[Rika's POV]
Shin-ah still embraced me with a hug, without letting me go. "Goodbye..."With that, I have completely disappear.
[No one's POV]
Shin-ah fall to the ground, heartbroken. He didn't know what to do to stop her from disappear. "Shin-ah? What the heck are you doing out here?"Hak's voice could be heard from behind. Since he wore a mask, Hak don't know that he's crying. "Where's Rika?"He asked.
Shin-ah froze. He don't know how to tell Hak about it. He don't know how to tell all of them. At last, Shin-ah showed him the necklace. "What?"But Hak does not understand him.
"That necklace...."A voice appear behind Hak. "Asuka..."Shin-ah muttered. "Hey, Shin-ah. Tell me. Where's...Rika?"Asuka shuttered. "She...."But he don't have the urge to tell her. "Shin-ah..Please tell me that you're joking..."
"Joking about what? What's going on? Where the hell is Rika?"Hak confused of what had happened. "She...apologize that..she couldn't follow..you until the end...The dagger, don't forget..about it.."Shin-ah spoke. Hak now realize what happened as he looked at Asuka,"You're still..here..?"
"I...don't know. Why didn't I disappear along with her..?"Asuka then looked at Shin-ah,"You know the answer, right?" He nodded his head. "You..."Asuka take a deep breath and let it out,"You can tell me..at the camp..."
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"You're-"Yona was about to greet them when she noticed a sour look on their face. "What happened to you three?"She asked. "Has anyone of you seen Rika? She's not here."Min-Soo appeared in front of them. "I didn't see her since I woke up."Yoon answered, who was preparing food for them.
"Me too. I didn't see her."Yona said. "The last time I saw her was..last night."Kija said while sitting on a rock. "She....disappear."Shin-ah said. With that, everyone went silent and glance at him. "Wow, Shin-ah. Where did you learn to joke like that?"Jae-ha said, couldn't believe what he heard.
"If Rika disappear, then why Asuka is still here?"Kija pointed at her. "It doesn't have to be...the two of them disappear. One is...enough..." Everyone grasp. "Why..why didn't she tell me?!"Asuka looked at him. "Because..you once said that...all of us are family to you....She doesn't want you to..lose everything..that you had now...So she......she....gave up her..life..."Everyone know that Shin-ah was crying behind his mask judge from his words.
"We...didn't even get to say goodbye."Hak slammed his fist against the tree nearby. "Why are you all crying?"Zeno suddenly interrupt,"Shin-ah, she disappear with a smile right? And she said she doesn't want to see us with a sad face, right?" Everyone attention went to Zeno. "She's happy to be able to meet you all. She doesn't want to see you because she doesn't want you to show your sad impression to her. She want to see a smile on your face. Seeing you all happy, makes her happy too."Zeno smile. They know that he's upset but he doesn't show it. What he said was correct, seeing them smile will make Rika smile too.
"Asuka, it's not your fault.."Yona tried to comfort her. She however just stayed quiet. "We should head over to Ik-Soo and tell him that we had found all of the four dragons."Yoon broke the atmosphere,"Like Zeno said, we have to smile to make her happy. So we have to move forward and continue our mission."
Everyone looked at him and nodded.
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~Time Skip~
Shin-ah just stayed silent along the way. He only answer with a nod or shook his head.
At last, they reached Yoon's house. He knocked on the door but no answer from Ik-Soo. He immediately swung open the door just to see everything in the house were broken and found Ik-Soo lying on the floor with bloods on his head. "Ik-Soo!"Yoon rushed to him and put his head on his knee while the others were in shock except Asuka.
"I'm sorry...Yoon.."Ik-Soo spoke. "What are you apologizing...wait a sec..I saw this happened before..."Yoon said while trying to remember,"Oh, that's right. You broke everything because you were hungry." "Arh...You remember the past....."Ik-Soo smiled.
Yoon sighed,"Find..I'll go cook some food."He gently put Ik-Soo's head on the floor and went to the kitchen. "Ik-Soo..You remembered everything too..?"Asuka asked as he slowly getting up. "Yea...By now, all of your past memories had returned to you." Everyone nodded. "Great! Then I don't need to repeat what I said last time!"Zeno laughed.
"Ik-Soo..I remembered everything about meeting Lily-hime, Kouren-hime and Tao-hime. I also remember my own death.."Yona said,"But Asuka and Rika already done so much for me and I don't want to burden Asuka by making her travel to the past again." Ik-Soo gave her a sad smile,"This is your last chance, Yona. This time, you only have one life."
"What do you mean by that? Asuka can travel to the past and redo it again."Kija said. "I'm afraid not..Rika and Asuka were given an amount of time. Each time they used their power, they will used up their time limit and shorten their life span. Ever since Rika sacrifice herself, Asuka don't have a time limit anymore but in return, you can't travel through time."
"What..? I'm just a normal human being now?"Asuka raised her eyebrow. "I wouldn't consider you as a normal human being. Even though you don't have time travel anymore but you have another power that was similar as time manipulation magic."Ik-Soo told them. "What kind of time magic she have now?"Hak asked. "You need to figure out for yourself, Asuka. You need to learn to use it to protect Yona."
"I see..."Asuka understood.
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Min-Soo, Asuka and Yona were in the house helping Yoon while Ik-Soo went to the waterfall.
"Can't believe I met the old man in the Water Tribe territory..I also cooperate with Soo-Won to save Lily-hime..and the worst thing was Yona-hime and Lily-hime were kidnapped."Hak's face darken. "But I and Zeno did save Yona right? Not to mention, you gave me and Zeno a hug too."Jae-ha laughed. "Shut up Droopy-eyes." "Ouch."
"Well, isn't the most important thing is to save Yona-hime? We failed as the four dragon warriors to protect hime. This is our only chance, she can't the back time anymore."Kija said.
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Tɪᴍᴇ Tʀᴀᴠᴇʟ(Akatsuki no Yona fanfiction)
Hayran Kurgu"At some point, you need to realize that some people can stay in your heart, but not in your life." Two young girls who have time manipulation magic. A girl who can travel back and forth from the future to the past. Another one is a girl who is able...
