Ash-boss
The Curse of the Twilight Stone Ring: The past and the beginning of the story
Like the previous festivals, both Laras, Rui, and some residents will climb the hills to pick some flower baskets for their use at the festival. The basket of the villagers was almost full, while Rui who was entangled in his emotions had not picked a single flower that he passed. Noticing that, Laras reminds Rui not to daydream throughout their journey of picking flowers.
Rui did not bully, she passed Laras just like that without turning her head. Things that Rui used to do to her lately. Along the path that continued to enter the dark forest depths, Laras and Rui had been separated for almost an hour. There was no worry between the two, but it was different from Eren. His figure who could feel the darkness burst out in the middle of the forest, began to search for the two figures. Using his form as the figure of the Supreme Judge, Eren walked down the side of the forest by flapping his wings.
The barrel that suddenly felt a strong gust of wind with an uncomfortable air, immediately gradually moved away from the middle side of the forest. Meanwhile, hearing Rui's cry, Laras who managed to find the origin of the shout was made shocked by an open stone door. Shows a shadow of darkness that comes from desire, anger, and all negative emotions of living beings in the universe.
The figure was bound by a flash of golden-coloured chains curbing the figure's steps. But every shadow of desire is able to come out and affect any creature that shimmers around it. At first the shadow haunts Rui and succeeds in being banished by her. Then as some shadows cast into the side of Laras, Eren's figure as the supreme Judge dispelled all shadows for Laras. Make the girl know the identity of the male figure who actually has begun to like it.
On the other hand, the sight of how Eren was protecting Laras from the incoming attacks, made Rui's anger and jealousy grow so that it drew the strongest shadow of the dark figure to enter into him. Mastering his mind, heart, and then soul.
Rui's figure woke up with a side of darkness before Laras and Eren as the highest Judge of the valley of death. Reminds Eren of the shadowy figure of darkness that once attacked him on the journey of life he previously lived with Laras who he knew.
While in the memory of Laras at that time, his true figure was the keeper of the lock seal of the stone door. The stone door of the dark valley is filled only by darkness and the negative desires of all the creatures of the universe. Laras pushed another Eren figure when an attack came out of Rui's figure whose soul was already consumed by the darkness. The attack that instantly evoked the memory of Laras as the key guard figure of the dark valley.
As a key guard, Laras had an unavoidable task. The task was to seal the dark figure back behind the stone door that suddenly opened. It could only be done when Laras could balance the position of the lily valley by attacking and defeating the figure of darkness by defeating the part that had mastered the soul of Rui first.
"Are you okay?" eren asked as the figure of Laras was only silent when dealing directly with Rui. A friend he had known for the past few years since he had forgotten who he really was.
"I just have to defeat him." Laras replied hesitantly, but his gaze remained firm towards Rui who was ready to attack Laras without mercy.
"I'll help if you let me."
"He's my responsibility." said Laras. One drop of her tears fell as soon as she had to avenge the attack from Rui. The battle that Baras and Rui experienced was the most emotionally draining fight of both. Rui who occasionally managed to realize himself, instantly stopped the reply from Laras attack and took Laras attack for granted.
To balance the two valleys, Laras and Eren must free Rui first from the influence of darkness. And from here, all the stories in Laras's memory begin to be erased. It was a curse and also the result of Rui for Laras. Rui who at the end of the fight finally realized, every destiny has its own choice. And the choice that Rui took was to die in the hands of Laras as a guardian figure of the key of the dark valley, rather than himself swallowed by the darkness that destroyed his pure soul slowly as a guardian of the valley.
The choice that Rui made, made Laras shock and traumatized by the upheaval. Especially when the last attack Laras directly attacked the vital part of Rui and made the figure of Rui become weak helpless in the lap of Laras.
"Hold on.." sobs Laras. "I will take you to the village and find a cure for your wound" said Laras trembling while gently rubbing the wound on Rui's left chest.
"Stupid!" rui groaned withstanding every pain that rippled through all parts of his body. Marking the darkness was eating every soul core he had all this time.
"I'll save you!" Laras continues to try to lift Rui's body, but the girl stops Laras who is trembling with the thing that has been in his nature.
Rui shakes. "I don't want to have a body that has been exposed to darkness."
"No! You're gonna be fine. I promise.."
Rui shakes her head back. He looked towards Eren who was dispelling every darkness that was back trying to attack both Laras and himself. Rui momentarily smiled as Eren turned around for a moment to confirm his condition and Laras was already free from the disturbance of all the dark souls that came attacking.
Laras shakes not accept.
So, before fusing together with water and air, Rui cursed every memory of Laras for himself. That every time Laras' memory of the incident opens, then Laras will forget everything. All the events that brought the memory of Laras back to his pain of having to end Rui's life with his own hands.
Supposedly in the curse, Laras did not forget Eren. But because Eren is a parallel of the events that he and Rui experienced, Laras also included the curse to himself against all things related to the figure of Rui.
Laras rose from the position that initially leaned Rui's body on his side. Laras finally rose with tears and eyes that slowly began to empty and empty along with the disappearance of Rui's true body that was fused with nature.
“Laras!” eren said trying to get close to the figure of Laras who seemed so hit with the death of Rui in his own hands. Eren's hand almost touched that face, but the figure of Laras just disappeared from his view.
The stone door before him opened again. Carried the darkness that was directly attacked with a curse seal by Laras. Once realized in the curse seal, Eren was also included in the curse formation, Laras immediately took over half of his curse and the other half of Laras cast a ban on the figure of darkness that comes from all the negative desires of all beings in the universe.
Eren who was within the curse point of Laras instantly lost all his strength. The curse that made them both was in a dark valley called the gray valley. The valley that never able to bring the two together at the same time but they are both on one side of the same valley. Eren and Laras managed to balance the position of the lily valley with the adjoining valley of darkness in the same dimension. The lily valley that finally split into two sides of the dark valley called the gray valley.
Eren was silent when he saw himself on the side of a dark valley called a gray valley that is now unknown. The valley that vanished from teleportation range after his encounter with Laras as their respective true figures.
Eren again sees how he and Laras are in the same valley but with different time dimensions. The side of the valley that made his figure had the shadow of another figure as the highest guard of the valley of death. The figure that now burst out from his body and stood face to face with him.
“This is the first memory of the ban valley keeper.” Said a raucous voice before Eren who was the embodiment of himself in the form of the figure of the highest guard of the valley of death.
“First intents Baras?!" said it. "And the reason I am in that memory is because of my desire about his figure.” Eren said fondling something that was missed by him.
“Every consequence has its own cause. And that is part of the bond of destiny created by the choice of events that occur between the three of you.” another figure Eren again gazed into the valley and noticed how both Eren and Laras were actually always together and connected but never met each other.“You are the parallel in the first true soul growth that they both have. Whatever happens after, all belong to the choices made by each other."
“In other words, every memory Laras has of me is a curse from Rui for her?” eren said again. “Rui?” Eren stared in the same direction, where another figure of himself was staring.
“Each life figure has its own destiny choices and each destiny choice creates another new destiny for each other.”
The shadow of the supreme guard figure before Eren disappeared just like that. Blurring all the shadows he saw on the side of the dark valley part of his guard. Replaced with the shadow of the figure of Laras as the guardian of the dark valley on the side of black and white.
In the end, the figure of Eren to be able to face directly with the figure of Laras as the guardian of the other side of the dark valley named gray valley. The figure of Laras was now standing before him with a look of wonder. Carrying a red Amarilys flower, Laras comes face-to-face with Eren's figure whom he doesn't recognize at all.
Eren stretched out his hand intending to fill Laras face. But the Amarilys flower shimmered between the two. Creating an illusory shadow that leads Eren to his duty as a god of death who picks up souls who have completed his life's destiny. Where the upheaval of destiny both begin with the bond of a common thread that becomes the fate of the meeting between Laras, the forbidden creature of the world of death with Eren, who is, the figure of the god of death determines the fate of death of the forbidden creatures of the universe including the figure of Laras.
Both are trapped into an illusionary space that instantly brings each one into his life in the world. The human-born barrel who survived a deadly accident on the body of a 2-year-old girl and the figure of Eren fell floating in the valley of endless darkness.
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