False gods
A dark soul's fan fiction
"Theo! No get away from him you cleric bastard!" Someone shouted "he has tainted the land of all-father Lloyd, resistance will be fought" another said calmly
Theo woke up, "where, where am I?" He said to himself 'what happened to me, who am I, and why am I in this dirty cell' Theo pondered these questions a long while before remembering. "I am Theo a pyromancer of the great swamp" he exclaimed 'yes, the darksign had burned itself into my body, I had been scared, and I knew that the clerics were always searching for the dead. My friends, though I can't remember their names, comforted me and defended me from my own hollowing.' "They were so helpful, but the clerics had to make a surprise search on the swamp." He shouted 'I need to stop talking aloud' he held up his right palm to make sure his flame was still there 'this is what I have left to remember my home'
He heard a loud sound above him as a dead body fell to the ground, which startled him for he was lost in his own thoughts. He looked up and saw an elite knight saluting down at him, seeing a set of keys on the body he snatched them up and saluted the knight back in thanks but he was already gone from view. After trying a few keys Theo got through his door and walked down the hall. "Oi, you mind opening this here door?" Said someone to his right. Startled Theo almost shot a fireball toward the voice, "who are you?" Said Theo "the names uric, uric the tower many called me, till the dam sign burned into me." Uric said "this cleric here caught me and got afflicted by the sign while he was publicly capturing me. Ironic isn't it? But I cannot be angry at him, it was only his job."
Theo opened the door as the knight and cleric scrambled to get out, "yes, fresh air!" Shouted uric, the cleric stared at him a moment and said "you do realize we are still inside right?" "Yes, but that cell was cramped." He said timidly. The cleric spoke up after a long silence "introductions should come later but for now let's get out of this prison." "Is second that." Said Theo.
They headed down the hall ignoring the saddening hollowed madmen. 'This is just wrong; I hope I'm never driven to this awful fate.' Thought Theo as he started to climb the ladder in the circular room, 'unable to think, to remember... No, never will I forget, I am a proud pyromancer of the swamp and I shall never forget.' He peeked out at the clearing, there was a massive door and a strange wooden sword stuck in a pile of ashes and bone. "The, heck is this?" Said uric as he tried to pull the sword from the pile. The sword suddenly burst into flame causing uric jump back "was that you pyromancer?" "No" said Theo "I'm as confused as you to why a sword in the ground would ever spontaneously combust." The cleric who had been watching quietly during the talk said "you don't recognize a bonfire? Really?"
Uric looked to him and said "A bonfire is usually much bigger than this" the cleric responded through a face palm and simply sat down at the fire. The others followed suit and felt a rush of energy as the flames rejuvenates them physically and mentally. 'What a rush' though Theo 'it felt like, burning without the pain' Theo promptly became tired and yawned, "oh sure go to sleep it's not like we have, I Don't know, an asylum to escape?" Said the cleric "sorry, my bad" snapping out of it Theo considered the area around them he saw one large door and a small side door "hey guys, let's get this door open." pointing to the massive iron door, uric took the left side as Theo and the cleric pushed the right one, after a short time the doors were open and they walked in, "looks like a cathedral doesn't it?" said the cleric "yeah, but to what gods." Said Theo, looking around at the disarray that the room was in. "Is there a pot god no one knows of? This place has pots for days!" (Note: not a drug joke)
Uric promptly shouted "RUN!" As he dashed for a small side door and rolled in just in time as a massive blue creature plummeted where he had been standing just moments ago. Theo made a run for it with the cleric on his tail and they made it through as the behemoths mace piled rocks over the side. Not expecting a stairway thermo promptly rolled down the length of stairs, "oh, the how nice of you to..." Uric was cut off by Theo punching his chest "uric, just don't even" said Theo "ok sorry" uric muttered dramatically waving his hands in the air. The cleric finally got down the stairs, "smooth, just smooth."
"Oh shut up, I was a bit distracted by the prospect of being smashed to a pulp thank you." Said Theo "I'm just joking, calm down" the cleric said. Meanwhile uric was investigating a hallway, he walked back in with an arrow in his chest plate, "archer" he said simply, "but I found some shields in a side path." The cleric took a shield that had a bird-like emblem on it as uric snatched a iron shield with a symbol of a tower on it, "I'm used to great shields really, but this works I suppose" uric said, "I don't use shields, it's better to have all your strength behind a swing." They proceeded through the hall, with uric blocking the arrows along the way. The archer fled once they reached it, Theo found a hand axe leaning on the wall and hefted it, "it'll do" he said uric found a decent broadsword and the cleric snatched up a mace.
After taking out the archer they trudged onward, "I hope that we find a new bonfire soon or you find a talisman cleric, my wound is bleeding" said uric "if I find some cloth and twine I could make a canvas talisman, but these hollows are too bare." During the conversation they had been climbing a stairway then SMACK a large boulder crashed into them sending Theo plummeting down the side of the stairway and the others knocked down the stairwell, the cleric and knight didn't notice Theo fall and entered the segment of the wall the boulder had smashed. They walked in and saw a man in Astoran armor and he was dying. They ran up to him, he looked up and spoke "where is the pyromancer, I must speak to him." He said at that moment they realized Theo was missing, the cleric ran to the downward stairwell to find Theo nearly dead incapable of moving, the cleric picked him up and dragged him up the stairway to the knight of Astora, "he's here" said the cleric.
The knight seeing that Theo was wounded held up an emerald green flask and gave it to the cleric, "make him drink this." The cleric put it to Theo lips as a bright yellow and red liquid came out Theo shuddered a moment then shook of the clerics grasp and got up and looked at the knight, "that is twice you have saved me, what is your name so I may remember the man who helped me live?" "The names Oscar of Astora, regrettably I have failed my mission but perhaps you three can keep the torch lit, there is a saying in my family, thou who art undead art chosen, in thine exodus from the undead asylum maketh pilgrimage to the land of the ancient lords, when though ringeth the bells of awakening, the fate of the fate of the undead thou shalt know, well now you know, and I can die with hope in my heart... Oh, and take this... An estus flask, an undead favorite, oh and this." He gave Theo a key, and each of them got an emerald flask. "Go now, for I would not want to harm you after death, and, thank you." They all left, knowing he meant he was hollowing.
"Well, I have never heard of any bells of awakening, but now we have a goal when we escape that will stop us from hollowing." Theo said quietly, sad for the death of Oscar
I am so sorry for how long this chapter rolled on, if you want to review this, I only want helpful criticisms, or suggestions and maybe praise if you thought it was good, please don't post useless hate. Thanks for reading.