Chapter 1: The Empty Cage

I have always dreaded this place... Nothing to see, not a sound to be heard, not a person to talk to… only me and this oppressing oblivion. To ask if im am dead would be rhetorical, this scepter is far from being heaven but close enough to being a personal hell, tailor made for me. I can't even tell if there is time in this place but i can feel my mind slowly withering away like i have been stranded in this void for eons. I have been condemned to this place because of who i was, what i was going to do even if at the time i didn't knew what it was.

The only thing this place has given to me aside from insomnia and madness, is time, of which i used for two things. Hone my power to their absolute peak. Oddly they are more centered around deceit and shade bending, mostly trough making a variety of minions with some specific kinds becoming my eyes and ears, although it has destructive powers they are somewhat lacking, but the crystals i can create have the close quarters part covered at least.

This power seems to come naturally to me, like breathing is to a man, or feathers to a bird.

But there are limits to them, since my body is made entirely out of dark, instead of drawing their powers from different sources like feelings or thoughts, they come directly out of my own body, creating a limit to how much i can use my minions, the simple cannon fodder types are the equal to almost nothing, while creating stronger ones or a secondary sets of eyes and ears is more costly.

And secondly, reflecting on my mistakes during my last attempt. How can he be so foolish to forgive them, how can he let it all go knowing that the very people he so vowed to protect betrayed him in the end, even after seeing that human die in front of his very eyes by them, he still can somehow look past that. It is so hypocritical of him, he sworn to protect the Earth and all its inhabitants but he condemns me to this oblivion seconds after my creation, am i not an inhabitant of earth ? The very first sentient being i met introduced me to this prison and only left me with his name and a will for revenge... So much for a first impression.

Does Iblis still exists ? The last thing i can recall was being defeated as Solaris and being engulfed blinding light. After that i think i woke up ? Although this place is not too far fetched from my own nightmares... What am i thinking, of course Iblis survived, he is the body of a god, a mere blast couldn't do him away… Right ?

I still feel this want to see Shadow being skewered, watch him barely hanging onto his dear life and feel the bliss as i witness the final gasp of air escape his lungs... but all the hate i have for him is nothing compared to how confused his actions are to me. Why can he still… forgive these things ? Every person that saw me after being released from the scepter has treated me as a monster, the only one that didn't ran for his life the second he saw me was Silver, but he was left alone for a long time fighting an already lost battle against Iblis, when you know only loneliness and ruin and a person comes from apparently nowhere with a promise to fix everything you would inevitably find yourself trusting anything he would say.

What is in this humanity and earth Shadow finds worth protecting, they failed him, betrayed him, even after all of that he decides to even work under the same people behind that incident in space, why did he cared so much about her, most of his memories of her are about something useless, usually involving the two of them together.

I don't know how long am i going to stay sane in this place, madness is slowly but surely coming for me i can feel it, in a matter of time my mind, myself, will be forever lost amidst mad ramblings and rants. What would have happened if Shadow didn't trapped me in this scepter, would things turn out differently ?

Crack

I sat up from the 'ground' perking my head up looking in all directions for that sound, i looked in the 'horizon' and saw… a crack !? H-How could there be a crack in this oblivion h-how? Light began shine through the cracks, pieces of the void began to fall, with each piece falling the light grew stronger and stronger, i shielded my eyes and then everything went black.

When i thought that this would be the end of me, that i would fade into nothingness a fate more desirable than going mad. I woke up in a dark place surrounded by stones, metallic rubble, carts tilted to the side and scorch marks on the stone walls.

Close to me i could see some purple crystal shards scattered on the floor, was i...freed, where am i ? I looked up and saw light gently shining through a hole. I spent no time and flew up there and out of that place.

As i got out i felt a gentle breeze graze past me, and a blinding light on the sky. "Has the sun always been this bright ?" I asked myself as i shielded my eyes from its radiance, when i got used to it, i noticed a large forest in front of me and a small village bellow me and what it looked like a mecha reduced to scrap.

It seems that i have been given another chance.

Yo, im back, sorry for taking this long.