With Morning Comes Goodbye
Guy. Selan. The two of you are destined to travel with Maxim and fight.
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Iris approached the bed in the pitch-black of night. The bed where that
girl slept. That conniving, destructive, possessive girl. That selfish
girl. That weak girl. That beautiful girl.
Tia, she reminded herself, her name's Tia. She pulled back the covers on
the bed to reveal a sleeping blue-haired beauty. Or rather, that's what
was supposed to happen. Tia, now uncovered, lunged at Iris with a
serrated dagger. It would have pierced the heart, Iris realized, had she
not teleported two metres away.
"You bitch," Tia whispered hoarsely, her gaze piercing the darkness.
Seeing her eyes, Iris could guess that Tia spent the night crying.
"Excuse me?" Iris asked, surprised by the accusation. "I think that's
just a bit unprovoked..."
Tia growled. "You're stealing him from me! You're ruining my life!" Tia
slashed at the air with her dagger, making Iris unconsciously take a
step backward. All her time, all her training, and she felt threatened
by the petite blue-haired girl? It was only a knife, after all.
Iris dropped her head contemptibly. " No, Tia. Listen. I'm not stealing
Maxim. No one is. He's destined to fight. I'm not making him fight, I
just opened his eyes to fate."
Damned, Tia thought begrudgingly, if I let this bitch show me up. She
roughly pulled the whip from her belt and lashed at the lamp on her
side. Barely able to see it, she destroyed the bulb and left the rest
unscathed. "I can fight!" she shouted. I can fight!
Iris sighed. Would the girl ever get it? It hurt to see Tia pained like
this. Iris wished she could comfort the girl, stroke that gentle blue
hair. Somehow take all Tia's pain away. "I know you can fight," she
groaned. "But, you're different." You don't know how different. "Your
power levels are as high as any human being can have. But Maxim, he's
different. He's the only one with the power, along with Guy, and
Selan--"
"--Selan," Tia spat. Iris' heart leapt at the vulgarity in Tia's voice
when she mentioned Selan's name. As much as she didn't like doing it,
Iris realized the only way to get near Tia would be to play off that
hatred.
"Yes!" she shouted, "It's her fault. Selan's stealing Maxim!" Iris knew
what she was about to do could alter fate. She reminded herself that she
had to fight Selan as Erim, and nothing could get in the way of that.
"What do you know?" Tia asked quizzically, letting the whip fall from
her hand and sitting on the bed. Iris let her eyes wander up and down
Tia's body once. She had obviously been expecting a confrontation; she
was still in her battle pants, and high boots. However, obviously not
wanting to be totally uncomfortable--or obvious--she was just wearing a
bra on her upper body, revealing and hiding a beautiful upper body at
the same time.
Iris shook her lustful thoughts from her mind and concentrated. She let
her thoughts transcend time-space, wandering the intricate webbing of
the universe. She knew that just predicting the future could change it,
but now she didn't care. She almost had to laugh--Arek would scold her,
saying that she'd been spending too much time with the humans.
"She'll bear his child," Iris said finally, raising an emotional
response from Tia. She watched as the blue-haired girl dropped her face
in her hands. A small sob, and Iris flinched. She decided to go on; "A
boy. Jeros."
"Such a beautiful name," Tia sobbed, wiping tears from her eyes. "I'm
sure he'll...be as...kind as Ma...Maxim..." Iris knelt down in front of
Tia and brushed away a plastered-down lock of blue hair.
"Sshh, shh. You'll find someone for you. It's just a matter of time."
"No!" Tia whispered, suddenly conscious of the rest of the inn, and
ultimately, Maxim. "Maxim was the one for me. We were supposed to live
together peacefully. I was supposed to have his child. I love him!"
"You can learn to love another," Iris said, almost suggestively. Tia
cocked an eyebrow.
"What do you mean?" she asked. She was answered when Iris leaned
forward, her green hair falling across her face, and pressed her lips to
Tia's. Tia leaned back, giving in to Iris' lust.
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Opening her eyes, Iris yawned contentedly. She had just had one of the
best nights of her life. Of course, the morning might not go so great,
she thought, taking note of the piece of paper on the pillow where Tia
should have been.
Rubbing fatigue from her eyes, she sat up and looked at the piece of
paper:
Iris. I'm sorry. I was depressed last night, and let whatever
happened...happen. Maxim is and will always be in my heart, and that is
something I cannot change. I'm sorry that whatever you feel for me
cannot ever come to fruition. Were I a different person, maybe I could
indulge your...tastes...but I fear I cannot get around myself. I do love
him, and I'm afraid that if I stay here, with you or with him, that I'll
disrupt the way things are meant to be. Thank you for opening my eyes to
glimpse the future, even if it wasn't my own sight. I wish you well, and
hope we can both find someone for ourselves.
A knock came at the door, followed by an attractive red-haired male. He
stopped short when he saw a green-haired Iris sitting cross-legged on
the bed, sobbing. Gods damn it, she thought.
Maxim looked around, then stared a hole into Iris. "Where's Tia?" he
asked, confused. Almost in response, the woman started to glow purple.
"Iris? Where's Tia?"
"Warp."
~Owari~
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