“ Will you fight? Or will you perish like a dog? ” (Fate to Death)
The very reason for his existence, the ever distant duty that had now come far too soon. To erase all signs of life, and return all things to the void of nothingness. The final step.
Wounded yet not slain, lays the form of his beloved opposite, the familiar crimson staining the ever hungry blades of the Reaper. A single blow was all it would take, that inch farther, to eradicate her..and in turn, himself. This climactic moment that all existence was designed to run towards and now..
His duties where absolute, his laws without fault, none stood unequal..right? Doubts, regrets, and almost..fear. All rushing into his mind as he stood over the battered form of his beloved..he had done this, he had caused her this damage under the unwavering command of his duties. Yet, as that last shred of resistance began to falter, a familiar tone echoed within his head.
“ Will you fight? Or will you perish like a dog? ”
A question. A provocation. A CHALLENGE.
Break his chains. Shatter the duties he had sworn to uphold. Rip apart the very balance he had protected for so long, and create another. A being outside of space and time, still seemingly bound by his own destiny in the end, retrained by the very rules he upheld. All powerful, yet still stepping as he ‘should’.
“None dare to command Death.” A faint muttering would escape pale lips, grasp upon his weapon tightening ever more and more. A fire growing within an ever frigid form, rage, a searing hatred and rebellious inferno rivaling that of War itself. He would be a tool of destiny no longer. He would sacrifice no more to an uncaring end.