Prince Eclipse

"I failed..."

   The stark reality of it hit him full force as he breathed the words into the near collapsed ruin of his castle. As he lay where he fell when the explosion went off in his laboratory in the dungeon, bleeding and slowly being crushed by one of the larger pieces of debris. He realized with no small amount of shock that with this failure, depression had worked it's way into his thoughts. He threw the debris off himself in anger causing an avalanche of once beautiful stonework to cascade down around him, forcing him to dodge by diving through a small opening to his left. Having done so, he found himself in a small pocket of open space under what was probably several hundred tons of his home, considering his room was in a tower. After all, his bed didn't have the ability to teleport in front of him. He didn't have the patience or the magic to fix it now. Especially considering he was still healing from the blast, opting instead to clear the debris from his once taller bed and fall to his back letting himself lay spread eagle on it and think, slowly allowing his thoughts to wander.' Where did I go wrong? Why out of all of the universes, out of all of the different forms of myself, was I the only one to survive this long?  Which act of supreme evil did I commit that has led to my life becoming a torturous experience? What am I doing wrong that keeps causing these explosions?  Where have all the joyous frivolities that I once enjoyed goon?' As he realized his mind was becoming slurred he let out a loud burst of near hysterical laughter causing the now ruins to shake in what would be considered a frightening manner to most others.

          It also caused him to cough violently sending spikes of pain shooting through his diaphragm and some blood flying from his mouth. But seeing as he did not want to dig himself out again he ceased laughing forced his coughing to stop and  let his thoughts roam once more... And near immediately regretted it. For as his luck continued to hold his mind had strayed back to when he had arrived home...to when he had first met her. Tears began to stream from his eyes as every carefully crafted barrier between his emotions and him came crashing down around him, not unlike his castle.

"To Tartarus with it." He said, his once rich baritone voice filling the small hole he currently found himself in with a pitiable sound, broken and choked due to the emotions currently filling his mind. It would be a welcome distraction to visit old memories especially those of family, friends, lovers, and her...

Five years ago...'Well, for them anyway'