Chapter 11

Chapter 11

     “Just who are you Drake Kalpos?” Luna said grabbing my arm so tight that it cut off my blood circulation.
The pain surged up my arm and into my brain, but I was still shocked by the fact that Luna was sitting next to my hospital bed in the middle of the night. Where did she come from and how did she get in here? The cool air blew in through the window and sent goose bumps up my spine. I figured she must’ve come in through the window.  I tried standing up, but my body still refused to move.
“Don’t even bother trying; your body is still in too bad of shape to move yet. It has to repair itself first.” She said letting go of my arm. “You’d do better to avoid fights like that. Did you really think you were going to when?” She sounded as if she was joking but she didn’t seem to find it very funny.
“What was I suppose to do? I couldn’t just run away; if I had it never would’ve stopped. I’d of have to keep running each time. Besides, I’m glad I can protect my friends.” I said thinking about how much the pain surged through my body.
“And look where it got you. You’re lying in a hospital bed with broken bones and you can’t even move. Is it still worth it from where you are now?” Luna said while walking around my bed. From the way she spoke it seemed like she was worried but she also seemed to think it was foolish of me.
I knew she was right but she just didn’t understand why I’d put up with it. “What are you doing here, Luna; and how’d you know I was in a fight?” I said while celebrating over the fact she here but also wincing at the pain she left in my arm.
“I was interested in you, Drake, so I decided to look for you. I never expected to find you at the mall, but I watched the whole fight between you and those skaters; fucking bastards are always too violent. I have to admit you did pretty well for a while, but they beat you pretty bad in the end.” She said with a slight smile on her face.
“Oh yeah, make your fun, but while I’ve been lying here paralyzed you were just watching. You didn’t have to help but show some respect at least. Again, what are you doing here Luna? I’ve been looking for you all this time, why did you come back now?” I said trying to keep my voice down. I was so confused about what was happening. I wasn’t sure if I should feel good that she was here or if I should be hurt that she was teasing me.
“I told you, I have some questions to ask you, so be quite and listen.” She seemed much more serious this time, and her eyes were completely different. Unlike before; this time her eyes were full of question. I also got the feeling that she was either really mad at me or that she flat out hated me. Either way, I didn’t like it and I just wanted to see her the same again.
“Just who are you Drake? I mean, who are you really; Deep down inside?” Her pearl eyes stared straight at me and kept going right through me.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about Luna! I didn’t see you for a whole week after just meeting you and right when I see you again you ask me all these questions? What’s your deal? What did I ever do to you? Didn’t you know I’ve been heart sick with you gone all this time?” She just sat there for a moment and I could feel the aching pain in her heart.  I couldn’t tell exactly what she was thinking but I had the exact same feeling going through me for the last few days. Since I’ve met Luna, it’s been the same all the time. The thought of her filled every part of my mind and no matter how hard I tried; I could never stop thinking about her.
“The reason I’m so interested in you is because you remind me of the person I loved, a long time ago. I was just wondering why. After all, he’s been missing for nearly five hundred years” Then, there was silence, and I could see the heartbreak on her face. I felt sorry for her, but more so, I felt the pain in my heart as well. I felt like my heart was trying to cry out and tell her that the love was there. I just couldn’t think of the words to say.
“Well, I’m sorry Luna; I don’t know what to do; but if you loved that guy so much then why did he leave you?”
“Why...I don’t know exactly, but one day he just left and I was all alone. I had no one there for me, my family was dead, and it felt like the whole world was against me. That’s why you were interesting to me. When I was with you for the first time, it was like being with him again. Just things weren’t completely the same.” I thought I saw a shimmering tear roll down her delicate cheek, but I couldn’t completely tell through the darkness of the night.
“I’m so sorry to hear that Luna. Personally, I don’t understand why any guy would ever leave you.” I said while looking her straight in the face.
“Oh yeah, why is that?” she said looking away so I wouldn’t see her cry.
“Well, ever since I met you I haven’t stopped thinking about you for less than an hour. I used to have nightmares every night, but ever since I met you I’ve only had good dreams. It made me heartbroken to think I’d never see you again. Still, I somehow knew we’d meet again; something in my heart wouldn’t let that be our last meeting.”     
     Suddenly, she stood up and walked over to my bed. She leaned over and looked me deep in the eyes and asked, “What kind of nightmares did you have?”
“Well, I don’t think you want to hear them, they’re kind of disturbing. Really, I don’t even like thinking about them.”
“Tell me anyways; I need to know.” Her eyes were frantically scanning back and forth across my face. “Try and remember the feeling you have every time you have one of those nightmares.”
“Well…I would always dream of past battles, but mostly of plague and death. Though recently all of my nightmares have been of this hellish world where the undead rule and there’s nothing but death and despair everywhere you see. Not only that, but I can hear their screams and I can smell the stench of rotting flesh in the air. Sometimes when it gets really bad I can feel death slowly coming on me. Though the worst part of my nightmares recently have been the man sitting on his throne and the castle he lives in. He doesn’t even seem like a man anymore. He’s more of a demon than anything else.” That’s when the cold feeling of him staring into my soul returned. I became short of breath and the machine next to me confirmed my heart was racing. Then my head split with such a force I thought and ax had fallen on me. My visions returned and blinded me to everything around me. I lost sight of them room and of Luna as I saw that again village again. The girl that resembled Luna was there again but she was crying now. I reached out to help her but then my visions rushed me to that hellish world and I was standing in front of the demon king. He was looking at me with his cold, blood red, eyes; I couldn’t even breath in his presence, it hurt too much, and the feeling of death surrounded everything around me. Suddenly my headache went away and I was back, lying on my hospital bed. I looked around and Luna was standing by the wall at the end of my bed. She had that same look on her face: that look of fear and anger that she had the first time I kissed her. Only this time there was also a since of understanding on her face. I couldn’t help but question what she was thinking. As I saw her looking at me with those harsh eyes, the burning rage started to come back. My body still couldn’t move, which at this point was probably a good thing.
“I knew it, but at the same time it seems impossible. I can’t believe that it’s you, and you’re here of all places. That would explain why I like Drake so much.” Then she slowly started toward the window.
“Wait Luna! I have some questions for you too.”
“I don’t have time for that now. I have to go look for something; or someone I should say.”
“But Luna, where are you going? When will you be back?” I felt my heart get colder and colder as she got farther and farther away.
“It is of no importance where I am going and I’ll be back soon. I just have to find something that I lost a long time ago.”
“But Luna, I don’t want you to go!” Then, she opened the window and turned to look at me.
“Drake I promise I’ll be back for you. I just have to find out what happened to the man I loved.” Then, before I could say anything, she jumped out the window.
“Luna! No!” I felt my heart shatter as she left my life for a second time; and this time I wasn’t even sure if she’d come back. I was left there alone just lying with tears rolling down my face, with the cold of the Nevada night coming in through the window. I was cold and alone and I still couldn’t move. It seemed like the conversation that I just had didn’t happen, like it was just a dream. But, I knew it did happen because the heartbreak was still there. I had never cried before in my life until that night, and the tears burned my eyes but with eye one that poured out my eyes I could feel the pain slowly leaving my body. I missed Luna so much that I couldn’t hold it back anymore; the pain had to come out somehow. I cried so long I could still feel the tears running down my cheeks as my body finally gave out from the pain. As I got closer and closer to sleep I knew that I wouldn’t see Moon for a while and that I would miss her very much. The sleep came but the heartbreak was still there. Even in the peaceful world of my dreams I couldn’t escape the painful cold of watching the one person I ever loved leave my life entirely. I just wanted the pain to go away, but I knew it wouldn’t; it would stay there until Luna came back.