Stranded in Space

This is the third part after the sunset walk, “Stranded in Space”. The heroine was left stranded in space after a huge explosion at the lunar base where the hero met his long lost sister. Somehow, the hero managed to escape with his sister and his other friends. The hero decided to save the heroine even if it means risking his life. He left his escape pod in search of the heroine. Meanwhile, the heroine’s life support was running out. Perhaps, the impact caused by the explosion had triggered her consciousness. She felt lost, drifting endlessly in space. She began to feel hopeless and thought that she was going to die, drifting away without saying goodbye to her friends. And so, she passed out again, this time the oxygen supply had run out.

The hero found the heroine just in time and caught her in his arms. The heroine’s back- up life support was restored. She opened her eyes to see the two rings attached by her necklace drifting in front of her eyes. One of them belongs to her, the other is the hero’s which she has borrowed from. She then realized that the hero had come to her rescue. The two drifted together aimlessly until they found a stranded spaceship.

When they were inside she asked, “Can you give me a hug…a tight one?” He asked why and she replied, “I need to know if I’m alive.” They spent sometime talking to each other, and the hero said, “We still need to figure out how to go back.” They headed for the pilot’s seat when they received a signal from earth. The air station on earth managed to locate the ship’s location and piloted the ship to return safely. All the two can do now is wait.

The heroine felt happy that they were going to see everyone again but she knew everything would change upon her return. So she approached the hero and sat on the hero’s lap. She said that she wanted to remain this way, “To me, you give me the most comfort.” “I just want to stay this way for a while longer.” She mentioned. She hugged the hero, putting her head on this shoulder. Soon, after much persuasion the heroine returned to her seat next to the hero. Just then, a voice was heard. “Is sorceress Rinoa there?” The hero was stunned. He looked at the trembling heroine. He switched off the radio and knelt beside the heroine. It was the hero’s duty to terminate sorceress but he said, “I would never do that. If you really are a sorceress…I would be your knight to protect you.” The heroine broke down into tears and cried on his shoulder. All the hero can do is to spend the moment with the saddened heroine. The heroine knew that she would be put into deep sleep when she returned and she would never see the hero again.

This was the hero’s decision to protect the sorceress, disobeying his duty to save someone important to him. He knew that many would hate a sorceress but he would be there to stand by her.