Elpis and Pride : Underworld Blues

Elpis and Pride: Underworld Blues

A/N: Finally, after so long, our goddess is finally free <3 This would take place right after the scene we're writing. <3

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As soon as the sin left his chambers, the goddess stood back up. Her legs were still too weak to support her newly formed body, but she stubbornly tried to take a step forward. She stumbled but kept going. One step..two steps before she fell onto the floor and started to wail. The reality was cruel and cold just like the Sin she met after 2000 years spent locked in human vessels. He wasn't her beloved, at least, not from the inside. His perfect physical form remained the same as she remembered, up to the way he liked to style his hair but his core, what made Superbia who he was, had changed. Well...not really. He was a worse version of the Sin she encountered all those millennia ago. A version that knew nothing but cruelty and a never-ending appetite. How cold he was when she kissed him, despite his curiosity about her, she could feel he wasn't really into it. He kissed her back as if he was discovering her for the first time, forever tainting this first kiss into nothing else but a failed attempt at connecting to him.

But the words he used hurt her the most. The truth was his secret weapon... She realized that he wasn't the one she once loved and it brought her excruciating pain. Pride was gone, the one she knew and loved. Everything was gone, everyone who truly loved her...killed by her enemies. She was left with nothing, no one to rely on. No one to spend the rest of her immortality with. Despair choked the goddess who couldn't seem to be able to stop crying. Her tears and screams echoed through the chambers and her sadness fueled the always hungry Underworld and resonated with the tortured souls of this realm. The silent walls of the Castle listened to her pain, welcomed it and strengthened it as she cried her all. The beautiful goddess cried until she couldn't make a sound anymore. Her throat was burning, white streaks covered the black sclera of her eyes, her hair was spread on the floor like pink snakes, Her fingers slowly stroked the floor she was laying on before she curled her fingers into fists. Hades was no more so she couldn't take her revenge on him, but her family was still standing. Pride made it sound like he would be the one dealing with Ayasha and Ishtar but Elpis could never just stand by and watch him take what was hers.

Flashes of an older and happier time crossed her mind as she remembered the hugs and the kisses of the sin. She remembered how safe she felt with him and how much his ambition fueled hers. He was inspiring her, he was motivating her to become more than just the sweet and loving sister she always was. He talked about crowning her queen and making her live the life she was meant to live. He always saw the truth about her and yes, he might have been an asshole, he still cared for her. He cared for her...and she lost this, that special connection she had with the sin. And why? Because of jealous siblings? Because of Hades who couldn't control his sin anymore? Elpis screamed as she pushed herself back onto her feet, anger now running through her veins. She survived because of Pride, scratched her seal and waited for him to set her free from her curse because of her love for him. Now that she was free, she would do anything to avenge her beloved. Hope became Despair, anger-fueled with Love washed through her body. She was determined to destroy anything that stood in her way and until she learned more about this new version of her beloved, anger was the last crutch that was helping her stand on her two feet so she would keep using it. She would keep standing.

-TBC-