Chapter 28: Story of the Fallen part 1

Previously

"You still can amuse me even if you are dying. You know my tale when we talk last time?"

Wait . . . I am dying? You didn't tell me that!

"Let's focus right now okay?"

Okay sensei . . . you may continue.

"Good . . . because now I will tell you . . . the Origin of Afterlife"

I, Hyoudou Issei right now am in the middle of nowhere. I didn't know how I ended here in the first place. As far as my view went, the only thing I can see was a white landscape. The ground, the sky even the horizon was white.

The only thing who didn't suited with this place was this person . . . umm no, Dragon. The only one sat beside me here. He's trying to light the woodpile in from of us and still scraping two branches so it will get the heat to light the woodpile. I didn't know where he can get that wood in the first place but I know for sure. . . He's the same idiot who teach me everything about my power.

"Umm jii-san . . . "

"Hold on kid, it almost done if I can get this damned fire on, we can begin our story"

"May I ask something? . . . "

"Yes . . . you . . . may. . . . Ahhhh! Damn! Why this branch can't light the fire on?"

Yes . . . this dragon was insane. I don't know how Seraph can stand with this guy. She must be having a heart of saint.

"Well . . . if you want to know that was because the branch was supposedly to scrape each other and not scrape on the ground like you do" I said

"Is that so? I think I was too old for this. . . "

No you just too odd! You are Dragon in the first place so you can breathe fire as you wish, right? But why the hell you must make a campfire in this place. This place was as bright as daytime for the heaven sake!

"You are dragon you know. So why you didn't use your fire breathe so that woodpile can light on . . ."

Blink. Pause. Blink again

"WHAT? I don't believe I forgot about it! To think I forgot that I can breathe fire. Why didn't you tell me before!"

"Umm . . . you were too concentrated with that. So I didn't know how to tell you. Beside you were working very hard for it . . . . Umm . . . yeah . . . sorry about that . . ."

With the little fire spitted from his mouth the woodpile was on fire in instant.

"It's okay kid. So how about this, huh? It's look like our camp in the Seraphim-sama place before, right? It was same when I tell you the stories of legend"

"Yeah . . . I really miss it when you tell me the legendary tale. But isn't this was out of place? I mean . . . when you tell me before it was because that place always dark right? But this place was as bright as broad light"

"Huhuhuhu . . . there is a lot more to learn, kid"

With a wave of his hand, suddenly the scenery change in instant. The vast white landscape was gone. Now was replaced with the dark scenery and the only light we got was the campfire.

"Wow! Where are we jii-san? I think we were in same place like my [Boosted Gear] but I don't think so"

"This is your mindscape, boy."

"Wow! It looks same when I was diving in my sacred gear but how you can meet me here?"

"We can talk again because finally you accept my give to become part of you. I want to leave a piece of our kin to you so I gave you this sword [Dragon Raiser]"

"Thank's jii san"

"No, don't thanks to me. I am sad. You didn't use it like when we training with dual sword. You are a fine dual wielder swordsman but you didn't use that talent of yours instead you abused your dragons power"

"Sorry jii-san. . . I just want to use all of my dragon's power so I forgot to use the swordplay you teach"

"Remember what I say when I gave you that lesson? You have the immense power that will make everyone kneel in front of you, but what happened when that power leave you alone? Or are you didn't remember why we in this situation?

I really care about you, you know . . . all of us. I teach you how to play your swordsmanship so you didn't end up hurting yourself. Look at yourself. You are dying now . . . it was because you didn't think of the consequents of your own power"

I know what he was saying. Yes I was reckless. I want to protect everyone I care but I didn't do it with right mindset. The Afterlife, the Tournament fight with Ruven team and Cerberus even the act when I arrive in the Underworld. I just selfishly use my partner power and ended up make the people I supposed to protect worrying.

Looked back I begin to realizing my mistake. Even I have the ultimate power but nevertheless I am human now. That was me. No one can change that. Even I can become other being like when I become devil but my soul and my very first being was human.

"It's okay if you can realize your mistake, you are forgiven. I teach you how to use sword so that you won't relying your partner power too much. You are my student, my pride and my legacy. I think highly of you. So don't make same mistake like ours"

"What do you mean?"

" . . . . . . ."

. . . .Silent. . . I think that was his answer before he start to talk with me again

"Didn't I promise you to tell the Afterlife Origin?"

"Yes . . ."

"So let's start it . . . The proof from our fallen legacy"

The fire in front of me was glowing. The red flame turn into a distinct illuminate blue and the story begins.

War. It was the first scenery I can see when I opened my eyes. Chaos was everywhere and destruction was as far as I can see. There was no landscape unscratched, ocean dried, and no forest which didn't burn. The reason it was the Dragon War.

On the top of that it was between two different dragon herd. The black and white scaled. They have the different shape and face yet they were having the same power within each other. But why I have feeling I know them before. They were very familiar and I can sense nostalgia feeling when I saw their face.

"It was us"

Huh? What? Is that you and your kin?

"Yes. . . It happened before I was born. This place where they held the battle was the same beautiful place your friend now living. This place was Afterlife. . ."

This is afterlife! But this place was irreparable! It was chaotic! There won't be a single plant which can survive in this environment.

"When our kin first created . . . the light and the darkness was dominated for each other . . . the strongest one will be ruler for weaker and that was what our belief last time.

For almost the centuries, we always destroy each other and we dominating each other. No one care for peace. And neither one will seek peace. They destroy everything every life and every soul in this chaotic world.

Every time it was settled down. The life will reform itself. But we just destroy it again and again until there will no more"

When I saw my mentor eyes I can see the sorrow he have for telling this tale. I know this was a wound which he opened again from his heart but I know he was trying to tell me something from this story. He never tell his own story before when he tell tale about a God or heroes from past time back then so this was new to me.

"It was like that for the next millennia. The war, the fight and the destruction . . . but unbeknownst from everyone fighting there is someone who watched this never ending battle battled"

Then . . . . something happened. There was a bright of light from the middle of the war and the light was blinding. It illuminates the scenery and the background for a moment before dyeing down and revealed something. The battle halted and I can feel the power from the being which just a mere presence can stop this long lost war.

"Behold my power . . . you shall stop this useless fighting at once . . ."

The strong voice which I familiar with it, really . . . it was very familiar to me like I always heard it in my daily life. I perched my head and saw something I didn't recognized yet I can feel it was within me all the time.

Dragon. . . It was the dragon with the six jet black wing and golden trim in his body. The six large wings were almost 3 times from his body. Each was represented of the six element of nature. Water, Fire, Air, Earth, Dark and Light.

His body of itself was like the Great Red, the dragon of apocalypse. The only different was the crest that embedded in the middle of his body. I never see the crest anywhere nor did I know what it is.

The being that suddenly appeared was very majestic and it was bliss to merely grace us with it presence. But I know something will happen. The majestic creature look angry and it didn't take a genius to figure out what caused it

"That was Zecrow, my child"

Huh? What? That was Zecrow? The same oppai lover dragon that happened meets me and become my second partner?! You are kidding right? He's so different! and why he has different shape when I saw him? When I first met him, He have body of serpent which color of elegance between golden and darkness, his six wing was light based and it glow on his back.

"That was the sky form. What you see here was the Origin form. Zecrow have three forms and two now which you already see. The sky form was his usual form and that's why you can use the element nature based power. But let's talk it later"

I nodded for the explanation and the scenery was continued.

"Dragons . . . you have caused misery and destruction on this land . . . as the creator of this land I shall punish you!"

The six wings were glowing. It glows like the sun and I feel the rising power from it. Without hesitation he flaps his wings and released some wave of power.

The power he released was devastating. In the matter of second, over half of the dragon whether it was light dragon or dark dragon was vanished. He was eliminated the entire dragon with only one attack! It was insane.

Not even a single one can reacted and the effect was devastating. The remaining one knows they never stood a chance and just rooted on the place they were standing.

"That's was his true power . . . one of the two powerful form he has and he used it to almost annihilated us"

I can't believe what I saw. Just only one dragon can make this dragon's kin to the near extinction. The power he has was absolute. Every dragon just stands and fell to their knee. No one dared to raised their head and saw the anger in Zecrow eyes.

"Our arrogant and our ambition to become the strongest lead us to our demise. We learning peace in the hard way and we know the price we must pay"

Zecrow continued to look at the remaining dragon. I can see a shame and a sorrow from his eyes.

"I gifted this land for you and your kin but you can't overcome your difference between yourself. I'm ashamed . . . really ashamed . . ."

No one was dared to look until one of the dragon step forward. He looks like their elder dragon. He kneels and with a shame shown from his face he begs for forgiveness.

"Forgive us Zecrow sama. We only want to prove ourselves, like you wish, wanting us to be the strongest. You expect great thing from us. That was only our reason from the beginning but-"

The dragon never finished his voice because before the dragon finished his sentence, Zecrow exploded.

"But YOU DIDN'T! YOU SEEK THE POWER! YOU SEEK DOMINATION! LIKE A MINDLESS BEING YOU DESTROYED THE PLACE YOU SUPPOSED TO PROTECT!"

After a long silence he continued in a low voice.

"I always want you to become the guardian of this place. I created this place with all of my power to give a poor soul a second chance. And to protect that soul I created you and your kin. I expect great thing from your kin.

But maybe I was the one who wrong here. I shouldn't expect a lot of thing from your kin, the two elements of nature which contradict to each other.

I always believe their reason to exist were to complement each other. Do you know the reason why the light and dark exist? Light exist for guide the dark and companying the darkness and Dark exist to protect the pureness of light"

The sorrow in his eyes was telling everything to the dragons and with a bowed head the dragon elder spoke again

"Please forgive us Zecrow sama. We will no, we must change. Our kin still young and didn't have your unchallenged wisdom. Please give us another chance to learn from our faultiness"

Zecrow look at the elder and the remaining of the dragon kin. After a long silence he answered.

"All right . . . I will give you a choice. I will let you continued your duty to became guardian for this place, but the price is I took your freedom to roam the dimensional gap

Or

I will give you a freedom to join with another dragon in other world to life your own life but I will erased your memory of this place and you will never came back here .

Remember every choice has its own consequences. Now choose . . ."

No one moved.

They know their reason for their existence. Their creator gives them a second chance to protect this world and they know they didn't belong to other world. Beside it was not a good place to start a new life with a continued war between other supernatural beings.

So, when there is no sound of someone flapped their wing, he continued.

"Good . . . now I will introduce you with your new leader"

Again his wings were glowing but only two of them. With a mere flap an orb was created. It was then it broke and revealed an egg, a dragon egg.

"That kid was created from my light and dark power. Zinitra the twilight dragon. He exists to connect your heart and your soul. A symbol that light and dark can live together.

This place now is the place when your last life ended and will become the place when a new life begins.

The Afterlife"

After that Zecrow opened his wing to the fullest. The brilliant golden light was emanating from his crest. The light was raining down to the devastated land. Slowly but surely the land was healing. The burned tree, trampled flower and demolished highland were regaining their face of reborn.

The dragons looked in awe from the power of creation Zecrow has shown. They know this is the new chance to start over without a fight and peaceful life they gifted. After satisfied with the new land he created, Zecrow give them his final look and fly into the sky.

They live like they promised. They become one. There is no more light or dark dragon. They become one and Zinitra was raised by both of the dragons no, by the dragons. They are one and only dragons in that world.

Even in the beginning was hard but they move on and start to peaceful life. After war was a hard life and they went through it together. And they continued to live a peaceful life until Zinitra take the role lead of the dragons.

With a bright light surrounded the scenery slowly ended.

A/n sorry everyone for taking updates sooo long. it almost two month since my last update but i won't give up. I won't abandon this story so rest assured beside i have a promise with someone to finish this story.

Finally my thanks I give to everyone who helped me to recover from my accident.

Special thanks for Sinbad765, WILDLIONFORCE, darthrevan, my reader and my reviewer so thanks everyone for supporting me.