My God

My God 29 )

I held onto Zalla. I hadn't meant to strike into her heart.

"Oh crap. No if you die the stone forges in me" I say trying to heal her.
The dark stone rejected my healing and ended up splitting the wound further.

She laughs, coughing up some more blood.
"Oh the irony of this" she groans as I try to comfort her.

I heard the throne doors being swung off their hinges but didn't check to see who was there. I had to make sure Zalla didn't die.

"You're nothing but pure forgiveness. Even though you had some rough times on Earth your forgiveness and light shines above that all and you know that when I die the darkness will slowly forge itself to you and you can't handle that darkness, can you?" Zalla said with a dark smile.

"It's more than that" I lie to myself.

"No it's not, you just don't want to be filled with darkness. I came here looking for a deep revenge, a hateful way to kill a tyrant king and I found this stone on a planet made of hot red dust.
I figured it was my calling.
As Queen of the Yondir, I created my army of swords to slaughter the Yaldvirian's and take their jewels just as they did to us.

I see now how that is a mistake."

Zalla groans as her eyes fall to the back of her head, her breathing got longer, in and out seemed to take forever.
My heart was racing.
She was right. Every word she spoke about me being scared was right. How could I stomach so much darkness? I couldn't. Let alone the fact that the darkness corrupted her to destroy an entire civilisation based on her past anger and pain.

She was strong but we knew the inevitable would come.
Somehow I think she knew that deep down she'd die during this war, never knowing the glory of killing a king, or the burden she'd bare having to know she was the one to destroy lives.

As much as she was driven by her anger, Zalla wasn't pure darkness. Even ten thousand years of waiting for revenge couldn't twist her ways.
It was strange to see the woman before me, spitting blood.

Ten minutes ago she was trying to kill me and now she is coughing blood and admitting to her worst crimes and fears.

It was the small things that made me realise how much I had to live for.

"Life is about growth" She straggled.
I watched as the darkness slowly left her body, every few seconds to a minute some black smoke would rise out of her mouth, nose, ears and eyes, drifting into the air, waiting for me to take a breath inwards to take back the darkness.

"I don't understand. Ten minutes ago you wanted me dead now you want me to understand life lessons that you could never grasp?" I snap, forgetting about the serious situation we were in.

"The darkness controlled me. Just as the light controls you.
You can't see how much of a tyrant Salo really is, you can't see how Enas is toxic and you can't see how annoyingly righteous Ignis is. Their bad traits will never out weigh their good traits and maybe that's okay.

Maybe it's okay that you can only see happiness in everyone, see how much they've grown and learnt how to deal with their demons.

But for the love of life Carla Lei Trent. The light controls you."

I laugh as I grip onto Zalla.
I still hadn't looked up to see who had smashed their way into the throne room but I know that it had to be either Enas or Ignis. Either one of them appear at the perfect times.

Or the worst I think, remembering all the times E and I had been interrupted by people during our.. intimate moments.

"Controlled by the light or not, I still don't go around commanding wars on people" she laughs at the realisation of her darkness.

"Why are you spending my last moments with me?" She says instead, I could see the life draining from her, her eyes still not opening.

"Because its only fair that the Yin and Yang have every moment together" I say realising that it was the exact reason I wanted to stay with her until her death.

"I never knew my father, it was a memory that was never forged. My mother said he was disgusting and a tyrant. I guess those beliefs roll over into my anger when I think about Salo."

"I never knew my father either and as you know, my mother was a bitch"
Zalla laughs, strangled for air.

"It's time I stop living this lie. Your power is unmatchable. You will live for ten thousand years, right here, on Yaldvir."
Her movements slowed suddenly before her arms dropped to her side.

Zalla was dead.

I started to cry. Really cry for the woman.
My tears were interrupted by the weirdest dark feeling I never thought I'd experience.

The dark black cloud moved from Zalla's corpse and into my body.
My soul detached from my body and I was floating above myself.

My arms were thrown backwards, my mouth and eyes wide open as the darkness turned my blue eyes to the darkest navy blue I have ever seen before it disappeared.

My soul quickly zipped back into my body and I gasped. The stones were now mine for the next ten thousand years.