Land: The Chronicles

Chapter 2: Ending It Already

It's a day off, so I'm practically not going to school. Even so, my mother went to school because there was a teaching staff meeting held regularly every few weeks, and my father hasn't been home in days because he's been on a mission with his fellow soldiers.

Since there was no work, I just stayed in the room and read the Drawing Fairy Tale Book recommended by my friend, that person was really maniacal in collecting books like this.

After noon, I was getting hungry and bored, mom hadn't come home and she wasn't cooking for lunch, I was just given money to buy lunch outside.

All right, I better find some food now.

Today the city is bustling as always, soldiers are patrolling, merchants are offering their wares, shopkeepers are catering to shoppers. What a fun day.

I walked towards the city center, as I passed through the Amusement Park, I saw a traveler bringing a story.

And there was someone I knew very well. Yes, who else if not Arion the Maniac of the Fable Book Drawing, people always make him as a reference mine of the Fiction Fairy Book of various genres.

He was so focused on listening to the Traveler's story that his mouth was slightly open. It really is no match for people his age.

Hmm. .. I guess the lunch spot today was already decided, so I decided to sit on one of the benches in the park while listening to the story from a distance. Because I am a Wolf, so I can still listen from a distance quite clearly even though the distance is quite far.

The traveler reached the end of the story, then he passed away. The children began to disperse, I walked over to Arion who was about to leave the place.

"You are so childish, Arion, look around you there are only children your sister's age, you should learn the meaning of the word shame.”

I looked at her face that looked a little confused, the same expression that she showed me all those years ago.

When I was seven years old, I saw a Human child being bullied by some other child on the playground. The boy did not resist at all and he did not cry at all.

I who could not bear the sight immediately approached the horde of brats and beat them mercilessly. They immediately ran away in tears while crying without looking back at all.

“Are you okay?” I asked the Human boy, he just looked at me with a confused expression, as if he said ‘Do you help me?’. Yeah, that kid is Arion.

After that incident, I followed him home because I was worried that the bad boys would come back to disturb him. When I walked with him, I realized that this kid smells a little different from a human.

I quietly observed her face, and I realized that she had dark orange eyes. I was so amazed at that moment, because I had never seen anyone like him before.

When we got home, the boy's mother thanked me for accompanying him to play, explaining that I only helped him when he was bullied by other children.

Since then I have been to the home of a half-human-half-arakaza boy named Arion.

So more or less we are childhood friends.

Back to the story in the present.

I walked with Arion while talking. This child was very indifferent to his school, he was even more busy reading the Picture Storybook. If I try to remind him to study more seriously, he always switches the conversation in various ways.

But he's a smart kid. My mother said, if only he wasn't lazy, he would have gotten the highest academic score in all of his lessons, because even with his acute laziness, he said, he could always be on the list of the top 30 students in the academy. I'm so studious I never saw my name on that list.

While we were walking, we ran into boys from the same school as us, they teased us by saying we were on a date, I just wanted to have lunch at Arion's house.

Then the Arion said something that pissed me off. He said I'm a lost wolf? I couldn't bear to not kick his leg, and the boys even more teased us, I was so embarrassed that I didn't dare to raise my face, then the boys passed by and kept laughing.

Arion apologized for what he said just now. Then say something I've been waiting for. Yes, lunch invitation, I just nodded in agreement because that is my purpose to walk with him today.

I sometimes steal a glance at him, I actually have liked Arion for a long time, he is very cool in my opinion, in school not a few girls who talk about Arion.

There was also that mode by approaching Ariel and being nice to her. Some even left gifts that were tucked in a letter to Ariel to give to her brother.

Sometimes it irritates me a little, even though to give him a gift, I don't need to leave it to Ariel. I can give it to her whenever I want.

But I felt that something would be taken away from me if I let the girls continue to approach Arion

I was also shunned by girls who liked Arion, because they hated the fact that their dream guy was the childhood friend of this Wolf chick.

Seen however, Arion is indeed very cool, his expression always looks calm, his old brown hair looks very suitable with his bright skin, and of course the main charm is in the old orange eyes.

Usually if you look at people with that eye color, then you will see a red line around their eyes. But he doesn't have it, I think it's perfect for Arion.

Unfortunately I don't know if he has the same feelings for me, he's quite popular and his father is also quite a respected person. Her mother was also the daughter of a high-class noble family in the Human Kingdom.

So there must be many girls who are after him and do not rule out the possibility of Arion being betrothed to someone from the Human Kingdom. Well, it seems like I can't expect too much either because he doesn't look like a sensitive guy either.

Arriving at Arion's house, we were greeted by Arion's mother who was cooking with Ariel's help. Look, even his sister is more understanding than him, why the hell can't this kid be a little more mature?

I also decided to help Aunt Elisha prepare lunch, because Arion instead casually plucks food one by one as he pleases.

Ariel then hits Arion's head with a frying pan. Nice job, Ariel!

We talked about a lot of things, and most of the topics were about Arion, I really didn't understand what Arion was really thinking.

With the status of his father who is a military superior, or the connection of his mother who is a noble daughter, surely he can get a good job. But he prefers to be a soldier.

Uncle Zarakhel came home on the sidelines of our chat, and at the same time lunch was ready.

I rushed to help Elisha's aunt prepare lunch to the dinner table, she praised me by saying that I could be a good bride, I was surprised to hear that, what does that mean? Does this mean that aunt wants me to be Arion's bride? Aaah .. I'm so embarrassed.

I tried so hard to act as normal as possible at the dinner table, and it was so hard because I always stuttered when aunt Eliza and uncle Zarakhel asked about something.

After eating, I also swiftly helped Auntie clean up the remains of lunch, Arion's conversation with her father made me more and more misbehaved.

Although they have tried to lower their voices to the minimum, I am still a wolf. Unfortunately, I felt like clawing at the table in front of me as hard as I could.

But somehow Arion sounded uninterested in the topic, he was neither misbehaved nor nervous when his father asked such a question. Honestly, it disappointed me a little bit, I hope he showed a little bit of a good reaction.

Not long after, my mother came to pick me up, and Elisha's aunt praised me in front of my mother, what else if not

"Viona is very good at taking care of household affairs.”

And my mother added, "Arion also looks reliable.”

Then they looked at me with a look that gave me goosebumps while chuckling, I hurriedly pulled my mother's hand and told her to go home soon.

Even on the way home, he still teased me, when he got home, mom said that dad would come home before dinner, it's been a week since he went on a mission with his friends.

Dad came home while we were getting ready for dinner.

“Ah, thank goodness I'm not late.” The father with breath who was still panting said in a relieved tone.

Mom rushes off my dad's coat and gives him a clean towel. I immediately went into the bathroom and cleaned myself up.

After a while, our little family had gathered in the dining room, so eager to eat dinner. Mom told him to be careful.

“Don't be too greedy eating this one. Leave your energy to eat the menu later tonight.” Mother said while looking at the flirtatious father.

Dad snorted and said. “Calm down, I still feel excited about just getting home from mission.”

Ughb ... The atmosphere here suddenly changed, to be honest I was not used to their chatter.

Will I say the same thing when I grow up as my mom says to me?

“It looks like Eliza is quite interested in Viona.” Mom suddenly switched topics.

“Is that? Zarakhel never seems to talk about such a topic.”

“Yes, even earlier she said that Viona could be a reliable wife.”

Whatever it is, I want to go to sleep immediately, today suddenly turned out to be very tiring.

°°°°°°°

This morning I was getting ready to go to school, after my morning training session with my dad, I took a quick shower and put on my uniform, I was ready in an instant, unlike Ariel, it took him half an hour to get ready for school.

Dad had breakfast sooner because he was assigned to escort the Regional Lord at the banquet, so after training me he had breakfast and left, had he really taken a bath? Don't tell me he's just washing his face.

After Ariel came out of the bathroom, she was in her room because her textbooks for today were not in the bookcase, my mother and I were forced to help find the book in question all over the house, Ariel doesn't stop nagging, I don't know who she's talking about, maybe the book.

The uneasy mother yelled at Ariel from the first floor and told her to hurry up as she was about to enter school hours.

Almost half an hour the three of us were rumbling for a book I finally found it under Ariel's bed, when I put the book to her face she just grinned and said without a guilty tone "Hehe.” Then a short talk session from my mother began.

After our ears were filled with a talk from our mother, we rushed for breakfast and turned our stomachs were filled, we ate the breakfast menu without saying a word.

Our breakfast was done quickly, Ariel and I rushed to leave for school, when I opened the door, it looked dark, is it now overcast? I looked up at the sky too.

.........

.........

It's a joke, right? Arion muttered full of despair.

Right now he hopes that everything he's been through today is just a nightmare and that he'll wake up soon.

But free, this is clearly a reality. He's not dreaming.

How did this happen? The sky above them seemed to be sucked in, then revealed a dark hole that gripped, the wind that blew became colder than the gusts of the winter wind.

Arion's body pecked as he stared at the hole in the sky, he didn't move at all.

Ariel gripped Arion's arm, "Arion? You haven't left yet? Is there a ... huh?".

Eliza who had appeared from behind the door immediately fell limp when she saw the sky above them, speechless in the least. The people on the streets were also fixated on looking towards the black hole in the sky.

The ground suddenly shook, cracks began to spread on the ground and the buildings around us, people like they were aware of something, they immediately ran scattered in all directions, he said, trying to save each other.

The ground and the cracked buildings began to break apart and rise upwards, not only that, people started to rise up one by one then they vanished into dust as they approached the hole in the sky, and they were about to leave, Arion could no longer think.

Elisha with trembling legs tried to stand up and approached his two children who were still sculpting in the yard of the house.

"Ah ...?"

He was confused when his body suddenly lifted. He seemed to want to shout something, but one piece of building debris that was lifted first hit his body hard until he lost consciousness, and finally he disappeared as he approached the sky hole.

Arion was so shaken that he could not shed a single tear, his mind blank. Haha ... Ended already.

"Ka .. k .. sister ..." Ariel clutched her arms even stronger, her body trembling violently, her teeth grinding.

Unfortunately Arion's condition is not better than Ariel, his legs seem to be clutched by the earth, even shifting the legs was not able to.

"ARION!" a voice called out to her, it was Viona's voice, her face looked frustrated and very chaotic. He is not with his parents

He ran over and snapped at Arion. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! HURRY RUN!"

Run? Make what? In the end I will also disappear like that? Any effort will be in vain.

THE PLAQUE!

A hard slap landed on his cheek. "Let's run you stupid ..." With a weak voice, he pulled Arion's arm to run, the ground shook once more and they all fell down.

When trying to stand up, Arion realized that Ariel no longer gripped his arm.

Looking back, he saw Ariel lifted up, her face pale, her teeth twitching and Ariel vanishing into dust.

Arion fell down, it's over, "Let's run ..." Viona whispered those words in despair, she finally fell down as well.

"Are we going to die?" Viona looked up at the sky.

"Maybe"

"Is this the last meeting?"

"Maybe"

Then he hugged Arion, their bodies trembling, but they immediately felt calmer afterwards.

A strange warm feeling.

Their bodies lifted together, Viona did not let go of her embrace and now Arion returned her embrace.

"Hey, Arion .. I .. love you.”

He whispered that in Arion's ear, his voice no longer trembling. They are covered in tranquility.

Arion tightened his embrace.

"I think .. I do too." Arion.

But along with that, Viona's body vanished into dust.

"Did he hear my answer? Well, hopefully in the next life I can meet him again and reply to his statement properly." Arion spoke to himself.

As Arion gazed upwards, the black hole slowly closed, his body instantly plunging free.

He laughed bitterly.

"My death is painful. Damn, this is not fair."

Arion's gaze suddenly darkened after his body fell and hit the ruins, but he was not dead yet.

The pain he could no longer feel. Amidst the raindrops, he faintly listened to the footsteps and splashed water.

"XXX ... XXXX ..."

Arion did not understand the person's words, he could not see anything, his eyes were already completely dark.

"XXX XXXXX XXX XXX ... XXXX." XXXX."

The surrounding sounds were becoming more and more faint.

“XXXX XXX XXXX.”

What the hell is he saying?

"XXX ...?"

His consciousness is gone.