Finally....today is the day.
I feel like this is not real. I feel like I am dreaming. My wish has finally come true. I couldn't ask for anything else.
Inside the church made up of grayish white blockstones, there were huge nine pillars on both sides. Between these pillars were not walls, there was nothing. We could see the outside view from here. I could see the beautiful houses of mostly polygonal design below, and above, I could see the beautiful blue sky from the pillars.
I was standing inside the church, right in front of the huge statue of Godess Gaia. But I was not standing alone. Right beside me was the priest and right in front of me....yes, she was standing right in front of me, Charlotte. With her beautiful blonde hair tied up, she was wearing a beautiful white dress. Her face was half covered with a white cloth, but I could still se her beautiful blue eyes.
I myself was wearing a bright white coat with some traces of gold, that reached to a little below my knees.
The priest besides me started chanting," The warmth of our holy mother warms us in the cold, the light of our holy mother guides us in the dark, we are her children and she is always a witness to our happiness. May the Godess cast her warmth and light upon the two, who are starting a new journey. May she always watch over them and drown them in the sea of happiness."
"With our holy mother watching over the two, the bride and groom may form the bond of eternity now."
Just as the priest said those words, both of us reached out our right hands to each other. We held each other's wrists in our hands strongly.
Our fathers came, wearing a white dress kind of similar to mine and also a small cloak on their shoulders that covered half of their backs. They were holding a thin and long rectangular box from each side. Inside the box was a thin golden chain.
The priest took out the chain from the box gently. He held it in both hands and pointed it towards the Godess's statue as if making an offering.
"May their bond be stronger than the mountains and their love be eternal like your flames!" He said.
With that, he slowly wrapped the golden chain around our hands that were holding each other's wrists. Then held our binded wrists together with his hands and closed his eyes.
"You will be together in this land granted to us by our mother. You will be together in the land of spirits even after your deaths. Your bond is eternal and no power in this world can break it. As of this moment, you are each other's companion for your journey, you are now husband and wife."
His words came to an end and my heart started dancing in joy. Everyone in the large hall in front of us started cheering and clapping.
I was happy....the happiest I have ever been in my life. I smiled and looked at my love, now my wife. She was also smiling with happiness and looking at me.
Her smile was the most beautiful smile I had ever seen. I could do anything to protect it. She was the kindest soul and I was longing for her kindness.
We looked ahead of us, towards our families and relatives in the hall. We both bowed and showed our gratitude towards them.
We took the three circular stairs from the dias to the hall. My older brother along with his pregnant wife came to us and patted my shoulders. "Congratulations" his wife said.
"Welcome to hell." My brother taunted and smiled at me.
"Don't be jealous. It's not my fault that my wife is prettier than yours." I joked near his ears. I meant no harm but I wasn't lying. His wife was very beautiful. But mine was the most beautiful.
He smiled at me and said near my ear," A man tastes heaven before entering hell. Look forward for tonight."
Now I am even more excited. I can't wait for tonight. But that doesn't mean I want the banquet to end right now. This is the happiest moment of my life. I want it to last as long as it can.
My older brother gave a glass of red wine to me and my wife and left along with his wife. Everything seemed beautiful today. Even the glass I was holding looked beautiful. I could see the red wine from the transparent glass. Don't know why but I felt like admiring it's beauty.
"What did your brother just say now?" She asked. My face turned red from shyness.
"Haha... nothing. Just brother talks." I said embarrassly.
"You don't have to hide it. He was just stating facts." She came close to my ears and said,"Look forward for tonight." She said teasingly.
I could feel her warmth in my ear, but more than that I could feel the weight of the words she just said. She had a playful personality like that. She often teased me and flirted with me.
I looked at her with a face redder than before and she just smiled at me playfully.
Man don't make me happier than I already am.
Just then my little brother came to us. He was barely nine.
"Hey Kai, would I get a wife as beautiful as yours?" He asked.
Kids are pure hearted and untouched by the true world. So they just speak what is on their mind without hesitation.
Sorry kid, I do want you to get a beautiful wife but I doubt she will be as beautiful as my wife.
"No, you will get someone even more beautiful than me." Charlotte said.
Man, she is so kind. Even though she is telling a lie. She says it with such a delicacy.
One of the reasons I fell for her.
"Attention everyone." A voice reached our ears. We looked ahead and saw Charlotte's father Juda was standing on the dias. My mother was behind him.
"It is a truly memorable moment from all of us. We have waited centuries for this day to come. And finally this day has arrived. " He said.
I am happy to hear his words but he is kind of exaggerating. No one was waiting for centuries.
"Our people have been suffering from ages in the underworld. No fun activity to do and not a damn thing worth mentioning. That hell is only filled with unimaginable danger. But today it all comes to an end. Today we break free."
The people who came with Charlotte's family started shouting and cheering.
Aaaa...what is this. Rather then a speech at wedding, it feels like some sort of motivation for the soldiers who are about to go on a war. I didn't know father in law was so bad at giving speech. He shouldn't try this again. Only his people are cheering. Is it some kind of tradition in their family?
"The moment is finally here. It is time for us to drown ourselves in the sea of pleasure. Let us begin the banquet."
Too late father in law. People have already started enjoying. The banquet has already begun.
Squelch Splat
Just then....I felt some kind of liquid falling on my face and my hands.
Hmm what was that?
I looked at my hand holding the glass of red wine and found dark red coloured think liquid in my hands.
Did the wine fall?
I again felt some liquid falling on my face from my left side.
I turned left and found a fountain....a fountain coming out from the headless neck of my older brother. A fountain of blood.
Beside him was standing the older brother of Charlotte, Charles holding my brother's head. Blood all over his face and blonde hair. He licked the the blood from his lips.
"Aaaah...! It's been so long.....so long since I have had such a good flavour. It's driving me crazy." He started shouting with a creepy smile on his face like a mad man.
"Hahahahaa.....hahhHAHAa... hahahahaa."
He held my brother's head above his mouth and started drinking the blood coming from his neck with his tongue held out like a mad man.
Wha....what is this? What is happening?
I turned my head and looked ahead. I saw Charlotte's father holding a read piece of mass in his hand. His hand was soaked in blood.
I looked at my mother behind him. Her eyes were wide open with no life. Blood was coming out from her mouth. And there was a huge hole surrounded by blood in her chest. Yes...the thing in Charlotte's father was my mother's heart.
He placed the heart near his mouth and crushed it with his hand. The squashy heart burst and streams of blood came out from it that found their way to his mouth.
Another one of Charlotte's brother came in front of the dias, dragging my sister in law from her hair along with him.
"Aaah...please stop! You are hurting me."
She was crying in pain.
He upraised her with her hair. The nails of his hand suddenly grew. He put his hand inside her belly, tearing her skin and letting out buckets of blood. He moved the hand inside as if searching for something and then within a split second, he dragged his hand out along with the undeveloped baby.
He looked at it with eyes full of greed and bit its head of with his teeth. Then he swallowed the whole baby in one go.
What a monstrasity!
I wanted to scream, but I couldn't. I wanted to run away, but I couldn't. I wanted to save my family but...I couldn't.
"Han...waaAh....waaAAHHhhh!" I could hear my younger brother cry.
I gathered all my strength and courage and was barely able to turn my neck towards Charlotte, who was standing with my younger brother.
She looked at me, no emotions in her eyes.
Suddenly a sharp smile appeared on her face and her blue eyes lit up. It was the most evil smile I had ever seen.
Squelch
With a flick of her hand, she cut my brother's arm and damaged half of his stomach, leaving his intestine hanging.
"AaaHHHhhhhhhHh". My brother screamed and fell on the floor.
Charlotte, looking right into my eyes, with that smile still on her face, lifted up her foot slowly and then slammed her foot on my brother's thigh, crushing it and deattaching the leg.
"Too bad. We won't be able to enjoy the night." She said with that grim on her face.
I wanted to ask her, 'why are you doing this? What have we done to you?'
But once again....I couldn't.
Rivers of blood were flowing all around me. The white floor had already turned red. Charlotte's relatives were killing my relatives.
I could hear the sreams in the wedding hall. I could feel the chaos. I could see some people dying in front of me and I could feel some people dying behind my back.
At this moment, i didn't even feel like saving them. I just wanted to mourn the death of my family. I just wanted to cry. But....I couldn't.
"Our work here is done. We have achieved what we wanted. Now we leave the rest to Igon." Someone said.
"What should we do with him?"
"His death is not included in his plan for now. Leave him be."
They said some other things too or maybe they didn't....I couldn't focus.
They went near the pillars.
"We shall meet again." I heard a voice. I didn't look at the face....but I knew it was Charlotte's voice.
I heard sounds of falpping and turned my eyes towards the pillar. Huge wings similar to that of a bat appeared on their backs.
They all flew away, without even looking behind.
I finally fell to the ground.
"Ka..... Kai...look here."I heard a voice and turned my head. My younger brother with his cut off hand and intestine hanging from his belly was lying there.
"Kill me ka...hai. I can't.....bear the pain..... It hearts.....it hearts so much. Surely..... dying would be better than this pain." His stuttering words could bearly leave his mouth. His voice was filled with hopelessness.
I started crying. I was finally able to cry. A flower base was lying beside me. I took it and cralwed towards my brother.
I held it with both of my hands and slammed his head with it...again and again untill he was dead. My already blood covered face was now covered in his blood too.
I don't know why I chose that method of killing him or why the thought of saving him never even crossed my mind.
I looked around and found a red hall filled with dead bodies of people.....my people. The tears wouldn't stop coming down from my eyes. I can't imagine what kind of miserable face I must have been making.
I looked at the flower base and started hitting my head with it...just like I did with my brother...again and again I hit myself, untill darkness started to surround my eyes. I fell to the ground and closed my eyes, completely losing my counsiousness.
Yes....I feel like this is not real, but no...this is not a dream I feel like this....is a nightmare.