Book 4: Love in the Caribbean

Chapter 10: Love comes at a price

As their love grew stronger, they could no longer wait until their planned wedding day so they met at Mount Olympus to get married alone, but their love came at a price. Standing at the edge of Mount Olympus Solaris wore the golden suite of armor his red cape was draped over one shoulder. He made a beautiful sunset turning the clouds pink and the sky orange, yellow, and red. He was about to say his vows when suddenly the light faded around them his body became deathly cold. There was a painful ache in his chest and he groaned in pain and collapsed onto his knees. when Lunaria caught him slightly and knelt down beside him.

"Solaris!"

Solaris could feel himself getting weaker the energy was draining from his body. He spoke his voice was strained and very weak.

"Lunaria, the sun..."

Lunaria stared at the sun and her eyes widened in horror. She quickly helped Solaris to his feet and the two vanished in a blinding silver light. They reappeared off the coast on the island where they first met in the Caribbean.

Solaris was very weak he couldn't even stand as he felt his knees give out on him. Lunaria leaned him up against a palm tree his golden hair was no longer gold but a dark almost rusty gold, all the color faded from his face. His amour was gone revealing his bare chest. Lunaria removed his hand away from the Sun tattoo on his chest and the moment she did she placed her hands over her mouth in shock.

"No..."

The sun tattoo on his chest his very essence, his very life, had a scar running halfway through. If another minute had passed before he made it across, he would have died. Lunaria was crying as she turned to stare at the sun.

It was a Solar Eclipse but it was the wrong time for an Eclipse to occur. Something that never should have been, had just happened, and it nearly cost Solaris his life and the existence of the entire world! The Eclipse was slowly fading she had gotten him across, but not fast enough.

Solaris was extremely weak he could hardly even move or speak as his head rested to his left side as he was beginning to regain his strength. He saw someone appear out from the forest and with the little strength he had, he somehow managed to say a name.

"End...door..."

Lunaria instantly looked up to see Endor their wisest and dearest friend staring at them in unimaginable shock. His ivory face was pale white when he saw them; tears were streaming down Lunaria's face as she spoke pleading him for some semblance of aid.

"Endor, please help him!"

Endor's eyes were full of grief as he spoke in a hollow broken tone to his Scottish sounding voice.

"I am sorry but this es beyond any help I could ever give. I tried to warn ya of what might happen, but even I could never have imagined this...I'm sorry but this...this isn' going to work out like ye two had hoped."

Lunaria stared at Endor in despair and confusion as the tears were falling from her eyes in two straight lines down her face.

"What—What are you saying?"

Endor choked up on his words when he was forced to regretfully say this to his two dearest friends. "For yer own safety ye two may never see each other again..."

Solaris's eyes widened in unimaginable horror, while Lunaria stared at the ground in shock. "No..."

"Tae balance has been broken. Et's just too dangerous, if Solaris hadn' made et across in time he would have died and so would Inferno and tae world..."

Lunaria had tears streaming down her face as she shouted desperately, "No—No...NOOOO! Please Endor you can't do this! I...I...I'm Pregnant!"

Solaris's eyes widened in shock, while Endor stood there frozen in grief and shock until he saw that Lunaria's eyes turned silver with her rage and grief as she screamed.

"WE TRUSTED YOU HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO US!!!!!"

As she screamed Endor took a step back in terror. Lunaria was so angry with grief she formed a massive eighty foot high tsunami wave aimed directly at Endor, but before the wave even hit the shoreline Solaris used all the strength he had and placed his hand into hers. Lunaria's eyes widened in shock as the wave slowly receded back into the ocean without the threatening of the coastlines around the world.

She turned to see Solaris staring at her. His golden eyes were full of love and immense pain as he then placed his other hand upon the side of her face. He was crying with not just her tears but his own falling down his face as he sat up slowly and held her in his arms. As Lunaria started to sob, Solaris stared up at Endor and spoke rather calmly towards the man. Even through the tears of grief that were falling down his face his voice remained calm.

"I think's its best if you leave Endor."

Endor didn't move, his feet were frozen to the sands. He had tears falling down his face over Lunaria's pathokinetic powers. Lunaria looked up at him and screamed, her voice sounded more grieved than angry.

"LEAVE!"

Endor was released from her emotional hold and turned away as if to leave but then turned around and spoke towards Solaris and Lunaria in an anguished voice of sorrow. "I never wanted this to happen to ya two...I'm sorry that's all I 'ave left ta say I---I'm so soooooo sorry."

Lunaria stared down at the ground and said. "Please, just go away."

Endor closed his eyes a single final tear fell from his eyes as he disappeared beneath the sands leaving Solaris and Lunaria alone upon the beach. The color was slowly coming back to Solaris's face and hair as he smiled slightly and said with a strained laugh.

"I'm going to be a father!"

As he said that, he blinked back the tears that were filling his eyes, tears that were both his and Lunaria's he took her tears willingly.
"You—you don't know whether it's..."

"It's a girl I can feel her even now. I was going to tell you after the wedding but..." Tears filled her eyes as Solaris placed his hand on the side of her face and said.

"Aurora," Lunaria looked up at him. "We'll name her Aurora, after the Aurora Borealis."

Lunaria wiped the tears from her eyes and said with a soft smile, "Aurora that's beautiful."

Solaris stood up very slowly with a grimace of pain and leaned back against the palm tree. The Eclipse was fading and so was dawn it wouldn't be long before Lunaria would have to leave. He placed a golden orchid in Lunaria's hand and spoke.

"Take it, plant it at the edge of the cliff and it shall bloom whenever she is near." He kissed Lunaria passionately and said with concern seeping into his voice, "The Eclipse is ending...please Lunaria, you must get back to Mount..."

Lunaria cried out into a bitter sob of grief as she closed her eyes and silenced him. Tears were streaming down her face in two straight lines. Solaris tried to smile softly despite his own despair and her emotional powers bearing down on him when her tears suddenly fell from his own eyes when she spoke.

"I will always love you Solaris."

He placed his hands upon the sides of her face and tenderly wiped away her tears with his thumbs and spoke with love. "And I will always love you Lunaria."

Lunaria leaned forward, and kissed him fiercely with tears streaming down her ivory face in her grief when she realized that would likely be the last time she'd ever get to kiss.. She was visibly breaking down when their lips parted as she spoke.

"Goodbye Solaris."

Lunaria then vanished in blinding silver light and left. She reappeared and fell onto the bed in her temple home on the top of Mount Olympus and sobbed her heart out in grief as the sky light up with her tears as a thousand falling stars.