"So, what are you planning on doing now?" John asked, as Aura finished with the last bite, before picking up the napkin from the table.
"Isn't it obvious?" He said, looking at his supposedly good uncle, through he was just yet another two faces bastard to him, "To attend the awakening ceremony." He said.
John, who heard his words, was about to say something else before he processed the words he heard as his eyes snapped wide.
"What?!" He said, knowing the dangers that come with awakening ceremony, with even possibility of death and, "DON'T YOU KNO-"
"Excuse me sir," suddenly, he heard, as a middle aged man walked towards them, "All the preprations are complete," he said, looking at Aura.
"Let's talk later, Uncle John." Aura said as he left his seat and walked towards the two graves as John signed a little and followed behind him.
Realising what's happening, the other too finally stopped eating, and walked towards Aura, to offer a word or two filled with thier condolences, albeit fake ones.
"They were remarkable people," a man said said, as he walked upto me. "Your father once helped me settle a nasty contract dispute. I never forgot that."
"Your mother was a great person," another women said walking upto me, "I still remember the day I met, it's shocking how things ended."
"Stay strong boy," a burly guy said patting my shoulder... Thier voices had pity, condolences, and compassion but it just made me more and more... cold.
After all, none of them came forward when we needed them, when I needed them. When I was at my weakest, no one, literally no one lend me a hand.
However, I still didn't say anything and just forced a smile and replied to them all before walking up and standing in front of the grave, the only one in the whole garden.
Aura didn't speak a word. He just stood there in silence, his eyes fixed on the twin graves as more people formed a semi-circle behind him.
Then came the sound of a microphone screeching slightly, and a voice rang out through the nearby speakers... It was time for his parents to leave Pegasus.
"Today, we gather not just to mourn the passing of two extraordinary souls, but to honor their legacy, the lives they touched, the kindness they shared, the family they raised."
"Arlen and Serah were beacons of strength, and their memory shall continue in the hearts of those who knew them. We may grieve today, but we do not despair, for love never truly dies."
Saying so, he speaker looked at Aura in the front as a guy walked upto Aura, giving him 2 roses.
"Thier firstborn, Aura, will now say his final goodbyes." He said, as he put down the mic, his work here is done as he slowly disappeared in the background while Aura just looked at the roses in his hand.
It was his duty to do this, just as the traditions dictates for the last 90 years but, he can't, no matter what, he can't bring himself to.
After all, he isn't thier son but thier killer right now and even though he has little to no regards for such traditon, he still wasn't able to bring himself to do this.
That's why, he looked looked at the flowers before his gaze shifted to his right as he looked towards Rin and Lala.
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CLAP CLAP CLAP
With clapping all around, Rin and Lala walked towards the graves, to say the final good byes.
"A R L" Lala read slowly, as she stand in front of the grave of her father...
"E N... Arlen!! Daddy!!"
"Yes little beauty!! You really are smart! Just like your dad ahaha!"
"I... Can't..." Lala said, as tear started falling from her eyes, as she hold onto flower tightly, almost breaking it in half before she felt a hand on her head as she looked behind slowly.
It was thier brother, Aura, "Go on, you must do this." He said with a gentlest of voices and a smile... Clearly a forced one.
As she looked at him, Lala tried to see thier father in him, but even though, he looked like him, sound like him and smile like him... What she felt wasn't comfort but fear.
"Ye-yes!" She said as she forced herself to put the flower on the grave as clapping lasted for a few more seconds before coming to a stop.
"Its over," someone in the back said as Lala looked up, just like everyone else, the beautiful sky, the clouds, and the gentle sun, setting up a picture perfect view up there, until all of it wasn't there anymore.
As in but an instant, all of it was replaced with a white ceiling, the never ending garden, the grassland they were standing on, all of that too, making everyone realise that it was never a heaven like garden but just a big room.
All that remained were two graves, and a rectangle platform around both of them, below the ground level compared to normal.
Of course Lala knows what's going to happen to it now.
Her mum and dad, with thier graves will travel through the special infrastructure made for such occasion which leads directly out of the Pegasus.
To Earth... which used to homes of humans at one moment in time, until it was no longer a place where humans can thrive... As now, Earth is filled with what is knows as Null Monsters... The Monsters of Null World.
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PS:- Idk, was I able to explain clearly what I wanted to ahh, btw, ima try to upload more constantly fr