Chapter 118: Chapter 118

"Curse you, hybrid, Curse the Gods, Curse the humans, Curse the shadows’ lord..." The demon kept on cursing while gasping for air, he knew it was his time, he wasn't afraid but rather angry, he wasn't a strong demon, but a cunning one, he wanted to trap the hybrid girl but she was killing him without even moving, he remembered her as a weakling, a nothing but the abstract result of a human and a Goddess fucking, the useless shell to all the power and the quill to write down the rest of this world's history, a quill was useless on its own without a hand writing and that is what that hybrid girl was supposed to be, a mindless lifeless quill, moved as the holder pleases, write what the holder pleases, So how did the quill, took its own self in its own hand?

It was the end, Mr. Renaldy thought as no breath was coming in or out of him, his shadows died before even reaching her, but he refused to go empty handed, mustering whatever energy was left inside him, he threw the sword at the hybrid with all his might, fighting the pressure around him, the sword recoiled from her as if there was an invisible wall in front of her, and while being crushed, the demon didn't know that his sword landed right inside the pit.

As Mr. Renaldy was dying, Sara finally turned towards him and started pacing, not so fast, not so slow, a normal pace, her eyes fixed on the dying demon, unlike the red demoness, she didn't see that deep tenacity and holding on to life, there was pain and rage that slowly faded as he died, and his dead eyes looked very familiar, they looked like the eyes they reflected, her own.

Sara wondered if that was her state as stared at the demon's dead eyes as if they were hers, and she felt like she was standing naked facing a mirror, seeing herself in the eyes of the dead demon.

Dead.

Sara contemplated the scene around her, for a moment it felt like she was watching the whole thing from above, and not like a person living the situation, too distracted with her own nihilistic thoughts, Sara didn't feel the coming threat until it was too late.

Once the sword landed in the pit it absorbed the dark magic that was used to seal it, and the seal that was meant to be weakened only was completely gone and the pit started acting like a swallowing gap that pulled everything to it, Sara who was still in a state of numbness released the demon's corpse from her air prison and saw it being pulled and swallowed by the malicious pit, but she was still unwilling to move, she couldn't find the will nor the reason to move and run, she already felt dead and wondered what was the point of resisting? Looking back at her sister, something inside her twitched, a small feeling, like a distant sound in a dream that grew up little by little, the pulling became stronger and her charged air was being pulled to the pit, stripping her and her sister from their layer of protection and leaving them both vulnerable to the violent pull of the pit.

Seeing her sister being pulled to the pit felt as if a cold bucket of water was poured on her, her numbness was replaced with instant horror as she jumped at her sister, covering Nara's body with hers, her arms landed on each side from Nara caging her under her body while digging her fingers into the ground to anchor herself and her sister, the pull was getting stronger and the terrifying aura that came from the pit didn't resemble anything else, Even the shadow lord's aura wasn't as dark and terrifying, the shadows covering Nara were ripped off her and the pull became too strong it ripped  the parts of the ground Sara's fingers were dug in causing her to lose her stability and her grip and be pulled with Nara to the pit.

Sara was petrified, everything was happening in slow pace as she saw smaller objects such as rocks or even the demoness skull being swallowed by the dark pit, she tried to think of anything while holding on desperately to Nara's hand, Nothing though, The air particles she was forming were being pulled and swallowed before there were even enough of them for her to form any kind of defense, she wasn't able to focus on her powers or do anything, her heart almost stopped when a scary thought passed her mind, They were going to die, Her sister was going to die, And there was nothing she could do.

Just like her father, the only family she had was going to die in front of her eyes, and just like with her father, she was useless!

Right at that moment, Massive shadows erupted from the ground and engulfed the two princesses holding them against the crazy pull and tying them to the ground, A big silhouette with large wings stood in front of them right at the entry of the pit, Sara didn't have the perfect angle to view of what was happening, but she saw how intensely Eren's familiar dark aura radiated, like a black sun, Sara thought, she felt him pour a big amount of his energy around the pit, and from between his legs she saw what seemed like a waterfall of his own blood, felling right inside of the pit, sniffing the air, she figured it was human, demon, and something else, the blood and shadows formed a circle around the pit which grew smaller and smaller, forcing the pit to close with it, it wasn't an easy task, Sara knew not just by the amount of the energy and blood that Eren poured to close the pit but by how tensed he looked and the high agonized growl that left his mouth.

Eren fell on his knees once the pit was closed, It was an advanced sealing magic that he had to use, One that needed the three races to perform and since he was all three he did it himself, a great amount of his energy and blood was lost in the process leaving him exhausted, taking a moment to catch his breath, Eren stood up to go where Sara was, he had sensed her in the cave not long ago when he was fighting Micka while avoiding the assaults of the other fire demons raining fire over him, he sensed her presence earlier, Even with her attempt to mask her scent and presence which worked on everyone else but him, her scent was something he couldn't miss, it was so unique for him he could pick it up among thousands, and he wrapped her in his shadows, he didn't know what exactly happened in this part of the cave as it was isolated, he just felt her energy burst, like every other demon in the cave, the very distinctive white glowing aura dominating the air,  an element so weak on its own and so hard to control but she did,  and she did it good from what he felt as there wasn't a single sign on the red demoness nor that bastard Renaldy, everyone in the cave was wondering where did that aura came from, and that is when he went on full rampage, he made it his task to get to her and protect her while insuring that not a single soul would leave the cave alive and risk spreading the word that the hybrid girl was alive.

Eren walked as fast as he could to where Sara was, still wrapped in his shadows with her sister, he wanted to run faster but he was afraid he would fall as the seal did weaken him, not just by the amount of energy he had to use but because he had to bring his human side to the surface, the dark energy as well as the creation energy needed to be linked for the seal to work and that link was his human blood causing his human self to suffer a bad injury and a serious blood loss that could have been lethal if it wasn't for his demonic side keeping him up, nonetheless it hurt and exhausted him as if he was a human.

Reaching where she was, Eren inspected her body for any injuries, but aside from a small spot of silver hair above her ear and few splits on her clothes and dried blood and dust on her, she looked unharmed, unharmed was the word he chose to call it as she didn't look exactly okay, there was something flashing in her eyes before quickly disappearing, reflecting feelings he saw in her eyes when she was still her old self, when she was still Sara, not Dahlia, when she used to feel lost and afraid.

Eren felt his heart squeeze at the thought, he wanted so bad to take her in his arms and hug her tightly, put her inside his rib cage if possible and reassure her, chase away her fears, help her find herself, make her feel safe, tell her she wasn't all alone and he was there for her, always, his arms even moved slightly to rise and reach her but it stopped not far away from his thigh as he noticed her stare was that of an ice again.

Both Sara and Eren stared at each other in silence for what seemed like an eternity but was in fact mere seconds, each of them trapped in his own thoughts, the distance between them was so big but again so close, with one wanting to close up and the other wanting to stay away, to put more distance and more walls, worlds even if possible.

For a moment, Sara felt as if the past years were a dream and she was back in the villa with Eren, to those good days where he always made her forget her fears and laugh, when she was genuinely happy and safe, totally oblivious to the lie, and for the first time in her life, Not lonely, her mind wanted so bad to forget everything and just hold on to that one single memory, to it happiness, but just like a leaf in autumn, the memory was ripped from the branch just to fall into the abyss, the abyss being the rest of her memories, the things that came after, the torture and pain and agony that followed the short unconditional happiness, the loneliness, and the loss.

“Just for this once, Hold me” Sara said faintly as she stepped into the monster’s embrace.