Hello, this is kind of my first attempt at seriously writing fanfic down without stopping halfway through, so if there is some constructive critique or advice, feel free to say it.(this includes ideas for a better Title).
uhm, what inspired me to this story was this Fanart:
mainly because i think the idea of a "Dark Kariya" continuing his work to rescue Sakura in the fifth Grail War and seizing control would be intriguing.
well then, i guess im gonna start now.
....I feel sick.
Itchy. It feels as if my whole Body is beeing subjected to injections from all sides. However, there is no actual pain. No pain? I am surprised. I feel light, as if I have no weight. Yet at the same time, I feel like I am chained down.
Where am I? Around me is only Darkness. I try to open my eyes, but I realize that I cannot feel them; I dont know if I still have them or not, but they might as well be gone, as I cannot use them either way.
While I find myself unable to answer that question, it dawns on me that I want to know someting far more important.
Who am I?
I think some time has passed. I can think, so I think I exist, although I don't even know if anything else exists or if I am the only thing in this place.
I want to see, but I don't know how, so I give up on it.
I spend all my time thinking, since it is all I can do. A good portion of my thoughts are just "I feel itchy", "I want to see", and the same questions I cannot answer, but I still do it. Because there is nothing else to do. Who am I? I still don't know.
Today, I have a strange feeling. It feels as if my Body has become more, and the itching has decreased. However, I now, with the faint sense of Feel I have developed, feel an endless crawling all around me. I do not remember the past, but this still feels alien to me, like something that should not be like that. My newgrown veins feel like maggots are coursing through them, and my newfound brain feels like it's boiling in my head. I want to open my Eyes now, but I realize I don't have any yet.
I feel like my Body is still forming new parts. "Where am I?" Even with my returning senses, I cannot tell. "Who am I?" How would I know?
Even more time has gone by. I think a day or so has passed, but I feel I might be wrong on that. I can still not tell.
But I know. Having felt this body slowly reforming, I, even with my faint and dulled senses that are useless in this place, can already feel that there is soemthing happening to my "body" now.
Did it already happen? I feel like I finally have a body of my own. But why did I want one in the first place? I dont feel a difference compared to my unfinished body a few seconds ago.
I resumed my routine of thinking.
And asking.
"Where am I?" I opened my eyelids. As soon as the familiar question coursed through my head again, I opened them on purpose. And I saw.
I saw blackness, with only few dots of greenish light between them, ever-moving.
Suddenly, I heard. A cacophony of small sounds like cracking and cackling, surrounding me on five sides.
As if by opening my Eyelids I also opened the door for my soul to occupy my Body again, I started to feel more and more human. On my skin, I felt. Unlike the dull sensations from before, I actually felt. On my back, I felt something cold, and hard. Something like..... Stone. On every other side, a slimy sensation of small bodies, with and without legs, crawling all around me, endlessly as before. My thought patterns began to arrange themselves in the way of a human, whose body I now held, again; all the sensations I was registering, they gave me a strong feeling of nostalgia, while still feeling unfamiliar at the same time.
While my Soul, that for some reason had not just abandonded this battered container, began to reside in this newly finished container again, I started to regain my memories, part by part. It was still hazy, but I could find myself back if I gave it enough time.
"Where am I?"....
"In a pit. A dark pit, where someone dear to me had to suffer a long time. A pit where I went after failing her. Thats where." My heart, too, started pounding again.
Thats when, suddenly, the small bodies who previously ignored me, started moving differently than before. They opened their small mouths, they gave off aggressive sounds as they came to devour me.
In a matter of a moment, the small, tube-like bodies, shielded by skin of Chitin, started biting their sharp little teeth into my soft, naked flesh. They sucked themselves full of the essence of magic, until they swelled up like balloons; they ate and ate, until
they perished. Until they shrinked, shriveled up and finally became dust and dirt after accidentally letting me feed on them.
And I rose. I climbed up in the sea of Mana-eating worms with this new body I was so familiar with, yet was so different from what I started to remember.
While I swam up, becoming stronger and stronger from devouring the worms, reclaiming what was mine from those that devoured me, memories of my last minuted rose up in my mind as well.
Me, falling down; the marks on my hand hurting from the loss of their contract; delusions;
I moved upwards through the pit as if it was filled with water;
Me, getting up hours after, awoken once again by the intense heat and my wish to see her;
I reached a Wall, started to climb up on it to get to the surface faster;
Me, stumbling through a burning field, only seeing the girl before my vision; stumbling on corpses, stepping on shards of glass and stone, stumbling and falling;
I got up faster and faster. Even the biggest worm that came up to eat me was robbed of all its magic and life energy and was left as only dirt;
Me, landing in a puddle of black Mud that tasted like the blood and waste of all War's, Murder's, and Atrocities;
I felt my hands reaching cold air;
Me, reaching her but, with no power left and the taste of the mud detoriating the pityful remains of my mind, falling down in the pit of worms;
I stepped out of the pit and onto the stairs, filling my lungs with air, feeling stronger than ever before.
As I stood in the dark basement naked, with a healthy body I hadnt felt in centuries or so I felt, I asked
"Who am I?"
"I am Ang... Kariya. Kariya. Yes, Kariya." As I made my way up the stairs, black appendices spread out of my body and started mimicking my old clothing.
"Sakura-chan......!"
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Originally Posted by RadiantBeam
