*
"Finally, the bells are announcing the time."
**
Savanaclaw Dorm - Spelldrive Stadium
"You'll never see the light of another day!" Leona roared, his voice mixing with his own despair and anger. Y/n gave a familiar look to Isfrid, the same plan about weakening the overblot before delivering the final blow, the same look she gave him with Riddle.
"No! Absolutely not!" Isfrid immediately denied it.
"This time, I'll be by your side..." Y/n softly says, unsheathing her sword as she begins speaking with authority. "I'll protect you guys from the attacks while you guys use your magic to weaken him enough for me to deliver the final blow!"
"Alright!" Everyone nodded.
"He's coming for us! Be careful!" Isfrid warned.
Leona gritted his teeth, clenching his fists. "If I can't overthrow the world, I'll turn it to sand! It's pointless - all of it!" he roared as the incarnation of the blot, controlled by Valentina, raised his paw before smashing it onto the ground with a powerful force, creating cracks onto the ground as wind blades headed toward the group.
Y/n and Isfrid were faster as they used their swords to cut through the wind blades, causing it to dissipate. Ruggie let out a sigh of relief while softening his gaze toward the lion. "Have you always felt this way? All this time...?" he asked in a sympathetic tone.
"Ruggie, let's hit Leona hard and knock some sense into him, fast!" Jack says, raising his fists while gripping his magical pen. Ruggie nodded as he trembled a bit as he held his magical pen tightly.
**
Meanwhile, inside of Y/n's room, some stationary paper that was piled on her desk glowed along with a quill. A piece of paper then floated up from the pile before setting itself onto the desk as a familiar white phoenix flew inside of the room, phasing through the window like a ghost. As soon as the phoenix parched itself onto the desk, the quill began writing itself.
-The Leader of Night Raven College's Savanaclaw dorm: Leona Kingscholar.
A lazy but intelligent lion prince of the Sunset Savanna.
He schemed up a plan to bring Prince Malleus
Draconia of Briar Valley and the 3rd Prince, Isfrid Frostinelle down during the incoming Spelldrive tournament.
Students who were promising players were mysteriously injured as part of the said scheme.
Now, the grand finale to bring down Malleus's Diasomnia team had failed.
And so did Leona's motivation.
And yet, when Lilia and Isfrid criticized his ways of taking out his anger on his own team, he snapped, unable to control his emotions...
The darkness had clawed away at his heart-
The quill wrote down, reporting another basic yet filled with detail. After that, it was placed back neatly on the table, as if it wasn't touched at all before a familiar soft voice spoke with the paper folding itself at the same time. The folded letter then placed itself into the small bag of the messenger white phoenix.
"Deliver this 2nd letter to the Master of the Winter Moon Tower..."
The white phoenix nodded as it fluttered its wings before turning toward the window, flying out of the room from the closed window and then disappearing.
**
*Groooowl!*
Valentina growled as he and Leona slashed their hands forward to block the magical attacks of the group. Isfrid and Y/n continued to unleashed their own sword attacks, slashing through more of Leona's magic that headed toward them. "Keep firing your magic!" Isfrid commanded.
Y/n ran forward, preparing another attack as she inhaled. "Mist breathing: Sixth Form...Lunar Dispersing- ack!" she inhaled too much dust as Valentina kicked dust in her eyes. She dropped her to knees and coughed violently as tears dripped down her face to get rid of the sand. 'The air is...too dry...' she winced, dropping her sword.
"My Rose!" Riddle shouted in panic, rushing over to her side.
"Idiot!" Isfrid panicked, protectively moving in front of his sister as he slashed throughout another magical attack, causing the attack to split in two and create a crack on the dusty ground. "You should've known better than to use your breathing style to-"
Before he could finish, Leona fired a strong wind spell that caught Isfrid off-guard, causing himself, Riddle, and the other boys to get blown away from her.
"Myah! It hurts!" Grim whimpered as the wind spell caused dust to get in the boys eyes.
"I can't see...!" Deuce winced, tears forming in his eyes.
Leona looked down at the direction where Y/n was coughing, a smirk wide on his face upon seeing her so vulnerable. "Heh. Look how pitiful you look, dear kitten~" he muttered with a crazed look in his eyes.
"?!" Y/n flinched in surprise when wind picked up around her, pushing her forward toward Leona before Valentina slammed his paw on her back, causing a yelp from her.
"Y/n?!"
"Damn it...all this dust keeps getting in my eyes!" Ace cursed out.
"STAY AWAY FROM MY ROSE, LEONA!" Riddle shouted, clenching his teeth as he squinted toward Y/n direction. It was blurry, but he and Isfrid saw Valentina grab Y/n by her wings and lifted her up in front of Leona.
"Agh..." Y/n groaned weakly.
"Look at you...kitten. In this state, you'll completely belong to me...Your King." Leona smirked at her weaken state as he caressed her pale cheek. Y/n only gritted her teeth from the pain she felt, glaring at the lion.
"RELEASE HER THIS INSANT, LEONA!" Isfrid snapped in anger, blinking the tears away from his eyes as his vision began to clear.
"GET YOUR PAWS OFF OF HER OR ELSE!" Riddle snapped as well, his face turning bright red in anger as he and Isfrid summoned frozen rose vines from the ground and launched toward Leona who only grinned in response.
Valentina roared, releasing a powerful blast that shattered the frozen vines to pieces, the shards flying in all directions. Isfrid clicked his tongue in annoyance as he created a shield to protect the others.
"Hahaha...what a pity." Leona mockingly chuckled. "Are you upset because your prey had been stolen?" he taunted Riddle who was taken aback.
"Grrrrr..." Isfrid growled before flinched a bit as he sensed Riddle's crimson rage and panicked a bit. The boys also noticed the redhead's rage upon seeing Leona's smug smirk plastered on his face while Y/n had a pained expression, struggling to free herself from captive.
"Bastard...GIVE HER BACK TO ME OR I'LL RIP YOU TO SHREDS!" Riddle yelled furiously as the ground began to rumble.
"Dude, am I the only one getting a sense of deja vu?!" Ace yelped in fear.
"You're not the only one!" Deuce says.
Riddle was about to cast a powerful spell, but he was immediately stopped by Cater who rushed in front of him and grabbed his wrists. "Whoa, wait a moment, Riddle!" Cater shouted.
"Let go of me Cater!" Riddle demanded, thrashing back but Cater just tighten his hold.
"You literally just had an overblot! We don't need you to go into another!" Cater warned in panic while fighting back Riddle. Upon hearing this, Riddle began to calm down.
"B-But..." Riddle gritted his teeth.
Jack growled before stepping forward. "Unleash the Beast!" he shouted, casting his Signature Spell. Once more, he turned into a large wolf and charged at Leona, aiming to get to Y/n.
"Hm? Trying to free her? Not a chance!" Leona growled as Valentina kicked Jack back toward the group. Jack whimpered as he was reverted back to his normal self before getting knocked back into Ruggie, Deuce, and Ace.
"Rgh...So strong!" Jack groaned as he was supported back the three boys who held their ground. "How can someone so powerful give up on everything?" he bitterly asked.
Leona snarled as Jack. "You're getting on my nerves. I'm gonna turn each 'n every last one of you to sand!" he roared. Suddenly, the ground beneath the boys soften into quicksand.
"Myah! Quicksand!" Grim yelped, thrashing around the mud.
"Stop struggling!" Isfrid says, jumping back to solid ground. "You'll only sink deeper that way! Try to stay calm so I can try and get you guys out!"
"Leona! Do you really think Y/n would be okay with you burying us in this mud?!" Riddle exclaimed.
"So what? You guys are only in my way." Leona says.
"I-I'm sinking deeper!" Grim screamed.
"Isfrid told us to stay calm!" Deuce shouted back at the weasel.
"Hurry up, Isfrid!" Ace demanded, already at his thighs.
"If you stopped moving, I would already have found the bottom!" Isfrid says having kneeled down with his hand over the surface of the quicksand as his eyes were closed.
"If you bury us, she'll never love you!" Ruggie exclaimed.
"Shut up...SHUT UP!" Leona snapped, not wanting to hear it. "You all are just a bunch of worthless low lives! You have no say in our love!" he says, clenching his fists. "This despair...it will never go away! But if she remains by my side..."
"I've got it!" Isfrid beamed, white lights poking from the quicksand before it turned to ice, pushing the group up to solid ground.
"Yas! We're finally free!" Grim cheered in glee.
Valentina eyed Y/n and smirked. "You know...It's such a shame that you'll soon lose the game." he taunted, having Y/n get closer. "Really. Such a disappointment but...you have only one thing that can prove your usefulness." he grinned.
Y/n widen her eyes in realization as Leona pulled his hand back, a ball of his magic appearing in his palm. "L-Leona...! Don't do it!" she shouted before she let out a pained gasp as everyone's jaw dropped in pure shock, helplessly watching Leona forcefully dug his hand into her cleavage.
"Y/n!"
A wave of magic burst forth from Y/n. That magic caused an ice wall to form from the dust and high up into the sky, as if protecting them. "Huh?" Cater yelped in surprise, moving out of the way before he turned to ice. "What's with this wall?!"
Leona then pulled his hand out upon grabbing something hard, revealing a beautiful ice gem. "This is...the real Heart of Aurora! It's finally in my hands!" Valentina beamed as Y/n went limb, sweat rolling from her face.
"N-No way....He took out her Heart of Aurora...!" Isfrid gasped before he slammed his fists onto the ice wall to get to his sister but it was no use. 'Comfound it all!' he gritted his teeth.
"My Rose!" Riddle shouted as he banged his fists on the wall. "Damn it...What's with this wall?! I can't even break it...!" he exclaimed.
"So this is Y/n's magic..." Jack mumbled, looking up at the ice wall in awe along with Ruggie.
'Why does she refuse to use her magic...?' Ruggie wondered in though.
"Isn't having her Heart of Aurora out of her like super dangerous?!" Ace asked Isfrid.
"Indeed it is!" Isfrid nodded. "S-She...she's more vulnerable to overblot if she uses too much magic!" he informed, causing the boys to widen their eyes.
"What?!"
"Myah!" Grim tried to melt the ice with his fire but it just turned to steam. "My powerful fire magic isn't enough to melt it!" he whined.
"Of course it isn't!" Isfrid shouted.
Riddle clenched his teeth as he continued banging on the wall. "My Rose! No matter what...please don't use your magic!"
Y/n weakly turned her head to her friends before looking back at Leona. 'I have no choice....'
"Sleep, Sleep, go now to rest
Dearest child of mine."
"Why are you...singing?" Valentina asked in confusion.
Isfrid widen his eyes in realization and fear upon hearing. "No! Y/n!"
"Close, close your littlest eyes
Sweet slumbers to Thee."
Ice began to form as frigid winds began to pick up. Y/n smiled as Valentina released her when his paws began to turn to ice. The boys watched in awe as she froze the whole arena. The ground turned to ice, the stones and the stadium getting engulfed in ice. But Isfrid was the only one who was absolutely petrified. Y/n rushed over to her sword as Leona let out a growl. "What do you think you're doing?! You think you're in any condition to fight me?" he roared.
"In dreams, dreams, what do you see?
Trails fierce and terrible?"
A blizzard roared throughout the stadium as Y/n summon ice spikes before pointing her sword at Leona, launching them forward. Valentina protected him by swiping them away, but that didn't stop the coldness he felt.
"Who will know how you will grow?
Who will watch over you?"
Y/n floated in front of Leona, frigid air hitting his face, bits of frost forming on his cheeks. "You must be completely ignorant on who exactly you're facing" she stated before glaring at Leona. "What even is the point? Hurting innocent students...even Trey...only to find out you're targeting Malleus and my brother over some petty grudge...." She mumbled, the ground turning to ice at where she stood, burning with a freezing rage.
"It's so cold..." Ruggie shivered, feeling the coldness from behind the wall as the group tried their best to warm themselves up.
"Myah...My fur is about to freeze up!" Grim shuddered.
"You still don't understand, huh?" Leona scoffed. "Nothing you can do it enough to change this world! Nor can I be saved from this despair!" He roared as Valentina smashed his claws at Y/n who belonged it with her sword. After a few seconds of struggle, she got pushed back into the ice wall.
"Hic...!" Y/n's breath hitched as she hit her back and wings that was sore from how the blot incarnation held her.
"What's happening? How is a mere song-?!" Leona exclaimed as his clothes and accessories turned completely frozen, demanding Valentina for answers.
"...." Valentina was utterly silent, completely surprised about the amount of magic and spirit power Y/n was been hiding this whole time.
"Y/n!" Isfrid bang his fists as he and the boys were behind her body that leaned against the ice wall. "You mustn't! You know full well of the consequences of casting this kind of Song Art!" he sternly shouted.
"The p-plan has been changed..." Y/n weakly says, coughing up blood. She turned to her brother and placed a hand on the ice wall and smiled. "Pride...is almost weaken. I just need a little bit more time..."
"You better not continue!" Isfrid exclaimed, loudly banged his fist as tears welled him in his eyes.
"Can someone tell me why this Song Art is dangerous?!" Ace exclaimed.
"Yes, please explain!" Jack insisted.
Isfrid clenched his teeth, narrowing his eyes at his sister as the blizzard blew through her hair. "Most Song Arts are safe to cast...but this one...Lullabye is very dangerous, especially since Y/n doesn't have her Heart of Aurora sealed inside of her, even more so for mortals such as yourselves." he says. "I-It...causes her to be on the urge of overblotting or worse...kill her!"
"What?!"
Everyone widen their eyes in absolutely horror as Riddle was the first to rush behind where Y/n stood, dropping his staff and slammed his fists on the wall. "My Rose...! You have to let us out! P-perhaps we could aid-"
"Heh...why do you think this wall appeared in the first place?" Y/n asked with a scoff, ink dripping from her face.
Everyone then widen their eyes in realization and at the sight of the ink. "You...You were planning on using this art the entire time...?" Isfrid asked in disbelief.
Y/n then turned her back on them before nodding. "I knew...that we stand no chance of saving Leona with our own power when we're fighting against a higher...sinister power." she says, talking about Valentina who let out a growl.
"You can't Y/n!" Deuce shouts.
"Isn't it extremely dangerous for you?!" Ace yelped.
"Please think this through, your majesty!" Jack says.
"Ah!" Riddle suddenly screams.
"Riddle?!" Cater yelped as everyone turned to see that Riddle's hands began to freeze. Riddle cried out a bit as he gazed at his gloved hands that was completely frozen.
Isfrid widen his eyes immediately when bits of frost forming on Riddle's cheeks, spreading his body upon him touching the wall. So he quickly pushed Riddle back before the ice wall could give the redhead hypothermia. "Don't touch the ice wall! Stay away from it!"
Unfortunately it was already too late for Jack as his hands gets covered in a thin layer of ice. "Argh!" he stepped back as Ace and Deuce helped the wolf get away from the wall. Ruggie's eyes trembled in fear while Cater supported Riddle.
"What's going on with them, Isfrid?!" Cater frantically asked.
"It's the Song Art! Since Y/n is protecting us with the wall...the Art freezing anything it touches." Isfrid explained, shaking off the frost off his hand. "And I guess that includes this wall, becoming close to absolute zero..."
"W-why do this...? Isn't doing this too far?" Ruggie asked y/n.
Y/n simply looked over to the group and did a small bittersweet smile. Isfrid immediately grabbed his sword, needing to stop his sister. "You already done enough! No more...!"
But Y/n didn't listen...
"Lone in the skies hanging high.
Whispers the Moon.
She speaks to show you your fates...
Inside a fairy story..."
A large wave of frigid winds blew throughout the stadium once more. The boys shivered as Leona and Valentina roared in groaned in agony when the blizzard began freezing more of the stadium, reaching beyond to the actual dorm itself without Y/n's knowledge, since she lacks control of her magic without her Heart of Aurora.
"Y/n!" Isfrid yelled. "Everyone...I need you to try your best to break the wall with ice! Now!" he demanded.
"On it!"
"Try as you might, she comes
There is no fleeing her.
Deep in the darkest of veils of nighttime.
Keen they shine, glittering, deep in her eyes..."
Y/n continued singing, tuning out everyone's voices as the ice wall glowed with many colors of magic, trying to destroy it as the magic just nullifies.
"Jumbo Gust!"
"Come Forth, Cauldron!"
"Myah!"
"It's no use..." Cater panted slightly from using strong fire spells to melt the ice. "We can't even slightly break it!"
"Silence that monster!" Valentina roared. Leona fried his powerful attacks but when they even close to Y/n, the spell just turned to ice before shattering like glass as she sings.
"The smallest song I'll sing to you.
Rockabye, in sleep so peaceful.
Sway does the cradle of the land.
As your little eyes close."
Blood leaked from the side of Y/n's mouth as she approached Leona who widen his eyes. With every step, the ground beneath turned into frostbitten ice. She focused her gaze on Leona who then launched himself toward her. "Why can't you just obey me, for I am the King!"
"The smallest song I'll sing to you~"
Y/n swiftly dodged, flipping mid air.
"Go, now, to the land of dreams."
She sang before Y/n dropped down onto Leona. "Kitten..." he mumbled, his voice softening.
"Don't let her touch you!" Valentina begged but it was too late for Y/n had pulled Leona in a tight embrace, freezing his blot and clothes as his skin turned to ice as well along with his hair and fur. "Ugh...!" the guardian screamed as the blizzard completely turned him into a frozen statue.
At the same time, the ice wall finally shattered. "It broke!" Ace gasped.
"Gah! It's much colder!" Grim shivered.
Y/n smiled softly as ink dripped from Leona's eyes. "I wanted...to be king..." he mumbled before loosing consciously.
"Y/n! Come back here!" Isfrid shouts as Y/n finished the Art.
"There until you wake again..."
As the blizzard calmed down, the sky becoming clear, Y/n's vision grew faint from using such a powerful spell, ink mixed with blood dripping from her mouth. 'I did it...now for my Signature Spell...before brother stops me.' she says, reaching her hand onto Leona's chest and casted her Signature Spell before he went out of reach. "Don't make me wait, not a moment more. Reveal your heart to me, a river full of memory."
"That's enough, Y/n!" Isfrid rushed over to Y/n to stop her but it was too late. "You're already on the verge of overblotting!"
"All is Found..."
*
Regnum Reminiscentiam: Princeps In Nihil
Y/n opened her eyes to see that she was once again in the Garden of Recollection. She noticed that the ice beneath her feet felt dusty and hard as stone since she was barefoot. Before she could even step forward toward the wall of mist, she heard Leona's voice, so deep and filled with resentment.
"From the moment I was born,
there's been a boulder on top of me
that's too heavy to move."
"I'm coming...Leona." Y/n says, stepping toward the wall of mist. With her hand touching the mist, it dissipated, showing the first scene that takes place inside of a the Savanna palace.
*
"Crown prince Falena is such a bright and cheerful young man." An attendant, who is a zebra beastmen, highly praised as he chatted with his fellow attendee. "I don't understand why his younger brother has to be so moody all the time." he added, his tone of voice changing drastically compared to praising the crown prince.
"And he possesses such a terrifying power! Imagine being able to turn anything to sand!" The female attendant says, shuddering in fear. The two were clearly slacking off to gossip about the two Kingscholar brothers instead of doing their jobs as mere servants. "Don't you think it's similar to THAT incident a few decades ago? You know...the Great Blizzard incident...? They say the monster at the time was capable of freezing everything in its path. Just touching the ice gives you frostbite in seconds!"
"Just thinking about that incident gives me the creeps...many mages and non-mages from here lost their lives. I can't imagine the amount of deaths where the actual blizzard blew." The male attendant shuddered. He remembered that a relative of us had survived the major frigid
"Both of you, cease this conversation right now!" A third attendee scolded the two. "What if someone overhears you?!"
"I bet that
If I were the crown prince,
this is what they could have said:
'Crown prince Leona is a judicious young man -
look how he controls such powerful magic!
I don't understand how Falena can be so carefree.'
This is all because I was born second.
They'd find fault in me no matter what
- just so they could use it as a pretext to praise my brother.
No matter what I do, I can never be the best."
*
Y/n frowned as she watched the scene, agreeing that Leona's situation wasn't fair at all. She couldn't help but notice that a young Leona was eavedropping on the attendants conversation with his ears pinned down, clenching his fists. "No servant should be acting this way to a prince...it's basic mannerisms.." she bluntly huffed as she stepped over to another scene in Leona's memory scape.
The next scene took place is Leona's sleeping chamber. Y/n saw a younger version of Leona sitting up on his bed with an older lion beastmen firmly standing in front of him.
"Leona! Why weren't you at today's ceremony?" The lion asked. It was current king of the Sunset Savanna, Falena Kingscholar.
"Ceremony? Ah, you mean the self-indulgent party where you show off your son to the people?" Leona questioned before rolling his eyes as he says a sarcastic apology. "Yeah, sorry I missed that. I fell asleep."
"Showing the people the face of their future king is an important affair." Falena reminded sternly.
"Yeah, it's a happy day for sure - also known as the day the despised second son loses what little claim he had to the throne forever." Leona bluntly stated as he turned his head at the wall, narrowing his eyes.
"Do not frame it in such terms!" Falena says, raising his voice with a concerned expression on his face.
"Must be nice to be the firstborn, huh?" Leona bitterly asked. "You can spend every day singing and napping and still become king." he muttered.
"Leona..." Falena mumbled. "You may never become king, but you are still wise. There is much you could do for this country." he explain in a soft voice. "You even have that soulmate mark. So don't give up, for you never know who your beloved fated mate will be. Maybe they're also royalty."
Leona scoffed and stood from his bed, approaching the door. "And maybe if this country selected its king on the basis of intelligence, I'd be motivated to do something with that wisdom." he says before slamming the door shut behind him after walking out.
"Leona, wait! Leona!" Falena called out before the door slammed in his face. He let out a defeated sigh before looking out the window and up toward the sky. "Oh, Queen Ithuna...Why should I do with him? How do I help him realize that he's so much more." he mumbled, clenching his fist a bit. "Am I...really fit to be King?"
"He knows...Queen Mother?" Y/n asked herself while narrowing her eyes toward the door Leona walked out of from. Y/n continued moving forward and saw that she was close to the heart due to how dark it was.
"Why do I have to spend my life feeling this way,
just 'cause I was born a few years too late?"
Y/n dissipated another wall of mist, revealing overblot Leona clearly. The ground beneath him turned dark and inky, even the ice Y/n step on when approaching the lion turned to dusty stone. "Leona...!" she called out. But since she finally got close, she hit her forehead on an invisible barrier. "Agh!...Ouch!" she whined, placing a hand on her forehead.
"No matter how hard I study,
no matter how
powerful the magic I command...
From the day I was born till the day that I die,
no one will ever acknowledge that I'm better
than my brother. I will never be king."
"That's not true...Leona!" Y/n yelled, her hands pressing onto the barrier. She then began banging her fists on the barrier, causing cracks to form as overblot Leona began to set surrounded by castle pillars of stone, slamming his fists onto a nearby stone pillar.
"Why did I have to be born second?
Why will I never, ever get to be the best?"
"Dive down deep into her sound..."
"Why?
Why?
Why?
Life is truly is unfair."
"But not too far or you'll be drowned..."
Suddenly, the ground between Leona began to rust before crumbling away. He heard a shatter nearby and widen his eyes to see Y/n rushing over toward him and reach her out out. He did the same but it was too late for the ground beneath his feet turned to sand as he fell into the icy abyss below. He then gasped, looking up in horror as large stones and rocks collapsed onto him.
*
Leona harshly landed on the dark ice, releasing a grunt from pain as he struggled to claw his way out from under the stone, his inky nails digging into the ice. Due to the freezing temperatures, Leona's breath was was scene while shivering, bits of frost forming on his skin. "Are you alright...Leona?" Leona looked up to see Y/n floating down toward him like an angel, causing him to widen his eyes in awe, completely mesmerized.
"Why are you so worried about me?" Leona bitterly asked, slumping onto the ice upon giving up. "A-After all I've done to you? I don't deserve your mercy nor forgiveness..." he stuttered from his shivering.
"Of course you don't." Y/n bluntly says while gently having her eyes closed. Her blunt answer made Leona's ears flatten, letting out a very quiet whimper. "Which is why I have to do this now..." she says, grabbing his chin and lifted it up slightly to face her.
"Huh?" Leona looked all confused before Y/n had slapped him hard across the face. "Ack!" he yelped, looking absolutely stunned. The sheer force of her slap had cause the blot on his face to freeze before shattering like glass, all the ink disappearing from his whole body. An aurora appeared as an effect, glimmering throughout the darkness.
Leona grunts from the slap before Y/n pulled him up onto his feet. "Mortal life simply isn't fair. Not everything is going to go exactly how you want it, no matter how one may wish it may be so..." Y/n says before floating to Leona's height, her face getting oddly close to his, making the lion blush madly with widen eyes. "You don't actually hate your brother, do you?"
"Huh? What do you mean...?" Leona asked, surprise by this as her lifeless eyes stared into his.
"Your in the Garden of Recollection...a space created by my Signature Spell, All is Found." Y/n revealed. "It gives me the ability to see memories of my choosing. In order to find a way to purify the darkness...I specifically had chosen memories from your very heart that had been the most impactful." she explained before floating back down to her feet as she turned her back toward him as she walked forward. "You should cherish your brother...keep precious memories close to your heart." she says in a bittersweet tone. "For you never know when you'll loose your brother."
"....." Leona noticed the tone in her voice. It sounded...completely and utterly broken. He couldn't help but to hug Y/n, embracing her in the comfort of his arms. He felt her turn stiff but then soon relaxed. Then Y/n's cleavage began to glow, which was her Heart of Aurora. "What is this...feeling?" he wondered, feeling a comforting warmth.
"You must be...another soulmate of mine." Y/n says, turning around to face Leona as he still had his arms around her.
"D-Doesn't that mean..." Leona stuttered slightly in disbelief.
Y/n then nodded in confirmation. "Of course. I guess you'll have a chance to be king..." she meekly says before letting out a yelp when Leona smashed his lips onto hers.
Leona held her wrists tightly as he melted into the kiss, letting out low grunts and growls as he felt her cold lips onto his. Y/n noticed how sloppy and desperate the kiss felt, not wanting this moment to stop. 'I don't even care about the fact that I'll finally be kind...for I promise I'll love you always.' he thought. In this romantic yet desperate moment, neither one of them noticed a mark forming on Leona's upper arm.
Y/n's wings surrounded the two, seemingly having gotter bigger as it engulfed them in a feathery embrace that took their consciousness back to the light of the real world.
*
Unknown
"Ever on and on I continue circling.
With nothing but my hate in a carousel of agony..."
A maiden sang, dancing by herself in a beautiful garden, completely barefoot. Her veil moved with the wind, revealing her beautiful snow white face as she sang.
"Till slowly I forget and my heart starts vanishing
And suddenly I see that I can't break free -
And..."
She paused and looked behind her toward the Flower of Eternity in caged by thorns and a red rose that actually had four more colored roses around the red rose. She noticed a yellow sider lily blooming next to the five roses and smiled. "Ah...the signal of Valentina's success." she says, raising her arms up to grab a large orb that floating down. "Now that your tortured soul has been purified...you can now reunite with your wife. Thank you for being the 2nd step into healing her..."
*
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~To be Continued~