Vergil's heart game (out of time)

[idolpro]

You feel weak, your body won't move no matter how you try, and you are falling, away from everything you know and love. Away from everything you need to accomplish. If you could just reach out, maybe you could hold on to it, claw your way back. But it's a useless endeavour, you fall unconscious, and your mind goes blank except for poetry and a familiar voice.


O mother Enitharmon, wilt thou bring forth other sons?
To cause my name to vanish, that my place may not be found,
For I am faint with travail,
Like the dark cloud disburden'd in the day of dismal thunder.

My roots are brandish'd in the heavens, my fruits in earth beneath
Surge, foam and labour into life, first born and first consum'd!
Consumed and consuming!
Then why shouldst thou, accursed mother, bring me into life?

You wake on the ground in a cave, cold, wet, and sticky. It smells of rotting flesh. Your objective is clear, but you can't recall a name or face. Nothing else about your memory of him is changed, but for some reason the name "Vergil" just won't come to you, and you couldn't describe how he looks if your life depended on it. But at least your body starts to respond to your will, slowly regaining enough strength to carry on.

Comments

Re: LIBRARY

[auguryofinnocence]

"I think the book is only referring to leaving the place he was ruling. He just went off to do whatever he felt like instead. Hunting down demons."

Re: LIBRARY

[romanticlove]

I see.

[She looks from the book to him.]

What is this place? Did something happen here?

Re: LIBRARY

[auguryofinnocence]

He shrugs. "It's always like this, maybe eventually it will get fixed. But it's always going to get torn apart again, you can't stop demons from fighting wherever they feel like."

That makes him pause and glance over.

"So you better be careful even if it looks safe."