Dancat "A Whole New World"

Heartaches

*Dan's POV*

"STAMPY!!!"

I laid my head on his hair sobbing harder then I had ever before. "Stampy please......d-don't leave me" I cried as I held his head in my arms. I shook his body in a panicked fashion, I couldn't feel his breathing ,his chest wasn't moving. "Dan, Stampy?" a nervous shivering voice spoke from down the hall. But I couldn't answer I was too busy crying, I lifted my head a little to the sound of the door opening. "D-Dan....is he?" I Saw Lee with tears threatening to spill from his eyes. I looked back at the limp lifeless body of my partner. "I......I c-couldn't s-save him....." I sobbed into my own hands. Lee stood there in shock, he couldn't believe his baby brother was gone, Lee ran over to my side and looked down at Stampy as tears began to fall like a rushing waterfall over the ocean. "ST-STAMPY!!" He hiccuped as he cried, he bent down and hugged the lifeless neko by the neck. I looked up again as I heard a gasp in the doorway, It was Squid along with all the others. Squid walked over to Lee and hugged him trying to comfort his older brother or he was trying to comfort himself but I'm pretty sure it was both. "I-I c-can't believe he's a-actually g-gone" Amy cried in disbelief as Lizzy and Stacy hugged her. "I k-know.........It d-doesn't even seem r-real" Finnball choked as he wiped his tears on his sleeve "T-This is all my fault!" I cried as I fell to my knees. "No D-Dan it is-isn't, It's C-Cassie's" Sky said as he made his way over to me and patted my back "None of this was y-your fault D-Dan..." Mitch said as walked over while holding Jerome's hand. "Dan.....it's ok...He's in a better place now" Sparklez choked out through his sobs. Sparklez buried his face in Torquedawg's chest as he sobbed, Torquedawg said nothing as he rubbed Sparklez back trying to comfort him. I looked up to see everyone was trying to comfort each other from the loss of their friend. I was so focused on crying I didn't even notice that Trayaurus had wrapped his arms around me in a secure supporting hug "It's going to be hard Dan.....but were going to get through this" He whispered as he rubbed circles around my back trying to calm me down.

"Lets....Lets at least have a proper burial.....s-so he can rest in p-peace...." Lee cried as he walked out of the room followed by Squid, both trying their best not to look at anyone. "He's right.......I'm n-not going to let his death...b-be any more horrible t-than it already is.........h-he deserves a p-proper funeral......" I cried as I got up and looked down at Stampy's breathless body. "Come on guys.....lets.....lets go" I choked as I walked out the same way Lee did, I walked outside to see Lee and Squid were already setting up but they weren't talking at all.....I mean I couldn't blame them, they just lost their little brother. "I can't believe Target was sick enough to do this....." I thought to myself as I walked over to help them. I could see that Squid and Lee did not like to expose their feelings, They seemed very distant through the entire process of setting up the funeral. They wouldn't speak to anyone who came up to them not even me, anytime someone came up to them trying to comfort them they simply walked away saying nothing. It took about a few hours to get the funeral set up, if Stampy were here he probably would have said it was beautiful. There were flowers everywhere hanging from vines at the altar where we had made a big pedestal with a white coffin laying on top of it to lay Stampy on during the ceremony before the burial. It had silver lining that overlapped with a gold ribbon. It had large bushes covered in orange white tipped roses along the back of the pedestal and it was all laid out right in front of Stampy's favorite tree where we were told he had decided to make the very village we were standing in, It was a peach pink orchid tree that's leafs looked as if it glowed in the light if the moon. Amy had even made a special pillow to lay Stampy's head on. It had a gorgeous gold trim with white splotches and a single emerald gem stitched to the middle. Finnball and Torquedawg had dug a hole in front of the pedestal where we would bury him. I was put with the task of carving Stampy's name into the orchid tree. As I was doing so I couldn't stop myself from sobbing, I finally carved his name in a lovely cursive along with carving a heart around his name. I stood back and looked over my work, I had no words I felt as if I did I would cry to a point where there would be no stopping. 

"Dan......." I turned to see Trayaurus with his hand on my shoulder "It's time......" I took a deep breath and walked over to where everyone was seated in the stainless white chairs in front of the altar. I sat down across from Stampy's lifeless body that laid still in the coffin that rested on the pearly white quartz pedestal. Lee stood up next to the altar and he was holding some kind of old scuffed up doll that resembled a fluffy brown cat with blue Button eyes. "Today we are here to honor the life of our friend and leader who has looked after each and every one of us.....he made this village something that no one else has ever seen, a village where everyone is welcome no matter how flawed. He brings out the greatness in all of us and I cannot begin to tell you how proud I was to be his brother, for this I bring the very doll he held when me and Squid had adopted him into our family" Lee said as he wiped his tears with his arm and gently placed the doll in the coffin with Stampy. Lee then sat back down as Squid stood up bringing a small pink and orange blanket with him "I want to honor my little brother's memory with this.....at first I thought I should keep to remind me of him but...I think maybe it would be better to leave it with him in death......this is the blanket he was swaddled in when we found him as a baby....and to think such a small hybrid had such a big heart....I hope you finally feel at peace little brother....." Squid spoke as tears filled his eyes after he gently placed the little blanket in the coffin. Squid gestured for me to get up and speak, I get up and walked next to the altar while looking down at Stampy with sadness filling my eyes. "As you know.....Me and Stampy had became a...loving pair and I must tell you it was the best time of my life.....he was the most loveable person I have ever met....throughout the years of my life I thought I would never meet someone I would truly love or I thought I would end up being with someone I wouldn't love at all......but it seems life has proved wrong and it literally took me falling from a thousand or so feet from the sky to see it, Stampy made life for me different, he gave me a perspective of life I never thought I would see........and my life will never be the same without him......I just wanted to thank you Stampy you gave me something I dreamed of having......true love" I said as I kneeled down at the altar so I could be over his head. "I love you so much" I cried as I leaned down and kissed his forehead. I got up from the ground and turned around about to sit back down on my chair until....

"Dan?"