Sel, hand on his chin looked at the guy before him, snot dribbling down his oily face as tears choked his pleas for mercy. Next to him was a corpse, still gurgling with blood gushing out yet in the entire hall nobody dared to look at her.
" How did it come to this?" Sel thought as he moved his hand slightly. A faint sound swept past the hall before the hair behind the pleading man's face fell off in a clean line.
The man suddenly stopped talking, his eyes going wide before slowly leaning forward, his head toppling, following the woman before him.Sel then stood up, almost everybody gulped as their eyes escorted him outside the hallway.
He marched forward till he got to the castle balcony, he tested his arms on the bar and took a good look at his kingdom's capital.
' In fifteen years of peace you've already forgotten everything I did for you...', he watched as the citizens marched along the streets led by his own son, right at the castle gates shouting at the top of their lungs, demanding for a change in power.
" For my kingdom, my soldiers bled as we fought against the other demon lord's to protect you, I won against the humans and drove them from our lands."
He took a step back, a dark aura enveloping him before he disappeared and reappeared atop a cliff, where the gigantic body of a griffin lay, a dark red sword still resting in it's heart.
" Old friend, if you knew the people who you took the miasma along with your entire race for did this to you, asking for your family's corpses to make weapons..."
He gently stroked the beast's head which hadn't rotted yet, unlike the field of similar looking bones behind it.
" The very last griffin alive, and the strongest still lays, you're still fighting in there aren't you? Acting like a warden to the dark power you took aren't you?"
He moved away from the creature and towards a grave made of stone. Inside lay a knight, holding his sword with the hilt facing upwards, around him in a circle were similar knight suits.
" My gatekeepers,my most trusted knights, Leo, if you were here now, what would you do?"
He'd said these words looking up at the graves which were upright before dropping slowly to his knees and knowtowing.
" Forgive me old friends... I failed you all."
He then slowly raised his head at the sound of footprints behind him.
" That goes the same for you too,... Rita...
... .... ....
" Why would you say that?" Asked the woman behind him.Sel remained on the ground, fighting tears as he looked at her, she still looked the same after all this time.
A stunning beauty that could topple the heavens, the eyes that were once filled with warmth stared at him the same way as they did decades before, the same smile that could melt one's heart was still there, and the scar that closed the wound that took her life was still there as well, the very wound he caused on her.
"Please... don't be nice to me..."he said reaching out his hand then pulling it back.
" I don't blame you," the undead lady sighed as she shook her head before stepping towards him.
"It's my fault that I fell in love with you, even if I can't be accepted anywhere in this world, as long as you're still here from time to time, it's ...."
" How long..."
She stopped talking, the murkiness behind her eyes couldn't be hidden.
" That... sigh this is the last time my soul can hold on, it's burned up." She said before smiling and looking at him," but like I said before its alright with me I have no..."
She stopped, her eyes seemed to shake a bit before she squeezed out a smile, " guess I had it wrong,it seems mi soul held up so it could see you one last time." She said before leaning into his body and wrapping her arms around him and looking up at his face.
" Could you at least dance with me then?" No emotions could be read on his face as he wordlessly nodded and began moving around, magic flowing from him causing musical notes to be played, brightening the lady's face lights like fireflies started dancing around them, in the dark gravey, with them at the center this scene was even more dazzling for some reason.
When they finally stopped, she looked deeply at him before leaning upwards towards his face and planting a kiss on his lips. They were cold.
" Sorry." She mouthed as her body slowly disintegrated like dust in the wind leaving behind only the dress the wore on the day of her death, her soul burned away by time.
" Rita... "He whispered as his head drooped, his eyes covered by his bangs."