'where am i?'
william looked around him and saw nothing but darkness
'didn't that asshole say i'd be resurected?!'
he looked down and was met with the usual image of his callused hands
'i didn't resurect! maybe he was actually just satan playing games with me! dammit!'
'that's what you get for believing strangers'
william was kicking himself for his idiocy when his eyes caught a flicker of light.
he turned around and saw a small sphere of light in the very far distance
'wait, don't tell me this is the 'light at the end of the drak tunnel' type shit. i'll walk there and the light just takes me to hell or heaven'
william sneered and walked towards the light
'why do all of this?! are they torturing us by giving us hope that maybe this is not the end?! well too bad for them, i don't care. i'm ready for the flames and the succubus' he chuckled
half an hour later,
"holy shit, i've been walking for hours! and it doesn't look like it's getting any bigger!"
'damn this' he started running at full speed
'since i got fired everything went downhill, i'm too old for this shit. i never even done anything wrong! i just killed a few meatheads who tried to kill me, this is self defence'
' well if the god we're talking about is the same homophobic/sexist prick depicted in the bible then maybe i am screwed and this light leads to hell'
when he neared the light he realized that it wasn't a door leading something else but a sphere of light. he smiled and sighed
william now was standing in front of the golden blob.
'it looks beautiful' he felt a weird sense of warmth coming from it. the etheral sphere had a small blue bead inside of it
'what is that?' he neared his fingertips towards the lights to check the bead
'this warmth, it's so soothing' mindlessly he passed his fingers through the light and held the bead in his hand
'what's that sound?' he looked around him to find the source but gave up when he couldn't see anything
looking back down, he was startled by the sight of shadows that roamed around his arms and hands. the shadows were the same ones that tickled his feet back when he had that talk with the god
'is he coming?' he asked himself
suddenly, the shadow enveloped the blue bead, the latter's color started finding with its warmth
'NO!'
the warmth was gone and william was left hollow.
the bead turned black and cold, so cold that william dropped it. he looked up and the golden light that held the blue bead turned bloody red. if the golden light from before was serene and warm, the red one was ravaging and fierce. william picked up the cold black bead in his hand and mindlessly put it inside the red light.
'what-' and he lost consciousness.
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(A/N: everything that comes after a * is in a language that MC doesn't understand)
" *yuna, just one last push! c'mon you're almost done!" yelled the midwife as she held a small body halfway out if yuna's insides.
"Ahhhhhhhh!" yuna yelled as she gave her best.
cries of a newborn were heard around the small shack. the women next to the midwife cheered and patted yuna's back. yuna was panting heavily and crying happily
"* sala! go bring yuna a healing potion, and you kid" she pointed at a little boy who looked at the bloodied newborn in wonder
"* yes ma'am?" he asked
"* bring me a clean towel! actually, make that two" he nodded and bolted outside
the baby kept crying until suddenly he stopped. the midwife looked at him in worry
'* why did he stop crying so suddenly? and why isn't he opening his eyes??'
yuna was too busy drinking the potion to notice "* dona, is it a girl or a boy?" yuna asked
dona was busy checking the baby's vitals and didn't listen to the question
'he's breathing properly and his heartbeat is fine' she flicked her finger above his small figure and cast a diagnosis spell
'he's fine.. so-' suddenly the little boy she was holding opened his eyes for the first time and glared at her
she yelped in surprise and looked at his black eyes
the kid suddenly smiled at her in a way she found creeppy and cried again.
"*dona!"
dona snapped out of it and looked at yuna who was checking out the baby
"* is something wrong?" she asked worriedly
dona looked at the crying baby in her arms and shook her head
"* it's a boy, dear" dona handed the baby to yuna just as the little kid that she tasked him to bring the towels came in
"*ma'am! here are the towels!" dona nodded
"* give them to your mom and baby brother"
yuna waved her fingers in the air and a wave of warm water splashed the baby's dirty body cleaning it up in an instant and then disappearing. he looked at her in wonder as the blood disappeared from his visage and smiled broadly.
yuna smiled at him and hugged him tight in her embrace
"* mama! is he my new little brother??" the big eyed kid stood next to his mother and held the baby's hand
"* his hand is so cute and small!" he said excitedly
yuna laughed and nodded, tears streamed down her face as she remembered her husband's face
'i wish he was here to see our new baby' she smiled sadly
"* mama, why is his eyes black?" her other kid asked her
yuna was ashamed that she hadn't focused on her baby's eyes and nodded in agreement
'his eyes are not brown like me or zephyr nor green like julius' ' she pondered
she gasped then 'there is not a bleu magic signature either!'
she looked at dona in question
"* dear, he probably isn't blessed by selkie like you and that runt" she pointed at zephyr, the kid.
yuna nodded and smiled when the baby looked at both dona and her back and forth
"* although, he seems like a curious one. they tend to grow up smart. he can always be a scholar" dona assured her thinking that yuna's silence was due to her disappointment
but yuna didn't care if her boy is blessed with magic or not, she was just happy he's healthy. what made her be so silent was the worry she had for her future's son
'i hope he doesn't end up like his father.. i don't want him ti become a damn soldier'
"* mama, what's his name??" zephyr, her dear 5 year old son asked
"* oh right i forgot!" she smiled and looked down at the baby who was looking at her funnily.
she held him up so they could see eye to eye and announced to him and his brother waiting next to her
"* from today you'll be known as Vols blamore"
..
'damn where the fuck am i? this looks like a weird victarian movie set up'
william looked around him between the two woman who were talking in gibberish
'i'm small, so small.. so i was indeed resurrected but what about the golden light? and the god?'
'shit, my hand hurts.. what the fuck?'
william looked to his right and saw big brown eyes looking back at him, what startled him was the blue streaks that decorated his irises
'never heard of an eye condition like that'
'this little shit keeps squeezing my hand like i'm some stress relief ball' william shot the kid a glare. zephyr looked at his brother's cute face and squeezed his cheeks then gave him a peck on the lips
" i'll take care of you now baby bro!" zephyr said to the flabbergasted william
'DID HE JUST KISS ME? IS THAT NORMAL HERE?!'
'oh wait- i'm a baby now'
william wanted to spit in the kid's face but held back and just smiled like a stupid baby would. he stared at zephyr's face, he had black hair and a warm smile. he was pretty cute.
he looked up at the woman who was holding him and saw that she had the same eye color
'her eyes too are colored weirdly..'
she kept staring at him and that made william extremely uncomfortable
' anyway, she's my mother and that clingy bastard is my brother.. but where is the father?'
william looked around the shack, it was empty except for the dirty towels on the floor and the mattress yuna was sitting on
william looked at the midwife whom had green eyes with silver streaks in the irises
'wait so this is a thing here? are the eyes the only thing different between the humans back on earth and here or..?'
suddenly he felt his mother holding him up to eye level and she smiled as she spoke a few words that went over his head
'why the fuck is she talking to me like i can understand her? does she know i'm not her kid-'
william's eyes widened as he stared at the blue streaks in the woman's eyes.
'now that i think about it, this shade of blue in her eyes is the same as the blue bead that i saw! is there a connection?'
the midwife, took him in her arms and fed him a bottle of an unknows liquid. he felt himself get tired as he drank and then he lost consciousness.
..
william spent his days in his mother's arms as she fed him, helped him with his bowels, cuddled him and sang to him.
in the first month since his birth he was curious about the world around him. his house was modest at best, the architecture resembled that of a poor man's house in the victorian ages. but it was till cosy,
the living room was small, with only one big couch seated in front of a chimney. the walls were a mix of bricks and dark wood. the kitchen was connected to the living room, a round table was where they usually ate their supper.
there were no electricity, but that doesn't mean they lived by the candle. there were many light crystals spred throughout the house. he once put his hand on one of them to check if they emitted heat but to his surprise it didn't
it was just a rock that emitted light. another thing he noticed was the moon, or should he say moons.
the sky thankfully was still blue, and the grass green but when the sun set on his first day in this world he almost got a heart attack.
he saw two moons. one was just like the one back on earth, and the other was bordeaux of color, right next to the normal one giving the night an eerie vampiresk look, where the sky was a mix of red and black.
when his mother would sit by the window and sing ro him, he'd check out the buildings outside and the place truly fascinated him. the small houses didn't look like much but each one of them had a chimney and a small garden. everything was clean and in order unlike his old neighborhood. because of his tiny figure, he couldn't see exactly the details of each house so he quickly gave up on it.
he frequently saw his brother taking care of the flowers outside and sparring with a spear that was thrice his size with an old guy that looked in his forties.
his mother would talk to him non stop and he liked it. her voice was soothing and angelic, with every second he spent with her something in his stomach grew. a sick feeling that he knew too well
' my mother was caring like this woman too, she didn't sing to me but she sure as hell loved me nonetheless. she almost gave up her life for me, only wanting for me to be happy' whenever he had these thoughts he would cry.
yuna would just think he wanted to go to the bathroom or eat.
but william only wanted to apologize to his first mother.
'is this how it feels to be normal? are those emotions gonna be constant in my life?'
he spent his days figuring out the changes in his character. he wasn't as indifferent as he was back on earth, he knew that back there he would never have cared for his mother's scarifice nor felt as guilty as he did now.
the guilt kept him up at night everyday, his second mother would notice that her baby cried most at night so she kept staying up with him and william was thankful for her.
and that's how william spent his first month on this new planet sorting out his feelings and getting to know himself better. he was glad he asked the god to open up the dam that held back his feelings all his life, even though it floded him and downed him.
'that way, in this life i can do better. i can be better'
but all these thoughts didn't change the fact that for the first time in his life, william felt miserable
..
one night, as william was quietly thinking about his fatjer's suicide and danny's annoying comarderie, zephyr came into the room instead of his mother.
william didn't like him. he talks loudly, smiles like a big idiot all the time and squeezes every part of his tiny body. william knew the kid just liked him and was showing affection but the big oaf would hurt his weak and feeble arms with his giant hands.
"* mama asked me to sleep next to you because you cry a lot at night. she needs to sleep tonight because she starts work tomorrow" he said
william obviously didn't understand a word and just stared at zephyr angerly
' he looks ready for bed and the woman is not here, i can di the math and deduce that she ain't coming and that kid will probably squeeze me to death as we sleep together'
zephyr took him by surprise when the former laughed " * you keep looking at me with those black eyes like i drank your milk! why do you not like me?" zephyr looked at the ground with a sad frown on his face as he said that last part
zephyr really liked his baby brother, his dad told him to take care of him if he never came back. zephyr cried every night after he got the news of his father's death but once he saw his cute baby brother he promised himself to protect him just like his father would've done. but vols keep looking at him with a mean glare while he smiles at his mama
william realized something was bothering zephyr. he wasn't blind, just deaf like and illiterate. a small knot formed in his stomach as he looked at the tears falling down on his brother's face
'i promised myself i would do better, i wasn't even born a year and i screwed up already. the kid looks heartbroken and i can take a guess. i keep galring at him, dammit it's not my fault he's so annoying!'
william breathed deeply asking whatever god was listening to him to give him patience
william's mean eyes disappeared from his face and a 'cute' smile replaced it
'he's just a kid, i can play nice with him for now. it's better than making him hate me and become a pain in my ass in the future' he convinced himself
'i pretended half of my life with my old family, i can do it for a couple more years here'
william opened his mouth and uttered happy baby noises and put his arms out towards his brother. zephyr looked at him with his stupidly big brown-blue eyes and smiled happily. he ran towards him and held him in his arms. the kid kissed william on the lips again
'NOT AGAIN'
william hit zephyr im the face
zeohyr laughed " * so you don't like to be kissed i see! " he kept laughing as william was wondering if he should headbutt him
but for some reason the sound of the innocent laugh made him feel warm again in the heart. he smiled unconsciously, this time it wasn't fake.
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