Elementals: Hell's Gate
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You wake up in a dark void; confused on where you are, you look around and see a bright light. You get up and you stagger as you get up, you feel as if your body has been brutally beaten. It hurts as you walk, you limp, you groan in pain, you walk towards the clear white light, but even your vision starts to fail. You walk closer to the light and you start to feel as if your body is healing itself, your vision clears, you can breathe easier, and you walk easier. The clear white light isn't just white but now a rainbow of colors, but as your body fully heals you see the light fading and fading. You run as fast as you can towards the light, and just before this rainbow light vanishes, you enter this light and stumble upon a library of a variety of colors. This library is large, you are in awe as to how many books there is and to the colors of their covers. Some books have red, others have blue, you see glimpses of white and black books, but the one that strikes your eye is a book covered chains and what looks to be made out of flesh and bone. You reach towards however...
"It's best if you don't touch that," you turn around and see a young woman. She has long beautiful rainbow hair; she is wearing old Victorian clothing when you look closer it seems to change in color, though however much you want to see her face, it is covered by a small mask which also changes in color. You stand there in awe not because of her ever-changing colors, but the aura she emits from herself a calm and peaceful aura. She puts her right arm across chest and bows.
"Hello. My name is Author, don't you think it's a peculiars name, is it not?" she picks her body up, and a smile is plastered on her face. "You must be the one who heard my plea. Please tell me your name," she tells you, you are hesitant at first, but you reply.
"..." you say your name, and anxiously wait for calm beautiful voice to respond.
"... is it? I will remember this name well," she tells you." Now let me tell you my occupation," she raises arms to somehow envelope the library around her.
"I write the dreams, the ambitions, the resolve, and the fates of all people from all worlds, far and wide, small and large. And this here this library is my home, this library holds all memories of those very people. I myself, I'm actually a guide so don't think of me as a 'god' you refer to. And as a guide I help lead people to glory and fame, with amazing lives foretold as folklore or legends," she puts her hands down. "Though this job is amazing, it does have its bad sides. Certain people have decided to defy these fates I give them, and it's all due to the fact of a certain series the previous 'Author' has made. 'The Seven Deadly Sins,' and the books that stem from it; Sloth, Gluttony, Envy, Wrath, Greed, Lust, and Pride," Her voice seems sad now. "Due to these books people chose to defy their fates and follow these evil books, and destroy their lives, terrible isn't it, and that book is only one of the many books that have stemmed from these evil books," she points towards the book of chains and flesh.
"Now you are probably wondering why I am telling you this, well it's because many of these 'books' have been stolen from here to the mortal realm, and no one must touch these books or else they will become corrupt and destroy the fates around them. This has been happening for several centuries now, at first it has started as a slight annoyance but now it has gotten out of hand. You are probably wondering why haven't I just make a fate for someone capable to stop this, the reason being is like I said I'm only a guide and people can easily change the fates around them. I already made several others with the fate to stop this but they all changed, I realized something though something I'm missing, something that I can't do for people with hearts," she starts to walk towards you, and when she reaches you she grabs your shoulders. You look in her mask, and her eyes are a rainbow of colors.
"I can see your altered fate, this undesirable, this putrid, this horrific fate you have. A fate of heartbreak, miss-trust, broken friendships, and worse this fate will only go on and on to your descendents before you. Though with this forbidden act that all writers do only if they must, I will save you and maybe even others that you may encounter," she puts her hand up and summons a book. This book looks beaten, slashed; everything a book shouldn't be through. "This book has been altered to this new fate you have, but this book will play no role anymore," she lights the book on fire in a rainbow-like flame and when you look at the book it immediately turns to ashes. She blows the ashes at you, and it seemingly envelopes you and it all disappears around you. "Now you have no set fate, save those around you, and stop this meaningless suffering. You are now a free soul; your fate won't be altered though your memories as a new book, but a trial must be placed first," she has two books within her hand. "Your soul and body shall be split in two, your goal is to combine these books," she holds the book up to your eyes on reads "Heaven's Gate," the other "Hell's Gate." You look at her.
"Your trial: you must bring strength to the one of emotions and you must bring emotion to the one of strength. This not only will affect you, but someone else who you will bring into this. And once you merge together it's your choice on what you want to do, however if you choose to defy this task or fail to achieve it, your soul shall placed into eternal Purgatory. I wish you good luck in achieving this," your vision fades and you wake up from your dream.
