Revival of an Old Friendship

It’s a warm, sunny summer’s day in the glade as the birds fill the air with their sweet songs with the waterfall in the background singing the harmony. The young man sits on a rock looking up through the treetops, his large wings covering his body. Under his wings he wears a short sleeve shirt and green baggy cargos, he sighs slightly now, looking down into the water of the river. His eyes glow a strange blue and his long blue hair flows in the breeze.
Not being able to hold her breath anymore, she swims up to the surface of the water, gasping for air as she breaks the calm surface. She quickly dives again before the person there can see her.
He looks to where she surfaced and smiles while his eyes turn black. He sees her body move through the water and stands, folding his wings behind him. His wings disappear and he dives into the water and swims after her
~Wings? Were those wings?~ She thinks to herself. She swims to the other side of the river where her close are, climbs out of the water and runs over to her cloths and starts to quickly dress herself, ready to run.
He jumps out of the water and his wings reappear. He flies up high and lands just in front of her \"Hmmm… You seem familiar.”
She pulls her arm up with her dagger up to his throat as she pins him to the tree behind him, only half dressed.
“Who the hell are you?? And why the hell are you following me?” She growls, her grey eyes on fire.
The man just smiles and his eyes turn back to blue \"Jamez, and I\'m following you because you look like some one I knew two years ago before I disappeared. And you don’t need to introduce yourself, Isis, as I know who you are.\" He smirks and fades into a shadow and the shadow moves away from the blade and appears back in full form next to where he was.
Looks shocked as the man in front of her fades and then appears behind her.... Recognition sparks in her eyes. “James? Is that really you?” Then realizes it is him and wraps her arms around him in a hug. “I thought you were dead you little shit! I thought…” She breaks off as her words turn into muffled sobs as she buries her head into his neck, crying softly. He smiles and rests his head on her shoulder, \"I thought you would have recognized me, I haven’t changed that much you know.\" He smiles and kisses her neck. \"I missed you so much and I didn’t think I was ever going to see you again...\"
She looks up at him, tears in her eyes still, “You don\'t know what happened then, do you?” She backs away slowly. She picks up her shirt, careful not to show her back and puts it on. “Well... never mind that now!” Shaking her head in dismissal. “The main thing is that you are back and you are not leaving again!”
Jamez shakes his head slightly. \"Well that was a good reunion. Having a topless girl hug you!\" He smiles and goes red slightly as he takes off his shirt and sets it on a tree branch for it to dry off. \"Yea.... I\'m glad I met up with you again.” All over his chest and back are scars from flames and swords.
“You haven\'t commented on my hair yet! Do you like it this short?? The last time you saw me it was down to my waist!” She says this while running her fingers over all his scars. “Did they hurt much??”
He smiles and winces slightly as she touched a fresh slice \"You look great! And no, they didn’t hurt much. They’re mainly just from people who couldn’t take ‘Back Off’ as an answer.\"
She looks up at him. “Boy they were stupid!” Then she added, “Did you think of me often?”
He smiles and sits on a branch of a tree. \"Well you look good... As you usually did back then!\" Then he smiles and looks around then back at her \"Of course I thought of you. All the time.\"
Isis walks over to where Jamez is and sits next to him. She looks at the ground as she sits. “I have a question to ask you... and it\'s not very easy for me to ask.”
Jamez looks at her and smiles \"Sure. Ask me anything you want to.\"
Her voice grows very quiet as she talks. Her breathing grows shallower and she won\'t look at Jamez. “You know how your brother, Luke, and I had children.... Right? Well, just after you left, Luke went to look for you and everything went down hill from there.”
He shakes his head and looks to the ground \"No. He looked for me? So his death was my fault.\" He looks at the ground as a single tear drops from his eye.
“NO.... It\'s not your fault! He loved you. You were his brother and nothing could change that.... not even me.” She pauses for a moment, then continued. “He would have died even if he did not go looking for you... it… it just...” Tears are running down her cheeks. “It just took longer for Them to find him.”
\"It was my fault.... Nothing you say can change that, and there’s nothing I can do to change his destiny....\" His eyes turn a fiery red and concentrates on the ground. \"If I hadn’t had left he would probably still be alive.\"
She looks at Jamez through tear-stained eyes. “If you had stayed They would have killed you too! Just like They killed him and our children! Don\'t you see! I saw it in a vision and they ALWAYS come true!” She stands up to face him. Anger slowly creeping into her voice. “Do you know why you had the urge to leave? Because I put it there! Just like I put the thought to go and look for you in Luke’s head!” She is steadily growing angrier. “Don\'t you see!? I didn\'t want anyone to die so I sent everyone off! To hopefully live so we could get back together and start over again! But they found the children and me and then they found Luke!” Fresh tears start to flow down her cheeks and she turns away to hide them
He shakes his head, \"No you didn’t make me leave. I left because if I didn’t I would be ancient history right now by my own blade. You see, I lost the will to live and I had to go find it again. But all I needed was a new friend, Jay...” His turn to pause. “I wouldn’t die by any one else but I would have died from my own blade...\"
Looks up at Jamez.... “That’s what Luke said too. But who is to say that the person didn\'t have your blade” Jamez says nothing. He just stares at her.
~That shut him up!~ She thought to herself.
He sight slightly and jumps off the branch. He holds his right arm in front of him and a large sword appears in his hand. \"Looks like I avoided my fate, so I have to correct it before things become messed up.\" He moves the blade to his throat and slid it across drawing blood and then he moves it into his neck some more.
“NO!!!” She grabs the sword from Jamez\' hand and throws it into the stream and then heals the wound on his neck. “ARE YOU STUPID!!! HAVEN\'T YOU BEEN LISTENING TO ANYTHING I HAVE BEEN SAYING??? I lost my children and my husband. Do you think I am going to loose the last person I have on this world because he\'s retarded??”
He shakes his head and the slice doesn’t heal up \"the sword is special, the slices from it can’t be healed......... and who said I was retarded, I’m just trying to make my destiny the way it was meant to be... You shouldn’t interfere with destiny.\"
Isis collapses to the ground shaking with fear and anger and tears… “You can’t leave me alone! If I’m left alone I’ll die! I can\'t be alone again!”
The sword re appears in his hand and then looks to her. \"You’re never alone....\"
Isis stands up. One of her daggers in her hand positioned just above her other wrist. “Fine. If you die, then I die. I will not be left alone on this world! Not with THEM looking for me!” She makes a nice and neat incision along the vein and as she drags her dagger across, blood wells up along the cut. Jamez walks up to her quickly and ties his shirt around the top of her arm tightly. \"I don’t want you to die. If me living means so much to you, keep the shirt tight....\"
“Why?? So I can watch you die??” The fires in her steel grey eyes were the feelings of betrayal, fear and anger. His sword disappears and he sighs, \"Look I’ll stay alive if you do, ok?”
She just glares at him. “Why should I believe you?? You’ve gone all suicidal on me!” She says some words in another language and her wounds start to bleed again and they won\'t stop. “Maybe I was supposed to die as well and I didn\'t. Maybe I should follow destiny and end it now as well!” The fire in her eyes growing brighter and stronger.
Jamez sighs and looks at her, “You really want to die? Well if you do, tell me and I’ll end my life at the same time.\"
Suddenly, Isis’ eyes start to glaze over and she starts to teeter on her feet. “I... I.... I don\'t feel too good.... I.... umm.... I....” Falls to the ground... “I feel kind of ill.”
Jamez walks over to her and summons his sword once more. He sets the blade on the wound and he and the sword begin to glow. \"You should feel a slight sting but it’s just the sword getting rid of the poison.\"
Isis grabs her head and crumbles further to the ground. She whimpers slightly. “Not poison! Vision!” Then a blood-curling scream echoes from her lips…

As the scream ends, her body goes completely limp. Jamez backs off slightly not knowing what to do. A slight moan emanates from Isis’ lips. A small weak voice calls out a single name: Luke.
Jamez lays next to her his hand on her cheek \"Isis....\"
Her eyes open slowly at the calling of her name. “Luke? Is that you?” Her voice is soft and weak and very confused.
\"No. It’s Jamez.\" He sighs softly stroking her cheek.
“Kiss me.” She whispers softly.
James kisses her lips softly while thinking ~Sorry brother~
Isis pulls away slowly, opening her eyes slowly as she does so. “Don\'t let me have another one! Please. Don’t let me have another vision. They hurt too much.” She holds up her wrist with his shirt still around it. “Just let me go. Please.” A tear falls down her cheek.
Jamez shakes his head. \"I can’t let you. Just tell me how to stop the visions and I’ll try my best every time you start to have one.\"
“You can\'t. That’s the problem. I thought that the legend would be true and that having the children would break it, but it didn\'t. I don\'t know what else to…” Her eyes glaze over again and she squeezes her eyes shut as her jaw clenches.
James kisses her lips once more to see if it stops the vision, then he moves back slightly and watches what happens.

Suddenly Isis starts to shiver and her lips start to turn blue. She opens her eyes and says through chattering teeth, “Is it over? I don\'t remember anything.”
\"That’s because I stopped it.\" He says as he smiles slightly.
“I\'m freezing.” She says as she shivers uncontrollably. Jamez wraps his arms and wings around them both. \"This should warm us up....\"
Isis suddenly pushes him away and jumps slightly as well. “Too Hot!” She says as if he’s on fire. “Aren\'t you boiling!?” Then she starts to shiver again.
Jamez shakes his head slightly, \"No. If anything I’m cold.\"
“How did you stop the vision?”
\"I... kissed you.\" He says as he looks away.
“Kiss me again then. See if that helps to warm me up!” Then adds when she gets a strange look from Jamez. “It’s all we got right now! Look, if my body stays at this temperature for much longer I am going to die no matter what anyone says or does! So kiss me again dammit!”
He nods and places a small kiss upon her lips \"Are you sure this is going to work?\"
“Don\'t give me a peck Jamez! Kiss me.”
Jamez nods and then tilts his head to the side slightly \"Like a full on kiss?”
“Full on kiss. That little peck of yours only raised the temp by about 1/2 a degree!” She says through chattering teeth.
Jamez nods some more and kisses her deeply. This time he even closes his eyes as he does.
As they kiss, Isis’ shivering intensifies and then slowly dissipates, and her lips becoming noticeably warmer the longer they kiss.

When she sensed that her body temp is at the right level, she broke away. She smiles meekly at Jamez. “Well. At least we know how to keep me from having anymore visions!”
Jamez goes red some as he looks at her. \"Well what has to be done has to be done.\"
Isis smiles at him. “Look, if it makes you feel any better, if you were the one married and the roles were reversed, Luke had better damn well be doing this for your wife, or I’ll find his spirit and kill it again my self!”
Jamez just looks away from her. \"Well if you feel like being married to me is a chore then why do it?”
“I uhh…” She looks completely mystified. “Umm... I uhh.... I didn\'t mean.... are... are you... are you uhh... Asking me to... umm... To uhh... To marry you? Or… Or am I getting mixed messages???
“I’m just saying do what you feel is right…”
Isis just looks at him, completely mystified.
Jamez just looks at the ground. \"I think...\"
Then anger flashes in her eyes. “RRRrrrrrrrrrrr.... You are SOOO much like your brother! This is unbelievable!” Gets to her feet and storms over to the edge of the river... “You both do one thing and say another!” As she gets to the edge, she turns to face him. “You tell me to do what I think is right and then you second guess yourself! You say that you are going to kill yourself and then you say that if I want you to live then you\'ll live!”
All Jamez can do is laugh and goes red \"Yea. I do that some times.\" Then he grins.
Isis turns to face the water again. “Make up your bloody mind about what the hell you are doing because to Hell if you honestly believe I am going to sit here and wait for you!” As she finishes she turns to face him. Her face is flushed and eyes are glaring. ~Just breathe Ice. Just breathe... Oh to hell with that... I\'m gonna kill the bugger myself!~ She thinks to herself.
\"Okay, okay. I think this might answer your question.\" He leans towards her and kisses her lips softly but passionately. Isis lets herself be swept away by the kiss. Any thoughts that she had just dissipate into mist. Falls deeper and deeper into the kiss ignoring the outside world completely. Jamez closes his eyes and deepens the kiss slightly.
Resentfully she pulls away. “I think that does answer that question. But here is the next one.” She says, still half in dreamland. “What are we going to when the bad guys get here?”
\"The best option is to run, but they probably won’t show up.\" kisses her lips softly once more and then looks at her and smiles while stroking her cheek.
Suddenly a whistle goes by Jamez\' ear as an arrow flies by his head. At the same time Isis falls into him as an arrow hits her shoulder. Biting back a yelp and a curse she growls to Jamez, “Probably won\'t show my ass! They are already here!”

Standing on the opposite side of the bank, five archers fire their bows at the two as the captain and five foot soldiers try to find a way across the water.
Jamez pick up Isis and they both disappear into a shadow. When they both come back as normal people they are inside an under-ground maze. They’re in the main room and the stairs next to them lead to a maze while the other doors lead to bedrooms, a hot spring and a pool. In the main room there is a bar, and candles light the entire place alone.
Isis whimpers meekly, “Get this thing out of me! It hurts!”
Jamez takes the arrow out of her and heals the wound. \"They can’t get in here, and if they do they\'ll have 40 dragons to take care of.\"
“Hmmmm. So that’s what all the voices are. Dragons… Can\'t you hear them Jamez? All the voices?” She says quietly as she slowly looses her grip on reality. “Just let me rest and I will take care of everything. Just let me rest.” And with that she passes out. Her breathing is even and regular and her heart beats in perfect time.
Jamez picks her up off the floor and walks into the master bedroom. There he sets her down on the bed then he lies beside her but stays awake to watch over her.