In the forest where the new Sacred Tree was planted -
Under the Sacred Tree there was King, who got teleported by Mark, unconsciously lying on the ground filled with fresh grass.
A moment later, King opened his eyes and he immediately stood up from the ground, as he did he felt a burst of sharp pain inside his head.
King groaned. "Argh... W-w-what happened?!"
After a moment of stabilizing himself, he finally noticed that he wasn't in The Capital Of The Dead!
"Where in hell is this place?!" King looked around him, he found himself in a huge forest, at first he thought that he was just in some random forest. However, as he looked above him.
King's eyes widened in disbelief! He stuttered.
"N-no way! A Sacred Tree! How?! The last Sacred Tree had already been destroyed! How come there is another one?! Judging from its height… it was just planted not long ago! At least a few decades at most!"
In the midst of his shock, he noticed something under the Sacred Tree, King murmured.
"A statue? What kind of Statue is this? It looks alive for some reason..." Temporarily forgetting the Sacred Tree, his attention was shifted to the statue.
The statue had the appearance of a young lady, as he didn't want to admit it but this statue's appearance was way above Diane's! It's just a mere statue without any color other than the natural color of a rock!
Unexpectedly the statue started to crack!
King was startled, he felt a monstrous amount of mana coming from the statue! This pressure made him feel like a giant was looking down on an ant! And in this case, the ant being him.
His body shivered uncontrollably! He wanted to run away from this place! However, his curiosity won over his sense of fear!
Crack! Creek! Cracckkk! Boom!
The statue… no it was a lady with skin as white as snow, and her red hair was so red that it could be mistaken for fresh blood.
(E/N: Charlotte I don't think fresh blood is always red. Hell blood is more crimson then red and some are dark red. There are only very few instances where fresh blood can be as red as you described it to be.)
The lady slowly opened her eyes, showing her beautiful deep blue eyes which were like a diamond that was shining in the midst of absolute darkness.
King was sure that he personally saw the awakening of a Goddess! However!
As the goddess-like lady opened her mouth, King had to think otherwise.
"Ohh! I'm finally free! It was so f*cking dark in there! Sh*t I missed you sun! So… where the heck am I?" Her graceful goddess like impression had already been shattered to oblivion as soon as she opened her mouth.
This person was Mari! One of Mark's lovers, she wasn't supposed to awaken until Mark arrived.
However over the course of those 3,000 years, the moment she became a statue, for some reason she retained consciousness!
It was so dark that she could barely survive the loneliness, for those 3,000 years of being a stone she had been constantly thinking about how to break through this nightmarish state of loneliness!
After a millennium of testing, she finally found a loophole and the result being she forcefully awakened herself!
At this rate she would become the next Dr Stone!
Mari looked around and found someone besides her in this place.
She recognized this person, and she thought 'King? Why is he in this place?' She started inspecting the entire place for a bit.
Then she realized that she was under the new Sacred Tree.
'King doesn't have his Helbram helmet… and Ban isn't here... what's going on?' Mari was thinking for a while and then, she reached only one conclusion in her mind!
Mark!
Only he could do this plot breaking scene, Mari looked at King who was beside her and decided to speak.
"Hey…"
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""Onii-san/Mark!!""
Mark looked at both of them with an awkward expression, honestly he didn't know what he should do in this situation.
It was his fault that he left them both in this world, he felt responsible and guilty for doing that. But before he could say anything.
Merlin hugged him without any warning! She buried her face at Mark's chest and cried.
All the grief, pain, sorrow and loneliness she felt through those 3 nightmarish milleniums was let out right at this moment.
While Liya was at his back, hugging him and bawling her eyes out like she finally regained the source of her living.
Seeing this scene Ban couldn't help but whistle, in his long life he never saw someone getting sandwiched by two great beauties before!
Mark was in an awkward position, but he didn't dare to move, afraid of ruining this heartwarming mood. After all, he knew that they had waited for him for 3,000 long years.
He couldn't even begin to imagine how lonely these girls would've felt without him. A few minutes passed accompanied only by the heart rendering crying of Liya and Merlin.
It was a miracle that Hawk didn't open his mouth at this critical moment! Mark was a little grateful that he didn't blubber at this moment. However, as he saw Hawk's state he couldn't help but sweat!
Daine literally casted a spell that made your voice- no to be precise Hawk's entire mouth was missing from his body!
Now it made sense why the pig was so quiet! Daine! Good job!
As if noticing his thankful gaze, she just smiled at him.
After another minute, Merlin finally spoke. "Sniff* w-why did you leave us? Sob* d-didn't you promise that you wouldn't ever leave us?! That we would spend eternity together?! So, why?!"
"I'm sorry, it wasn't that I wanted to leave you guys, but I had to. Something unexpected happened, and I was too late to stop it… but I promise this time I won't leave without saying anything... there won't be any second time of this happening, okay? Also… can you stop casting you Eternity Chains on me? I won't leave."
Eternity Chains was something that Merlin and Mark created 3,000 years ago! It was a spell that bound someone in the same place forever.
But Mark had his ways of dispelling it, what a joke! If he couldn't even dispel his self created spell then he should just die choking on a glass of water, but he didn't, because he wanted Merlin to do it herself.
Merlin was looking at him with a teary eyed expression and replied. "I don't believe you!"
"No trust me this time okay? It's uncomfortable to be bound by these invisible chains!"
"No is no!"
Everyone was looking at this drama with a funny expression, they decided to leave them to their own devices for a while.
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It took Mark an entire hour to convince Merlin to unbind him with the Eternity Chains!
After that he brought Liya and Merlin somewhere to explain what really happened 3,000 years ago!
( ~END~ )
Well I was supposed to upload this yesterday, but I couldn't upload it because it wasn't edited before.