Chapter 7

***\*2 Years Before Reset. . .***

The halls of the castle were empty. Blood and dust splattered on some of the wars, piles of fine grey dust lay around, indicating the deaths of what once were alive monsters.

"Y-you.." The King stood in front, shielding the Queen and their young daughter.

"Well well well King, it seems you have fallen." The man chuckled, their eyes glowing shades of red and purple, parts of their body turning vantablack.

"G.. don't do this..." The King stood their ground.

"It's for the greater good." G made a floating hand appear, a ball of light forming in the hole of its palm, before shooting a beam at the King. The King summoned a trident, blocking it, only to be knocked down to the ground from impact.

"Ugh..." Shakingly, they stood back up.

"You live to no choice G. If it means dying, I will save my kingdom." They motioned the Queen and Princess to run, which they did, making their escape as the King took swipes at the murderer, who simply evaded them with ease.

"Too slow, too slo, my power is the ultimate creation in this universe. With DisReal's power... I can fix this world and make it a true perfect reality... haha...." G snapped, making a total of ix hands appear, all glowing either red, purple or violet. All of them charged a beam.

"Farewell King, for I am about to rebuilt this kingdom."

"You bastard. . ." The King stood up, then flung themself at G, as the beams shot out at them.

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Rue sat on the grass of the garden, staring at their reflection in the pond.

*". . . Why would G need to extract my soul?"*

The kid hand to their chest, clutching their shirt. It had been a question they had asked themself for a long time. From a year ago, when they and Arius discovered G's true lab.

". . .G..." They looked up at the fake stars in the sky, made from artificial lights, yet mimicing the true thing well. They stared for a while longer, before standing up, and walking away, towards the lab's entrance, and out into The Underground.

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Arius watched from a window as their grey brother left the grounds of the lab.

"Where are they going. . ." They stood up, and left after. Akuji and Neo were both left behind in their room, sleeping, unaware of what was happening.

Rue entered what seemed like a crystal cavern, some cyan flowers and waters flowing. It was quiet, just the sound of water flowing, the dripping of water. They walked over to a rock and sat on it, beside the floating river, gazing at the giant lake.

"What are you doing here, Rue?" Arius, who just caught up with them, sat besie them, looking towards the lake with them.

". . . Do you think G really is a bad person...?"

"If what you said that time was true, someone or something may have changed him."

". . . His eyes..." Those weirdly colored eyes. The only clue they had about G's personality change.

"We will find out soon, Rue. Soon." Arius then suddenly grabbed Rue, pulling them down behind the rock.

"!" They put a finger over the child's mouth, telling them to stay silent, as an opening of a door could be heard. Arius peered over the rock cautiously, taking in the view before hiding again.

"Bro, heard that the King was assassinated."

"Damn bro, thats rough."

"Well, whoever did it saved us some work. We can overtake The Underground now!"

"Yeah bro, we can."

Arius slowly took off their gloves, walking silently towards the two monsters. They raised their hand up, then grabbed the nearest by the throat, dissolving it into dust.

"Bro!" The other monster stared at their dusted friend, then looked at Arius, who already made a move to kick them in the stomach, knocking them over, before pressing a foot onto them, holding them down.

"W-who are you what do you need?!" Arius pressed down harder, their uncovered hand hovering over the monster's face.

"Tell me, who do you work for, where is your base." The monster was sweating madly, instaly spilling out all of the information necessary, before Arius threw them into the lake. They stood up, put their gloves back on, then started towards a certain section of the cavern.

The two siblings walked down a hidden passageway, location revealed by the monster. Below was an entire base, hallways full of doors, boxes, monsters with weapons walking around.

". . . What do we do." Rue stared at the people around.

"We sneak in, then take them down stealthly." Arius looked around, calculating all the possible routes, before grabbing Rue's hand, and starting the raid.

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"DisReal." G stood on top of a tower, watching over the entire underground.

"If we can't get Rue, we shall go for their siblings first. One of the souls will be enough to go to the surface for our goal."

"Indeed. . ." The ex-scientist looked at their phantom partner in crime.

"Let's start with the girl, their the most defenseless." G nodded, then walked right off the tower, disappearing.