In the vacuum space where they ascended down they were kept in this place where they saw themselves going through life as a couple, this was another journey to test the response they had, perhaps another way for the heavens to prepare them for what they had to face should they have chosen the path they predicted they will. While they tried to fight fate Blue again saw Red's going.
In this unconscious mid path dream they were born as loving couples envied to many but fate again caught up with them. This dream will set the next stage of encounter for them where the present lives.
As Blue struggle to break away from the spell that Red had casted over him to keep him safe from the whole assassination episode. Blue was once again left helpless, dejected ...how much more will he be left to endure. His love snatched away, tormented to succumb to injury that he can't be there to protect. All that was left for him to grief over was Red's blood on his hands when his grip on Red's wrist left them apart. Red had tried to break this fate again but he fell right into it. His parting left a tear that casted the whole meadow with a rain that cried from the night sky. And in the hollow sorrow, in that despair a lighting strike. Under all the frustration, Blue yelled out to the heavens "Give him back to me!!!!" Blue had started to accumulate the resentment he had across all the frustration and despair - his sword killed many that were part of Red's predicament. It was what Red feared.... the walk back home won't be easy with the growing resentment. Blue filled with anger rampages across the vast land seeking revenges for his lost love....
"Please forgive him for this resentment...let me take his sorrow along I will bare the circumstances let him stay pure" Red was home but he was eager to have Blue home safely. When blue finally returned his soul was torn beyond repair.
As Red waited by the field of flowers for the day .... a sudden down pour came. A thunderous lighting woke him out ...he knew the time has come.
"When he is back I'll take his place, I'll take his place for the punishment, I'm willing to, let him recuperate safely in the stream - rid him of any hurtful memories just let him go through the purification process I will take the punishment in return." That was the deal he made with the elders.
"Let me feel his hurt, his despair and punish me for it" Red bargained again.
As soon as that lighting happen he headed to the cave far tugged in the forest. Blue had been
brought back and was kept there - what he didn't know was the deal that was made by Red for him to be freed.
"Are you sure?....you won't be able to recover fully while Blue may live on not knowing what had really happened...you will be carrying these burden even some remnants of it into your next journey but because you were gifted with such strong noble discerning spirit, you will be able to control it - what we can't guarantee is the hurt that it may caused you..."
"I am ...I am very sure" Red said
"You don't plan to tell him do you ?" They asked
"No ... and please keep this away from him, to love is to protect, it need not be said sometimes" Red said
Back at the cave, Blue returned in a deplorable state - his soul hurt, he made it back just to see red but he knew in his condition he will be confined until he is fit to return fully. As he struggle to adjust to the condition of the cave - he was angry and all the predicament that had been set on him and red. "Let me go!!" As he struggle and throw his growing tantrum in the face of the guardian angels that held him down to calm him into a mediation state the only thing that made him stop was when his long forgotten heart shape crystal started to glow again ....a warm that reminds him of Red. As that continues, he saw a familiar light emerging from a distance, what he had been longing for, Red.
"Let him go..." he instructed as they release him. While the guardian angels left them and seal the entrance, Red had decided to end this misery that Blue has to go through every time. To do that he had to remove both their sealed amulet in their hearts.
"You left your ribbon ...." blue said as tears came through his eyes..."you didn't wait again...I.." Blue couldn't hold back he cried as he held on to his heart as soon as Red came closer ...the hurt and torment that had consumed him reacted further, penetrating into his heart.
"Don't cry....we can't let our emotions run here Ti" Red holding back his tears stayed composedS he spoke though he fought his emotion. While he tried to maintain a distance, Red was afraid Blue would not able able to control himself. And true enough Blue leap forward and again as he tried to embrace Red, his darken aura was filled with too much negative emotion. The embrace somehow healed him - the aura from Red nursed his emotions but the amulet he has worn wasn't good enough to protect his soul from being déplorated further.
In that embrace when both could feel the hurt again, Blue scream out from the pain in his heart. Red stood to his bargain, Red reached out to his own heart and rip the amulet out from himself - the one wrapped with a petal from Blue and sewn with a Cupid arrow from the heart shape crystal. He struggled to remove it at first but managed to rip it out for Blue's sake
"What are you doing Ge!!! No!!!!!"
As that happen is a flash second, he pushed the amulet into Blue and inherited the remaining hurt of resentment over from Blue with a suck of his breath. The intensity of the pain in the souls combined were too extreme. Blue watched again helplessly as Red fell to the ground.
"Noooo!" That was the last scream Blue remember letting out before waking up in the river stream the next day.
As Red it fell to the ground - he saw and felt both his and Blue's past again, every emotion, he felt it twice as much. What blue felt, how tormented when Red left blue from the first journey and second and the sufferings. But little did he know while the guardian angels brought blue out and removed him of any remaining negative emotions and memories, he entered a different realm with the elders that night as he fell to the ground unconsciously. Red fell unconsciously not withstanding the pain that had overwhelmed him. He fell into a deep sleep conserving his remaining spiritual energy left in his deep sleep to recover and protect all that's left of his soul before it dissipate further from all the negative energy.
"Let him stay here" the old wise man appear before them and said.
In that deep sleep he was made to relive through each hurt repeatedly but it also came with a great lesson to how to learn let go of any attachments that made his heart hurt.
"He will be strong enough to withstand it, sent him back down as he wished when he is healed. While it is for forbidden to flaunt the agreement if he had taken the path to redeem the burden from another and he asked that they'd be separated to prevent anymore repeat of such. We can only grant his wish accordingly, but we cannot control if they will find each other back.
"Set them to discover it for themselves even if their fate crosses again we can't prevent it"
While Red was set to isolation to recover, Blue went about his day under the assumption he was waiting for Red to be back from his ordeal. He didn't quite much remember what had happened except curious and concern Red's amulet was with him.
He troll the tree that now had many origami hung from it and spent his days reading all the writing and poems that was hung up from the past. He was surprise to learn of each writing that contains Red's hidden emotions while he waited for Blue to come home from to this magical land. One of such is as follows
Lonely Nights
The silent night creeps in
As this heart falls apart again
Draining my thoughts
Drowned in misses
This grief that was buried
Let me cradle them a little longer
Just for tonight, I'll be better after
I'll smile tomorrow, I promise I will
Never be seen, this little sorrow
Behind this wall, I've learnt well
Pain is just a passing emotion
Hold it through, it will get better
And as he read on, he felt the longing misses for Red. The heart shape crystal glowed. He closes his eyes as he called out for Red. That night when Blue fell asleep, he found red in his sleep.
He saw Red vividly in his dream - asleep. He was lying down on a slab of stone with two guardian angels watching over him. While they couldn't see him somehow he floated quietly next to Red. As he stood stunned next to him, a mix of feelings came back. Blue touched Red's hand ... it was different....cold. "Ge....." Blue called quietly, his voice sounded broken. He shook Red gently.
"Ge...Ge..Wake up..Ge!" There was no reaction....instead he saw by the side of Red's closed eyes...tears trickled down.
It is a daily ritual where the hurt Red carried would made the tears flow as he live through the repeats in his deep sleep. Blue's confused feelings played and stirred at his heart as it stood next to Red.
'It's impossible' quietly the old wise man had watch through his vision on this as well as the elders. They watch through their vision what was happening that Blue's emotions ran so deep that he could find red through his dreams appearing here.
"I thought Red had removed the hurt and Blue had completed the purification process" one elder commented
'So even the birth of their soul can't remove the connection' the old man said silently as they watched
Blue stepped further closer and unconsciously he had drop of tears that had drip on to Red...he was crying without knowing it as he wipe and looked at it. More tears came through dripping onto Red and at this rate the heart shape crystal had glowed again.
The amulet that he had kept for Red appear visible now. The drop of tears on Red...had woken up his soul and as both eyes stare at each other. There was just silence in between. Red's amulet return into Red immediately as the Cupid seal it again from the heart shape crystal
"Please stop them wise one, this is against the order that we have" The elder pointed out
"I can't...this is one that I can't. I sow them into the core of the flowers of their soul from the past whatever's that left ... I thought it will remove the legendary myth that I have no control over....but what I know is their powerful connection surpasses the level of our understanding here."
As their aura combined again, there were divides on what should be done. The guardian angels awaken now had tried to stop them while the wise man again casted the spell and accelerated their descend again
They communicated with the old man in silence
"I need him" blue said "let us go"
"I can only guarantee that you carry your story through for the people to learn on the power of true love that exist from the past, you may have to walk separate lives, unless you proof us otherwise that what you have is worthy for us to believe you can make it through the challenges, we won't be able to justify our actions to allow for this to happen... this will be the most painful journey, you will live through it but you will experience the stages and level of hurt that test your trust, believe and love." he said as he look at red and then blue.
As both nodded indicating they are willing to. Red offered
"Let us show the rest then, use us to impart the positive side of what we can show to the rest" Red said "until such that we can serve to show the goodness of our existence, we will be contented and happy"
The wise man shook his head disbelieve at what he had heard, "I have not seen such stubbornness in my existence. I've been watching over the two of you as how it was entrusted onto me to, and I definitely do not want anything to happen to the two of you." He touched both of their aura's - he knew they were both determined, more than ever this time to break what they hadn't manage to . ....'so it had developed so much over time' he whispered silently in his heart as he closes his eyes and placed a blessing for them.
He casted the spell that accelerated them to their next journey while the elders look on. "It's their choice, their combined strength will help them compliment each other. Let them live their choice, we can only watch and pray for them"
The wise old man sent a few guardian angels quietly that was supposedly to watch over them as they leave this place again. "Keep it quiet - always protect" he said.
That night the stars aligned again, the forest were filled with beautiful fire flies and the night flowers stood glowing, all showing their love for them, their unwavering love and support as the chapter of the present that we know of came to live.