Elpis had spent the last couple of days lost into the memories shared with the departed. Her beloved siblings who were mercilessly killed by their own sister, Ayasha the goddess of knowledge. This was war. the pure essence of it where the ones who stood could be the ones who laid on the floor, the very next day. It had to happen, it was to be expected from her sister, who was so thirsty for power that she didn't think of the impact all and any of her actions might have.
Khrön and Sitäa were more than siblings. They were her first supporters. From the day she started to breathe to the moment she fell in love with Pride. -the old version-. Both of them had tried to make her happy and allowed her to leave the Eternal Pantheon and visit Earth, even when her siblings were looking. They sacrificed their lives to ensure her safety, at least, until Pride broke her curse and took her divine body down to the Underworld. They protected her.
And still, to this day, Elpis remembered their screams of agony. She could still feel the way their souls got consumed as they were thrown into oblivion. She could still feel the shivers and despair she felt when they died. Taken away by her very enemy. The thought enraged the goddess, it made her blood boil, it made her insides churn... it brought tears to her eyes, horrendous tears that creased her perfect face with black ink...Elpis was enraged and she needed to bathe on Ayasha's body as soon as possible. revenge demanded it. her soul demanded it.
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The Superbia she used to know was no more. The king is dead, long live the king! no, wait. He didn't die as a king. He died as Hades' plaything. As soon as Hades heard about Elpis. However, he was reborn as a king. Could we even say that being remade was the best thing to ever happen to the sin? Probably...
Elpis realized that the life she led before was partly a lie. one that was fed to her, where it was convenient for her siblings and parents to keep her under neat wraps and make sure she would never reach her true potential. It also was a lie she told herself, about Superbia being in love with her, for she desperately needed to be loved. to have someone who saw her for who she was and still loved her nonetheless. Pride did notice something inside the goddess, the growing darkness within her, the raw power she wasn't aware of. he saw what she could become and who she really was but she wasn't aware of this... no, she had to be tested first, pushed beyond reason... betrayed and cursed to finally have her potential revealed. He set her free, but the goddess he freed wasn't the little girl she used to be before. she was a woman, an empress, his future queen.
Well, the future queen. it was to be earned, she had to work for the title and despite the rocky beginning, she enjoyed the challenge. her love for Pride, that old fuel that allowed for the goddess to survive 2000 years locked in human vessels had run out. something new was born, something fresh and true. something for the creature before, the one known as Pride. And if asked why, she would simply reply "he was all seven of the deadly sins".....
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