Under a massive rip cage of the fallen leviathan, deep underneath a bridge made of monster bone, Rafilia, the queen of death, slept with her son cradled in her arms.the dark sky above them pierced with blood red moon casting down a glow which left everything marked in red on the monstrous landscape. The wind howled through the gaps in the skeletal bridge as skeletal vultures circled above their heads,as the ground beneath seemed to breath pulsing with life.
Her son barely a boy, slept fit fully, with clenched teeth burrowed frows, as if dreaming of unspeakable horrors that he could not understand, Rafilia, despite the cold layer silent in eerie, as if waiting for the right moment to wake him. She had been called many things in throughout her life, a queen, a sorceress, a bringer of death. But tonight she was simply mother on a mission one that's so dangerous the gates of he'll awaited her.
Before them, rising ominously from the earth were red gates flaming at the top, made of human bone, each skull frozen in a silent scream their hollow eyes staring at their desolate world around them. The gate marked a threshold between the world of the living and of the dead. Only those with immense power and willing to pay the ultimate price, could hopefully pass through.
Rafilia opened her eyes, sharp and unyielding the color blood itself, her hand instinctively reached out to her sons cheek.His name was Akira and he was the last hope of the Akiran empire, though young he already carried the weight of the prophecy in his small shoulders:the boy who will avenge his father's throne
As these thoughts came to Rafilia's mind her husband's words echoed throughout her mind and how she had failed to save her but now she was prepared to go to any lengths to protect her son. Remembering his headless body resting in the hull of the empty arena and his head displayed to the people who he once protected and ruled. The feeling of disdain came as he curled her bloody lips as the thought of Tasnak flashed.
Then the time came the moon had fully aligned with the gate, a great rumble came echoed throughout the entire area and a pressure so immense it waked little Akira.
He asked in agony what was happening he saw her mother gouging out her eye giving it as offering to a demon holding a staff made with human skin and covered with a robe.
Akira watched astonished as her mother smiled and said she will be back as the demon bowed to her. It pledged to protect her son as she entered with blood coming out her eye and a powerful flame exploding from her body since it had been a long time she released her full power.
The demons on the other side of the gate where seen by little Akira trembling in her mother presence as she slowly walked through .He could not help to wounder why they are scared of her.