Everyone was dead. Life was destroyed everywhere.
The actions of a singular disastrously powerful being
...
Shadow God was by far the most mysterious of the Gods - in fact he was the God of mysteries. his realm was the last to be found, his lineage had been the last to be discovered and his actions had been the most unknown.
All those facts made null by one man. Of course, that man was Sunny.
He had been originally blessed by Shadow God; he had held that very lost lineage in his arms, and he was the first 'living' being to enter the shadow realm
Their connections did not end there either - the concept of death and the ability to die was created by the God and Sunnys very existence was based on death. he died almost thousands of times and even had to kill himself just to become the sovereign of death.
so, one would think that sunny would have enjoyed the death around him however he did not.
not in the slightest.
Turning his head around to see the full view of the carnage plaguing his vision. Corpse after corpse all people he knew laying there. He could now tell just how foolish they had been covering it up as bravery
The worst part of it was that his life had just became more calm, more certain he had known what he needed to do and almost everything on how to do it, even the typical horrors that he was faced with became slightly more manageable - well in actuality sunny had just become a horror himself
Afterall a being of the supreme rank no longer sat in the realm of mortal understanding
And above all that he faked his death to the entire world - then placed the only other suitable supreme on the throne governing humanity and aided her from the shadows
That supreme was obviously, The Sovereign of Humanity, Changing Star
His changing star
Nephis and Sunnys relationship had always coveted by a myriad of issues, each blocking chance of love for far too long.
the initial issue being their difference in values and goals, then their separation and the emergence of the Shadow Bond and the power difference it created, then Antarctica and the 'distractions' it created, and then the ... consequences of losing his fate. Honestly, they were almost star-crossed lovers
Especially the Bond - hell that innate ability almost made him kill her on multiple occasions, the fact that his freedom was taken and he was reduced to a mere slave making the tenacious blood in his veins boil.
But that was all in the past
Now however the main issue between them was that the shadows had a much deeper memory of the stars. That was to say Sunny lamented the fact that only 1 of them remembered their past but he was not regretful, they had a decent relationship now and as for the matter of 'giving up' his fate, well sunny knew if he chose not to, he would have ended up with more regrets than he does now
Sunny couldn't help but remember the simpler times in life - That silly little goal he had of a memory shop, honestly it was quite laughable. Well, he did get to live his dream and a bit more with the memory shop even if it was done while hunting Great and Corrupted beings on the skeleton of a colossal being and training his sister to awaken naturally a feat not accomplished since hundreds of years ago and speaking to a skull in an unknown realm on tips to enter the realm of godlings .The land that had once nearly taken his life on multiple occasions became his base of operations as well as the land of which his shadow clan resided. Fun times
If Sunnys younger self heard of a fraction of his deeds, well the poor mongrel would have a heart attack
Sunny and Nephis were currently the strongest 'humans' on the side of humanity, but they were not the only stars in the sky. Up there on the moon was the mysterious 3rd sovereign. But he was not someone they thought was a really large threat yet
It was just that there would be a lot of collateral damage if he were to come down and fight with Sunny and Nephis
But aside from the Rising stars across the world there were, hundreds of awakened, More and more ascended and the number of saints had grown exponentially too. And soon there was expected to be a few more supreme as a few of humanities strongest saints were preparing to challenge the 4th nightmare that was prohibited by the world's previous rulers.
Even when the waking world had been overrun with nightmare gates things seemed to have hope and humanity had begun to flourish once more. That was a trademark of humanity after all - the ability to adapt and persevere
But that seemed to not be in the will of the unholy.
Across the vast expanse of the dream realms skies all beings saw it descending from a place beyond the sky like a falling star.
Only this star had no radiance. It was a mass of pulsing darkness that seemed to be alive or at least possess sentience. Once it entered the atmosphere the creature began to spilt, A portion of it bring generously donated to each part of the dream realm. And then it landed
And then it began its march.
The darkness becoming solid rising taking the form of a titanic creature
If the beings of sacred and divine represented a specific concept, then this one, like sunny embodied death
No, it wasn't death it was more like the desire to devour everything. To erase everything. To have ensured everything crumbled down.
The embodiment of Destruction
It cared not for rank or class. Everything fell even the lifeless things like the citadels and man-made structures.
Everything in its wake died
Awakened. Ascended. Fallen. Transcendent. Corrupted. Great
None escaped its power. And Sunny had an inkling that even horrors humanity had yet to discover. We're killed too
As it began its march of destruction across the realms the 'creatures' walked and made their way to the region that had recently became the center point of humanity and held the most life
The region in question was vast and seemingly endless. A large tree of indefinite proportions rested there towards the middle
It was not until recently that the edge of the Burned Forest had been completely cleared of the centipede like creatures residing there and so no one had even known of its existence.
So, when Changing Star announced her intention to move humanity to this area it was believed that she deemed it safe and so the decision and location were not questioned
Though if they had known the burned forest was just recently swarming with thousands of great beasts and that it wasn't changing star who killed them. How would they react?
Naturally it was Sunny that cleared the Burned Forest, or as they knew him, The lord of shadows. Honestly speaking however, it was better that it was unknown he had cleared heart god's domain.
After all. He was supposed to be dead
Not that death could earn him
The region had steadily developed and was a magnificent sight. It quickly became the roots of humanity. If one wanted a chance of peace they would come here If one wanted to become an awakened, they would leave here All roads connected here. Figuratively and literally
Perhaps it was that reason that the mass of darkness came here next. All of the vassals combined into a conjoined mass each of the bodies forming a colossal version of the mini versions
Naturally the mundane had already began evacuations into a dream gate to a certain sunless shore as all those infected by the spell prepared for a battle.
One they could not win
The mass of people gathered seemed gigantic.
Awakened. Ascended. Transcendent and the 3 Supreme's
The valor saints that joined changing star as well as the saints of song and her daughter's. Others too like the house if night and remaining government forces
Most eye catching were 2 figures that stood. Perhaps sensing the impeding ruin they too came to give aid. The children of anvil
Morgan and Mordret
Other important figures were there too, Kai, Cassia, Effie, Jet
Once humanity had gathered their warriors a warm feeling enveloped them. Empowering them and giving them strength
Naturally that bright radiance came from Nephis
Looking up she was in her partial transformation. Her bright wings keeping her a lift. Her blade seeming to catch the sunlight and make it more powerful.
And just as the comforting warmth enveloped then an unfathomable cold chill made its way into their spine.
They looked around and noticed the shadows around them grow deeper, darker, more sinister and then shifting from them a being flew out 2 wings on its back.
Adorned on its face was the mask of a nebulous demon. His blade seemed to be fashioned out of the shadows he came from and then suddenly, In front of humanity's last stand there came a shadow creature
A stone saint that raised her blade and then in the blink of an eye it seemed as if an endless amount of nightmare creatures had appeared from nowhere. And stood behind her as if she were their general.
They numbered hundreds, no thousands of Nightmare creatures. All of equally dreadful quality.
Even within the shadow legion were corrupted and great Nightmare creatures. Even cursed creatures
A terrifying wolf. A seemingly endless worm. And many other horrific forms sat in the mix, the human army had even noticed a few humans thrown in the mix
The human army looked scared before they saw a figure rise from the ground. Wings of black appearing on his back whilst his hand held a fearsome black odachi. He ascended into the air and hovered besides changing star
Everyone's thoughts held the same
'The lord of shadows lives'
None questioned him being alive. After all they had realized something. He was controlling the vast army behind them. That and he was not just a regular supreme. He was a supreme titan. No. He was 7 supreme titans
Upon seeing the creatures gathered in the back all the humans summoned their echo's. Simultaneously all transcendents assumed their transformations. A dragon ascending into the air. A giant appearing besides it along with many other bizarre forms
Once all the vassals of the unholy titans grew close enough...
They combined. Growing in into a size that reached the clouds. It was a giant. It's head adorning a mask that was a mass of skulls. Numerous spikes protruded from its body. 6 arms oddly placed around its back each with claws they looked as if they threaten to rip the fabric of fate itself. Sunny looked at the beast's head. It had seemed that the skull mask was not just a mask
It was its actual structure. 1000s of dark Spears within its mouth supposed to be teeth.
Looking up at the giant. Everyone realized. They had no chance. Awakened, ascended, transcendents all were bugs in front of the beast and yet they continued their charge towards the beast
That was the main trait of humanity after all. Their tenaciousness was unrelenting. Our perseverance or drive.
And perhaps that had hoped that numbers could give them a little chance to destroy the unholy god
It was not.
Almost as if it was mocking them. When the humans, echoes, shadow and shades charged at the creature.
It vanished
No, it didn't vanish. It dissipated into a tide of darkness and flooded all the land that they once stood on. The darkness looked like a blanket that had covered the land
Every one on the field had a voice in their mind. Frantic and worried
" All of you run now! Run or you're all going to die!"
The voice of saint song if the fallen was interrupted by a cough from her
She continued after a moment
"Unholy... Titan. It's too strong run... Live"
Sunny felt something wrong. Cassie was supposed to be safe far back in the reaches of the army relaying information from a safe distance. Sunny using his shadow sense. And he saw Cassias form. Within her chest there seemed to be a mass of darkness. Her eyes shifting black veins entering her eyes
Barely. As if it took everything
" it's been wonderful knowing you everyone. Kai, Effie, Neph, Jet and even you Sunny. A shame I never got all my memories back..." she paused a moment a mass of blood and black fluid being exposed from her mouth onto the ground
" Always a price when dealing with these divine bastard's huh sunny? "
She smiled. Sunny had a depressed smile on his face. It was true that sunny had never seen her the same after the events of the forgotten shore. Nor had he ever truly forgiven her but seeing how she had died. Sunny had said nothing. Nothing but one word
even his signature phrase could not escape his lips
Saint song of the fallen. Survivor of the forgotten shore. Blind oracle. Survivor of Ariel tomb. She who had altered fate. Was dead
Her eyes were completely black and the withing the veins around her body had blackened completely. And from within her chest it seemed that a ball of spikes a meter on distance each. Had shot out from her chest.
The warning that she gave was her last gift to her firsts. A gesture she had hoped would at least let them retreat with their lives. But that was just a delusion. The darkness that mended into the ground rose again. His Time not as one giant colossus but as 100s of tiny and big ones. Each warrior of humanity seemed to have been given their own personal sparring partner. All below the transcendent rank were wiped out instantaneously like mortal ice placed next to a divine flame
Humans, echoes, shades all gone
Each of the transcendents currently faced off against a dark version of themselves each holding the power of an unholy titan. The first to fall was Mordret, his attempt to enter the soup of the creature killing him instantly. The next we're the vapor saints, Tyris and Roan seemed to be killed by beasts matching their transformations. After them the song Sisters fell shortly after.
High in the sky 2 fearsome dragons were locked in an Aerial battle but then one grabbed onto the neck of the other and bit down on its neck, severing it. Saint Nightingale was dead. The next to fall was saint jet, the dark mist seemed to devour cover her and when it subsided she was no more. After her saint Athena fell too, her dark counterpart having punched it's hand through her chest and moved it down cleaving her in 2
And like that all the saints were dead
Perhaps because it was a part of their domains but they had felt all of it. The lord of shadows sensing the endless death around him and perceiving it through the shadows. Changing star feeling it as they were all connected to her domain of longing
The 2 supreme had managed to hold a fight this long with their counterparts. But it was futile. They had managed to fend of the counterparts, but they just conjoined into its original cloud reaching form. Its hand pressed down like a divine judgment threating to crush Nephis. All she heard was the voice of the lord of shadows before being violently pushed from the way being saved. The same could not be said for the gloomy avatar
The pain was unimaginable, horrifying and excruciating all at the same time. It was the same pain as if he was forming a new core whilst trying to look into the tapestry of fate.
The battle had continued for a while but they soon realized that the titan was merely playing with them. It had won and it knew that. Humanity was dead aside from a single avatar of the divine shadow as well as a mangled changing star her stamina drained to where healing was too difficult
The corrupt God squatted it's already hunched form and looked at the divine aspect duo and sunny noticed what seemed to a smile spread across its horrifying face. Showing it'd jagged teeth
"damn Bastard... I'll kill you... Rip you limb from limb"
sunny managed to get out as blood... Well whatever he had for blood gushed out of his mouth but his words clearly meant nothing. The dark one simply raised a finger and a spear of darkness rose from the ground and impaled changing star.
A scream. A horrendous scream that could burst the ears of anyone near was heard. That scream alone. The hatred the rage itself even managed to shock the titan. The source of that scream naturally was from a certain spiteful shadow
Spite. Spite was Sunnys very essence. It was his very character. To repay a drop with a spring. For the good or the bad. Killing the knight in the ruined cathedral. Killing nightmare and Solvane in his second nightmare. Killing Daeron in his second nightmare and then the winter beast not long after sunny was known for his spite
He was not going let it go. Even if he was going to die
Sunny willed and the shadows surged pushing upwards. They formed into the shape of a giant in his own likeness and soon a blade of shadows accompanied the rising giant.
Sunny fought against the giant in this form for a bit but he could tell
The titan was toying with him
It seemed to enjoy it too. But maybe it decided his suffering would be better and so. It grabbed at Sunnys shadow giant head and crushed it.
Sunny tried to repair the giant over and over he willed but it continued to dissipate. He fell from a towering height and crashed onto the ground. His shadow manifestation dissipating completely
He tried again and again
Sunnys mind whirled
'Why the hell isn't it working...'
And then his mind clicked. And he began to laugh
'So, a supreme light and shadow both failed against... An unholy darkness... Our natural enemy how infuriatingly poetic '
His laugh was mad as his head turned and looked at the carnage. All his friends. People he didn't know. Some were even his enemies
And then his eyes landed on Nephis
He laughed
He laughed as tears fell. He walked knowing full well that the Titan was watching his actions.
Sunny walked over to Nephis. Her veins were black. Her body impaled as she stared with dead eyes whilst impaled on that spike
"Your nightmare is over"
He said those simple words. Closing her eyes and kissing her forehead one last time
Sunny walked back towards the direction of the Titan who watched this all with a disgusting smile on its face. And hearing Sunnys words it was simply more delighted
" Suffering so much. Losing everything. Escaping fate. And yet it was never enough"
The tears stopped. His laugh subsided
Something changed in the depths of his soul. But in his case, His shadow.
Sunny walked to the towering unholy titan. He passed all of his friends. Enemies and people, he didn't even know
A pedestal of shadows forming behind his feet and created a tower sunny
Perhaps the Titan found it amusing but it allowed Sunnys actions. A pathetic mistake
Sunny took inspiration from his love.
He focused on his core. His last core. His titan core and then
He exploded
The explosion created was not simply great
It was magnificent
Just like Nephis with her ability to detonate her soul core unleashing the flames of the sun God
Sunny did so too detonate his shadow Core and seeming to tap in the power of shadow god too.
Death
From his body it spread. Soul weave had been keeping his broken core from completely dying but he felt the pain. But he began to smile. From his core a shady ink flowed. That ink seemed to flow across everything killing it
The grass of the burned forest seemed to wither and die. It continued to spread across this section of the dream realm and over it too. Sunny felt the influx of fragments as whatever little creatures remained that had yet to be killed by the titan entered his soul
The shadows engulfed everything. The burned forest. The Storm seas depths. The hollow mountain. Raven heart. Bastion. Sunny felt it go deeper. Even the underworld and shadow realm wasn't spared.
Life across the realms all died. And it was simply because of sunny. All of it being killed. Erased. Withering away and nourishing him like it had never existed
Sunby felt it through the pain and suffering of the core destruction as well as the formation of his new cores. He also heard it
The anguished screams of the Titan as It roared trying to get rid of the strange power
Sunny had suddenly heard laughter out of nowhere. It wasn't the laughter of the Titan like last time
It was something vast. Powerful
And the almost simultaneously he heard the voice of the spell
The very spell he had long been separated from. The spell he lost when he lost his fate.
The spell was speaking.
It spoke of something. A memory? Echo? An attribute? He had no idea. It was simply there.
[Chance of Peace]
[Description: A shadow cold and endless freed itself even from the chains of its bonds and even Fate itself could not hold him and so he was deemed fate less.
The Shadow was lonesome and alone. Traveled the realm. It slew its enemies and avenged its comrades. It wrought death upon the world in honor of its progenitor
The Shadow intertwined its life with that of others. A being that did not exist in fates web yet was able to influence it.
Fate would not allow That and thus attacked it
After all of his efforts he was harmed wrongfully. Hurt and alone he looked into the eyes of his lover and let out a howl of pain.
The pain was heard through the realms and even beyond the grave.
And from the beyond the grave the dead listened.
The Dead gods and daemons and fate itself
That howl seemed to hold the truth. The truth of pain and so they agreed to give the shadow another chance
A being fated to hold the lineage of the daemon of fate, and the one shadow god chose to hold his lineage
He who grew a child of nether. He who braved Ariel's tomb. He who freed hope. Love of suns heir. Friend of the moon's grandchild. He who freed the heirs of storm
A being so intertwined with the gods and daemons. And yet wronged so deeply.
You are given a chance to transcend the river if time and return.]
[do you accept. Lost from light]
Sunny laughed again.
"Gods and Daemons. GOD'S AND DAEMONS. always the gods and daemons messing with my life. Well at least it's in a good way. Whatever I Accept"
He smirked. His trademark Devilish grin
"And this time I will kill everything and save everyone"
[you have accepted the option to return]
[sunless... Live a better life]
Sunny found it odd. It seemed that the spell had actually attempted to speak kindly.
[initializing regression]
Sunny suddenly heard the voice of 2 beings then. Just as he noticed his body fading from his legs moving up slowly similar to how a memory is when dismissed
"Ah little divine shadow. To think you'd actually go through all this. To think that vile things lineage devoured mine and yet I can't help but agree with him. You truly deserve this chance. Kill sunless. Kill so you and those you love can live"
The voice that spoke was so deep. But it seemed gentle. Welcoming. Sunny knew whom it was
Shadow god.
And then there was the second one
" Foolish epigone. To think fate would deal you a hand so cruel..." the voice paused bursting into maniacal laughter "... even I was surprised. But you have a goal. The dream needs to be put to sleep. Permanently. So, you will see to that."
It laughed
"Slaughter everything and live..." Weaver paused his voice showing genuine surprise before continuing his laugh now a small chuckle, or was that to an act "...Oh? it seems my siblings and aunts wish to help you this should aid you greatly little shadow"
[ You have slain an unholy titan: Corrupted God of darkness]
Sunny hadn't anticipated that he would kill the titan nor that it was a god well he hadn't expected any of this but when you unleash the power of the god of death...
"What..." was all sunny could think before it felt as if he was experiencing every piece of pain he ever experienced multiplied by a million
[ You have accomplished the impossible. Your treachery... No, your resolve knows no bounds
[Lost from light. The formless nature of your shadow has taken the form of the divine darkness]
[Your shadow is growing]
[You have achieved the impossible once more]
[You have stolen the power of a god]
[you have received a secondary aspect]
[ you have stolen a true name and made it yours]
[ you have received multiple attributes]
[you have accepted the power to return]
[you will be transported to the day it all began. To the day you had first entered the nightmare spell]
[ good luck. Chosen of shadow and weaver. Fate... And the spell]