Chapter 4: Beginning Of My End

I rushed through the bushes, cutting through the foliage and retracing my steps back to Shira. The cave lizards pursued as well but they weren’t as fast as I was. When I got there I saw the monkeys with their poles that spat fire aimed at her face, and that power coursed through my veins again. I leapt through the trees, but I was caught in midair by one of the behemoths. They tossed and turned me about, slashing and gnashing at me as well as burning through my scales. I clawed and slashed back, ripping through their scales and inflicting a fatal wound in their chest. They dropped me to the ground and I ran towards Shira. *BANG*

I stopped dead. I looked her in the eye and I saw a tear fall down her face. I looked at my side and saw the blood slowly pouring out of my side. I blinked. I heard the sound of Shira going through them but I couldn’t hear it. She came back round and tried to talk to me but I couldn’t hear her. I saw her crying and I came to my senses.

“Don’t cry… Shira…” I started but she shook her head and said in a desperate voice:

“It’s fine. You’re fine. You’re gonna be ok. Please you- you have to-“ She couldn’t finish her sentence through the tears. I brushed my face against hers and I heard another shot. *BANG*

I looked at Shira as we both saw the blood leak out of her side. She buried her head in my chest and we lay down together. I lay my head on hers as we shut our eyes for the final time. I said to her:

“Now I can spend my time in Rockwell’s plains for an eternity with you,” and she replied, saying:

“At least I’ll be complete in the afterlife, and I know that wherever I am going you are going with me, and with that I know that I am complete.”

We lay there and breathed our final breath together, in harmony as we passed through to wherever it is we were destined to go by our creator. And all I knew was that I was in my final embrace with Shira, and I never wanted it to be any other way. I can only hope that she and I will be safe wherever we find ourselves next, in the afterlife that we were promised.

-The ending! Little sad, but I hope you enjoyed nonetheless.

-Nightfall