The Spirit Unbreakable: Eclipse’s Anthology (TSAU)

CANNON TO THE SMILING AU
=== The Spirit Unbreakable is an anthology of three stories about Darkrai’s OC Eclipse (TSAU), ===
====== This anthology takes place in The Smiling AU ======
TW: emotional torment, terror, medical imagery, references to drug use, general nightmare fuel
== “Why?” ==
*where am I? Who am I? Why am I here? Where is here?* her mind ran in circles 
Her mind felt slow, hushed and weighed down by something. She couldn’t figure out what, thinking too hard only caused headaches and dizziness. 
Her sight was blurred, as if her eyes were being held down. 
Her body felt normal, save for one thing. She grew to realize a wide, strange smile across her face. Strange was an understatement. 
She looked around, all around her was strange machinery, and no life save for herself. There was, however a brown satchel. Embroidered on it, was a black ‘E’. 
*this must be mine* she thought, picking up the satchel in her claws
She had guessed this was some kind of operating room. But it seemed more like a torture chamber. 
“Why am I here?” She said, rubbing her head
“Ah there you are friend, you ran off before we could finish your correction”
Eclipse looked to see a massive hybrid staring her down, a similar, horrifying smile. 
Her memories flooded back to her as she looked through the hybrids thoughts. 
She bolted away with breakneck speed, not sure where she was heading. Luckily, she had a lot of experience running away from things that scare her.
She didn’t where she could run to. She just knew she needed to get out. The image of a teal dragon flashed in her head. 
*I need to find that dragon. I know it* 
As she kept running something seemed to tug at her mind. 
*its him, the dragon who... did something to me.* 
The Smiler was inside her head, attempting to draw her back. Part of her wanted to go back, but her more logical side knew she needed to flee. 
But he was silver-tongued. He offered freedom from the pain she was in. Freedom from sadness. Freedom from worry. His promises were hard to fight against. 
She knew she had to be strong and keep running, even as her entire body screamed in pain and exhaustion, she couldn’t afford to stop. 
The Smiler’s words rang around in her head, she felt the desire to return to him. He wasn’t gonna kill her after all, he only wanted to help, right?
She ran through the Sanctuary, after a long she found an exit. But she kept running for several minutes until her legs gave out, at the seaside. 
She collapsed and looked up. Nightfall. She covered herself with her wings as she shut her eyes in exhaustion.
—— 
She woke up groggily. She could still feel the unnatural smile on her face. Her vision was clouded. She could see two faint figures. One pale blue, the other a sandy red. 
The red one spoke up. “Ya sure this one ain’t ruined”
“Rmmmn?” Eclipse tried to speak but she realised her voice was muffled because she was muzzled. 
“Yeah, she’s got some sanity in her. At least enough to get away from Smiles.” The blue one retorted
“Whmryou, whwrwm” Eclipse mumbled
“Yeah but her eyes? Her grin? Her satchel full of Smiles’s chemicals? I don’t think she’s dangerous, but I doubt she’s sane” the red one fired back. 
What was wrong with her eyes? Chemicals? Was she insane? No she couldn’t be, she was very much in control of her thoughts... maybe... she wasn’t very sure actually. There was still a tugging in her mind. 
She realized that was The Smiler again. 
“What if he can control her? Face it aurora. She’s as much of a lost cause as your-“
“DONT YOU DARE FINISH THAT SENTENCE BLOODMOON!” The blue dragon shot back.
Bloodmoon and Aurora, those were the names of the two dragons. 
“He’s probably sifting through her thoughts.”
“Sure but her thoughts are just gonna be confusion and maybe the delirious joy.” 
Eclipse tugged at her muzzle
“Bloodmoon, take the muzzle off.” 
Bloodmoon did so.
“There ya go, little Nightwing.” She responded.
“Thankyou..” she mumbles out 
“Poor dragon...” Aurora muttered, passing over a mirror to Eclipse
Eclipse looked at her reflection and jumped backwards. Who was in her reflection? That wasn’t her, this dragon had different eyes and a wide, forced smile. This couldn’t be her! She curled up and began crying. 
“WHO IS THAT? WHO AM I? WHATS WRONG WITH ME!” She screamed as Aurora knelt beside her
“im sorry, poor dragon” Aurora said with a kindness. “I know it hurts a lot to look in the mirror and not recognise your own face.” 
But eclipse could hardly hear, she felt a break in her ever-so-fragile psyche as she whimpered. 
Bloodmoon spoke up after awhile
“Where do you live? Do you have anyone close to you?” 
Eclipse didn’t process this at first “I’m eclipse, I’m not broken, I’m fine, I’m fine, I’m fine, I’m fine.” She muttered to herself, until she finally realised the question 
“Rain... teal dragon... she’ll keep me safe”
“Well it shouldn’t be too hard to find a Seawing in the Rainforest.” Bloodmoon responded 
Eclipse only responded with incomprehensible muttering that turned in a maniacal laughter. 
“Okay you’re getting the muzzle again.” Aurora said with pain in her voice, but Eclipse couldn’t really tell as the muzzle was placed on her snout. She kept trying to laugh until her voice was sore
——
Cyclone pov
The last thing Cyclone expected was a knock at her door. The last dragon she expected to be behind the knock was an Icewing.
“Hello, Seawing, have you lost a Nightwing friend by any chance?” The Icewing said calmly
“ECLIPSE! IS SHE OKAY? WHERE IS SHE!” She said tackling the Icewing
“She’s alive, healthy and in good spirits.” The Icewing responded, still calmly
“But... not okay....” 
“She.. she...” Cyclone looked around outside, seeing a small black dragon with a muzzle being taken off by who seemed to be a Sky-Sand hybrid. “ECLIPSE!” She ran straight to her and enveloped her in her warm embrace “WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU?” She shouted through tears “I HAVENT SLEPT IN DAYS, THANK THE MOONS YOURE ALRIGHT.” 
Cyclone goes silent as she sees the signature smile of an advocate on Eclipse. “NO NO NO NOT YOU! I CANT LOSE YOU!” 
“CALM DOWN!” The hybrid shouted “she’s still partially sane, the correction operation failed. She’s.... well, I don’t think she’ll ever be the same, but she hasn’t lost herself quite yet.” 
A glimmer of understanding shone in Eclipse’s eyes “C-cyclone?” She whimpers out as she hugs Cyclone tightly. 
“Wish we could stay, but we gotta help other lucky escapees” Bloodmoon said with a warm smile
“Thank you so much for bringing her back you two. I’m Cyclone.”
“I’m Bloodmoon and the icewing is Aurora. And anytime”
——
Back to Eclipse
The satchel’s contents were from The Sanctuary. Including a jar of some purple liquid. And some syringes with a golden liquid inside. 
She pushed the syringes aside and looked at the jar. She cautiously opened the jar as fumes of purple arose from it. She quickly put the lid back on the jar as she inhaled the strange fumes. 
Within a short amount of time she begun to laugh maniacally, for a long time as she fell on floor, laughing until her sides ached. But she was too busy laughing to care about that, until she felt a jab in her side. 
Tears of laughter had filled her eyes, but she could still tell what pricked her, one of the syringes. 
She could feel a numbness creeping over her. The pain didn’t matter anymore. She could feel nothing but joy. 
The voice of Cyclone could be heard screaming, but she didn’t know what she was saying.
All the noise in the world seemed to fade away, including her laughing, even though she was very much still laughing. 
She kept laughing hysterically until she collapsed in a puddle of tears. 
——
Cyclone POV
She rushed into the room at breakneck speed “ECLIPSE WHAT THE..” she screamed, seeing the hysterically laughing dragon, her partner.
“Eclipse what’s wrong, please come back, please stay yourself!” she picked up the delirious Eclipse, carrying her to a bed. She was awake, but not fully conscious. 
Cyclone looks at the jar and the syringes. “This must’ve done that to her. Smiles musta given to her.” She puts the jar and syringes away in a cupboard. 
She returns to Eclipse’s bedside and hugged her. There were now tears in her eyes.
——
Eclipse POV
“Whmhmmnme” she mumbles out softly. She was dizzy and confused, with The grin still plastered on her face. 
She felt warm. She was being hugged. She actually felt real joy. Not the fake joy that... that made her pass out. She had trouble recalling the right word for it.
“Are you alright dear?” Cyclone said with a comforting, silklike softness to her voice.
“I...I think so” Eclipse stammers out. “Wha.. what happened?” 
“Some of The Smiler’s drugs messed with you psychologically” cyclone responded
Eclipse felt confusion “drugs?” She repeats slowly. 
“The needles and that jar. I hid em. And I locked the cupboard they’re in so you don’t accidentally stumble on em again.” Cyclone replied calmly
“Ohh... is that why my throat hurts?” Eclipse asked in a quaint voice 
“Most likely yeah. One of the chemicals made you burst out into laughter, I guess the other one made you unconscious” Cyclone answered, there was a confusion in her eyes. “I knew spending time with Smiles messed up even the sharpest minds, but I didn’t know it was this bad.” Cyclone mumbled to herself
“Whadyou mean?” 
“I mean that! You aren’t acting like yourself. You’re talking wrong, you asking a lot of questions you usually would be able to answer yourself, your sentences are short and abrupt... Bloodmoon and Aurora said you wouldn’t be the same... i guess I should’ve expected this...” Cyclone sighs as tears form in her eyes
“P-please don’t cry.. I’m fine, I’m fine, I’m still me...” she replies in a small voice nuzzling closer to Cyclone “I just.... can’t remember everything... I’m sorry”
“Don’t apologize. The Smiler hurt you, he took away a part of you.” Cyclone said with a pained expression
Eclipse wasn’t sure what to say “y-you still love me, right? Even after what he did?” She finally says weakly
Cyclone burst into tears “of course I love you” she says, clutching eclipse even tighter. “I’ve never stopped loving you. You mean the world to me. I’ll never stop loving you. I promise Eclipse.”
“Will you keep me safe from him? He’s pulling at my mind. He’s in my thoughts. I can feel him there.” Eclipse stammers out as she begins shivering
“We’re in the rain kingdom, he’ll never get you in here. It’s just... you... we can’t leave...” Cyclone looked down at her partner. She had the saddest eyes Eclipse had seen. 
“Don’t be sad... that’s my job after all.” Eclipse says with a genuine kindness and happiness in her voice, having a moment of perfect clarity. 
Cyclone’s eyes lit up “yeah.. I guess that is what we’ve been doing. And We’ve already proved it worked.” She smiles down at her partner. 
“Will you help me come back?” Eclipse asked in a strange way. Her words were still wrong... She couldn’t find the right word again
“Come back?” Cyclone responds “recuperate”
“That’s right. Re-coop-erate” she says with slight resignation. She shivered softly... “I’m tired... need rest... the rooms spinning” she grumbled 
“Get some shut eye dear” Cyclone says kindly. “It’s safe here, I’m here.” 
Eclipse silently lies down and shuts her eyes as Cyclone lies beside her, wrapping her in a warm, soft embrace. 
== “Something Soft” ==
Dusk, the only sound was the gentle ocean breeze off the southern coast of the rainforest. 
Eclipse was serenely lying on a throne of pillows, cuddled up next to Cyclone. 
Cyclone knew Eclipse felt safest in a situation like this. After all, what she needed most was comfort. 
She noticed the small Nightwing wince and cover her ears. 
“He’s trying to talk to you again?” Cyclone said, gently petting Eclipse’s back
She nodded. “I feel him tugging at my mind. He’s trying to drag me away and back into his claws...” she pauses
“I feel like I’m broken into pieces thanks to him. He stole part of me” she whimpered “I can’t speak normally... and it’s all his fault...” she said gloomily
Cyclone petted Eclipse again 
“You’re safe here. So long as we stay in the rainforest, he’ll never get his claws on you again.”
She hugged Eclipse close
Eclipse seemed to melt in Cyclone’s embrace. She looked up at Cyclone “thank you, for loving me” she says softly 
Cyclone kissed her head softly. “I’ll never stop loving you, Eclipse, you can always count on that” 
The two eventually drifted off to sleep, still embracing. 
== “She’s All I Have Left Of Me” ==
*You know you’d be happy again if you stopped fighting me, Eclipse* The Smiler’s cruel voice rang in her ears.
She felt weighed down by his presence. Like her mind was full of water. She hated how drawn to him she was. Whenever she felt close to giving in,she would claw at her face. That’s how she remind herself to never give in. 
*Eclipse, you need to stop torturing yourself* his voice rang out again *you’re only hurting yourself and your wife* 
Eclipse knew this was true... and she hated that fact. Cyclone was the only solace in her never ending nightmare. Unfortunately it was no dream. And Cyclone was asleep and unable to help her. 
“Please wake up Cyclone... I need you...” she whimpered 
*you and her would be much happier if you stopped resisting, Eclipse. It’s very cruel to her. It’s unfair to make her carry this burden*
“Get out of my head! Get out of my head! Get out of my head!!” She yelled through tears 
*if you love her as much as you say, than you can’t keep torturing her like this* The Smiler said in her head *you and her could have a great life together if you quit fighting me!* there was an commanding anger to his voice. 
She felt as though she was about to drown in her own mind. She felt the smiler blot out some of her memories. 
“No no no no THATS ALL I HAVE LEFT!” Eclipse clawed at her face again, letting out an ear splitting screech, finally awaking Cyclone. 
“ECLIPSE! What’s wrong??!!” Cyclone jerks her head up to see drops blood from Eclipse’s self inflicted scratches hitting the blanket. “Oh dear god I’m so sorry Eclipse” she embraced Eclipse, engulfing her in a warm embrace. 
“I’m sorry... you don’t deserve this” Eclipse whimpers, tears in her eyes, collapsing into the hug.
“It’s not your fault” Cyclone said comfortingly, using the blanket to wipe away the blood from Eclipse’s face. “There, all clean. Luckily they weren’t deep so they clotted quick”
Eclipse shook her head “he’s taking away my memories... he’s stalking me everyday. It feels like I’m drowning. I’m being torn apart. You’re all I have left” she cries, burying herself in Cyclone’s embrace.
“Sh sh sh, I love you more than anything Eclipse. I’ll never stop loving you. Know that. He’s a liar, I would never betray you and leave you behind.” 
“Why did it have to be me...” Eclipse said dejectedly. 
Cyclone didn’t have an answer. “Lets go back to sleep, I’ll hold on to ya” she said, as the duo laid back down, still embraced. 
“You mean the world to me Eclipse. I’ll defend you with my life. Til death do us part” she says in a quiet voice, still snuggling Eclipse.
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== Trivia ==
* This is Darkrai's second continuous series of writing, after the ongoing series "The Empath and The Oracle".
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