The Dragon's Seal: DEATH after LIFE (UNDER REVISION)

Chapter 52

DEATH's View


"Darling, please, eat your food. Don't starve yourself. Dearil..." Mom begged as she tried to touch me but I shove her hand aside. I glared at them.


"Leave me alone."


"Darling---"


"LEAVE ME ALONE! I SAID LEAVE ME ALONE! DAMMIT! LEAVE ME ALONE!" I screamed before pushing them away from me at itinapon ang tray ng mga pagkain sa kanila. Muli akong humiga sa kama at nagtalukbong ng kumot.


They said 9 months is what it takes for a pregnant woman to give birth but mine's 10 months already. Maxine gave birth to a healthy baby girl. And they were so happy. Everyone celebrated her birth day, January 31. And now, Maxine, with her husband and their child, is in Germany to visit their parents there. I was...so jealous. I really am a monster. My baby's inside me for over 9 months already. Maybe it's dead inside me?


"I want to die." I whispered as I cried but no tears fell on my eyes. All I did was to cry and cry. I never set a foot outside. I was locking myself here in this room. I heard he continued schooling in an assassination school together with his friends and cousin. I feel like an outcast. Hindi na sana ako nagising pa. I should have stayed in that glass. Forever. I don't want this anymore.




"What the fuck? You're still not giving birth? You're really a monster. Dammit." He said with disgust before removing his shirt and went inside the bathroom. I didn't answered at all and just cried.


"Stop crying! You're so annoying!" He shouted inside. I wiped my tears away and nodded. I get the knife again and slahed my thigh. This time, deeper. I hid it immediately so no one would know.


After he took a bath, he went to bed. He's facing the right. I sobbed. I looked at my belly. I-Is the baby still alive inside me? What if it's dead already? Should I...open my tummy and take it out? I need to! I don't want this bump anymore!


I sneekily hopped out of the bed and went outside. The whole house is silent. Everyone's fast asleep. I went to the kitchen and opened the lights. I look for the perfect knife. But I can't find anything perfect at all. I guess I should do it myself.


I sat down in the cold tiles at itinaas ang damit ko. I looked at my finger. Itinapat ko iyon sa kamay ko. I slowly cut my belly vertically. I bit my lower lip because of pain but I endured it. When I think I cutted enough, binuksan ko ang tiyan ko. Tears rolled down my eyes nang ipasok ko ang kamay ko sa loob. My eyes widened when the baby moved. Carefully, I took it out. It immediately cried.





"My...b-baby..." I don't know how to react. My baby's so thin. But he was normal. There's nothing wrong with him. He's complete. But thin. I cried and kissed him.


"My baby..." My heart softens. His cries... I'm happy.


"It's okay. Don't cry. Don't cry, son. You're fine now." I blubbered and sniffed. His cries were really, really loud. I stood up and walked. Step by step. With him on my arms. Bloods flowing out through my belly.


"Hush, don't cry. It's fine. Mom's here. Don't cry. It's fine now." I softly said to him and looked in front of me. They all froze in the stairs. I smiled at them.


"My baby's...fine. He's not a monster. He's an angel. Mom, Dad, this is your grandchild. My baby's a boy." I said with a sweet smile and kissed his head again. His little hand was wrapped around my finger. And it gave me pure happiness. I cried again.


"I'm happy... You were fine. My baby...is fine. I'm happy to be a M-Mom. I was w-wrong. I didn't h-hate it at a-all. I-I'm happy. To h-hear his first cry. I was... so h-happy." I said between my sobs and my smile. I saw how their tears fell as they look at me. I looked at him. Totally pale. He was crying too. I started walking away.


"W-Where are you going!? DEARIL! STOP!"


I turned around to face them, "I'm leaving. I'll raise him alone. No one wants to live with these monsters right? His name will be Monster. His mother's a monster. I'm a monster. I will raise him alone. We will live together. I was happy h-he was fine. I'm so h-happy." I said with a smile and that made them cry even more. Mom went to me while sobbing and hugged me. Father did the same thing too and all I did was to cry.


"No, you won't. We're sorry, Dearil. We're sorry if we hurted you. If I hurted you. You're not a monster but a beautiful mother. I'm happy for you." She said while caressing my hair.


"I'm happy...too..." my vision became blur. Until all I can see was darkness. I heard them call me, calling me by my name. And I saw him  catched me together with our baby. And for the first time again, I heard him call me.


"DEATH! HANG ON!" I smiled faintly.



I'm happy...



***


"Oh, thank goodness! You're awake now!" Mom welcomed me with a smile. I looked around to see them circling around me.


I feel my tummy first thing, "M-My baby..." I said and tried to sit down pero kumirot ang tiyan ko, "Don't move. The glue's still healing your inside." Xirquit said who just got inside. Pero hindi siya ang pumukaw ng atensyon ko but him, with my baby on his arms.


"My baby! Give him to me! My baby! My baby!" I cried and raised my hands, reaching him out. He went to me and gavd him to me. My baby...


"Your baby's completely fine now, Darling. But he needs your milk. You should breastfeed him for him to be very, very healthy. They found no disorders or disabilities on him. He's perfectly normal." Father said that made me smile. I looked at my baby. He wrapped his little fingers on my finger again. And it's the best thing ever.


So, this is what it feels like being a mother...


*baby chuckles*


I laughed, "Y-You adorable little cute thing. You're so soft." I said between my chuckles and played with him. When he suddenly cried.


"Oh, he's hungry already. Feed him now, Darling. You need to feed him now." F-Feed? With my...m-m-milk?


"I think we should go out first. Let's let them talk. Come on." W-What? Talk with whom? W-Why are they leaving!?


"F-Father! Mother! Don't leave me here!" No! I don't want to be alone with him!


"MOM! DAD!" But they already shut the door. I bit my lower lip before looking at my baby. His face's all red. I didn't thinked twice and feed him.


"D-Don't bite my n-nipple, p-please >//////<." I hope he won't.


"Eherm." I glanced at him. It turned into a glare.


"What do you want? Why are you not leaving too?" I thought he hates this baby? Why is he here then?


"You have no rights to hold my baby. Starting from now, you'll never had the chance to hold him. Go out, Nasty Dragunovv! GET OUT---" I was silenced by his lips. It made me dumbfounded.


"Shut up first and let me speak, bitch." He said lowly. Parehas nangunot ang noo namin. He rolled his eyes bago umupo sa tabi ko. Tinampal ko ang kamay niya nang akmang hahawakan niya ang baby ko.


"Stop it! It's my sperm who made it after all!" WHAT!?


"Now you claims it yours already? After all the painful words you said to me? That we're monsters? That you don't want it? Huh?" That silenced him. He looked at me straight in my eyes. I gasped when a tear escaped his eye.


"You think it's that easy for me? Didn't you know that whenever I look at you, I see L-Luna on you? Nakakalimutan kong ikaw pala si DEATH? Whenever I look at you, I wanted to hug you tight. I wanted to kiss you torridly and fuck you all night? I don't want to use you just because I miss her, Dearil. So, I'm sorry. If I hurted you by my words and cold treatments. But that's the only thing I know para mas hindi kita masaktan for mistaking you to someone you are not. That will hurt you more." Natulala ako dahil sa sinabi niya.


"I-I know how much I've hurted you. It kills me too, Dearil. It kills me whenever I enter our room. There was excitment within me because I think you're Luna but then I'll realize she's not? That everytime I'll see you cry, I wanted to comfort you because I can see Luna on you? That everytime you're sad I want to cheer you up? That everytime you'll supress your sobs at night just not to wake me up? I could hear you. I do. Because I can't sleep. Knowing you're beside me. I want to hug you tight. But afraid to say the wrong name. Y-You don't know how hard it is for me." My tears starting welling up in my eyes. Hinawakan niya ang dalawa kong pisngi.


"I'm sorry if I made you lonely. I'm sorry if I didn't do my job to take care of you and our baby right. I'm sorry if I made you think things that made you sadder. I'm sorry if I hurted you. I'm sorry if you felt unwanted, hated and unloved. I'm sorry if I didn't gave you the care you needed. I'm sorry for being a Dragunovv. I'm sorry for being me. But DEATH, now that Luna's gone, I won't ask you to act like her or be like her to have a place here in my life. In my heart. Because I will try. For her...since she wanted us together, I will try to love you back. If that's what she was wanted."


T-Those are the words...I wanted to hear. The words I want to come from him. He just said it to me. I just heard it now.


"W-What if she comes back?" What if...she do comes back? And w-we're happy together already? What will he do? Will he leave me? Will he choose Xerene over me? Will he?


He smiled. A wry and faint one, "She won't anymore. Because he erased all of her memories. Of me, of you, of everyone. She sees us as her enemies not her friends anymore. She's after our lives now." My jaw dropped. What did he just said!?


"I-It was painful. I-It really hurted me. But I should accept it now. S-She's not really for me. I-I was happy with her. And I know she's happy with me too. Even if our time was just short. At least she left me a memory of her that I will never forget. My love for her will remain..." he said with a smile at hinawakan ang kwintas niya na puso ni Xerene. T-That thing...


"I-It's not what you think---"


"I-I understand. You don't need to explain anything anymore. I'm fine with it." Matipid na sabi ko at tumingin sa baby ko.


"Did you named him already?" I asked.


"Yes. I named him Izaac Tyrant Eclipse H. Dragunovv. It's cool, right?" He said proudly na nagpa-kunot sa noo ko. But it wasn't that bad after all. It's fine with me then.





"How did they erased her memories?" Tanong ko sa kanila habang nakikipaglaro kay Tyrant. Ugh, I hate his second name. He sounds like a menace one. And his third name---tsk.


"Maybe they used Vision on her. The one who can recall past memories." Yohanne said who's looking at Izaac. Wanting to hold him but NO.


"He do." Here goes Xirquit, entering the scene cooly.


"He do?" He sat down beside me and played with Izzac.


"You know, I am really fab. And really, really hardworking. I've been Sinister Phantom's spy for almost a year already and I already have an eye there. He reported me that they upgraded Vision. It can delete memories now and replace it with fake ones. That's what happened to Xerene. It's like Liorei just brainwashed her the fact he really washed her memories away." They did that to her!?


I let him have Izaac. He smugly looked at Yohanne who's dying to hold him since they got here. He glared at him in return.


"Sabi nila ikakasal na daw silang dalawa?" Singit ni Maxism. Who? Liorei and Xerene?


"Yeah, I heard too. Nanganak na din daw si Xerene. They said Liorei's the father and not Van's. I don't know. Nai-chismis lang sa akin nila Daddy." Sabi naman ni Paris na kakarating lang kanina. Tumingin agad ako kay Dragunovv na walang emosyon.


"What are you trying to do anyway, Van? Wala ka manlang sinasabi sa aming kahit ano. You're working on your own. Why don't you try sharing it to us?" Yohanne. Yeah, he was right. Everyone can be a big use tho.


"Bitch, you're useless."


"WOW! NAGSALITA ANG DEMONYONG SAKA LANG NATAUHAN AT NAGKAROON NG PAKINABANG!" Gulat na gulat nilang sabi at nagpalakpakan pa. Natatawa akong napa-iling.


"I honestly agree to you." Wika ko na ikina-taas ng kilay niya kaya tinaasan ko na lang din siya ng kilay.


"I'll tell it to you once I'm already hundred percent sure of it. And Dearil, I have a favor---"


"Awit, bati na sila." Pang-aasar agad nila na ikina-irita ko. I showed them my hand with currents.


"Wanna dance?" They shooked their heads in response. Tss.


"I want you to fight for me." He said seriously. Natanga ako sa sinabi niya.


"What?" W-What did he just said? AGAIN?


"I mean, be our lawyer. I know you can do it and you already have a knowledge of it. My first step was to take back what's ours---"


"Then you should have said: I want you to be our lawyer. Pasimple ka rin sa banat mo, Dragon." Minerva. Sinundan 'yon ng mga tawanan nila. His face turned red.


"Sure. I'll fight for you. If that's what you want me to do." Pagsakay ko sa trip nila at nag-shrugged.


"Lol. You're such a flirt, Dearil." Xirquit. I glared at him. I took Izaac from him and electrified him.


"Stop it! Don't you know that everytime you'll electrify me, it turns me on!?" Asar na sabi niya na ikina-milog ng mga mata namin. I slowly looked down on his crotch. And hell yeah, he's really turned on.


I winced at him, "You're disgusting as ever, Xirquit. Really."


"Tss." He frustratedly groaned before marching to the bathroom. He's really gonna release it!? Oh, crap!


"Wow, parang ngayon ko lang nakitang magja-jakol si Volt." Manghang sabi ni Max na hindi makapaniwala.


"Oo nga, bro. Marunong pala 'yun?" Paris. Seriously? How can they be so vulgar?


"All mens do that shit." Dragunovv. Naka-ngiwi akong tumingin sa kaniya. He gave me a 'what?' look.


"So, Yohanne, did you do that too?" We all looked at the good, silent boy.


"Once a month, I guess. Sometimes, a year. I can live without doing it though." He answered simply and shrugged. Okay.


"What's you baby's name?" Tanong ko sa dalawa. Their baby's cute. She's so chubby.


"Eiffel Tower. Pffft." Maxism said and they laughed. Is that funny?


"Xerene. Kaitlin Xerene Simons." He answered with a smile as he rock his baby gently. The baby smiled at him and reached him out. She wrapped her little hand on his finger. His tears welled up.


"Tribute for Bansot. But I wish she'll be tall." He said before wiping his tears. He giggled, "Ang ganda-ganda talaga ng anak ko! Pa-kiss nga, baby. Mwaaaaah!" (= ______ =)


Dragunovv gave Izaac to his cousin. And he has that smug and triumphant smile. They finally had their time na pagkaguluhan siya. I sighed. I promised that I'll take care of him. I want him to be healthy. He's really thin.


"UWAAAAAAAAAAHHHH! UWAAAAAAAHHH!" Izaac cried na nagpa-taranta sa kanila. Nagsimula silang magsisihan.


"Patahanin niyo 'yan." Madiin na sabi ni Dragunovv na nandidilim ang mukha sa kanila. I glared at them before showing them my hand.


"Make.him.stop.crying." I'll kill them!


"Waaaaaahhh! Ito na! Ito na! Huhuhuhuhu! Sino ba kasing kumurot kay Bibi Eclipse!?" What!? They pinched him!?


"Me!" We all looked at Yamnie who's smiling widely, raising her hand.


"He's really cute, Yuya. Hihihihihihi. Sorry, I pinched him."


"DAUGHTER OF A BITCH! HOW DARE YOU HURT MY SON! I'LL KILL YOU!"


"WAAAAAAAHHHH!!! SORRY, DEATH! DON'T KILL YAMNIE! > __________ <"




Gerson Liorei's View


"Careful, Angel." Inalalayan ko siyang bumaba ng chopper. We're here now in a hotel's helipad. We'll stay here for a while.


"Let's go inside." Binuksan ng mga tauhan kong naghihintay dito ang pinto at sinamahan kami sa pagbaba. They guided us to our room and after that, they left us.


"I want to take a bath first, Devil. I really need to." She mumbled. Hinubad ko muna ang blazer ko bago siya binalikan.


"Sure." Sinamahan ko siya papunta sa banyo. I'm the one who bath her. What if she slipped and lose balance if she's all by herself? It's better to be careful.


"Bring us clothes. I'll wait." I said to my mens at pinatay na ang tawag. I let her wore the bathrobe and now, she's sitting on the bed while caressing her belly. I went to her.


"Is there something wrong, Angel?" She looks sad.


"Hmmmm? Nothing at all, Devil. I was just thinking for some things." She answered with a faint smile.


"Penny for your thoughts?" She sighed. That was deep.


"Nah. It's okay. No need to worry." She smiled at me and kissed me. I bit her lip gently.


"Silly devil." She whispered visciously and I just smirked at her.



We go for a walk after. We were strolling around, and it's really something...magical. Our hands were intertwined as we talk and laugh together. My worries are all gone. Every person that we passes by can't help but to look at us, envy us, jealous of us. This moment was...timeless. I want this to last. I want more of this with her. Travelling all over the world with her hands as I holds. Taking pictures that we can hang on our walls. Peace is being with her. Peace is having her.



"They need you, Liore. You need to be there."


"I can't leave you here alone, Angel, okay? They can fight them without me. I'll be staying here with you." Mahinahon na sabi ko sa kaniya at inihiga siya sa kama. Kinumutan ko siya at ibinigay sa kaniya ang gatas niya.


"I will be fine. Still, your mens are more important than me. I'm perfectly fine, okay? I can handle myself too. I'll just sleep all day. Pwede ka namang bumalik once it was over." Hinawakan niya ako sa pisngi at ngumiti. But... I don't really want to leave her.


"C'mon, go. Leave some of your mens with me. I'll be waiting for you." That's it. Hindi na ako makaka-angal pa. Bumuntong hininga na lamang ako bago siya hinalikan sa noo at sa labi.


"I'll be quick. I promise."


"Sure. Take care and be safe. Bye." I just smiled at her bago kinuha ang coat ko at lumabas. From my calm face, it shifted to a pissed one. Whoever dared to disturb me will be tortured to death. I should be sleeping now with her and resting! Tsk.


"Ready my favorite gun. Leave their final boss to me." I said to my mens at dumiretso ng sakay sa chopper. We need to be there fast. I'll really show them what mercy is.


Oh, I don't have one at all anyway.