Vestige of the past


    Right now I feel like a vigile of that old pop singer from the 21th century, Justin bieber, after a really heated concert. Apocalypse immediatly returned in his room after the incident and asked me not to let anyone in, no matter what and I intendto do so, he''s too shaken to be a good companion right now. He could get violent anytime so he doesn''t want to expose them to danger.


    |Let us in Imperion.|(Lara)


    |I won''t.|(Imperion)


    |Our husband was swallowed by darkness and yet you prevent us from seeing him.|(Yualina)


    |Even if it''s his request we must see him.|(Eleonore)


    Those wifes of his are freaking stuborn .... well I''ll have to answer some questions from Jean too but I think it''ll be alright, she is still hyper of me having proposed to her after all. Sheesh how can a tomboy like her have been looking forwards to marriage that much.


    |You might not have noticed but Eali just entered.|(Glymina)


    Oh fucccccckkk !!!!!


    |GGGGUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA !!!!!!!!|(Apocalypse)


    We all cover our ears at that deafening roar, I notice something that maybe nobody would because of the noises but Lara hadn''t covered her ears and had just knelt on one knee whit her right hand on her chest. What in the world ??? The expression on her face shows clearly that it isn''t what she wanted to do but her body moved on its own. But what the fuck, Apocalypse why did you roared like that ?


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    Apocalypse POV


    I don''t remember of my time in the void, demons ? A woman ? hugh .... to hell, a headache that''s what I have right now. That woman, that hateful woman .... for unknown reasons I only feel hatred and rage at the very sight of her disgusting face. I almost want to puke when I try to remember it. Who does she thinks she is fooling with that smooth velvet skin. And that horn challenging the heavens ... how dare she show it to me. Who is she and why do I hate her ? What was that feeling I had back then ? Was it disgust ... no, it was fear. WHY ?!! WHY DID I FEAR THIS WOMAN WHO COULDN''T EVEN STOP ME ?!! WHO IS THIS WOMAN ?!!!


    Rage and hatred stirred inside as if feasting on my mind. It''s a good thing I told Imperion to prevent anyone from entering this room, the mirror is broken and many things more. I smashed the window open, I needed to let out all those feeling or else they''ll just consume me


    That''s not normal rage, if it was it would have triggered my tytan form but I feel them, my scales, my claws, my wings and my horns growing all over my body, WHY ?! Dragons aren''t supposed to be that side of me. I put one of my hand on my face and lightly cut myself above the eyes, why isn''t it healing ?! I roar at the sky.


    |GGGGUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA !!!!!!!!|(Apocalypse)


    |Kyaaa !!!|(Eali)


    I turn around at the sudden shout only to find Eali covering her ears. Her eyes are filled with fear, I feel like pucking ... Why is she here ? Why couldn''t it be someone else but her who saw me like that. No .. don''t look at me with such eyes. I jump out of the window and go the the lake. I jump in it and use Ki to allow myself to breath underwater. The pearl at the bottom of the lake .... they are beautiful, just like Eali and my other wives. Is the big and ominous dark hole in the middle of it me ? It might be, I am a cursed child after all. I dive into the hole, maybe I''ll find something good in this dark abyss.


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    Forgiveness POV


    |GGGGUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA !!!!!!!!|(Apocalypse)


    As my mind drifted away because of boredom I was woke up by a powerful yet distant roar, a roar that I hoped to hear again since my lover''s death. A roar of pure rage and hatred towards this world. I put my hands on my mouth as tears start to flow from my eyes. He had returned, my litte boy.


    |Apocalypse... welcome back.|(Forgiveness)


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    Apocalypse''s sister POV


    |GGGGUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA !!!!!!!!|(Apocalypse)


    As this roar echoed in my ears I felt that something was wrong. My breathing became rough and sweat streamed down my face. All this hatred and all this rage echoing in my head, searching a way to my heart. I didn''t know what was happening. My legs had gone weak and my vision fuzzy.


    Voices filled my head, what where they ? Who were they ? Those four voices filled with anger and disgust.


    "To think you share the same blood as him, truly pityful."


    #The great me cannot even find the right words to express how disgusted he his of you.#


    ~To think his mind created me to replace you, puff, I can see why.~


    *I''ll make ya pay .... SISTER !!!*


    All that hate flowing through those words, searching a way to my heart, I couldn''t handle it. Why ? What did I ever done to deserve such hate by those voice? Why did one of them called me sister ? Why ? Grandfather came and hugged me. It was only a whisper but I heard him say with a voice full of scorn.


    |So this cursed child also came back huh ? I''ll make sure he''ll find the same end as his father?|(Grandfather)


    I did not say anything about the voices, too terrified of what was just said.


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    Apocalypse POV


    I swim deeper and deeper until not even the moonlight show on my body. I soon entered a cavity, an underground cave, it was filled with glowing moss and other sub-marine plants. Some weird-ass looking fish passed by me. I swim farther in this cave, maybe for several hours, don''t know I had lost the track of time. Soon ruins could be seen in the clear water, old house, walls, even a castle. Something was calling me there. I entered the castle ruins and went even deeper. I past several things that looked like automatic tourret, some even fired at me but it wasn''t something to worry about.


    Skeleton could be seen everywhere in those ruins, they were all at least 2 meteres tall except for those that were more children like. After a bit of swimming I entered a room, it had sixteen tank with people inside. In front of the sixteen tanks filled with green juice was a slab of stone. I swam to it and read it since I was apparently able to.Stolen content warning: this tale belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences elsewhere.


    ''Oh child who is reading our memory, those sixteen people are our leaders and their close family. Oh child of the Vermillion if you read this help them rise again.''


    I swam to one of the tank, floating inside was a man with his right arm and left leg missing, the right side of his face and his body had been burned but there were still feature I could recognise on his face.


    |F-father ?|(Apocalypse)


    Although mutilated he was still breathing ..... how tough are we to survive even like this ? Though the legend say him dead .... did the dragons believed he was dead or did they let him alive on purpose ? I could surely do something about those burns but the missing limbs are out of my ability. Also it seems the Vermillion knew a way to put people under sleep for several hundreds of years. A back up plan I guess ? Using my Ki I harden my hair as well as I make a single hair that is several meters long. It is as hard as steel and it''s hair. I unplug each of the tanks and tie my hair to it. The green liquid they were floating in was slowly leaving the tanks so I decided to hurry up to the surface.


    While swimming back to the surface I was careful not to make th tanks bummp against something. Since the hole from where I came from was too small for the tanks to pass I had to enlarge it with earth magic and patch it up after putting the tanks on the shore. I feel like I am playing in someone''s palm, that hole wasn''t here before. I get out of the water and sit on the grass, looking at what I guess is my father .... Three meters and twenty centimeters tall I''d say. The tanks are almost empty from this green liquid, by the way I didn''t looked too much into it but that liquid ... it''s slime isn''t ? I take back a proper appearance.


    I look at his chest rising up and down, yup he is alive. I can''t say if I am lucky or unlucky today. I can see the other rushing here. Tsk, does those idiots even understand the meaning of wanting to be alone. Of course Imperion is first to arrive, followed by Lara and then .... Limia, maybe they couldn''t let her alone.


    |Are you alright ?! Fucking idiot, leaving like that. You aren''t a protagonist of a shitty rom-com !!|(Imperion)


    |B-baka, Apocalypse no baka !!|(Lara)


    I am going to kill her.


    Limia look around and put her hands on the tank I keep looking at. It is empty of green juice now. He is breathing yet he does not open his eyes. I wonder, does he dream about mother ? I am sure he is my father, he has the same face has the man that dream. She circle around the tank and looks at me.


    |Who are they ?|(Limia)


    |.... Our parents .... I guess.|(Apocalypse)


    |What ?!|(Imperion)


    I point to each of the tanks one after the other. Due to their figure I can guess what were their title, for those who had one anyway. A man who looks a little overweight, must be gluttony. a blond woman with a dignified expression, pride. An androginous man with a body that would make everyone including me question their sexuality, Lust. A man holding on a jewel, greed, A woman sleeping in a blanket, Sloth. That mutilated man in front of me who still has an arrogant gri on his face, wrath. .... Though I can''t say I know who Envy is.


    I stand up and walk to those tanks. I look at the face of the man I think is my father. So this grin his something we pass on to each other huh ?


    |We take them back ta tha mansion.|(Apocalypse)


    |Wha... Okay okay no need to look at me like that. It''s not like it''s my fault your wife can dive into shadows.|(Imperion)


    ....He is right, I can''t blame him for what happened and I can''t blame Eali either, it is my fault for having such a bad temper. Sigh, we take the take the tanks two by two so we will have to do two travel to bring them all to the mansion since the only one who can carry it are Imperion, Lara and me. On our way to the mansion we pass by the rest of my wives, they look at me with mixed feeling in their eyes but I can recognize worry and love, I don''t stop since I want it to be over as quickly as possible.


    After taking all the tanks to the mansion we got them out and put them on a bed. I made the servants call a doctor and feed and hydrated them properly. While waiting for the doctor I was in the living room with my wives. We are drinking Yua''s personnal tea but the tension in the room is so tense you could cut it with a hot wire or a butter knife if you''re a little cheeky. Yua slowly put her cup on the table and foldher arms in front of her chest.


    |So care to explain what happens ... from yesterday to right now.|(Yualina)


    |I was curious what it felt like ta be a woman so I changed into one for a day, I met Limia and her brother who turned out ta be werewolves sent by their Elders ta find someone powerful so he could eat them. I got in their radars, I had ta kidnap Limia. Ya attacked me when I got back and Glymina almost raped Limia so I went ta Imperion for an advice but it ended up in a spar, I got caught up in tha moment and used a void spell after that I don''t remember much but I was blinded in rage and didn''t wanted ya to see me like that. Eali saw me so I ran away to tha lake and I found a hole and further down in this holes there were tha sixteen people I brought back. That''s pretty much it.|(Apocalypse)


    *thunk*, That noise was Lara who slammed her head against the table. She got up with shaking arms and a douptful expression on her face.


    |Y-y-you did w-what ?|(Lara)


    |I won''t say it again, such a shame ya didn''t listen.|(Apocalypse)


    |I see, I see. Sigh, dear, if we agreed on marrying you is because we want to help you in those situation. You can rely on us a little more. You once said to us that in your homeland there was a legend about a Tytan who carried the world on his own, but unlike him you have us so please dear, make some space and let us help you carrying it.|(Yualina)


    .... My name isn''t Atlas. Well I guess that''s what love is for but even though I am Wrath I have my own Pride. It''s true that by marrying me they agreed on becoming my strengh but I''d like to avoid that, losing one of them would mean the end of an entire household to me, not my household of course .... The household of those who would have taken them away fom me, and their friends''s .... and their dogs too, they bark and bark and bark it is annoying.


    |I guess ya are right but when I say do not come near me..... please do so, I felt really betrayed earlier.|(Apocalypse)


    |... Okay.|(Eali)


    *knock knock*


    |Lord Apocalypse the doctor said that they were perfectly healthy although he was not sure when they will wake up.|(Maid)


    |Hmmm ? He did not contacted me before examinating them ?|(Apocalypse)


    |He said that seeing the one in need was more important than courtesy, though he was watched over by Lord Imperion.|(Maid)


    |I see I see, I''ll go see our guests and the doctor then.|(Apocalypse)


    I put my cup of tea down and get up. I go to the room were the man I think as my father is sleeping. Idgar and Imperion are already in. I walk to the bed and sit down, the man is sweating so I take a towel and whip the sweat off his forehead. I put my hand on his cheek and began to pour my Ki in his body, I make his burns heal but I leave his scars if he really my father then I bet my mother loved his cool battle scar .... I hope that''s the case.


    |So that''s your old man ?|(Idgar)


    |... I think, I can''t say for sure but I have tha feeling he is.|(Apocalypse)


    |And you Imperion shouldn''t your parents also be among them ?|(Idgar)


    |I''ll wait until they all woke up before thinking of a such happy cliché. Plus I don''t think it''s a good idea to leave this guy alone when he is like that.|(Imperion)


    |Sorry to have kept you waiting my Lord, some of the patients had a little fever so I had to cure them.|(Voice)


    I turn my head to the side to see the owner of the voice, he is a middle-age man with long greyish hair. Alice recomanded him when I caught a cold practicing Ki. In modern Earth a cold isn''t that big of a deal but here hundreds of people die because of cold every week. He is skilled for a world with a medieval setting, so if he say that everything is okay I''ll trust him.


    |Thank ya, Ya''ve been a great help. I heard ya did not know when they will wake up.|(Apocalypse)


    |As your lordship said I do not know when they will wake up.|(Doctor)


    |Not even an estimation ? I am sorry ta put pressure on ya but I do believe that those people are fairly important ta me and and friend Imperion|(Apocalypse)


    |If I really had to say they should wake up this month but wether it will be tomorow or next week I can''t say for sure my lordship.|(Doctor)


    |Thank ya, ya can leave.|(Apocalypse)


    He bowed and left the room. Well at least they won''t be vegetables for several years. I look at the man''s sleeping face, he is breathing calmly, is he dreaming about mother ? It would be good that he do. Today was a day were lots of thing happened because of my own idiocy, sigh where are my good grades in maneurism ? Yeah right, I skipped them. I leave the room and go to my bedroom, tomorow I must go on a date with Yualina so I better rest well.