Title:
In Nocte Consilium
Summary:
They say once, a long, long time ago, a goddess and a demon were friends.
Hello, Nanatsu no Taizai Fandom!
So, this is my first fanfiction for the Seven Deadly Sins, and I'd appreciate any advice or criticism you'd have to offer.
Love,
Mellow-chan
(P.S.- the * means I'll tell you more about it in the post script after the story in case some of you peeps don't know what I mean. Is that cool?)
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To Nyx:
Nyx, parent goddess, source of sweet repose, from whom at first both Gods and men arose,*
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The people who remember say it all happened a long, long while ago.
They say that it was an epic tale of two warriors overshadowed any other children's story they had ever heard in their lifetime.
They say it was great, magical, and so full of perpetual intrigue that was destined to go forth through the ages. Many a people have pondered the origin of this tale, but few to none are old enough to have any recollection of it. Many say it is just a myth, and that could have never happened. Such a tale would be impossible, they say. Others passionately disagree with this reasoning, claiming that it must of happened, for the heartrending words and actions of the two protagonists are just to intimate not to be so.
Many were conflicted about the subject, while others have never heard a word of the story. It was all quite confusing.
As the story goes, there was once a woman.
A goddess, to be a bit more precise.
They say at first, that she did not have a name, or more accurately, had never spoken her name aloud in front of the enemy. She was simply called the Goddess of the Night, the Devilish Goddess, the Destroyer, the Mischievous One.
She had many names.
All feared her terrible wrath, and scornful ebony eyes that were lightly freckled with a dangerously beautiful silver color. They say she had two scars on her chin, little nicks, that's all they were, but her enemies said it made her all the more intimidating.
It was said that during the Great War, she had single handedly wiped a whole legion of the Vampire Clan off the face of the Earth. It was also said that every battle she fought in, she had won valiantly, without hesitation or fear. People say her troops would rally in war cries and screams of victory the moment her black armor was seen on the battlefield.
The Night Goddess was feared throughout the land, with her jet-black hair and ivory skin. It was commonly accepted that she was terrifying, even to the most skilled of warriors. No one prodded her when she appeared on the field. No one asked for a fight. Usually, they were to busy running for their lives.
A monster. An Angle of Death. The only goddess to have stricken fear in even the Four Kings of the rivaling Clans themselves.
This is how many a people (and many a non-human folks) saw the unearthly Goddess of the Night.
But, people, humans, say that the goddess once had a friend; a friend from the most unlikely of places. They say she had once befriended a blonde haired demon on the hill in Blood Vally, and even though this old tale is over three thousand years old, there are still old humans who prattle on about this story to their uncaring children, and equally uncaring grandchildren.
These old folks rant on and on about this story of the goddess and the demon.
This is where this old, nearly forgotten story begins.
There was a brief flash of black, and when that occurred, every single Goddess in the premises knew what that meant.
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The Goddess of Night had returned from the battlefield.
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The black haired woman standing in the middle of a vast village glanced up a the clear blue sky and she hummed.
"Iris*," she mumbled to a woman with brilliant azure hair and wonderful rainbow-colored eyes, clad in matching multi-colored armor, equipped with a pair of lovely translucent wings and a halo hovering serenely over her head. "Send a message to Athena*. Tell her to recalculate the new battle strategist. The 1st Legionaries of the Vampire Clan are done with. As well as a good portion of the 5th Battalion of the Human Clan and the 2nd Infantry of the Giant Clan. The Fairies suffered no losses. Tell her that the 1st is of no concern, and that they should be taken out of the plans. Also inform her of the decrease of Human Clan and Giant Clan troops. Be sure to also make her aware of returning forces of our ground forces. They should be returning shortly."
"And should I tell Lady Gaia* about the situation, Captain?"
The pale woman raised a delicate eyebrow, and as she stifled a growl, said, "Oh, that she-devil knows nothing but how to complain about her grass being stained red. You and I both know her position is just for show." The petite goddess sighed as she undid her previously tied up hair. "Just send the message, Iris."
Iris smiled brightly as she nodded in delight. "Yes, yes, of course, Captain." The blue-haired Goddess disappeared in a rainbow colored flash, leaving the space where she was before glittering with water vapor.
The black-haired woman reached into her black cloak as soon as Iris had vanished and pulled out an animal skin poach. With quick skill, she popped it open. She took long, greedy gulps as she held the poach to her lips. After a minute or two, the woman pulled the skin away from her lips, now gluttonously drinking in air instead of nectar*. Onyx eyes stared dully at the shimmering mist before her, vaguely noting how it got dimmer and dimmer with each passing second. The woman sighed as she returned the poach to her cloak.
The woman rolled her shoulders, wincing as they cracked in a loud, unrelenting series of pops. She shook her arms, and deciding she had stood in the same placce for too long, began to walk.
Despite her petite figure, her strides her were long and powerful. Her gait was the thing of envy among the Goddess war leaders, but her confidence was something to be expected, as she was the oldest and most powerful deity currently alive. Long, curly black hair that reached her ribcage swayed with each step, but her movement did not make the burning heat on her back disappear.
Her eyes flashed upwards and her breath hitched slightly as she stared at the harsh, blazing sun.
With a wry smile she managed to hiss out with a hint of sarcasm int the , "Oh, mock me, would you, my dearest Helios* and Apollo*? I don't think I've had enough of it already."
All the sun did was shine brightly, with a cheerful glow as the Night Goddess whipped around on her heels with a rather despondent look about her face.
"Oh, I hate you two, you awful, awful Sun Deities. So darn cheerful all the time. I like Selene* and Artemis* much, much better."
With one last disdainful look at the ever cheerful sun, the black-haired woman flashed away to a place her comrades knew nothing about, to spend the rest of her day in peace, only to return by the moonbeams that came by night.
Meliodas frowned a he laid his eyes on the carnage in front of him.
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It was't pleasant.
No, not at all.
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The flora about him was withered and parched, and the sight of bodies upon bodies of vampires, humans, and even a few giants piled up on top of each other in a perfect, methodical way was enough to make even him, a demon, cringe.
Meliodas breathed in and out, collecting himself just enough to carry out his mission. A reconnaissance mission to be a bit more precise. The blonde slowly walked through the battlefield, its grass seeming to be perpetually stained with the dark red color. The demon dully noted that there were a few large trenches from the previous battle, perfect for taking cover from any stray magical attacks, but very poor in defending anything from the Giant Clan. His green eyes trailed over to the other side of the bloody meadow, and was delighted to see a moderately sloping hill. He grinned at the vision of Demon Clan archers showering a hail of arrows at a charging adversary.
Then, he saw a woman in the midst of the destruction, standing on that high, high hill, and he could've sworn she was literally glowing in the soft silver rays that surrounded her.
Billowing black hair against the moonlight, her pale skin shinning with some sort of radiance Meliodas wasn't aware this war-torn continent could possess anymore. Her smokey black breast plate glittered fabulously, and her eyes glowed, the small freckles of silver standing out more than anything else.
The woman turned her gaze unto him, and he stared right back into her sad onyx eyes. Her lips twisted into a wry, bitter smile as she continued to stare at Meliodas with unrelenting intensity. Her lips again twitched, but this time downward, and then a downtrodden look came about her face.
"A demon, I suppose?"
The blonde shrugged with a smiled, "Well, you could say that… You're a goddess, then?"
The woman hummed in agreement, but made not a single hostile move toward the green-eyed devil. All she did was sway with the wind that made her shiny black hair cascade into a waterfall of darkness, and whistle a tune the demon could've swore he'd heard before. When it was clear the woman held no ill will, Meliodas trotted over to the woman, plopping himself next to her.
"I'm Melodias," he chirped, "You are?"
The woman seemed to ponder this before she curtly replied, "Why, that is none of your business, Sir Melodias." With a huff, she sat herself down besides him, albeit in a much more dignified manner.
The demon jumped a little, looking fairly surprised, but he chose not to stop his increasingly pleasant conversation with the goddess next to him. She was much to interesting for that. With a grin and the snappy crossing of his arms, he retorted, "Aw, come on now, I don't judge, and it's not like we're in battle right now, so technically, this is a temporary truce, right?"
"Well," the goddess pondered, "I guess that statement is a correct one…" Another look at the latter's puppy dog face made her sigh.
How childish… She thought to herself in amusement, feeling somewhat invigorated by the latter's playful attitude. My name couldn't hurt, right? It's not like any of our enemies know of my birth name, so it's safe to assume he won't know who I am... Right?
After another moment of silent deliberation, she nodded, "If you must know, my name is Nyx."
Meliodas grinned, and the woman was slightly taken aback by the sheer size of this grin. She was a bit frightened about how his face could stretch to far without... breaking? Ripping? Splitting in two? Was this possible? What on Earth was he?!
"Nice name, Nyx. Now, just call me Meliodas, and we're good!"
The ebony haired lass merely sighed, He's different, I'll give him that.
"You're a bit off your rocker, aren't you... Meliodas, was it?"
"Yup!"
Nyx's lips curved into a frown as she crossed her arms irritably, "I despise your cheerfulness."
"Okay!"
Upon this statement the two of them hushed, enjoying the comfortable silence that had enveloped the two non-humans. Nyx had settled herself back on the the stiff red grass beneath her, trying to find a more suitable position to sleep in as she wriggled around a little bit. Meliodas, on the other hand, had already found his comfy spot, and was staring off into the sky with tired, almost deliriously tired, eyes that were drooping considerably, but he was fighting to stay awake. Nyx glanced to look at this scene, and was close, dangerously close, to chuckling at the way Meliodas struggled to keep his eyes away from the hazy view from the the back of his lids.
"Just give in," Nyx advised, bemusement clear in her face as she turned her head to face the latter, "No one can win against Morpheus*."
Meliodas stifled a yawn as he mumbled, spluttering over his words,"M-Mo-Mor-Morpheus? W-Whooooo-" Meliodas' jaw stretched out into a large yawn, his eyes starting to droop again, "-'s that?"
Nyx smiled enigmatically as she flipped on her stomach. "A friend." She answered with a graceful swish of the wind to follow her statement.
Meliodas felt his eyes getting heavier by the second as he felt the cool breeze brush against his skin. He let out another yawn as he tried to wake himself up, but it was in complete vain.
He blinked his eyes rapidly, then rubbed them in hopes of getting the blood flowing in his eyes again, but that too was of no avail.
"Friend?" He question drowsily.
"Friend." Nyx confirmed firmly as she started drumming the ground softly. "More accurately, the God of Dreams and Sleep."
Meliodas' head nodded, "Goddd o-of...Dreamsss and Sleeeeep. Righttt?"
The woman snorted.
"Right."
"Hmm..."
Within a few more seconds, the demon besides Nyx was out cold.
The dark-haired woman smiled, and jumped to her feet the moment he was asleep, and after she had removed the blonde's cape from his shoulder armor, she laid the black piece of dark matter (that made her skin crawl, oh by the way,) over him.
She might be a monster, but it wouldn't do for her to let someone she had just met get a cold.
With one last fleeting glance, she set her eyes forward, and began to trudge back to reality, to war, and to the village in which she and many others had called home for a long while.
This is the post script!
So here are the explanations for the * things.
The original format for this one is:
To Night [Nyx]:
Night [Nyx], parent goddess, source of sweet repose, from whom at first both Gods and men arose,...
This is the first stanza of one of the famed Orpheus' poems, dedicated to Nyx, Goddess and Personification of the Night. Orpheus goes on in this poem to creat Nyx for the creation of the world and its inhabitants. If you'd like to know, Orpheus was a legendary musician, poet, and prophet in the Greek religion, which we call Greek Mythology now a days. If you'd like to know more, I highly recommend looking him up, because his story is quite a fascinating one.
Iris
Iris is the Goddess of the Sea and the Sky, but is also the personification of the rainbow and messenger of the gods that links the divine to humanity. She is also known for carry messages from one god to another, going as far as the Underworld to get a message delivered.
Athena
Is a very well known goddess I would have to say. She is the Greek Goddess of, wait for it, cause this list is long:
Wisdom, courage, inspiration, civilization, law and justice, mathematics, strength, war strategy, the arts, crafts, and skill.
Some resume she's got, am I right?
Gaia
Is widely known as the personification of the Earth, and the primal Mother Goddess, in which she borne most of the major gods found in Greek Mythology. She's also the sister of Nyx, both of them being born from Chaos.
Nectar
Drink of the Gods.
Helios
Personification of the sun.
Apollo
God of the Sun (in some accounts), Music, and Oracles. Twin brother of Artemis.
Selene
Personification of the moon.
Artemis
Goddess of the Moon (also, in some accounts), the hunt, wild animals, wilderness, virgins, childbirth, protector of young girls, is also known for bring relief to diseased woman.
Morpheus
Is sort of equvailant to the Sandman. He's the God of Sleep and Dreams, as previously stated, but he also has the power to mimic the human form and appear in dreams. He started getting related to sleep and dreams in medieval times, so, yeah.
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I'm sorry if any of this information was redundant for some, butI hope you enjoyed the story.
Thanks for reading, and drop a review if you can,
Mellow-chan!