The Journey Of The IV Page: Blooming Flower

Nyx gets up from her rest and analyze her body condition, but apart from that, she has to continue her journey, but at the same time, she wonders if there's still life in this universe's, she summons her black hole wings and started to fly away like a comet. After hours of flying, she noticed a bright light from 9 hundreds light years away, it cannot be a star since Satan used all the stars in this universe to fight against her.

She flies towards the light while normally it takes 9 hundred years to get there, but nyx only need 9 minutes. The light illuminate her body as she's getting closer to it, her body somehow feels warm by the moments, she can see the silhouette of the object, and as she's close enough, turns out it was a planet, how could a planet be this bright in the middle of void?, but also she could feel her body being crushed by something, but as she feels her arms, there's nothing happened, she tries to ignore it as she's focusing her sight on the planet to see what's inside it, she sees... people? Also the buildings in the planet looks so modern.

Knowing there's life in the planet, she transforms her appearance into a normal citizen before sneaking into the planet surface and act like a normal people, her eyes widened in surprise seeing there is people in the planet, a living organic human being, she walks across the street looking around at the tall buildings and skyscrapers, she noticed that people here are looking wealthy with luxurious clothing and jewelries, she keeps walking around, apart from the feeling of getting crushed, she's trying to enjoy being with the humans again after what happened to her home planet before, the sound of busy footsteps, laughing, chatting, and transportation. Emotions, feeling, ego, spirit. They all give nostalgic feeling to her, making the crushed feeling inside her fading away, maybe it's past trauma that haunting her, from being away from her family and friend.

For the first time in a while, she smiles warmly and peacefully, as she walks calmly. Just before her instinct kicks in, she turns around, and her eyes widened in complete surprise, a familiar figure standing there beautifully and gracefully before walking away, she stunned in place before walking towards the figure and calls out her name.

..."Aphrodite!.. "...

She says, but the person didn't respond and turns back at nyx in confusion

..."Sorry, are you talking to me? "...

She says in complete confusion. Her voice, her personality, it's really her

..."I… I finally found you… A-are you okay? Are you hurt? I really, really, REALLY miss you so much, Aphrodite… How could you sacrifice yourself like that… Right in front of me… "...

nyx says as she hugs the person tightly, pouring all of her longing in the embrace, the person keeps on confused and gently grabs her shoulder but shows some empathy

..."My name is Aria... what are you talking about? Have we met somewhere? "...

A simple sentence that could completely break her heart if it's coming from someone she most beloved, nyx pulls away slightly in surprise and heartbroken

..."W-what do you mean... it's me, nydrea... we were best friends.... cut the act Aphrodite… Please don't be like that… "...

Nyx says feeling disbelief in her heart

..."sorry, I have something better to do... nice to meet you nydrea… "...

She says before walking away, leaving nyx in complete confusion and disbelief

..."Maybe a wrong person... she's already dead anyway... there's no way she's being reborn in this planet... right?... oh Aphrodite... just how much I love you... miss you... Maybe in another life... "...

nyx mutters to herself softly before turning around and walked away, focusing on her mission to defeat the next demon that perhaps live on this planet, there's no way a living soul can live at a place like this without someone with a powerful ability to do something like this.

After minutes of walking, a massive building caught her eyes, a structure look like a luxury mansion with a massive crowd starting to gathers as they're talking about "he is coming", and they looked excited for it as more and more crowds gathering around the mansion and covering the streets, nyx find her way to cuts through some crowds and get closer to the mansion to see what's happening, after a moment of waiting, a tall blonde figure coming out of the mansion.

wearing a green vest with a couple of red roses on the vest collar, a black under shirt, red sleeves, and white Ascot tie, with a golden top hat over his head that slightly tilted sideways with a red ribbon on it and a golden Rose beneath a shiny golden crystal, he has a black gloves, black long pants, and a black shiny shoes with a golden cape on the lower back of his vest that follows him behind dragging against the floor as he walks, and for the final, he has a heterochromia eyes with golden eye on the left and green eye on the right. the crowd cheers loudly as he makes his appearance and raises his hand as he clicks his fingers making a sound that echoes loudly, louder than the crowd, and it makes the crowd more like praising and adoring him than cheering like a celebrity.

"everyone!!, let's all praise his radiant, exquisite, luxury, and his excellency!!!. our Lord and savior, the one who brought us all here!!!, MAMMON!!! "

A person says to the crowd while nyx's eyes widened in surprise, the demon of greed, is being adored by the population of this planet, it's like his presence is enough to shake the ground violently by the humanity on this planet.

..."ALL HAIL MAMMON!! "...

The crowd says in unison as they start get on their knees and bow down to the ground making a short moment of silence, but in that position, nyx is the only one who is not bowing down making her situation vulnerable as mammon's eyes caught her appearance easily and can tell that she is not from the planet since she's not bowing down, before she could react or pretending to bowing down, mammon point his index finger at her instantly, and as he points his finger at her, nyx couldn't move, it's like her body is paralyzed by his demon power, nyx became panicked since her identity easily blown away, and she can't run away or escape from his paralyzing power that maybe only a small part of his full ability.

Before she knew it, she suddenly gets teleported right in front of mammon while the others still bowing down to the ground, she still can't move her body and right now is floating just like when she's getting choked by Satan but this time she's just paralyzed and floating like he has telekinetic ability. Mammon casually just smirks at nyx as he's looking up and down, left and right, before speaking.

..."Interesting, I can't feel your soul inside you, yet you are still alive... you remind me of someone, from the far, far away past... which means, you must have... A Soulcore. "...

He says playfully before he clenches his fist fight and immediately stabs her body with his fist, she can't move her mouth or even her eyes making it impossible for her to scream or bearing the pain, the photon and dark matter in her body starts pouring out and splashes out because of the big wound of her chest as mammon pulls away his fist and opens it revealing a shining bright white and colorful light sphere resembling the stars and is her soulcore.

Nyx groans in pain as her consciousness slowly weakened since her soulcore is taken away from her body, mammon drops her body to the ground as he's analyzing her soulcore like a gem while nyx in pain and severely weakened.

..."G-give... that... back... *breaths heavily* please... you... demon!... *coughs and keeps breathing uncontrollably as her body trembling, too weak to move*"...

She says as she's grabbing his leg as tight as she can, mammon looks down at her with a smirk while her vision starting to fade away and loosened her grip on mammon's legs, mammon grabs her by her neck and picks her up as nyx looks at him desperately as she's slowly feeling numb on her limbs, mammon violently throws her away as her body hit one of the pillar on his mansion with her soulcore still inside his hand.

..."You know, some of these people are from other planets, galaxies, and universes when they're died because of the same apocalypse that happened to your planet, I can control their souls all I want~ first I ask them for another chance to live, and make them signed a contract for it without them knowing that contract means nothing, and even though they're alive, they're still dead, I gather their decaying souls and memories in my mansion as if it was my treasures while their consciousness and fake body is here bowing down after me and thought I was a God since I bring them to life even though I'm not~ hilarious isn't it~?"...

He says playfully with a big smile on his face, nyx slowly looking at the crowd and sees 'aria' also bowing down after him, the feeling of fury building inside her, a pure despair and anger, encourage her to get up even with a hollow on her body, she gets up on her feet as dark matter and photons dripping down as if it was her blood, with all of her strength left she summons her scythe as she charges towards him powerfully and gives a massive swing that slashed the mansion and the floor in half, yet mammon swiftly dodged her attack as if nothing happened as he takes this advantage to squeezes her soulcore inside his hand making nyx screams in pain like her mind and body is getting crushed powerfully, she's trying to bear the pain as she summons her wings and chases mammon to midair as he immediately teleported himself back to the mansion and instantly giving everyone their consciousness back as they slowly got up from bowing down and confused of what happened to the mansion that was sliced in half and all of them started looking up at nyx in surprised, shocked, confused, and wonder. While aria only looked at her in blank, and familiarity. Like something is messing up with her mind and memories, like... they've met before in the past life, but she can't figure out what it was.

As Nyx was about to land an attack on him while at the same time protecting the crowd, a powerful earthquake happening making everyone running away in panic like an ant, everyone except aria. Mammon clenches his hands as the earthquake becoming more and more powerful making the grounds cracking open as something is shining from inside the cracks, it was liquefied gold as it's splashing out to the surface of the planet turning everyone into gold if they touched it while at the same time kills them too, seeing this catastrophe, nyx becoming more enraged, but before she could charge towards him again. Mammon squeezes her soulcore even more tightly making her groans in pain and accidentally removes her wings as she falls and hit the ground hardly as her body back into it's weakened state, she can only sit up in pain and exhaustion while mammon walks towards her and approaching her paralyzing her legs, so she can't run away while the liquefy gold flowing near her and almost touching her hand, even with this form she knew she'll turn into gold as well if she touches the liquefy gold, mammon walks closer before her with her soulcore in his hand, she looks down in despair and emptiness knowing there's nothing left she could do. At least before aria steps in, in front of nyx and tightly grabbing mammon's wrist that was holding nyx's soulcore making him accidentally dropped it next to nyx, both of them looked at aria in shock and surprise as she looks down at nyx.

..."It's been so long, nydrea... it's nice to see you again in this little time... "...

She says softly as she smiles warmly at nyx making the paralyzed feeling on her legs gone because mammon getting distracted by the person who is now 'Aphrodite', the soulcore next to her is also coming back to her and filled up the hollow on her chest with regeneration as she feels alive again and fully recovers. She instantly gets up, summons her scythe and wings, and about to lay an attack on mammon, but before she could do, mammon grabs her scythe blade and block her attack as he laughs playfully and loudly.

"You know what? I'm tired of all this stuff… I cannot hold back anymore... I'm going to make one of you becoming one of me~!!!..."

He says as a powerful absorption coming from his hand, but the surrounding seems like normal as if he's only going to absorbs one of us inside him, nyx look at Aphrodite, reminding her to the moment when she's sacrificing herself for nyx, so now, she's ready to sacrifice herself for Aphrodite. But before she could give herself away, Aphrodite cuts in line and lets herself getting absorbs by mammon's hand making nyx's eyes widened in shock.

..."APHRODITE!!! DON'T!!.. "...

...""Nydrea.. You're always like this again and again.. Put your life in danger for some kind of nonsense, just for the sake of saving everyone. "...

..."Aphrodite!.. Please.. don't sacrifice yourself..."...

..."If that what you want.. "...

..."Aphrodite.. Don't.. "...

..."But how can I do what you want and not sacrificing myself for the sake of you… I know from the deepest darkest part of my heart, my life without you in it, means nothing but a stinky worthless living… GARBAGE..."...

..."If becoming one with the demon can save your life… Then I'll be gladly to do it without hesitation…"...

She says her last word before getting absorbs inside mammon's body making him even more insane and powerful, the earthquake getting even worse as if the planet is about to fall apart, but all of this disaster means nothing to nyx, she lost her best friend twice right in front of her eyes, the broken feeling inside her became even worse, she's not going to let herself lost Aphrodite twice, but somehow mammon seems cannot handle Aphrodite as he's slowly losing control and weakened as he falls down on his knees, mammon's going to die, but Aphrodite is still in there.

So she grabs mammon's hand who's still have the absorpsortion on it and let herself getting absorbs inside mammon's body, in there, she saw nothing but dark void, maybe this what happened if you combine two souls in one body, they're messed up with each other and turn into a dark void with emptiness, but she saw a light, illuminate apAphrodite body, she was laying down weakly as she saw her past when her mom died during labor and her dad can only raise her until she's 6 years old and get into elementary school, she grows up without a parents figure of someone who take care of her, but when the vision shows the moment she meet nydrea for the first time, Aphrodite's body stirs slowly and about to wake up, but then chains appears and hold nydrea in place, maybe it's mammon's side of the soul, controlling someone else's soul whatever he desires.

Watching this, nyx can't let her being controlled like that, he wants to approach her, but a barrier prevents her from it, she still cannot let this be happening, because she knows, that she loves Aphrodite whatever happen, she summons her scythe as she's trying to break the wall of consciousness with her attack, she stabs the barrier with the sharpest tip of her scythe as she stabs it forcefully until it slowly cracking and cracking, and finally it shatters as well as the chains on Aphrodite's limbs and wake Aphrodite's up, she quickly carries up Aphrodite in her arms and find a way to get out of mammon's body.

Meanwhile, Aphrodite appears in a middle of space that looks oddly wider and more massive than the space she knows, she was facing with a massive humanoid figure likely without knowing she's facing with the God of fate, she was getting choices of what life she wanted to reincarnate in, all of them was a happy life with her parents and friends, but without nyx, all of them are life's without nyx.She rejected them all, and chooses to be reincarnated as who she is now but with nyx carrying her out of mammon's body, she smiles to see nyx again because she knows nyx is both her true happiness and burden. And as both of them leaving mammon's body, Aphrodite getting a new form because of getting reincarnated.

Her blonde hair becoming longer with a massive white wedding veil on her hair and colorful flowers on the edge of the veil, as well as her white layered gown with more colorful flowers on every edge of every layer, and finally, a shiny golden heelless High heels that compliment her blonde hair

As she's getting that new form, she summons her own weapon, which is a bow made out of flowers and the arrow is made out of the light itself, she aims it and charge it for a moment before letting it go as it hits mammon immediately and then the arrow glows brightly as it instantly defeating him and the planet, the arrow piercing through the ground and to the other side of the planet, and every time the arrow passing by the ground, it grows flowers along the way making it destroyed beautifully.

Aphrodite look at nyx and smiles warmly as she's reaching out her hand

..."I'm back, nyx... "...

she says as nyx immediately pulled her into a tight and deep embrace pouring out her longing throughout the years as she's crying while Aphrodite hugs her back warmly feeling all of her burden in that embrace.

Aphrodite looks up to the cosmos warmly knowing there's a longer way to go.

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EXPLANATION: After Aphrodite's death, her soul gets tricked by mammon and claiming her soul as his own as he put her consciousness into reincarnated as a girl with artificial body named aria that looked just like her past body. After getting a new form she's transferred into the god of fate's realm where she has to choose where to be reincarnated appropriately, but those happy lives are nothing if nyx wasn't there, so she chooses to be reincarnated in a body from her past life and breaking the fate's rule for good, as she's getting a power of life, shown when she's being able to growing plants from her arrow, and now her soul turns into a soulcore after her encounter with the fate.

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