A Tale of Two Worlds ii : Cursed Wheel

Chapter xi.5 : Norwind and Alexandria

My eyes…. Ugh…

How long am I here? In this darkness? Are my eyes even open? I feel like I’m floating in the air, yet I could not feel my body. Am I even moving? I tried to open my eyes and move my hands. Nothing. How many minutes have passed? Hours? Days? I feel like time doesn’t make sense in this never ending darkness. Yet Albert haven’t said a thing about this. This is scary. Yet, peaceful.

“Albert? Is that you on my bed again?”

That voice. How long have was it since I last heard it? Fifteen years? But felt so long. And it’s been a while ever since I’ve heard a different language than Thearian.

“Alexandria?” The words tasted bitter. Yet sweet. Or was it just my dry mouth?

Then I saw a white light. It was Alexandria taking the blanket off of me.

“Who are you?!” Alexandria said as she pulled a revolver on her back. I heard the safety lock click.

“I’m Aldred.” I said as I stood up and about to hug her. I heard another click, making the barrel roll.

“Aldred is at the hospital. Who on earth are you? And your hair. Are you one of Eliza’s family member?”

“You know Eliza too?”

“Answer the question or a you’ll get a hole on your head.”

“I was your first date.”

“What?” She cocked her head, her fingers kissing the trigger.

“I took you at Ms. Donuts. The one in front of the school. It was after school when I confessed to you. July 7 20xx. First year high school.”

“Sure. Tell me more.”

If this could not prove that I’m Aldred, I don’t think that anything will. “We were supposed to ‘do it’. But I said that I couldn’t because I want our first time to be after our wedding.”

Alexandria froze. Then she cried. She was speechless. She just looked at me with her deep-sea eyes. Her tears ran down like water from a river.

“It couldn’t be… you’re…”

“I don’t even know how but it is truly me, Aldred. I just wake up in another world as a five-year-old kid. Everyone speaks a different language. And nobody understands me. So I…”

“How did you get here?”

“I met Albert.”

Then she hugged me tight. I hugged her back.

“I’ve been lonely without you… you know that you’re the only one who gives me strength.”

It is, indeed. She’s everyone’s big sister. When someone has problems, they come to her. She helps everyone with a smile. Yet when it comes to her own problems, she has no one to turn to. Like when she wants to rant on how she misses her family and they just let them stay here in the Philippines while they are in Russia because it’s dangerous due to their family’s mafia troubles. Or about the little things that annoys her. Like her little sister’s loud snoring or how her cousin is emotionless and she wants to make her smile somehow. It must’ve been hard for her. So I hugged her tighter.

“I’m here… and I love you so much, Alexandria.” I said. But it didn’t felt right. After what I did in Thear.

“But… what about your real body?” she said.

“I don’t know. But I do know that I can spend a day with you.” I smiled.

“A day? Why?” She asked as she let go of me.

“You’ve been gone for almost four months, and you’ll only stay here for a day?”

“I have a war to fight tomorrow… I might not make it out alive.”

“A war?”

“Yes.” I said as I explained everything from her. Down from the day the city of Osniton fell to the day that Lorice sieged it and took the castle. How I became the new leader of Dragon Slayers and how I conquered back the eight cities back from Lorice.

“You must’ve been tired…” She said as she sat on her bed. Then she pats on her legs. Oh I missed this.

I placed my head on her lap and looked at her face. I caressed her beautiful blond hair. It still smelled the same. Like tutti fruitti gum.

“You know… there were times that I forget about you… those fourteen years that I spent there….” I said.

“Hush now… it’s alright.” She smiled as she lowers her head. Closed eyed and her red lips about to meet mine.

“No… you don’t understand. I did it with another girl.” I said as I stood up. “I cheated on you…”

Alexandria grabbed my head and turned it towards her. That was when I felt her soft lips again. My eyes were open. I felt her tears ran down on her cheeks to mine. Then her tongue as it broke into my tightly sealed lips. I caressed her cheeks as I gently laid her down her bed, our lips never parted. She placed her hand on my breastplate. “A knight, huh.” She laughed softly.

“They call me The Sapphire Dragon.”

She laughed again. I lied beside her like we used to. She placed her head on my chest.

“Ouch.” She said as she felt the cold hard iron on her head.

“Oh, right.” I stood up and removed my armor and my undershirt.

Alexandria touched all the scars on my chest with her worried eyes. “Are you alright?”

“I’m still alive, yeah.” I smiled. “This big one” I said as I placed her hand on my longest scar staring from my shoulder to my hip. “a dark elf hacked me with a huge ass sword that it broke my armor. Good thing I grabbed my dagger and stuck it on his head. I cut those goddamned ears of his and I still have it on display.”

She pulled me down the bed and placed her head on my chest. “Don’t do anything stupid like that again!” She said as she flicked my forehead. “I love your muscles, by the way.” Alexandria smiled.

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And so, we just laid there, talking. She told me about her sister and how they made up. About the party and how Matthew died. How and why she killed my haf kid sister. I don’t want it to end. I thought as I woke up. Her head still on my chest. Her sleeping face is just beautiful. And I just want to look at it. Like, if I could choose the last thing I want to see before I die, it’d be this face of her. So peaceful. So beautiful.

I pat her head. It was fun spending time like this with her. I wish it’d never end.

I could choose that this would never end though. I could just stay here… and let thousands of my men die. But I can’t. Alexandria won’t let me.

“Would you go now?” Alexandria said as she woke up.

My shoulders felt stiff. “Yeah.”

“Maybe you should bring a gun. There’s this anime called Jietai something, where people from another world tries to conquer Japan. They had dragons and shit. But they lost to the military. Their armor was worthless to guns!” She said, sleepily.

“Albert already has guns. Also, I prefer my uncle’s… my uncle in that world’s axe.” I smiled at her. “We should watch that anime next time, Muffins. I said as I kissed her cheeks.

“I told you before, I prefer cheesecakes.” She kissed my forehead.

That’s where I stood up and wore my armor.

“I’ll come back, muffins.” I took Albert’s phone.

“Cheesecake!” She said.

Before I could even press the ‘fuck it’ key (the screen literally has a ‘fuck it’ button), she kissed me.

“I wanted to say “Don’t go” but….”

I kissed her lips. “I’ll be back before you know it.” I smiled as I pressed the button that will take me back to camp.

Author's notes xD

I might be gone for awhile since I lost my job. It's hard being poor here in the Philippines. And yeah, I have bills to pay (since I am the only one who works and it's just me and my mom) and it's hard to find a goddamned job here.

Hey, I would still be uploading on my fb page no matter what (hurray for free fb xD)

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See ya guys again.