Chapter 200
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Looks like this is it.
"You.. why?" Charles falls on his knees, his eyes never leaving mine, he stumbles down with teary eyes.
I could feel it.
The arrow was slowly eating our soul away, our senses beginning to numb one after another. I couldn't even notice where my mate was, or what he was doing at that moment.
All I could see was Charles crawling to my spot.
He grabs my foot in one hand, his body slowly turning into dust. He says with the most painful expression I have seen him made in his entire life. His voice shaking. "Tell me, Did you ever love me?"
I coughed out, my throat throbbing in pain. I couldn't mutter the words that I wanted to say.
I did.
I really did Charles.
But in the end, I was too scared to say it. For I even doubt myself for lying too many times in my life. He must have really hated me at that moment, since he smiled bitterly in the end before he said. "Let's not meet again Christal, I regret everything- all of..."
...
I can't hear anything.
I stared at how he slowly turned into dust before my eyes. I glanced at my palms and noticed parts of my fingers slowly being carried away by the winds, the side of my face feeling numb.
Even my legs were starting to give out.
I helplessly took a step back, the sound of the waves behind me vibrating through my back. When my eyes finally met his, everything went at a slow pace.
At the same time, he ran towards me with a face filled with desperation, memories from our time together in that small cave started to show in front of me.
"Zyrus," I said in a whisper.
My eyes opened.
{"Christal, you don't have to endure everything alone. You don't have to sacrifice everything just for the people around you, it's okay to be selfish sometimes. Please, just this once, can't you lean on me?"}
{"Why? but I can't help it." He chuckles. "I can finally see your face after so long, can't I enjoy looking at you?"}
{"I don't need your apology, I just need you to accept me!"}
{"Accept me, I don't care about anything. Just accept me."}
{"If you accept me... just this time, then I swear that you don't have to feel so wretched anymore. You don't need to be sorry, we can just rewrite those painful days with new ones."}
{"I never got tired, you know why? because I have always believed that we'll be together one day. That I'll just have to wait for you, even if it takes me a thousand years."}
{"No." He firmly says. "I never regretted loving you."}
{"I want you to just stay beside me, okay?"}
{"Forever, love, I won't ever leave your side I promise!"}
I thought I'll be heartbroken at this moment, but seeing that we spent a good time together despite our struggles for only a short while. The only words that were running through my head were. 'This is enough.'
I shouldn't be greedy anymore.
This is the least that I can do to cherish our moments together.
A tear falls on my cheek, my mouth curling in happiness as my legs gave out before my body finally fell off the cliff.
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Death.
I can't believe I've been in this place twice a row now. I was sitting on the grass while looking towards a waterfall in front of me, it was the same place I've been the first time I was killed, thanks to Gina that I was able to go back- but this time.
Even Gina can't save me anymore.
I couldn't feel her anywhere in my body anymore, even the powers that she lent me was nowhere found in my body as if it never existed in the first place.
I'm a normal white she-wolf again.
Just like that trait, I wore a white satin thin dress that barely covered my whole body, the back of the cloth lengthened like a path, i can't help but cry alone. The sorrow finally seeping through me, as I pondered about my mate who I've left alone in the world.
"In the end, I'm still a bad person."
I can't even abide by your wishes.
"That's not true." Gina's voice pops out of nowhere. It was not from inside of me but from the front. I slowly raised my head and saw Gina standing with someone beside her.
I know that face.
"Alpha King Yasha," I mumbled in disbelief. "What's going on?"
Gina's small body jumped to me, her arms wrapping around my neck, I thanked god that she was so lightweight that if she wasn't could've fallen over like an idiot.
She tightens her hug, she started to cry. "Thank you Christal, it's because of you that the curse was broken!"
"It's because our plan worked. who would've thought that killing myself first before Zyrus kills me would work huh?" I chuckled bitterly.
She pulls away, worries plastered on her face. "That's not how the curse fell apart, it's because of Gandiva."
What?
It's because of Gandiva?
She stands up, Alpha King Yasha carefully supporting her. She mutters. "I've only realized it until now, Gandiva is a reincarnation weapon of the gods, anyone who's shot by it would be sent directly to be reincarnated. Because both of you were shot by the arrow, even the both of us were affected by the power of the weapon thus releasing us from the loop of the curse."
My eyes widened.
I immediately stood up as I understood her words. "Did you just say the both of us?"
I looked at Alpha King Yasha. If he is here with her, then that means that the other person she was pertaining to wasn't Charles.
No.
NO!
"Zyrus.. died?" My voice cracks in grief.
But before she could reply to me, they both disappeared as soon as I blinked. The surroundings around me different from the place i was in before, I didn't care where i was anymore. My cries were unstoppable, the thought that even my mate died was horrible news to me.
I thought of countless of reasons that can cause him to die, but I couldn't think of anything. Zyrus's body is close to an immortal there's just no way he can just kill himself or even get killed by someone.
So how?!
In the end, is the time we spent together not enough?
As I grieved about it, a voice that has always haunted me, echoes in front of me, The voice was low and soothing, like a mother who was calling out for its children. She says, "Is it really enough?"
I flinched.
That voice.
I looked up and glared at her, "Moon Goddess."
In Gina's memories. She had never seen how her mother exactly looked like. She was always just watching over her by using only her voice as a medium. I've heard that voice countless of times, so there's no mistaking it.
She wore a purplish long dress, the bottom of it shining like the stars scattered during the night, and her eyes were as the same color of the moon. Everything around her screamed divine.
She really is the Moon Goddess.
"Even in death, you still want to lie?" She said nonchalantly.
I snapped.
"Why do you care?! if you are just here to mock me then I suggest you go before I kill you!" I hissed. My veins were popping out, my throat vibrating so much that i could've damaged it.
All those frustrations, I just wanted to vent it all to this fucking goddess who played with everyone's fate!
"I know that mortals tend to say something they don't mean while in a state of anger." She says, her expression remained unchanging.
This bitch.
Even after causing so many deaths because of her curse, she can make a still face like this? I chuckled bitterly while looking at her, Zyrus was right, the gods are the cockiest mothefuckers in the whole nature.
"Tell me, do you know what you've done?" My voice shaking from anger.
"I've saved my child, and you saved your loved ones."
"BULLSHIT! IT'S BECAUSE OF YOUR FUCKING CURSE THAT MANY PEOPLE DIED! YOU WERE CAUSING EVERYONE AROUND ME TO DIE! EVEN MY MATE DIED! HOW COULD YOU DO THAT?!" I yelled with so much anger and frustration that my bloodlust was starting to rise.
For the first time, her expression changes. She frowns. "Gods and goddesses aren't indifferent as you think my child, just like any mortal mother, i did not wish for my daughter to die with such fate."
"So just let other people die right?" I chuckled bitterly.
"Gina is my child, but you all are my creations. I am not so heartless to cast such a horrible curse just like you think I did. I stood by one thing, and one thing only."
She stares at me, cracking a smile that made me startle. She says, "There's no such thing as a bad ending, it just means that your story is just about to begin."
