A/N: Enter Despair, one of the key elements of the storyline.
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There was a saying about Love. It's supposed to be blind. It's supposed to have you make mistakes and act in a way you wouldn't have if you weren't lovesick. Despair was blinded by her love for Tenebrae. She was one of the most powerful beings existing in the End Realm. One of those older souls who got to enter the court of Death. She fell in love with Tenebrae, when she first met him. He already was a man by the time they met and she was instantly drawn towards him. Maybe it had something to do with his power or the fact he was a beautiful man.
She hoped that he would look at her and find her suitable to become his princess. She demonstrated her power in failed attempts to impress him. She would try and spend some time alone with the prince in order to woo him. Despair was a pleasant company. She has had the knowledge, was very funny and would, of course, have been the best choice if his attention was focused on the End Realm but he had to meet Lux. At first, Despair believed that it was just a quick fling, some curiosity caused by her very nature. They were opposites and the universal rule had the realm of All beginnings and the End realm never to fraternize. It was not going to last, or so she thought. But it did.
He fell for lux, so hard that Despair realized she couldn't compete with the goddess. He was so in love with her that they spent more and more time together, raising concerns among the End Realm. Despair refused to let it happen, fearing that it might be the end of everything, so she visited Earth and went to see the keeper of secrets know how to defeat Life and Lux. Since there could only be one question asked to the elder entity, she didn't know what would the outcome be if she awoke the only entities capable of defeating the goddess of Life and her daughter.
Love is a powerful tool and there is a saying that says that love is blind. Despair was blinded by her love for Tenebrae and her jealousy of Lux. She searched for a way to defeat her nemesis and went to the Vanishing point, where creatures were banished so they could never enter either realms or Earth again. She went there, said the magic words and completed the ritual only to see she made a mistake. As they were standing before her, sitting on their horses, the three entities she summoned looked at the frightened princess who froze on spot.
They were as frightening as in the old books written by humanity. They were almost like giants standing before her and the only thing she could do was to kneel before the entities but one of them, the closest from where she stood said in a booming voice.
"Stand up my child. You summoned us to this world so your life would be spared."
"Really?"
"We have one word. It takes a lot of hatred and determination to break the spell that bounded us to the Vanishing Point so you must have a very good reason to have us back. Talk and we will grant you your wish."
"I..I..."
She should have been afraid, she knew it, but anger and jealousy flooded her veins and she couldn't help but remembered the reasons that had her leave the End Realm and search for a way to eliminate her enemy. One of the entities became impatient.
"Speak my child."
"I want to destroy Lux. I want her dead.." She didn't elaborate mostly because she knew it wouldn't matter to them. "Can you do that?"
"Who do you think we are? Of course, we can do that."
"You have in front of you, the Four horsemen of Apocalypse."
The name alone should have been enough to make her back down but instead, it fueled the princess with so much joy that she didn't refuse the hand War handed to her so she could climb on his horse as they left the Vanishing Point. She had no idea of what she had unleashed in the world and would soon enough come to regret it.. or would she?
-TBC-
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