The Legend of the Midnight Lily

[Frost]

Warning: This story may contain material not suitable for children under 15. If you do not like the topics of death, suicide, and other explicit violent material please do not read. Other than that, please do enjoy.

The looming darkness that once hung gently in that warm night had become the reason for her to take such ominous action. He was gone... and nothing can bring him back. Not even the great love that they had at one point shared. A blade tainted with a crimson poison of betrayal had been driven through her already fragile shattered heart. There, beneath the waxy cover of the full moon, he lay… murdered beside a lonesome wild lily of the purest white. Driven by the unbearable pain of seeing his tattered body, she decided to end her pain and join her lover in the next life. Kneeling next to him, she took the katana which he once held proudly, and then drove it into her aching chest. Soon, the pain would be gone… just like her fleeting vision was gently sinking into the ever-stretching darkness… slowly sending her through that dark tunnel where at the end, the midnight lilies bloom.

Such sweet scent… so close… was she finally there? But why does the darkness still hold her in its enveloping embrace? Where was that beautiful wax bathed flower field? And he, Hajime? Would they not be together at last? Was it a cruel act of fate that they are to be apart even in the afterlife? Trickling despair trailed down her cheeks. This time there was no life which she could end with his katana.

“Open your eyes.” Called a gentle feminine voice. “I can feel your pain… for I witnessed it all.”

“Who are you?” She asked.

“Open your eyes and you’ll see…”

To be continued…

[thapunkpred15]

I felt the aura of this story. It was very calm and peaceful. Loved the details. Good!

[Frost]

Overwhelming brightness flooded her vision... instead of the forever stretching ocean of darkness, she now found herself in a deep sea of light. Despite the somewhat lifting atmosphere of the bright surroundings, it was still a sugar coated empty void. Sands of time... pouring into the river of eternal struggle. The darkness became light, and then light became darkness... an eternal dance which she was now a part of.

"where am I?" she asked... her voice now in a gentle rhythm of sobs.

"This? what you see is what lies in heart. The pure and noble feelings of love, and the anger and hunger for revenge which you have.

"Revenge... such sweet word... Like the sound of bells. " she whispered.

Her world became darkness as she uttered this. The darkness swirling and choking the brightness of the light until but a single speck remained.

" I see that you have make your choice... I shall grant your wish."

Amongst the darkness,that single speck of light became the white lily. Pure and radiant, glowing with a gentle light... like the inviting calls of the early summer fire flies.

"Take me... drink from me the nectar of eternal life, and with this, your wish shall come true."

Without hesitation, she took that sweet and tempting flower... and without any second thoughts, she consumed it.

To be continued...