Greatest Witch

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Nakakabingi ang katahimikan ng Islang kinaroroonan ko ngayon at kasing ganda nito ang mga karagatang aking nasaksihan sa mundo ng mga tao. Ang pinagkaiba lamang ay nahahati ito sa dalawang kulay, asul at pula. Ang likurang bahagi nito ay karagatan. Tanging kaluskus at mahinang tunog ng mga hayop ang aking naririnig at walang Flame sa aking tabi. I close my eyes when I feel something behind me, in my mind I am molding my power to make a shield. 

"One step closer and you are dead." I warned. 

"Easy, love. I would rather be dead in your touch and I dare to take closer to be with you..." The first thing I felt is his embrace, its warmth, salt air smell blended in his clothes and his breathe in my nape. Napapikit ako upang damhin iyon. Pilit binabaon sa limot ang nangyari kanina... ang mga pangyayaring kasingtulad ng bangungot. 

"You missed me that much huh?" He said from behind. I nodded. 

"It's all right, love... you're free." 

I bit my lower lip to stop my emotion to get over me. "What happened?" 

"We barely escaped... that's why here we are. We're trapped in Island but this is not real." He touch the golden sand and it turn to ashes and fade with the air. "Illusion, a present from the God's to keep you away from any danger. Your punishment ended the moment Grayeh caught by the fire." 

"What?" I turned to face him. "She's dead? Again? What happened then?"

Umiling siya. "Temporarily." 

"What do you mean?" I asked in confusion. 

"She must suffer first. Before I went to you, I encounter lots of manipulation coming to you. Nakita kitang namatay, I saw you coming with your parents... and I was losing myself because  of that but then I suddenly felt something..." 

Tumango ako. "The heat? You felt it too?" 

"Yes, at doon ko pa lamang napagtanto na nasa panganib ka... and I'm sorry for being late." 

"No," Umiling ako bilang pagtanggi. "It's not your fault, it was meant to be like that." 

"But still..." Yumuko siya. 

"Look at me." Dahan-dahan nitong inangat ang kaniyang mga mata. I look straight into his eyes deep down to his soul. Hinaplos ko ang kaniyang mukha gamit ang aking dalawang kamay. 

But his eyes shifted somewhere the moment I touch his face. 

"I have something to tell you..." 

"What is it?" I asked, tinatago ang kabang nararamdaman sa mga susunod na salitang bibitawan niya. Finally, he glance at me. I meet his eyes. 

"Before us, a great legend was born..." Humugot siya ng malalim na hininga. 

"What legend? I mean, there's a lot of them---"

"It's the first legend of all, the root of all chaos... just because of a forbidden love between pure and wicked."

Dahan-dahang bumaba ang aking kamay mula sa kaniyang mukha dahil sa puntong iyon ay sigurado akong konektado iyon sa akin. 

"W-Why do I get the feeling that I know how the story ends, hmm? It's not what I am thinking right, Flame?" 

"I'm sorry, my love. Yes, alam kong mahirap itong paniwalaan pero ito ang katotohanan. The truth you have know was not the sole truth of all but a shallow veracity. This legend shall be gone for years now but we're born." Napahawak ako sa kaniyang balikat, pilit na binabalanse ang aking katawan matapos niyang sabihin iyon.