Live for the Moment, and Dream of the Next

[Soraelna]

This is the final version of a one-shot I did. It is my version on the end of my favorite anime series. If anyone need me to clarify anything that happened before this scene (basically the whole show), ask me. But you don't need to know the whole story line to understand this story.

[Soraelna]

Everyone had cleared out, yet I continued to sing. My voice rose and fell like the ebb and flow of the sea; reflecting my conflicted thoughts like the moon in a glass lake. It echoed around the empty opera house, coming back to my ears. I heard my own sadness come back to me several times. I knew Saya, the one I was singing for, was fighting only a room away, hidden from my view with only a single brick wall. I knew I was calling her to the end, to the final battle, with my song. It would all be over in less than an hour, and finally nothing would stand in my way to create a new world filled with chiropterans.

So why did the thought of killing her fill me with such dread, why did it set my mind spinning like a whirlwind? “Why must we fight, Saya? Why can’t we just live in my new world together, forever?” I thought, but I checked myself in time. I knew the answer. Humans raised her. She was the only one who got a chance at living while I was locked up in that cursed tower. I loathed her for that, for having family, friends. For being human just once. That is why I worked so hard to create my chevaliers, so I wouldn’t be alone any more. To be treated with the same affection she had. To be loved.

My song must have faltered, for Nathan, the only one who stayed with me through this nightmare, glanced up, a troubled look gracing his cat-like face. I shook my head, just once to say I was all right, and flicked my long, raven black hair away from my liquid blue eyes. Nathan did not believe me, I could tell, but he was smart enough not to get involved. His hand dangled protectively over my children. I had no time to be bothered with their fates right now. I continued my singing, hoping with all of my heart that I would not be the one to kill Saya. I may loathe her for her perfect life, but why would I hate the true her, deep down? She is my elder sister after all. “I don’t, I really don’t hate you, Saya. Please forgive me.” I turned away from Nathan, feeling an unfamiliar prick at the corner of my eye. Tears? Why waste tears now, at the end of everything. Nothing can turn back the hands of time.

“Diva.” My singing stopped instantly. That single word, spoken from the lips of the very being that caused these tears, set my stomach flipping. The anger in her voice was almost unbearable for me to hear, my tears almost spilling over. I composed my face with a smirk to hide my stupid emotions, then turned slowly, the long blue dress I wore brushing against the floor with the smallest sigh.

“You sound so angry, dear sister.” I spoke, amazed at how steady my voice was. I glanced around. Where was her annoying chevalier? “Amshel must be keeping him company. Good. Now me and Saya can enjoy this dance alone.” I thought of Nathan. “Leave. Make sure Amshel is behaving himself.” I told him without sparing him a glance.

“Oh, but my Queen, what about the children? I can’t leave them here, and I certainly can’t bring them with me.” That was his stupid reply?

“Leave them, and get out of my sight!” I shouted. He jumped up in a second, leaving through the hole in the roof that he had made earlier. Now it was me and Saya, just the two of us. She hadn’t moved the whole time. “Come, now, dear sister, why so angry? You should be enjoying your final moments on this earth.” I said, my voice like liquid fire.

“I will kill you, Diva. To avenge my father. And Riku! And everyone else you hurt!” She said, her arm lifting up in front of her. She held her sword naked, her blood, poison to me, already running down its length. The only thing that could kill me. My heart skipped a beat.

“Why must it be me. Why do I have to kill you, sister?” I thought, not betraying my true feelings. I pulled a similar blade out of the sheath at my back. “Look at this. I had it crafted it to look just like yours, dear Saya. Now, let us make them dance!” I said, reluctantly charging forward to begin the battle. Saya’s dark red eyes, so beautiful with her black dress and hair just like mine, glowed brighter in her rage.

Our dance of blades took us all over the stage that I had Nathan create just for this moment. It was a replica of the Zoo, where Saya and I grew up. Even the tower where I was held prisoner was captured in faux stone, set away from the building that was Joel’s Mansion. My body tightened in jealousy, eyes narrowing. Joel, the one who ordered Saya to live with him while I was locked up as an experiment. He toyed with both of our lives. I gasped. Joel! “He’s the one I should hate, not Saya! This is his fault. He’s the reason all of this happened! I have to stop this fight!”

“Saya, stop!” We had come back to the bottom of the stage, the props for the setting now fallen to rubble from our frantic swordplay. She didn’t hear me call to her, she was far too absorbed in her revenge-driven bloodlust to hear me. She was every bit a chiropertan Queen now. It was beautiful; she was so beautiful, and yet so deadly. I held up my sword to parry her blow when it came, but Saya was too smart. She saw this and changed her style the second before she got to me, and I had to change mine as well. I held the blade, drenched with my own blood, directly in front of me. I let the tears flow freely now. “I’m sorry, dear sister.”

Our swords slid through each other’s bodies with a hiss and a spray of crimson, then withdrew with the sound of a key leaving a lock. Saya tossed hers aside carelessly as if it burned her. Maybe it did after holding so tightly in rage and hate for so many years. I dropped my own. There was a deadly silence, and for just a moment, I couldn’t help but be afraid. For me, for my sister, even for my children. Then a deafening crack split the silence. I lifted my hand and gasped in dread. My hand was glittering silver-gray in the moonlight that drifted in through the hole in the ceiling. Saya’s blood was working. I was dying.

“Diva?” Saya’s voice, barely a whisper, woke me from my trance. “Diva!” She came towards me, tears running down her cheek in a river of sadness. I blinked, tears of my own falling free. Something had gone wrong, horribly wrong.

“Why did it only work for you? Why am I the only one dying?” I fell to my knees as more cracks rent the night. As Saya’s blood flowed further into my body like a poison, the cracks spread like a spiderweb, my body crystallizing. “Saya,” I said, my voice failing as my throat burned, “I love you, dear sister.”

Now Saya was shaking with sadness, and I cursed myself for being the cause of her grief. I reached my unaffected hand to brush her hair behind her ear, a true smile playing at the corners of my mouth. “I’m sorry, for everything.” I said, falling all the way to the ground despite Saya’s attempts at holding me upright.

“Diva, no, take me with you!” She screamed, holding me. These words made me feel something I never felt before. Love. An emotion not even my chevaliers could give to me.

“You love me too, don’t you Saya. Please tell me at least that.” Her blood took up most of my body now, and one of my arms snapped off because the stone-like material it had become was too weak to hold. The crystallization didn’t hurt, though, not physically.

“I’m sorry, Diva, I’m so sorry. I’ll help you, let me help you.” She replied, trying her hardest to hold my breaking body together.

“Do you forgive me, then.” I closed my eyes, then turned my head to the side. When I opened them, I spotted my two children. They had broken free of their cocoons, crying at the strange world around them. “They’re beautiful. They’re going to sing like me and be strong like Saya. They’re going to grow up together, just like Saya and me never had a chance to. They’ll be happy.” I turned my head back to Saya, and our eyes locked together, fire and ice, that simple contact saying more than could be said. “Saya, I want you to look after them. If you agree, then I can leave this earth without any regrets. Please.”

“Yes, Diva, I will. Live for this moment, and dream of the next. I love you, my sister.” With that I closed my eyes for the last time, enjoying this final moment of contact between us, my mind working out what her saying meant. It was lovely.

With my death, all the chiropterans I created will die, and my sister and my children will live in a happy world. My conflicted thoughts from earlier were finally settled, and my black heart was filled with love. “Farewell, dear sister.” The crystallization took over all at once, and my body crumbled into dust.

“Good bye, Diva, my sister. I love you.” She mouthed the last words as her chevalier came to help her out of the crumbling building, lifting her and the babies easily. Their flight over New York was lost to Saya, though, as she thought of what life could have been with a sister at her side.

“I will forever remember you in my heart, Diva. I won’t let your memory fade from this earth. I swear it, with the tainted blood that flows through my veins. You will not die, not completely.”

[LazyToLogIn]

||I'm just curious. What series is this?||

[Soraelna]

It's called Blood+ (Some people say Blood or type out Blood Plus) It's "based off of" the movie Blood: The Last Vampire, but the connection between the two is kinda thin.