Fan Fiction ❯ Destiny ❯ Awakening and Old Memories ( Chapter 3 )

Chapter 3

Awakening and Old Memories

Lynx

I was sitting with the mayor in his private quarters. "How's the situation in Gryffin Nest?" I asked. He frowned, unsure of what to say or phrase it. "It has never been worse to tell you the truth, we are seriously considering changing the name for the gryffins who once lived there have left more then a year ago, soon after you left as a matter of fact. No one who goes returns. It is bad, very bad." I controlled my expression carefully. Even when the gryffin had lived there, it had been dangerous ground for felinekind, and worse for humans. "How do you know that the gryffins have all left?" I asked. " Oh believe me, they did. The last of them came here to warn us, that something called FATE had invaded their land. They've been chased away, by a creature they named the Reaper. Her exact words were 'FATE's Reaper is now absolute master, we can not destroy it, and we shan't, or chicks are in to great of a danger if we all perished in the attempt. Only Destiny can oppose him. When this day come, we will come back, for Destiny is our rightful master.' And they left just like that." he answered to my inquiries. I felt a wave of despair, how could we hope to gain the Chrono Cross if FATE, curse this human invention, controlled the land where it was? Then I wondered about Destiny, what was it? Someone? A weapon? An element? A special technique of fighting? An ancient artifact? A creature? "Do you have any clues about what, or who Destiny is?" I asked. "I have an Idea about what it is. I've researched every ancient book I could find and I come across something called the Forces. I've heard of three of them, the fourth is unknown to me. There is FATE, a human creation and the Dragon God, to oppose it. Then there's Destiny, with something called Lavos to opposed it. From what I know, FATE and the Dragon God are supposed to be neutral Forces. They are to maintain the balance between Lavos, who's evil, and Destiny who's good. However, Fate and

The Dragon God started opposing each other instead of working together. Apparently Lavos was at the origin of this conflict. Destiny who had the to foresee the future at that time manipulated the neutral forces to create offspring. I do not know of them, but they are only two. Lavos later corrupted them. However, Destiny had foreseen this as well and made sure that Lavos wouldn't be able to destroy these offspring. He took advantage of a dimensional split to hide the girl and the boy. Not in the same world however, for the world in question would have fallen under the total control of Lavos. But I got away from answering your question, Destiny is the most powerful of the four Forces. It cannot be killed by anything but Lavos, or Lavos spawn. It can be stopped, for Lavos and Destiny both use mortal bodies to affect the world more directly, even though at the time they do not know of who they are. But from what you told me, Lavos has taken a firmer grip on FATE and the Dragon God, and his now probably more powerful then this Lavos." He told me. I became pale under my hair, Lavos, controlling FATE and The Dragon Gods, this was unthinkable. Serge supposedly destroyed the damned thing. Or had he? Maybe the same was true of Lavos then of Destiny, maybe he could only be destroyed by Destiny or Destiny spawns. I frowned, this didn't look very good. In fact it looked worst each time I learned something new, I'd have to talk about it to Kid and Glenn, since Glenn remembered everything.

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Duncan

I lay awake in the bed, Kid's head resting on my chest. We had not done anything more then kissing, although it had been very hard to restrain myself. However, it had been a quite enjoyable night. Right now I was happy simply to be so close to her, as I never been before. She stirred in her sleep and I smile at her, how easy it was to smile now. She snuggled closer to me and I found myself stroking her hair. How natural it was, as if I had known and love her all my life instead of mere months. I looked up at the ceiling and kept on smiling. I could feel her heart beat and I knew if I could feel mine, it would be at the same tempo. Finally she woke and she smiled at the sight of me. " Good morning my star, I do hope you sleep as well as I." I said. "Yeah, I slept good. But I wasn' sure if last night was a dream or if ye'd be here when I woke up." She answered. I kissed her and we got up. I turned my back to her while she was changing and she did the same, at least I believe she did. I turned back to her, expecting to see her smiling, but she was leaning on the wall with one hand, and held the other one to her forehead. "Duncan . . ." she said weakly. Then she fainted. I can't recall exactly what happened but Lynx, Glenn and Rya were all standing in the room. Lynx took control of the situation, in a matter of speaking. "Get out of the room, I can't assist her if anyone is here." he snapped. I walk out, eaten by worry, worried that I could not help, that Lynx was her only hope, when they were barely civilized to each other, that he would not try as hard as he should to help her. It would be too horrible to lose her now.

Kid

I didn't understand what was happening to me, all I knew was that Duncan was worried about me, and there was nothing I could do to reassure him. I seemed to be floating over my own body. Maybe I was dead? I didn't know but I saw Lynx, Rya and Glenn walk in and soon after everyone left but Lynx. He kneeled beside me and I grinned at the thought that he was paying me homage. I saw something white materialized in front of me. It looked like a dragon. I heard myself, my body actually, speak. "Greeting Dragonborn" The dragon in front of me smiled, and Lynx answered. "Greeting Fatebound, I have waited a long time."

" I am sorry to have keep you waiting, but I needed to know true love before I awakened, as you did." It was the strangest thing that ever happened to me, and trust me, a lot had happened. " I remember," I said. " As it was meant to be." he answered. "I haven't come to my power, why?" I asked. "I must guide you." I nodded and he started immediately to show me the powers we shared. How to cross the dimension without needing any device or wormholes. How to travel to places I had been, or only see. And the ability to see anything magic, not what I called magic, but the power. " The rest you must learn by yourself, for I do not know what they are going to be or how to teach them to you my sister, for I am of the Dragon and you of the Man." I nod and in a flash I was back to my body. I opened my eyes and for one, I sense no hostility in Lynx, no hard feelings toward me, only kinship.

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Rya

I looked at Duncan from the corner of my eyes, I felt sorry for the poor man. I mean, if I was in the same situation, I know how I would feel. Glenn was leaning on the wall opposing the door and I glanced not a worried expression as I had expected, but the one when he knew something, and didn't want to say. And it would take days to get it out of him, with constant prying, and I wasn't in the mood for that. I shook my head. He'd tell me later I hope. Duncan was pacing in the hallway, an expression of worry so intense on his face that it was painful to look at it. We stand by the door for the whole day. Finally he opened the door. "She will live, but she'll need rest, we'll stay here until she can travel," he told us. He started to walk away, but Duncan moved in his way. "What was the problem Lynx?" he asked. A cold look entered his eyes. "Ask her yourself" he said before pushing him out of the way. Duncan's hand reached at the back of his neck, but he seemed to think better of whatever he was about to do. His other hand twitched toward his belt, where is daggers were sheath. He inhaled deeply and breathed out several times. When he was calm he made a step towards the room, stopped, looked at the door and turn away from it. He walked down after Lynx and turned left where the demi-human had turned right. I turned toward Glenn and I knew that worry showed in my eyes. "I will go after him my love, do not worry, he is strong inside, it would take a lot more to break him." I nodded and watched him go. As he turned at the corner, I walked back to my room. I knew that Glenn was wrong. Yes, Duncan was indeed a strong man, but a wound cause by the lost of a loved one, or the sickness of such a person, could break anyone apart.

Duncan

I reached the courtyard of the small, if it could be called like that due to its position in the trees, and looked up. The residence towered over all the smaller houses. I taunted my muscle and jumped on the lowest branch. It was a matter of second before I was at the highest point possible in the trees. A few minutes after I was settled, just before I start remembering things better left forgotten, I saw Glenn coming out by the same way as I had. He looked around and for a few moments stood there, unsure of what to do. Then he walked back in. I wondered what he was doing but slowly they came unbidden, memories of dark days, memories of who I was.

I stood over the old king of Porre. A man, I had been told, who seek to enslave his people. I had been sent to eliminate him. My mission was to remain as a shadow, and illuminate anyone who had the misfortune to see me. I raised my dagger and he opened his eyes. "So my number is up, I knew they'd try to kill me before the new law come to pass. At least I made sure that their efforts were in vain," he said quietly. Then he closed his eyes and waited for the blow. It was then that I had my first doubt. For in his eyes had been a kindness I had never seen before. But these doubt were still to young, and I stabbed him.

She was a ten years old, my latest `victim'. For the past year, since the murder of the old King, my doubt had been growing stronger by the day, until I reached the turning point. What we assassins called sheathing the blade, or simply stop caring about the live we had taken and would take. I raised the blade to the sole heir of the Gredian barony. I lowered it. My hands were shaking rather badly. If I didn't kill her, she would be killed by someone who had pass his or hers turning point and didn't care. She would die at the latest, before she was crowned baroness in two weeks. So why did it matter if I killed her now or someone else did it? She would soon be dead anyway. Unless I made sure she was safely guard. But how could I do that? I knew, alert her bodyguard. I walked to the door and opened it. The two men standing there, much taller and larger then I, turned around in surprise. "People will try to kill her," I told them. Then they had reached for the weapons at their side and by the time they turned back to confront me, I was already at the window. The came after me, I jumped down and landed on another balcony. The guards looked at me and shout an alarm, watching me make my descent to the ground and vanished in the shadows.

I opened my eyes and groaned. These had been memories I had tried to forget, but eventually they surface back. I hated these old days. When I had killed only because I had been told to, when sometimes, an uncontrollable anger boiled in my veins. I sicken myself. I had thought that this anger had died at the same time as who I used to be. Apparently I had been wrong. I do not think Lynx knew how lucky he was to have saved Kid's life. It was the only reason he was sill alive. I lowered myself on the branches until my feet touched the bridge and then walked back inside. Glenn was hurrying in my direction. I stopped and let him reach me. "Lynx wants to speak with us about what is next, hurry along, he is in a rather excited mood," he said. I followed him. We reached a small meeting room. He opened the door and both Lynx and Rya were waiting for us. Then Lynx told us the truth. The whole one this time. The adventures of Serge defeating Lavos. When he was done with this story, which I had doubts it had been tell for Rya and me, he told us what the mayor had told him. My dream came back to me. The words of the guides came back to me. "Until next time Destiny." That Reaper could only be killed by me? How to do so? It was an impossible task for them, but not for me. I recalled the days when such missions were given to me in a daily basis. He let us leave and I went directly to my rooms. I did not think Lynx or the Guides had lied to me. There was therefor, only one course of action. They would leave in a few days, when Kid was able to travel, even tough they would be killed. We had all agreed to. However I would be leaving tonight. IF the guides had said the truth, only I could succeed in this, and waiting for them to come with me, would endanger their lives. I hoped Kid would understand. I loved her more then anything else, but sometimes human beings had to leave loved one behind, and sometimes, the lucky ones returned alive to their beloved. I did not think I would make it back. But I had to try. I wrote a note and left with my package. On my way out I saw the mayor and he nod to me. Then as I reached him, he gave me a map. I raised an eyebrow. "Everyone had to do what they have to do in life, no matter the consequences, I just want to make sure you have the best chances of coming back to her," he told me kindly. "She must not follow me good sir," I told him. He nodded. "I can give you a few days, but after, you'll either be dead, or you'll be there and it won't matter if she follows you." he said. I nodded one final time and walked outside. Glenn was leaning on a trunk. "Where are you going?" I asked. He smiled and spoke. "Do you really think I didn't know you were destiny? That you would go and leave us behind you?" I was shocked beyond words. "You wonder how I figured it out? Easy. There is basically Dragonborn, who is Lynx, then Fatebound, who is Kid. It leaves three possible candidates to be destiny. There's Rya, who Lynx had not wanted in our numbers, it rules her out. It left you and me. It could have been me, but I know it is not so. My reasons are yet unknown, but I can assume that it is because I wield the Einlanzer. It leaves only you my friend. And I cannot leave you go alone, it would be suicide. Two make a better party," he said. "What about Rya?" I asked. " She knows, she is staying behind to watch Kid and help her. It will not be easy for her." he answered. "Lynx?" He smiled. "He is a demi-human, he knows that you love Kid, but unlike us, he will think that you or me won't leave without Rya and Kid. What he doesn't understand is that human love is complex. That we'd die a thousand death for the people we love." I now understood why I had been driven to leave alone. I loved Kid with all my heart and soul, but I also knew right at this moment that I also loved Glenn and Rya, like the siblings I never knew. I also knew why I had not said goodbye. If I had seen Kid, I could not have leave. I smiled at him. "Let's go then, the sooner we leave . . ." I started. " . . .The sooner we'll be back," he finished for me. And so we left, leaving our reasons to live, our loves behind.

Well that's it for chapter 3. Hope you enjoyed. Peace!

Kid_lackey