A Peaceful Place

"Seraph!"

"...Who?"

"What are you doing?! Oi! Wake up! Seraph!"

I wondered who Seraph was as I kept sinking into my darkness. It was really dense but really warm and I couldn't help myself from sinking deeper and deeper into the unknown.

Seraph. That name sure had a nice ring to it. But what was it...? I couldn't remember at all. But then when I got down to thinking about my own name, I couldn't remember that either. And that was concerning. I was supposed to have a name...right? I should know it and yet, I couldn't tell you anything at all about myself. Who was I? What was I? What was making me so relieved right now? Why was I so satisfied? And yet, what was this painful sorrow lingering around me, barely avoiding touching me?

I opened my eyes as I sank in that ocean of darkness. I wanted to know where that sorrow was coming from. But all I could see was a pair of eyes looking back at me. Crimson red eyes with an endless depth staring right into my soul. I wanted to reach out to those eyes and grasp whoever was hiding behind them but they seemed so far away and I was drowsy. I closed my eyes once again and drifted away into some peaceful place.

"You should seize that which you bear."

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I quickly opened my eyes as I heard an alien voice.

"Seraph", Felix placed his hand on my shoulder as I was kneeling before Deli, "Get up. Let's get going."

I followed his instruction and got up.

"Seraph!", Deli was using all the strength she had in her to rouse me from my sleep, "Listen to me!"

"It's useless my Lady. Seraph is endlessly stuck. I understand now that I've reached every depth of this man, the reason your group has been keeping him. Ah, but I suppose even you don't yet know it. He doesn't either. What a sadness...but this is something I alone must carry for him."

"Seraph! Don't break away, you haven't done anything yet!", Deli's attention returned back to me.

"I'm sorry, Deli", I spoke, "If only you hadn't died, then I would have had a reason to keep on fighting. But if I can't save people even when I'm strong then...what's the point?"

"No, Seraph...I'm still here. I'm alive!"

I kept mumbling something before Felix instructed me to move. We were leaving Deli behind.

Felix told me to go retrieve Ebony so we could leave. He looked back at Deli again who was now looking hopeless.

"I'm afraid it just had to happen. I suppose that means I win, my Lady. Its strange that we both walked the same road and yet our ending is going to be so different".

"Cassius, you-"

"You damned jerk!", a familiar voice echoed loudly.

Deli looked up once again with a glimmer of hope in her eyes.

"Don't go talking about endings so soon, you idiot. This isn't over yet", Chopper approached Deli and Felix.

"I knew that Albus was just an old fool", Felix murmured.

"Aren't you that little boy that was chattering with that big beast...Nosferatu, was it?", Chopper seemed to recognize Felix.

"Yeah, that one tried to give me hell. But even as a joke, it wasn't funny. I had to have a word with him", Felix replied casually before preparing to fight.

"Sweet. Well, I don't got much time to chat, lad", Chopper went up against him quickly.

"This should be interesting. For you too, my Lady", he looked at Deli and then turned to me, "Seraph, this guy is trying to get in our way. Let's get rid of him quickly, shall we?"

Grasping Ebony in my hand, I joined Felix and stood between him and Chopper, ready to fight.

"Oi you idiot, what do you think you are doing?"

"Don't get in our way", I spoke mechanically before launching an insanely fast attack. Felix's magic was powering me up.

Blood spilled on the ground and he lost the ability to speak for a while. He just looked back into my eyes with utter disbelief.

"Seraph, how could you...?"