Welcome to my fanfiction of The Shadow of The Colossus!
This chapter is a bit jumpy, but that is due to the multiple places the characters are, and the different ways they are thinking.
but, in this hodgepodge, I hope I make a decent introduction.
The Light of True Love
Chapter 1: Just Out of Reach...
Wander could feel the shadow being tore from him, as he struggled not to be pulled with it, it devoured the form and entity that was Dormin...
Dormin, the demon that had used him to gain freedom...
He felt pure anger towards the abomination, not because he had been used, but because Dormin hadn't kept his promise at restoring his beloved's life.
Wander was now free of the shadow that was Dormin, and free in his own form... but, one problem.
Now he was being pulled towards the pool, he hadn't exactly died when the swordsman struck him down, his physical form was destroyed, but his mind and soul was not. His corrupted body was now being pulled into the light.
He struggled, he pushed forwards, he used all his strength to keep moving towards the end of the chamber...
Towards his beloved Mono.
He moved slowly but surely, struggling all the way. Extending one hand, panting as he ran against the current. It took awhile, but now he was a few steps before the alter. With that, he took a large enough jump and rested his hand over Mono's.
"Mono!" He called, before the currently pulled him back, sending him tumbling, before returning to his feet.
"Mono!!" Wander said, coming to his feet, and fighting the suction, however, he could feel himself being pulled back. "Please listen to me!"
With that, he prayed that her body retained at least some life, enough to hear his words.
"Mono, I love you! I always will! We'll be together I promise! If death couldn't stop me, neither shall this wretch! Please Mono, live! That's all I want, I promise, I'll return!" He said, now further back in the chamber, where the latter of the colossi were.
"Mono..." He said, as he was being pulled back, almost reaching the stairs.
But, before that, he wrenched his whole body forward, reaching out for his one and only love.
"MONO!!!" He called, before being pulled off of his feet, and pulled into the pool of light.
And with that... there was silence.
After what seemed like a heavy sleep, a short nap, and a long dream... the girl slowly opened her eyes. Unknowingly returned from the maw of death, a place where no human is supposed to return.
She sat up, and observed her surroundings, a place unknown to her, a place of beauty and yet a sort of impurity. Like the site of a building that had been razed to the ground. She slowly came to her feet, using her muscles that felt stiff from not being used; she pondered how long she was asleep.
She heard a soft clapping in the distance, the familiar sound of hooves. When she looked over, she saw a familiar horse.
'Wander's horse!' she thought, slowly approaching the wounded horse. After a breif reunion, the two explored the mysterious building.
She looked at the destroyed remnants on each side of the room, she found that each of them were recently destroyed... what had happened here?
However that wasn't the most alarming, what shocked her most, was the fact in a small depression in the ground, there was a lone baby, crying. She slowly approached him, and picked him up. She noticed he had horns, but she disregarded it, and cared for it as her own, as she and the horse explored the building.
Wander slowly came to his feet, noticing the sword beside him, which he grasped intently as he looked around.
A large stone room, polluted with shadow.
'Where am I?' He thought, as he raised the sword, which dispersed the darkness enough to see the sixteen shadowy figures, and a rather large shadow sitting behind them.
"Welcome to our temporary purgatory." The demon said, in it's strange harmonic voice.
Upon closer observation.... Wander could tell he was feeding off of these shadows, their corrupt souls feeding his.
"Those fools outside believe this will seal us. We only need the power of thy soul, and of that wretched sword. With that, we will embody ourselves in the newly formed incarnate outside, that your maiden is so happily tending to."
"You bastard!" Wander said, raising his sword, which started eating away at the dark figures. "You don't seem to realize something. I defeated all sixteen pieces of your soul... what makes you think that I can't beat you all at once?"
Dormin seemed to chuckle at this. "We are the compilation of the upset souls that cannot pass on, Dormin is the name we carry because the soul of Dormin was the one that chained us together, his anger and hate gave drive to pollute these lands, and then, these sixteen souls had need of our power, with each one we became stronger." Dormin said, rising to his feet.
"Demons are litterally the fruit of your fear and nightmares, we are everything that plague your life. Some humans understand this, but obviously you do not!" Dormin said, as he swatted his fist down at Wander.
Wander sent his sword straight up into Dormin's hand, which caused light to burst around the room, the dark spirits to flicker in and out of existance, and the Demon to bleed his black blood.
"You may be powerful, you may be the fruit of all things evil, but you are not immortal, and I have the means to that end." Wander said, stepping towards Dormin.
"You kill the sixteen colossi, and you still haven't learned a thing!" Dormin said, as he hit Wander with his fist, sending him across the room.
'Damn... wait, he must have a weak spot... the souls that power him.' Wander said, coming to his feet. He ran towards Dormin, but about half way to him, turned at a sharp degree, and slashed one of the dark souls. In this world, it was physical, and the blackened body bled, and slowly fell over dead.
With that, Dormin gave a horrible yell, undoubtedly in pain.
So, Wander repeated this, each time deceiving Dormin to get to the next shadow, and before long, all sixteen shadows were dead, and blue lines appeared all over Dormin's form.
"You say I haven't learned, it would appear you haven't either." Wander said, slowly approaching the demon.
"You cannot kill us, we are your destruction!" Dormin said, running straight for Wander, hoping to trample and absorb him in darkness. However, the plan didn't work...
As he approached, Wander jumped into the air, and slashed through Dormin's form, causing him a great deal of pain, and causing him to lose a massive amount of his precious shadow blood. However, Wander knew that wouldn't end him. Wander hastefully leaped onto the shadow colossus's back, and began to climb, Dormins tried to shake off Wander, but his power was now too much for Dormin to handle
Dormin had created his own undoing.
With that, Wander plunged the sword into each of Dormin's eyes, then, through his head. The blade shined with light, as both the beaten fighters in this tale slowly fell to the ground.
One alive, one dieing.
Dormin's voice faded in and out, nothing that Wander could comprehend, probably just some bile about him not being able to believe he was defeated.
"Now Dormin, and all you other lost souls, find peace." Wander said, as the darkness seemed to fade, and a normal light to fill the room.
It was over, the curse of the forbidden lands was lifted.
However, when he looked around the room, he noticed a circular crystal in the wall, which allowed him to look down into the Shrine of Worship... and in there, he saw the entity Dormin spoke of, a child, laying on the alter. The child was asleep, and Mono was watching over him.
"Mono's alive... thank god." Wander said, falling to his knees.
As he thought that, the sword began to vibrate, so he slowly withdrew it.
When he did, it freed itself from his grasp, and held itself in front of the crystal... and began to disintegrate.
When it did though, it created a swirling circle of light in front of him... which he assumed would return him there.
"Please... just let me see Mono again." Wander said, as he stepped through the portal.
Mono was sitting down next to the alter, watching Agro walk around the hall, with his leg still injured. She felt awfully bad for the horse, however, these thoughts were left behind, as a light flashed through the chamber.
She stood up, and looked at the alter... only to find that the baby was no longer there, and in its place... was Wander, fast asleep. Just as he was before he had slain any of the colossi, no scars, no corruption, and no horns.
The strength also had left him... he was as he was just before he left.
"Wander!" She said, overjoyed at seeing the man she loved again. Since they were little, they were always close friends, and over time, the feelings grew.
Then one day, a traveling seer accused her of aiding a demon in her future. Not wanting to take chances, the temple in their village had decided to offer her as a sacrifice.
Wander was torn apart by this, but despite that, he took the temple's offer to see her right before and right after she died.
She remembered the moments fondly, and that's when she realized... he brought her back from the dead, but these thoughts were brushed away when she heard.
"...Mono."
Well, if you read through that, you have my thanks. I am going to try to make it a bit easier to read next chapter, as everyone won't be all dispersed.
Oh, and if you're wondering why Mono's a tad bit disoriented, confused, and easily taken off track, why don't you try suddenly waking up in a strange place, then remember dieing?? XDD
