DON'T OWN DON'T SUE!

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"Room of Angel" by Akira Yamaoka

Here's a lullaby to close your eyes.
[Goodbye]
It was always you that I despised.
I don't feel enough for you to cry, [oh no]
Here's a lullaby to close your eyes,
[Goodbye]

The ground was made of black pebbles that glistened as if wet. It was odd that they glistened at all in a land of darkness. Lavi stumbled as he dragged his feel toward a distant nothing. Hugging himself, the redhead kept searching for an exit to this dream. The world he was in was dark, cold and empty. Everything was a repeat of the same. The young man stopped and looked behind himself. He had made sure to just walk straight and never turn so as not to end up in a circle. He was afraid at every step. Yet he begged to hit a wall to tell him there is an end to this world.

One thing he didn't understand was why he was still in the illusion even though he defeated Road. Without her powers, how could it be possible that he would be still dreaming? Maybe He didn't defeat the real her. Lavi shivered slightly before turning to walk forward again, each step unsteady.

The ground's texture changed and he froze. With a frightened eye he looked down and regretted doing so. Under him was a pit of black snakes. Within second he slipped under into the fury of the twisting serpents, no chance given to get out. He screamed bloody murder, he writhed and fought for freedom. At the scream, the snakes began to bite and constrict him. Lavi was in a panic and screamed more at the horrible pain being inflicted on his body. The terror from the pain was added with the feel of the thin bodies encircling him.

A green eye gave tears and it seemed this was truly the end. Why was he being put through all this torture? He cried out like a child for their mother, still struggling to get free as the sea of snakes reached his shoulders. He could hear other cries. Lavi looked to his side and saw many hands and some tuffs of red hair. The apprentice realized that his other forms were there. He could tell by their voice pitches they were the young him.

"W-who's there? Who are you!?" He scream the last part as he felt more pain shiver through his spine.

"T-twenty two…" Whispered one.

"Ten…" Whimpered another.

"Fo-…ur!" Came a muffled cry from beneath.

There were other muffled cries from under the swarm. Lavi sank down more until his face was being bitten. Was he going to meet all of his aliases? He wept quietly as he struggled to keep his face at the surface. His mind was clouded with questions, so many it would take hours to say. The teen realized that he only had to give his first alias an answer to be saved.

"What do you want!?" He shrieked. "What do I need to do…to be freed!?

"So much pain…the world…" Hissed Twenty-two.

"N-nothing b-but war." Ten squeaked,

"No under-…standing….of…love." Four's broken message came. "No…v-value of…life."

"I don't understand." Lavi felt himself sink more. How could he appease them? Maybe this was his end, his punishment. His eye squeezed closed. He gasped for air as a hand grabbed him by the hair and began to pull. Within moments, Lavi was free from the swirling serpents.

When he opened his eye, the boy saw another reflection but this one was in old clothes that were worn down. The alias looked down at him and pulled snakes that still hung on off of Lavi.

"Thirty?" He questioned and the shadow looked at him before helping Lavi to sit up. "We… we need to pull them-"

"No." Thirty answered in a cold tone. "Them have to be there."

"Why?" Lavi wiped the tears from his cheek then looked at the bloody bite mark all over his body. He ached from them and the constricting of the pythons. He was guessing none of them were poisonous.

"This is where they have put themselves." The reflection stood up. "They are punishing themselves."

"What?" The red head did not understand what Thirty meant.

"This is the Serpent Sea. A place of sorrow." He looked at Lavi. "Because when they went to see the world, they were shorn the evil truth."

With that Thirty turned around and adjusted his coat. Lavi just sat staring at the sea, hearing the mournful cries that killed him inside. He remember how sad and disappointed he was when he was younger, finding out that humanity generally only fought and killed. Life seemed like hit had no value to either side in a war.

"You have to get out of here, Lavi." The shadow brought Lavi's mind back to him. "You have to get out alive. You have to dry up the sea."

And the shadow was gone. The exorcist sat there staring at the torment of the snakes. Pulling his legs up to his chest, Lavi took in the words just spoken to him. At least one of his aliases wanted him to live, but why? It was hard to think when all he could hear was screaming and crying. Soon he too cried, not for the pain he was in, but for the memories of seeing war at it's worst. In the darkness he wept without any comfort but swore that one could hear a voice saying 'You have to come back' over and over.

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