Chapter 815 Farewell
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"You're lying, right?" Elise sighed. "You can't hide the truth from me here, when you lie, I can tell because your soul glows red... Is Gray... doing bad things?"
Elise easily read through their lies, as Allan, Shade, and Arafunn sighed.
"Well, I guess we can't get through you as easily now, haha." Arafunn giggled.
"It's... Well..." Shade didn't knew what to say.
"Yeah, I guess." Allan sighed. "Gray had decided to walk down a different path. He has done... bad things, I would even go as far as to say they're terrible. He had become someone... too extreme. He wants to create changes, but for that, he's trying to kill us. And also... to kill everyone we hold dear."
"..." Elise looked into the floor, completely devastated.
"I'm sorry..." Allan sighed. "We couldn't guide him, we... ended walking different paths."
"Instead of bringing him along, we left him to his own things." Shade said. "It is our fault..."
"Gray was... someone that needed you more than anybody." Arafunn smiled faintly. "Your lost... Probably drove him to the place he's now."
Elise clenched her fists tightly, frowning.
"T-That dummy! Always thinking the worst things ever! Always trying to think he's the only one that can make a change!" Elise got angry. "He promised me he would make a happier and more beautiful world... But now he's trying to harm innocents? What... has gotten into him? I wish he could be here, so I could slap him in the face!" She slowly started crying, tears flowing from her eyes.
"Elise..." Allan sighed. "I..."
"Gray..." Shade tried to say something, but he couldn't really come to anything.
"..." Arafunn didn't said a word.
"We'll save him." Suddenly, Sylphy's voice echoed from behind the three, her eyes overflowing with endless confidence.
The heroes were surprised.
"Right, Aquarina? Everyone?" Sylphy smiled.
"Of course!" Aquarina nodded. "We'll slap him as many times as we can and make him come back to his senses!"
"If he's someone so dear to you, Elise, I'll do my best to help him come back to his senses." Luck smiled.
"Yeah!" Zack nodded.
"I'll do what I can..." Mist said.
"I don't know what to do but I'll help somehow." Celeste nodded.
"He's someone... That reminds me of myself." Celeste sighed. "If I was able to change, then he can change too."
"You kids..." Allan sighed.
"I guess you stole the words out of our mouths." Shade laughed.
"I couldn't had said it better." Arafunn smiled.
Elise cleansed her tears and nodded.
"Yeah! You tell em'!" She said. "I want Gray to change for the better! You all, and you three too... You need to be there for him, okay? Please... help him come back to his senses. I know that still, deep down, Gray is asking for help. I can't be there for him anymore but I want you guys to be there for him instead."
"It'll be hard, he almost killed me..." Arafunn sighed. "Well, he actually could had but didn't..."
"He still has a speck of care for us." Shade said.
"Deep down, maybe he's regretting what he's doing, but he can't stop." Allan sighed. "Maybe he thinks that all these sacrifices are the only way..."
"We have to change this so he doesn't believe such stupid things." Sylphy said. "We'll help him snap out of his delusions."
"You have my word, Elise!" Luck said.
"Hehehe, thank you." Elise smiled. "Now, I only have a minute left so... Luck."
Elise flew towards Luck, caressing his head one last time.
"I wish we could had meet much longer... Maybe we could had been good friends." Elise giggled.
"You remind me a lot of Lara, so of course we would had been good friends." Luck smiled.
"Lara?" Elise wondered.
"She's... my best friend,? Sheep Anima girl that is the Saint of Spirits, she was kidnaped by our enemy, a resentful demon..." Sighed Luck. "I am trying my best to grow strong enough I can rescue her."
"I see..." Elise nodded. "Lara must mean a lot to you, doesn't she? Do you love her?"
"I do... I love her more than anything." Luck nodded, admitting his love without shame. "I want to embrace her in a hug, and tell her how much I love her... How much I need her... I want to get there quickly, and rescue her... I miss her... I miss her so much..." Luck started crying. "I don't... want her to die. I don't want to lose her... I don't want to lose more people..."
"Luck..." Sylphy sighed, giving him a shoulder pat.
"It's fine." Elise smiled. "I'll make sure that such hopes become truth! I'll give you all the power I have left. Everything! It will be up to you how to master it and become even stronger than I once was, okay? I'll even leave you my Relic, the Shapeshifting Weapon: All Gaia. It can change shape depending in the beast magic you use! And many other things too... I'll be rooting for you, Luck! I know you'll do it! You can do it!"
Elise's body started to slowly turn into particles of light, and so the entire world around her, as they slowly flew inside of Luck's soul.
"Thank you for everything Elise..." Luck cried. "I'll make sure to rescue her! And I'll tell her about you! I am... forever grateful for everything you've done for me!"
"No problem!" Elise smiled one last time. "Ah... If you ever meet Gray... Please tell him that I love him. That I... loved him more than anything. And that I wish... we could had have a life together. That I wish we could had have a big family, with many children... And that... his smile is very beautiful!"
Luck felt surprised, but then nodded, as tears flowed from his golden eyes.
"Of course, Elise! I'll tell him all of that!" Luck memorized everything down to the vey last word. "That guy's going to have to snap out of it! I'm sure of it!"
"Hehehe, thank you, Luck... Everyone, bye-bye~" Elise said, disappearing completely. "See ya in the other side! Oh! Allan! Tell Faylen I love her a lot too! That she's my best friend of all time!"
"I will!" Allan nodded. "See you, Elise..."
FLAAASH!
Fenrir who was watching the crystal slowly empty its golden light continued crying, feeling Elise's presence everywhere.
"Elise... Sniff..."
Suddenly, the golden presence wrapped around him, hugging him tightly.
Feeling the same feeling as Elise's hugs, Fenrir was shocked.
Memories of his childhood flashed through his eyes. nove/lb-In
When he was a young pup, and his father, the previous Fenrir, was slain by wild miasmic monsters.
He felt sad, lonely, and hungry.
He thought he would die below the rain, hopelessly...
Yet a little girl found him, accompanied by many other beast guardians.
"Aww, you poor thing!" She cried, quickly holding him in her arms. "Let's get you to a warm place, I have some food too."
"Awoo..."
In that moment, he never left her... He accompanied her everywhere, always. He grew even stronger than his father, to protect his beloved master.
"Fenrir... Thank you for always sticking with me. Please... Take care of Luck for me, alright?"
Her voice echoed into his heart as she embraced him in a tight hug one last time.
"Elise..." He continued crying. "I-I will... I will!"
Her presence fully dissipated, as Fenrir glanced into the blue skies outside the ruins.
"I hope that wherever you are... It is a better place than this cruel world..."
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