Galen - The Untold Tales of Frelanna Forest

Chap 45: The salvation of Cirion

“Servant of Almighty Mother, please do not waste your time to convince me anymore. My decision has been settled and I’ll stay here, with my brother Azeas.”

When Galen calmed down himself and judged by Cirion’s current look right now. Half-burnt and torn clothes, his laurel crown was withered, even the Fareins flying around him had been dead… Could it be… It was how Cirion looked like before he was killed?

Despite the pain kept torturing Galen’s nerve as Cirion didn’t stop stepping on his back, he still tried to breath stably. Each of his breath was one word of his speech.

“Cirion… Father of Fareins…” Galen said while getting his breath and endured the pain “…you cannot stay here… Human at the world outside… they are needing you to save them. Your sister… Sephylim… is killing them.”

“There is a reason why I strictly never change my mind, Servant of Almighty Mother. You are human too, so of course, you will understand the suffer, the agony, the hatred and the depression that we guardians had to overcome.

It was because of the human’s greed. Their arrogance to surpass the Goddess have vanished you all. You destroyed our home, destroyed Frelanna Forest, polluted the environment of our land and killed all of us, even Almighty Mother. This such unforgivable act of you humans deserve to be paid back by the anger of my little sister Sephylim. So the world outside can be as clean as before.”

“No… You… are… wrong…!” Galen grinned his tooth and yelled back to Cirion “Not all humans are bad at all! Beside people who destroyed the forest, there are humans who are trying to protect it as well. And I’m included… Cough!”

Galen didn’t finish his speech, the dead Fareins flying around Cirion had already covered his sight. It can’t be… Galen suddenly thought about the most scary thing would happen to him. As he remembered, Fareins were the specie who could control the flow of aura. if Cirion was ordering them to suck Galen’s aura alive, his life force would also be threatened!

“I’m very sorry. I really don’t want to hurt you at all…” Cirion said with sad face. He lifted his feet from Galen, avoided his face at another direction and let the dead Fareins do their job as his order “If you are still stubborn, I won’t have the other choice than to kill you.”

Galen used his little strength to fight back. He rolled his body, trying to grab the dead Fareins sticking on his body and threw them away. But currently, after using all of the aura energy, he was too weak to the point that he could barely threw away those Fareins anymore. They were absorbing his stamina, his strength as well so he didn’t have the chance to fight back. Slowly, a comfortable sleepy feeling came to Galen. That feeling pushed him down on the stone floor and shut down his consciousness.

Among the three guardians of Frelanna Forest, Cirion was the one who killed the enemies with most gentle way since he never wanted to witness the bloodshed death. Even with the hatred, the desire to revenge was burning deep inside his heart, Cirion was still came close to Galen and touched his silver hair.

“To you, miserable being…” Cirion kneeled down beside Galen and began speaking his praying, which was the last phase to finish a specie’s life “…your life have been through countless of hardships while getting back nothing. So now, I’ll grant you the wish that you have always dreamed: Return to where Almighty Mother came from…”

Just right the moment Cirion was about to finish his pray, suddenly, there was the uninvited guest that he didn’t expect to come…

“Kiuuhh!! Kiiuuhhh!!!”

It was Mira. She was following the trace of Frank to find Galen here and stop Cirion.

She didn’t know what to do, even not know how to fight. So that baby draco having the size of a human’s hand kept roaring and flew around to disturb him. Not only that, she even tried to use her magic, which was actually useless bubbles…

Of course, everything she was trying to do didn’t harm anything on Cirion. Since Cirion had become a ghost, so Mira kept flying and blew the bubbles through his body.

But, Mira’s effort had successfully distracted Cirion.

“Oh?”

With curiosity, Cirion looked at his uninvited guest - which was a baby water element draco. For a reason, he was patiently listening to what Mira was saying although it was just some “kiuh kiuh” noise coming from her mouth.

“I think I have known you somewhere before, right? You really look like her…”

“Kiuh?”

Mira showed her confused face, while Cirion trying to reach his hand to Mira. But then, his face revealed the disappointment as his hand passed through Mira. Yes, he is already dead… Cirion ironically smirked. As the guardian of intelligence, he never thought that one day he even forgot that he wasn’t alive anymore.

“Oh uhm, let’s back to the main topic.” Being lost in the thought for a moment upon seeing Mira, Cirion coughed and turned back to serious mode “Little girl, you are saying that Galen isn’t a bad human, right?”

“Kiuh!! Kiuh!!”

Mira nodded her head with agreement. She then flew to Galen who was sleeping and bravely used her tiny body to cover him. Her dragon eyes revealed the anger to Cirion, with hidden meaning ‘if you dare to touch my master, I won’t forgive you.”

Around Cirion, the dead Fareins were being in the confused state as well, as they didn’t know what to do. Their eyes looked at Cirion, waiting for his next order.

Mira’s body went trembling and hid her face on Galen’s hair, as she saw Cirion slowly approached her.

***

“GALEN!!! ARE YOU OKAY??!!!”

Liana, Frank and Roman had eventually arrived to the central dome inside Azeas’s heart. They were ready for the fighting stance to save him. But then, they had witnessed a rare scenery could ever happen inside this world of darkness.

In front of their eyes, Galen was lying on the floor, immobilized and was being protected by Mira. Next to him, Cirion was patting Mira’s head with a warm smile.

“I have always been thinking that the world outside had eliminated all of us already. But I never expect that I would meet a fellow coming from same as my homeland, being alive…

Please don’t be scared, little girl. We are family, I will never hurt you at all, I promise.”

After calming down Mira, it was Cirion’s turn to notice the presence of the other guests. Upon returning back to human form, both Liana and Roman were stunned by how majestic his look was, except Frank. He flew to Cirion slowly, while mumbling in tears…

“Ah… ah…” Frank was emotional that he couldn’t speak properly “Fa… Father… Is that you?”

Cirion didn’t say anything. His hands gently received Frank flying to him. Upon Frank flying to Cirion’s hands, the entire of Cirion’s body trembled in shock. For a reason… he never thought that he could experience again the feeling to cherish an alive Farein…

“Uwahhh!!! Father!!! Finally I have met you!!!”

“Yes, it’s me, Cirion The Father of Fareins… Oh my Almighty Mother, I thought that all my children had been killed by humans. But look at you, still alive safe and sound… even took a visit to this dead old man in this such dark place.” Cirion gently rubbed the tiny body of Frank to ease his cry. On his beautiful face, always revealed his smile of happiness.

During this emotional reunion, a miracle happened. All of the dead Fareins flying around Cirion had changed their color, from the black of darkness, they had turned colorful like the flowers. The Fareins had been resurrected, as the heart of Cirion had been purified without any hatred, sadness and depression anymore.

***

That was how the tense between Cirion and Galen’s side had been chilled down. Upon seeing Mira and Frank, Cirion had already been in peace and he was ready to give back the aura energy to Galen to heal him back.

“I don’t care about the survivability of the world outside. But once I know that Frank was still alive thanks to you, Servant of Almighty Mother. I think I have been in infinite debt on you.

So I really thank you so much, for saving my child…”

Seeing a legendary guardian like Cirion saying thanks to Galen while bowing himself down, Gane panicky waved his hands.

“Sir Cirion, please don’t do that. After all the one who saved Frank back then was my mother.” Galen said, while rubbing Mira inside his hug “Frank also was the one who had been taking care of me since my childhood until now so I really appreciate how he treated me. and grew me up.”

“Yes Father.” Frank jumped from Cirion’s hand and flew to Galen, sit on his shoulder “I was having a good life with Galen. He might be a spoiled, weak kid. But he had a very warm heart and always used his best for the sake of his friends, even me too. I have been having a very happy life, safe and sound with him.”

“I understand. I think that I have blamed the wrong person.” Cirion smiled as he could feel how sparkly Frank’s eyes were when talking about Galen “So I’m very sorry, Servant of Almighty Mother.”

“It was nothing, also from now on. You can call me Galen, I’m not actually the Servant of Goddess Galadriel at all either.”

“Then how can you explain to me about The Seed of Galadriel inlaid inside your heart?”

“Ah… Everything is like this…”

Everyone was sitting as the circle and listened Galen telling everything about the origin of Galadriel’s Seed in his chest. It was the story of Goddess Galadriel being appeared and gave Galen this life mission: He had to stop Sephylim, by resurrecting and gathering other two guardians of Frelanna Forest. Cirion was one of the guardians and as the order of the goddess, Galen had to revive him, gather him as his ally.

“I see… So you have come here as the order of Almighty Mother.” Cirion closed his eyes and was thinking.

“Actually, I wouldn’t be able to come here either if we couldn’t meet Felica Hartridge - my aunt.” Galen responded.

“Felica Hartridge… Your aunt… It means you are also a member of House Hartridge?”

“Sir Cirion, you know the family of House Hartridge??” Liana was surprised as well “I thought that it was Azeas your brother brought your core there after you were killed by humans?”

“I can tell everyone the truth of the story. But I just want to warn you first: After hearing the truth, you have the right to hate me, or even kill me, especially you Galen.”

“Wait, how can it be?” Everyone was shocked when hearing what Cirion said earlier.

“Because… Azeas wasn’t the only one who have signed the contract to apply the curse to House Hatridges members.

I was included too. It was me who was the cause of everything…”