Shadows. The perfect balance between light and darkness. Without both of those working together a shadow cannot exist. Shadows have often been used for many different purposes from shade to the dark arts. What most people don't know is that the shadows have a king. A king capable of summoning a clock from the shadows of time and wielding it as a weapon capable of mass destruction. There has only been one shadow king in history and he has recently entered the realm of death.

In the plane known as limbo between life and death six hellish flames floated near each other. Five of them surrounding a single flame that seemed weaker than the others.

"It's a shame it came to this." A deep male voice coming from a black flame said.

"Indeed even after he survived me." A rusty male voice said from the green flame.

"I thought it was quite entertaining." Said a female voice eagerly from the purple flame. "But indeed it's a shame it ended so soon."

"He did avenge them though." Another male voice said coming from a rainbow colored flame.

"We can still fix this." A soft female voice said from the white flame.

"And how do you suppose we do that?" The black flame asked. "You're the only one that wasn't destroyed."

"I wasn't the only one left." The white flame retorted.

"For the last time I died as well. I just branded the boy." The green flame said exasperated. "So Life how do you propose we fix this?"

"I was thinking of using my ace in the hole." Life the white flame responded. "After all it was never activated. What do you think Gen?" She asked the purple flame.

"It would be entertaining but at the same time heart wrenching." Gen replied to her.

"After all he has done he deserves another chance." The rainbow colored flame said forcefully.

"I agree Tori, I completely agreed." Life said as she laughed knowing what was coming next.

"I told you not to call me that!" Tori replied angrily.

"Can we hurry this process up? I am getting bored." The green flame said.

"Alright, alright. Let us begin the ritual." As Life said those words each of the five flames began to intensify in light.

"I Life's Egg command the kind to be alive." Life said as her flame vanished and a thin trail of smoke went into the middle flame.

"I Murasame lend my strength to the king so he may survive." The green flame said as his flame vanished like Life's.

"I Genso lend my wisdom so the king can thrive." Gen said as she followed the other flames.

"I Toripuru lend my flexibility so the king can strive." Tori said as he likewise vanished.

"I Curse command the king to finish what he started on behalf of the legendary five." The black flame said as he joined the others. The middle flame unlike before was being fueling by a chaotic fire. The ash grey flames began to rise higher and higher into the sky. The grey flame began to glow until a brilliant flash emitted from the flame. When the flame died down instead of the grey flame that just inhabited that space was a teenager. He had brown hair and was dressed in torn clothes. Along the tears in the clothes you could see the scars from the wound and if you looked closely at the ones on the chest you could see a black tattoo. As his body solidified it began to glow once more. After the flash all that remained was nothing.

Pain. That was the only word to describe what I was feeling right now. It just wasn't physical pain that was afflicting me it was emotional pain from an unknown reason. I tried to concentrate to figure out the emotional part but all I got was a flash of red and black before a massive migraine assaulted my head. After my head had stopped hurting I slowly sat up and opened my eyes. They opened slowly like when someone took a long nap and strangely enough when I opened them I saw the same as when they were closed, nothing. This scared me as I didn't even know I was blind myself. I also began to worry as how I would get out of this situation which would be nearly impossible since I was blind. Suddenly a blip went off in my brain. It was hard to describe but it felt like a shock wave went off. I felt the shock wave passing over my surroundings and somehow I had a perfect map inside my brain.

I was in the middle of the forest. The soft chirps of birds and the rustle of wind were the only sounds that reached my ears. I tried to remember what I was doing out here in the middle of nowhere but that only resulted in more migraines. I stood up sneakingly as my bones popped and creaked in protest. I had no idea what had led to me being in this condition but the only thing I was focused on right now was getting out of wherever the heck I am. I began walking in a direction. Occasionally a small shock wave would go off adding to the map in my brain. As I walked I tried to remember anything no matter how small it was when I felt something inside my head. It felt like another presence.

'Ah so you noticed me.' A soft feminine voice said. The words scared me as I blindly punched air. This just resulted in laughter from the voice. 'Don't worry I am here to help. After all I am inside your head.' Those words caused me to stop my trek.

'Who are you and what are you doing in my head?' I asked the strange woman.

'I am Life and to answer the second question I am here to help you.' She stated cheerfully.

'Help me with what?' None of this was adding up and it just kept adding to the freakishness of today.

'To regain what you lost.' She replied seriously.

'What I lost?' I asked letting it trail hoping for an answer.

'Ah amnesia is such a pain. I'm just gonna dumb it down for you so you can understand. You died recently. With my powers and the help of others I managed to resurrect you. But due to being damaged so badly before you died you gained some permanent burdens which is why you are blind. So anyways the reason you died is because you fought and killed the monster who killed the people you cared the most about. So anyways I thought it was a bit unfair how your story ended, so I decided to rewrite it and change fate. Only bad news is to be resurrected you had to be revived in a separate world than you died in so who knows what's wrong this place. I am about as clueless as you about this world.'

It was a lot to take in. Normally if someone especially a voice in your head told you that you died and were resurrected you would go see a doctor. But for some reason I had a sick feeling that every word she said was true. I decided to ask a question that would solidify the words she just said.

'You said I had amnesia. Is there anyway to regain my memories?' I asked hoping for a yes.

Fortunately luck was on my side as she said, Oh yeah but it will be a bit unpleasant.' Those last words made me a bit uneasy.

'Define unpleasant.' I said cautiously.

'Being knocked out for a day and having a headache that could beat every alcoholic in the world.' She said cheerfully like it wasn't a big deal.

'I assume there is no other way?' I asked.

'Nope.'

'Alright I'll do it. So how does this work do I go to sle-' I was unable to continue my sentence as I felt something within my mind forcefully knock me out.

For the second time this week I woke up wondering what had happened. Fortunately unlike last time I wasn't in nearly as much pain. As I began to regain my senses I felt a torrent of information rush through my mind. I remembered everything. I remembered Akame and Kurome, I remembered Night Raid, I remembered I failed them.

'Oh good you're awake.' I heard Life say.

'Why?' I asked barely audible.

'Why what?' Life curiously responded.

'Why did you bring me back to life? I just want to be dead, life is not worth living without them.' I said this last part with anger and sadness

It took a while for Life to respond but her words shocked me to the core. 'The reason I brought you back to life is because Akame and Kurome are both alive in this world.'