Part3: End of Uselessness
I want the nightmares to go away. Night after night the images come to me. Day after day the images haunt me. I want my Hell to go away.
I'll make it go away the only way I know how.
I stare into the horizon. Vast ocean reflecting the rising red moon. Jagged rocks far below me, the edge of a cliff in front of me. One step from the end of uselessness. I close my eyes.
'What Gods there may be, why have you forsaken me?'
One step from the end of uselessness.
'What friends I may have had, why have you forsaken me?'
One step...
"Father, why have you forsaken me?!" I screamed at the top of my lungs as I took my last step.
I heard a low laugh in my head. 'I should ask the same of you son... Why did you forsake me?'
'You know very well. I no longer wanted my demon heritage.'
He laughed again. 'But now you're regretting it, aren't you?' I did not respond. 'Aren't you?'
'That is no business of yours!'
'But it is! My only surviving offspring is going to kill himself.'
'Leave me alone! You have brought nothing but sorrow to me.'
'That can be changed.'
Change. 'I do not want your 'help'.'
'I can make you powerful again.'
Power. 'I said, I do not want your 'help'!'
'I can make you dead to emotion again.'
Emotions, my downfall. Regret my last emotion. I want the nightmares to go away. Night after night the images come to me. Day after day the images haunt me. I want my Hell to go away. I'll make it go away the only way I know how. 'Help me...'
I open my eyes. I stare into the horizon. Vast forest ablaze in the light of the rising red moon. Jagged rocks far below me, the edge of a cliff behind me. One step away from the end of uselessness.
AN: I apologize for the last chapter being so short, which is why I called it "Interlude."