Death and the Maiden - Zombie-Loan
Death and the Maiden - Zombie-Loan
Death and the Maiden
A Zombie-Loan Fan-fiction By Ookami Kasumi
Due to her Death Sight, her shinigami eyes, Michiru Kita lost damned near everything important to her - except her virginity. Alternate Future, sort of. (ZxM)
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~ After ~
Once upon a time, at the brink of the world's end...
In a place of silvery mist with no walls, ceiling, or floor in the shadow of the towering ornately carved double-doors that separated the spirit realm and the mortal world, stood a small girl with moss green eyes and pale lavender hair that was raggedly cut below her chin. Her slim, delicate body was barely covered by long strips of free-floating iridescent fabric.
Beside her stood a tall and imposing red-haired soul reaper clothed in black leather and wrappings of dirty strips of white fabric. Draped across his shoulders was a tattered leather cape with a collar of long midnight red feathers. Resting casually against his shoulder was the long clotted blood handle of a massive scythe. The long curving blade of purest silver, crowned by a bladed crescent moon, arched behind him.
Between the two hovered a small spirit no larger than a doll draped in a hooded robe of pale lavender. On its head was a mop of dirty blond hair with one red eye covered by a patch.
The doll-sized, viciously grinning spirit stared hard at the girl. "To return to the mortal world, you have two options. The first is to be reborn and relive this entire life. Should you choose this route, your power as a singularity will be stripped from you, and your memories will be erased. In short, your time will be reset from the very beginning as nothing more than an ordinary human."
The towering red-haired reaper narrowed his gaze on the small spirit.
The spirit averted his gaze from the violet-eyed reaper and coughed. "More or less..."
The girl blinked. "So, if I'm reborn, I'll get to be a normal girl? I won't be able to destroy the world anymore?"
The spirit nodded. "You will start life over again in a mortal human body, and yes, your power to destroy the world will be gone; you will no longer be a singularity. Nor will you retain any memories of this life."
The girl rubbed her nose thoughtfully. "Oh, well...!"
The spirit cleared its non-existent throat. "The second option is to simply return to your world as you are now, with your power intact. However, the world will not be the quite the same. Everything related to Z-Loan and you will be erased from their memories. Only you will retain any memory of your life with them, and your time on this plane."
The small girl flinched.
The small spirit laughed nastily. "Is this choice too cruel for you?"
The reaper glared hard at the little spirit and shifted his gleaming scythe from his shoulder to his hands.
The spirit visibly flinched, but he kept his gaze pinned on the girl. "So, which will you choose?"
~ ZL ~