AN: This one is less bloody, but brace yourselves for some emotional pain.
#2) Silence
"And ironically, the sound that haunted him the most
was the sound of silence."
He was called many things. Annoying, loud, dork, stupid. Yet, every time they called him one of these things he just smiled at them and kept doing his shenanigans.
Even when surrounded by many people, he would do that as a way of protecting himself. Because the facade he put up was to protect the side of him who feared it. The part of him that absolutely loathed the silence.
The silence. His worst enemy. Because when there was no noise, he heard those maddening whispers. Those accusing whispers who fought each other and at the same time stood on the same side to fight against him.
He once wished to get stronger and got that cursed power. And every time he was faced with the silence and the accusing voices, he wished he never touched that power. And the voices made sure he knew that they didn't acknowledge him either and they thought he was unworthy of holding their power.
There wasn't a single person who could understand him.
And after years using that 'fake' face, he lost sight of his true self. Never even once, the silence stopped haunting him. He became God Serena, the annoying idiot, the loud diva, the strongest of Ishgar, the traitor who joined the spriggan 12.
But in the end, when he felt Acnologia's claw ripping his body apart, God Serena tried to grab that dusty and cracked dream trigger. He would die, but at least his worst enemy would leave him to succumb alone.
Only when the voices started laughing at his foolish though he realized the truth. He was dying, and now the silence would haunt him forever. Ignorance is truly a blessing in disguise, he bitterly said to himself.
And with that realization, the second dream trigger broke.