Future in My Hands

Disclaimer: I do not own Super Smash Brothers. That goes to Nintendo. The only characters I own are those from the Golden Land, angels from Skyworld including the royal bodyguards, Angel Assembly and archangels along with all the other angels and of course the witch hunters. I also do not own Disgaea or Phantom Brave. Those franchises belong to Nippon Ichi. Finally I don't own Hyrule Warriors that is also by Nintendo.

Summary: It was supposed to be a simple mission of getting rid of the demons that terrorized the Red Kingdom of one of the many human worlds, yet it cost Lucina her life when the people turned against Dark Pit's group. To save her life, Cia used her magic to turn Lucina into a Wight, but now her soul is missing. Lucina doesn't have much time left before she's officially dead and stuck as a being of the undead. Her only hope is finding the Necromancer Marona who was around during that attack and grabbed her soul in the chaos. Fortunately Ash is there to help her, but the bigger problem might not be Lucina's time limit but more of Cia's ability to trust her comrade.

Pairing: Reyn/Pittoo/Lucina, Ash/Cia, Pit/Laharl, Rob/Shulk, Gerome/Inigo, Almaz/Sapphire, Mao/Raspberyl, implied Mao/Almaz, Sapphire/Raspberyl, Ash/Lucina, and one-sided Pittoo/Lana

Rated: M (for mature) but E (for explicit on Archive or Our Own)

Genre: Drama, Angst, Romance, Suspense and Hurt/Comfort

Warning: Swearing, character death, sexual violence, extreme violence (gore), extreme sexual situations, dark themes and unintentional OOC

More ideas come up when you're bored and have nothing else to do. Now it's time to do an Ash/Lucina friendship story and thus will allow Cia to finally get over any jealousy issues she would normally have. Enjoy!

Chapter 2: Death is a Slap on the Wrist


Darkness was the friend of evil and enemy to everyone else. Darkness wanted to swallow up light. Darkness wanted to rip apart everything that was considered good. Darkness embraced the dying body of the princess from the future preventing her from moving. The darkness had held onto Lucina for a long time now that when Lucina would slowly wake up, the Black Abyss would not allow her to leave.

"W…here…am…"

Lucina attempted to move her hands but screamed at the sudden pain. She desperately tried to recall what had happened before she sat up. Unfortunately, the Black Abyss did not want her to remember either.

DoN'T gO…

The hands of the Black Abyss clung to Lucina for dear life as the darkness tried to drag her further down with it.

"Let go…" Lucina muttered weakly thinking that the Black Abyss would loosen its grip on her.

No…I WoN'T!

Lucina screamed loudly as the grips only got tighter and started pulling at her limbs. First it was her arms, forced behind her as far as they would go. Then she could feel more hands grab at her torso to hold her in place as her arms were pulled and lifted above her head, dislocating the joints.

"Let me go!" She cried in pain. "Release me this instant!"

It was no use though; one of her arms was dropped in favor of grabbing the other one and pulling. She could feel things pulling and tearing under her skin. Tears streaming down her face in agony as she tried to get the arms to let go, but her other arm was useless, being dislocated from the joint. Eventually though the arms gave one powerful tug and ripped the limp from her body. The Princess screamed as she watched her severed arm get tossed away like useless garbage before the hands decided to grab her other arm and do the same thing. Except this time instead of just pulling on that, they pulled her body the opposite way as well.

Another blood curdling scream could be heard as the black hands tore Lucina's other arm off as well. She begged and cried as the blood spurted out of her like a gushing fountain of red, staining the very abyss around her in its color. Yet, they still weren't satisfied with just removing her arms. She shivered and cried as she was held down on her belly and two hands grabbed onto her ankle and started tugging. It was even more humiliating that in order to keep her down a hand pressed down on her butt.

She was losing the strength to let out screams and cries as her leg was ripped away as well. Another pathetic plea was heard as she tried to get them to stop, but to no avail as the process was repeated one final time, taking her other leg away from her.

As she let out another pathetic scream, the Black Abyss giggled at the misfortune that befell her. Black hands seized her non-existent breasts causing Lucina's already battered body to shiver.

NeVe…R…ReTuR…N… SuRfAcE…

More hands appeared and covered her mouth immediately in order to stop her screaming. Her voice was nothing but muffles as she was dragged further into the abyss. She had no limbs to move. She was just a mannequin that had been torn apart and thrown away. Her mind was going blank with the Black Abyss covering her eyes and ears attempting to dull her senses.

Light would find its way into the darkness no matter how grim the situation was. Lucina couldn't see the light, but she felt a warm light touch her body. She couldn't hear the sad cries of the Black Abyss that didn't want to let go of the Ylissean Princess. The light only needed one big hand in comparison to small darker ones to take the broken princess with up to the surface with it.


The light brought her back to the world of the living. Lucina shot up out of bed attempting to reach the light that had faded from her mind. Pain surged throughout her entire body from the rash movement causing her to bite her tongue and hiss.

"Guhhh…"

The pain was almost unbearable. It wasn't as bad as the pain she felt before she fainted, but it was enough to jolt her memories back.

What happened? Lucina asked herself as she tried not to move. I ignored Reyn and went alone to save Dark Pit. I was close to defeating the Minotaur, but then prince Ruby betrayed me…and then I…

She shook her head as she started to move. Immediately, she noticed that her arms were still in place. She sighed in relief realizing that the incident might not have happened. Due to the darkness in the room, she couldn't see there was something wrong with said arms though. She still felt the pain as if her arm was broken and ripped off, but as long as they were still attached to her, she was in the clear.

"Oh, the princess is awake."

Lucina recognized the voice and turned toward the door of the room. She immediately caught a scanty dressed witch with dark skin, purple eyes and white hair as shiny as white as powder. Her sinister smile caused the bluenette to shiver despite being under the blanket of whosever bed she was using. She had recalled meeting Cia before in the past...

"You're…Cia…"

"My, my. Luci does remember me after all."

Cia was the jerk older twin to Lana who was the kind hearted younger twin. These two had hovered around Dark Pit as of late despite not going into their backstory on why they were in the Smash Brothers Realm in the first place. She had recalled Ganondorf telling her that she needed to be wary of the witch twins, but while Lana was easy to trust, Lucina could understand why Cia was not so trustworthy.

"…Where am I?"

"You're in Ivoire. You know the human world with so many islands in the middle of nowhere where humans and demons co-exist for some reason? Yeah, it's that Ivoire."

Ivoire was the home to a little Necromancer named Marona and her phantom companion Ash. Ash ended up becoming an ally of Dark Pit after Pit had sent the black angel to investigate the problems going on in Ivoire. Once the misunderstanding was cleared up, Dark Pit and Ash became good friends. The dark angel would visit every now and then to check up on the solution and to hand Ash some jobs so Marona could take them and make more money. She was the type to take jobs that helped people, so Dark Pit made sure that people who needed help were genuine.

"If you're going to ask why you're here, then I can simply tell you that you died and I had to resurrect you from the dead."

Lucina blinked not sure what Cia just said. Cia repeated her answer attempting to make it sound as simple as possible.

"You're dead, but I brought you back. Unfortunately, your soul wasn't where your body was, so I had to work some magic. I apologize that your skin isn't as glamorous as it should be."

Cia would have gone on about the process, but Lucina had effectively toned her out at this point. Memories started flooding back to the bluenette as she looked at her hands. In the dark, she couldn't tell the difference, but on closer inspection, her skin was actually a pale cyan color. When Lucina rolled up her sleeve (revealing that someone had put her in blue pajamas as dark as the ocean), stitches were over the specific areas where her arm was either injured or hacked off. This made it seem like the arm she lost was sewn back together. Lucina shrieked at the obvious deformity of her body as she tried to get out of the bed. Instead, the pain she was feeling when she woke up hit her full force causing her to clutch her stomach in pain and tumble down on the floor.

"Hey! Who told you that you could move? You're only going to hurt yourself!"

Cia's attempt at trying to help the bluenette was met with rejection. She was almost hurt by Lucina's attitude, but anyone would react to this after they died and came back to life. Behind Cia was a huge mirror that Cia wanted to put in another room just so Lucina wouldn't see her monstrous appearance. It was too late and Lucina had a very good look at her body.

Besides her clothes being changed to pajamas, her entire body was light cyan with her blue eyes being gone and replaced with black eye sockets that stared back at her. Fortunately, this didn't apply to Lucina's actual body. Her blue eyes were still there, but the reflection wasn't kind to her appearance.

The shirt portion of her pajamas were unbuttoned revealing a rather nasty ring that circled around her belly. That was where the Minotaur's horn impaled her.

"Like I said…you're not part of the living anymore. Even when I revived you, you still have all the injuries on your body."

The Ylissean princess was more concerned with the arm that was hacked off by the Falchion and even more so the sword that performed the deed.

"Falchion is right here…or half of it anyway." Cia told her as she took out the hilt of the blade where only half of Falchion was in one piece. The rest was broken off by Steel. "Again, it was difficult to find any part of you that Dark Pit didn't have on him. Ash had to dig deep to find your body underneath all of that rubble and even then he still didn't find your soul."

"My…soul…"

"That's the only reason you're in an undead body in the first place. If you had your soul, then I would have been able to bring you back to life, but for some odd reason your soul vanished…I assume that…"

Cia's train of thought trailed off only because of the appearance of another person. Cia shook her head with how the person was using the door instead of magically warping toward her side.

"…Another day and still no Marona…" The person spoke with a heavy sigh. "Marona…where did you go?"

Ash was the phantom who lived on the island with Marona. As his title suggests, Ash had died many years ago alongside Marona's parents. Marona's father bestowed Ash the ability to live on as a phantom before he died leaving Ash in the world in between the living and the dead. His one goal in life was to protect Marona even when he had a limit. He could try to hide the evil that people had in their hearts from her, but he was just limited to ripping up her hate mail or scaring them off if they wanted to get physical with a little girl. As a result, he remained the same age as he died, which was eighteen. He was very pale due to being a phantom. He had an odd color palette with a light yellow for his vest with odd horseshoe like buttons attached. His burgundy scarf stood out, but Lucina was convinced that everyone from the Netherworld had a cool scarf in some shape or form seeing as how Pit's fiancé donned the same fashionable scarf.

While Cia gave off the impression that she was not to be trusted, Ash gave an aura of serenity allowing one to trust him…that is if they got past the fact that he was dead.

"I do not know how a phantom like you can exhaust yourself." Cia commented seeing how tired Ash was. "You're dead."

"Please don't remind me…" Ash grumbled as he looked up toward the startled Lucina. "So is Luci embracing death now?"

There was one side of Ash that probably developed when he was hanging out with Cia. The phantom was not one for jokes, but he was full of sarcasm that only got worse around her. Now, all of his "jokes" consisted of being dead or someone dying. He never went too far with the jokes, but now that Lucina was indeed dead…

"…Where is Dark Pit?"

That answered Ash's question. He shook his head hearing those words come out of her mouth.

"The first thing you ask when you wake up is asking where he is? I do think you should be concerned for yourself."

"It's impossible to see Dark Pit anyway. You're dead. Unless you got your soul, you will not be seeing him again. Ever."

Cia beat Ash to the harshness of reality. Lucina's eyes widened as she forced herself to stand up ignoring the pain that was coming to her.

"Who said?!"

"…Well…since I did bring you back to life…I think I know that it is impossible to-"

Proving how stubborn she was, Lucina had used her newfound powers of a Wight to vanish from the room. Cia immediately stood up from the stool she was sitting in not realizing that she forgot to breath. Ash groaned realizing he would have to chase the bluenette.

"Be at ease, Cia."


The only reason Ash wasn't worried about Lucina storming out of the house was because the female lord had no way of leaving Phantom Isle. If she ever came here, it was with Dark Pit who usually had Palutena or Viridi watching him. Even if the two Goddesses were not around, angels were able to set some sort of magic circle that only they could use to teleport back to Skyworld. It was a nifty gadget that it annoyed Lucina how humans couldn't activate it on their own. She growled feeling Ash's ghostly presence behind her.

"As a Wight, you cannot communicate with the living without dying." Ash began explaining seeing as how Cia did not explain the female lord what she had become. "You are not like me. A Wight is not a phantom or a ghost that is capable of haunting others in the afterlife. A Wight is also not a wraith that is able to walk amongst the living freely. A Wight who goes out into the open without possessing a non-living object will vanish into thin air. In other words, you might just end up back into the Black Abyss."

Lucina felt her entire body shaking. Ash was cold and straight to the point about her condition. As a phantom, she should listen to him and believe his knowledge, but she didn't want to admit that she was dead.

"Your soul is more important than talking to Dark Pit as painful as it is."

"But I need to tell Dark Pit and the others I'm okay." She argued. "I don't want him to be worried…even if my body is not the same."

"And cause more grief for them?"

The sound of Cia's heels against the soft sand of Phantom Isle caught their attention. Lucina continued to glare at the older female only causing Cia to roll her eyes seeing how much the princess was in denial of the situation she was in.

"And why is that?! If I reveal myself, I can show them I'm not completely dead and they don't have to worry about me."

"…That's the problem." Cia began as she shook her head realizing that Lucina had yet to register an important detail. "I just revived you just now, but have you ever wondered how long it took for me to bring you back to life?"

Lucina paused slowly realizing what the white haired witch was implying.

"How long was I…"

"It has been one month since your death. You died the same time Marona had gone missing and things haven't been the same since…"


Pit let out a defeated sigh as he left the Angel Assembly after a long shouting contest with its members. This has been going on for almost a month now and the white angel list the assembly would bend to his will. Alas, his captain status was a worthless title he couldn't throw around to these birdbrains.

The topic had been the same ever since the Red Kingdom had betrayed them and Lucina was murdered. "NUKE THE PLACE FOR DISRESPECTING THE HEAVENS AND THE WONDERFUL WARRIOR!" In Pit's mind, they didn't care much about Lucina as much as Ruby went back on his word in respecting the angels. Dark Pit's status as an angel suddenly mattered now if it meant getting rid of humans who defied the holy beings.

Pit had argued that despite the Red Kingdom turning their back on angels, this was still a human problem. The Blue Kingdom was the one that was dealing with the Red Kingdom, so there was no need for them to want to ask Celestia for the huge bomb that would ruin the Red Kingdom and by proxy the other human areas. Pit was in a losing battle though as time went on. He was stalling hoping that someone would find Lucina's body as proof that she did indeed die from Steel. However, no real progress was made and now there were only a few more days before they went with the plan regardless if Pit vetoed the bill the angels wanted to pass to kill all the humans.

Pit found it ironic that it was Siris who was talking to him about the issue instead of the judge Valerie. Valerie was part of the group that wanted to destroy the Red Kingdom, but he was willing to wait. Siris would later reveal that the silver haired judge was searching for a specific Dark Hero who was rumored to be wandering the area and preparing for his next concert. Pit rolled his eyes wondering why Valerie would care for the Dark Hero when there were more important people that would be caught in the explosion.

"Captain, I do wonder why you don't just give into the angels' demand and let them destroy the Red Kingdom." Siris began as he followed Pit out of the assembly and continued to walk beside him. The brunette was unable to lose the blond because Siris was taller than him and had longer legs. "I see the look in your eyes. You want to murder them too for killing your friend."

"Pittoo wouldn't want it." Pit responded quickly wishing that the drunk angel would go away. "He wants to find Lucina's body and apologize to her."

"It would be hard to apologize to a corpse assuming you could find her remains buried underneath the rubble."

Siris was cynical and straight to the point. Pit knew he was wasting time, but he told the dark angel he would give him as much time as he could before the place got nuked. The only body part that was found was Lucina's arm, but Cia would take that with her anyway seeing as how Dark Pit wasn't making good use of it.

"A reminder Captain: You only have four days left until Lucina is declared dead by Master Hand. I do not see what could be achieved in four days." He shook his head seeing the glare thrown his way. "Now look, unless you personally go down there or not care for humans at all, things would go way faster. You are letting your emotional twin and letting that tactician do most of the work for you."

"Don't you see I know that? I just don't want to fight Steel…"

"You are delaying the inevitable. Either face him now, or continue being a coward and kill everyone assuming Steel is still in the human world."

"I…"

The two had reached Palutena's Temple at this point and headed straight for the first division. Pit demanded that Siris leave him alone, but the blond was going to argue with him for another hour before taking his leave. The both were weary that a third angel was following them with a solemn look. When the two turned their attention to the third angel, he had a feeling that he wasn't seen.

"I feel bad for your twin." Siris stated as a matter of fact statement. "The first real job he has and it is ruined because of Steel, and on top of that…his girlfriend is dead."

"I know…" Pit murmured darkly. "Pittoo hasn't spoken much after that incident…I don't know what to think anymore. With his heart shut…I can't read his mind anymore…" Pit sighed in defeat as again he asked Siris to leave. The blond obeyed this time and took his leave heading for the seventh division for some relaxation. "Pittoo…what is happening to you?"


Me: TBC with 4257 words. You surprised there is more gore even in death? Well, this is a gory story. Notes!

1. The Black Abyss is mentioned a lot, but I'm going to ask you guys this question. What the heck is the Black Abyss? It seems to be a living being of some sort but if even Prism is scared of the Black Abyss as shown in Higanbana in the Red Moon, one has to wonder why this place is so dangerous. As FYI, when Lucina fell through the cracks of the human world, her body just goes past the core and into space and then falling down into the Black Abyss.

2. A Wight is in between a ghost and a wraith. A ghost is a non-living spirit that wanders around scaring and haunting people. These ghosts tend to be the most deformed of the trio due to how deformed the soul is. A wraith is what Airi is: A ghost that is capable of manifesting into a human but is very much transparent where the only way a wraith can stay around is if they suck up the life force of the living. The Wight is in between the ghost and the wraith being able to take on a human form but is more like a ghost in the sense that they do similar things and cannot interact with humans well without possessing a non-living object. This is what you would call poltergeist with the major difference is it's not superstitious and is the only way for a Wight to communicate with the living. I decided that if a Wight is seen by others without their soul, they vanish into thin air like what happens to mermaids and they turn into foam.

3. So Cia already found the body thanks to Ash but she didn't tell anyone that she found her. However, the soul is missing, but no one else besides Cia, Ash and Lana know that, so Dark Pit is searching for the body that will never be found because Ash already found it. I'll explain in the next chapter why they haven't told Dark Pit already since this is kind of crucial information.

That's it. Reviews are appreciated. Ja ne!