Forgiving the Forgotten - 29
CHAPTER 29: FLAWLED INSTINCT:
AMENATSU'S POV:
The sun was out and I could feel it in the warm moist air entering the room. It was a small room with two big windows. I shut the windows softly and padded to the air conditioner and tried to switch it on. It came to life silently, lights and all.
Taeen's attire had been changed, her hair still loose but her dress a night suit. It was a puffy material and made her look rounder. I gathered my bedding and lay it down next to her bed, she on the bed, me next to it on the ground.
I washed up and returned in a knee length white top and a white loose pant. I checked on her again and again till I doubted myself to be suffering from obsessive compulsive disorder. She was not going to wake up without a stimulus.
The principle behind getting her out of the coma was to make her cling on to something and drag her out gently... but what could it be?
Stimulus? I wondered if I could.... No, that would be reckless. Especially since I didn't know whether she would like it or not. Or rather, accept it or not. It would change many things. Too many things.
I hid that option from everybody over the next one and a half months.
Ru and Mia definitely had some chemistry going on. Mia tried poorly to control her thoughts knowing Ru could read her thoughts. And Ru found the woman more and more to his liking. Hayame and Zuniyah were indulging themselves into caring for Taeen. They stayed with her throughout. Ate with her. Talked to her. Hayame even told her she wished Mia had given birth to her also, like she did for Zuniyah. And many secrets I was polite enough to not read from her mind.
Trace talked quietly with me and Ru with considerable amounts of awe. His hunger for knowledge astounded us. He was a wonderful guy. As good as any member of the Apex. Apex was the research society of Jerome which helped prove that Taeen was on Earth.
The powers of the three children was blossoming more because of the alien aura abundant in the mansion.
Rimini and Angel had long been waiting to return to Jerome. I apologized for keeping them too long away from their families.
The days passed discussing strategies to get Taeen out of the coma.
We tried everything- from drugs to external stimulus to soul hunting. The last was very dangerous but it was worth a try.
It was futile.
Mia spoke softly with a hand on my shoulder as she passed by, "The most we can do is sustain her life force as long as possible. She will come out of it eventually but your time limit is in the field.... I would prefer you not to overexert lest we break her fragile connection she has with reality. Amenatsu, you need to take it easy."
I nodded and caressed Taeen's forehead as she lay limp on the bed in Mia's lab.
Before long, I had a bare minimum two days to wait for her to get out of her coma.
It was tough. I shook her twice to get her to wake up.
"Taeen! Wake up! How am I going to take you back?"
My eyes held tears I had long wanted to shed.
Jerome was waiting in terrible excitement for their princess to return. I was not planning on living one extra day without her. This... this period in itself was one of the worst in my life. Worse than leaving Tatsu Island.
Ru could sense my frustration and Mia was helpless with guilt at not having been able to help much but Ru thanked her for all the help she had given them and even suggested that once they would abandon Earth, (as had all beings from Jerome the week after the princess and king were attacked), she with her children was welcome to come with them. He added for her ease a small secret that the laws in Jerome could provide refuge to unregistered aliens and guest aliens seeking residence.
The two days passed with me pulling my hair in a corner of the room where Taeen slept. When the last second passed Ru was by my side. Mia was standing in a corner her white knuckles pressed to her lips. She plugged in a new IV line for the nutrients and some other meds.
It was 3 in the night. Taeen was exactly 20 years old now. And if she stepped on Jerome she would immediately wither into old age and turn to dust.
What the hell was I supposed to do?
Ru stopped me from trying to hurt myself anymore. I could feel his hands over my arms.
I heard a low cry emerge from somewhere. I slumped back and howled and cried in front of Taeen and Ru and Mia.
If I had started living again it was because I had found a purpose for myself. I fell in love with that purpose and there was no way I would give up. I knew that if I asked the black dragon to help me, if I helped myself, I could bind my soul with hers. So, theoretically she could enter Jerome even a year late with me... theoretically.
Ru's mind acknowledged the sudden calm I had attained over myself as I thought out a solution. He also understood what I was planning deep in my head. I allowed him that liberty because he was to monitor Taeen's mind and see to it that her soul resurfaced to reality.
Taeen lay with her eyes closed like a pale dead body. I went up to her and very calmly started taking out the IV supports and pulling out the tucked in sheet from over her body.
Ru jumped from his place; Mia didn't know what to do but stand and stare.
"Amenatsu you can't! What if it doesn't work? What if she forgets you?"
I still had tears on my face but I wasn't crying anymore. My last resort, my only option to get her away from here.
I picked her up in my hands and started walking out of the lab. My footsteps resounded heavily from the floor. Taeen's head rested gently over my chest. My heart was beating fast as I tried to stop emotions from coming into the way.
The waves lapped at my feet as I pushed myself deeper into the water. The sun was setting and I knew that Taeen would come out to see the moon. The sun would set by then.
I swam midway into the ocean. Taeen's body floated lifelessly, unknowingly into the water as Ru erected a barrier around a two mile radius from my position.
I started the procedure by flying very high into the sky with Taeen. My arms held her tight along the length of my body.
I whispered into her ear softly, "Goodbye Taeen. I love you."
That was the moment when I silently gave my powers a full up and dropped faster than gravity could pull, into the sea. The water splashed around as we plunged beyond the zone where light penetrated significantly.
"Grace my soul... abandon the glacier... Amon...."
The whisper I chanted inside my head was enough for my powers to awaken completely. I felt my powers growing substantially. More than I had ever felt. Probably because my soul was binding itself with its destined soulmate, the powers raged. Hers and mine.
I closed my eyes and felt the breath being sucked out of me as I reached the same level as her. Coma.
Her sleeping form in a boat floating across the river of the cerulean fire caught my eye. The flames felt cool, licking my feet as I waddled through the water to reach her. The boat felt heavy and it took some effort getting it to the shore.
Once there I held Taeen for some time, for the last time as someone she knew.
I looked on, trying to make it less tearful, a little more soft. The thought of her, alive and walking and knowing all the people who had done so much for her was very sweet, felt real as I finally let go of her and remained sitting on the shore with only her left palm touching my right one.
I began the binding without much ceremony, just waiting for her eyes to open.
"Upon the burning glaciers my heart spoke of you...
Your soul was destined to be mine; my beloved...
To be together till eternity, I create the silken twine of my soul...
To be forever bound to yours...
I ask nothing from your soul, so the day you breathe your last I will too...
But the day I pass on into the hands of death, my shadow will protect you from death...
Be mine Taeen Jerome... leave this world and accompany me into the sun...."
Her sea eyes opened and we were immediately whisked out of the world that had held Taeen captive for so long.
I felt her hands wriggling in my grasp. It had been so long since I had felt her touch.
I tried a smile but the water was drowning me as I felt the threads of light and water started disappearing. I was drowning!
Taeen's eyes didn't recognize me at all. My heart ached and hurt into emptiness.
Ru's hands grabbed Taeen from behind her.
She was startled and began struggling immediately but Ru firmly got her out with Hayame's help.
Even as Trace pulled me out swiftly I could hear Ru's voice yelling into my head- 'She's lost her memory since the day her powers returned! Amenatsu! Hell! What should we do?'
I said mentally, "She should be able to breach Jerome's atmosphere now."
An hour later, Mia was explaining and introducing everything to her. She seemed to trust us. Good. I had forbidden everyone to say a word about my relation with her to the people of Jerome or any dweller.
There was guilt in me for making her the other half of my soul, the equivalent of my fiancée.
Excellent. My 'fiancée' didn't even know me.
A week later than the required time we finally boarded the aircraft bound for Jerome.
I'm very sure; she did not know the magnitude of hurt I faced...
The problem that I now faced was how to sit next to her and pretend she was no more than a princess to me.
AMENATSU'S POV:
The sun was out and I could feel it in the warm moist air entering the room. It was a small room with two big windows. I shut the windows softly and padded to the air conditioner and tried to switch it on. It came to life silently, lights and all.
Taeen's attire had been changed, her hair still loose but her dress a night suit. It was a puffy material and made her look rounder. I gathered my bedding and lay it down next to her bed, she on the bed, me next to it on the ground.
I washed up and returned in a knee length white top and a white loose pant. I checked on her again and again till I doubted myself to be suffering from obsessive compulsive disorder. She was not going to wake up without a stimulus.
The principle behind getting her out of the coma was to make her cling on to something and drag her out gently... but what could it be?
Stimulus? I wondered if I could.... No, that would be reckless. Especially since I didn't know whether she would like it or not. Or rather, accept it or not. It would change many things. Too many things.
I hid that option from everybody over the next one and a half months.
Ru and Mia definitely had some chemistry going on. Mia tried poorly to control her thoughts knowing Ru could read her thoughts. And Ru found the woman more and more to his liking. Hayame and Zuniyah were indulging themselves into caring for Taeen. They stayed with her throughout. Ate with her. Talked to her. Hayame even told her she wished Mia had given birth to her also, like she did for Zuniyah. And many secrets I was polite enough to not read from her mind.
Trace talked quietly with me and Ru with considerable amounts of awe. His hunger for knowledge astounded us. He was a wonderful guy. As good as any member of the Apex. Apex was the research society of Jerome which helped prove that Taeen was on Earth.
The powers of the three children was blossoming more because of the alien aura abundant in the mansion.
Rimini and Angel had long been waiting to return to Jerome. I apologized for keeping them too long away from their families.
The days passed discussing strategies to get Taeen out of the coma.
We tried everything- from drugs to external stimulus to soul hunting. The last was very dangerous but it was worth a try.
It was futile.
Mia spoke softly with a hand on my shoulder as she passed by, "The most we can do is sustain her life force as long as possible. She will come out of it eventually but your time limit is in the field.... I would prefer you not to overexert lest we break her fragile connection she has with reality. Amenatsu, you need to take it easy."
I nodded and caressed Taeen's forehead as she lay limp on the bed in Mia's lab.
Before long, I had a bare minimum two days to wait for her to get out of her coma.
It was tough. I shook her twice to get her to wake up.
"Taeen! Wake up! How am I going to take you back?"
My eyes held tears I had long wanted to shed.
Jerome was waiting in terrible excitement for their princess to return. I was not planning on living one extra day without her. This... this period in itself was one of the worst in my life. Worse than leaving Tatsu Island.
Ru could sense my frustration and Mia was helpless with guilt at not having been able to help much but Ru thanked her for all the help she had given them and even suggested that once they would abandon Earth, (as had all beings from Jerome the week after the princess and king were attacked), she with her children was welcome to come with them. He added for her ease a small secret that the laws in Jerome could provide refuge to unregistered aliens and guest aliens seeking residence.
The two days passed with me pulling my hair in a corner of the room where Taeen slept. When the last second passed Ru was by my side. Mia was standing in a corner her white knuckles pressed to her lips. She plugged in a new IV line for the nutrients and some other meds.
It was 3 in the night. Taeen was exactly 20 years old now. And if she stepped on Jerome she would immediately wither into old age and turn to dust.
What the hell was I supposed to do?
Ru stopped me from trying to hurt myself anymore. I could feel his hands over my arms.
I heard a low cry emerge from somewhere. I slumped back and howled and cried in front of Taeen and Ru and Mia.
If I had started living again it was because I had found a purpose for myself. I fell in love with that purpose and there was no way I would give up. I knew that if I asked the black dragon to help me, if I helped myself, I could bind my soul with hers. So, theoretically she could enter Jerome even a year late with me... theoretically.
Ru's mind acknowledged the sudden calm I had attained over myself as I thought out a solution. He also understood what I was planning deep in my head. I allowed him that liberty because he was to monitor Taeen's mind and see to it that her soul resurfaced to reality.
Taeen lay with her eyes closed like a pale dead body. I went up to her and very calmly started taking out the IV supports and pulling out the tucked in sheet from over her body.
Ru jumped from his place; Mia didn't know what to do but stand and stare.
"Amenatsu you can't! What if it doesn't work? What if she forgets you?"
I still had tears on my face but I wasn't crying anymore. My last resort, my only option to get her away from here.
I picked her up in my hands and started walking out of the lab. My footsteps resounded heavily from the floor. Taeen's head rested gently over my chest. My heart was beating fast as I tried to stop emotions from coming into the way.
The waves lapped at my feet as I pushed myself deeper into the water. The sun was setting and I knew that Taeen would come out to see the moon. The sun would set by then.
I swam midway into the ocean. Taeen's body floated lifelessly, unknowingly into the water as Ru erected a barrier around a two mile radius from my position.
I started the procedure by flying very high into the sky with Taeen. My arms held her tight along the length of my body.
I whispered into her ear softly, "Goodbye Taeen. I love you."
That was the moment when I silently gave my powers a full up and dropped faster than gravity could pull, into the sea. The water splashed around as we plunged beyond the zone where light penetrated significantly.
"Grace my soul... abandon the glacier... Amon...."
The whisper I chanted inside my head was enough for my powers to awaken completely. I felt my powers growing substantially. More than I had ever felt. Probably because my soul was binding itself with its destined soulmate, the powers raged. Hers and mine.
I closed my eyes and felt the breath being sucked out of me as I reached the same level as her. Coma.
Her sleeping form in a boat floating across the river of the cerulean fire caught my eye. The flames felt cool, licking my feet as I waddled through the water to reach her. The boat felt heavy and it took some effort getting it to the shore.
Once there I held Taeen for some time, for the last time as someone she knew.
I looked on, trying to make it less tearful, a little more soft. The thought of her, alive and walking and knowing all the people who had done so much for her was very sweet, felt real as I finally let go of her and remained sitting on the shore with only her left palm touching my right one.
I began the binding without much ceremony, just waiting for her eyes to open.
"Upon the burning glaciers my heart spoke of you...
Your soul was destined to be mine; my beloved...
To be together till eternity, I create the silken twine of my soul...
To be forever bound to yours...
I ask nothing from your soul, so the day you breathe your last I will too...
But the day I pass on into the hands of death, my shadow will protect you from death...
Be mine Taeen Jerome... leave this world and accompany me into the sun...."
Her sea eyes opened and we were immediately whisked out of the world that had held Taeen captive for so long.
I felt her hands wriggling in my grasp. It had been so long since I had felt her touch.
I tried a smile but the water was drowning me as I felt the threads of light and water started disappearing. I was drowning!
Taeen's eyes didn't recognize me at all. My heart ached and hurt into emptiness.
Ru's hands grabbed Taeen from behind her.
She was startled and began struggling immediately but Ru firmly got her out with Hayame's help.
Even as Trace pulled me out swiftly I could hear Ru's voice yelling into my head- 'She's lost her memory since the day her powers returned! Amenatsu! Hell! What should we do?'
I said mentally, "She should be able to breach Jerome's atmosphere now."
An hour later, Mia was explaining and introducing everything to her. She seemed to trust us. Good. I had forbidden everyone to say a word about my relation with her to the people of Jerome or any dweller.
There was guilt in me for making her the other half of my soul, the equivalent of my fiancée.
Excellent. My 'fiancée' didn't even know me.
A week later than the required time we finally boarded the aircraft bound for Jerome.
I'm very sure; she did not know the magnitude of hurt I faced...
The problem that I now faced was how to sit next to her and pretend she was no more than a princess to me.
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