Chapter 6- Aria

The shocking silence after the wolf preys on our pseudo main character to be as Alcetis screams in sobs as she catches her husband to be. He feels light and his body stains her body, with his blood. Enkidu charges at him, making incoherent angry noises as his swings are just swings at full force with no technique, while the wolf with a bored look on his face parries with his claws. He throws his claws unmotivated to the angry screaming youngster, and bunny girl spins, stops with a leg supporting her body straight and another coiled ready to shoot like if it was a revolver at point blank right at the wolf’s face.

-“Brlgr!”, lets the wolf a sound as he is pushed a few meters away. He gets up, but still unmotivated. His eyes are full of pity. The only one continuing is Maira. Enkidu is just in shock as Alcetis is screaming at Icaro’s soon to be corpse. “ Ah, this feels really irritating, but it was going to happen one way or another, he just slow it down a few seconds”, the wolf comes closer a bit by bit, staring at them with pity. He is doing this for his tribe, and his has been on wars, so killing kids or seeing one die is nothing new but not great either. He knew this was going to happen. He is a powerful werewolf and an Eijharl soldier. There is nothing for them to do. He will kill the priestess, get her corpse and modify it as a mystic tool.

-“This...cannot be healed by a normal spell, maybe not even the best healing magic but.....yes...Maira and Enkidu buy me time to heal Icaros!” scream Alcetis as everyone makes a confused look. But then after a few seconds Maira and the Wolf glance at each other, and they immediately get it.

-Time governs, and serves to teach as fate serves out just rewards...rise once again young one, and fight once again....what do you fight for?-

A song was sung by the beautiful Aria, as the song was filled with melancholy, hope and calmness. It was echoing a bit. As she is singing it feels like ’waves’ are going to and fro like an invisible sea that nobody gets wet but just ‘feels’. Slowly in her back two beautiful pure white wings appear. You can tell from the onlookers, for a moment everybody gazes captivated and then resume after such grace pausing their awareness to the world and only focusing on one work of art.

-“ Enkidu let's do this! Alcetis can get him back! Defend her!”, scream Maira.

-“Damn it! She has marked him? How did I miss that!? He did not smell like a mark one?”, confused was the old wolf as the world was running at full speed for him. Maira kept jumping and going around circles while doing cartwheels and kicking the wolf which was applying the kicks, and unexpectedly he felt bloodlust from his behind and threw his best throw, as the sword and his claws made a huge clank. “ So you have to fight again, boy?” said quite irritated the wolf.

-” Is that true!?”, said with a new high morale, the young Enkidu.

-” Yes!”, a quick reply from the best bunny girl, as she kept attacking the wolf who had to fight two people who had a conversation as they fought.

-   As I pray, I keep asking what do you fight for? Why do keep suffering as you try to hold what you held dear? What you hold is like water to your hands, as it keeps slipping away yet....what do you keep suffering as your heart there is just eternal rain?

The echo gets a bit louder yet it's soothing and pleasant. Huge circles in light scribed with words appear. Until they reach 10.

“That many? She was able to inscribe that many verses in him? How talented she is!? Wait... they are super painful, how did he get past 3!?”, said the Wolf astonished as he was trying to swipe aside both of his obstacles.

“Oh, so you only have around 3 then?”, said Maira with a cocky grin as she was now switching from samba to a ballerina-like stance, from a bunny kickboxer to beautiful swan that deflected scythes of sure death, as little sparks were coming out of her heels. The Wolf grunted as he tried to sever her body apart while blocking such suicidal counters from Enkidu. He may be able to regenerate but healing would still take time, especially those attacks and he was trying to stop the aria from finishing her song, but each time he was trying to aim at her, his adversaries kept trying to sever his limbs or crush his head. So he had to take these out or gain a position where he had time to throw an attack at her.

-Lonely observer of ultimate strength, as you see the mask one no longer there...and so more rain, and so....your world flooded with tears of deathly loneliness.....

“ heuh....so melancholic, I know the real verses of the song are inscribed in him and these lyrics are a connection specially written for him....but this kid! How depressed are you !? My song was far more cheerful!” Scream the wolf finally semi-countering Enkidu with a kick that grazed Enkidu’s forehead, getting him to his knees, while he was thinking about what was the wolf talking about, while Maira had a pitiful look that could be perceived that it was to Icaros. “ Rrrrgrah!’, and he passes Maira’s defenses, backhanded palms her as she crashes into the ground and starts rolling. She is about to pass out, yet the wolf does not strike. He has more pressing concerns, the Aria.

-Your body red, from your blood and from others, it does not wash off, and you are red, pure red. Yet why do you keep fighting? As I pray, that the small ray of light that you follow, becomes bigger and brighter, and so I keep asking you, why do you keep fighting?

A ray of light illuminates from her, covering her in a big cylinder of light, as the height and diameter expands as to reach the entire park. As it does slowly her hair is becoming white, and her wings, little by little her feathers are becoming black.

“ No! I was... Too...late....rgggg’, slowly and forcefully says the wolf as the cylinder of light engulfed the whole park. The Wolf, Alcetis, the soon-to-be corpses, Maira and Enkidu, and the trees are engulfed. A certain crimson beauty is engulfed too. A certain redhead boy with an eyepatch as he shrugs.

“ Is this what you envisioned, Daedalus?” very lowly and irritated says the ultra charismatic eyepatch boy.