Pride and Asma : Unbreakable

A/N: like the title says:) she's unbreakable! Love is. My precious babies <3 Just heads up about what's going on inside of Asma. I won't always mention her interaction with Elpis or have Elpis intervene as much at the beginning, but she's still fighting the good fight inside of the young woman. <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 thank you so much darling, for the opportunity and fun <3

Pride belongs to my friend Nate

Asma belongs to me

xxx

She heard the pleas of the human to let her be and shook her head as she refused to let it happen. So many centuries spent in darkness would never change her mind or make her forget. « I will find you. » was more than her famous last words. I was an oath she intended to keep. She managed to scratch the seal and weaken it enough for Pride to find her meatsuit, but then came the most difficult part of the whole process: keeping her body alive and convincing the human to give her life to her. It was an act of selflessness that humans weren't known to have but Elpis kept hope that this human would be different from the others. They shared a lot of similarities and maybe this one was more sensitive to what was actually happening than any of her previous hosts who simply ignored her very existence regardless of the numerous oddities their loved ones pointed out.

Millenia spent in this dark room with nothing more than herself to keep her company could have had broken her down. But it didn't. Instead, the longer she spent trapped within someone else's mind, the more determined to break free she was. The reason was simple. It was for Pride. It was because of him and it would forever be for his sake that the goddess wanted to be out. She was in love with him, a love so tremendous that it could shatter the very universe, literally and figuratively.

Yes, it was a romance that should have never happened, like those Romeo and Juliet kind of stories. Pride was her mortal enemy, a sworn enemy of the primeval gods she should be fighting instead of loving. Yet she couldn't help but fall in love with the SIN, casting away the very morals and laws of her people to be with him. And even in such a situation of everlasting reincarnation, the goddess didn't regret a single day spent with him.

He might have forgotten her over the centuries, she still cherished the memories they shared. She remembered the very first moment they met, kissed, made love and argued. She remembered his stubbornness which could be cute but very quickly unnerving and she remembered how he would make up to frustrating her with unique and beautiful presents he would bring from other realms, with a smile and several kisses. Throughout her millennia of punishment, it was his face that helped her handle time. It was the promise of finding him again, holding him in her arms that drove the goddess and have her keep trying to weaken her seal. Asma, the current host, was way easier to play with and they probably were so compatible that it allowed for the seal to slightly be weakened.. enough for her to reach out to her beloved who quickly found her.

« I will always find you. » It was more than an oath, it was their future.

He found her. He found her among billions because he caught her psychic print and cry for help. He caught her presence and his memories were restored. He found her again and from now on, she was sure he would do anything he could to have her come back to him. Love was an unbreakable bond and her siblings knew this. They realized Elpis couldn't be swayed into hating the SIN anymore, therefore, they had to take her down before her feelings for the creature caused their doom. Elpis hoped in a different future where she and Pride wouldn't have to deal with the shenanigans of their siblings. She hoped in a world where the two of them could exist in harmony, far from humanity but not too much so she could keep influencing them in a good way. But her siblings decided otherwise. Ishtar forced her into this never-ending punishment, locking away Hope from the world and the result was an actual disaster. A world without Hope was a gloomy world where everything and everyone had their life already written on stone. Nothing could change and nothing would change. It was disheartening to say the very least and motivated Elpis to leave the body she was in.

She usually wouldn't bother after so long, because there were so many bodies, so many souls she had to co-exist with that ultimately, it shouldn't have mattered if this host died. Elpis grew fond of that little human, mostly because she was able to translate so vividly her memories of Superbia, but she was extremely sensitive to the whole situation. Of course, she was scared, she didn't understand what had just happened to her, but she could understand and she could willingly give her life to save Elpis when the time would come, at least the deity believed in it. She felt and grew with the human and realized that she had a lot of unfulfilled dreams, a lot of passion and love within her she suppressed greatly due to the lack of Hope and all of this made Elpis want to help in any way she could. Alas, she couldn't help because she was entrapped within said human so all she could do was try and send her hopeful vibes, thinking that maybe it could influence her. It did. It did greatly. It did so well that Asma was a little more welcoming of the idea of a SIN and of this tragic love story between him and the entity that was inside of her.

Love was strong and because Ishtar feared it, he tried to imprison his sister but it only fueled her love for Pride even more. It allowed /her/ to set herself free enough to be found and it will help the two of them find a way to set her free completely. Love.. love was unbreakable. As her long flowing pink locks floated around her frame, she looked up to the dark « room » she was locked in. A golden aura still surrounded her curvaceous frame that was wrapped in a gold and white dress. She put her hands on her heart, closing her eyes for a while as she tried to communicate with the human, in response to her panicked burst of words and a poor attempt at contacting the goddess. The room was still dark but she could see a faint light pierce through the darkness. What could it mean? Could it mean she could talk to her host? Shrugging at first, she tried to talk to her.

« I apologize for putting you through this Asma. I didn't choose this life, I didn't choose to be punished the way I was and trust me if I could go back in time and fix things I would have already. I know you are scared and I know you want to go back to my sibling and bargain your freedom but I beg of you not to. I beg of you... If you do that, not only would you die on the spot, but I would lose the ONLY chance I have to find Pride. It would start all over again.. he would forget me all over again! I refuse, so bear with me human. Bear with my selfishness for a while. Don't go near them. »

The faint light disappeared, urging her to scream « No no no no no NO !! » before she hit against the walls of the room and sat on the floor. It was useless, she couldn't communicate with her that way. Little did she know, that she reached out to her host's mind and slightly influenced her so she would speak out loud to Pride and share that terrible idea. It would give /him/ the opportunity to turn her down and prevent the disaster from happening... So, all wasn't lost. There still was hope.

There still was Hope.

(TBC)