Haunted

Rebirth

Atem

I had to do it. I couldn't just sit there, and watch the person I've come to know so well, wither and disappear. I cared for him to much too even give that thought a moment of my time. This decision is probably the most selfish thing I could have done, yet I do not regret deciding to do it. I am saddened, because I know what is to come, but I am at peace because I know that I had the ability to save him from a life of internal imprisonment. A life from hollowed loneliness. An existence that I know all too well.

Despite having been spent before the battle had truly begun, I was able to muster the strength I needed, knowing he needed me to. Despite the already overwhelming pain coursing through my very core, I commanded willfully until the very end. Despite knowing how crushed he would be when he realized what I had done, I made sure my smile was the last thing he saw.

Slipping. I got up, and turned to leave them as quickly as I could. My hold that was keeping my spirit bound to this walking corpse, slipping rapidly by now. Pain. So much excruciating pain. Too much to bare, too much to continue to will myself to move. Red. Thick red liquid from the inside. My life blood. End. The end of my second life. Sent out in a shower of red.

I hovered there. Staring down at the forms of my friends. Upon their leaving, I followed. I had to see the impact for myself, needed to know if what I had done proved too much in the end. I watched the exchange. Though I was at peace with what I decided, hearing the hollowed tone in his voice as he spoke tore at my heart. As I told him I would, I reached out for him, but it was too early. He rejected my presence, told me to leave him be. So I did.

Moving on, I had to see how his sister was fairing. Appearing next to her bed in her studio apartment. Her eyes were red and puffy from crying, but she looked better off than her older brother, more receptive even. I had to get my point across before I left this plain. So I reached out to her, and she answered.

She promised me she would try to make sure he wouldn't blame himself, but she couldn't guarantee it. Knowing this, I had to find a way to make things better, make it so he would open his eyes. I parted ways with her, leaving her with an assurance that I would try.

And so my wish was granted. I had been spat back out with the gift of a new immortal life. "No longer will you be allowed in the spirit plain, forever bound to your mortal form." This was all I could have asked for. The chance to do something right, to keep doing what I do best.

I sensed him nearby. Seeing the area of which I was deposited, I knew it couldn't be good. This was a distant place. A blackened void of nothingness. I knew why he was here, and yet when I saw him throw himself off the floating mass of rock, I still couldn't help the momentary shock.

Dive. I came to meet him. Snatched him out of thin air and carried him back to the safety of the floating mass. I dropped him haphazardly to the ground in hopes of rousing his senses. "You know, it would have been a real waste of a gift if you actually succeeded in dying." I gave him another smile. "Look at you bud, you're a mess." I placed a hand on his cheek hoping to make him realize I was tangible, but he was still so caught up in his mourning.

"Oh Aion, now my mind is hallucinating you just to humor me... I must be at the gates of death right now." I gripped his chin, shaking my head, as I had forced him to look at me. "I hate to break it to you bud, but you aren't dead, and I am no hallucination." The look on his face, I had to admit, was kind of priceless. "Well buddy you are stuck with me in the land of the living, now and forever." "Y-you mean...?" I nodded my head with a joyful smile. "Yes, my gods granted me immorality, even if I die I will return back to my body in time. I'm not going anywhere."

To this day, I still think he doesn't quite know what to make of my coming back.


I understand that these 3 chapters may be a bit confusing, in part because these are biased off of a Role Play between me and my friend Eclipsia(clippy), who is the actual player of Solun, and Aeolune. as you can imagine this means i role played as Atem. but this has to do about a part in our role play where Solun is taken over by the spirit of Israphel, and Atem vows to release Solun from his control, and you pretty much will get the rest of what happened through reading, i wont spoil anymore XP. So I hope you guys enjoy all the Angst that is in this lol. (and yes this is a crossover because, well the hole me Rping as Atem started off as a joke XD and has developed an actual story as we went with it)