Ash-boss
Abu-abu Valley
His steps were quite heavy entering the valley which usually became the most comfortable place for him. Now his steps were a little burdened as soon as he entered the valley. A place that looks so sad. It is unclear where the valley is. Surrounding him was only a darkness covered in a fog that was as dense as dark. A valley hidden behind the gate of trees soaring so high that its sky. Eve in the valley is so piercing. It feels so cold and lonely. Coupled with the sight of several black, white, and gray souls circling around some tombstones covered by thick fog of darkness.
“ What are they doing? ” muttered he who was now stepping his feet on the rocky road of tiles that split the side of the valley into two parts. He stopped his steps right in the middle of the path. Notice how each soul with its own color circles each tombstone. A black soul circled the tombstone counterclockwise. In contrast to white souls circling the tombstone clockwise. While all the gray souls circled the tombstone uncertainly. Sometimes following a clockwise direction and not yet reaching the beginning of its rotation, the gray soul changes direction around the tombstone counterclockwise. Grey is always like that. It never really completes the direction of its rotation in circling the tombstone below.
But. He twisted his body. Not as usual. The souls appeared together and circled the tombstones at the same time.
Opening the veil from the maroon-red robe that covered most of the body, his figure was suddenly stunned as his gaze fell right at the end of this path. It was the central axis of the valley, an old tree with golden brown leaves. It's really not a common thing. Every time for hundreds of years he visited, never once did the old tree have a leaf color other than black, white, or gray. This time the valley showed a lot of unusual things.
The light that used to penetrate the gaps of the leaves or branches of the tree that became the fence of the valley is now as if to open and let the light fall right on top of the brownish golden-leafed old tree. Where the old tree also became a gathering of soothing air for the inhabitants of the valley named as the Valley of Grey.
“ What has happened.. ” he said approached the old tree at the end of the path. Right at the edge of the light that shone on the old tree where he used to shade himself, the cloaked figure stared up at the top of his sky. The sky that usually looks shady but still gloomy, is now so blinding to the vision of his eyes. Protected those eyes with one hand. His eyes were still staring at the light and looking for the source.
“ He who is forbidden begins to change his destiny.”.
“ Bring it back..”.
“ Free us...”
“ Don't let him miss his destiny.”.
“ Bring him the forbidden back..”.
The raucous sounds suddenly resounded breaking the concentration of him who was trying to find the direction of the light. Filled with all sorts of emotions of gloom, all those souls began to drift about incoherently. There were screams of fear, sounds of bitterness, words of worry, anger, some words of hope, and also cries of wrath.
“ He who is forbidden must serve his sentence..”.
“ She can't run anymore..”
“ He should replace us!! ”
“ He must die!!!”
The curving of the raucous sounds instantly made the light centered on the old tree dim slowly. The greater the wrath that emanated from all the souls in the valley, the more the dark misty wind gushed across the valley, as it swallowed the valley into darkness. Rumbling accompanied by strong winds clashed across the valley as the disappearance of all the light that had beautified the center of the valley.
“ !!!! ”
He, another figure of Eren who was robed in maroon red immediately flicked his robe. As if dispelling all the sudden uproar, he took off the robe and threw it far up. Absorbing all the fog, rumbling, lightning, and ambushing darkness, another Eren figure took out an old book covered in wood brown that was under his cloak. The book opened and opened its own page. Displaying a single page of books filled with a dense black cloud of fog. Rumbles and small flashes participated enlivening the fog from the old book covered with wood chocolate.
He let the book float in front of him. Pay attention to every spark of light that appeared from within his courtyard. Slowly form a painting that resembles where it stands now. How the condition of the entire valley that seemed unusual was painted on the page of the book. Although only a black and white image, the painting really shows how different the gray valley was just a moment before.
“ Return the forbidden to his origin..”.
“ Let him run what is his destiny.”.
“ He has no other choice..”
“ He just has to go back..”
Darkness has absorbed the white souls, turning them back to their original form and replaced with black-robed figures filled with wrath.
“ Stop him before it's too late!”
“ Bring her figure back and free us from this place!!”
“ He must blend with nature!”
“ His figure is just gray.. let him live what he should be.”.
“ His figure is just an ash..”
That raucous voice gradually sounded away along with the disappearance of all those black-robed figures from sight. Buried them into the fog that covered the entire section of the Grey Valley. Such is the game of time in a place that again looks sad. When white is incarnated, those who are black will always be floating souls. And when darkness strikes those with white souls, direct light restores the white souls and makes them part of the rotation of the axis of time by no means in worship with the gray ones.
*“ You are too noisy. ” *toward another Eren figure with his black taxido suit. the part of his body that was always hidden under the cloak looked very different from Eren's figure as a student at the school where he mingled. Part of his face that was not covered by a human skull looked so white and pale. His eyeballs emitted a very charming deep red color. Her lips were reddish as the color of blood. His eyes squinted sharply and his eyebrows furrowed his way of looking around. The same pale part of the hand began to play its fingers that looked so pliable. He pulled the side of the maroon-red robe just by playing his finger in the air. Instantly the robe was attached to his body and again covered all parts of him that did not want to be seen by anyone.
He saw back the lights that began to penetrate the cracks of branches and leaves from the trees that became the protective boundary of the Grey Valley. Moving his feet to climb the valley, his figure smiled knotly seeing another figure standing behind the gate of the trees at the end of the path where another figure Eren would go.
“ I have not brought him here today. ” said another figure Eren while walking casually out from the side of the Grey Valley.
“ He is not a resident of this valley! Never try to touch it. ” the other figure did not necessarily let another figure Eren pass through it without saying what he meant to go to the dark Valley that almost all creatures of the like avoided. Anyone who enters into and is not part of the inhabitants of the valley, his soul will be destroyed and become a dark rubble from the darkest side of the Grey Valley.
“ Do your job. I did my part.” another figure Eren immediately disappeared among the black fog that circled the side of the valley. Ignoring him who is fixated with the scenery presented in front of him. So bleak, dark, and lonely. Even though many beings were wandering in the valley, the place still showed no signs of a decent life for the souls living in it.
“ He is not part of this place. ” he said firmly. Reversing his body, his figure instantly disappeared from the outer side of the Grey Valley that he had visited for the first time.
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