In the darkness of the forgotten shore,lay a magnificent dark temple. The temple's columns and walls were cut from smooth, black marble with stairs leading up to the main entrance of the temple. It was the nameless temple, the main citadel of the Spirit of Death, Sunless. Said spirit was currently sitting on the bottom steps of his temple, with a look of contemplation on his face.
Sunny sat there at the bottom of the steps for what felt like an eternity but was merely a second, for in a spirits mind a millennium could pass while only being a second. Eventually, Sunny stood up and started to wander the now empty streets of the Dark city. While he walked, Sunny thought back on his current situation and grit his teeth in anger.
A few years had passed since Sunny and Nephis had challenged the fifth nightmare and after that, waged a war on the hunger domain, and despite being a rank higher, Asterion resisted and clung to the people in his domain like a leech. Cassie, as a supreme, had started to wipe the memories of the most important saints to destroy his hold on them, but in a desperate attempt to preserve his existence, Asterion had consumed all of humanity that was in his domain and achieved Apotheosis. The only ones left after that were the cohort, Rain and Tamar who were now Saints,Morgan and her devilish older brother Mordret as well as Revel and Seishan Song.
The remaining Saints challenged the fourth nightmare but only a few had returned, Revel, Jet and Kai being the only survivors. Everything has gone downhill after that. Sunny and Nephis had engaged in a long and arduous battle against Asterion and had eventually defeated him. Asterion in his final moments had decided that if he did not achieve his goal of consuming all of existence, then nothing deserved to exist at all and used his will to destroy all of existence around him. Sunny had managed to pull Rain and Tamar into his soul sea safely but sadly Nephis and everyone else had fallen victim to the scheme of that vile bastard Asterion, and now everything was slowly but surely unraveling ceasing to exist from the point where Asterion had died.
Sunny stood in the middle of a street, tears running down his face. All his friends and allies were dead, Kai, Effie, Jet, Cassie, Beth, Luster, Kim, Quentin and so much more were all gone, and his lover, his best friend and master, Nephis was also gone. 'I wish I could go back, back to when times were way simpler and all I had to worry about was myself and myself only.'
Unbeknownst to the Spirit of Death, his ardent plea was heard by divinity long dead. The divine beings felt pity for the lonely Spirit and decided to help their junior. Strings of light began to swirl around Sunny, slowly at first then faster and faster until the cocoon of light was all he could see. Sunny tried to use his will to disperse this unknown light, but strong as it was it could do nothing against it.'Wha- What the hell!? What's happening?'. The light started to grow brighter causing Sunny to squint his eyes shut until… he started to fall, when he opened his eyes he was suspended in the air but an unknown force.
'Did the unraveling of the dream realm finally reach me?' Sunny thought to himself, 'No, this is something different.' Sunny looked around, he was surrounded by pure light as far as he could see. His shadow sense was limited to a short area around him, but he thought he could sense the presence of a few beings but he could not make out any features. Contrary to the belief of Sunny, the already extremely bright area began to get brighter and visions and voices began to flash in Sunny's mind. Even though he was a sacred being, he could not comprehend these images and sounds being played in his mind. He began to fall again and the brightness of the area reached its peak and then just as suddenly as it appeared it was gone and all that was left was darkness.
Eventually after an eternity or maybe a minute, Sunny honestly didn't know and didn't really care, sounds began to return to his surroundings followed by feeling, and Sunny heard and felt the unmistakable sound of chains rattling and harsh cold of winter. 'What the hell!? I'm a spirit, I'm supposed to be immune to the cold. What in the hell is going on??'
A slight feeling of worry began to take root in Sunny's heart. Finally the sight returned to Sunny and his worries were proven to be true because out there in front of Sunny was the black mountains in which his first nightmare had taken place. and just like all those years ago, time began to rewind and he was thrown into the body of the lowly temple slave.