Return of the Dark God
Hi this is my first fanfiction, I hope it won't be so crappy.
I'm uploading this to see if anyone is interested in my story.
My English is not very good so I apologise for any mistakes.
Criticism and opinion always welcome.
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Priestella: 6 months after the victory against the Witch Cult:
Hopeless, hopeless Subaru has felt in some situations, but after countless deaths in this filthy and bloodstained cell. He has finally understood what true hopelessness means.
Why? Why? Is the checkpoint exactly where everything was lost?
Subaru remembers exactly, he has experienced it often enough.
"Emilia! Please believe me! I am your knight! Gluttony ate my name!"
These were Subaru's last words to Emilia before Julius knocked him unconscious.
Accused by his Spirit as sin archbishop of Pride and condemned by the Knights without trial, he was imprisoned for months no... years, Subaru can't remember how long.
Why did Satella place the checkpoint so that there was no escape? Has she forgotten him too? Or does she not care that he suffers as long as he stays alive?
Subaru feels betrayed by Satella. SHE was the one who led him into this world. SHE is what he smells like, the odour that has brought him countless deaths. For what?! Didn't Satella want to die?!
So why doesn't she help him? He has begged for it often enough.
Footsteps can be heard.
Is it Julius or Felix? Julius who beats him to unconsciousness or Felix who makes his blood boil and his nerves scream.
Felix was responsible for most of his deaths. Felix was desperate and demanded answers that Subaru didn't have. Subaru doesn't know how to bring back memorys, or how to cure the cursed dragon blood.
The footsteps come closer.
Subaru lifts his head, as painful as it was. The cell door opens, but Subaru couldn't believe what he saw.
His eyes were very damaged by the darkness, the smell and the physical trauma, yet he sees platinum-coloured hair and a snow-white robe.
"Who are you?"
"Your angel"
She said while smiling.
"Angel...?"
"Look what they did to my loved one."
She puts a hand on Subaru's cheek
"What do you want from me?
Subaru answers with wide open eyes
"I want to free you and make you what you once were."
"What?"
Subaru could barely understand what she was saying. To him, she really looked like an angel, an absolute beauty, unnaturally beautiful.
Subaru's eyes hurt and he couldn't keep them open but suddenly the pain was gone instead of being in a dark cell he found himself in a beautiful meadow decorated with flowers, the night sky above him.
She was standing a few feet away from him. Giving him some room.
"How? Is this a dream?"
"This is not a dream. I thought it would be better to take our conversation to a more appropriate place."
Subaru noticed that his body felt no pain and looked at him. His clothes were different, instead of the dirty prisoner clothes he was wearing regular wanderer clothes and his skin was free of scars and any kind of dirt.
"How is that possible? Did you heal me? And where did these clothes come from?"
"With my Authority, almost anything is possible."
"Authority?!"
Subaru took two steps back: (Authority?! Who is she?!)
Subaru knows that only witch cultists or witches themselves have it. It scared him to face such a monster again.
"I am Pandora the witch of Vainglory"
"Witch?!"
Pandora approaches with slow steps.
"Don't be afraid my love, I'm on your side. I always have been. It has always been my goal to complete you, to make you what you once were.
"I don't understand anything you're saying. What do you mean by complete me?"
Pandora stopped and stared into Subaru's eyes without even blinking, but he felt something change in her aura, a kind of sadness could be felt.
"A long time ago, a bitter war raged between higher beings. These beings created the world we came from."
"We came from?! you're from Earth?!"
"Yes, but I haven't been there for ages. The consequences of that war were the creation of this world."
(What does she want from me?! Why is she telling me this?!)
Subaru doesn't understand what this has to do with him. He just came from a dark and cold hell to get a history lesson now?!
"One of these higher beings didn't agree with the creation of our world."
"All the suffering, pain and death disgusted him. He tried to convince the others that the world needed to be corrected but for his dissent he was banished to earth."
"After a while, his anger and despair grew and he confronted the others."
"The war destroyed all but two of the higher beings, the one who rebelled and the one you know as Od Laguna."
"You forgot to mention what this has to do with me."
Said Subaru without a negative tone he finds it hard to understand what she wants.
"The others couldn't destroy him, he was too powerful."
"To stop him, they sacrificed themselves to split his thoughts, power and emotions into 9 parts and imprison them in a separate world. His purified soul was to remain on earth, where it was reborn again and again into new bodies."
"The 9 parts are the Witch Factors and the soul is..."
"Wait! You can't mean that I am?!"
"Yes, you're him in a reincarnated body."
Subaru laughed it wasn't a laugh of joy, he laughed because it was so absurd to him. He's supposed to be a god?
He the weakling and failure who couldn't protect Rem from Gluttony, who died dozens of times and so often lost his love...
Subaru's eyes opened wide, he couldn't say it, Subaru couldn't say that they were his loved ones.
After all the suffering they had caused him, he could no longer call them that. Even Rem had caused him pain and just because she loves him now he should feel guilty?
All the positive things he had thought about all of them turned more and more gloomy in the cell. Until now, he didn't want to admit it.
"Your pure soul is what they took advantage of."
"?!"
"You had to prove yourself and help them before they accepted you. They realised how useful you are."
Subaru held his head in his hands, the voice in is head getting louder and louder.
"That can't be..."
"Without your achievements, they hate you. Gluttony made them forget how useful you were and revealed their true feelings."
(She's right)
Subaru collapses on his knees realising she's right. Emilia lied and betrayed him. Rem killed him. Ram killed him. Beatrice used him to escape the library and then sent him to his death by Puck. Otto, Garfield, Julius, Felix, Crush...
Everyone he knew had committed sins against him.
Pandora kneels in front of him and with a hand on his cheek, she lifts his head and stares into his eyes.
"What do you want from me...?"
"To complete you and free the world from this tragic state."
Chapter 1. End
Thank you for reading.