Star-Crossed Myth: The Divine Fate (Book One)

Ichthys, The Mischievious Trickster: Story 12 (END)

 Ichthys looks up, closing his eyes, and a soft glow begin to envelope him.

No! He can't die!

Ichthys!

Without thinking, and a last attempt, I throw my arms around him, as if to protect him. I feel him flinch in my embrace.

"Please, stop! Don't do this!" I beg, squeezing Ichthys tighter. "Don't die, Ichthys!

"Abbey?!"

"Wait...you can see me now?" I gasp, looking up at him with wide eyes.

"Wh-what are you doing here? How'd you get here?" Ichthys stares at me, caught off guard by my sudden appearance.

"That's not important. I just had to see you. I can't let things end like this." My hands cup his cheeks. "Besides, it's my fault your life was cut short in the first place."

"No...Abbey, it's not. I made that decision myself." She grabs my wrists, looking me as if he's in pain. "None of that matters!"

"B-but—!"

"You need to get back to earth! Why did you come all the way here!" He yells, his voice shaking.

"Ichthys...!"

Ichthys, still holding onto my wrist, tries to pull me away, lead me out of the throne room. But I dig my heels into the ground, stubbornly refusing to budge from the spot.

"No, Ichthys!" I pull back on his arm. "You used your healing powers to save me! So please, let me give the life you used to save me back!"

Ichthys stops, turns around and grabs my shoulders, his face inches from mine. "Abbey, I don't want that to happen!"

"But I do!"

She jerks my shoulders. "You don't understand why I saved you, do you?!"

"Ichthys...I don't mind. Even my life made you live for just a bit longer...a little more time to smile."

"Abbey... I could never smile if you were gone." He tells me.

I lightly smack him upside the head. "And what the hell do you think I've been saying this entire time? Ichthys, I can't smile without you." I caress the side of his face. "That's why I'm doing this."

"Abbey...!" His hands squeeze my shoulders.

However, he still doesn't shake my determination, doesn't change my choice.

"Ichthys, thank you for saving me. It made me incredibly happy, even though I didn't want you too." I smirk. "But I'm glad...I'm glad I met you."

"Abbey!" His hands tremble as he looks at me with his piercing grey eyes.

"I don't know how this works but..." I step away from Ichthys, arms and hands spread as I shout. "Okay, I offer my human body and...soul of a goddess, I guess, to give to Ichthys?"

"Abbey, Don't!" Ichthys reaches out.

He pulls me into his chest, his arms wrapping around me as if shielding me.

"Urgh, Ichthys, let me do this for you, please!" I beg him.

"I should be the one saying that to you!" He tells me, his breath tickling my ear. "How can you throw your life away so easily? You have a future Abbey!"