Whatever Remains - T. Richardosn (best ebook reader .TXT) 📗

My wings flew behind me and I rose now over the stabbing metallic. It seemed to just be a sign of war; it was probably just shot out to let everyone know they were coming. Glytherin was running back downstairs last time I saw him. I was flying, for the first time, and it was absolutely excellent. That was actually until I reached the war part of the place. Flying creatures with wings much uglier than mine were attacking the warriors on the ground. Right beside me, probably an inch a way, a bomb passes. A fire red bomb that heated me and burned a part of my right arm. I touched it as I kept flying.
Men that we were fighting against had a tentacle like shape to them. They wore armor and had knives, but they weren’t any where close to what our warriors were. Our warriors weren’t exactly human either. They could see things that humans couldn’t, but these warriors, were green and had an expertise mind of their own. They slashed at some of the men and his head went flying off. I tried to bare the sight but I closed my eyes for a moment while the flying head landed in my hands. I stared at if for a moment. I gave it a good look. This man had blond hair and crooked teeth.
He was shocked because his face was in awe. Now I screamed and dropped it. One of the flying creatures took interest in me now. That’s when it began flying towards me. I had just realized that this creature had more than I did. It had wings, feet and hands, but it also had four inch teeth, another set of ears, eyes going around its blistered head, and claws the size of rulers.
I gulped and dived down. The creature began following me quicker than I could fly. I just realized how to fly today, if I explained it to him, would it stop following me and go with someone else?
I heard my name being heard now. “Orphelia!” I looked down reflexively. There was Glytherin in an armor that actually fit correctly, it reminded me of the first time I touched him and it built armor around his body. How did he get a new one? He gestured me to come down to him. He obviously saw the creature behind me. I dived down even lower. He began taking something out of his pocket. I couldn’t stop so I had to go in circles until he took the thing out.
It was a knife. For the final time when I reached out below me, I grabbed it in my hands. I’d never used a knife before, in my life. This was something diverse to me now.
I swam back up into the air now looking behind me at the monster following me with slime and ichor dropping down its low jaw like it had some kind of flesh to eat before it found me. I turned around not really that sure of myself, or even confident, but as the thing turned to me, it slashed into the knife that was pointing towards it. I breathed deeply as it fell to the ground. As it fell down, more of the flying creatures noticed me.
It went up in the air as I stayed momentarily still. “I thought fairies were extinct.” One said in a snarling voice that was unpredictable and very hard to understand. I looked at him wonderingly. Was he going to attack or what? It came closer. What the heck was it doing? According to my instincts, I should be flying away. I looked at Glytherin who was slicing away some men with a knife as they kept on coming up to him and their heads flew all over the place. I breathed deeply. “Are you ok sweetie?” One asked. I stabbed it with my knife with powerful force. The rest of the creatures looked at me in shock. It charged. I slung their hands off first as blood spurted out onto the ground. I gasped at the sight of this blood and looked at it mysteriously.
I flew away now over to Glytherin, before I could even get to lower ground, a monster knocked me out of the air. I went falling and fell into arms, Glytherin’s. He looked at me with warning eyes. “Orphelia,” he growled. He pushed me back up into the air.
I didn’t enjoy it when he was angry with me. I went soaring back up now. I looked around for some more of the creatures. There weren’t any more. Some I killed, most, the warriors did. I began lowering myself easily to the ground, when something hit me. I staggered back as I saw a man looking at me. Rigor.
“What are you doing here Orphelia? Shouldn’t you be at Glytherin’s house right now?” he looked at me amazed but more amazing than me being out here was that he was still cutting creatures with his left hands an steadying himself with his right. “Orphelia what are you doing here?!” he yelled now.
I went back into focus. “Helping,” I replied.
“There aren’t anymore Vorgloves though.” He said. What were Vorgloves? I thought about it for a second, they were probably the creatures that could fly.
“Oh,” I said. “And who do you think helped a bit with that?” I asked. Rigor left this alone and ignored me for a moment.
“Good,” he said at last. Behind me, a green man struck at my dress streaking a slash through it. I hated wearing the dress anyway, it was pretty and all but it was too much for me. Where it slashed, there were also cut marks. Did fairies have to wear shield too?
“Orphelia,” Rigor said. “I advise you leave before someone goes for your wings. I really do.” I slashed at the man in front of me where green liquid spilled. I grunted.
“I can’t,” I said. “This is fun anyway; I can live it… through!” A man came on top of me now. He licked my face with a slurping sound. Rigor was leaning against a creature and was trying to over power it. My knife was underneath me but this things body was too heavy to lift off. It was already light and pulling over me as a knife was put through its throat. There Glytherin was, still more furious than ever.
He gave me a hand pulling me up. The sky became dusty now. There was fallen red and green blood on the ground from Glytherin’s kind and theirs. I would’ve felt a sudden urge to vomit, but for some reason, I hadn’t. Something began charging at Glytherin now but he was still looking at me too angry to notice it. I slashed at it behind him. He smiled now.
“Glytherin!” I yelled at him angrily. “You idiot!” I turned around and slashed at the next thing that was behind me. All of a sudden, I felt hands on my wings. I turned around ready to slash but Glytherin was tucking my wings inside my dress.
“You may want to be fond of those,” he reminded me. “One goes, or both, then you’re dead.” I nodded trying to be sure of myself. I ran through the warriors who seemed to be making an easy way of the killing but not all were exactly succeeding. A lot of them had died already. I heard screams coming from the castle now. My leg was already aching and pounding against my body.
I ran inside the castle limping coming to a princess who was still on the ground where Glytherin left her. She was having a tantrum on the floor. Once she saw me, she got up and her mother ran to her side. “I’m going to kill you!” she yelled. “I swear you are going to die tonight!”
I breathed deeply. “That’s only if you don’t die first,” I reminded her. “There are a bunch of animals out there.”
“They’re not animals!” the queen yelled. “They’re some of our kind gone bad! They need our help is all.”
“They don’t need our help!” I yelled. “They’re killing some of your men out there and you don’t have anything to do with it!”
The princess stood up. “They can try to kill those sick people. I don’t care for either of them.” She was crying now and I wasn’t surprised. “Why are you doing this to me Orphelia? You were the only girl I actually considered to be my maid of honor and you ruined my wedding, why?”
“Because,” I began to answer. “You don’t know me, and because---”
She stopped me. “Because you love Glytherin? Well I do too! I knew him for so long! So much longer than you!” I thought about that for a moment. I’d known him a lot longer than she had, I just knew it. All of a sudden, a brilliant shine was beside my face. I looked beside me and around me was a sword. Was she handing this to me or was she trying to kill me? She was obviously trying to put me up against her for a fight but I hadn’t even known how to throw a knife correctly.
She had a sword in her hand, the same as the one she threw to me. “I was to make a deal,” she said. She looked serious and was standing straight. “We will fight, whoever dies or gets too injured to fight any longer, loses. Understand Orphelia?”
Oh no, I can’t win anything. I can’t even win fastest runner, smartest person, funniest… there were so many categories and I couldn’t even win in those. How could I even try to win this? “Have you had any experience in sword fighting?” she asked.
I shook my head wearily. She knew she’d have to win. “What if I don’t want to have this fight?” I asked.
She shrugged. “You’ll die someway, in your sleep perhaps?” I shivered. I didn’t want to die in my sleep and I didn’t want to die doing this. But this, this was fighting over Glytherin.
“But,” I began to complain. “How will you live positively if you know Glytherin isn’t in love with you?” She eyed at me and she swallowed deeply like I had been the whole time.
“I believe I can live not being loved.” Her eyes were red and the tears didn’t stop flowing. “Let’s announce this first so Glytherin knows it’s true. I want you to announce it so he believes.
I shook my head. “You can tell him, I will just say it’s true. But do you think it will be ok to distract all the men at this time?”
The queen looked sadly at her feet. We should end