Then he pushed her.
Her back slamming against the table's edge.
Let her lay on top of the table. Against her will.
The bottle flips.
Ronan laughed.
"I'm just here to earn my victory. Call him now."
Leyla, still confused.
She claws herself out.
But he was forcing to kiss her, and she struggled, shoving him back.
"Ronan, stop! I don't want you!"
Then with all her strength, she pushed him.
The table flipped. She fell to the ground.
Silva's bottles rolled slowly to her.
She hugged herself. Shaking.
Then, a glass at the counter began shaking.
The door rattled, a gust of wind had passed through it.
Ronan turned.
Abruptly, a drop of sweat ran down his cheek.
"Show yourself."
Then the lights flickered, started blinking abnormally.
All the glass at the bar trembled, violently.
The sounds, they clung to one another.
The air turned eerie. The faucet turned on and off, on and off.
All the drinks froze instantly.
Then...
Crack.
The ceiling light above burst.
Darkness covered the hallway.
Then... just one light turned on.
The one directly above Ronan.
A voice echoed.
"Who gave you permission to touch her?"
Ronan's eyes widened.
"Show yourself! Don't be a coward hiding in the shadows!" he hissed.
"Impatient?" he asked.
"Then choose... choose your way to die."
Lucian's voice, ghostly, horrifying.
Ronan's eyes darted left to right.
His hand brushed against the salt beside him.
Then, a metallic sound.
Clinks, sharp and fast.
Ronan turned toward the noise.
Suddenly.
A small knife flew.
From the other direction.
Straight into his cheek.
Left a scratch.
He wiped it slow with his hands.
Yet Leyla...
She just watched, sitting behind the table.
The only place she felt safe for now.
Lucian looked at her. Then he saw it. Silva.
"Well, well... what do we have here?"
Lucian asked, his voice low.
"You not only touched my girl...
But you captured my friend?!"
He tried to snatch the bottle,
But Ronan quickly spread salt in front of him.
"You know what, Lucian?!" he snapped.
"I can't see you... but I can hear you.
I know where you are right now."
"Why don't you show yourself?
So we can settle this... fair and square?!"
Lucian replied,
"Do you want to see me?"
Then,
A figure emerged.
A bit taller than normal.
Glowing eyes. Fangs sharp.
His face covered in black scales.
His human form slowly fading.
"W-what... are you?!"
Ronan's voice trembled.
"You look more hideous than I remember."
Lucian lunged at him.
"Do you want your revenge about Maria?"
Ronan looked at him. Anger.
"Yes."
Ronan swiftly released the salt. Slowly.
Then formed a motion, slowed, forming an invisible whip.
Scratching Lucian's shoulder.
That burned through part of Lucian's soul.
"Not bad, human."
Lucian's eyes glared.
Ronan smirked.
"I know a thing or two... about cursing filthy creatures like you.
But I'm not a fool fighting against you."
Then he grabbed the knife on the floor.
Yanked Leyla by the hand.
Pulled her in front of him.
A knife to her neck.
"You know, Lucian... creatures like you don't even care about others.
But you do.
That makes you weak."
The knife cut Leyla's skin,
Just enough to draw blood.
"Wanna feel how I feel about Maria?"
"Tck!"
Lucian's eyes glowed.
He stared into hers.
His form turned to smoke, then lightning.
He exploded into her eyes.
Then...
Leyla smiled. Yet, that smile did not belong to her.
Suddenly, her strength multiplied. Ten times over.
She flipped Ronan's hand,
Took the knife,
And thrust it into his chest.
Everything was too fast
For Ronan to act.
From inside Leyla's eyes.
It was Lucian. Looking directly into Ronan's eyes.
He felt it. A pull. Lucian's soul traveled from Leyla to Ronan.
His eyes absorbed Lucian's soul like ink on paper.
After the last of his soul left Leyla's body.
Her memories returned.
All of them.
At once she remembered him. Lucian.
But it was too late...
She blinked.
In front of her, Ronan.
Smiling. Yet it's not his.
Then. blood burst. Ronan's.
He was stabbing himself.
Again.
And again. Laughing uncontrollably.
"Ronan, STOP!!!"
Leyla screamed, pleading.
"Somebody make it STOP!" she screamed at the top of her lungs.
She held his arms. But he was too strong for her.
Then. Leyla called him.
"Lucian!! STOP, you monster!"
Leyla sobbed. Her voice cracking, trembling.
Her cries folding into rage.
"I didn't wish for this!
I didn't wish for you to kill him!
I wanted you to kill ME!!
You're disgusting!"
She picked up the bottle. She threw it at him.
It shattered.
Silva was freed.
And so was Lucian. slipping out from Ronan's body.
Then her voice broke, sobs.
Tears ran down her eyes.
Then...
"L-Le...yla..."
Ronan's final words...
Before he collapsed to the ground.
Leyla ran to him.
"Ronan!" she screamed. Yet his pulse was faint and silent...
Leyla cried.
Mourned for him.
Then she felt it.
Lucian's hands about to touch her shoulders.
She flinched. Faced him.
"Don't touch me!"
She screamed. "You're disgusting!" she shouted, looking down.
Tears streaming.
Lucian's heart split.
Hands trembling.
Eyes turned glowing. But this time in rage. light, fire, dance.
Slowly his form changed.
Then 5-year-old Silva hugged him from the back.
"Stop, Lucian!" she screamed. "Don't turn yourself in!"
Then the whole café shook.
Glass started to break one by one. Falling from the shelves.
Leyla looked at him.
"I'm sorry, Lucian," she tried to reach him.
But the ground was unstable. She fell to her knees.
Then she saw it.
The vision of him and her.
On a train. When after she didn't remember.
He was there, watching her.
"I love you," he whispered in her ears.
"Lucian!!!" Leyla screamed.
But Lucian's eyes weren't his anymore.
Then. Lucian tried to speak, but his voice, his words, changed to a roar.
Then Silva closed her eyes.
"Forgive me, Lucian... I had to do this before you turned completely."
She then opened the portal.
A black hole.
Opened behind her.
A golden chain. Piercing onto his heart.
Binding him.
Instead of blood.
A black oil coating the golden chain,
Dripping to the ground.
Lucian growled, trying to tone himself free.
Growling, clawing on the floor. He moved forward.
Near to Leyla. She just watched him.
Speechless. Crying.
But at that last moment.
Lucian's hands reached hers.
Her hands trembling.
Almost cupping his.
Yet a final pull.
The black hole took him like a sinkhole.
It took Lucian.
Leyla's leg began to move, chasing him.
Till he completely vanished.
With it. Leyla onto her knees.
Sobbing and crying.
"Where did you take him, Silva!?"
"To the place where time is timeless.
He will be frozen in time."
Then Silva looked at her.
"Can you live like this? Remember everything?"
Leyla shook her head frantically.
"Then a choice." She extended her hands to her.
"Join us?" Leyla looked at her, shocked.
Then the café burned.
News stated.
Ronan killed himself and burned the place down.
Out of desperation.
....THE END.....
Epilogue
In a tiny bookstore.
She switches off the lights.
Left just one blue light.
She gathered her bag, her book.
Then she turned.
A figure.
A little boy, tilted his head and smiled.
Leyla shocked. Book dropped to the floor.
"How did you get in here? Are you lost?
Can't find your way out?"
Then they gathered the scattered books.
After the last one, he handed it to her.
She escorted him to the door.
She opened it. She looked.
Shocked. "How..."
Then the door opened, he ran outside.
Her leg froze. She looked down at her book.
(The Last Spring)