#88 WITH SWORD AND FIRE
Jonas left her there laying on the ground and came to Sebastian. The boy was shocked. He wasn't able to move or to speak. He was sure that Mia was already dead, because she was laying there like a doll. Her hand was one bloody thing, her leg was bend in an unnatural way and her chest didn't move.
-So, Julian – said Jonas and looked Sebastian into the eyes. – I hope we will see us soon. It would be a pleasure for me.
Then Jonas left surprisingly the room. Sebastian stood up and jumped over to Mia. His hands were tied, but he managed to check her pulse. It was still there. It was very weak, but it was there. He couldn't even whisper anything. A voice in his head ordered him to talk to her: “Never give up on anything; you always have something to fight for”. He spoke it out loud, and kept repeating it like a mantra.
-Mia, never give up on anything, you always have something to fight for. Fight for me, fight for Julian.
He took her into his arms and with this sleeves, he cleaned the blood from her face. He was losing her. He felt her life was going to end. She got weaker and weaker and she got colder and colder. Her dress was full of blood and slowly it became more red than silver.
Her eyes were closed and her heart beat slower and slower.
-Mia, you can’t go away. You can’t leave me alone here. Timeless, Mia, life is no life without you. Please, stay. Timeless.
Sebastian didn't know what he was talking about, something inside of him spoke through his soul and forced him to speak foreign words.
In this moment, the door opened so rapidly that a wave of cold air came into the room. It was Jonas again. He stood over Sebastian, looking at him angrily:
-What did you say?! – Jonas screamed so loud that even the walls trembled a bit.
Sebastian didn't look at the enemy and kept Mia even more tightly in his arms.
-You heard what I said. I won’t repeat it for you.
Jonas was furious. He wanted to slap Sebastian, but in this moment too many things happened at once. Sebastian wasn't able to perceive all of them.
As Jonas yelled at Sebastian and raised his hand to hit him, Julian showed up in the door. He was mad, he was furious and he jumped so hastily at Jonas that Jonas was pushed away and smashed against the opposite wall. Some stones fell down.
When Jonas realised who attacked him, he starred at Julian and smiled. Julian looked shortly at Mia and Sebastian and saw the disaster. However, now wasn't the time to lose his focus. He released Sebastian from his ties and ordered him to take Mia out of the room. Sebastian stood up, took Mia's body and was gone.
Now there were only two enemies in the room.
Jonas was shocked.
-How did you find me? – He stunned.
Julian’s face wasn't showing any emotion. His eyes were burning, he was burning inside, but outside he remained calm.
-You omitted that she will give me a message.
Jonas was ironically smiling at him and showed his teeth like wild animals do when they want to scare the rival. Julian was facing him. Jonas was observing him very watchfully, and stepped slowly aside.
-What did I miss? You can’t read her mind, and the other human didn't know anything. Explain it to me, how did it work?
-She gave me a simple message. Never underestimate anybody, not even a human.
Jonas was surprised; he couldn't believe he had missed something. His plan was perfect. He wanted to make Julian mad and he managed it. They should have met later in another place. Everything was already prepared. Jonas hated improvisations.
Julian was here. He was angry and his fury made it impossible to evaluate him. Jonas wanted to hear from Mia if Julian had the special skills, that were named in the prediction. It could validate the prophecy or prove that it wasn't true.
-Are you the one, Julian? Is it worth to kill you? – Jonas asked and smiled politely.
There was no sarcasm in his voice. He was serious about it. He was talking with somebody who was more or less equal to him.
Julian remained emotionless. He didn't answer the question. Then at the same time the room was filled with black and sapphire-like light. You couldn't see anything else than these lights. When the energies crossed, the reaction was like on a circuit of an enormous scale. There was energy fighting with itself. The energy wasn't now just in the room, but spread and filled other rooms as well. The black-sapphire light was everywhere and accomplished the whole house and every single with room.
Sebastian wanted to leave this house. He was trying to open the door handle when he saw the wave of black-sapphire light coming closer to him. In the last second he managed to open the door, but he stumbled and lost Mia. He was laying on the ground and skidded aside. Mia was laying directly in the doorway and then the black-sapphire light came through the door and covered Mia. Sebastian didn't see her anymore. It was too late to get her out of this light.Sebastian tried to jump into this light cloud, but it was impossible. He got some stitches as if he would get a light electric shock.
Then the house started trembling and instinctively Sebastian jumped aside searching for cover below the trees. While he was sliding towards the roots of the trees, he was still looking for Mia. But he still couldn't see her. Then the earthquake came and the trees, the ground and the entire surrounding started to shake. Sebastian hid himself behind trees and in this moment there was an explosion.
A white cloud of energy came out of nowhere, smashed the black light, as well as the sapphire light.
It looked like an atomic disintegration. Everything was so bright that Sebastian couldn't see anything. The white light dazzled him so much that he put his head down on the grass and sand. It was a furious energy, set free by this explosion. A second later, it was so hot around that Sebastian couldn't breathe, because the air was biting his throat. It was like during a fire: he had to breathe the tongues of fire. The air was burning hot. His clothes and hair got slightly burned by this explosion as well.
Slowly ashes and pieces from the house started to rain down and Sebastian was hit by some wooden parts and stones falling down from above. He didn't care about it. He tried to go back to where the house stood only a few minutes ago, and all he could see was a chaos. There was no house and no trace of Mia and Julian nor the guy who kidnapped him. Sebastian shook his head, while standing there with the mouth open and very confused. The he ran back to the stone piles and wooden pieces, that were laying around and started to dig and to look for his friends. But the stones were too heavy and the woods hurt his hands. He didn't give up and kept trying to find a trace of Mia or Julian.
He was sure that this situation couldn't come any weirder, when he saw three beings wearing white tunics. They raised from the ashes. They looked like angels. The first of them was male and was a little older than Julian was, with blond hair and green eyes. His face was beautiful and symmetrical. He was carrying the body of Julian. The second one of them was a female and she had blond hair, too. She looked like a goddess. The third one was an older male and he carried the body of Mia.
If they had wings, Sebastian would have sworn he saw angels. They were stepping out of the disaster cloud with sad faces. Their tunics were long and white. Calmness beamed from them. The first one put down the body of Julian onto the grass and shook his head disapprovingly. The other male lied down the body of Mia next to Julian’s corpse and the woman looked at Sebastian. Sebastian was sure he was dreaming. It was all just a bad dream with a quite surprising end. He waited to wake up with a bitter feeling inside of him.
The woman smiled friendly and then she spread her hands. The other two beings did the same and rays of light in three different colours came from their hands: a green one, a blue one and a grey one. The blue one wasn't the same like the sapphire-like coloured light before. It was deep blue with some different tinge. The lights connected and melted into one, becoming one white stream of light, that was aimed at Julian. Nothing happened. Julian was laying on the grass like a fallen m
onument.
At the same time Mia breathed in air and coughed as if something got stuck in her throat. She opened her eyes and reached with her smashed hand to her neck. The old man came closer to her, bowed over her and whispered something to her. He caught her hands covering them with his. He was still whispering something, but Sebastian couldn't understand what he was saying.
It took a while before the old man stepped back from Mia. At the same time the light from hands of the beautiful strangers didn't stop to flow into Julian.
Mia stood up slowly, with difficulty. Her dress was still silver-red, but in the light of the strangers, it was shining glamorous and cute. Sebastian noticed that Mia was very weak, but she looked at Julian’s body and stepped closer to him. She didn't make steps; she was almost crawling to him. She sat next to him and touched his chest.
Sebastian encouraged himself to go closer to Mia and sat down next to her. The strangers were watching them. She shook her head and tears were running down her cheeks. One of her hands was looking normal, but she herself as one made a crushed impression. She bowed down to Julian’s body and laid her head on his chest.
-Mia, what do you feel? – asked the old angel.
Mia didn’t even look at him. After he repeated his question a couple of times, she reacted finally:
-Nothing. I feel nothing.
The old man mumbled something; it was directed to his companions. Then the beautiful woman laid her hand on Sebastian’s shoulder and spoke:
-Mia, Sebastian, we have to go.
Sebastian stood up, but Mia didn't move. She was still bent over Julian’s body as if she didn't hear what was said. The three strangers were looking at her with sadness in their eyes. The old man came to her and when he touched her, she stood up slowly. He took her aside and whispered:
-Mia, you have to rest.
Mia smiled wryly. There was no hope. Julian was gone. She was still alive, and it was all her fault. She was caught in the middle between life and death.
-Mia, we will see us later.
The old man smiled sadly. He looked at her damaged hand, at her wounds, at her emotionless face. Mia nodded without being convinced. In the meanwhile, the other male took Julian’s body into his arms and it the next second they were gone.
Sebastian didn’t see how they disappeared into the air. He concentrated himself at Mia who was standing next to him. His Mia was damaged. His Mia was Julian’s Mia as well. Julian was gone.
Sebastian tried to follow the stream of his thoughts and everything seemed to be complicated and screwed up.
The old man took Mia’s hand and then he took Sebastian’s hand. The whole world twisted around.