Will Of The Burning Flames Never Go Out

Gruesome, Cruel, What Else?

"Alright, there's people here. You four will take turns watching over the kid you hear?"

Within the dreamscape (∪.∪ )...zzz

A little boy could be seen walking around what looked like an estate, looking all happy and giggly. He slid open a door with a huge smile, "Good morning mama!" he'd run towards an older woman, tackling her into a hug.

'This is.. Vazrith's younger body? And his mom?' she stared into the woman's eyes through his eyes. "Are you excited my sweet? Today's the day you get the lord, Orobashi's blessings" she smiled so lovingly, but something seems off.

"Yeah!! I can't wait to get my blood demon art" his voice sounding oh so cheerful, looking forward to the blessing he was about to get. Little did he know..

The scenario in front of her changed to when he was kneeling in front of a small shrine in a traditional room. His eyes shined at the unfamiliar sight, his mother was accompanying him, walking side by side.

One thing to note, is that her face isn't one of positive emotions. She was frowning. The woman squat down to Vazrith's level, looked at him and said, "Don't let the outcome change you Vazrith, alright dear?"

Albeit confused, the young boy still agreed, heavily nodding his head as a yes. Minutes passed and the ritual finally started; he was sat in the middle of the room, multiple snakes were released towards him.

Most children would be scared or, terrified of snakes in the beginning of the ritual, but Vazrith held a different expression. His eyes shone curiosity, innocence and pure. The snakes paused in front of him, then one with a peculiar gradient color of magenta and green, slithered onto him.

It slithered to his leg, then his torso, to his shoulder and finally, his eyes. It covered his eyes with his body, moments later the boy plopped down to the floor, little snores escaping his mouth.

The scene displayed was sped up, slowing down when he woke up. The snake was long gone when he awoke, from what Y/n saw during the sped up was something so gruesome one vowed to never bring it up.

There was blood on the floor surrounding his now conscious body, the first thing he noticed wasn't the blood, but the whereabouts of the snakes. His mother had called out to him, "Vazrith, dear, do you have something to show us?"

She stepped closer to him and crouched down, checking everywhere on his body, as if looking for a lost jewelry. 'It's not here..' she thought. A girl not older than 12, noticed the hesitance in the older woman's actions.

Immediately understanding what it meant, she leapt to Vazrith, carrying him in her arms and running out of the estate. The mother sat down hopelessly, 'There was no imprint of a snake or scales' she chuckled to herself, with a maddening look.

Changing the scene again, the little girl escaped the area and wandered into a forest. "F-Freya??"

"You can't go back, Vaz. I know it's sudden but the ritual was a failure" she held him close to her. Just then the surrounding became distorted, so did Freya's voice. Multiple scenes came in play, overlapping one after another.

But she noticed, those scenes displayed seems to be a few years after their escape. Vazrith looks to be 14 and Freya looks about 18.

"--YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND"

"FREYA HELP ME-!!"

"We fo#nd h!m! Get him ba-k"

"-'s an outca--t"

"HE KNOWS WHAT A SHITTY SISTER I AM,"

"He !s to be execut/d!"

"He'll br-ng cala#ity t0 us all"

"If the Kibu###ji cl@n hears about this.."

"FREYA"

"YET HE STILL SMILES AT ME EVERYDAY"

"I DON'T WANNA DIE"

"GIVE MY BROTHER BACK!!"

The ongoing scenes bestowed to her were accompanied by an ear piercing yet distorted scream, which voice sounded like Vazrith's.

The next thing she knew, she was dragged out of the dreamscape by Freya. "That was close! Looks like the memo wasn't stable enough to handle our past!" she cheerfully smiled, resulting with a Y/n looking at her like she's crazy.

"I've got not words for what the hell I just saw." Freya only nodded with a smile, and clapped her hands together. 'She acts like Shinobu..' "Well then, lets see what you got, yeah?" Y/n tilted her head in confusion. "What did I get?"

The older woman pointed to Y/n's chest, where the seal was supposed to be. Obeyed, she took off her bandages. Her eyes widened in shock, "It's the snake from the memo.." Yes, the snake that had crawled onto younger Vazrith.

Freya nodded again, "Beautiful isn't it? Turns out he was blessed by Orobashi, but the blessing was different than what the rest of us had gotten" With a sigh, she turned around, "It's time for you to go back, the longer you stay the more likely your heart will stop"

"Wait I still haven't-"

Opening her eyes again, she sat up to a burning feeling on her chest. Physically and mentally. She was panting like she had ran for hours at top speed. Grabbing what was closest to her, she threw it at the wall, breaking the object. "DAMN IT"

Her yelling and the noise of the object breaking was enough to wake someone up, someone that was previously sleeping peacefully. "N/n?!" he sat up, looking all panic.

She glared at the owner of the voice, then calming down as soon as she saw him. "Oh, sorry Ranze," At the same time she also noticed another figure next to her. "And this is..?" 'I've seen him before.. Kiyora Jin was it?'

"That's Kiyora, he was there during your punishment" the boy hearing his name, groggily opened an eye to see what was going on. "..I've been called?" he mumbled, it was quiet but loud enough for both of them to hear.

Removing his arms from Y/n's arm, he sat up looking at the two in front of him. "Wait, how long was I out for?" the girl looked at Kurona for an answer, looking panicky. "About 1 and a half days?" she let out a relieved sigh at the answer and plopped back down on the bed.

"Oh yeah, you have a match coming up miss Rengoku" said Kiyora, Y/n thanked him for the information, "Y/n is fine, Jin"

"Roger"

Just then, the door opened, they looked to see...

"Finally you're awake Missy, we've got a match tomorrow so get your ass up" someone monde other than the Itoshi Rin himself.

"Not even a hi, hello how are ya? How cruel"

(1752 words)
(Published: 26th of April, 2024)