*Present day, Maze of Onyx*
Every corridor leads to another, it's fate that this maze was without any exception twinned into,
But there, in one opaque but wide-lighted barred corridor of Onyx where no ray of hope surpassed those gleaming universal Onyx walls,
That boy who was supposed to be born a normal kid living his life sleeping and dismissing all nuisance from his life, stood with his naked upper body, half inundated into the water til' abdominal in that raven hue pool-like configuration almost as large as the cafeteria of the school
'Inhale
exhale...inhale
exhale...'
*Huff! * and he emerged his whole thin self into that crystal clear water,
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'There is so peace'
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'Eternal peace
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'We live in a chaotic world where nothing makes much sense until one day you started to understand the connection and then- *Explode*
There will be nothing the same as before '
*a few moments before, the center of Maze of Onyx*
Three shadows spread large to the black-tiled ground,
*Tap tap tap*
"Oh, who is it? Who is it? Isn't this my long-desired big brother? " the lady with the jet-black hair sliding through her shoulder, smiled rising from her floating throne at the center of this big opening of the corridor which was common to rest five corridors too, a common passway in the center of the labyrinth,
"Eh...you are my sister? " ooze asked looking with those heavy eyes that show how urgent he was to sleep after walking half of this maze, at the marvel that recites in the center, almost as baffled as if he was still in a dream or any movie where the siblings lost a decade ago met unexpectedly,
"Our sister! " the winged brother who was strolling beside him, bowed artistically spreading his cinder-shaded wings to any extent onto the flooring like a frilled gown of Cinderella has been spread, "Supreme sister, lady Demi! "
so abruptly that enthusiasm was, the Big B (brother) hops to the opposite side in a reflex,
But, someone strains their ankle in the act,
"Ah, Ah...Ah!"
Only to fall into the goddess who was also presenting the crusty in the most elegance on the right of the sleepy head, thinking 'What odd can happen now? '
"Greeting m'--"
"Ahhhh!!!( I don't want to fall, I don't wannnnnaaaaaa!!!!!) "
"Eh.... (great, where did the odds have to come from???? )"
And,
*Bang*
But, the good thing was no one fell to the ground at least! However,
"Are you alright, soulmate? " the goddess asked in her thin soft voice with those thin but strong hands of hers wrapped around the dumbstruck boy and her head filled with golden hairs sitting on her chest, right above the sternum where below his heart lies, hammering like a horsepower engine, and his head was already in the seventh of heavens-
'She smells like lavender... But why am I even thinking about that?!'
But still, his hands were held around her, body-to-body compressed, and eyes widely looking into the blank void of thinking to do any action but like his body won't take any command from him anymore or do I say... He was too mesmerized to let go...
This sensation that was rising from his abdomen like butterflies flying in his body, wasn't it like K-dramas?
"Ahem, brother? " the sister interrupted with her amusing coughing, that the goddess hurriedly with an emergency expression, sipped away her hands off the dazzled sleepyhead whose sleep of a century was puffed by one single hug, and stood straight like an attention soldier facing the lady,
But... *Badump Badump*
He touched his chest above his heart gazing at the flooring- 'Why my heart is still beating so profoundly?!'
"Brother... Brother... Brother ooze... "
"Yes," Finally he looked away from the floor and glanced at the sister, who was smirking at him, but, he was still a little lost in his fantasy of lavender flowers and a beating heart,
"you must have already met this beauty, She is my lady in waiting, Soi, the enchantress"
Abruptly, falling from the fantasy his expression turned to distressed-
"Wait, she told her name to be Crinhi! "
"Ha! That's true she can be Crinhi, Soi, or... any form you desires to birth or exist"
A puzzlement drew over his face, the situation has already turned to the extent where he couldn't get the meaning, that he turned her face to his right- where his golden-haired soulmate was standing-
"Hi... Ooze..."
And now, a lass who had long hip length lavender - black hairs with eyes as crystalline as marble balls and pointed pinna of ears looked at him through her hued hairs with uncertainty gleaming through her alienated face,
That he took a step back with an elevated feeling of awe and terror,
'The Greek goddess turned into an alien girl?! '
But, 'damn, my ankle! '
And he falls to the floor dragging himself away from that girl who tried to plunge her hand to stop him from falling but he just shook off,
"What? What is happening here? Where is Martha?where's mom?! And why did you disguise yourself to bring me here?! "
But, she shifted her face away in grief without any answer, and the supreme sister declared-
"This is all happening for Martha! "
*Present day, Community hall*
"Sir, what are you doing?! "
"Sir?! "
*Grits teeth*
The old principal whose bones were deprived of calcium was pushing himself to the extent of unlimited by trying to drag the heavy metal door which was half injured by the kick of the goddess's doppelganger,
"*cough* Sir... Please! " the queen spoke out almost on the verge of tears and held the door to another side so that it won't crush the old man beneath this, but the old man stubbornly like an ox, without any utterance of words through those lips, keeps on dragging the metal door to the left most corner through the dazed crowd who were convinced - 'This old man has lost his wits '
"Nuff...water... water..." The boy with the form coming out of his mouth finally gains consciousness from his semi-coma state with acute paralysis,
"Bring water! Some dumbass do it now! " the only nurse close to a medical facility in the room or for this whole school, Mrs. Pen who was in her late 50s, screamed with her shrilly tone,
"Mam here..."
The King passed the water bottle with those hesitated shaken hands and that pale face, passing the last of all the water which was stored in that bottle, that was required for their survival but...one person is almost back to life from a panic attack, that's serious, isn't it?
"You are going to be alright" he smiled forcefully at the dizzy boy giving him hope, although knowing possibly soon all of them will be lying dead under this roof only!
But that hope was all, as that boy smile back even in such a critical stage finding some courage to fight the inevitable!
Abruptly,
*Bang* *Bang*
Everyone bends to the ground in reaction to such a loud voice as if something either exploded or something heavy collapsed to the ground, that a strong vibration lend through their feet to head-
"What was it? What was that NOISE?! " the king jump up from comforting to the triggered adrenaline flight or fight mode,
'Did it come already? The end?! '
as he was on his feet now looking like a hawk in the direction of the sound, expecting a crack or so penetrate through the wall but, it was the broken metal door that, was now set to left most end where the curtain had now rest fallen,
The door was maintained slanting on the light-shaded wall and ones who had stood that hefty thing, two familiar people were dribbling with sweat and breath rushing in and out in the shortest of intervals,
"Huff... Ha...we did... did...huff" the girl with thick purple hair who held her knees by her hand, whose vertebral column was displayed like one of a skeletal from her black crop top, commented with a gleam on her face wiping her sweat off her forehead that was dribbling downwards like a narrow river from a glacier,
'Wait, is it---' abruptly, alarmed,
"Lena?.... LENA! " he cried almost unrealistically at the topmost note of his lungs and hastened through the crouched crowd, like a bolt of thunder,
'Is it you...my king? ' hearing the voice of someone friendly, her racing heart calm down a bit as she tilted her chin to the origin of the voice, to the blurry end that due to extensive exercise, the vision or hearing has got a little too blurred but... Still-
A smile rises to her lips that was open for letting additional air into her lungs,
'I know it's you '
And- he wrapped his hands around the unstable figure of the girl and took her into his shivering but strengthened embrace-
"You silly girl, Are you planning to exhaust yourself to death! "
"Just a...huff...little exercise...won't kill a state lev. basketball... player" she replied amusingly but he was jolted and tightened like a magnet stuck to the iron, eyes filled with tears either out of terror of losing her or dying without her...
" I love you, Lena" he whispered under his breath almost like the wind but she knew how real it was that her eyeballs were almost ready to jump off from his eye sockets and her cheeks hurt as if they were burning with intense heat- of his beating heart or his words... Who knows?!
"I love you...teren" she confessed raising her head to look into his deep blue eyes,
Although they were something called bf-gf still not until today, on such a catastrophic day they have become official lovers... Who is deemed to live forever---
"The key to the 3- H find me the land where Caduceus belongs! " and the old principal punched his old copper-shaded key into the keyhole of that broken door!