Philip and Yuki can't find Maria from those all cocoons they got.
And Philip started to feel upset about that.
Meanwhile, Max seems starting to figure something about where Maria is from the vinesman.
Can they find her?
And what is the things happening between the vinesman and Maria?
Let's see it then to the story..
The final part..
Enjoy and happy reading..
Hihi.. XD
Yuki immediately used her skill of healing to help that divers. As the specialist of healing, water elemental skill could somehow regenerating some bad organ inner the body, as long as it hadn't be a corpse yet. Yuki healed up that diver while Philip was feeling so down to find that he couldn't find Maria on those last cocoons.
Meanwhile in another place, Max and Vinesman were talking about Maria.
"Where did you hide her?", Max asked to the vinesman.
" Hide her? I don't hide her in else where... But you see... She might be died already, I sense the water had gotten into her pod several times later... It's same as she has been drowned in the water for so long, hasn't she? Sha... Haha..", said the vinesman as he got started to be weakened at time by time.
"Oh! You meant..", looked like Max figured something out, and then he jumped to the sea and swam toward the big vined that burned and fell to the sea earlier.
"Ah... I can't show Maria's dead body to you... What a shame of me... But... At least, my job's done... The justice... Has been served... Aghh..", vinesman said.
Then as he said that, he fell down on Sharplodon head, he was died.
The other side, Max was looking for Maria in the drowned big vines that had burned and being spread out in some parts. He examined some parts, then suddenly he remembered the possibility place where she could be. But the vines had drowned even deeper to the sea while Max had almost reached limit to hold his breathing. Because his power had drained out, he couldn't suit up for the moment. He should take the air very soon, so he got back to surface immediately as he saw the vines was keeping moving deeper to the bottom of sea. He thought he would be late to save Maria but he couldn't do any other things but went back to surface to get some breathes.
So he took the deep breath on the surface before he began to dive in to chase the vines again. He was diving as fast as he could to reach the vines but yet it had drowned far too deep underneath. While on his way to reach it, he felt the pressure of the water harder and harder as he kept on chasing. But as deep as he got, he felt that thing even harder that he thought he had on his limit. He tried to overcome that feels but his body couldn't take any more pressure. He saw the vines kept drowned even deeper. In suit mode, maybe he could manage to overcome that pressure. But this time, he was not in his suit and yet he was already in weakened state after that battles.
In flustered feeling, he decided to get back to surface as he was got hard to hold the breathed in the water. But when he would do surface, suddenly Philip appeared to get close to him. Philip that wasn't on his suit too, came to Max. Immediately Philip started to dive to the vines, after Max gave him some signs with hands to the vines. Philip somehow understood what he meant. In high speed to dive, Philip went toward the vines to search Maria in the very possible place, at the middle section of the upper body and below body of that vines that had been frozen by Yuki.
Philip finally chased that vines which almost reached to the bottom of the sea. He immediately examined the part where Maria was possibility being placed. And then he saw a similiar thing like cocoon, the pod made by the vinesman. He got closer and found that there was a broken part on that pod. It made the water leaked in to the pod. Being in shocked by that, Philip quickly broke that vines with his hands. And then he found the face that always made him stunned, there was Maria on that pod of vines. She looked so pale, she wasn't breathing at all. Then Philip tried to do CPR immediately, but the thing went worse. Because of he was in panic, he lost focus to hold his breath, as he lost his breath in the water. Then he quickly pulled her out from that pod then immediately brought her out to the surface. In his super speed of swimming, he managed to get to the surface before he lost his breath completely.
"Philip! Over here!", Yuki shouted to Philip on the ice break that she moved to that place by her power of water bending.
Seeing Philip carried Maria on his hands, Max tried to help to get her on the ice break.
"Hei! Use your healing skill to help her, please!", Philip talked to Yuki in rushed, asking Yuki to do the same thing like she did before to the diver on Maria, as he got on to the ice break as well.
"O-o-okay.. I got it!", replied Yuki to Philip, as she immediately tried to heal Maria.
"Is she gonna be okay?!", asked Philip to Yuki, he really looked so panic.
"Calm down! We will manage to save her, okay..", said Max tried to calm Philip down.
" R-right..", Philip was trying to calm himself.
" Eh!?.. Emm..", suddenly Yuki reacted on something, as she stopped the healing.
"What's it?! What's happening?!", Philip who noticed her, asking why Yuki stopped the healing.
"... Emm... S-sorry...", Yuki spoke in small voice.
" What?! What are you saying?", Philip pardoned.
" I'm sorry... I, I can't heal her..", explained Yuki in her sad face.
" Why?! You said you can do healing... You did it last time on the diver, right?! Why is it?! Does your energy has drained up again?! Hei!..", shouted Philip, didn't believe with what she said.
"CALM DOWN!", shout Max to stop the yelling Philip.
"Calm down yourself, let's hear her reason..", continued Max.
"... I try to regenerate her inner organs, but... She had drowned so long,... She, she had lost her breath for long time ago... I'm sorry, I can't heal the dead body...", said Yuki as she held her tears from dropped.
The situation turned to be so silent. Max didn't know what to do. Yuki couldn't do anything else to save Maria, she was so sad. And Philip, he looked so depressed and so sad as well, he was crying even he tried not to.
"But I've promised her..", said Philip as he tried to hold her on his arms.
Condolences atmosphere was felt on around. They, he, Philip had fought on his best to save her, but in the end, she couldn't be saved. He felt so useless, weak, and no hope. He did his best for nothing. That how he felt. As the sun was starting to falling down. Suddenly Philip stood up while he carried Maria on his arms. He had nowhere to go, they are on the ice break, in the middle of the ocean. But he stepped little by little to the edge of the ice.
" Philip!? What are you doing?", Max was asking where Philip wanted to go, but he didn't answer.
"Do you want to swim to the coast? But she is... Already..", Max continued his words.
And yet he was all silent while kept on moving to the water. Yuki was sitting with do nothing, she felt to hate herself to not to be able to help. Somehow, she could feel what Philip felt.
"Oi! Stop it! You have drained your energy on the battle, and we still on the middle of the sea, you couldn't make it to the coast by swimming! You will danger your own self!", Max tried to stop Philip from entered the water while carried Maria.
But he, Philip insisted to jump, so Max held him on his shoulder. He got stopped. But no longer, he forced to jump into the sea and he did. Max lost. Immediately Max was planning on jumped to the sea as well but Yuki suddenly stopped him.
"Wait!", Yuki held Max hand.
"What are you thinking? He will make them drowned themselves to the sea with his current energy left..", said Max.
" It's okay!", responded Yuki to Max.
"What do you mean by that?", Max confused.
" He's the ocean knights after all..", replied Yuki.
" And..?!", Max still confused.
"Ocean is his power, right?!", said Yuki.
" Oh! I see... If what had you told is right, then he even could save her as well..", Max remembered the power of Warriors.
"Now I remembered... If he is the real warrior of the sea, he could use that sacred skill..", Yuki seemed to remember something.
" Sacred skill?", Max was being confused again.
" -Ocean Resurrection- , that is the skill that can resurrect the dead body to be alive normally again..", she started to explain.
" But it requires some specific rules... The dead is died in the water, the skill user and the dead have to have had the specific relationship and the place of use the skill should be in the deep of water, that skill also will cause their soul be binded as they shared the life span of the user skill, that means the user skill will transfer their half of life to the resurrected person..", she was explaining.
" Do you think Philip is suitable for that?", Max cut the explanation with his quick question.
"I don't know, but if he does, then... He is not the ordinary ocean knights then... He is the king... Because he is the only ocean knight for this time..", replied Yuki.
" Make a sense... Now we just have to wait if they make it, right?", as he said so, Max was laying down on the ice break as he got really tired of the last battle.
"How that can it be said make sense? That's out of mind system at all..", responded Yuki.
Meanwhile underneath the water, Philip was diving in to the deep while carried Maria. He was planning on something to Maria. He wanted to make Maria back to live with his mysterious skill. He didn't know for sure how it could be done, but he was told that to keep it secret and never to use it unless it for the very very important thing in his life. As he thought, he ever did it once, and looked like that succeed, but after that he got scolded and promised to not to use it again. But this time, he would break that promised for another promised that had he made.
He reached the deep of the ocean, and he started to do something. He let Maria to be floating by herself. While he close his eyes and called for help in his heart.
"I called up upon all the elements in this ocean! I am humbly asking for you to let me your power to help me and help this important person to me..", Philip said it in his mind while keep held his breath off.
"Please use my power that had left in me to bring her back... I'm begging on..", as he said so in his mind, he reached his limit of his breath.
But then he was making blue shining on his chest, and it kept bigger and bigger to fill his body. But that hadn't filled all his whole body because he had lost his breath in the water. Then the shine was fading, fader and fader till it completely gone. He was floating. He didn't save Maria either. She was still floating away and went to the surface.
On the ice break, where Max, Yuki and all divers that had been saved stayed, while waiting for Philip's back. None of the divers had regained their conscious either. Max was still laying on and Yuki tried to recovered herself power. Suddenly something popped up from the ocean nearby the ice break. Yuki noticed it and immediately informed Max.
"Hei! Wake up! Something is coming from the water!", Yuki called Max.
" Philip has back?!", Max woke up and came closer to Yuki.
Yuki was pointing to the direction of that thing. That was Maria's body. That's floating around by the wave.
"I'll get her!", said Yuki.
She tried to use her water elemental power to get Maria's body came closer to them. After she could be reached, Max took her on the ice break. Not so long after Maria got on, Philip's body popped on the surface. That's moving around by the wave. Yuki noticed him as well, with her sad face. Then she used her water skill to get him closer to her. And then Max helped out to take him on the ice break and placed him next to Maria. Yuki was sitting on her upset face, she thought she should have to help them out if she had stronger. Seeing her in sob, Max came closer to her.
"Stop it!", said Max, but Yuki kept on her sadness without words.
"I said stop it!", repeated Max.
But she didn't bother by that. Then Max came even closer to her.
"If you... Want to... Save them... This is your chance!..", as he said that he dropped down to the ground, he looked so weak.
"Eh?! What's happening?", Yuki saw Max fell and hurried to come to him.
"I'm fine... I've just transferred... My energy to them... I still sense their... Lifes..", said Max to Yuki.
Immediately Yuki rushed toward Philip and Maria. With her hands on each hand of Philip's and Maria's. She sensed the low pounding of life on each of them. And then, with her healing ability skill, she started to heal them up.
"He makes it! He is the king!", Yuki seemed happy this time.
*Flash memory
After Philip lost his breath, the water filled his body, but then he somehow regained his conscious. Quickly he grabbed Maria hands who was floating up to the surface. And then he gave her the breath, the life. That time, he felt the similar thing about her. Something that made him remembered the thing that had happened year ago on the dam. He finally recognized her, Maria, as the same person that he had saved that time. And then he gave her a little pushed as they're almost reached the surface, so maria could reach the surface faster and could be saved by Max and Yuki. He didn't really care about him. All he thought that time was his promise, the promise he made to the important person for him.
*Back to the time after Philip and Maria were being healed by Yuki.
After being helped by Max to get on the ice break and being healed by Yuki, Philip and Maria seemed getting better. And several minutes later, Maria got her conscious back, she slowly opened her eyes.
"Where am I?", the first words came from Maria.
" Emm, we actually are in the middle of the sea, but it's alright we'll get to the land soon..", said Yuki who sat nearby her.
As she kept her eyes on healing, Yuki used her water bending to move the iceberg to the coast.
"And, who are you?", Maria continued to ask Yuki.
" Emm, I'm Yuki... And,... It's rather hard to explain the details, more importantly! You should take a rest more..", said Yuki.
" It's cold..", said Maria to feel how cold the ground where she had laid on.
" Well, it's better than being in cold body anyway... Don't worry, this cold won't kill you, I will manage to it..", as Yuki spoke, she used her skill to cover Maria's body with some kind of blue aura, that aura kept Maria warm without melting the ice.
"It's getting warmer, what are you doing to me?", asked Maria.
" Stop talking, will you?", Yuki looked starting to get irritated.
As she was being told to be quiet, Maria turned her head to her side and she found Philip was laying in there, right next to her.
"Philip..?!", Maria called for him.
"He is alright! He needs more time to recover his conscious..", said Yuki.
" Is he coming to save me?", asked Maria to Yuki.
" Yes, he is", answered Yuki.
"Quick question, are you his girlfriend or something?", and then Yuki was asking in quick pace.
" I don't think so... Why do you ask?", replied Maria.
" Just wondering, he says you're his boss, but the time I see his determined to bring you back to life even in his critical state, make me think that it's not about work things..", explained Yuki.
" Bring me back to life?", Maria rather confused.
" Oh! Emm... I checked on you a while ago, and you... You see.. I think you won't believe me though..", Yuki tried to explain what had happened to Maria.
After listened to it, Maria started to burst in tears.
"So you save my life again, don't you?", Maria spoke to Philip as she was crying.
"...Again?..", noticed Yuki that seemed confused about that.
"Well... I should have died years ago... Drowned in the bottom of the water dam in the city... But then I woke up in the hospital, they said someone helped me when he saw me fell to the water, then he left after the medic came to bring me to the hospital..", Maria started to tell her story as she was rising her body to sit position.
" So you think he is the one who save you when you fell in the dam?", asked Yuki to cut her story.
" I guess, but fell to the water, is not the truth... I went there for the study tour from my college thing with some of my classmates, but they who hated me, planned something bad at me. They tied my hands, my feet and even covered my mouth with some clothes, then threw me out to the water from the boat after they covered my head with some kind of clothes... To think that there is no one around that place but us, of course it would be decided that is my dead, do you think it's possible to me to survive that?", Maria tried to ask Yuki opinion.
" How about if it is one of your friends who had on the boat who saved you?", said Yuki.
" No, everyone on there are hating me, there is one of them that almost same with me, the target of their bullied, Vale, but not even him too, of course..", explained Maria.
" How can you be sure of it?", again, Yuki asked to Maria.
"For some few seconds in the water after I lost my breath and my conscious, I regained my conscious again and I saw his face, he who had saved me in the water, but I couldn't recognize who is he at that time... After being hospitalized, I got her name and started to look for him, but he has gone. How's upset of being myself, when finally I know who had save me but I can even say thank you to him..", said Maria.
" And then Philip comes to the company recently times, then immediately I remember the person I have searched for. I try to get closer to him to make sure he is the one that I'm looking for. It's getting close to make me think how curious I'm in him, but then this kind of thing even happens again... Now I can be sure of him..", Maria was smiling as she held Philip's hand.
"Do you like him that much?! That's good! Because it looks like he likes you so much too..", suddenly Max intervened the talks.
" What?!!", Maria was shocking to hear that, she immediately let off Philip's hand that made little impact to him and made him awoken.
"Eh!! What hap-... Oh! Maria! You have awaken?!", Philip surprised.
" Oh!? P-Philip!", Maria got even shocker to found out Philip had back to his conscious.
"Don't surprised people with those weird words of yours, can you?", said Yuki to Max in her irritated face.
" What?! Did I say something wrong?", responded Max to Yuki.
And then Yuki used her skill to Philip and Maria, so that they fell to the ground again. She made them fell asleep.
"Hei! What are you doing to them?", Max was asking to Yuki.
" I made them sleep! They need it! For their healing times and to prevent the awkwardness atmosphere around here..", explained Yuki.
" I don't really understand what are you talking about, but well then if it is for their healing..", said Max.
And then after few long minutes they were floating on that ice break that moving toward the beach by Yuki's power. Suddenly Max was speaking.
" Then, how do you think we can get to the coast with this kind of iceberg? How to explain it to the people exactly? Are you ready to go public?", Max was asking Yuki seriously.
" You are living in the shadows, you and your tribe, am I right?", Continued Max.
" You're right, but how about you?", replied Yuki.
" I used to it, so it's fine..", answered Max.
" Maybe, I should leave now! I'll leave them to you then..", Yuki stood up.
" Wait! You can't just leave by now!", Max stopped Yuki.
" Don't worry about them! Their fatal wound have been healed, you just need to look after them! That's not hard for you, right?", teased Yuki.
" Well yeah, I can manage to that! How about you? It seems water elemental is the best regen type of element, but you keep using your skill since last battle to healing, you need to take a rest too, you know!", replied Max.
Yuki couldn't say anything else even she wanted to but then suddenly Philip woke up and started to speak.
"He is right! You have to take a rest first before you come back home!", said Philip surprised they two.
" You healed from that spell? That's quick!", said Max.
"More importantly, you better rest now, I'll manage about what you are talking earlier..", as Philip said that he jumped to the water, he left.
"Wha-...?!", Yuki seemed to say something but she cancelled it.
"What Philip says are right! You better take a rest first! We will get you some rooms at our hoter later, is that fine?", this time, Maria surprised them too with her sudden voice.
"Ah! You have a wake too..", said Yuki to see Maria had sat at her place.
"See!? Your spells are even weakened because you drained too much energy back then..", added Max to Yuki.
" I think you are right... Well, thank you very much for-...", Yuki spoke something.
" Ahaha... Don't mind it, okay! Haha..", Max cut Yuki words.
" What are you talking about? I say my thanks to Maria for letting me to stay in her hotel. I'm not taking to you at all!", explained Yuki with her irritating face to Max.
"Really?! I see... Well, you also have my gratitude for letting me to stay on your place too, Maria!", said Max to Maria.
" You mean her hotel, right? Not her place!", responded Yuki for Max words.
" I find it just the same..", replied Max.
" Oh, whatever then!", said Yuki annoyed.
Maria just laughed to see them fighting. In other place, Philip who swam with his high speed to the beach, had almost reach the rear of the territory. And after her reached the beach, he immediately went to the base to met Kevin. And he found Kevin in there with some other crews who looked so down. Philip appearance made them surprised.
"Philip!?", Kevin quickly noticed Philip who entered the room.
"I need some boats of rescuing immediately! Hurry up!!", said Philip in his rushed.
" What's happening there, Philip?! The touring ship crews something happened there...", Kevin tried to ask Philip for what had happened but Philip ignored him.
"Not now, Kev! We need to go immediately, you get it!?!", responded Philip to Kevin.
" Alright then! Everyone, prepare for immediate rescuing teams now! We are deploying now!", commanded Kevin to the all crews.
" Thanks, Kev!", said Philip to Kevin.
Kevin confirmed his thanks by nodding. And as soon as the command had been given all units of rescue deployed to the place where Philip'd given to them. Leading by Philip instructions, they went to Max and others place.
And after a few minutes, some boats came nearby to the ice break where Max and others on. There was Philip and Kevin too on those boats. They evacuated Maria and all divers to the boats, so Max and Yuki as well. And then they were leaving the ice break and headed to the Sunreferbeach. After arrived there, they took all the divers to hospital. And for Maria, she rufused to go to the hospital, she wanna to accompany Yuki and the others in the hotel. But then for Max as soon as he arrived to the hotel, he decided to leave.
"I have a friend in the last touring ship, my packs are with him so I will just take my leave..", that what he said to Philip, meanwhile Yuki and Maria were already in their rooms, they had took a rest already.
*Another time than that time
"Well that's all, I guess!", said Philip to end his story.
Philip showed his happy face to the three, Max(Maxtran Cloef), Yui Amoura, and Rey Arnold. The face of an adult that felt satisfied to tell his old story to youngsters. The story that had happened around 10 years ago.
"Wait! I still don't understand about why that vinesman targeted Maria and about how could Maria be able to back alive, it said that resurrect skill will only work if the requirements had met the condition!", said Max.
" Isn't it obvious, she's loving him like he loved her?", responded Yui to Max.
" He is really senseless about romance..", said Rey.
" Really?", continued Max.
"Haha... You look familiar with Max I have known... But let me clear that thought... When the time we met in the dam, I was there to practice my skill in the water, untill I saw someone drowned getting closer to my place...", Philip seemed starting to tell his very own perspective story, but suddenly Rey cut up his words.
"Wait! You meant you were in the deep, no in the bottom of the dam? You're practicing in the bottom of that dam, aren't you?", asked Rey with his enthusiastic.
" Ah... You can say that... Then, I came over to check, and I found her tied on her hands and feet, also her head covered by some kind of cloth sack. Immediately I released that sack to check her consciousness, but of course she lost her conscious, that is a deep dam and she had reached its bottom...", Philip was still on telling part, but Max cut it.
"How about you? Do you use any diving kit?", said Max.
" I... Do... No, like I say, I was practice my skill in the water that time, but I brought some oxygen tube, in case if I had reached my limit... I hadn't known about suit up in warrior power that time, you see!..", explained Philip.
" I see..", responded Max.
"Then, I tried to give her the oxygen from the tube, but she could react, so I tried to do CPR on her, but that also did not working, we were in the deep of water after all... After that I couldn't continued my practice since it had disturbed, I lost my count of holding my breath and started to use oxygen tube. But when I saw her, I recognized her face, she went on the same collage as me, and... She's someone that I like in the first sign of seeing her at the ceremony day in collage, but I never had courages to talk or even give her greetings. Funny, is it? Then that time I remembered the skill that could resurrect person if they died in the water, even I had promised to not to use it, but then I tried it on her. Surprisingly, she was back to breathing, immediately I let her to use the diving kit and brought her to surface. I untied her while i was making called of the medic. And immediately they came. As soon as the came, I left her to them by said "I saw her fell to the dam, so I helped her". But then, they seemed like to recognize my face because of I am a participant of the swimming contest in the city that would be held in the town. After that I got scolded by my teacher, my master who tought me that resurrection skill. I had been punished to not to be able to live in social life for a years. And I did it. When I came back to social life I found Kevin who got sunk in the sea with his broken boat, I saved him. Then he invited me to work in his place, the Sunrefer Co.. And in there I met again with the similar face in the past, but I couldn't just barge in the flawless reason, so I just started to keep watching her in my place, until that Sharplodon accident happened..", the story ended by Philip.
They three were really enjoyed his perspective story. Until they found that the story had finally ended so, then Max continued to asked for his answer on the second question.
"How about Maria that had being the target of vinesman?", asked Max.
" Oh! Yeah, that's it! How about that?!", Rey added.
" Emm.. Let's see... The case is not really clear until now though, but Maria and me are actually also looking for the reason behind that things... And I got some clues that pointed to it..", replied Philip.
" Let me hear! Let me hear!", now Yui seemed in her high spirits to listen the reason behind the storyline.
"After we moved to Fallen Sky city, Maria and I, got married. Some day, suddenly her father was talking about the accident that happened when we got in the collage, the accident when Maria got drowned in the dam. He said someone called Vale, one of our college student was the one who did it to Maria, but he had lost from his house a few days after that accident...", in the middle oh his story, Yui interrupted.
"But you say in the story, Maria think he is also one of target bullied that same as Maria..", said Yui.
" How do you know that?", asked Max to Yui confusing.
" You have sharp memory!", said Philip to Yui.
" She said so, because he was not the one who did it, she remembered how calm and quiet he was, he wouldn't dare to do that..", said Philip.
" Wait! But if Maria is still remember the things after that accident, why she don't tell what really happened back there to everyone at least her father..", interrupted Rey.
" I don't know, I also asked Maria about that, but she said the problems had done and she'd still alive, that was all and that was the important, she didn't want to any troubled. What's done is done, she said..", explained Philip.
" What a big hearts is she..", said Yui.
" That's too kind or rather be in too stupid to not to stop the circumstances of that bad mastermind..", added Rey.
" You can say that... After that, suddenly she asked her father who had given that information... Then, he said the name of Zoe, and suddenly Maria reacted strange after that. Even we asked her if she knew it or not, but she said she didn't know about it. Yet, I could tell she hid something... And then some days later, she went somewhere without telling me, but I knew she might be go to Zoe's place... After so long she left the house, I somehow could sense her, where she had gone, then I followed that sense..", Philip started to go telling the intense part.
"That's the effects of -Ocean Resurrection-, I mean your sense of her, that's being said, that skill will bind you two... That what my master said..", explained Yui.
" Oh I see... That is great!", responded Max.
" But that's not the only effects of that skill you know, your life had been split into half in order to give that half to the other... And also remember the requirements, if you can't meet the required things you will just lose your own life along with the one you wanna help... Don't take it easy matter..", added the explanation from Yui.
" Hmm... And then, I headed to her place by following the sense that led me to her, but then I felt something bad happened to her, i couldn't be help but to be hurried... Then depending on her story afterwards, that time she had met Zoe. One the first time saw her, Zoe seemed wanna went away to avoid her, so she went after Zoe... But then, she ended up in the some place with no other people around... Then Zoe came out with two big men in her sides...", said Philip.
*Flash memory
" What do you want?", asked Zoe to Maria.
" Why you tell my father that's Vale who dropped me to that dam? You-....", Maria wanted to continued her words but Zoe started to talk.
"So why?! Of course to made it case closed! I don't want to be haunted all the time! Look at you! You are a ghost, aren't you? You should be dead! How can you come back like there is nothing happened back there!", said Zoe.
" Zoe, listen! We used to be best friend! Why you did that to me?", asked Maria.
" I don't know, the time when everyone learned you're one of the mansion family, you changed... Then everyone had their eyes on you, but you turned them down and caused you became the target of bullied, I don't want to be a part of that society, I don't wanna being a target of bullied... That's it! Do you get it now?!", explained Zoe.
" Do you hate me because of that?", asked Maria.
"... Y-yes! ... I hate you because of that! I really really hate you!!", Zoe shouted to Maria.
" How about now?! I'm not the target of that social life bullying again now! I have my own life it is not too perfect though but it's happy enough without threats..", said Maria to convince Zoe to be her best friend again.
"What?! You think that you have had happy life time now! And look at me! Do you think I've got my happy life? You think we're best friend? No, you leave me alone here... But you know, I can say that I haven't feel my own happiness in life yet but I will tell you something, you said you have no threads in life? Then here is you threat! And I will feel happy to see you down, Maria!!", said Zoe as she gave the sign to the men to do something to Maria, and they walked toward Maria.
"What are you saying, Zoe? We can fix it! I don't know if I have done something to you without realizing it, I'm sorry for that! Really!! You don't have to do this!", said Maria to ask Zoe to stopping what she had planned.
Zoe just laughed in her tears, while the two men got closer to Maria, they grabbed Maria's hands each one of them, then the pulled to each side, made Maria couldn't do anything. Maria cried as she held the hurt of her hands were being pulled to each side with such power by that men.
"Stop... It... Zoe!.. I'm... begging you!.. It's hurt!!", Maria said it with her tears on her face.
"I'm having my happy time here! Didn't you are the one who asking me to be happy with you?! Or that's another lies from you?! Huh?! Maria?!", Zoe was saying it in screaming voice as the tears kept coming out from her eyes, she came closer to Maria, and she took out a folding knife from her pocket.
"Did you do this thing to Vale?", Maria was asking, then in sudden, Zoe stopped walking.
"Ahahaha... Ahahaha... Ahahaha..", Zoe suddenly laughed in loud and uncontrollably.
"He... He's... He's not being pulled like you, like that! But what had done to him is kinda similar to what had happened to you years ago! Ahaha..", Zoe was laughing.
" You throw him to...", Maria almost finished her words but Zoe was continuing speaking.
"No! No! No! We didn't put him to that dam! We threw him to the Vined Swamp in the middle of mysterious forest in Forbidden Jungle.. ", said Zoe.
" That's can't be... How could you do that to him? He even never did a bad thing to you!", said Maria.
" He didn't but you know what?! He didn't die afterward! I couldn't't believe for myself... And he was not coming back with nothing, he came with his new power, the curse of that swamp made him to be a monster... He could turn himself to be vines...", Zoe was telling the story.
" It can't be...", Maria seemed like to figure something.
"And you know what? He didn't know that I am the one who asked my men to do that thing to him... So I tell him this... After you healed from your condition in the hospital, you tell your papa to capture him and throw him away to that forest! And what the surprised is, he fully believe that... Ahahaha..", Zoe was laughing so hard.
" You are not Zoe I've knew..", Maria was crying even more.
" Knowing you had left for Sunrefer, he get casted on and go to the sea... I'll tell you what, he wanna do revenged to you! Ahahaha... He promised me that he will bring you to me as present for how I care so much to him, even that's all are nothing but acts! Ahahaha... What a fool!!", Zoe really looked so weird that she was laughing while crying that much in her face.
"I will tell you the truth, Zoe! He is almost successful to do that! No, she actually did accomplished it! I've died because of him!..", said Maria in serious face.
" Huh!?!", Zoe stopped to laugh, she listened to Maria carefully now.
"And the truth is, I also had died when you put me into the water dam...", continued Maria.
" What the hell?! You're being nonsense! Are you lost your mind? Or am I had lost my mind to get to talk with ghost in human form? Ahaha..", Zoe didn't believe what Maria said.
" You are not losing your mind, Zoe! We still can fix it! And for me to be alive? It's some kind of miracles for me..", Maria tried to smile in her crying face that held the hurting of being pulled of her hands by the men.
"Stop talking nonsense! You damned!!", Zoe was being uncontrollable, she confused and went mad.
"Zoe!!", Maria shouted for Zoe.
"Shut up!! You said you will give me the happy time! You said you will support me in hard time! You said you will never take anything from me! But your words are all lies!!", Zoe pointed the knife toward Maria and then she started to run forward.
"Don't do it, Zoe!", Maria was shouting as Zoe was getting closer to stab the knife onto her.
At the critical time, Philip came out from the alley and kicked one of the men who held Maria. That man kicked away to the direction of Zoe, then he got stabbed by Zoe and he let away Maria's hand. He was down. And then Philip continued to attack the other man by smashed his arms that holding Maria's hand till he let her go. And after that Philip slammed him to the ground. He was down. Then Philip got closer to Maria as he was asking her condition.
"Are you alright?", asked Philip.
"Yeah, thank you... But how can you find me?", replied Maria with the question.
" I don't really get it but look! Your arms are hurting aren't you? Especially your hands!", Philip showed her hands that as red as Maria's hands.
"Are you hurting too?", Maria was crying again.
But suddenly Zoe continued to point her knife on Maria. Noticed it, Philip covered Maria's body with his as that made the knife stabbed on his back instead of her. After that he moved his body so that Zoe's hold on the knife got apart. Then he fell to the ground. Maria immediately came closer to him but suddenly she also felt somehow hurting on her back. Meanwhile Zoe was stunned there didn't believe with what happened.
"P-Phi-lip..", some words came out from Zoe's mouth in very little voice, even couldn't be heard actually.
In other place Philip was trying to pulled out the knife from his back, after that he threw that knife away.
"H-hei.. You're right, aren't you?", Maria asking Philip condition even though she also felt hurt for herself.
"Why you do it?", she continued to asked.
" It's... Okay, honey... I know you don't wanna hurt you best friend no matter what, I just can think this way to avoid to hurt her..", replied Philip.
" I'm sorry.. I'm sorry.. for my selfish acts... We will get you to the hospital..!", said Maria tp Philip then she looked over Zoe who just stood up there with did nothing but stunned.
"Zoe! Please! Please call ambulance! I left my phone at home! Please, Zoe! Please!!", Maria shouted to Zoe for helping her, but her pains felt even hurting by that acts.
"Zoeee..", she was hurting her self.
"I'm... I'm sorry.." said Zoe as she ran away, leaving them there.
"Wait! Wai-....iiitt!!", Maria was really hurting hes self.
" Stop it! You're hurting yourself! It's okay! I got my phone in my pocket..", said Philip as he took out his phone.
"That's... Not... What I want to...", said Maria as she started to cry again.
Suddenly Philip stunned, to realize what Maria mean by that words. Then he immediately embraced her in his arms.
"I'm sorry, I can't really understand you well... You're really good person, you have kind heart..", said Philip on his embracing to Maria, and he also began to cry as well.
"I think I understand now... Why she hate me that much? I'm the one who make her hate me... I took something from her... It's you, Philip... I took you from her..", said Maria that she realizing something.
"Me?! I even don't really know her back then..", replied Philip.
" But you said, you did always look after me even without me to realize it back then... That time, I think she noticed you... And started to liking you... But then we... We-... We left her there alone... It's my fault... It's my fault to change her, her kindness back then, to be like thi-...", Maria disappointed to herself but suddenly Philip held her face with his hands.
"H-hei! Maria! Honey! Listen up! It's not your fault! You're just being too kind, if there is someone who would be blamed on, that was me, I didn't know about her, I didn't notice her present that time..", said Philip.
" It's okay now, I think your kindness last time, had melted her corrupted heart... She said sorry, didn't she? She's also bursting in tears while she ran away... So it's okay, your kindness will surely turned her back to herself...", Philip tried to cheered Maria up.
" Hmm.. I hope so... Anyway, that was your fault that you are so senseless about her..", said Maria, seemed like she got calm down.
"Well, that's not really, I got my sense full of you that time, beside of my trainings of course..", Philip tried to teased her by that, and that made her smile a little bit.
"Hei, tell me, why don't you suit up when you help me?", asked Maria.
" I want to be my own self one who help you in any way, but back in that times are out of my limit, so I need that power for-...", Philip had not finished with his words but Maria's kiss silent his mouth.
*Back to the time of when Philip told story to Max, Rey, and Yui.
"So that Mastermind of Maria abducting is Zoe?", said Rey.
" You could say that..", answered Philip.
"Then, what happen to Yuki next?", Yui asked Philip to tell about Yuki.
" Emm... After she stayed there, in the Sunreferbeach hotel for one night and then go back to her village on the next day...", replied Philip to Yui.
" You seem to get interesting about your neighborhood's story, don't you?", said Rey to Yui.
" Well... At that moment, I'm still so young, but to hear about the story that told even a single young woman from my tribe could accomplish the mission to eliminate the huge sharplodon thing, make me so proud of her... But then now, I'm even amazed that she actually fight along side by side with the warrior of the sea that had been a legend story in my village..", explained Yui.
" But you too, had been fight along side with him, Yui!", said Max.
To hear about what Max said was making Philip laugh a little in his blushing face. And then followed by the others, they were all laughing.
"You are good team! That's a great battle! I think I-, no, I mean we, we can entrust the protection from smokers to you three... I think Max will also say something like that to you all... He have a good legacy here, that's you , Max, Maxtran Cloef! You have a similar name with him... Haha... And you Yui, you have the same pattern with her, except for your colour, you got reversed... Haha..", said Philip as he was laughing.
" Ahaha... Now that you mention it! Hei, Philip! Do you always fight together? I mean three of you, Max and Yuki?", asked Max to Philip.
" Well, we do fight in team of three, but... That's not include Yuki. As she left the Sunrefer, Maria and me moved to live in Maria's hometown, Fallen Sky city, this city! We seldom to meet Yuki again... I think she's still doing her job to protect the ocean..", explained to Philip.
" I think you are right about that! She left the village to over the sea since then..", added Yui.
"I see... Oh! Look at the time! It's almost dinner time! I need to go back! I don't wanna make Maria mad at me cause I deliver the dinner ingredients even later than this...", Philip stood up with his shopping bags.
"More importantly, I can less to worry about our job to protect this city, after we lost our power that day, now you all have been chosen to be the next warrior to protect the cities...", said Philip.
" You can count on us!!", said Max in his confidence.
" Today is the best day! I could once again to taste the power of deep ocean that I used to in the battles in the past times... Well, see you, guys!", Philip left away.
" He had left... What a hardboiled man..", said Yui.
" Well you can say that he really love Maria that he shared his real life times to her, then he even could try to understand her better... That's was cool..", said Rey.
"More importantly, did he say something about the other one who fight along side him and Max, I mean his friend Max,... How to make it not to awkward to say that name.." said Max.
" Oh! He didn't mention it, did he?", Rey noticed.
" Are you dump? He did mention her! He said she has almost same like me, maybe for the power, except for the colour, it's reversed... Maybe she has white color with pink decorations on it..", explained Yui.
" Similar in power, you mean your power of kindness?", responded Rey.
" But still he didn't mention her name after all, if he did maybe we could be met some day..", said Max.
" Oh! You're right I want to meet her someday!", said Yui in her spirit.
" Right! I also wanna meet Max too!", said Max in his determinedly.
Then as the sun fell and being switched with the moon, they three went home and continued their daily activities as usual, as the students of Fallen Sky University, and as the warrior of universe, Wind DA Kocan...
Fin.. XD
That's it for this story act..
Let me know if there some error of the writing..
Or you can ask me anything about the story..
It must be rather confusion that it ended up with some other characters in the last part..
But, the truth is, they three are the lead characters of the story, especially Max ( Maxtran Cloef ), he is the lead main character for the Wind DA Kocan series..
This is actually the story act 3..
The act 2 is the story before Philip told the story with they three..
And the act 1, still in comic type, but maybe I will convert it to this kind of short story..
Moreover, thank you for reading..
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