As my vision swims I feel myself get pulled up and onto a small boat. I cough, then i throw up some water, a lot of water actually. I lay back on the small boat when someone taps my cheek a few times and then slaps me. I bolt up from the pain of being slapped looking at what slapped me. Sitting on the side of the boat is adam. He gestures off into the distance. I turn my head to look in that direction and i frown.
"Its dark."
I turn back to look at him and he just makes the gesture again.
"Yeah I probably should."
I get up going to the edge of the boat and i jump into the air, creating ice platforms kept floating using snow storm to jump up off of. I float high in the air looking our over the massive river.
"What happened to the suns?"
There should be 7 of them, but there's just none now. How could that have happened? Well sunny did mention what we came here to fight, a cursed terror and well thats probably what did it, still.... what did it do? It's called something stealing related from what i was told, so did it... steal them? How crazy of a idea, that couldn't reasonably be true. Still that means it destroyed 7 of them. I make a ice platform to stand on
"oh gods why did I agree to this? This was quite possibly the dumbest thing I've done yet"
I take a deep breath standing up
"I am a divine aspect user, i am a sovereign. Its a threat to humanity so I've got to kill it."
I sit there for what feels like ages until I see movement. I jump down from my platform landing close to a massive black sea dragon.
"Its been a whi-"
i get something thrown at me. It's caught by snow storm
"you brat!"
The plague of steel jumps off of sunny landing on the water, using will to walk on it he storms over to me
"you flung me you little-"
i lift my hand
"do you remember what I had mentioned about nightmares"
he tries to grab at my collar, hes feeling quite talkative.
"What does that matter?! You flung me!"
I look around carefully.
"Well you didn't appear in my 3rd nightmare. The king of ashes didn't either."
He stops for only a second. The king of ashes looks up from his fit of second hand embarrassment
"and? Why would i appear to some ascended?!"
He seems particularly angry at the moment. How annoying. When did I get some mean?
"It matters because that means either something had killed both of you, or for some reason neither of you could appear, maybe neither of you had ever been in it"
although I don't know what happened in my original fate, I don't think I became a sovereign in time to join this journey, and I might not have had the king of ashes at all. The plague of steel scoffs and starts talking yet again. I tune him out, its far easier after all.
I sit on the railings on the chain breaker, with my army having quickly fixed it and the king of ashes haphazardly fixing the runes, staring out into the distance with my heat sense as far out ad I can get it. Normally I don't push it out so far, but there's just about nothing close by unfortunately. Well more so fortunately. I look down at my own hands, still made of ice like they have been since I died. I'm sure I could pull off that trick again, but i am more then a little unwilling to even try. I don't want to die after all.
"Monarch of snow?"
I turn back to see the king of ashes approaching me slowly. Like I'm some kind of ticking time bomb. I smile at him even if he thinks I'm dangerous
"is something amiss?"
He shakes his head and he tries to sound softer, but its hard with how loud he really is. I can't blame him, he's 12 feet tall at his smallest
"are you... okay?"
I snort
"yeah, of course I'm fine"
his shoulders stiffen, he's clearly uncomfortable.
"You blew up a core, if I'm correct"
I wave my hand dismissively.
"Yeah one time thing. I could only do it thanks to a memory"
he puts a hand on my shoulder. Although its far too big to be a proper comfort.
"From what I understand that's a incredibly painful experience, if you need to talk about it, I'm right here."
I give him a lopsided grin
"no no. I'm fine. I mean neph does it all the time."
He looks back at neph and then again at me
"and she loses her humanity for a while after she does it."
I shrug
"that's also because her flaw is far worse then mine"
he looks like he wants to speak but he sighs
"really if you need to talk about it, I'm here"
then he simply walks away. As he does my smile drops and I go back to staring out at the water.
We get to wind flower island. We came across a massive soul shard, i took a little of it to make use of the broken thing. That does support the idea that all of the suns had been broken. I sit on the edge of island with my eyes closed. I should feel a lot at being back. I should, but I'm not. This is just another hell, and like most of the others I've been in, I'm back. The forgotten shores, the kingdom of hope, Antarctica, that damned desert and now even this place. All far more dead then I remember them ever being. It's funny in its own horrible way. I'm tired i think, but I just can't sleep. I can't help but remember. I forget the names, the faces, everything of everyone I care for but I can never forget the hells I've been so willingly dragged through. Gods, I wish I never got a divine aspect, I wish I could be warm.
We set off the next... day? I guess. Neph looks uncomfortable around me for some reason. Doesn't matter, we just have to get this done. I watch the point that I first saw unrelenting storm. They didn't care for living. They still don't care for being alive. I used to question how I could become so cold. Yet here I am, uncorrupted and yet I feel so little about most things. I do feel strongly about unrelenting storm. I have to kill them again. Likely even a 3rd time within my very soul to finally end then forever. Who else would have to kill the plague version of themself three whole times! Its my own fault either way. We finally get to verge and... its already dead. How am I not shocked that even that has become so dead. Its almost funny. I guess theres nothing here but that cursed terror. I get up to speak to the others but I stop at a light coming towards us.
"Hail Weaver, Demon of Fate... Firstborn of the Unknown"
i hear the creaking of bones and armor. Likely from the plague of steel
"Ananke greets the Children of Weaver."