Chapter 10: Transtemporal travel

Aurelius Azure POV

The beauty of the sun setting down and the moon that starts to wave its hands, didn't budge away the sudden severe headache I feel for the past four days.

Yesterday was Asha's last day of funeral and she finally bid her final goodbye without totally seeing her in her last days. Did she left peacefully?

I know that I should had went yesterday and meet her before she sleeps for eternity if I want answers for my question, but my headache had been poking me.

And in those three days, I waste my time inside the library or music room or even my room.

Seeing figments of Asha cleaning some parts of the mansion that I would just shrugged off, thinking it was just my imagination

I would sometimes hear the maids calling Asha using her first name Cerulean but then, I just shrugged it off again, thinking again maybe it's just one of those events that happened to me the other day.

Sighing, I leaned on the balustrades of the balcony outside my room while staring at the satchel and the diary on the table on the balcony too.

I had these nagging feelings that something would happen today as my headaches starts to become severely painful since yesterday and what happened at the pool has something to do with it.

It was just a sudden pain and will be gone after a few seconds but yesterday, it was the longest and most painful headaches.

The headache will start from where the small circle blue light entered then the pain would crawled all over my head like it was breaking my head into two.

And then suddenly, the blue butterfly appeared and unknown images start to play like a movie.

Third Person POV

The blue butterfly that flies with blue sparkling lights appeared again and circles around Azure as he stood still near the balustrades outside the balcony of his room,

unmoving because of the unknown images that flashes inside his mind

Confusion washed over his body as he began to question "What are these?"

Azure got out from the trance of the unknown images because of the diary that he placed on the table started to glow a blue light, from its pages inside until its cover outside.

He walked near the table and was about to touch the diary when the single butterfly that circles him adds another one, then another, until it became hundreds, no maybe it was more than that.

It was too late for him to realize that time stops and everything that surrounds it became in dull black and white colors again when the uncountable numbers of butterfly envelope him

and blinding him with its blue lights.

His head ache where the small blue light from the other day entered, he grabbed his hair tightly as if it would ease the pain but he was wrong,

it became unbearable like it was breaking his head into two.

He let out a shout of pain that if time didn't stop, everyone inside the mansion would hear it, he can't bear the pain of his head that his knees gave up and he fell on the floor with a loud thud.

As soon as he fell on the floor, he was gone together with the butterfly and the blue light.

He was unconsciously lying on the bermudagrass of a house made of half-concrete and half-bamboo being embraced by the cool breeze of a morning weather,

and was being surrounded by tall fruit trees just a few meter, just enough for the trees not to devoured the house with its big roots.

A lady yawning and stretching walked outside the house only to be stopped by a man unconsciously lying on the bermudagrass in a fetus form.

Cerulean Asha POV

The rustled sound of leaves of the fruit trees and the gusts of the winds can be heard as I curled and cover myself with my favorite ocean inspired printed blanket.

The window of my room abruptly open up and banged, just in time when the thundered roared and a lightning appeared.

Looks like, this will be a heavy storm tonight. Groaning, I get up, grip tightly my blanket around my body to defend against the cold wind, and huffed as I finally closed the banging window panes.

Another thunder, roared with lightning, and the electricity shut off making me jump a little in surprise.

Darkness welcomed my room and I ran fast to where my bed is. My bed is not that big but it was enough for me.

I snuggled more my pillow and my soft bed and was about to close my eyes when a blue butterfly appeared.

It was the same with what I saw last week, together with the man carrying a blue potted tulips that suddenly disappeared after falling on his knees.

And it was the same butterfly that keeps showing up together with the man but would disappear again every time I would try to take a step, but this time, it's different.

It is glowing in the dark and were flying above me with its sparkling blue lights. Another one appeared and another, until I can't count them.

Gone the thunder, lightning, and the strong gusts of the winds, those were replaced by an unknown voice of a man.

I can even hear my own voice calling a name 'Azure', the laughter of the unknown man, and he was calling my name in a soft voice.

The shining blue butterflies flew away and stopped on the feet of my bed, they all combined, forming a human figured.

It glow and shine so bright making me cover my eyes with my blanket, and when the light disappeared, I uncovered my eyes.

The power came back on just in time when I lowered my blanket and saw a man standing on the feet of my bed, smiling softly at me with eyes that seems he had known me for a long time.

He was the man who I saw last week outside my house, the man with the potted blue tulips.

He had these brown almost black colored eyes, messy black hair, thick eyebrows, Greek nose, chiseled jawline, broad shoulders, and a well defined body.

"W-Who a-are you?" I asked, trembling of the thought that I am alone inside my room with an unknown man in the midst of a raging storm outside.

He didn't answered but he sat softly on the edge of my bed while smiling at me with eyes that has tears tempting to show.

I sat up, wrapped my blanket around my self, folded my knees and hugs them while still locking my eyes at him.

"You won't answer huh?" I asked with bravery on my voice, indicating that I am not afraid even if I'm alone, that I can fight like a gangster even though I'm thinking on ways how will I defend myself.

But instead of getting any response, there were silence, and it was odd that I find the silence calming and comforting, instead of something else but i just shrugged it off and enjoy the silence.

"Asha, my sweet Asha. My name is Azure, don't forget it" he finally spoke after a long silence.

I got alarmed when he started to stand and walked near me. I was about to shout and pushed him when he placed a soft kissed on my forehead making me stilled with wide eyes.

He sat in front of me and smiled softly again as he puts my loose hair on the back of ear.

A lone tear escaped on his right eye and he smiled but it wasn't soft, it was a painful smile, like he was finally saying his goodbyes.

Azure, the name what the unknown man said to be his name, started to glow in blinding blue lights making me close my eyes again.

And when I opened up, a small circled blue light floating in air can be seen.

The thunder, lightning and the gust of the wind came back, and the blue light floated near where Azure kissed me.

Seconds after the blue light entered my forehead, excruciating pain enveloped me making me whimper and shout in pain until it made me passed out.