Fifth Dream/Video
[Cold. It’s cold. Cold, and dark, and…wet?
It’s been a very long time since Naoya’s been unsure of where he is. He shakes his head-it hurts? And not from a headache…he puts a hand to it, and pulls it away when he feels dampness, eyes adjusting to the gloom and widening as he realizes he’s much, much younger. He knows what day this is. He knows, and it twists a cold shock through his stomach, but he can’t help looking up.
His parent’s bodies are there, twisted and broken in the wreckage of their car. It had been a miracle he survived, and he wishes so much he hadn’t, because he knows what comes next, as he reaches numbly for his mother-
The pain comes first, a blinding flash behind his eyes that drives him to his knees, the searing pain of every death he’s ever gone through. He cannot cry out-he cannot even cry because he hasn’t any tears left. Too much loss, and too much pain over a never-ending tapestry of sorrow and tragedy, and the worst is still yet to come.
But it’s different this time. Naoya looks up, still all of seven years old, and sees…he sees an angel. Metatron. He snarls, expression twisted with grief and rage, but with a broken ankle, he cannot lunge forward. He can only stare in growing horror as Metatron picks up Kiyoshi from the ground…and what a sorry state his cousin--brother--is in, broken and bleeding, unable to fight back any longer.
BECAUSE HE HAS THROWN ASIDE THE LORD, HE WHO WAS ONCE A FAVORED SON OF GOD, NOW TOO WILL ABEL BE CURSED IN THIS LAND.
Naoya struggles, opens his mouth, tries to cast but nothing will come. He is weak, and helpless to stop this. He can only watch as a familiar pain spreads over Kiyoshi’s face, causing him to buckle under the weight of too much memory.
THIS IS THE FATE OF THOSE WHO TURN AWAY FROM THE LORD. IN HIS LOVE, HE SHALL GIVE YOU THE ABILITY TO REFLECT UPON YOUR SINS.
He finds his voice now, nothing more than a hoarse whisper, even though he puts all the force he can muster behind it.
“What sort of love is this?! He knew what would happen! He knew He’d asked the impossible of me…You took everything from me! Over and over and over again…what part of this is justice? How can you even begin to think it just?!”
Metaron doesn’t answer. He merely raises a hand, and the temperature drops.
THE FINAL CIRCLE OF HELL IS RESERVED FOR BETRAYERS…IF YOU DO NOT REPENT, THEN THERE WILL YOU AND THIS KING OF BEL FREEZE.]
[The dream ends when Naoya wakes up with a start,looking hollow and haunted, sees the dreamberry, and megidos it with a roar of rage. :|b]
[ooc: As with the last dream, major SPOILERS for Devil Survivor. Also, creepypasta. You are warned.]