A/N: ... Not dead, I swear. "Eternity" is actually theme #7, but theme #6 is on paper in my dorm room 100 miles away, soooo... here is 7 in place of 6. Contains semi spoilers from Koudelka and I guess Covenant as well. Merry Christmas!
6. Eternity
It was no coincidence that she woke me when she did. That Koudelka Iasant… and her two companions, that Edward character and James fellow. I had been asleep for nearly one hundred years. No reason I couldn't sleep any longer in that monastery. No reason I should have woken up much earlier. No, no, there was a reason the psychic roused me from my century-long slumber. I just didn't realize that it would turn out to be something so great…
Initially, it was so that Koudelka could exorcise an evil spirit and set free the soul of a woman named Elaine. Now the whole time that I was locked up in that monastery, I had never heard of a woman called Elaine, though I suppose she could be considered "before my time". Or rather, "after my time", perhaps? And the fellow she was with, James O'Flaherty, he had fancied this Elaine. And there was a whole mess of complications which eventually brought forth the death of Elaine's spirit which was haunting the mansion, as well as the death of James.
The mansion has long since been destroyed, but naturally, the memories from darker times still linger. You can still smell the blood and decayed, rotting corpses of the prisoners who used to call that place "home". The air still sends shivers up one's spine from the pure, roiling hatred of those poor, lost souls. And you can still feel the presence of the great monster-god, Amon, whom an acquaintance of mine once fought and conquered.
Ah, Yuri. The acquaintance I was talking about. He has been lost to the stars now, God rest his weary soul, but every day I can feel his presence. Not many people have affected me the way he has, and I have been alive for seven hundred years! Yuri Hyuga and Koudelka Iasant – two remarkable people who have changed my existence forever. And they have changed the existence of the entire world as we know it, or rather, preserved its precarious balance.
And though neither of them is with us now, they will live on for eternity. Even though the history books may never mention their name as the ones who saved the earth from destruction… as long as I live, I will remember their name.
"Hey, look at this…" A boy brushed off the dirt from a well-kept leather-bound book.
"Hmm?" She squatted down beside him. "It's a book. How lame. All that digging for nothing…"
"Let's read it! 'March fourth, 1982. Lit a candle for Yuri today. God rest his soul. Roger Bacon.' Who the hell is Yuri? Or Roger Bacon?"
"Who cares. There's nothing here, Sam. Let's go."
"… Yeah."
Sam tucked the diary into his backpack.
- crazykitsune17