Crystal Rain
A Wolf's Rain fanfiction by Kyukutou Sakura
Epilogue: Crystal Rain
The world teemed with life, the traffic of the city streets moving like blood through an artery. The sun shone down from above, with no reminder of the horror faced within the past billion years. The world had come so close to ending, but a miracle prevented it…the sacrifice of one single entity of its comrades. Depicted in the fabled Book of the Moon, the entity was a white Wolf, a creature who would lead the ruined world to Paradise, a place of Ultimate happiness. Paradise was the Wolves' Heaven, in a sense.
In a laboratory hidden from the rest of the world, an attractive blond woman in her early twenties documented the progress of her experiments. She watched in caffeine-deprived awe as a single, cream-colored flower opened in a slow bloom. The flower radiated a pure, gentle aura, a slowly pulsating white color. The doctor, Cher Degre, took torrid notes in her journal, before administering the growth serum created from an arcane form of alchemy that died out centuries before her. The serum mixed in the tank that held the flower, a huge glass ball that was filled to the brim with pale green, glittering fluid.
The serum melded with the green fluid, changing it to a more clear emerald color. The flower reacted almost immediately, growing in size until it closed its great petals to 'sleep'. Cher looked at her watch. "Damn, is it morning already?" she frowned, before watching the flower sleep. Inside the petals she knew what grew, and knew that the flower acted as a womb for the Flower Maiden of Legend. The Maiden that would lead the Wolves to Paradise on the night of a Red Full Moon.
"Soon…" his voice was breathy and mechanical, and eerily empty. "We'll do it right, this time." He continued, the life lines connected to his body began to hiss, snapping off with a squelching pop! "Yes…Lord Darcia." A small, graceful female bowed, helping him to his feet. "Evil grows yet in this world. We've been given a second chance." The man called Darcia hissed out, as his maidservant seer assisted him with his clothing, placing the eyepatch over his left eye. His wolf's eye. "So lucky that we made such accurate notes last time, hmm?" Darcia chuckled maliciously, before opening the windows to the new world. The new world that would soon end, and allow him to enter Paradise. He remembered a name from his past life…Cheza. The Flower Maiden. The Key to opening and entering Paradise. His grandfather's alchemic creation. "It is time…once more." He murmured, and drew the windows shut.