Lykfilia's memories ~ Lykfilia

"Your majesty? Lyka, wake up!"

I heard Reyna's voice call my name.

"Lyka are you alright?"

"Reyna, honey, why are you panicking?" I asked her.

"Um, you've been in a coma for three days. And a half. I was starting to think you weren't ever gonna wake up." She told me.

"Oh. Wait, three and a half days!?" I asked her.

"Yea- oh no Lyka, don't go again!"

Reyna shouted in a faint attempt to keep me awake.

I felt the darkness of my mind swallow me whole, and I fell into a whirlpool of memories again.

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I was on my way back to the cabin after my round of patrol. It was getting darker, and Spectre had warned me about being outside after dark. As I walked through the destroyed town of Wintermount(that's what Leviathan told me the town used to be called), I felt someone was following me. I turned around, and there wasn't anyone there. I shrugged it off, and continued walking to the cabin. As I entered, I heard something cracking outside. I walked inside quickly, and closed the door.

I went into my room, looking out the window at the stars.

"You like stargazing, huh?"

I whipped my head around, to see Leviathan leaning in the doorway.

"Sorry. Did I startle you?" he asked quietly.

"Y-yeah. A little bit. Also, shouldn't you be wearing a shirt? It's cold tonight." I replied to him, probably blushing madly.

"Nahh. We demons have a higher temperature tolerance than other species, and right now I'm boiling." He explained to me.

"Oh. Okay then. Can I help you with anything?" I asked him, silently pleading that he'd say no and just leave.

"Yeah. I came here to ask you if you could teach me about fairy culture. I'm generally curious about other cultures of the world, since my father didn't let me learn about anything other than demons, and my mom died when I was born." He said, sounding a bit sad.

"That's sad." I said. "Not being able to learn what you wanted. Who is your father anyway?"

"That's irrelevant for now. You'll learn it when it's important for you to know. Now, can you tell me about your kind, or is that some top secret stuff?" He asked me.

I blushed(if I wasn't blushing already).

"Uhhhh yeah. What do you want to know?" I asked him, and gestured for him to sit down.

"Everything you know." He said, coming over and sitting down on the bed.

"Alright then, so we fairies, obviously, live in forests or close to nature. There is always a King or a Queen, that just depends on which sex the previous ruler's firstborn is. Amazingly enough, It is usually a boy, so the ruler is usually a King, but there have been three or four Queens."

"Out of how many?" He asked.

"Around a hundred." I replied.

"Wow. We demons just elect a leader, and he will lead until he is killed, or thinks someone else is more fit for it. Some times the leadership is passed down to the firstborn, but not very often. There has never been a female leader, and I do not think there will ever be one." He explained.

"Interesting. Why do you think so?" I asked him, now curious about the matter.

"Most demons are genderless, and the ones that are specified are usually males, with the exception of hybrids, but no one but a purebred demon can lead. Or that's what my father said."

"Huh. Anyways, as I was saying..."

We talked for what seemed like hours, just laying there on the bed, stargazing through the window. Then the conversation was disturbed by Spectre's words.

"Hate to interrupt your little moment, but Levi, it's your patrolguard hour. I'd hate to die because you guys were getting somewhere with your talking. No offense of course."

Leviathan stood up and walked over to Spectre, then turned around and said,

"We'll continue this later, no?"

"Yeah sure." I replied.

Then they left the room, together, like always. It made me wonder, did I stand a chance at all?

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"Lykfilia Chevalier! Wake up!"

Reyna's voice rang through my head, my eyes snapped open, and I woke abruptly from my little memory pool.

I looked to Reyna, who was pale, and looked worried.

"This is the second time this happens, are you sure you're alright?" She asked, concern in her words.

I felt my eyes fill with tears, and I hid my face in my hands, as I cried from the pain that the memory left me in.

"What's wrong Lyka?" She asked. "And don't say, 'nothing', or 'I'm fine' since both are lies in your case."

" Oh Levi. I should never have left you two when the war was over." I managed to say through my sobs.

"Levi? Short for Leviathan?

"W-worthwood? B-ut that's so far away from here..." i said.

"Not really. Well yes it is, but it's farther to go back to Euthoria than to Worthwood from here."

"Would you mind if I came with you on your journey?" I asked her.

"Not at all, Your majesty. I'd love to have someone to talk to." She said.

"Alright, I'll join you, on one condition."

"And what would that be?" Reyna asked.

"Stop calling me 'your majesty', call me Lyka, please." I told her in a stern queen voice.

She looked at me with a serious face, and I couldn't help but smile at it. When she saw me smiling, she burst out in laughter.

"I'll do my best, your maj- sorry, Lyka."

I giggled at her mistake.

"Don't stress, Videns. It'll all be fine. When do we leave?" I asked.

"We leave tomorrow from here, following Eire to Waterdale, where we hopefully still have time to go over Woodsage, but if we don't, we'll stay overnight in Waterdale."

"Sounds great to me!"

Soon Levi. I'll be there soon.

As we packed down the stuff we needed for the journey ahead, I found a dagger, hidden deep in a cupboard. I immediately remembered how I got it, and who gave it to me.

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"Hey Lyka, before you go, take this dagger with you. Then you have at least one blade to fight with, when you can't use magic in battle."

"Why thank you Levi. I'd been thinking about getting one, but then all this mess started, and I couldn't find one that I liked anyways."

"Well, I'm glad I could help." He replied.

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Yes, sometimes I wondered what happened to the other two. They're probably in hiding somewhere, together, like always. A friendship that good, is abnormally rare.

When we started walking to Waterdale, I felt a burning sensation in my head, but I shrugged it off. As we walked beside the river, following it's curvy banks, I felt a little light-headed and dizzy.

"Wait, Reyna, I'm not feeling good..." I said, and I felt myself collapsing on the ground, instantly blacking out.

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"Hey you two! Stop looking at each other like you're the last beings on earth, say goodbye, hope you see each other again, and move the hell on. It's quite simple." Spectre said in annoyance.

"Besides, if it's such a big deal, why don't you just come with us Lyka?"

"Because I am the new Fairy Queen, I have to stay here. Or at least, that is preferred by the kingdom." I answered her question quickly.

"Argh. Why does everyone I know have to be or practically be royalty!?"

"I don't know, Spectre, it seems like you just know how to choose friends." I replied.

"Hey uhm, Lyka?" Leviathan asked me quietly.

"Yes Levi?"

"I have to tell you something, it's something I should have told you long before this day, but, um...how do I say this..."

"Just tell me. Whatever it is, it can't be that bad." I said.

"You're the most beautiful girl I have ever seen. Seriously. And this is coming from someone who used to run a tavern, meaning I've seen a lot of girls in my life." He said.

"But what about Spectre?"

"She's just a friend. Besides, I think she'd kill me if i even thought about it." Leviathan let out a small chuckle. He turned around and started slowly walking back to Spectre on the border of the forest.

"Heh. Well, I have to go. And uh, Leviathan?"

"Yes?" He turned around.

"You're not so bad yourself." I said.

Levi froze for a second. Then he abruptly turned around, and marched straight back to me. He put his hands on either side of my face, and kissed me. In the - scuse my language, fucking middle of the goddamn fairy forest. He quickly pulled away after a few seconds, and walked away without a word.

I was left there, thinking,

Okay, what the actual hell just happened...