Chronicles From A Warlock III: Slave of the King

Chapter 15

i couldn't take it couldn't stand another minute
couldn't bear another day without you in it
all of the joy that I had known for my life
was stripped away from me the minute that you died

to have you in my life was all i ever wanted
but now without you I'm a soul forever haunted
can't help but feel that i had taken you for granted
no way in hell that i can ever comprehend this

i wasn't dreaming when they told me you were gone
i was wide awake and feeling that they had to be wrong
how could you leave me when you swore that you would stay
now i'm trapped inside a nightmare every single fucking day

it's like a movie but there's not a happy ending
every scene fades black and there's no pretending
this little fairy tale doesn't seem to end well
theres no knight in shining armor who will wake me from the spell

i know you didn't plan this
you tried to do what's right
but in the middle of this madness
i'm the one you left to win this fight

red like roses
fills my head with dreams and finds me
always closer
to the emptiness and sadness
that has come to take the place of you

i know you're broken down by anger and by sadness
you feel I left you in a world that's full of madness
wish i could talk to you if only for a minute
make you understand the reasons why i did it

i wanna tell you that you're all that ever mattered
want you to know that for eternity i'm shattered
i tried so hard just to protect you but i failed to
and in a prison of abandonment i've jailed you

i never planned that i would leave you there alone
i was sure that i would see you when i made it back home
and all the times I swore that it would be okay
now i'm nothing but a liar and you're thrown into the fray

this bedtime story ends with misery ever after
the pages are torn and there's no final chapter
i didn't have a choice I did what I had to do
i made a sacrifice but forced a bigger sacrifice on you

i know you've lived a nightmare
i caused you so much pain
but baby please don't do what i did
i don't want you to waste your life in vain

you're not the only one who needed me i thought you understood
you were the one i needed and you left me as I always feared you would
would I change it if i could?
it doesn't matter how
the petals scatter now
every nightmare just discloses
it's your blood that's red like roses
and no matter what I do
nothing ever takes the place of you

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"Pitiful."
"That's what you are."
"A waste of light."

I slowly looked up from the kneeling position I found myself in. My eyes slowly focused onto Mercie's slender frame standing in front of me. Black smoke poured from her nostrils and mouth every time she spoke. She slowly began to approach me. Her arms outstretched in front of her as if she wanted to embrace me. That's exactly what she did. Slowly and carefully she wrapped her arms around my neck, never breaking eye contact with me. "Thank you for saving me Aero." She hissed before I heard the sound of a knife cutting through something.
Pain exploded from the back of my neck as my life critical fluid began to pour down my back. Mercie grinned before she began to laugh manically. She wildly slashed and stabbed at the back of my neck, cutting anything that her blade met. "Mercie-" I choked, feeling systems beginning to fail.
Once she was satisfied with her work she slowly began to back away. Her sleeves were now stained with my blood. She teasingly licked the blade clean. Her eyes darted around my body, seeming to decide what part of me she would mutilate next. With a profound scream she sent the small blade clean through my right optic.
I yelled as pain instantly exploded from in my head. I reached for the blade that now protruded from my face only to find that Mercie had severed the connection to my right arm. She giggled and forcefully removed the knife from my eye. More blood spurted from the wound and covered her face profusely. With another sadistic grin she again licked her blade clean. The blade slowly came to rest below my other eye.
Mercie just stood there, taunting me. She giggled erratically and twitched unnaturally. "Poor poor Aero~" she cooed and blew smoke into my face. "Who needs saving now~?" In one swift motion she pulled the blade away from my optic and plunged it into my chest.
I barely flinched, my pain receptors were overloaded at this point, more so than they had ever been before. She grinned and her eyes flashed as more of my blood painted her face. But she didn't stop there. She slowly began to pull the knife through my chassis, slowly coming to form the letter 'L'. Then the letter 'O'. Then the letter 'S'. And finally the letter 'T'. To add insult to injury she underlined the whole thing with another deep cut.
"Good Frame." She laughed, which slowly fell into the madness of a scream before she buried her knife in the side of my neck.
She just stood there, watching me bleed out.