A huge Domo Arigatou to my bud Mina Inverz for all the help with the
Japanese, and being a sounding board.
I remember the day He found me. My father had been
very mean to me and locked me up in my room. But I had snuck out.
How dare he try to lock me up? I had just been trying out me newest
Chimera spell, and they had been so cute! But no, big
bad daddy had to go off and destroy them. I swear, someday I am going
to leave this small town and become know throughout
the world as the most famous Chimera expert ever! The thing I remember
most about that night was the moon. It was a lunar
eclipse, and the moon looked like it was bathed in blood. So I was
crawling out my window when I heard a ringing underneath
me. I got scared, if my father caught me sneaking out he would tan
my hide. I tried to crawl back into my room, but my footing
slipped and I fell backwards. I thought I was going to die, falling
from three stories do that to you. So imagine my shock when I
felt a strong pair of arms wrapped around me? I just lay still there
for a second and stared up at my rescuer. He had a pale long
face and soft violet hair.
"Are you all right?" he asked in the most sexy voice
I had ever heard in all of my sixteen years. Unable to say anything else,
I just nodded me head dumbly. "I'm sorry, I am unable to see... are you
injured?" He was so calm, as if he had girls falling into his arms everyday!
"Yes, thank you for saving me." I whispered. My
rescuer smiled.
"You're Eris aren't you." I was shocked, how had
he known my name.
"Yes, and you are?"
"Call me Rezo, I have just talked with your father.
How would you like to learn White Magick from me?" I blinked
"Honto ni?" I asked surprised and Rezo smiled.
"Yep, so what do you say?" Rezo set me to my feet.
I turned around and saw my father and mother standing in the doorway of
our house.
"Momma, Papa?" I murmured. My mother smiled at me.
"Do what you want Eris, we just want you to be happy."
"I'm sorry I was so hard on you dear." My father murmured. "I should never
have tried to extinguish your gift..." I ran forward and hugged them both.
"Oh Momma, Papa!" I cry as I embrace them. "I love
you." They smiled at me.
"Go on dear, Rezo-sama is waiting." My mother whispered
as she kissed both of my cheeks.
"Go with the Gods Eris." My father murmured as he
embraced me in a huge bear hug.
"But my things...." I protested.
"I will see to everything." Rezo said and I nodded.
"I love you both." I whispered as I walked back
to Rezo's side. He smiled down at me, and I think I lost my heart in that
moment.
We traveled for many weeks, but I never went hungry
or cold. I shed my old clothing and took to wearing white robes. Yet
through all out travels, Rezo never truly opened up. He asked me about
my life, my home and friends. But he never truly talked
about his family. He always did have an air of mystery around him.
I smile when I think back to those peaceful days. He had
such a big heart, he always had a kind word, a gentle smile. Yet beneath
his kind exterior a deep running sadness lurked. Rezo
taught me so many things, and he never asked for anything in return.
I remember my eighteenth birthday with a grin.
We were on the road; it had been an exhausting few
weeks with an epidemic running rampant though the province we were in.
To be honest, I myself had forgotten my birthday, and all I wanted was
to crawl into bed and sleep. Imagine my surprise when Rezo knocked on my
door. I opened it and looked at the Red Priest in surprise
"Rezo-sama is there a emergency?" I had asked uneasy.
Rezo-sama never visited me after I retired to my room.
"Nothing, I just came to give you this." Rezo had
said with a shy smile. He'd held out a small box, and I just stared at
him
dumbfounded. "Happy Birthday Eris."
It hit me, what an idiot I was! I took the box and
opened it and gasped at the contents. It was the most beautiful thing I
had
ever seen. It was an exquisite necklace made out of platinum. It had
two swans laying entwined as if asleep. Their eyes were
small sapphires and the lines of their wings were traced with the palest
of rubies.
"Rezo-sama, it is amazing." I whispered as I gently
ran a hand over the pendant.
"Do you like it?" he asked.
"I love it." I cried as he kissed his cheek. "Thank
you, it is the best birthday gift I have ever received." Rezo blushed slightly
as did I "I apologize." I whispered.
"No, I am sorry Eris, I was just not expecting that."
Rezo grinned. "I also came to ask for your help."
"Of course." I murmured. "How can I help?"
"I need you to make a golem. Male, and make is able
to meld with different species." I nod, it would take a while, but if it
pleased Rezo, I would do it.
"Of course Rezo-sama." I whispered.
"Thank you Eris." Rezo whispered and offered his
arm.
"Huh?" I asked.
"I am taking you to a birthday dinner." Rezo smiled
charmingly at me and my heart did weird little flip-flops.
"Oh." I murmured as I accepted his arm.
After that, there was a few short months of blissful
quiet. I worked on the golem night and day. It got to the point that the
golem was my obsession. But finally I was done, and Rezo left for a few
days. When he came back, he had a boy only a few years younger then I with
him. The youth was named Zelgadis, and L-sama did he have an attitude.
Still I remember how guilty I felt, for in a way, I had been responsible
for his condition. So I tried to become his friend. I created golems for
him to practice with and by the time a year had passed he had left again,
to begin his search for the Philosopher's Stone. Then, things became bad.
Rezo became obsessed with curing his eyes. I still remember the one and
only day I say him cry.
Rezo had searched for another cure to his blindness
but it didn't work out. I remember seeing his face as he stalked into his
lab.
"Why won't my eyes open!?" [1] he'd cried as he
wrecked his work table. "Why am I doomed to the darkness!" I'd closed my
eyes and my heart shattered when I heard him break down into broken sobs.
Unable to stop myself, I'd started to cry. I'd slid to the floor and buried
my head in my hands.
"Oh Rezo-sama." I'd whispered. "I would give anything
to held you cure blindness." I'd felt the tears run down my cheeks.
"Maybe then you would notice me." I'd though silently.
Then a week later, my life came to an end, He left.
"Rezo-sama!" I'd cried after he'd told me the news.
"Please, don't leave!" Rezo had held me as I softly sobbed.
"Shhh Eris." He'd whispered to me. "Don't you want
me to find my cure?"
"Of course!" I'd cried. "More then anything."
"Well Zelgadis tells me that he has found a definite
lead on the Philosopher's Stone, I have to go." I remember looking up into
his pale proud face, and I saw a silvery tear run down his cheek. I'd reached
up my hand and caught the tear.
"Rezo-sama." I'd whispered. I was shocked when he
gently kissed me.
"Shhh Eris-chan." he'd whispered. "I'll come back
to you, I promise." He'd stood up and walked away into the setting sun
and I just stood there as the man I loved more then life itself walked
out of my life forever. The rest is history. When he died shortly after
that, a piece of me died as well, and only a mere shadow, a shell of my
former self. So here we are, I am dying here on the floor of Rezo's lab.
I was betrayed by my own Koppii, I notice that Zelgadis is there, I wonder
if he ever forgave me for what I did to him? Oh well, I sigh as the languorous
warmth spreads through me. "Rezo, I love you." I whispered silently as
the world seems to dim around me. I look around, I am still in Rezo's lab,
but it looks like it did when he was still alive.
"What is going on?" I murmur as I walk over to a
bookshelf.
"Eris?" I hear a hesitant voice and whirl around
only to be caught in a tight embrace. "Eris, Eris." Rezo kept murmuring
over and over again as if he couldn't believe I was real.
"Rezo-sama." I whisper as he holds me at arm's length.
"Just let me look at you Eris." Rezo whispers as
he stares at me with beautiful violet eyes. I smile as him and suddenly
feel
embarrassed with how I must look. I look down and am mildly surprised
to see I am in my old robes.
"Kireina." [2] he whispers as he looks at me and
suddenly smiles shyly. "I told you I would come back." he whispers as cups
my face in his large elegant hands. "I realize this is late, but."
he holds out a ring. It has the same motif as my necklace. But the
two swan's necks where crosses and nestled between their necks was
a beautiful diamond surrounded amethysts. I blink as I
look up into Rezo's eyes.
"Aishiteru Eris, my soulmate." He whispers as he
kisses me. "Even death can't keep us apart." I smile
"I never doubted it." I laugh as I hug him. "And
I love you two." He smiles as if a great weight had been lifted from his
shoulders. I kiss him lingeringly. I am in no hurry, we have eternity.
Notes
1 - Sadly, I am not sure of the real wording, so go easy on me.
2 - Means Beautiful, pleasing to the eye (when speaking of people)