Editing Arrivederci (section)

== CHAPTER 3: We Meet Again ==
The two stared at each other, Zaion with a dumb smirk on his face that would fit Treyon’s face better than his, and the queen with her eyes blown wide in shock. She saw his purple dress shirt fitted into his black pants, his fancy dress shoes that he always kept polished, and his white-framed round glasses. She saw his milk chocolate skin that matched her own, his blue eyes that always looked purple. Treyon, Saurmont, and Reymon shared similar expressions with the queen. They sat in silence, no one daring to move an inch.

“Wait- she can see you?!”

Of course, Treyon would be the one to break the silence.

“Yes,” Zaion turned to look at Treyon. “I believe she can hear and see me.”

“Does that mean she can see and hear us?” Saurmont asked, excitement written all over his face. Zaion turned to look at the queen, who locked eyes with him once again.

“Who are you talking to?” She asked. Zaion saw saurmont visibly deflate out of the corner of his eye.

“Treyon, Saurmont, and Reymon are all here, your majesty.”

“Oh- please don’t use that title with me. I’m not sure I desere it after leaving and… all of this,” she gestured to the window, showing what outside the castle looked like, “happening. What did happen, if I may ask?”

“Ah, yes, that. For this, you might want to sit down, my que- er-”

“Just call me by my first name, I don’t mind.”

“Alright. For this, you might want to sit down, April.”

She sat down, and Zaion sat down in front of her. Treyon, Reymon and Saurmont all moved to fill in the gaps of the circle, Treyon sitting between Zaion and the queen April, Reymon sitting on the other side of April, Saurmont sitting between Reymon and Zaion.

“Alright. So, after you left, about 10 years ago, we were attacked. This army came from the south and broke down our doors, riding on magic-powered devices. We held up a fight for as long as we could. We managed to take a majority of them out, but the main one was a struggle to fight with. He had all of these weapons the likes of which no one had seen before. We fought, and we fought, and we fought, but to no avail.

“The king didn’t want all of us to perish, so he surrendered. The main attacker came in and became the new king. His name was Lerois. Lerois made changes around here. Increased taxes on the town, increased defence, Saurmont wasn’t allowed to do his art anymore, he fired Treyon, I was forced to always be at his side, and Reymon was stripped of his position and forced to become a lowly private. It was safe to say that no one liked the new tyrant, but we couldn’t fight against him.

“Eventually, the true king fell ill. He was still permitted to live in the castle, but he was moved to a servants room. Most of the servants had died already. The king had called us to the room, and Lerois allowed us this one thing. We went to the king, and on his deathbed, his final wish was for us to await your return. His final wish was for this kingdom to right itself, with you as the head. His final words, were ‘Make sure to tell April I love her.’ He died a day later. We suffered 4 years of Lerois tyranny. 4 years too long, we decided. So, I was appointed to do something… drastic.

“We all knew that Lerois could protect himself. An assasination plot was near impossible. We needed a way to get rid of Lerois once and for all. So, during the night, on the first day of the 5th year, I went downstairs to where the lab is. I took some nitroglycerin and a new magical compound we discovered Lerois had called “Maxryint”. It is extremely lethal and dangerous, however, only when mixed with explosive chemicals.

“I managed to create a bomb using the two chemicals.” He sighed. “As soon as I mixed the two chemicals, the bomb exploded. The explosion wiped out the entirety of the living beings in a 500 mile radius. The buildings, however, were left alone. They began to erode with time.”

“Wow… How are you still here, though?” April looked confused, if not perplexed.

“The magical compound in the bomb caused us to essentialy become ghosts. Most of the city people moved on after a few months of being ghosts, however. I’m not exactly sure how being a ghost really works, for that, you’d probably have to ask Saurmont. Lerois was the one who stayed the longest, mostly out of spite, but he left just over a year ago. We stayed solely because we knew that at some point, you’d return.”

“You stayed, just for me?” Her eyes were wide in shock, tears lining the corners of her eyes.

“Of course! We didn’t want to disobey the kings final wishes!” Saurmont piped up beside him, but by the look on April’s face, she still couldn’t see or hear them. Zaion reassuringly patted his head and spoke for him.

“Saurmont brings up a great point. We didn’t want to disobey the king’s final wishes. However, it does bring up another question. Why did you leave in the first place?”

April shifted. “Well, uh- see…”

Raymon put his hand on April’s shoulder, and even if she couldn’t feel it, it was still there. “You don’t have to tell us until you’re ready, April.”

Zaion smiled and reached for April’s hand, holding it in a firm grasp. “Raymon’s right. You don’t have to tell us until you’re ready.”

April shook her head. “But you deserve to know! You spent the entirety of your dead lives waiting for me to come back! It’s not fair if you don’t know why you had to wait so long!”

“Take your time. If you can’t talk about it, that means you aren’t ready to. And plus, it’s not like we’re going anywhere. We have all the time in the world to hear about it.”

April sighed. “Thank you. I do have a question though, how can I see you? You explained the ghost thing, but not-” she waved in his general direction. “This whole situation.”

“To be honest, I don’t know either. Probably something to do with the whole magic thing.” Zaion shook his head. He was never the biggest fan of magic.

“I wish I could see the others, though.”

“They wish the same thing.
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