Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-37981206-20190723213858/@comment-35775904-20200210121738

Rita

My life is a living plot twist. At this point, I don’t know what to do with it. Everything’s so irritating.

We’re all doing okayish, given the fact that we were in the middle of fighting the biggest war of our lives. Just everything seems to get more and more complicated. Yea...everything’s peachy.

Although last week, everything just began to escalate. We’ve been running these rescue missions in the hope to find out more info on Havardr’s current whereabouts so we can find him and just get this all done and over with. It was stressful to constantly focus like that, so I tried to take as many breaks as possible...

I was sitting on the edge of a cliff, taking a very much needed break and thinking about the night before that I had had with Vix…

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“One of these days, she’s gonna find out,” Vix said with a little laugh. I smiled and wrapped my arms around him, leaning onto his shoulder,

“Heh, yea, but for now, let’s just hope she forgets about what she heard. I’m intrigued about this song you're writing now.”

He laughed quietly as we started walking forward. Shaking his head he said, “You’ll hear it when it’s finished.”

“Alrightttt,” I said. He smiled and kissed the side of my head. We stopped at a crystal lake and sat down, just being in each other’s presence. After a little while, my thoughts had me preoccupied and I began to worry about the battle again, and everything it could do to us guardians and anything we held dear to us...which wasn’t much.

“Hey, what’s wrong?” Vix asked looking at me.

“Huh? Ah, nothing,” I said.

“It’s not nothing. I know your worry face, you always bite your lip and frown when you're .worried…”

I smiled and leaned into him, “Oh, its nothing..I’m just worrying away about the battle again. About us..”

“Oh,” he said, pulling me into a hug. I sighed onto his shoulder, I felt safe like this..loved...wanted..What would I do if I lost him…

“You’re not gonna lose me,” he said reading my thoughts. I shook my head and pulled away, looking at him with a smirk.

“You know me too well.”

“Not enough,” he smiled before briefly kissing me.

Everything was perfect.

--- I was flying towards a burning town, Kat wasn’t kidding when she told me to come because it was bad. The place was a wreak! I saw Vix in the plaza and flew down towards him. “What happened?” I asked. “I have no idea,” he said His friend spoke up, “Vix! Do you know what this place is?” Realization seemed to dawn on his face as it palled. “Wait, is this… is this where you’re from?” I asked him. A nod was the only reply I got before he rushed into a house. I decided to do the same and ran into another looking for trapped people. “VIX? I got this house over here!” I yelled too him. No reply, but I pushed on. I ran quickly through the house, “Is anyone in here?!” I screamed, no reply, so I quickly scouted the rooms from unconscious victims but the house was clear. I ran out back into the plaza and found a crowd of people panicking and not knowing what to do. I ran over to them, “Hey! Everyone! My name is Rita, I’m a guardian. We’re here to get this all under control, but I need you all to remain calm. Now, please, head that way towards the water. We’re keeping everyone there until we get the fires under control.” The people wasted no time in scurrying away, but the fire’s we’re getting out of control and the other guardians were either still trying to get here, or managing the other side of the town. I looked over at Vix and he was kneeling next to a girl. She looked like she needed some serious medical attention. Vix’s friend was near them though, so he could watch the girl. I needed Vix’s help with the fires. “Vix? I need some help over here!” I yelled over to him. Then I ran to the next house to scout it, and there were two people in there. Vix soon followed me in, looking perplexed, but he helped me get them out. The people were all coughing pretty badly, they inhaled too much smoke. “I wish I had some water,” he muttered. “I do,” I said, while running over to nebula and grabbing the jug I keep on hand. I handed over to him, “Thanks,” he said, before attending to the boy. “Babe?” I looked over at who had said that curiously. It was the girl Vix had rescued, and she was looking at Vix. She must be delusional from lack of air. Vix looked at me with a shy look and I looked at him questionably. Then he got up and walked over to her,beginning to talk with her. He was probably trying to talk her into getting medical care. I started giving water to other people, but was also keeping an eye on that girl. Did he know her from somewhere? I mean this was his old town.. My eyebrows shot up when she grabbed his face and pulled him into a hug. They shaped into a frown when he hugged her back. Okay…. Then..she kissed him, and that definitely shook me. My heart was beating fast as I felt like I was slowly being sucked into the ground. What was going on here? I quietly shuffled over to them, “Uh Vix?” He sighed, “Irena, I um…” Oh, that must be the girl's name. “I thought you were dead, and I grieved you… you were dead in my eyes. It’s still surprising to see you and...” Wait, what? Why wouldn’t he tell me about this? “Oh…” Irena said, she looked pretty devasted. “I get it. “Rita, this is Irena,” he said nervously. My head hurt and I felt like I was going to cry. What was going on here? Why wouldn’t he tell me about her? Is that a ring on her hand?! At the same time, I told myself, Shape up Rita. You’ve been hurt enough, you can surely take some more right? So what if he leaves you for her, he’d probably be happier anyways. I ended up coming to the conclusion that I don’t care...Though I know that’ll change later. “Hi,” I said, though it was hard too since I was still having trouble breathing from shock. “You look pretty hurt. Are you thirsty? I have some water with my dragon.” The girl, Irena, started coughing again...poor girl. Kai was holding her shoulders. “Yeah, she should get a doctor.” I agreed with that. Vix stood up and sheepishly said to me, “I’m sorry Rita, I should’ve told you…” “It’s cool,” I said quietly. Stay calm, stay calm. I knelt down near Kai and Irena, “Nebbie is a pretty calm dragon and she knows the way to the hospital. She can take you there if you're cool with that?” Irena nodded and Kai said, “I can take her there..unless you’d rather Vix..” Vix stuttered and Irena looked at him helplessly. “If you need to go with her I can finish up here Vix,” I said. He looked at me guiltily, and that back at Irena’s pleading eyes. “Okay, I’ll take her Kai. You stay here and help Rita and the guardians keep the place chill.” Gonna be honest here, even though I said it was cool, I was pretty upset with his decision. I nodded quietly and turned to the fires, finishing the job. - I turned the water off and grabbed a towel to dry my face with. All the ash from the mission took so long to scrub off, I was tired and hungry, so I went to the kitchen to get a bowl of soup and some bread before leaving too my hut. Once I entered it though, its like all of the emotions of the day came rushing forward. I sat on my desk, put my head in my hands and quietly sobbed. I cried for letting myself get to attached I cried for fear of what would happen. I cried knowing he'd leave me for Irena. I cried knowing no one would be able to comfort my worries like him. I cried because I felt betrayed, lied too, forgotten...worthless. At least an hour passed before I finally stopped, I looked at the bowl of now cold soup and didn't feel hungry anymore. Eating was stupid. I crawled into bed and tried to knot myself tightly in my blankets to keep out the monsters under the bed that would haunt my thoughts. Closing my eyes shut, I tried to picture something else then all those wonderful nights in the past. Soon I was asleep, and the dreams of worry began. - "You look awful." "Thanks," I said, sitting down across from Aud in the dining hall. I folded my arms on the table, and laid my head down. Aud began eating her breakfast. "You want some?" She asked. "Not hungry, thanks though," was my quick reply. Just like last night, I wasn't hungry. I didn't want anything right now but to curl up in my bed and cry some more. Something inside me told me I needed to shape up though. This crying and worrying over losing Vix meant I was attached to much, I needed to chill. "And so they put that together really quickly so they could use it in the storm. Do you think they made it?" I looked up at Aud confused, as I realized she had been babbling just as much as my thoughts. "Sorry Aud, what was that? I didn't catch the last part." She looked at me curiously, "You okay? You really don't look so well," she said while putting a hand to my head. I brushed it away and snapped, "I'm fine Aud." I regretted it as soon as I said it. Her eyebrows raised and she sat back, "Ooookayyyy, so you obviously aren't, but if you need to talk, I'm here okay?" "Yea, thanks. Sorry for snapping." For her response, she got up and walked around the table over to me and wrapped me in a hug. I smiled stiffly and hugged her back. Then quickly wriggled out and slipped away from everyone in the dining hall. I need silence to think. - I was sitting in my room, trying to be productive the next day and focus on the maps Aidan had assigned to me to sort out...but I couldn't. I looked at the bowl of food from breakfast this morning I still hadn't eaten and I couldn't. I was frustrated and shoved my chair away from the desk and walked over the window by my door. I sighed looking out. Vix was walking briskly, and Irena was slowly wobbling after him, looking pretty hurt. She grabbed his arm and said something which made him stop. He looked at her, and I could see the guilt in his eyes, the relief too, the sparks he still had deep down for her were there. She pulled him into a hug, and over her shoulder he sighed, but then glanced up and saw me through the window. I pulled away quickly and drew back the curtain. Then I walked over to my bed and layed down sighing. I heard some commotion outside probably between them, but I didn't care, I just wanted Vix, I wanted the battle to be over, for everything to just be peaceful. A quiet knock sounded on my door, "Come in," I called. And Vix shyly pushed the door open and walked in over to me. I was too worn out to sit up so I just layed there as he came and sat on the edge of my bed. "I should've told you Rita…" "It's fine." "No, it's not. I'm sorry, I was trying to forget about losing her, and it seemed like talking about it would just open the wounds and restart the memories." "It's cool." "Rita...I know it's not." "It's really fine, if you need her, I want you to be happy, and if you're happiest with her, then you need to go be with her." "T-That's not what I'm saying, I mean yea I had pretty strong feelings for her-" "Yep, so strong you put a ring on her finger. Vix I'm not stupid, I saw the way you look at her, talk to her, hug her, you need her. Not me." Vix just stuttered in reply. Gods I just wanted him to pull me into a hug, tell me he loves me and would never leave me, tell me everything was gonna be okay. I wanted it so badly, and I knew I couldn't. "I-I..Need to figure some things out," he said standing. He walked over to the door and then looked back, I had turned and curled in a ball on my side. "I love you…" he said from the door. I didn't answer, I couldn't answer because I honestly didn't know… Did he?

I feel so accomplished now xzD