Dark Light

Chapter 10: Reborn

‘Huh, where am I?’ Aurianna wondered.

She was on a white land as a huge white statue stood before her. It was at least 100 meters tall and it was leaning to the side slightly.

It looked like it stood upright before but it didn’t now, slanted slightly. It also appeared to be splitted in half. The statue depicted a woman, who was holding a staff in one hand. As Aurianna looked at the statue she came to a realization, the first being that the woman was beautiful and she… looked like her.

Aurianna found this statue strange so she decided to move further away from it. The half statue seemed to be displeased by this as it raised its staff and screamed.

In a mere second the statue moved in front of her as it used its staff to hit Aurianna, swinging down on her with extreme force.

She yelped in pain as she got smacked by the staff and it crashed her into the ground. The impact was so powerful she felt as if all her bones had been crushed. This was nothing like the pain she has experienced when she was being tortured or getting attacked by demons.

The statue continued to beat her with its huge staff, however Aurianna’s body didn’t seem to break apart. She was just getting pounded in the ground, again, and again, and again.

Finally the pain of getting smacked by the statue stopped as she struggled to open her eyes.

After a while of not getting hit, she slowly opened her eyes. “Huh? Why am I in a room?” she questioned.

“Strange,” she muttered as she got up and looked around.

The room she was in was white, with little decorations. If anything there was maybe a denser spot of white but for the most part, it was a simple room. It was slightly alarming though seeing how she had just got beaten and now she was in a single colored room. There wasn’t a door as far as she could see either but maybe that was due to everything being white in a closed space like this.

“Was it all just a bad dream?” She looked down at her hands to see that all her previous scars were gone and they looked smaller?

The second Aurianna looked up from her hands she realized something. She was actually sitting on a bed. Confused, she lifted off it, stepping down.

She also noticed there was now a dressing table before her, staring at it confused. She ran up to it but to her surprise now that she was close she realized something, the dressing table was huge!

She couldn’t reach the top of it, no matter how hard she tried. Stretching her arms as hard as she could up, or even jumping didn’t help.

“Why is it so big!?’ Aurianna pondered as she was thinking of ways to reach the top where there would no doubt be a mirror. She saw a chair which she grabbed and pulled it with all her strength towards the mirror.

It was a struggle to pull, she even started sweating slightly. Luckily for her she was able to move it in place, climbing the chair. However, just like with pulling the chair, climbing up it was very difficult.

After climbing on top of the table she stared at herself. Or at least it should have been. What she saw was a young child that looked like her?

“I’ve become younger?!” Aurianna gasped confused.

“No… this has to be a dream! You don’t just get younger all of a sudden!” Aurianna gazed at her new child-like body in shock.

After staring at herself for a while in blind shock she was finally able to collect her thoughts again. She was just curious now so she decided to test a theory.

“Pearl come out!” Aurianna said while closing her eyes, unsure of what to expect or even if the woman really would appear.

“Nice to meet you child,” a voice could be heard and Aurianna opened her eyes, quickly scanning the room but no one was there with her.

“Ahhh, why are you in my head?!” She clenched her head in slight discomfort.

“Well you did call me. I just didn’t hear a command saying that I should appear physically, so I didn’t,” Eva said plainly.

“So it was real after all…” Aurianna said, her expression turned dark.

“So what happened to me? And where am I? Wasn’t I battling a statue? And who are you?” Aurianna asked a series of questions to Eva while holding an untrusting look on her face. She was suspicious of how or why she was seemingly spared from her previous fate.

“Enough with the damn questions, you’re so annoying!” Eva sighed, overwhelmed by Aurianna’s relentless barrage of questions.

She suddenly appeared before Aurianna.

“First of all, I am Eva, it’s nice to meet you master, and for your information I returned you back to the past.”

Eva sized up Aurianna as he muttered, “weak, compared to your sister.”

Before she appeared here so to speak, she had met the other White Diamond Leila who was terrifyingly strong. She couldn’t say for sure who would’ve won between the two of them if they fought, but she knew it would have been easy for her.

“I have a sister?” Aurianna questioned, shocked.

“You do but you have no qualifications to know about her yet.”

“Could you first explain to me what all this Pearl and Diamond thing is?” Aurianna looked slightly annoyed by Eva’s retort.

“With your strength? You aren’t qualified.” Eva smirked as she raised her hands smugly.

“Why am I not qualified for anything huh?!!!” Aurianna yelled.

“Don’t blame me! It’s your fault that you’re so horribly weak and stupid, no wonder you died foolishly,” Eva said in a mocking tone.

Aurianna frowned, gripping her hands at her words.

“Tch, I know I was weak and dumb, I trusted everyone blindly,” Aurianna said shaking.

“Hmm?” Eva raised an eyebrow as she continued to listen to Aurianna.

“But who knew those damn ungrateful pieces of shit would kill their fucking savior!!!” Aurianna growled, “And that bitch of a goddess Paige. I wanna rip off her disgusting face and torture her with the same level of care her little servant dished out till I’m satisfied!” Aurianna had a vein forming on her forehead, the anger she had couldn’t be held back any longer. She couldn’t stay calm, every time she thought back on what she had went through all she felt was hate. She wanted them to pay, for them to feel the same despair and anguish she had. The despair of being powerless, of having everything they cared for or loved be destroyed right in front of them.

‘That’s new, I thought she was a goody goody,’ Eva looked at her impressed.

“I’ll get rid of them all… All those bastards who conspired against me. If I should get power, I would kill them. And those jackasses of heroes, I’m going to castrate them when they come back.” Aurianna gritted her teeth as ice crystals started to cover around her room. Her anger spread and grew just as much as the ice crystals all around her.

“To think my own so-called family would have done that to me, just thinking about it makes my blood boil. I wanna rip their faces, torture them, cut them into pieces and feed them to the beasts!”

There was silence in the room for a moment, Eva was looking at Aurianna completely mute, letting her continue with whatever she wanted to express.

Aurianna sighed, slowly lowering her loud and aggressive tone. “Unfortunately that might be impossible though, since I can’t use magic anymore.”

“Who said Saintess can’t you do any other magic? They restricted your progress and made it in a way so that they could control you. But now that you went back in time you can learn it anyway. Can’t you see the ice around? All this is your power.”

“My power?” Aurianna looked around. She hadn’t noticed while she was venting out but now there were ice crystals all around her. They filled the room, some sprouting from the ground while others were on the walls and ceiling.

“So what do you want to do?” Eva questioned.

“Eva, My 10th birthday is when I will be announced as the Saintess. Before that time I want to get stronger,” Aurianna had a determined expression on her face, “I want to get stronger and kill them all. I want to watch them all grovel on the ground as they beg me to spare them but I won’t, oh no I won’t! Evil will be repaid for evil! Blood shall bring more blood!

“Good,” Eva smirked sinisterly. “Let’s get started then.”

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