Luna (The Sovereign's Soul)

The Last Of It

.:Author POV:. 

 Luna got on the car and it started driving off. The stereo started playing a melody automatically,

Don't stay awake for too long

Don't go to bed

I'll make a cup of coffee for your head

I'll get you up and going out of bed ...    

 "You know, I keep calling you The Sapphire Colar Cat. You  need to have a name, I'm too lazy to pronounce that much word." 

"Meow" That's the only reply she got, as she expected. During the silence, the stereo continues playing the song to which Luna actually enjoy its soothing melody and soon the lyrics etched onto her head and play like a broken record. Interested, she look over to the display and find the title of the song, Death Bed, by Powfu. By the end of the song she said to the cat, "Well i'm gonna call you Cat until you introduce your name by then, heh."

    Then, they came to a garden with a gate in sight a few kilometres away. As the car arrives the gate it flashes a scan at the car and it opens up. "Wicked, you're like a batman except you're a Catman, hahaha," Luna says while looking out the window excitedly. The cat pay no attention to her, continue licking his paw. The car steadily drives down the path until it reaches the main door of a mansion. There were servant in suit opens the car door and the cat leaps off and went inside the huge mansion door. Luna follows the cat clumsily. The moment she steps in a gust of wind blew on her. Her long brunette hair dances on the lead of the winds direction that passes through her. Luna then stroke her hair to its proper position before tying it up with a hairband she had on her wrist.

"Meow" The cat came up to her and c****d it head. Luna looks at the cat as if she understands it, she answered "I prefer tying it up when I'm not at home." The cat carry on circling around Luna's feet twice, before looking up at her again. Then it turns it head to the west and trotted off. "Hey, wait for me!" Luna tries to catch up with the cat until she came to a door. 

    She stopped looking at the patterns of the door, which finds something looks familiar. There are delicate lines all over it but in an elegant way, Luna gaze at the pattern, soon realized she stands too close to it. She took a few steps back and another few steps back, to her amazement she discover that the huge door harbor the pretty delicate lines of art and when she focus from far, there's a particular line that shines in silver color when the sunlight escape from the window shone on it. Luna immediately recognize the pattern. It the same one she saw from her store room. Its the exact replica of the triangle ear-shaped monogram except this is a much larger masterpiece of art. Luna is captivated by it, something churns inside her chest, her stomach flutters for every steps she took approaching the door again. Just when she reaches out for the delicately carved brass door handle, 

"You've got eyes for great things, huh?" a soft but firm voice speaks, breaking Luna from her admiration for the pattern and turns towards the voice.

    Standing there is him. He look like in his 20s, his previously wavy medium length hair is combed up elegantly and neatly. As usual, it gives off a hint of dark blue hue when lights shone on it. His symmetrical oval face is paired with a semi casual maroon chiffon shirt and a pair of slim fit light grey plaid pants. He approaches her on his light grey minimalist slip on shoe until he stands in front of her. Luna gradually shifted her gaze up from his chest. 

"I just realized, you're freaking tall, like one head over me tall" she blurted out. He let's out a soft snicker in response to her reaction,"And here I thought you couldn't recognize me." 

"Of course I do, we've just met yesterday!" the moment Luna said that, all the previous memories came back to her, she felt her temperature rising. She fanned herself with her hands, while her baby hairs lightly dancing at the soft puff of motion result from her fanning. Seeing that, he revealed a daffy smile which Luna notices that he has two upper canine teeth. Short one tho, she thinks that it makes him looks adorable. Luna then proceed to look at his thin soft lips, delicate button pointy nose, then for the first time, she stared into his polar light dark green colored eyes and accidentally dazed by its beauty.

    They shared a moment at gazing each other eyes. He looks away abruptly, nibbled on his lips, took a deep breath and walks toward the other door opposite the masterpiece door, while gesturing Luna to follow him. "Wait up," she ran up beside him and both of them entered the room.

    When they entered the room, Luna asks out of her curiosity, "So, you can change into humans at will now?"

"I can, under 3 condition," he answered. 

"Oh, and whats the condition?" Luna peek around the round while asking.

"Under the moon, when my Sapphire Stone is strong enough and by my side me, and when I've fully regained my power" he turn to his back; walks up to the shelf behind a desk and pulled out a book, then handed it to Luna. Luna looks at it noticing that's her storybook, she gladly held it onto her chest. "Well, that's fast. Oh, but its a children storybook." she asks gleefully. 

He c****d his head to the side looking at her wondering does she not know the book have some pages removed and last page ripped out, "You don't happen to realize, there's some missing pages and also, The Last Of It is ripped out?" 

"Missing page? Oh, that ripped out page, huh? I have no idea when it was ripped out too. But my dad told me the ending so I'll accept this book as it is now." Luna talk while gently slide her finger on the book as if its a delicate object.

"Then do you know whats written on the last page?" He asks while holding Luna's shoulders with both his hand, expressing a little anxiety in his action. Noticing that, Luna c***s her head to the side and answer, "Well, according to Peter it wasn't a good ending because the  protagonist, Moon, was banished to the mundane world and never heard of since." 

"Peter?" He mumbled softly to himself. Then he paces up and down around his desk anxiously. Suddenly, he stops abruptly, slaps his palm on the desk and looks at Luna. Startled by it, Luna ask out of curiosity, "Why, does the ending flustered you so much? Its just a story--" He cuts her off, "Did, did he says anything else?" he looks intensely at her hoping she'd be giving him the answer he wants. Luna is still startled by his uncanny action, shook her head side to side moderately. He lets out a disappointing sigh and walks away, dragging his feet towards the huge window at the side of the room.

"Hey, cat. You're freaking me out here. Mind telling me what's going on?" Luna asks, starting to feel a little uneasy at the current situation. A moment of silence ensued. "Hello? Earth to Cat?" Luna speaks in attempt to get his attention, when he seems so caught up in his own thought.

"The Last Of It, I need to know what the last of it contain, but it seems your book doesn't have it," he finally answered her. 

Luna let's out a short chuckle, "Ha, I don't know bout you but If I am looking for something important, I wouldn't be looking into a children storybook"

He bring his gaze up to see her smiling innocently, "You really don't know, do you?"

Luna gave him a confused look, "Know what?"

He slowly approached her, "That is no ordinary, storybook. It contains much more than just story."

Luna now response with a dummy chuckle, unable to process what he's saying.

He continues, "I'm sure you already know by now if you've read the storybook you're holding, I'm a cat-shifter."

"Well yeah, I was just too caught up yesterday and only realized you're the same thing as in my storybook--" Luna stops halfway, gasps. 

"The story is real, you are real! and you said this storybook is not ordinary?" Luna feels like she's almost getting it but not quite sure what she's getting at.

"Peter Gastron Millle," he said. It caught Luna's attention, "That's my dad's name, how do you know about it?"

"Who doesn't? If I say so myself, he's quite a well known fighter back then. They even nickname him, The Prancing Tiger." 

Hearing that, Luna is baffled, because as long as she remember. Her dads are just ordinary happily married couple. "A fighter? The Pranc--hah, a joke! Peter is the most gentle man I've known in my life!"

"Well then, you don't know him enough," he says with a skeptical look, then continue speaking as if he's admiring a hero, "He prances gently on his moves, but every strike he deliver is fierce. Hence the nickname Prancing Tiger. "

"Well, he, never-I've never seen--but no medal, awards?" Luna couldn't seems to find her words to sentence her current situation properly.

"Looks like he have hidden that side of him from you," he speak gently to Luna.

"Why?" She asks. "That, I think only he himself will be able to answer you" he answered, gently patted her shoulder in comforting way.

"Either way, He's an admirable man. You must be very proud being his daughter," he gave her a gentle smile. Luna still trying to process, the new information she got, are still puzzled, trying to make sense of it. Then she looks at him, "How do you know him? Who are you?"

He stands looking at her with her staring back at him intently. She looks confuse, agitated, curious, unnerving but firm. He hesitated for awhile, but Luna never take her eyes off from him, rendering him  to compulsory answer her question. "Who, are you?" She asks again demanding an answer.