NOVEL NEXT Chapter 99 Renascence Part 6
‘Who… am… I?’
A voice resounded in a dark space filled with white cracks. The cracks were like fractals always constantly shifting and rearranging. Some fractured pieces would sometimes split into pieces and try to reform but they would fail to and turn to dust and vanish.
‘am… I… Who?’
There was something akin to a consciousness in this space. It didn’t know who or what it was it just knew that it existed. It remembered nothing in this dark haze where pieces of itself were fading as time went on.
A sudden purple light illuminated the cracked dark space turning it into a purple space and something appeared in the space. The consciousness could not understand what it was looking at. What appeared was shaped strangely and white, purple, and black colored.
The creature looked around and said, “Can you hear me, son?”
‘Who… is… son?’
The creature sighed heavily and said, “Looks like devouring his own soul has caused it to fracture and turned him into a fool without a sense of identity.” The creature waved her hand and the consciousness fell into a deep sleep. The purple space shattered instantly and all the shards flew and floated in front of the creature.
Within a few seconds, the shards rearranged and started to combine and form a human figure. The purple human glowed and a white-haired young man appeared in its place. The young man groggily opened his eyes and said, “Mother?”
“Sort of so yes and no. More importantly, are you okay Zero?” said the Nyx
“What happened to me? I can’t remember.” said Zero
“Don’t worry that’s a side effect you should be fine in a few weeks or maybe a few years.” said Nyx in a light tone
“Years? What do you mean what happened and why are you here?” asked Zero as he grabbed his head in pain.
“Well long story short you ate your own soul which caused a few problems so I had to come here to fix it.” answered Nyx
“I ate my own soul? I don’t remember doing that.” said Zero as he tried hard to remember the instance but couldn’t and his headache grew worse.
“Don’t try to remember you won’t be able to. If I were to explain your current state you’re like a hard drive that was corrupted and lost all its files which I recovered for you but I wasn’t able to get everything back. Don’t worry though it’ll recover and return naturally at some point.” said Nyx
“So what percentage were you able to recover?” asked Zero
“Hmm about 80%.” answered Nyx
“So, I’m missing 20% of my memories?” asked Zero with a pained expression on his face.
“Maybe I don’t know. Your soul holds more than just your memories It holds an essence of the person such as feelings, thoughts, personality traits, and other things.” said Nyx as she walked up to her son and placed her hand on the boy's head relieving the pain that was plaguing him.
“Thanks, Mom I missed you.” said Zero as he tried to hug her only to pass through her.
“I’m not really here this is just a small piece of my power that I sent here to fix your soul. You missed me but come to visit even once. Children when they get a girl, they forget all about their mother.” said Nyx in a joking tone as she faked crying
“Mom about that…” Zero tried to brooch the subject but was instantly silenced by a look from Nyx.
“It’s okay we’ll have plenty of time to talk about the subject once you’ve woken up. You're fine now mostly so I’ll be leaving so that you can wake up.” said Nyx as she smiled while releasing a threatening aura.
“Really I think we should talk about here.” pleaded a nervous Zero
“Are you sure about that? I know why you want to do it here but you don’t need to worry. If I was going to touch the woman named Yoko I would have done so already.” said Nyx still smiling threateningly
Zero was shocked by Nyx’s words and attempted to speak but couldn’t find the words and stared silently at Nyx. Zero looked down in shame as he felt bad for accusing his mother of trying to hurt Yoko. Zero was startled by a hand on his head as Nyx rubbed his head while showing a warm motherly smile as she faded away.
When Nyx faded away Zero consciousness grew foggy and everything turned dark. When Zero next opened he found himself surrounded by 4 women that he was familiar with. Zero understood why 3 of the 4 women would be around him but as for Hikaru the 4th he had no idea why she would be here. He couldn’t remember the time when he entered the castle but knew he wouldn’t bring her here when she would be of no help and would be in great danger.
“Sister? What are you doing here?” asked a confused Zero as he looked at Hikaru.
At the mention of the word sister the other 3 women turned their heads to face Hikaru. Hikaru on the other hand didn’t notice their reaction as she started crying when Zero awakened. “I’m so glad you’re okay.” Hikaru hugged Zero and smiled while tears streamed down her face constantly.
“Hikaru, what are you doing here? I didn’t bring you, here right?” asked Zero
This caused Hikaru to pull away and look at Zero and ask, “Are you okay? Is there something wrong with your memories?”
“Yes, as a side effect he’ll have some slight memory problems but that’ll go away with time.” said Nyx was standing at the side completely wet and dripping water everywhere.
“Mom it’s so nice to see you.” said Zero with a nervous smile as he got up and walked toward his mother.
Nyx smiled devilishly and asked, “Hello son did you miss momm…” but Zero quickly cut her off and answered “Yes of course I missed you ‘Mom’. It’s so good to see you.”
Nyx couldn’t stop laughing and hugged her son while she laughed causing Zero to sigh and hug her back. The 2 of them disappeared which shocked everyone there.
“Where did they go?” asked a concerned Hikaru
“I have no idea. Let’s go to our temple and wait for them there.” said Dahlia as she walked away without waiting for their response.