The Hybrid Fateful Sorrow

The Powerful Desire

Cleaning the cloudberries from the dirt was a bit more complicated than Amadeus thought as he sits on the chair with a retreating sigh.

Elise was returning from the garden as she saw Amadeus having a rest.

“Woah! Ex-knight, You have done it already?” Elise asks as she holds a flower in her hand.

“Yes, I like to complete my task as fast as I can, ” Amadeus said as he smiles proudly.

“I thought you needed my help, ” Elise said with a hint of disappointment.

Moving the chair to face Elise.

“Don't frown now. Hey look, I haven't cleaned the floorboard yet, ” Amadeus said as he pointed below.

“Why are you frowning more!” he added.

“It's not the same as helping you if I would do it by myself, ” Elise said.

Amadeus gulped after hearing it from Elise.

'She somehow has a point. This girl is smart!' Amadeus thought.

“Well I guess, I'm not doing it alone now if you accept, ” Amadeus said as he gave a slightly tense smile to Elise acknowledging her wits.

“You mean!” She said, widening her eyes.

“Yes, if you accept, you will be helping me, ” Amadeus said, standing from his rested chair.

'There as I stand, the first time I heard or have felt. It was short and just a hint of a sound. A steady, rhythmic heartbeat,' He thought, as he anxiously stands.

“What was that?” he unknowingly let out.

“What was what?” Elise asked as she raised her hands to his view.

Amadeus, looking at the flower on her hand, realizing he let out the words in his mind.

“This one? This is one of the new flowers I have found today. I had this before, but they are always short-lived, ” Elise said as she explained.

A closed unbloomed pale white flower, almost the same as white and size as The Nightingale flower. 

Known to only bloom once a year, once a night to only wilt before the sun rises slowly withering and dying.

“My father is the one who named it, he found it in one of his adventures. He said the name was meant for both of us, me and Amelia, ” Elise added.

“What kind of flower is that?” Amadeus asked as he gave it a good stare.

“It is called, The Princess of the Night, ” Elise said, smiling in the process.

“The Night-Blooming Princess, it's a very beautiful and rare flower. Large petals once it blooms, by its name it can only bloom at night the same as The Nightingale Flower. Although they are different, The Princess of the night flower despite being so beautiful can only show it once to a very fortunate someone, ” she continued to explain.

“Only once?” Amadeus asked as he wondered.

“Yes, as once it blooms at night it will be in the state of wilting before the sunrises, and withers around daylight, ” Elise replied.

“So basically, the flowers reborn at night and proceed to die in the morning?” Amadeus suddenly said.

Hearing that clearly, Elise's eyes once again frowned as she peeks below. Realizing the flower's lonely and short life span.

“I know, it's truly sad to be only seen once, ” Elise quietly uttered.

'Why did I just say that? Sometimes I forget I'm talking to a 10-year-old girl,' Amadeus thought as he extends his lips sideways, making up a nervous smile.

“Elise, sometimes… we want something in our life to stay beautiful and it's the flower way of remaining beautiful in our eyes, ” Amadeus slowly explained.

“You think?” she quietly uttered.

Amadeus knelt closer at her front, gently tapping her head.

“Yes, I think so. What do you think you'll remember the most? The plain unbloomed, closed, or withered Night-blooming flower? Or a lifetime beautiful Princess of the Night Flower etched in our memories,” he continued to explain.

“You are right! I can easily remember its beauty, ” Elise said, returning to her joyful face.

He continues to gently tap her head, giving her a warm smile.

“Thank you, Ex-knight, ” she said, returning him a smile.

A sound of the heart beating was once again heard. He wondered his gaze around the house searching for it.

'What was that?' He thought as he put his palm to his chest.

'No, no. It's not mine! A slower and calmer beating. It's not my heart as I can clearly feel mine now, it's slowly racing,' he anxiously thought.

'I fear something!' In his mind, as he slowly looks back at Elise.

'I was right! God damn it.'

“Elise!” Amadeus said as he stared at her chest.

“Ex-knight?? What's wrong? Your eyes!” Elise asked.

Amadeus stands silently as if he wasn't hearing anything, except that continuous sound of a steady heartbeat.

“What happened to your eyes? Ex-knight?” she continued asking.

“Eyes?” Amadeus asked upon hearing her.

“Yes!”

There it was an eye of a beast, encircled by a glaring red tone rotating on his fading blue eyes. It was a vermillion red eyes, appearing in front of Elise.

“Are you sick? Ex-knight?” Sounding care of voice was heard from Elise, not showing a slight of fear to his red ember eyes.

'Yes! I'm deeply sick! As I can f*cking see your beating heart!!' Amadeus's mind as he watches Elise.

His vision slipped through her body, invading her skin. Seeing Elise's beating heart of kindness.

In front of him is Elise's heart, beating nakedly in his beastly eyes, watching the blood being pushed as it flows through all her veins.

'What happened to me?' Amadeus thought, asking himself.

'You have resisted me for so long!' A voice in his head.

“No, get away!” Amadeus shouted.

“Ex-knight?” a worrying sound of Elise.

“I'm sorry Elise, but it's not you, ” he said, attempting to calm her.

'You are just making it hard for yourself, you will lose control!' A voice in Amadeus's head.

'Why don't you leave me alone!?' Amadeus thought.

'You are mine, and I am yours. You can feel it in your veins, blood, and in your taste. Whatever I feel, I feel yours.'

'We are one, Galiet!' A voice in his head.

'No, no! Haha, we are not! No!' He thought as he pounced himself on his head.

“What are you doing Ex-knight!? Please stop!” Elise worryingly begged.

Looking at Elise, seeing her misty-green-eyed. 

Amadeus is still on his beastly red-eye, as he squinted his eye hard, blinking it furiously.

He successfully ended the vision, losing the sight of Elise's heart, with his blue eyes back, he hastily stands.

'You got your eyes back, still fighting Galiet!' A mad voice in his head.

“Elise, I need you to listen very carefully!” Amadeus said.

“What is it? Ex-knight, ” she said, giving all her focus to Amadeus.

“I need you to stay in here!” Amadeus ordered.

“Why? And you are sweating a lot! You don't feel well, I knew it, ” Elise said distressingly.

“Elise! Please listen to me! I just need you to stay in here! I can't, I can't hold it anymore, ” Amadeus said as he stands by the door.

“Ex-knight! Don't leave!” she yelled.

“I'm sorry, Elise. But I'm heavily ill, I'm sick!” 

“Promise me, you'll stay here until your sister returns, ” he said as he left and shut the door after him.

“Ex-knight…”

Hastily running away from their home, away from her and from any people he decides to go straight into the forest.

A young man was flouncing towards him.

“Hey!” Bran yelled.

“Slow down! We need to talk!” Bran added.

'Ahh, I remember his smell, the one who got away. You let him get away, to live. Should we finish him now? Ha! Galiet!' 

“Hey stop! Talk to me—” Bran said as he tried to block Amadeus only to be greatly pushed back as he fell to the ground.

“There is something wrong with you! You and Amelia! I'll find it out! Trust me!” Bran yelled as he sat on the ground.

Amadeus completely ignores his presence, and he continuously moves, entering the forest.

'Where are you going, Galiet? Afraid of what people might see? Are you a fool? You are powerful! They should be the ones to be afraid!'

'You know I can read your thoughts right? Why do you keep on suppressing me?' A voice in his head.

“I am you? Right? I'm powerful? Then I'll f*cking suppressed your whole existence!” Amadeus yelled.

'Are you forgetting something? I am your f*ck up desire! I am more powerful than your false control! I am what you wanted! Your wish! You crave for me! I am your uncontrollable impulse! You hear me?' A madly voice in his head.

“I am your desire! I am something you really wanted to become!” 

“Stop contaminating my head!” He loudly pleads.

'Sooner or later, you will accept me. Only then you will have the control you really want,' a voice in his head.

“If I give it up, you'll win!” Amadeus said.

'That's it, you say that we are one but you don't believe it, you still think I'm different… but I am not,' a voice in his head.

Amadeus stopped moving as he stood confusingly in the forest.

'That is why you would choose it on your own!' A voice in his head.

“Choose what?” Amadeus asked.

'Becoming me, us.'

“I'm not!”

'Really?'

“I don't want them to get hurt! I don't, I won't let you!” Amadeus said.

“FATHER!!!” Amelia's voice yelling through the woods.

'How about now?' A voice in his head.

“What was that?” Amadeus asked, bewildered by the voice of Amelia.

“Is she nearby? She can't see me right now!” Amadeus said.

'Oh, but she will, as if you haven't noticed in her voice, she's in danger.'

“No! This is you! This is some kind of trick. It's all just in my head!” He yelled.

'You really think so? Well then have it your way.'

Amadeus with his eyes circling the forest, doubting himself every minute as he recollects Amelia's voice.

“FATHER!!!”

“Amelia? Where are you!?” Amadeus yelled in the woods as he wandered around?

'Where are you? Where are you?' Amelia's voice in Amadeus's head?

“AMELIA!!”

'Hahaha!' A man's voice in his head.

“You know what's stronger than desire? Galiet? You will now learn! You will get what you wanted! The control!” Amadeus let out the words loudly in the air.

'It's love,' Amadeus thought.

He glanced at his hand, the hand that the two sisters held when he was in a nightmare. The warmth that saved him.

'I can still feel it!' Amadeus thought.

“Yeah! Me too, Galiet! I know how you and I feel, ” he said proudly.

'It is stronger than desire itself,' Amadeus thought.

“Trust yourself by doing that, we will have each other. If you truly love them both, you will never hurt them, ” He said decently.

'Believe in yourself for once!' A voice in Amadeus's head.

Amadeus's hands are breaking. His fingers extending. A vast gray of fur is growing. His back bending inward as he howls from the pain. His size uncontrollably increasing. The human skin is shedding, changing into a thicker hide.

Amadeus's blue eyes were coated by everlasting currents of vermillion red eyes.

Crying out loud in the darkening place.

“Damn. You!”

“Damn. Us!”

The Godly Wolfvir has appeared!