Author's Note: So, I decided to create a Deemo fanfic for fun after getting inspired by its beautiful plot. Please don't kill me for not updating the ROTG fanfic... I'm still working on that one. In fact, ideas will be greatly appreciated. I'm not sure if I should make this a series of oneshots or should I just keep it like this, though...
Disclaimer: I own nothing. This belongs entirely to Rayark.
Deemo Oneshot
Per ardua ad astra...
Through struggle to the stars...
The girl stared into the endless dark sky, so devoid of lights and spread throughout the world like it was painting everything in black. Pure, lonely black. A sense of solitude grasped at the girl's empty hands.
Altiora petamus
Volente deo lucete stalleae...
Let us seek higher things
Shine stars as the divine will...
Slowly, she reached out towards the void, towards that tiny opening, the window, which poured divine light, that led to her home. Too far. Stranded. The starless sky seemed to make the window even smaller, the ink of night attempting to paint it dark as well.
Hope. Courage.
It struggled, fought against the darkness consuming it. That tiny shaft of light that led the way home... She could see it... So close, but yet so far... The girl closed her outstretched hand into a fist.
She had to leave. She would escape this place with him. She would show him how it is like to view the beautiful upper world. To be liberated from this cage of darkness, to bathe in the light and experience life.
But, no. The blackness pulled at them, just like how death claimed him. The world was unjust and cruel.
Freedom...? Light...? Mem... ories...? What... Where... Who...?
Loss. Despair.
Myosotis petals bloomed under the girl's feet as she struggled to remember. Her white dress and lush brown hair fluttered in the gentle wind that caressed her, tempting her to stay behind, to leave the upper world, for the darkness provided comfort, yes, comfort.
Comfort that she could see him one last time. Comfort that she could still slip her tiny hand into his that would always wrap hers in a warm embrace. Comfort that she could still be with him through death.
But she had to leave, even when the other one tried so desperately to stop her.
And as the platform finally lifted her into the sky, towards that tiny shaft of fading light, she realised:
"... Goodbye, my dearest sister Alice..."
"... I told you... Never leave... Unless you want him to disappear forever..."
Then a sparkling drop of liquid fell from the little girl's cheek, staining the grass with despair, sadness, resignation.
And as she journeyed to finally reach the light, she lost all contact with the alluring darkness, all contact with her beloved.