Broken Destiny

"I'm sorry, Lunox," Vexana mumbles as she gazes over the still silent Lunox beside her who was examining the sunset before them.

Lunox looks at her with a small yet sad smile on her face, "I remember everything now, Vexana."

Tears were threatening to fall from her eyes.

"Leomord and I, no matter how hard we try, will never end up together. Because that's just how the stars and fate had wrote our book," she sadly mumbles, her eyes now trained to the sunset before them.

"And just like how the sunset ends the day before us," she quietly mumbles, "our story has now come to an end."

Vexana only stares at Lunox's face. How strong of her to just accept her fate like this...

"For that, I thank you," Lunox said.

Vexana looks at her questioningly.

"Thank you for stopping the both of us from committing the same mistake we did, decades ago. Thank you."

Although Vexana just met Lunox, she still felt sad for her. For the both of them. For their love that was forced apart by fate.

"But, Lunox, there might still be hope—"

"There would always be hope, yes. But we should know when to hold unto hope and when to let go. In our case, we had held unto hope for so long, that we had forgotten to let go. We've hurt so many people, and wasted our lives. Leomord and I, settled for the little things life gave to us. And these little things, just so little, gave us enough hope to hold on," Lunox sounded so hurt while saying it.

Vexana only listened, not knowing what to do or say.

"If ever he and I will try to pursue something that's forbidden in this life once again, more people will get hurt. And he, may even die," Lunox trails.

"Though, you should know that Leomord is already dead, right?" Vexana tries to lighten the mood by joking.

Fortunately, Lunox laughs.

"And that is because of you," Lunox looks at her before smiling, "and I thank you for that. But, you get what I mean."

Vexana nods before returning to her serious face once again.

"I guess, the only way for all of you to safe once again, is for me to return and become one with the Twilight Orb again," Lunox says after moments of deafening silence.

"Huh?" Vexana's eyes widen, "I don't understand. Why were you sent back here—"

"Same. I don't as well. Yet..."

Vexana waits for Lunox's answer. Why was she sent back here? For nothing?

"Do you believe in past lives?" Lunox asks, before laughing.

"Oh silly me. Of course you do. You were the one who made me remember.

"Anyways. Have you ever experienced strange, weird dreams?"

Vexana shakes her head.

"Dreams? We always dream. Strange? How strange?" Vexana is completely confused of whatever Lunox was saying right now.

"Strange dreams like... dreams that tell you something of your past life. Yet, things that you do not remember," Lunox said.

Vexana shakes her head. No. Never.

"How lucky of you, then," Lunox laughs, yet it was the sad kind of laugh. The heartbreaking one.

"Sleeping in your castle, might have triggered some memories time and fate had tried to bury through oblivion," Lunox began, "and because of this place, I began dreaming of my memories back then."

"Karmic dreams. These are dreams that show you of your memories from your life before you now. These dreams only happen to show themselves to people who have not achieved Nirvana in their past lives.

"Nirvana is perfect happinness. In order to live peacefully in your next future lives, you must achieve this, because if you don't... if you leave the world with problems and sufferings still trapped inside your heart, Samsara is what will happen to you.

"Samsara is the indefinite repeated cycles of birth, death, and misery caused by Karma. This is what happened to both Leomord and I. We left this world as Leo and as Luciera with heavy hearts, that we have now been granted Samsara... or bhava tanha," Luciera whispers the last word with such bitterness in her tone as she remembers the dream she had once as Luciera. The dream she had the night before Leo and her got caught.

"What is bhava tanha?" Vexana is now lost with whatever Lunox had said.

"Bhava tanha is the d.e.s.i.r.e to be born into different lives in this world, repeatedly. This was our only d.e.s.i.r.e, Vexana. To live in different lives repeatedly until we get to finish our tragic book with a happy ending.

"Now look what that d.e.s.i.r.e had brought to us," Lunox pertained to their lives now.

"No matter how many years had gone by. No matter how much time had been wasted, we will never get to end our story happy," Lunox now had tears streaming down her face.

"I was supposed to be the Enlightened One, the one blessed with good karma. Yet, this is what happened to both Luciera and I," Lunox cried, "we don't get our happy endings."

Vexana only patted Lunox's back, not knowing what to say again.

It was a long stretch of silence before Lunox decided to break it.

"I will do my duty properly this time," Lunox announces, catching Vexana off guard.

"What do you mean?"

Lunox smiles before looking at the now dark sky, "I believe this was fate's plan, once ahain. To make me wake from my slumber and meet Leomord again. This is the way of rubbing it into my face that we would never really achieve our long awaited happy ending.

"But even if I don't, I will sacrifice my happiness for you and your people's, Vexana," Lunox said.

"What do you mean?" Vexana repeats, still confused.

Lunox secretly smiles before stepping away, "I'll return to the Twilight Orb and regain peace between Chaos and Order, once again."

Before Vexana could even utter a word, Lunox has now gone to the place where everything had started.

Maybe, it is there would she achieve her lifelong dream of Nirvana.

Maybe, it would hurt her so, to let go. But she decided to bear in mind her duty. And that is to make people happy, nevermind her hapoiness.

And maybe, it would make a great place to end their story.