A Bold + Italics - Telepathy.
Sometimes it removes one of them for no reason, so anytime Asmoday is talking in bold or italics, it's just telepathy. Him writing is written as normal text.
If the chapter feels too weird, don't blame me. There is a limit to what I can do with 3 hours of sleep and some coffee.
Aether POV -
"Aether! Where did you put my shoes!?" Lumine shouted while I was cooking dinner.
"I think Asmoday took them" I replied.
"Couldn't you guys have said anything earlier? I have a date with Dain in a few hours!" Lumine said.
"He should be nearby, you can use mine" Amber said as she entered the kitchen.
"Thank you Amber! I'm going to find him" Lumine said as she ran outside.
Lumine didn't return for a long time, so I went out to find her.
When I stepped out, I saw Asmoday and Lumine dead in front of the house.
"L-Lumine! Asmoday!" I shouted as I tried to wake them up.
I heard a loud thud behind me. I turned around and saw our friends from Mond dead on the floor.
No, no, no, NO!
I ran back to or house and saw Amber sitting on the couch as I quickly hugged her.
"Ae? You alright?" she asked.
"A-Amber! Everyone! I just sa- wait... only one person calls me Ae!" I said as I quickly got away from her.
There was a bright flash and Amber teleported next to me.
"What happened to everyone, Ae?" she said as her body started changing into Asmoday.
"Y-YOU! YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD!" I shouted.
"I suppose you would know that. After all, you are the one who killed me" Asmoday said with a creepy grin.
His body caught fire as he started coming towards me.
"N-No! I- I only wanted to kill the Abyss monster!" I said with a shaky voice.
"Oh really now? So I must be this Abyss monster of yours, because you killed me three times" he said.
"First, you forced me to use the delusions" Asmoday said as bodies of our Liyue and Mond friends started falling form the sky.
"Then you tried to destroy my soul" he said as blue flames covered him.
"And then you killed me when I finally resurrected" he said as the flames finally reached me.
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I woke up in my bed with sweat on my face.
"That nightmare again?" Amber asked as she woke up.
"Yeah... I keep remembering that" I said.
"You know, I'm pretty sure Asmoday would forgive you if he knew why you did all that" she said while playing with my hair to calm me down.
"I hope he does" I said as I checked the time.
4:23 AM
Not too early.
I wasn't going to get any more sleep, so I got ready.
"Where are you going today?" Amber said as she went back to bed.
"I'll be leaving for Inazuma soon, so I'm going to find Beidou and talk about the Crux clash" I said.
"And Paimon?" she asked.
"She's in the tea pot. I'll get her out, when she wakes up" I said as I gave Amber a small kiss on her head and left.
Aether POV -
I was sitting near windrise, when I saw something moving in the tree.
"Venti?" I asked.
"Yaa hoo!" he shouted as he jumped down.
"What are you doing here?" I asked.
"I should be the one asking that" he said.
"I'm going to leave for Inazuma soon, so I was going to talk with Beidou in Liyue" I said.
"Hmm. Any news about Asmoday?" I asked.
"Actually, yes. The winds saw something similar to him near Musk Reef" Venti said.
"Thanks Venti!" I said as I started running towards Musk Reef.
(Y/N) POV -
"You alright?" Lumine asked me
"Just a little head ache" I said.
I could use telepathy after 'that' but it only lasted for 10-15 minutes
"Why don't you go back to the surface? You've been inside the abyss for too long" she said.
I agreed and went to Musk Reef to get some fresh air.
A few abyss mages had followed me and were setting up a small camp.
I was glad that Lumine allowed me to stay with her after I almost wiped out the Abyss.
"You highness. The camp is ready, but I request that you don't leave the island for your safety" one of the mages said.
"Alright, but can you please stop calling me 'your highness'? You guys call Lumine princess and it feels weird" I said.
"As you wish, your highness" it replied.
What the fuck did you understand you little a piss mage!?
I left the camp and went towards the edge of the island as I sat on a rock.
I looked at the ocean for some time, when I heard someone gliding towards me.
I looked up, and saw Aether.
I quickly ran towards some trees and hid behind one.
Aether POV -
I was gliding towards Musk Reef when I saw someone run towards the trees.
"Was that Asmoday!?" Paimon asked.
"I think so" I replied as we landed.
I ran behind the figure when I slipped inside a hole.
I opened my eyes, and Asmoday was standing next to me, an electro spear pointing at me.
"Asmoday!" Paimon shouted as she tried hugged him.
He picked her up, and threw her at me.
A menacing aura started covering him, as I fell unconscious.
(Y/N) POV -
Fuck! I was trying to scare him, why is he unconscious!?
Paimon was trying to wake him up, but he wasn't responding.
I tried to get closer, but Paimon bit my hand.
"You stay away from Aether!" she shouted.
I ignored her, and checked Aether for any injuries.
Looks like he was just tired.
I sat near them and Paimon got closer to me.
"Paimon's sorry. Paimon didn't want to shout at you" she said with a guilty look.
I picked her up, and she sat on my lap.
"You know, Aether has missed you a lot. He never wanted to hurt you, but there were some... misunderstandings" she said the last part as a whisper.
I just stared at her.
"He had some emotional damage after trying to kill you, so I hope you forgive him" she said.
I flicked her forehead.
"EMOTIONAL DAMAGE!? This dumbass tried to kill me!" I said
"Ok! Maybe he is a dumbass, but he never wanted to hurt you!" she said as she explained me what happened from their prospective.
"So you're telling me, with a straight face, that this dumbass tried to kill me three time! Just because of a misunderstanding!?" I asked her.
"Y-Yeah...?" Paimon said.
"Painom? Can I kill him?" I asked.
"No you can't! Also, did you just call Paimon, Pai-nom!?" she shouted.
I gave a silent chuckle, as she started hitting me.
I miss... this?
I don't remember much, but I think we used to tease Paimon like this.
"You guys should leave. I will leave you near a teleporter waypoint" I wrote.
"Your telepathy?" Nom-nom asked.
"I can't use it for too long. Don't worry Nom-nom" I wrote.
"YOUR NICKNAMES ARE GETTING WEIRDER!" she shouted.
I picked Aether up, and flew us towards a waypoint.
Some Hilichurls were near it, but they ran away after seeing me.
I'm pretty sure I gave half of Teyvat PTSD when I did 'that'.
Aether was starting to get up, so I left him with Paimon.
"Bye bye!" Paimon said with a small wave.
I love this adorable Emergency food.
I went back to Musk Reef and saw Lumine trying to kill the Abyss Mages that came with me.
I poked her and she quickly hugged me.
"Where were you!? Do you have any idea of how worried I was!?" she said.
I patted her head, and we sat down.
"What happened to you?" she asked.
"You dumbass of a brother found me" I wrote.
Lumine read it, and turned towards the mages.
"Who the fuck was responsible for hiding the island!?" she shouted.
One of the Hydro mages slowly came forward.
"Any last words?" Lumine asked him.
"I- I'm sorry?" it slowly said.
Lumine was about to kill him, but I stopped her.
"Don't worry. I found something useful" I said.
"What?" Lumine asked.
"Turns out that Aether tried to kill me because of a misunderstanding" I said.
Lumine stared at what I wrote for some time before turning towards me.
"He was adopted" she said.
Pff-
"You're twins!" I said.
"I'm the better one" she said while looking away.
"Awww. Is little Lumi scared that I will leave her?" I asked.
"N-No!" she responded.
Awww.
I hugged her and she stared laughing.
"I- I don't know if I should be laughing at Aether's stupidity, or hitting him for what he did" she said while laughing.
We stayed like that for some time.
"I'll be leaving for Inazuma soon" I said.
"Wh-WHY!?" she shouted.
"Shh. I'm not leaving you. I need to deal with the vision hunt decree. I heard that Aether is going there too, maybe I'll get my revenge" I said.
Lumine agreed.
"At least take an Abyss Herald or Lector with you" she said.
"I'll take Enjou" I wrote.
"You want to take him because he's the only one who can deal with your chaotic personality, don't you?" she said.
I gave her a little pat on the head.
"Alright. I'll send Enjou with you" she said.
(Y/N) POV -
I was trying to sleep, when I remembered 'that'
*Flash Back*
"Azure Flames, lay waste to this cursed world and witness my suffering!"
I didn't know why I was fighting these people, but I knew that I wanted to kill them before I forgot everything.
As Blue flames started surrounding me, I remembered something.
Some memories. Not from this world, but my old one.
I attacked the city in front of me with a small fire ball, but one of the people fighting me were able to block it.
My head started hurting as my memories became clear.
I am (Y/N). This, is Teyvat.
I remember sealing the Eclipsed moon, but don't remember anything else.
This power felt familiar. I tried to remember it, when a voice in my head said 'Signora'
Yeah. This is similar to Signora's powers.
Someone attacked me, but missed.
Well, let's destroy them first.
"Disintegrate"
I said as I attacked them with a massive blast of energy.
The one who defended earlier was able to save the city, but the lake surrounding it had completely vaporized.
I needed something that could go through that shield without using too much power.
'A rail gun' the voice said.
Who are you, who's so wise in the ways of science?
'I am (Y/N)' it said.
Who the fuck am I supposed to be?
'We are the same person you idiot. Stop talking with yourself' it said.
Another attack got my attention.
Yeah. Need to concentrate Asmoday. Wait... am I Asmoday or (Y/N)? Doesn't matter right now.
Alexa? Open a blueprint for a Railgun.
'We don't have one! And I'm not Alexa!' not Alexa said.
Meh. I know the basic principle.
I summoned an electro and geo vision and began making a rail gun.
Use the geo to make a stable body, Pyro for the energy and Electro for overload instead of the electro magnetic force used by the original. But what about the projectile?
I tried looking around for something, when I noticed a large source of pure energy underground.
Ley-lines.
I used Osial's tentacles and opened a leyline. The energy covered me, and I began charging up a massive Rail gun.
The people attacked me, but the leyline energy protected me.
When the Railgun was ready, I fired it at the city.
It blasted through the shield and completely destroyed the city.
I noticed some weird goblin things trying to save people.
Was I supposed to kill the people or the goblins?
I saw some weird monsters fighting others, but some of them felt familiar.
I signaled, and some monsters came closer to me.
I had necromancy powers?
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I looked back and saw a destroyed city.
Did it monsters do that?
Some people had survived the attack, and were trying to escape.
Don't worry people. I will help you.
I started killing the monster, when something hit me.
I looked up and saw the Eclipsed moon.
I didn't remember what I was doing here, but I remembered the eclipsed moon.
I was asked to kill it.
I left my undead to fight the monsters as I flew towards the moon.
On the way, I saw weirder monsters near a small island.
They were trying to protect a large portal from other monsters, so I decided to help them.
"Asmoday! Thank you!" a blond girl said as she hugged me.
"The eclipsed moon was about to take over the abyssal moon" she said.
Wait... I can use this Abyssal moon as a power source.
"Asmoday?" the girl asked me.
I ignored her, and placed my hand on the portal.
Black corruption started covering me, as the monsters surrounding me screamed in pain.
I was supposed to kill the monster. Right?
The portal was almost destroyed when I remembered about the Eclipsed moon.
Ahh! That's the moon I was supposed to destroy.
Sorry guys. I came at the wrong address.
I started flying towards it, when I noticed more people fighting the monsters.
I should probably help them.
I was about to change my route when the abyssal corruption got fully absorbed by me.
I temporarily remembered something.
Aether trying to kill me.
He was in Liyue. Right?
I summoned Osial's attack on the Harbor and almost destroyed it, when someone stopped me.
"Asmoday!" she shouted and hugged me.
What's up with people randomly hugging me?
"Please stop" she said while crying.
"Hu Tao?" I asked
"Yeah. That's me" she said.
She was the one who tried to help me. I remembered her.
Well, if she wanted me to stop, maybe I'll just destroy the eclipsed moon.
I left her and flew towards Celestia.
I was exploring the place, when more monsters started attacking me.
Where am I?
'Here we go again' a voice in my head said.
Woah! I have a weird voice in my head!
'Can we deal with the Eclipsed moon first? That should fix our terrible amnesia' the voice said.
Destroying this Eclipsed moon thingy will fix the terrible headache of mine?
'No. That's because of the elemental energy flowing through us' the voice said.
I didn't get to ask it more questions as I reached a throne room.
A white haired lady was sitting on it, as a black moon shined behind her.
Her skin had some cracks in it, and she looked like she was possessed.
I tried getting closer to her, but the moon shot black lasers at me.
WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT!? A FUCKING DEATH STAR!?
I got ready to fight it when a small portal opened.
I turned towards it as a small drone came out.
"Who're you little buddy?" I asked.
"Chance of obtaining divinity detected. Eclipsed moon at 100% corruption. [Redacted] project activated" it said as it stabbed me with a small tube.
I remember everything!
"Fuck! What the hell happened while I was in Teyvat!? This place is nothing like Genshin!" I shouted.
"Temporary recovery of memories was successful" the little drone said.
I got ready to destroy the eclipsed moon as I opened a portal.
I won't be able to use this again, so I opened a link to Earth.
I almost instantly died from the backlash.
The Eclipsed moon started burning as I stabbed the sustainer, absorbing the corruption.
I summoned my catalyst and made some changed to it before my portal started collapsing.
"Add properties of the archivist's mask to Atlas of Infinity. Note to future self, "We have used the backup provided by project [Redacted]. If you don't remember what that is, no need to worry. It will slowly fix on it's own" I said.
The drone came near me.
"Please resurrect people of Teyvat if you get time" it said as it exploded.
I was barely conscious, as I went towards the throne.
The sustainer was still unconscious and I was able to easily get temporary control of Celestia.
I used the Loom of Fate that was part of the throne, to see what was going on in Teyvat.
The eclipsed moon was being slowly absorbed by me, and portals had started opening all over Teyvat.
Nothing came out of the portals, but they were linked to the one that the drone made.
The final part of Project [Redacted].
I used all the energy that I had absorbed and blasted it inside the portal.
It sent the blast to other portals, as they released it all over Teyvat.
All the monsters were destroyed, but most nations took little damage.
I had destroyed Mond, and almost destroyed Liyue but other that those, only Natlan took a lot of damage, as most of their population was fighting the monsters.
I felt the eclipsed moon getting fully absorbed, as I did my last job before I forgot everything again.
I got up, and checked out my new powers.
"The god of death? This could be useful" I said to no one.
This was going to be so painful.
I turned my catalyst into the Necronomicon, and began gathering all my new powers.
"Call of the dead!" I said as I fainted.
*Flash back ends*
(Y/N) POV -
I woke up and scared Lumine who was doing something at her desk.
"Asmoday? You ok?" she said as she hugged me to calm me down.
We stayed like that for some time before she asked me something.
"Nightmare?" she asked.
I shook my head.
"I finally remembered everything which happened on that day" I said.
"Calm down. Tell me if you need anything, I'll be doing some paper work" she said.
I nodded before I thought of something.
"Hey, Lumine? What were you doing in my room?" I asked.
She turned red and threw a pillow at me.
"N-NOTHING!" she shouted.
OwO
"Be honest Lumine" I said.
"I... wanted to sleep... but my bed caught fire..." she mumbled.
I gave a silent chuckle.
"Hey! It's not my fault that this is the only other normal bed we have!" she said.
I got up and gave her a small note.
"I'll be packing for Inazuma now. You can sleep here." I wrote.
As Lumine turned the paper, I quickly ran away.
"PS : Don't burn your bed if you wet it" I had written behind it.
"I DID NOT WET MY BED!" she shouted from inside the room.
I started packing my stuff as I looked at the note I had left for me.
"It will slowly fix on it's own"
I hope it does.
Also, I'll need to stop by Mond and Liyue to apologize.
This was going to be hectic.
What I didn't know was that a certain Sustainer had regained consciousness.
