I do not hold owner ship of either Demon Souls or Familiar of Zero; this is a free fan based writing
The mausoleum was massive.
It held a vast space, where the faintest whisper could echo throughout the great chamber. In its center was a statue, almost as tall as the chamber itself, of a robed maiden suspended in the air. Stair wound down along the walls from highest balcony, connecting to the second and ending at the ground. The room itself was circular in shape; with the walls bear of any decoration save but a few candles to light the steps.
At the bottom stood the only sign of décor, two simple connected flights of stairs with a set of pillars on each level and an arch between them over a bottomless hole. Each of the pillars hard a stone tablet, depicting a different person of sorts. They were in order a king, a miner, a queen, a chieftain though this pillar was broken oddly enough, a bishop, and what looked like a woman in a mask of a bird.
The final piece one might notice of the great chamber was the pit in the center. Not so much the pit itself, but the curious ever rotating runic circles spread across it. Writing in an incomprehensible language, they glowed in a light green color and moved across the empty space like water on glass, suspended by an unseen force.
It was on this unseen force that a woman in black stood.
"I will be leaving soon…" she said. Above her on the archway a man in metal armor nodded.
"I know."
"You hunt me down won't you?"
"I will."
Though she couldn't see his face, she knew a solemn expression must have existed beneath his helm.
"I always knew something like this might one day happen." He muttered "It was simply a matter of how or why." She cast her eyes down.
"Yes… I guess after what happened then…"
"No, before that," She looked back at him, surprised "It's was from the moment I first met you that I knew that we might one day be turned against each other." A sad smile graced her lips.
"But how will you follow me, you are still bound to this place are you not?"
"One can only open the door to this place so another can pass through. If one has the power to open a door for you, then so to can another open the door for me."
A noise interrupted their conversation. The circles beneath the woman's feet began to a line and beneath them the endless abyss was filled with a green light.
"It looks like I we be going now." Said the woman as the circles began to expand. "Despite what the outcome may be, I still hope to see you again."
The circle reached the edges of the pit and the woman fell in to the green void below. The armored man watched for a moment as the circles began to shrink back, then he reaching a pouch and pulled out a blue stone. He held it above the closing gate way, waited a moment, and then dropped it into the opening just before it closed.
The light faded and the magic rings resumed their original strange dance across the empty void.
The man crossed his legs and like a fisher man he waited as time slowly passed on.
"Now I wonder, who will it be that opens the door for me."
And so he waited, and waited, and waited.
He would wait till the end of time if needed, no matter how impossible his presence made that.