Chapter 1: Kiss and Sin
It is the night of the coming ceremony and Oz was wondering the hallways alone since he had just got done meeting people who have traveled here just for night.
"Ughhh," Oz sighs as he kicked his feet a bit, bored out of his mind. He just wanted to be with Gil, but also still wanted to talk to that girl, Sharon but those two things weren't an option.
"You seem bored," a voice came from behind Oz.
Oz turned around to see unfamiliar face. The man had greyish white hair that covered his right eye and a small puppet that sat on his shoulder.
"I am bored," Oz started off. "I know this is an important night for me, but it's just not fun"
The man chuckled a bit.
"That sounds very childish for someone who is turning 15, is there something that will not make you bored?"
"Hmmm," Oz looks around for something he might be interested on doing and then looks back at the strange man. "That girl Sharon seems fun"
The man glared at him.
"No, Sharon is not someone you can have fun with and if you think about getting close to her, I'll….," He stopped his sentence and sighed. "Just don't go near her."
Oz looked at him and nodded, knowing that he didn't want to mess with this man.
"If you want to have some fun, we will have to sneak out for a bit, is that alright?" The man smirked slightly.
"Yeah, it'll be alright, I still have time before the ceremony actually begins any way," Oz said, looking at the man with a curious look.
The man held out his hand and Oz took it, following the man out of the room and to outside, where no one would see him. It was pitch dark except the light coming from the full moon and the stars.
"May I know your name?" Oz asked, realizing he didn't even know this man's name.
"Break"
"Break? That's such a weird name," Oz chuckled a bit.
"Is there a problem with my name, Oz?"
"No, no, just I never thought someone would be named Break"
Break stops walking and let's go of Oz's hand and smiles down at him. The trees surrounded them as they were completely alone. Oz shivered a bit and looked around.
"W-What are we doing out here, that we need to be so far away?" Oz softly said, stuttering a bit.
"For this," as Break pulls Oz close to him and kisses him deeply on the lips.
Oz blushes as he felt the older man's lips on his own, struggling a bit to escape Break's grip but his body felt weak. Break pulls away from the kiss and chuckles as the younger boy was beat red and panting softly from the kiss.
"How was that Oz?"
"I…don't know," Oz softly muttered, his mind completely blank. "Why..did you kiss me?"
"Because I thought it would be fun."
"Fun?" Oz tilted his head a bit
"Yeah, seeing your reaction was worth it, it was fun teasing you."
Oz pouted a bit and looked away.
"Jerk…," He softly muttered under his breath.
"Oz! Where are you!?" A familiar voice was yelling from afar.
"Gil?" Oz turns around and runs off towards the voice, leaving Break behind.
"Young master!" Gil yelled again, looking frantically for Oz.
"Gil, I'm over here," Oz waving his arms around as he caught sight of Gil.
"I'm so glad I found you, why did you run off?" Gil sighed in relief as he hugged his best friend tightly.
"I just needed some air, sorry to worry you," Oz lied, not wanting to tell him about Break.
"Well you should have told someone before running off, everyone was worried."
"Sorry, sorry, lets hurry back Gil."
Oz takes Gil's hand and hurries back to the coming ceremony. He kept thinking about the kiss, wondering why Break kissed him in the first place but there was something else that seemed so strange too. Maybe it was just the nerves getting to him but something felt very wrong tonight. This whole day has been strange but now Oz was starting to worry.
It had started to rain outside and Oz was waiting outside the doors of the holy place of the ceremony, waiting for his cue to come in. He looked at the pocket watch he had found earlier today with Gil. A softly melody played from it as he thought about the girl who tried to kill him in his daydream. He closed the pocket watch and sighs.
"Do your best," said Ada, who had appeared around the corner holding her small pink umbrella.
"Thank you Ada," Oz starts off and then looks around before bring his hand close to his mouth and whispers loud enough for Ada to hear. "If someone discovers you, you'll get a scolding."
Ada nods her head and runs off, heading back to the household. As soon as she left, Oz turned back to the door and heard the words being spoken through the door once again.
"And now, please welcome the person coming of age tonight to this holy place"
As soon as those words were spoken, Oz opens up the giant wooden doors and enters inside to hear the loud clapping of hands of the men and women that were inside to welcome him. Oz starts making his way toward his Uncle Oscar who was doing the ceremony in place of his father.
He walked up the small fleet of stairs and saw Gil wanting for him at the top as he then reached his uncle and kneeled down in front of him.
"Oh, Light of Truth, please shine upon his path," Oscar started to say as he had his hand out over Oz's head. "Oh, Wind of Reason, please bestow upon him your wisdom. Oh, Water of Cleansing, please cure his sicknesses. In the name of the Bezarius blood, Mr. Oz Bezarius has now come of age."
Oscar finishes those words and hands the small book to the person on his right and then on his left side grabs the sword that the person was holding and hovers it over Oz.
"Sword of Cleansing, which allowed us to be born on this land, please cleanse his body of impurities and bestow upon him everlasting blessings," Oscar says as he taps the sword on Oz's right shoulder then his left shoulder and then holds the sword up to himself. "And with that, the impurities residing in your body have been exorcised."
With that said, Oscar places the sword back to the person who was holding it before and moves to the side where he tells Oz to recite his vows.
Oz stands up and walks up the other small fleet of stairs.
"After I read my vows at the front, this pointless ceremony will be over," Oz said to himself as he finally reached the top of the stairs where Gil was standing.
Oz touches the altar at the top and starts reciting his vow but has he was reciting them, the clock that has never moved in years, strike midnight and everyone in the building was shocked.
"W-What is going on?" Oz said, confused as to what is going on as he looked at the people down below.
When Oz was distracted and still trying to figure out what was happening, glass shatters around him and three cloaked beings appear around him, along with Gil who appears behind him. Gil grabs Oz from behind by wrapping his left arm around his neck and a knife in his other hand.
"Gil.. W-what are you doing?"
One of the black cloaked beings talking. "He is the one that was fated to appear. The next step would be…."
Gil moves his right arm and stabs Oz in the chest, near his heart. As this was all happening a person in a black cloak was saying things in the background.
"Gil…why?" Oz softly mutters.
"The knife of the companion glistens with crimson. The drops of blood shall point out the path ahead."
Blood drips off the knife and hits the floor and as soon as that happened, a symbol on the ground that is glowing purple appears below them.
"The time of judgement is here! Open the road to the Abyss!" yells the black cloaked guy.
Oz looks at the cloaked man shocked.
"Abyss, you say…," Oz muttered out, scared with no way to escape.
Gil was still standing behind him, a huge grin on his face as he still held the knife which still dripped Oz's blood. Gil was giggling devilishly as to what was happening.
"Your blood is different from that of other humans. It smells delicious," Gil said as he licked his lips after saying the word 'delicious' and then his eyes getting wide.
After that, one of the cloaked beings fell to their knees slightly, groaning a bit in pain.
"W-What's wrong Zwei?" asked one of the cloaked beings.
"Dordam is starting to lose control," Zwei says.
"What'd you say," the one cloaked being says, his tone slightly worried.
"Gil," Oz says to himself, slightly looking back his friend who was still grinning evilly.
"I really want to see your blood!" Gil/Dordam say as he licks Oz's ear slowly.
"Stop it, Gil!"
Gil laughs some more and pulls his hand back to strike Oz again with the knife when he was stopped by a scythe that suddenly appeared out of nowhere from the portal below them and then vanished. The glowing purple of the portal started to spiral around the portal, knocking Gil away from Oz.
"Gil!"
Gil coughs a bit as he hit the altar and strings appear behind Gil's back, which the strings were attached to someone who was chained up and then vanished. Then the spiraling glowing purple faded around the symbol and there, sat a giant black rabbit on a scythe with chains all around.
"B-Rabbit," muttered one of the cloaked beings, shocked at what he was seeing.
"You look pathetic kid," B-Rabbit said as the rabbit turns into a girl.
Oz was shocked and looked up at B-Rabbit. He had seen her before earlier today. It was the girl who tried killing him in his realistic daydream.
"You're that person from..," Oz started to say as lightning flashed and lit the whole room.
"You dare get in our way B-Rabbit," one of the cloaked beings say as he pulls out a sword.
"In your way?" She giggles and smirks a bit and then looks at Gil who laid unconscious on the floor. "That was accidental, I was the one who stopped this kid from losing control."
B-Rabbit then puts her foot on Oz's back, acting all superior as Oz groans a bit from underneath her. "I'll be clear on this though. This guy is my property. Don't interfere, Death Gods.
"Y-Your property?" Oz said, slightly looking up at the girl, confused.
"I decided that just now. Shut your mouth," She says looking down at Oz and then looks up at the Death Gods. "Say Death Gods, if you want to make a move against this guy, I'll go all out to stop you. I won't allow anyone to take away what is mine."
"You want to stop us?" One of the Death Gods say with his custom great sword in hand. "I won't let you have your way!"
"You don't know your place," B-Rabbit says, smirking as she turns back into her rabbit form and shoots chains with a spike at the end of each one at the three Death Gods. The two Death Gods with swords charge at her and there is a bit of smoke coming from the roof from where B-Rabbit and the Death Gods broke through. They were now fighting outside in the pouring rain.
Oz turns to Gil who still laid unconscious on the floor.
"Gil! Get it togeth-," He was cut off when a blade appeared close to his face.
"Don't move," Zwei says as she keeps the blade close to Oz's face.
"B-Rabbit? Death Gods? What is going on?" Oz thought to himself, unable to wrap his mind around anything that was happening tonight.
B-Rabbit smashes through the window knocking Zwei away as went after the Death Gods who were now back inside. B-Rabbit stood in front of Oz, her scythe aimed at the three Death Gods.
"Young Master!" yelled Gil in the background who had come too finally and saw what was happening.
B-Rabbit giggles and transforms back into her human form bringing her scythe to her side.
"How could I kill you? You're here to take this kid to the Abyss, right?" B-Rabbit says, which shocks both Gil and Oz.
Oz thought B-Rabbit was saving him from going to the Abyss and Gil didn't even know what was going on until now.
"That was… Wasn't it just a legend?" Oz says, not wanting to believe this.
B-Rabbit laughs devilishly, transforming back. "Want to come? This kid is in my hands!"
"What?" Zwei says shocked as the other Death Gods stand there unsure of the situation.
"It's such an enjoyable moment!" B-Rabbit yells as chains shoot everywhere. "Come, scream! Dance, imbeciles!"
She transforms back to her human self as she appeared behind Oz, hugging herself as chains still whipped around.
"Let's give our blessings to this little lamb who's going to the Abyss!" She says laughing evilly.
"N-No way," Oz mutters, his voice shaky as he looks and sees Gil. "Gil!"
"What'd you do to the Master," Gil said, tugging at one of the Death Gods cloaks, anger in his eyes. "There isn't any reason for you to take him to the Abyss!"
"Stop it, Gil! Get away from there!" Oz yelled, not wanting his best friend to be part of this.
"Young Master! Young Master!" Yelled Gil as a flash of lightning lit the room again and whatever Gil saw made him move away from the Death God a bit with fear in his eyes "You…"
"Gil!"
Oz looks around and grabs the sword from the floor and stands up and charges at the Death God who stood by Gil.
"Stay away from Gil!"
"You can't! Master, this person is…," Gil says as he stands in front of the Death God.
Oz didn't notice though since he had his eyes closed and swung the sword but instead of hitting the Death God, he had sliced Gil instead. Gil fell to the floor and Oz opened his eyes to see what he had done.
"Gil…," Oz mutters, his voice shaky and his hands violently shake as he drops the sword and stands there trembling. "Why?.."
Oz starts stepping back a bit slowly.
"I…k-.. Gil," Unable to even really talk from the shock as he falls to his knees with his hands to his face and starts screaming loudly.
"This is really interesting," B-Rabbit says who was sitting behind one the Death Gods.
The Death God turns around and cuts her as she starts to fade away. "Disappear! Damned spirit of the Abyss!"
"Fine," B-Rabbit says as she was now completely disappeared and then appeared behind Oz and hugged him from behind. "I'll be awaiting your arrival"
One of the Death Gods walks up to Oz, grabbing his arms and lifting him a bit as another Death God walks up to him.
"Oz Bezarius, I'm going to pass judgement on you in the name of the Chain of Judgment. Your sin, that is your very existence!" One of the Death gods say as he had his hand on Oz's head and a black bird appeared along the symbol.
"I'm going to be dragged in by the black wings," Oz thought to himself as chains shot up from the symbol down below and wrapped around him. Oz screamed as he dragged down into the Abyss. Tonight was not the best for Oz at all, not only did he lose his first kiss to a complete stranger, he was also sent to the prison known as the abyss for 'the sin of existing'.
