PROLOGUE: "The Night God Came"
The candlelight flickered against stone walls, casting long shadows of kneeling children.
Hikari's knees ached. His head was bowed, his hands pressed together, his heart pounding with fear. He was eight years old, surrounded by boys and girls no older than himself—all dressed in ceremonial white.
None of them knew what they were praying for. Only that Father Elijah had said "God would finally answer."
He remembered the warmth of the chapel's wooden beams from years past. That warmth was gone now. Tonight, the floor was cold. The air was wrong. Thick. Too still.
The church bell didn't toll. It screamed—a horrible, distorted sound that made the walls tremble.From behind the altar, Father Elijah raised his hands.
"Tonight, we return these pure souls to God,So that He may walk among us once more."
The mad chanting of the priest began,as the children wept from fear of the eerie atmosphere and crazed look in the eye of the father,as if they he was a man obsessed–No,he was obsessed,and the former orphanage workers dressed in red and had cold blood shot eyes and looked at the children with eyes as if they where simply inaects.
Hikari didn't understand yet what was happening,he was confused so he asked the oldest among them,a girl with a pony tail and very tall for the age of 12,she was a girl that had looked after the other ophanage kids like an elder sister,she loved and cared for them all and was seen as by the kids as an elder sister and also a protector
"B-big... Sis Miya,what is g-going... On"
Hikari asked with tears in his eyes,as he stammered out those words,only for him to be hugged tight to Miya chest as she whispered to him "don't worry big sis is here with you"
And then she put he hands behind hikari's bound hands and used a tiny knife to cut the ropes bounding his hands,he was shocked by this and pulled back to look at Miya's face but she has an unreadable smile as she placed her finger to her lips,to tell him to keep quiet, hugged him once more and whispered once more and whispered to him "even if I can't save you all,atleast I can save one of you.hope you won't hate me"
"Now, run hikari,run!!"
At that point the priest and the others finally broke out of the feverish prayer, and seized Miya who screamed for hikari to run,it was obvious she was selling her life for him to escape,even with his fear and shock, hikari's instinct made him to run and run but as he was running and looked back he saw the priest holding Miya with a knife in hand as has said "ugh... You little maggots,you can't even appreciate the holy atmosphere and interrupted our holy prayer to "God",guess we will start the sacrifice with you first"
As he said that he dragged Miya to the ulter as she was screaming and kicking around,the priest slew her throat without a second thought,as if killing a chicken on Christmas day or steeping on an insect,no emotions nothing and just like that blood flowed like a fountain and miya's head dropped to the floor with a heavy and wet thud.
The priest laughed maniacally along with the others in red around him,laugh so rhythmical as if they were automated dolls echoed through the dark and isolated chapel
,the children froze both from fear of the laugh and most especially at the lifeless corpse of their big sister,their protector,and their family ,this killed any will to resist their imminent deaths,but for some reason, even though hikari felt the same way as the children,his body wouldn't stop running,he cried laughly as a few people in red chased after him,and the laugh of the priest and his associates reached his ears as the cut off the head of the children he grew up with,no matter how far he ran, even into the forest he felt he could still hear the dull thuds of the heads of his friends and fellow orphans and the image of the his big sister detached head and lifeless eys.
And at that moment it happened, the sky broke apart,a pulse of blinding light of different colors,even though it was mid night,split the heavens like a second sun exploding. A ring of energy surged from the horizon—silent, perfect, unstoppable.
The world as everyone knew it changed t changed that night.People would call it many things later,but it will later be known as the Celestial Surge.
For Hikari, it was the moment—the night,he lost everything dear to him,his warm home,his family and most especially his big sister.
When he finished thinking about all that had happene,with tears still in his eyes,he looked at the Celestial surge,as it resembled the Aurora, he thought "how beautifu,I wish I could watch this with big sis and the others" as he finally collapsed under the starlit sky, the stress of the days event finally catching up to him but before he closed his eyes,he said to himself"God huh? Who are you,I willsearch for that cult and destroy it,I will question and destroy every system that has decided to take everything and everyone I ever cared about" and shut his eyes.