Cough. A huge cloud of dust rises in front of the man, which, like thick curtains, blocks the sunlight, like a sea wave covers his head. Splinters, stones hit the face, the scientist covers his face and bends down until everything settles, and the earth stops trembling.
The fair-haired one is still clearing his throat, but the picture before his eyes is already clear and you can see the battlefield, or rather the remains of some huge old structure and the earth soaked in blood and disheveled from explosions.
Blue sky... Not dotted with clouds, but rare white translucent clouds, and nothing prevents the warm rays of the sun from touching this bloody arena and showing its consequences and horrifying end. The bright color of fresh blood makes the breath go astray and the heart freeze.
Crows. Large black birds that perched on the wreckage, and some of them still hovering in the sky, circling around the perimeter above the bodies, cawing loudly, hoarsely and disgustingly, meaning the approach of death. Nathan shudders, not daring to spend more than a second analyzing everything around him, climbs up the hill to see the full scale of the battle. Looks into the faces of the dead, into their cold and pale bodies. He could not make a mistake in the calculations, because he knew where and for what he came here. The pupil finds the one whom the scientist was so diligently looking for. Clinging to such familiar facial features, the heart skips a beat, and then begins to beat with incredible force that its roar is heard in the ears.
His biggest fears had come true, that slim chance of losing, that horrific end. He flies up to the body and with trembling hands lifts the body to find even a weak, but a sign of life. He is afraid to see death in front of his eyes.
The body is trembling, and the hands are tremors. Unbelieving, as if this is all a terrible dream, he presses his still warm body to himself, whispering something inconsistently under his breath. There is a mess in my head, real chaos, the sobriety of the mind has been shaken, now everything is going to the defiance and he is scared. It would seem stupid... Nathan saw countless deaths that hurt his soul, but he understood that this was all for the sake of saving the future, therefore, rash decisions should not be made, otherwise there would be catastrophic consequences, because of which no one could be saved.
But now... Something irrational prevents you from calmly picking it up. Fear wraps around the whole body with snake rings, slowly suffocating.The crows croaked louder, the blue sky was covered with dark bands of clouds. There is thunder and it starts to rain, washing away the blood and nailing the dust.
Only Nathan silently covered the already cold body of the hero, protecting him from ice drops, in the empty hope that this would change something. Still presses tightly to him, burying himself in the whitish top of his head. Thoughts are drowned out by the sound of rain and the roar of thunder, which unpleasantly beats on the ears.
The nature of the dead did not mourn for a long time, immediately after the thunderstorm the sun comes out, which tends to sunset, painting the sky in the evening bright colors of crimson, burgundy, purple and red.
The scientist comes to his senses from an unpleasant frosty wind current. It's getting cold. He should go, he's spent too much time here.
โAnd not in vain,โ the blue-eyed one thinks.
โIโll fix it, I promiseโฆโ Nathan whispers softly, kissing Chu on the forehead for a short goodbye, โI wonโt let this happen againโฆโ
The scientist leaves him, before entering the portal, one last glance at the dead, but so dearly beloved hero, promising not to make any more mistakes. So that Chu would no longer suffer. He will save, protect, will try again and again until a happy ending comes.
