ONE DAY It was on a day unlike any other when she first saw him. Or should she say, part of her saw him. As Human's would say, it was "love" or even something more primal, at first sight. But everything changes and soon you realize the time is up. And that only the memories remain. How many or how few they are. They still remain. It had taken that one day for her to realize she needed him. And for him to realize he loved her. But things can be taken away at an instance and all that is left is one day. It had been a routine day. But then the demon infected her. Slowly eating away at her and destroying her being to make it its own. Reality slowly left and fantasy remained. The Fred I knew slowly disappeared. To be replaced with something different, more feral. An ancient goddess. Even knowing what might happen, I wouldn't have leave her there alone. Fred slowly disappeared into a world of her own. She was distant, dazed. But we held up hope that we could do anything about it. She believed everything was fine. That the handsome man would save her. And we believed her as always. It was a lie. She died in my arms and when it was over, I was left with what appeared to be Fred standing over me. I hoped that she had survived this and returned to us. The person who returned was not Fred. It was just a shell of the fiery woman, she had been. The woman I had fallen in love with. She had been taken over completely by a goddess, who looked on us as cattle. She did not know us, or her former life. She was a shell, who knew not how to live in our world, yet had the innocence of a child. Illyria had taken her away from me. And all it took was... ONE DAY ***THE END*** Please send any comments good or bad to: illyria@illyria.tv or fred@illyria.tv