Odette saw the tattered image of Vincent the moment the strange space faded. She lay inside his arms as his blood oozed into her mouth and on body. Her eyes darted in shock as she tried to understand what had happened. His lips cracked from the horrific thunder that faded moved slowly.
"Blue hair really suits you. You're like an angel sent from above." He said in a faint, hoarse voice.
"Don't speak! I won't let this happen to you!"
Her voice was frantic as she pried open his arms. She felt her heart ache with the loud crack from his bones as she did. Odette stroked his burnt chest and used her blue fire to help clean his body from the hideous wounds.
"You made an oath! Keep it! Please… I beg you!"
His tired eyes opened as the dull pupils alternated between gold and his regular colour.
No, in fact, his thick blood seemed to have stained his iris blood red as it filled with countless tiny black strands that glowed with faint light. Vincent tried to cover her back once again, as if his mind still wished to protect her.
'The method to save him… Why did she only tell me this version…'
Odette blushed red from the tips of her ears to her neck. Her alternate empress self showed two different methods to awaken somebody. One was the regular was and involved nothing serious. But the only method she divulged was one which involved her virgin essence to share her bloodline with him.
"You need to take responsibility for this after! Hmph!"
She pouted, then pushed out both palms towards his body. This spell was not one she could normally use, as she borrowed it. Her mind filled with countless runes and sigils as she prepared to heal his body.
— Peerless Empress who wanders with her beloved~
— I offer this prayer and beseech your aid~
— Lend me your powers of life and death~
— Cleansing flames burn away all impurity!
— Nefra Firma, Ingladia Zelfa!
[Flames of Rebirth]
A pillar of silver flames enveloped the pair like a fierce cyclone. It bellowed and churned around the pair for several minutes. It burned away their clothes, his broken, burnt flesh, and slowly repaired both of their wounds, leaving only perfect skin and pristine naked bodies. The flames died out and left the pair of lovers lay in each other's arms.
"So… huge…"
His body was bigger than she remembered now, as tall as that Silvari in her 6ft 7 form. She examined his perfect body with tight muscles and pristine flesh that could make any girl jealous. He was still in a coma as his eyes closed the moment he saw her, safe and sound.
Odette felt he might be fine for a moment. Then she realised she could not feel or hear his heartbeat. Her hands traced along his chest in fear that everything was for nothing.
'No, it was just the outside that was healed. He is still close to death!'
She felt his soft neck to find his pulse. Her eyes widened in relief when she could feel the gentle thump. His heartbeat was slow, but it was still there. Odette hugged him tight as her mind felt both relief and fear. Around her neck was the pendant of flames. Once it touched onto his chest, the ritual would begin.
'To think a man's body was so rugged and firm… Hmph! Will he like my soft body? I am not like his mother filled with powerful muscles… So stressful!'
The pendant tapped his cheeks as she wrapped her hands around his back and dug her fingers into his flesh. A brilliant Azure flame burst from the centre of the pendant and surrounded both her and Vincent. His body shuddered as it entered through his nostrils and mouth and enveloped the pair in some kind of cocoon.
Her lips caught an opening and seals his with a gentle kiss filled with her many years of affection and yearning. The flame inside her body that raged on caused Odette intense pain as it changed her body to survive the ritual.
It boiled her blood!
Charred her bones!
Cooked her organs!
The Empress flames were far hotter than that Odette had ever experienced before. She felt her body break down from the extreme heat. Her skin, bones, flesh, organs, even her soul seemed to be reborn in this flame. The heat fused Vincent and her lips together before she lost the ability to endure. Odette could only hang on this long because of the man in her arms. Odette Von Conzelmann was about to start her first Nirvana of Flame.
— Dark world, Vincent POV
Vincent desperately protected the flame in what used to be his arms. Now his body was a mess of blood, flesh, and bone. He looked down to see the cute blue flame now faded and entered inside his body as if his body could keep her safe.
His body lay face down in a dark cavern like place, now unable to even sound a voice. The flame danced around his body and tried to fix as many wounds as she could. But he was just too injured and her little flame could only do so much. This man tried his best to save her life and protected her like she was a treasure.
'I am just a blue flame…' said the little flame in her head.
She continued to do her best to heal his tattered body. Her little flame was now the size of a small candle. Blue flame burned away almost all of her existence until he became stable.
The moment she was about to escape. A huge Azure flame bellowed out from the darkness like a storm. It burned away all the foliage and greenery. Blue flame peeked from his body and flickered in delight. This flame was nostalgic and very familiar to her.
'Mommy!'
The blue flame floated close to the massive azure fire and circled around it. She seemed to absorb the small embers and flickers of flame that burst forth with each moment the fire grew. Her small flame body grew until she became a cute little girl with phoenix like feathers that came from her head. Which resembled Vincent's Red Ahoge when he used his Sin form.
'Hehe… I see, now I see…! So my daddy is alive! I can meet him in the future like the old woman said!'
Her hair was like Odette's, with a face like Vincent. Like a child who found their mother after being lost in the market. She dived into the vast blanket of flames and spread the fire from each end of this small cavern.
Bang!
The moment a little blue collided with the flames, an explosion of fierce blue light filled the dark world. Now illuminated with a beautiful blue light that shone upon Vincent's wounded body. Within the flames were two women, a girl around 15 or 16, who held the hand of a woman around 20.
"Freya, you need to go back home now. It is too soon for you to meet him."
"Hmph! Mother just wants to monopolise him again! Then she will scream like a cat in heat in her room again!"
Odette didn't know who this little girl was. But the moment her flames touched this little girl, she felt a connection as if linked deeply. Once the girl jumped into her flames, images of a distant future with endless battles, countless deaths and her beloved, who showed moments of his heroism and his despair.
"I promise I won't if you go back now. Otherwise, you might never exist!"
"Ah! That's not good. Daddy has to marry Freya first!"
Her body became ethereal and flickered. She looked at Vincent with a fleeting glance before she vanished. Once she left, the cavern became silent with only a gentle crack from the azure flames that wrapped around Odette like a robe.
"What daughter! You're just a flame that was born because of our deep love! Tsk, don't think I am oblivious to your plans to seduce him."
'I never expected these dungeons to be so strange… The fact that something connected the place we fell into with several worlds and times. Past, present and future… I'm so glad… Otherwise I might have lost you forever, my beloved Vincent!'
Odette's fingers stroked along his cheeks. Once the flame consumed her, she found herself in this strange world. It seemed this place was more like the spirit realm of the cavern. She believed that the cavern itself might be a secret artefact or tool.
"Ah!?"
A large shock filled her body when she touched his lips and pressed against his soft pink lips and squished them like a marshmallow.
"It…hurts!….What are these… Images!?"
She witnessed the dream that Vincent had as the sky cracked and meteors and dazzling light fell down towards them. Her own body and life ended in her last moments she saw him alone… He stood alone and fought against their bitter enemies.
No hope of victory.
No chance of survival.
'No, that isn't important now! I need to finish the ritual and save his life!'
Odette shook her head and rolled his body over onto his back. She licked her lips and felt even more that if their future was so grim. Her priority right now should be to enjoy everything she can. Especially the way to awaken her core and regain her own future.
'Will that thing really enter this tiny hole…'
While all this was happening, neither of them once noticed a small woman with blonde hair who watched them in interest. Her hair down to her thighs in the style of twin tail drills.
"Master… I have a body now…"
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