Memory: A Zoey and Rythian Fanfiction.

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Gone: A Rythian and Zoey Fanfiction
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This is a sequel to that.






Just cut the red wire.

Just cut the red wire.

Just cut the red wire.

I try to pry unneeded thoughts out of my head, but I can't.

Worry.

Fear.

Love.

The wire is cut.
I sigh.

But that relief doesn't last long.

Suddenly, the Nuke starts beeping.
This is not good.

"Rythian!" I cry out. "Fishton, Rythian's not here.
"Rythian...I miss you." I say, whining.

My head is flooded by dreams.

Thoughts.

Memories.

Of better times, of worse.

Of who I used to be.

What he doesn't know.

I wasn't always the Zoey he knew. Once I was a different person.

I was once a test subject.

My parents abandoned me as a child. I have no memory of them.
But they brought me to a science lab. That is all I know.

UtopiaLabs.

No known reason why they abandoned me.

Did they even care?

"Rythian... I need you now, the Nuke's about to explode!"

I was their lab rat.

Their guinea pig.

So many tests.

So many failed.

Only 2 partially worked.

In the first, they tried to turn me into a blaze.

During the transfusion, I was enraged.

I yelled.

I screamed.

Flames erupted at my feet.

And my hair turned not a flame red, but the color of blood.

I knew I had always been unpredictable.

One moment I could be perfectly happy.

The next, infuriated.

The second was...

Well, they were trying to make humans able to read thoughts.

They failed.

Except mushrooms.

And fish.

For some reason.

I bet he thinks I'm insane.

Psycho.

But I really do hear the thoughts.

That's who I really am.

Who I'll always be.

And he'll never know.

I fell out of the sky.

And it was all because I used science to survive.

After years in the forests,

Alone,

I came across a mage.

Rythian.

He took me in.

The nuke.

When the world restarted, I was suspended in midair.

No way of getting back to him.

When he came near, and the chunk loaded,

I was freed.

"Rythian.. I."

The Nuke explodes.

I love you.

I fall into a seemingly endless darkness.



I don't know how much later it is, but I'm still alive.

But only barely.

The life stone.

I see Rythian's face above me.

He tells me who he is.

Who he really is.

But the time for me to go is so soon, and I don't have it in me to tell him.

I reply to what he tells me, struggling.

"Rythian. The life stone. It kept me alive. But I can't bear it much longer."
Despair.

"I...I love you too, Rythian. I don't care if I'm science and you're magic. We can make it work!"
Hope. Fake hope.

"I... I'm so sorry, Rythian."
Sorrow

"The Enderbabe?"
Questioning.

"I... I never knew what you were really dealing with. I could have helped you."
Melancholy.

"Goodbye."
Nothing.

My spirit exits my body.

I still linger, though.

I shout to him.

"RYTHIAN! CAN YOU HEAR ME?"

My words do not reach him.

I watch over him, as he cries.

I've never seen him do that.

He seems so strong. But I've realized...

he is not as he seems.


Rythian starts to do some weird magic, and I stare at the rubble around me.

All my fault.

I don't catch much of his strange words.

But I do hear

"I will give up my powers... for her."







Ending 1:

"What?!?! No... NO!"

I try all I can to reach his ears.

It's no use.

He speaks words of an ancient language I do not understand.

My spirit is sucked back into my body, and I am engulfed into red and orange.

I burst into the air, then I float back down.

My bright red hair has turned black, and I have grey clothes and blue lipstick.

As I fly towards him, I say " Rythian! I'm alive! Di...Did you do this?"

He can hear me.

He can see me.

My limp body lies there.

He replies "Yes. But, now you are cursed to be a ghost. Forever. It's what I had to do to bring you back to me. I even gave up my powers."

"You would really give all of that up for me?"

"Yes. I love you"

"And, I don't care that I'm a ghost, as long as I'm with you. We can be together, forever."

I embrace him, and out of the corner of my eye, I see a shadowy figure.

With a lab coat and goggles.

Staring down at us from high atop the mountains.

Watching over us.

Lalna.






Ending 2:

"What?!?! No... NO!"

I try all I can to reach his ears.

It's no use.

He speaks words of an ancient language I do not understand.

My old, lifeless body is engulfed by a grey light.

His attempt failed.

"That is what you get for trying to get rid of the curse." says the Enderbabe, who I had not noticed earlier because of my attempts to get Rythian's attention.
"And you can't die, to be with her either."

Rythian's eyes gaze off into the distance.

And I realise what is happening.

He has no powers.

He has nothing to live for.

He doesn't have me.

Fading away, giving in to the darkness.

"No. NOOOOO!!!!!"

I scream into the silence, knowing no one can hear me.

This is all my fault.

Rythian.

The one I miss.

The one I need.

The one I loved.

Gone.