"Under The Rain."

"Under The Rain."

by:

Virgilio F. De leon Jr.MD

The cobble stone path split the property in half and on each side were two towering buildings full of tenants who were unaware of what seemed to be a small house in the middle of this otherwise busy city center.On that path stood a man with a red umbrella shielding him from the Seoul rain.

V heard the constant patter of the rain on his umbrella.Normally no one would want to go out in weather like this but V felt happy being in this downpour. If the dragons of the West disdained the water , the dragons of the East loved it. He felt the power within him growing stronger the longer he stayed in the rain. The rumble of thunder in the distance and the strong winds make him smile even more and if the other dragons could see him they would think that his sentimentality is the only reason why he is not destroying the human world.

The real reason lay in the fact that she lived her. This was her world and if anything else he felt that he should let her live the life that she wanted even if it was a life that no longer included him. Dragons love and dragons move on with their lives too. Well a few more months and he will not even have to worry about that too.Such was the way with those who do not ascend. You become part of the cycle. You dissolve into energy that this world will be able to use for the future. Many of his own kind had debated the folly of him following this path. Surely the last Creation Dragon would have more sense than dying for a human. The thought had been festering for months now. Maybe he should go see her. Maybe it was time that he admitted how miserable he was without her. V caught his thoughts , normally if he thought about her like this she usually appeared. Mere coincidence he countered.

V was so lost in his own thoughts that he did not even notice the pair of green boots splashing toward him.

"It is just like you to be out here like this." YuuA said from behind. He might have been one of the fastest dragons to ever live but it seemed YuuA could defy all his senses. 

"What are you doing here? Don't you have work somewhere?" V asked not even turning around.

"As a matter of fact I do.It is in the concert hall down the road. Then again you already knew that didn't you."

"It is hard to not feel all of those increasing chants for your name and the number of people who have camped in the surrounding areas. Some of them have even asked some of my Scales if they can stay here while they attend your concerts."

"Exactly what I thought. Sensing and detecting but not able to see me at all. I am just down the road , in the same Concert Hall you wanted to be build so close here."

"Why should I go and see you? I haven't all these months. So why start now?" V felt that he was being more harsh than he meant. "Anyway what is it that brought you here?"

"This is our old house after all. I still have the keys and I wanted to know if you were home. One can never be sure where Creation Dragons go when they want."

The last sentence was a barb aimed at V and the times that he would be inexcusably absent in important times that they should be together. 

"Well you are here. I am here. Are you staying long?"

"Why? Am I no longer welcome here?" YuuA said in a voice that seemed to V something between a puppy dog and a pleading young girl.

"You are always welcome here. You are also welcome to come and go as you please. This is still yours after all. In a matter of months all that I have will actually be under your name and then you can continue being an idol or do what it is that you really want most in this world."

"At least turn around and look at me."

V did so and saw the tears that were now streaming out of her eyes. He did not like it when she was like this , not because he did not want her crying but because he felt that this made him the most vulnerable.He often wished he knew what to do when she cried like this.

"Don't talk to me about your death as if it is a foregone thing.I really hate it when you do that."

"I am already dead anyway."

"There is still time." YuuA pointed to her chest. "This orb. You can still claim it." 

"Now you are the one talking lightly about your death. You do know what it means when an orb is taken from you right?"

"What of it? I am dead as well."

"So we are a couple of dead people then?" V could not help but say it.

"Well not really but we are  just a couple of decisions closer to making it so. I don't want you to die V."

"The thing is as much as I don't want to die  , I don't want you dying in order for that not to happen. I am out of time now.The orb needs the maiden to love the dragon so the seals can be broken."

YuuA took V's hand and placed it on the middle of her chest and V was surprised at the ease that he could feel the orb within her , it was as if with a single pull it would separate and join his cells. But that can only mean...

"I haven't stopped thinking about you all this time. I actually can't stop and I can't accept a world without you in it. So I won't accept you just turning into dust without a fight. Let us look for a way together. We have in the past didn't we?"

V nodded.With her words who could move time itself he has no choice but to yield. The stubbornness of this woman knows no generation. Time to move forward and look for something else. YuuA took his hand and under the umbrellas they listened to the patter of the rain.