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Birth By Sleep Fanfiction : Prologue : Darkness Dawning |
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The sky darkening outside over a seemingly never ending desert. Wind calmly blowing through grains of sand as it brushed through the hill sides and dunes of a forgotten wasteland. A few bones were scattered acrossed the hill, while the only seemed to comfort the decaying site was a small rift of long dried up grass that blew softly in the wind. There almost seemed to be no life in this place. Well… Almost.
Three figures nearby sat around a small kindling fire, eye’s either locked onto the smoldering embers below or the fiery passion of the setting sky above. Over the desert below, the sun seemed to glimmer with it’s last breath of fading light before it slowly sank to the edge of the horizon, disappearing out of sight like a child covering it’s gaze with a dark blanket. Even after the sun set beyond the thin line of mountains in the distance, the light that it held still faintly hung in the sky, turning blacker with each passing second till a dark indigo dimmed out into an endless abyss of stars that swept acrossed the heavens.
Sitting in silence, one of the figures watched this with open eyes. Her dark blue hair swept in front of her face with the wind, hiding her gaze from sight only for a second, before letting go with a breath of unfazed tension. She sighed, her eyes closed before she leaned backwards on a lightly padded pack to serve as a pillow. Her dark eyes could only look onwards, cast upwards to the darkness above. Glimmering with the light of thousands of worlds beyond this one, she could only blink, no thought of words describing the sight beheld by her eyes.
“What do you think…” she started easily, before turning to one of her comrades, “Would take if we could possibly go to another world?”
The first of the two looked up, his dark brown bangs swept in front of his eyes by the prevailing wind. He let out a light laugh before shaking his head. “You know we can’t Aqua,” he said under his breath before shrugging. Lifting a stick, he threw the kindling into the fire with a sigh, trying to ignore the spectacle of the sky above. He had seen it so many time before. Surely the curiosity of such places was held in the back of his mind though without he would have been happier. Keeping the peace of those worlds was greatly at stake. “We’re bound to keep the worlds’ order.”
The third’s head cocked to his side as the other man said this. A blond boy with wide blue eyes let out a sigh before letting out a small chuckle at the older male. He shook his head before looking to the girl a smile on his face. “He’s right you know,” he started with a smile on his face. “Besides, where do you think there’d be another place like this?” he asked somewhat sarcastically, before looking out to the forgotten wasteland about them. It seemed to send a chill to his bones. A land destroyed, only by that of war and hatred. “Besides…” he started under his breath before casting his eyes back to the fire, “We still have a job to finish.”
Aqua rolled her dark blue eyes aimlessly before turning over to her side, facing out into the rocky desert away from the other two. “You don’t have to tell me this…” she started with a sigh, “I know already. It’s just-” she stopped abruptly feeling a hand land on her shoulder. Turning she saw the other had gotten up to sit next to her side, a worried smile on his face. His blue eyes were kind yet they held a worried gaze. “Terra,” she said softly, the name rolling from her lips without effort. His gaze seemed to capture her, eyes piercing the remnants of her soul and yet in their kindness they were her place of refuge; ever knowing, the god-like eyes of her love that could always understand the thoughts that ever traced the back of her mind. Looking downwards slightly, the woman smirked to herself lightly before sitting slowly upwards, her arms coiling lightly around her legs into a loose ball. She stared for a long while at the fire, the flames now burning brightly versus the light of the sky’s above. She nodded lightly to herself though the wonder and curiosity ever lingered in the back of her mind.
How long had it been? Some fifty years? 100? They didn’t know. The war had been long ever going since a time long before their birth. Not even a war of that of from strangers from another world. No, it was a war that people of the same race and blood now died at each other’s hands. Death all for what? For power? Begotten remnants of strength left back behind in the creation of all worlds? Such secrets were well told of in the fairy tales of their youth, though it now seemed hardly a fantasy. Letting go of a sigh, Aqua looked out to the horizon once more, to the exact spot where the sun had vanished from sight. Giving a glance to the dark haired man, her eyes slightly narrowed, ever patient to the foreboding feeling that seemed make her hair on the back of her neck stand on end ever so slightly.
“It’s only going to get darker from here on in… isn’t it?” she asked softly before gazing back to the horizon line, a new noon rising in the blackness of the sky, seen nothing more as a dark orb that rose slowly into the sky.
“I’m afraid so…” came her answer, the other knowing the answer to this riddle of fate all to well. “Count the days since birth…” he said under his breath before throwing another fairly small kindling onto the fire, making it crack with a light burst of embers. “Only till you reach the end of time.”
 AquilisNoctis · Tue Jun 26, 2007 @ 02:31pm · 0 Comments |
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