Kapitel 34: The Tragic past of 'Her'

Narrator POV

Our story begins, well, with all ancients, hundreds or thousands of years ago, not that it matters to them, time is a prison nevertheless, so why should years, centuries, millennia matter? They'll sleep through they're lives anyways.

Most of the ancients were given names, most of them sounding like ancient evils, they're most popular are true evils, not that it matters to them, they have all the time in the universe to contemplate what they've done, so why not do it later? [They are professional Procrastinators, I guess]

With high affinity with all monsters, they can summon any beast they demand, any more information on how they are would be irrelevant however, since ancients are cruel and twisted, but not 'Her' what she wants she does not know...

Her story did not begin at the dawn of time, but a thousand years before our protagonist, Cao Tai, showed up. However, it is common knowledge that Ancients are immortal, and that they cannot reproduce, they're population will forever be stagnant. However somehow a human mother gave birth to her.

Her childhood would've meant death for any mortal, her mother, was raped by the father so she did not treat her child like her child. If anyone needed some job that required someone to die, like reinforcing supports while they are about to collapse inside a mine, you could guarantee that she was the one to fix it. She even proved the famous quote, "Millions have lived without love, but none without water"

The village also knew what the mother did to her but didn't care, 'Free labor' they thought. Until one day, her father came, unlike her, his human form still had tentacles, making it painfully clear that he wasn't human. [Imagine Squidward, but with Porcelain Skin]

Seeing his daughter in such bad shape, he smashes the village to ruins, before leaving her alone once more, after all, he didn't know what to do.

After two centuries of solitude of weeping, someone found her, and she found her greatest desire, to be named.

"H-hello?" Says the young woman, now roughly 6 feet tall with pretty thin, long white hair, and blue eyes.

The young man turns around and hands her a decently sized piece of bread, he was a little taller than the young girl with a little stubble on his chin, and brown wavy hair down to his ears. 'Thats pretty short hair compared to the people I've seen, I wonder why its so short...' She stares.

She takes the bread, who cares if its poisoned, it'll just free Her from her prison, but she doubts that it is. "Whats your name, young one?" She asks in a raspy voice, what do you expect after not drinking for decades and not to mention crying for those decades.

"What do you mean young one? You don't seem that old yourself!? The names Lukas, I'm from Elpeas" He says, offering his hand as a greeting. 'Oh, he's a foreigner' She states. While slightly blushing at his compliment. Looking down, "T-thanks for the complement" She mutters.

They grew closer together until one day the boy Lukas asks Her for her name, which she responds with shaking her head and crying. He doesn't understand why she was sad but offers her a hand to help her up and then offers to bring her home with him.

His home wasn't much better than Her ruins, it was a shanty in a shantytown nearby. Every night was a struggle for the peoples life and that night was no exception...

Her POV

Lukas warned me to be on guard, bad people are here, but I won't let him get hurt, like I've been. Maybe then I can ask for a name then... But I don't want to come off wierd, so how would I ask? Maybe I should make it seem like a hypothetical question... [What if...]

A massive crash is heard and three boys enter and Lukas begins to crawl under a table, terrified. Why? He has me to protect him... "What do you want boys?" I ask, breaking the silence.

"Well you see... we want this place to sleep, but seeing you, we want you too, don't we?" He turns his head to the others and they nod their heads eagerly before rubbing their hands together, and start walking towards me.

I raise my hands to stop him and tentacles rise, odd... how?

The tentacles quickly charge grapple the young men, "What are you doing?!" Lukas yelled. "They are the bosses children! They'll come for us for sure now!" He says trying to get me to let them go, I only turn my head to his direction and the tentacles snap all their bones, "Well now they won't be able to." I say with pride.

"Y-YOU MISUNDERSTOOD!!! They WERE the CHILDREN of the BOSSES!!! Now we are gonna die... imgonnadie... imgonnadie... imgonnadie" He starts to mutter over and over again, like that'll change anything. "Well that gives us time to escape, right?" I say, giving him a helping hand, like hes done weeks before. "It was terrible idea to bring you here... leave at once, before I notify the bosses of what you've done..." He mutters. "I just want to ask one question then, if I had a name, what would it be?" I ask. "You promise to leave if I answer such a trivial question?" I nod so he continues, "Then it would be... Elle" [Elle is She in French] He says before practically pushing me out.

Narrator POV

As Elle walks out of the town, she takes a turn to the woods, crying for another two decades, after all, what is time to an ancient? Until one day a swordsman came, roughly 7 feet tall, with a relatively agile build and long brown hair he yells, "Elle! I'm here to kill you! And while you expire, I shall tell you a little confession!"

Elle looks up from her tear streaked face, thinking of whom would know that name, "Lukas..?" She calls out softly.

Lukas appears behind her and slices at her back, taking no damage, she turns around, "Hello Lukas, do you still hate me?"

"You know what I had to prove to the boss I didn't kill his son!? I had to pretend to be ALL of their children to keep appearances!! And they didn't treat well at all, so yes, of course I hate you, more than before," He says before spitting.

And then a peculiar thing happened, her passive blue eyes turned into a light shade of red and she turns to looks at him, "You sure?" She asks gently, yet with a firmness that unsettles the young adult, he quickly backpedals 10 meters of distance before saying hesitantly, "Yes, if I complete this mission I'll be free from their grasp."

"Did they ever tell you that I cannot be killed? I am an ancient after all..." Her eyes flash with regret, this is why she wasn't loved, why she couldn't die, her prison, her path which she must walk... alone.

'Yes the path less traveled is the best... alone...' She suddenly thinks before summoning her tentacles to grasp Lukas, to his credit he managed to fend them off for a good 5 minutes before he became too tired from the sword swinging, 'Stubborn idiot... he should've just tried to break out... I gave him so many opportunities' She sighs.

He yells in fury once they latch onto him, not letting go, "So I'm wondering, what where you gonna tell me?" Ella asks, Lukas looks up and grins not in happiness but in contempt, like she fell for his trap, "Well you see, I never named you, I named you a Pronoun, she." [I had to search this up, cause English isn't my first language]

"Then what was I named?" She asks, her eyes now turning blood red. "Heh... She isn't tha-" *SNAP* and he goes limp, she walks away, pondering if she should raze the town as well, but she decides that instead she'll just become a hermit, for a hundred or so years, moping over her fake love.

After several centuries she finally reached her maturity, the point where she will stop aging, at a towering 7 feet tall, a bountiful chest, long white hair that reached her hips and the iconic blazing red eyes. [Reference the image, which I'll post once more]

After all that time attempting to get a name and some love, She finally gave up on finding it, she'll just watch this burn from her throne of weeds. Coming home one day in one of her wistful moods, that wasn't really uncommon as of late.

She sees a deer and fawn having fun, 'A family...' she stalks behind them, until she senses someone else there, she quickly summons her tentacles to carry away the family from the poachers harm. Unfortunately, only the mother was picked up, and then out of the bush, this young man, 6 and a half feet tall, with straight black hair and a fairly ordinary face pops out, picking up the fawn and running off. She gasps as the face reminds her of someone... someone special... Lukas. She turns to the mother deer, who was suffering laying on the ground where She dropped her, suffering from shock. [Guess who that young man is!]

However, she didn't care, she laid on the ground and started to weep, "How could he come back? Why him!?!" She wails.

As She slowly falls asleep after hours of crying, she hears Lukas walking past her, even looking at her, before picking some mushrooms and returning to wherever he went. And now, with anger boiling over, she throw a tree in his direction, some trees stop it from flying in his direction, but now the world has boiled red, and she tears down tree after tree.

Until... Lukas returns and says, "Uhh... hello?"