Chapter 10: Ascent ~Hope~
The first thing the vampire felt as she awoke was the cold.
It surrounded her, pressing against her skin like razor blades; she was shivering before she even managed to open her eyes. The sky above her was black and blazing with stars; it hung low, looming down, inky and infinite.
The vampire pushed herself up on her elbows and looked unsteadily around. She was lying in an opening in a dark patch of forest. The sounds of trickling water set her on edge as she looked around. It was silent here, unnaturally silent.
For a terrible moment, she had forgotten everything around her; the seering cold seeming to have wiped her mind clear, leaving behind nothing but a vacuum. Where she was, and why, was unclear; everything around her was unfamiliar. She squeezed her eyes shut more tightly, searching in vain if not for answers then for a clue, a single, solitary hint as to why she was here.
Then it came to her.
She remembered a man with ash grey hair telling her to "Save Issei from himself." Just how was she supposed to do that? She lurched to her knees, her frozen limbs screaming in protest. She stood, all of her joints popping as she did so.
"Okay, Mina. Think, save Issei from himself… What does it mean?" Mina asked herself, aloud. She looked up at the pale moon, it was a full moon… Which meant she was two days ahead of when she left.
Her lips curved into a small smile, the day was irrelevant; time was what mattered. How much time did she have to save Issei? There was a hole in her memory, and she wanted to know exactly how deep it went.
Two days ahead of when she left.
Somehow, somewhere, she had lost forty-eight hours of time.
She dug he hands into the damp pockets of her coat and found a crumpled piece of paper in one of them. She pulled it out and unfolded it. Five words were scrawled on it, in a handwriting she didn't recognize.
'Seek and ye shall find'
For several minutes, she merely stared at it. The clarity burst through her, and with clarity came understanding and purpose. She realized what the words meant, and who had written them. She stuffed the note back into her pocket and left her frozen hands rest there.
She looked up at the sky.
"Destroy it, and bring Issei close to it." Mina said, her message cryptic yet obvious. "The pitch black waters of the void… The start of all this."
Her attention snapped down as the silence of the forest was broken by a scream and rustle of bushes heading closer to her. In front of her, a blonde haired girl with nine fox tails burst out of a patch of bushes and rushed towards her.
'It's her… Kunou, right?' Mina thought, questioning herself.
The small blonde coward behind Mina, and began to mumble.
"E-evil… C-cave!" Kunou stammered out, pointing in the direction from which she came.
At the mentioning of a cave, more memories filled Mina's head, filling her with more insight of her purpose here. Kunou was with there when the Ashy haired man confronted them, he rehearsed a mantra to them. Deep within the sunken palace; the cave. It came to her now, this girl… Kunou.
Her mother was involved in this, somehow. Her attention shifted again.
What about this cave scarred her? And what was in the cave? Why did the man refer to it as a palace?
And why is Kunou's mother involved?
…
Mina and Kunou had only just arrived at the cave entrance and we're immediately hit by a profound stench of burnt corpses and potent, acrid gases of decomposed bodies that had lingered in the air for far too long. Mina hobbled over in disgust an puked, the stench being so thick it left a taste in her mouth. Tears formed in her eyes and dropped to the puke-covered floor below.
Kunou suffered similarly; the contents of her stomach churned and erupted from her mouth. No amount of words could adequately describe such a horrid stench.
Both backpedaled away from the front of the cave so they could breathe. The inky black sky suddenly erupted into a plethora of colors. Blue and green waves of energy swayed and danced in the night sky forming a beautiful Aurora. Stars twinkled and blinked in and out of life.
'Deeper… Go deeper into the unknown…' A faint voice said, echoing out all around them. The voice sounded old, ancient, and strained as it whispered instructions to them.
Mina was the first to recover from her sickness, and as she did so, she was hut by a driving hunger that forced her to her knees. She caught a whiff of a smell behind the acrid gases and burnt flesh, a whiff of blood that set her stomach at ease. Her primal urges kicked into overdrive and she walked back into the cave, her senses heightened and she took a deep breath in, disregarding the stench that caused Kunou to gag again.
She walked till she reached a pathway blocked off by boulders, and there infront of the boulders was the smell she craved. A killed deer stared at her blankly, its mouth ringed with terrified foam. Hunger rumbled through Mina, and she felt her fangs slide into place as heat spilled into her chest. She moved down to her knees and buried her face in the deer's throat, tearing at the soft flesh, digging for a vein or an artery. One spilt between her teeth an blood, still warm, spurted into her mouth; pleasure overwhelmed her and she threw her head back, her face covered in blood as a smile curled onto her lips. She stayed like that for a moment, kunou watching with eyes wide, then clamped her mouth back over the pulsing vein.
When she was sated, she rose to her feet, steam bellowing of her in thick clouds. Her driving huge was gone, and her mind was being pumped full of memories. What she was supposed to be doing came back to her at a nauseating speed.
She looked at the wall of boulders and noticed one was misplaced, leaving an opening that lead to whatever horrors came with the acrid stench of immolated flesh. Mina and Kunou walked over to the hole in the wall of boulders and walked through it. They trudged down the shaft, the stench lessened, replaced by the smell of oil.
Mina and Kunou's eyes both widened as the stared into the shaft, mushrooms glowed with an ethereal blue and lit the wall of the cave. Mina, in pure curiosity, kneeled down and poked one of the mushrooms. A bright, glowing blue mist erupted from the mushroom and landed on her hand, causing it to glow due to the substance.
She looked at her hand in amazement, forgetting all about the smell of the place. She looked at the skin that's was glowing in bewilderment.
Then she noticed it.
Under her skin. Her skin began to move and lurch up as if something was forcing it's way out. A small bump formed on the back of her hand and a green substance swished under it.
"Ahh! What is this?" Mina yelled out, fearing pouring out of her tone. The bump grew larger in size, a thunderbolt of agony attacked her body and she fell to her back. Her body rocked with convulsions of agony, her back arched off the soot-covered rock below and left only her feet and the crown of her head on the rock.
Kunou watched, horrified, as the bump grew and began to expand to the point of bursting.
*Pop!*
A yellow-green mist shot up into the air with the hollow pop and fell over Mina's body.
Kunou watched horrified as Mina's body twitched and jerked in pain under the fluorescent glow from the plants that lit the cave. Kunou turned to look for the exit of the cave, and her eyes widened in terror.
It was gone.
It was like they cave itself had changed once they had entered it, and there was no exit now. Mina began to cough, a liquid gushing around in the back of her throat as she did so, giving her cough a dark cackle like she was coughing blood.
The sounds of rock scratching and crunching together echoed in the cave's shaft impossibly loud, and a voice called out at the end, low and ancient, but filled with hatred and despair that was directed at them.
"Here in this darkness… This is were the very end of all creation was created… And it is where the last of creation shall end."
The voice was cryptic, what did it mean? The last of all creation?
Shall end here?
People, no, souls filled the room and began to reenact the past few moment of their lives. A boy layer on a cot scratching at his chest till the skin tore off under his nails. Underneath the skin was a green bump, the size of a peapod. The boy scratched and scratched away the bump until it burst with a loud, hollow pop that echoed in the cave. A yellow ting mist shot up from the bump and settled over the boys body, hundreds of more bums formed on the boys neck and chest and exploded individually, one by one in an agonizingly slow manner.
Kunou turned her head terrified, as a doctor screamed in agony at the formation of two bumps, one for each eye. Mina was nowhere to be seen, like she was never there.
"Follow deep in the cave's past, and find the treacherous waters of the void that reflect no stars…"
The screams of agony inside the cave died down, and when Kunou turned back to look, nothing was there. Smoke filled the area she was currently, an explosion echoed behind her as rocks fell, closing the only entrance. At the far end of the shaft, a fire emerged, and shadows were cast by the flames.
[Partner... I don't even know what's happening right now... It's even getting to me... It's so wrong, get out... Get out now!] The voice of Ddraig echoed in the cave.
"Ddraig?" Kunou called out, confused.
"Get out…"
Kunou turned again, and she saw him. The boy who saved her, the boy she couldn't help but to fall for.
Issei.
He stood looking at the same chaos she had, but his eyes were clouded and dazed. She ran up to him in an attempt to hug him, she finally got to see him again.
She went through him.
"Get out…" He repeated, and Kunou watched as he began to move to the exit that was now there again.
"Yes, get out…" Issei said once more, leaving the cave. Kunou tried to follow him, but once she reached the entrance, she couldn't get through.
"No, stop! Wait for me!" Kunou screamed out, so happy to see him again that she had forgotten about him not being real. Several seconds after Issei walked out, the wailing of dogs could be heard outside.
"Fire!"
Gunshots filled her ears as blood exploded from Issei's body under a hailstorm of bullets. He fell to the ground, his breathing rugged and hoarse.
"This is where the last of all creation shall perish."
The vision faded, Mina stood behind Kunou and began to move, asking if she was alright. Clarity burst through Kunou, and what the voice had said earlier began to make sense.
The last of all creation was Issei, and Issei will die here… In this cave.
And Kunou and Mina were here to save him? Or were they here to bring him to the cave and kill him?
So many unanswered question pounded through Kunou's mind, and she refused to believe that Issei would die and leave her again.
"Kunou! We need to go!" Mina yelled, slapping Kunou on the back, snapping her away from her thoughts.
"Did… did you see that?" Kunou asked, her voice shaky.
…
30 Minutes Later
Issei looked around in every direction he could, looking for some form of light to indicate how he had got here… The Void. Or what he assumed was the Void, as Zimmer explained to him long ago. He had lost track of time since he got here, there were no stars in the sky, no light, nothing anywhere and everywhere. This place had definitely lived up to the name, it was void of anything, the absence of everything.
He felt cold, but at the same time he was filled with and unexplainable warmth. It was hard to breathe here, but at the same time, it was soothing.
Why? Why was it soothing?
Imagine a line extending endlessly in two direction… Both directions are choices that you must make…
It was the same voice Issei had heard since he came here, the voice of a deranged maniac. But it was soothing and set Issei at ease. It was the same voice that echoed him in his Juggernaught drive chant.
No matter which choice you chose though, neither is harder than the opposite!
The small chant the voice gave never changed, since he came here it had been on repeat, as if it was trying to tell him something.
He wasn't dead. The souls of Ddraig past wielders were still talking to him.
The words of Zimmer echoed through Issei's head in that moment, the words he was told at his arrival here, the words that proved Zimmer was never good. Proved he was never trying to help Issei.
"At the end of all things Issei, there is only me. You have been a good host, but now, you shall become a vessel. My vessel. And the world shall know what it feels like to burn once more."
Anger filled Issei, an anger so profound that even the Void seemed to feel it.
"If you remain quite and keep the silence of the void, you will be consumed by the Void painlessly… But if you speak and disturb it's silence, it will destroy you in the worst way imaginable."
More of Zimmer's words echoed In his head, and that was it… Neither option was any better than the opposite.
More anger filled Issei, like a driving, undeniable force, a red aura flowed out and around him moving in a sickly slow manner. The fires of rage burned inside of his chest and filled him.
"I, who is about to awaken…" Issei began, remembering the cursed chant that gave its canter the same powers as a actual dragon's. The Void began to shake and rumble, a red gauntlet formed on his left hand.
He was finally with Ddraig again.
The void shook more, the low rumbling noise grew louder as a single rip tore in the void sky above him and revealed many secrets the void hid away. Building, statues, bodies and altars floated helplessly.
The most eye-catching of them all though, we're the ten people surrounding Issei in a circle, their eyes a voided black with a red center, and all of them… Looked like himself.
[Partner… This… Shouldn't be possible…] Ddraig spoke to him for the first time in a long, long time.
"Am the heavenly dragon who has stolen the principles of Domination from God…" As Issei chanted the words, the red aura grew thicker and more dangerous. Power poured out of Issei and began to fill the void around him, despite the darkness of the void, the red pierced through it with ease.
[You're… Still alive…] Ddraig said, sounding shocked beyond all comprehension.
"I laugh at the 'Infinite' and I grieve at the 'Dream'…"
"Choose Issei… Choose and WAKE UP!" It was the voice of Zimmer
[Partner… Don't do this, please! Just let me explain!] Ddraig said, but it was too late.
Issei's balance breaker formed over him.
"I shall become the Red Dragon of Domination…"
A red liquid gushed into his eyes and glowed menacingly, effectively showing his anger. His armor began to change and grow larger, it grew large wings and became more sharp. Claw-like talons formed on his feet, and horns on his head.
The appearance of a dragon.
"Juggernaught Drive!" Issei shouted, all his hatred and anger tripled and poured out and around him. He let out a bellowing roar that formed in the pits of his stomach and erupted out of his mouth, a horrible screech of anger and hatred, of torture and violated despair. A low rumbling gurgle bounced off of Issei's throat and a Shockwave of red energy erupted out of his mouth and shot out across the void.
"Why? Why are you so persistent?" Zimmer yelled out, cursing at Issei.
"It… All… Ends… Here…" Issei mumbled out
"Oh? Does it? Look around you! You are in my realm! How could you possibly hope to beat me like this?" Zimmer exclaimed, forming in front of Issei.
And his eyes widened as he remembered how foolish he was.
"It's… My realm too…" Issei said, holding his left hand up. A red and black ball of energy formed in his hand.
Zimmer's eyes widened more, what was the point of fighting? Issei was stronger thanks to him… He created his own end. He looked at Issei and could practically see the smile Issei was giving under his red armor.
"Issei, even if I get destroyed, the world will still die. Why deny it? I gave you the chance to go to another plain of existence, but you stayed. Why?"
"Because I exist in all plains of existence. In everyone of them, I only bring destruction…"
"Exactly! So why do you fight it-"
"I will bring death and destruction a thousand times over if it meant I could give life endlessly. I will destroy you and change everything I have ever done wrong. I will remove you completely, and none of this will have ever happened." Issei said
"An what about everyone else? There's a chance you won't ever see them again, the physical damage it had to cast an aegis that long is-"
"I don't care. I only care about them being safe… I would do anything for that, exactly like the Red Dragon Emperors before me did."
"Then who is stopping you?"
"Shadowfall!" Issei shouted, the orb of energy in his hand shot forward and hit Zimmer. The orb began to spiral in two direction; the black spiraled in one, and the red spiraled in the other. It began to expand in size until it consumed even himself. His vision went black.
And when his vision came back, he was standing in front of all his friends…
His armor broke off his body and fell to the ground, sadness gushed over him and tears fell from his eyes.
He finally saw them again… Just as everything was about to end.
"Rias? Did you mean what you said the day I left? About you kicking me out of your peerage?" Issei asked, tears splattered on the ground below.
All eyes turned to Rias once again. Everyone forgot, everyone forgot that Issei asked the same question before, right before he killed Sairaorg.
"Issei… I… I'm so, so sorry…" Rias began, and Issei smiled.
"It will all end soon. None of you will remember any of this, and the thing that I am will be forgotten, and there is nothing a thing in all existence can do about it." Said Issei, looking down below him. He fell to his hands and knees.
Koneko tried to run forward, along with Ophis and Kuroka, but none of them could reach him. A barrier that glowed with red energy formed around Issei and halted them.
"Issei, please! Come back to us, come back to me! Everything will be fine!" Koneko yelled, clutching to the only thing she had left to say.
"Now even you lie to me? Look around… There is nothing left! The human race will fall to extinction and the world shall burn!" Issei yelled, forcing all of them to back up slightly.
Power poured out if his voice, anger and hatred mixing in as well.
"All of you will watch the world be torn asunder. It will be the last thing all of you see." Said Issei, his eyes narrowing.
He had no clue what came over him, but he felt that this was meant to be. Issei stood and raised his left right hand to the sky, black and red energy gathered around him.
"There exist purgatory in Hell, and fields of fire in the Mortal plain. Fire discriminates all life as it burns and purifies with ferocious mercy."
Of course.
It has been like this since the beginning
As Issei spoke, magic power poured out of him and filled the world around him. The ORC felt power pour back into them, and clarity hit them all.
'Seek and you shall find.' Of course… They were seeking Issei, an now that they get him, this happened.
"Let the end of all things be more silent than death."
It has started.
It is all about to end.
"Let even the affluent in this world perish and turn to dust under the inescapable chaos that ensues."
It is important to remember that all life must come to an end.
As it always has been.
"Show me a world that's slate has been wiped clean. Show me eternal, ultimate beauty, indestructible and unassailable."
The very earth shook at the might of the power that was being released now, and each member of the ORC fell to the ground.
"I am he who rejects understanding, and seeks perfection."
How chaotic.
We were always cursed to damnation.
"All life gathers, undulating, reeking, and showing the horrors of its procreation."
It was for love.
It was always for love.
"But I will not accept that creation, nor will I understand it."
"Issei… Please, don't… Come to me!" Koneko yelled at him
"I long for a scenery of pure white."
"I long for a world of death."
"I long for a world where all creation is buried and long forgotten."
It all ends here
"I long for all existence to stop and cease to be!"
"Issei!" Koneko yelled one last time.
"Banish Creation!"
Issei's body began to break into energy itself, and as it did the ORC felt a presence of magic that was oh so familiar to them.
It was the magic of Kunou and her mother, Yasaka. Their eyes widened as they felt the power, why was their magic here? What purpose did it serve?
Golden energy radiated off Issei body in extreme amounts, forging a thick, almost sparkling mist that only seemed to glow brighter with each passing second.
His muscles began to twice and spasm, the cause clearly being pain, as a beam of gold energy with a red and black center shot towards the sky. For reasons they couldn't quite understand, fear and sadness washed over the ORC, a giant back-red ball with hints of gold spiraled above, impossibly wide and expanding in size.
One look at the expanding orb told them that the entire earth would soon be consumed, their fear increased as the revelation came to them. They looked back down at Issei, almost all of his body was gone now, all of it almost completely turned to gold dust floating in the slight breeze that forced tree limbs to collide together, filling their ears with the gloomy sound of nature.
Once Issei's body was completely gone, Koneko rushed forward, grabbing at the gold dust that once was Issei while screaming.
"Issei! No! Please!" Koneko yelled, tears flowing down her cheeks.
Behind her, the group spoke to themselves in confusion, she didn't understand entirely what they were saying but how could they just avoid the fact he had died in front of them? She looked up at the spiraling orb above, and then she heard a question.
A question that now she couldn't answer. It felt off, deep within herself she felt she should know how to answer it, no, it felt like she knew the answer but something made her forget.
"Kiba, who is Issei?" Gasper asked, and the entire group looked amongst themselves in mass confusion.
Kiba pointed to the sky, the orb above now blocking out most light reaching earth. Fear gushed over the group once more, panic attacking them and racking their minds with questions.
"Koneko, you have to use your powers! We might stand a chance if you do!" Rias yelled
Koneko turned and looked at her master, shock evident on her face. She was afraid of her power, but how could she refuse? She kneeled down and placed her hand on the ground, summoning enough energy for and attack on the spiraling morass of black mist above.
'Perish… Perish. Perish! PERISH!'
A voice in the back of Koneko's mind formed, deranged, angry, and filled with hatred. The voice sounded familiar to her, and it put her on edge, memories slowly came to her as she remembered a brown haired boy who was always beaten ed at school for being a 'Pervert.'
'I desire all creation to perish in the crimson flames of purgatory! I desire all creation to cease to be! I desire a world comprised of only death, I desire everything to be over!'
"Koneko?" Rias asked, trying to catch her attention.
She recalled listening to him and his friends talk, and she could immediately identify the voice as the boy in her memories.
'I am the beginning of the horrid end destined to come.'
"Koneko!" Rias tried once more
Her memories passed by much faster now, it was Issei, the boy she couldn't help but fall for. Despite his perverted antics, she loved how kind and caring he was.
How could she forget him? It wasn't right.
Her attention snapped as she felt a tremendous pressure behind her, behind her was the giant orb. She reached out an touched it, and as soon as she did, she smiled.
Emotions poured into her, all of them coming from the orb, emotions of love and care. She could feel sadness also, and she could feel Issei's presence inside the orb. She knew deep within all the gold dust his body had become, was a crying Issei.
A single tear rolled down her eye.
"It's okay, Issei. I know you are doing this for the better of everything. I am just glad that we will end together, and may our next lives be much better, but let not a single moment be without each other." Koneko said, her tears flooding out. The orb inched more, consuming her arm painlessly, turning that part of her body into the same gold dust as Issei's. She watched the dust mingle together with the dust that she knew was Issei. Happiness came over her.
"I love you, Issei."
'I love you, too.'
Her smile grew larger, one last tear ran down her happy face as the orb consumed her and everything around them.
…
"My name is Joshua De Klerk, and a little over a month ago I sent a kid deep into the cave that was the very epitome of his despair. Once the boy returned to the surface, he was different, his perfectly healthy persona was replaced by that of a repugnant madman's. Deep within himself after his awakening was a hunger, a depriving hunger that caused him pain to the point of almost death. But, was it a hunger for food? Or was it for something else? Something deeper that nobody could fully understand?"
Around the voice was nothing, nothing in any direction. The air was cold and thick like honey.
"I suppose it was time for me to come here wasn't it, Issei? The true void."
"I am the author of this story of mine. You planted those words into my head, I am the end of all things and the beginning. That is what you meant by it, right? Without me, there would be no story."
"It has always been like this, Issei. We both no longer exist. The void will consume us like it did with everything else."
"So that's it then? All creation is done."
"I made creation last time, Issei. All life was my creation, and it disgusted me. They slaughtered each other for nothing, so I wanted all creation to die. I will never accept creation, nor will I try to understand it. I will jot ask you to see as I do, but I have a question."
"And?"
"What will you do? What will the new creator do?"
…
The Dark Ages
A brown haired man laid against a cave wall, writing in a red journal.
'To whoever finds this journal, however unlikely this eventuality is, I feel compelled by my conscience to recount what has led to the awful events that took place here. Whether our actions will ever be recognized or understood by our loved ones is for God to decide, but I leave this life in a fiery Inferno confident that He, In His infinite wisdom, will forgive us... My name is Joshua De Klerk…'
…
2017
Kuoh, Japan
"Okay students, today we will learn about the mysterious journal that some scientist say 'Shouldn't exist.' Despite how the journal cane from the Dark Ages of human history, it is impressive because it depicted things that still, to this day, have not been discovered." The man was a teacher at the Kuoh Academy High school, he was holding a copy of the legendary journal that seemed to defy all logic and human comprehension.
"Inside of this journal are recorded events that we, to this day, have not been able to shed light on. The most terrifying of all of these events was on titled 'The Obscurum Epidemic Crisis,' we still have no clue what the meaning is for the name, there are no currently known translations. We can only relate the word 'Obscurum' to 'Obscure,' which means to block one path from being obtained, or hidden beneath a veil."
"Hey Teach, is this a learning session or a philosophy?" A student in the back of the class asked. The teacher ignore the student.
"Something strange that puts scientist on edge, is that every future prediction in the journal has so far been one-hundred percent correct so far. Something more scary, the journal depicts an end in 2017, our current year." The teacher flipped through the pages, and closed the book.
…
3:45pm
With Issei
School had ended close to an hour ago, and Issei Hyoudou was currently walking home. He was crossing over a walkway above a road. His head was hung down, he had got in trouble for peeping on the Kendo Club girls once again.
"It isn't fair… I just wanted to see their beautiful boobs!" Issei mumbled to himself, not paying attention to his direction.
"Umm, are you Issei Hyoudou?" A soft feminine voice called from in front of him. Issei looked up at her, he was captured by her beauty almost instantly. Her waist length black hair gave her violet eyes a beautiful elegant charm. A slight pink tint covered her cheeks, clearly forced but still good enough to trick Issei.
"Uh, Yes?" Issei answered, sounding confused. Why was such a hot tie talking to him?
"M-my name is Yuuma Amano, w-would you please go out with me?"
…
It had been a day since Issei had met the beautiful girl named Yuuma Amano, his first love interest. He looked up at her in fear and panic.
"Would you die for me?" She repeated, a spear seeming made of light formed in her hand. She did not give Issei the chance to respond, she threw the spear and laughed as it impaled Issei's heart. (Double critical xD)
Issei fell to the ground, a gaping hole in his chest. The horrible smell of blood filled the air, and he could feel the warm liquid that came from him puddle beneath him.
He didn't move, he looked up at the sky above. It was beautiful, stars hanging low, sparkling and whizzing in and out of his vision. The inky black space only made the stars glimmer more, an as his vision faded, along did the pain in his chest.
'Nothing lives forever, Issei. In an instant, in a flash, you indulged yourselves in pleasure and lost it all in the blink of an eye. But regret not, Issei, for tonight will be the start of the banquet of carnage soon to come. Weary soul grow light in liberation as you will the one to freeze all things to a silence deeper than death, and then you will see beauty, untouched and a white so pure it is tantalizing, an eternal void to never be filled, an eternal pleasure to never be satisfied. You will be the one to return all life to nothing.'
That was the last thing Issei heard, the voice of something horrible and filled with violated despair.
And then there came a red light in the darkness that crowded him. And when he woke up, the voice he had heard was forgotten.
End of Chapter 10: Ascent ~Hope~
Just leave me a review, I am not done with this story, this is only the second part, and I still have things to explain. Tell me what you all think, and I am willing to take ideas.
Thank you, Xerozzuro for your absolutely tremendous amount of help in the production of this story and chapter. You are awesome man!
And now I have to thank everyone who is still here.
Thank you all! And welcome to Obscurum Epidemic: Unnatural Selection.