A/N: Yep, I'm a bit of a Gamer, my playing mostly ranges from the Zelda: pairings are Link/Ganondorf or Link with anyone but Zelda. Kingdom Hearts, some Pokemon, Harvest Moon. A bit of Mario, and of crouse Assassin's Creed.
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Brothers' Keeper
Prologue:
White is the greeting upon awakening, remembrance a brief companion, then she walked. Mind now filled with what had been, she needed to know what has and will. She dared not presume because all is possible.
"Show" she said, "so me all that had happened, show me the reason for my awakening"
The White parted, shaped into things and many colors.
She watched and saw.
"This must be fixed"
Everything is White again, and she walked once more, as she does, she felt the stirrings of Brother. She does not go to him, she had a task that needed to be done as does Brother.
Their meeting will come later.
She found him, alone and unaware.
"Hello"
He blinked at her, dazed eyes take a long moment to see, he stared at her then at the White that went beyond. Then back at her.
"Is…Is this Heaven?"
"If that is what you wish to call it"
His brow furrowed, and she wondered. Wondered about this one, wondered and can only see fog and blurred shapes.
"Is this…Hell?"
"If that is what you wish to call it"
"Oookay" he said after a long pause of thought, who he had been emerging to the surface, "who are you then?"
"My siblings call me Sister"
"No, I mean—never mind"
Sister smiled, it is warm and nice, her eyes a deep dark green which were gentle and near glowed with something that said he was safe and welcomed. Nothing at all like the cold and distant of….them, of the Ones Who Came Before.
"You died" Sister then sad, well more like stated.
"Yeah, remember that"
Sister watched as a hand comes up to touch the other and up his arm, barely there caresses before it dropped, she looked up at his eyes again. Eyes that were an interesting color and she found that she liked them.
"You weren't supposed to, not in the way you had"
"Um, sorry?"
"It is alright, it was a possible outcome, and thus prepared for"
Brow furrowed again, "What does that mean? Was my death planned?"
"No, as I said, it was a possibility"
He is confused.
"Please, walk with me"
She walked.
And after a low mumble of "where?" he followed.
"Where are we going?" he asked once he was matching her pace, "actually better question, where are we?"
"Inside what you and others call the Apple of Eden"
He stumbled, Sister stopped.
"We're inside the Apple of Eden?!"
"More or less"
Sister watched him try and understand, and wondered about his thoughts.
"Right" he finally said, "right" he said once more in a tone that made her wonder more.
"Shall we continue?" Sister then asked, "we have much to do"
He nodded.
She walked.
And he followed.
~.~
As he followed Sister to wherever they were supposed to be, He realized something. He knew things, knew people, names, even how he "died".
He did not know his name.
It should bother him, and he suppose it does, but not in the way it should.
Sister stopped walking, so does he.
Everything is still White, but it's not the peacefully quiet White like before, there is something here. Something powerful and unknown, but warm and not at all fearful….like Sister.
"Where are we?" he asked.
"The beginning" Sister answered as she looked at him, "the events after your death have caused Chaos, and though it was predicted, it is unwanted, threating the balance that my Siblings and I have maintained, it must be fixed."
"You're talking about Juno, right?"
Sister nodded, "Yes, Juno has misunderstood, and became blinded"
There is more to this, he can tell, he wanted to know, and knew that if he asked Sister will answer truthfully. Maybe because of this, he doesn't ask.
"You are the one who will stop this Chaos, and return the balance" Sister then said as White rumbled.
"How?" he asked, he was not like Sister, and definitely not like Juno, he couldn't see how he was going to stop her.
Sister is silent, she does not truly know, but there was something about him. Something hidden but familiar, whatever it was, it would stop Juno; that much she knew at least.
"I do not know" she finally answered, "but there is something within you, it will stop this Chaos that much I do know. However, what it is, or how, I suppose we both will know in time"
It was an answer, not one he wanted, but still one.
"Okay, putting that aside for now, how do I get out of here?" he then asked, "…are you going to send me back?"
Sister is silent, then she moved closer, until her hand came up to gently cradle his cheek, her eyes look him over.
He is thin, pale and bruised, eyes old, tired and sad. This soul is much damaged, cracked, near broken some may say. And for all that she and her siblings can twist time, space and beyond. For all that they can heal, remake fragile flesh. Even memories can be changed and blocked for a time; they cannot heal a human soul. They touch, speak, and even give it rebirth, returning it to the fragile flesh whether the flesh is old or renew. But the soul will still be the same.
"Not as you are" she then said lowering her hand.
She cannot change that.
However, others can.
Humans have more power than they know, especially when it came one another.
They will be the ones who help him, and perhaps they will be able to help him awaken what is hidden.
He is startled when Sister smiled and kissed his forehead.
"We will meet again soon, goodbye Desmond"
Oh.
So that was his name.
The White became blinding.
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