A DESERTED AREA
Cleo landed with Lotus and laughed loudly first, retracting her wings.
“I’ve always wanted to ki|| you Lotus, but I thought maybe making you leave the river will make the cravings die but it didn’t, ki||ing you is my greatest goal, and if your protector and darn soulmate tries to stop me, I’ll ki|| them too” she said, her eyes shinning yellow as black flames emanated from her body.
Lotus started shifting back as Cleo came closer.
“I came to earth because of you, and i found you easily, seems you lost your voice, sweet!” She laughed satisfactorily.
Lotus has a lot to say but it’s painful that she couldn’t speak.
“ki||ing you will make me calm, I need it right now!, Your pure soul!” Cleo said and made to pour venom on her from her mouth but she fell away when fire hit her from nowhere.
Martin appeared with Starr and Starr quickly bent beside her.
“Are you ok?, Huh?” He asked, holding her face.
She nodded.
“Starr leave, leave far from here, don’t stay” her mind said.
“I won’t leave ok?, I won’t, never” he replied.
“Starr it’s dangerous to…
“I don’t care, I just want to stay with you till the end, even if this is the end then I’ll end with you” he replied with determination.
Cleo put out the fire on her body magically with water before standing.
“Prince of seven fires?, Thought you died” she smirked.
“I was reborn, to make you extinct” he replied, rubbing his palms together.
He threw a fire marble at her but she threw a splash of water, it quenched the fire.
“Your fire can do nothing to me, if you just pass and allow me to ki|| Lotus, then I’ll spare you” she grinned.
“I should be talking about sparing you but even if i get the chance to do that, I won’t spare you….witch!” Martin replied stubbornly and went for her again, hiding between the flames till he got to her.
Cleo found her between the flames and her lips turned black as she tried to poison him but he grabbed her hand and vomited fire from his mouth at it.
The hand started burning and Cleo had to struggle before she could put it out though her hand got burnt badly.
“I’m scared” Lotus mind talked.
“Don’t be scared, I’m right here” Starr replied.
Cleo got angry and her nails grew long, she moved with the wind to Martin.
Martin surrounded himself with fire but she surrounded herself with water, entering the fire.
She wounded him with her nails, injecting poison in the process.
Martin fell on the ground and black blood escaped his mouth, staining his lips .
“I’ll ki|| you” Cleo said as he vomited more blood.
“Martin!” Starr called.
Cleo started coming for Lotus again and Starr covered her.
Martin wiped his lips and called for the sword of fire, it appeared and he rolled in the air twice before throwing it at Cleo.
It hit Cleo in the arm and she stopped.
“Arrggghhhhhhhh!!!!” She screamed in agony, shedding blood.
Her screams shook the earth and Starr got scared.
She removed the sword but it hurt her palm so she threw it down as fire kept burning in her arm.
She kept shedding bloody tears as Martin started coming closer.
He picked the sword and raised it to slash her but Cleo shone dangerous yellow lights with her eyes, it made him fall and the sword fell from him.
Despite the fact that it hurts to hold it, Cleo took the sword and threw it at him.
Knowing that it’s forbidden for the sword to hurt him, Martin rolled away from the spot but it was useless because the sword kept following him..
“I’m your master!, Listen to me!” He shouted and the sword stopped moving.
He grabbed it and stood but all the time he spent rolling, Cleo was following him so immediately he stood, Cleo sent him legs poison which he couldn’t avoid.
It hit his legs and it became unmovable, he couldn’t move his legs no matter how hard he tried.
Cleo grinned and faced Lotus again.
“Now your turn” she said and pointed out her long tongue, it reached her fingers, transferring poison there.
She rubbed her fingers together and released black flames.
“No!!!!!” Martin shouted, he finally was able to free his legs
He started running to them as the black flames started going to Lotus.
“The most poisonous flame in the world of witches, dingga” Lotus said, shedding tears as the flames came closer and closer.
Martin kept running but he wasn’t able to meet up.
The flames reached them and Lotus closed her eyes, expecting to die any minute but nothing happened.
“Starr!!!” Martin shouted, stopping on his tracks.
Lotus opened her eyes and saw Starr vomiting blood already, from his nose and mouth, dark black blood.
He actually took it.
“Starr!!!!!!” She screamed, crying immediately.
The flame was so poisonous that he stopped breathing immediately, life left him.
Cleo started creating another flame to throw at Lotus but Martin grabbed her with tears in his eyes, they both started floating, he trapped her in-between so she couldn’t move.
Rivera appeared with Samshin.
“What are you doing!” Rivera said.
“The only way to make her go into extinction is if I go with her, it’ll be difficult to send her alone” he replied, holding her tighter as she kept trying to break free.
“You’ll go into extinction with her?” Samshin asked.
“I promised to protect them both, but she ki||ed Starr already, if I let her go then she’ll ki|| Lotus too, I need to do this” he cried
The two deities relented.
“I’ll go into the shintamani fire with her, if dying with her is the only way to make her die, then I’ll readily die for my friend and the girl I love” he replied.
“Martin…’ Lotus whispered.
He looked down at her.
“Goodbye, forgive me for not saving your soulmate” he replied and at the speed of light, he vanished with Cleo.
Lotus continued crying with Starr’s body on her laps.
“The curse of the healers caught up with him, her fate of dying in the hands of Cleo changed despite choosing Starr, why?” Rivera asked.
“Sarang(love)” Samshin smiled.
Lotus remembered what Jungkook told her and decided to use it.
“Kiss the blood and save him”
She bent over Starr’s body and kissed his bloody lips.
Immediately the poisoned blood stained her lips, she lost her immortal body and became old suddenly.
Her hair turned white and her face became old and wrinkled, same with her body.
Starr opened his eyes and his eyes widened when he saw her.
“Sarang” Samshin said, closing her eyes.
“Princess Lotus” Rivera whispered pitifully
“Lotus!” Starr shouted, holding her old wrinkled face.
“What happened to….what happened to..you?”
“Don’t forget me” Lotus finally talked as tears made their way out of her eyes.
“I love you soulmate” she whispered and closed her eyes.
Right in front of Starr, she transformed into water, flooding away.
“Lotus!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
TBC