Originally Posted by
KitsuneKo
Come.
There was an unfamiliar voice in Ellie's head.
Come.
It had a haunting intonation with it. Ellie could feel that it wasn't just his head. There was something around him as well. Something he couldn't see, but he could feel it.
Come to me if you seek the truth.
Ellie wasn't sure if he was understanding what he was being told. He could understand the words, yes, but his mind had gone into a trance where these words have all lose their meaning. Around him, he can see traces of one of his golems. Just how did it break? I wonder...
I offer you a chance to join me at the spiral... The root of all...
Ellie had come to realize that it wasn't that he couldn't see what was around him. It was that what had surrounded him was nothing itself... The absence of light... Darkness had engulfed his surroundings, and everything had turned bleak. Everything except the path ahead...
I will give you the answers to all the questions in the universe. I ask that you accept...
"Ellie!" Rider screamed with so much spirit that it broke through Ellie's trance into his head. There was no time. This place was far too dangerous. Only Ellie's head was still visible now, as the rest of his body had become veiled in a black cloak. If she had delayed even one more second...
Why did it come to this? Looks like I have no choice now but to do this...
Rider took a dignified stance, and readied her ornate Scythe with both of her hands. No choice now... I'm sorry, Master. The very environment around her had began altering, and the air had begun spinning. Finally, Rider spoke, with a voice so great that it could command the very heavens. "I am the Reaper of history, the author of the truth. Through my power, the world has become the sequel to my book. Now, thine darkness seeks to smear the pages, and for that I will not allow. Wo shi Cao Cao, Sanguo Zuochujia! Gaixie!" Rider swung her Scythe in a grand arc. A white dimensional rift was born from the slash, and expanded at the pace of a gluttonous black hole as it swallowed the nothingness engulfing Rider's Master. The air of the entire city had become a chaotic swirl of energy, and it looked as if the world was being altered. No, the very fabric of reality was being rewritten. The dimensional rift had swallowed every bit of the reality in the area, and no buildings or clouds could be seen in the vicinity. The blue sky had turned into an empty white, and the city itself became an empty page. Endless white. But Rider still stood there, as with her Master. Her entire Master, without a spec of the darkness around him. Everything had been deleted, to be rewritten another day. Rider broke the silence, and spoke at her lucky Master. "You idiot."
It was then that the white abruptly broke like glass, and reality had returned. But this time, there was not a shadow in sight. No voice in Ellie's head. The golems were repaired, and continued to make their way to the sections of the city. The same city had returned, but this time with nary a presence nor pressure. "We need to leave, now. I rewrote reality to expel these shadows, but whoever it belonged to is persistent. It's as if it's not a part of this world either, and I simply lifted the anchor. And it's not happy. It's trying to re establish its control of the inner city, and it's doing it at an astounding pace. Rider reached our right her arm beside her, and a spellmark appeared in the air. A great red horse came into existence from the mark, walking gallantly from the gateway into the foray. Rider then reached the same arm toward her Master, who was on his knees, and spoke. "This is Red Hare. A prize among prized horses. Come, we have no time. In about an hour, the evil that is hiding in this city will return at full power. But this time it's going to be really pissed off."