it was surely didn't like him." You said quietly. "But who would evfurr hurt Horuss? He's been so nice to evfurryone. Who wouldn't like him?" You shook your head. "I don't know." You whispered as you felt tears prick your eyes. You felt terrible for Meulin, knowing that she herself had a little bit of a flush crush on the Sagittarius. You were both brought out of the silence by knocking at the door. You walked over and opened it to reveal Kurloz and Cronus standing next to Him. "Hey, did you guys...." Kurloz nodded. Knowing what you were talking about. You nodded back and let them both in. Meulin latched onto Cronus who was surprised at first but chuckled as he sat down on the couch. "So are the police gonna get involved or some shit like that?" He questioned as you sat down next to him, Kurloz walked over and sat on the cushion next to you. "Most likely, I just don't know if they'll find any evidence." You said as silence took over the room for a couple minutes. You cleared your throat and got up, heading to the kitchen for a drink. You entered the kitchen and opened the fridge. Glaring slightly at the top shelf that had some drinks on it. Yelping slightly as you felt slender fingers wrap around your waist and lift you up. You looked down and blushed, seeing Kurloz helping you up. You grabbed a drink and he set you down. "T-Thank you." You said as a blush still coated your face. He chuckled and nodded as he went back into the front room with the others. You shook your head a little. Don't be silly. You walked back into the front room and leaned on the wall watching and laughing a little as Cronus tried to understand Kurloz. You felt a tapping on you shoulder and turned to see Meulin. She looked at Kurloz then quickly led you into the bathroom before shutting the door. "Meulin what's wrong?" She shushed you. "(Y/n) I don't have a good feeling about purrloz. And I don't know if it's because of what happened or not but, I just get a bad vibe from him now." She frantically whispered. You raised an eyebrow. "What do you mean by bad vibe?" You questioned but she quickly opened the door and led you out of the bathroom, ignoring your question. She quickly left your house and Cronus looked at you with a questioning look. "If I knew then I would tell you." He gave you an 'oh' type of look as you sat down next to him. "Where did Loz go?" He looked over at you and shrugged. " I think to the bathroom, I only understand those signs and a couple others so that's what I'm thinking." He said before rubbing the back of his neck and chuckling. You nodded and closed your eyes to rest. You felt the couch shift and you opened your eyes. "I'm gonna go check on Meulin. She seemed pretty tense. Are you sure you don't know what caused it?" He looked at you, knowing that you were covering something up. You sighed and looked around, you didn't see Kurloz and decided it was safe. "She says that she gets a bad vibe from Kurloz." You whispered. He raised a brow in confusion but laughed a little. "She's probably just scared from this morning, I'm sure she'll be fine." You nodded in agreement. "Yeah, I doubt Kurloz did anything. I think she just needs sleep." You claimed as he got ready to leave. "She's been really paranoid lately. I'll have to talk to her and see." He then opened the door but waited a minute, shut it and walked back towards you. "(Y/n)?" You looked up at him and nodded, telling him that you were listening. He looked around and brought you into the kitchen. "Cronus are you okay?" He put a finger to his lips before whispering. "(Y/n), I kinda believe Meulin. Just hear me out." He said before breathing in slowly. "Kurloz invited me over here so I could leave vwhen Meulin did and he could be alone vwith you,...you can probably assume vwhat his intentions vwere. But I just couldn't let him do anything like that to someone like you knowing I was helping out vwith that stupid shit." You looked at him like he was crazy and slowly let it sink in. "Why?" You whispered. He looked around the corner and quickly retracted his head. "If I knew why then I would tell-" he tried finishing but an ear shattering sound cut him off and he immediately fell to the floor as purple blood started flowing out of his stomach. "CRONUS!" You screamed as tears started welling up in your eyes. "You need to run." You shook your head and picked him up, stumbling a little. "Fuck no Cronus! I already lost Horuss I'm sure as hell not going to loose you to!" You argued back as you ran as fast as you can out the back door. You ran by many trolls on the sidewalk who stared in horror as they saw you carrying the bleeding seadweller. Someone had obviously called 911 and you heard the sirens. You stopped and impatiently waited as they rushed out of the car and took him from you. Putting him on the stretcher and quickly driving away to the nearest hospital. A light blonde officer with sunglasses walked up to you and stared at your blood stained shirt. "Ma'am do you know what happened?" He asked with monotone voice. Tears flowed down your cheeks as you choked out a response. "He was shot by someone and I-I can't loose someone else!" You cried out as you gripped the officers shirt and cried into it. He was taken off guard and he asked another question. "I do apologize for asking this ma'am but. Were you a friend of a troll known as Horuss Zahhak?" You cried even harder and pulled away. "Y-Yes" you cried out as you held your hand to your mouth. He nodded grimly and walked back to his car. Driving away.