(Igneous and Cloud....same entry from
'Just a Thought' but deserved to be featured again. Enjoy;)

Aftermath

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I held him in my arms...I laid him in my lap...the tears already past my face....and I knew then...I made a common mistake...with a heartbreaking consequence.

I started shaking really bad as my tears hit his face.

"Cloud??" I said behind the explosions in the background. He opened his eyes slowly.

"Igneous..." He breathe. I gasped.

"Cloud, Cloud..." I kept repeating. "Stay with me. Stay with me baby. I'll....I'll fix this, yeah. You'll be fine. You'll be fine," I panicked forcing a smile. He shook his head slowly.

"No....it's...it's ok..." He said tiredly. I let out a quivering sigh.

"Cloud, please don't leave me...please," I said helplessly. He swallowed closing his eyes and he opened them again.

"It's ok Igneous....I'll always be with you....I'll never leave you, I promise," He said. I just busted out crying ignoring everything around me even if I might get killed because nothing else mattered...

All that mattered was Cloud and that he was with me-right me now...alive.

"But Cloud I need you!" I begged. "I'm so sorry I hurt you! I'm SO sorry! I couldn't control it. I couldn't control my anger-my fire-and now you're...you're hurt. I'm so sorry," I sobbed closing my eyes unable to breathe properly. He tried to shush me, but I couldn't stop talking. "I mean of all people I hurt you! YOU Cloud...you..." I sobbed looking at him. I closed my eyes again and he gently wiped my tears away holding my cheek...even though I know it was a huge pain for him to do so.

"Hey...hey...?" He whispered trying to bring me back. I looked at him. "It's ok...." He said again leaning toward me and back on my lap as it must've hurt him. "I know you didn't mean it..." He looked up at the sky and I shook my head.

"But Cloud I hurt YOU. You were the only one who loved me! The REAL ME. I can't live without you-I can't survive in this dark world without you! PLEASE DON'T leave me!" I begged him. He shook his head.

"Igenous...you're light....you're the light that brighten my world.... This world needs that light too... I know you didn't mean to hurt me, I know that. Please don't be mad thinking you did this, I understand..." He looked into my eyes and with all his leftover strength and he leaned up and kissed me slowly and deeply, but so gently and he finished, "I'll love you forever Igneous. I promise you that." He gently laid his head back down on my lap and he kept looking at me with a small smile on his face that I'll miss....

Practically forever.

"I love you so much...." He kept staring at me and I held him up to my chest hugging him and I cried so hard.

"I love you too. I love you," I kept saying. I looked at him again and he smiled at me wiping my tears away and he held my cheek.

"I'll be with you forever Igenous...I love you..." He still held that smile on his face and he slowly closed his eyes and I shook my head.

"Cloud..." I barley whispered. He opened them...one last time...his light brown hazel eyes shinning in a secret pool of sadness and he laid down again and he said barely shaking his head,

"I love you...." His hand slowly dropped down to my hand from my cheek and he squeezed it and I squeezed it back and he closed his eyes slowly. He whispered again... "I... Love you..." I started to breathe heavily and I whispered,

"Cloud..." He never answered as his hand was still tight but slowly loosing it's grip. "Cloud..." I said a bit louder. His hand wasn't grasping my hand anymore and I screamed,

"CLOUD!?!" He never answered as it looked as if he was in an eternal sleep and I cried holding his face up to my chest hugging him so tightly. "Cloud!? Please! Please, please, please, please don't leave me!! I need you!! I love you?!" I kissed his face all over and I hugged him again.

"Cloud!" I kept yelling. I heard heavy footsteps run toward me and one of the cyborgs said to me,

"It's the girl! Take her!!" All of sudden they pulled my arms back in chains and began to drag me away from Cloud's body on my knees and I went ballistic.

"Cloud!! No! No! Let me go!!" I yelled at them. They kept pulling me back away from him and suddenly I felt this fire rising in me and as simple as I'll put it for you...

I got mad.

I was furious.

A type of anger I never felt before...it was ALL coming to me.

The tears kept going to my face as the veins in my arms rose and my teeth felt sharper around the front and on the bottom row like some type of vampire. I blinked and my eyes felt dark, a dark violet purple to be exact, no longer a light bright hazel. My hair felt a tad bit longer and it changed. Instead a youthful scarlet red it was a jet black, with a hit of dark blue shine.

And my fire.

It wasn't a red, yellow, and orange anymore....the typical color... It was blue with a hint of white...and I personally knew...that's the hottest fire anyone can possibly ever have...is blue.

I looked back at the cyborgs as they were distraught by my change and I pulled on the chain causing one to fall toward me and I punched his whole head into himself. The other chain was to the another cyborg that was holding onto my other arm, and I flipped the chain in front my body which caused him to hit the ground in front of me, then I did it again except against the rock wall, and I MELTED the metal chain off of me connected to my skin. I stood up as I felt another behind me and I turned around evilly. The other cyborgs gasped once they saw me...

"Wait, is that her??" One asked.

"Who cares! Just get her!!" Another said. I smiled pathetically at them as they didn't know what was coming to them but I couldn't help BUT smile amongst the chaos.

And I didn't know why.

They came toward me, but I then felt this rage in me again, and my face changed to straight seriousness.

I lifted my right hand up straining everything I had in me and suddenly the ground underneath the robot part man started coming up and he went flying toward the sky and I knew then...the rock in the ground was at MY command now.

I have gained the element of earth.

Another was about to shoot an electric ball at me, but I penetrated it with a fiery shield that left a stroke of white and blue, and I shoot blue flames at him and his whole body melted. Another started to run after me from behind with a dagger but I quickly ducked turning my body to him in slow motion, taking his robotic hand and twisted it turning it into him and I grabbed his neck with my other hand burning it and squeezing it as hard as I could.

He died instantly.

I let him go and he fell in front of me and I turned back to Clouds' body.

I walked over to him, and I bent down barely touching his arm as if I'd brake it and I found a lone rose sitting a little ways from him. I don't know where it came from or how it got there...but I took it and studied it, and turned back to Cloud. I flew over to him and sat beside him and placed the rose on the middle of his chest, and I let him hold it there, one hand over the other. He looked at peace so I kissed him on his forehead and on his lips one last time, and I let a tear shed.

"I still love you..." I whispered to him with a shrug playing with his hair. I heard heavy footsteps coming from behind me and I stared at my begotten love as I heard more bots come.

"That's her! That's Igneous, the Princess of Fire and Light!" I rolled my eyes up to my eyebrows with an angry face and I still sat there, my back to them.

"That's not her!" Another yelled. I stood up slowly, my hands in a fist. "The other girl looked different. She had red hair, not black. That's not who were looking for!" I turned around to them and all three of them gasped.

"But that's her face!" One said. "That is Igneous! Take her!" I stared at the one who kept protesting I was Igneous, and I quickly took both my hands and let the blue fire pour from them and I blasted the two guards beside him knocking them out and the one in the middle gasped at me and he was about to shoot with me with a crossbow but I, in the blink of an eye, pend him against the wall by his neck with my elbow, hitting the crossbow down and started to choke him.

By that, I noticed I also gained the ability of fast-flying like the element of an air-binder....exactly like Cloud.

"Igneous...what...are-" He tried to say. I glared my eyes at him.

"The name's not Igneous anymore...it's Blackfire..." And with that, I burned his face down and choked him in my hands and he fell below me. I looked back at Cloud who laid there with the rose still and motionless. I stared at him and I gracefully flew away not feeling anything anymore, and that's when I saw Erica come to me within all the chaos of the war.

"Igneous, where's Cloud?" She asked me as we were flying together in mid-air. She saw pass me as I stared at her with evil eyes and a blank face and she gasped looking back at me. "Wha-what happen to Clou-" but I cut her off, by flying over to her as fast as Cloud would, and pend us back against the ground as if we were one of the bombs.

"Igenous....it's me...Erica...what are doing??" She asked me as I began to hold her neck and I whispered to her,

"The name...is not Igneous...its Blackfire...." I repeated slowly.

She gasped at me and I squeezed her neck tighter and tighter and she died taking her last breathe...leaving a burned scare around her neck as if it were a chain that was too tight. I backed off her not feeling anything of it and I wasn't, even though....

That was my best friend....

I began to fly away slowly into the air as everyone was fighting below me in the war, and I stopped as I still saw Clouds' body laying there with the rose in his hand in the roofless building of concrete.

Cloud was gone. I killed him. The only boy who ever loved me for who I was is gone...and so was I. All the anger and hatred that Cloud help me in control of for the past three years is out.

THIS is the REAL me. The real me HE doesn't love. I don't care about myself or what's going to happen to me but all I know is that I hate people.

People cause me to be this way, and I wasn't light anymore. Living in a dark world alone will swallow you up, and frankly my dear it has...because I killed him.

Igneous is dead...and the new me is Blackfire, because this is darkness. This is fire. Because fire is not light...it's flames....

I saw another red rose out of no where like the one I gave Cloud on the ground near the woods and I flew down to it and picked it up and I gently started to pick at its peddles and I whispered,

"He loves me. He loves me not. He loves me. He loves me not. He loves me...." And when I was down to the last peddle, and I said slowly, "He loves me....not..." I dropped the rose thinking of Cloud and I flew away toward my old island where I use to live where Icy still lived...

I flew away almost like the speed of light and I wasn't grieving for Cloud anymore. My feelings for him were gone and as you can see he doesn't love me anymore, because.... I'm the Princess of Flames now....taken by the world of darkness....not by him-not by Cloud anymore-and I had to show the world my change. The real me...

It's taken control of me. My anger and hatred has taken control of my body but deep down...I knew why....

Because Cloud is gone.

My best friend is gone.

My happiness, my smile, my laugh, my love...it's gone-HE is gone....

So....why should I care anymore?

Why should I care about ANYTHING anymore? .....

Exactly....

I don't know either....

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(Hey guys:) This is Igneous and Cloud, the first characters/couple I've ever came up in my writing, and their in the best book I've ever finished/written in 7 years...  

When I was in the 4th grade I started a book called 'Light or Flames who am I?' That took me to the end of 6th grade to finish as I hand-written it front to back and was about 97 pages long. This is the end of one of my books including them that I haven't written yet but I wanted to publish it and see how it goes. I've always wanted to go back and publish the 1st book that I wrote but it's so time consuming I haven't gotten to do it.

As a quick understanding and kind of like a background check, Igneous was a overly sweet, cheery girl who had the element of just regular fire and some lava she tried to master and she is now 19 but 16 when she met Cloud.

Cloud was an optimist, outgoing guy who had the element of air and a secret ability of fast-flying. He was Igneous's best friend and loved her as he always seemed to greatly help control her anger.

Basically this passage is showing you that Igneous has accidentally hurt Cloud somehow by her anger (something she's always done which is a downfall of being a fire-binder) but this time he really died. By his lost Igneous is possessed with the anger Cloud kept her from showing for the past three years and it finally has come out and she can't control it with Cloud being gone.

Now with his lost 'Blackfire' is now going to kill everybody and everything in her way as she goes to check on her older and only sister Icy. A cold-hearted 22 year old who has the ability of water and ice, and they never got along, even when Blackfire was Igneous and Blackfire wants 'revenge' from all the hate Icy has always given her since they were children.

Please, please, vote and comment what you think and if you want more of how they were before all that, lol:) You know, just working backwards. Haha, bye:)