Sea of lies (blue exorcist fanfic)

Elder demons

So I believe I added elder demons into the story on my other account as I couldn't find any bit mentioning them on this. So, completely throw everything you know about them from my other account as they will be different on this one!

Apologies I haven't published anything in a while Covid hit my family and yeah.

Anyway, enjoy the chapter!

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Since the beginning of time, light and dark has existed. Since the beginning of life, light and dark has been pushed to the side. Mimicked. Ridiculed. Told as a simple tale to stop children from going to far in the dark, to keep them in the light.

Every one has a fear of the dark at least once in their life. It can be grown out of and forgotten, that is foolish. Having a fear of the dark was the light's last, desperate attempt at saving humanity. For fearing the dark, is not irrational.

Those who do not fear the dark are consumed by it. They are lured in by the curious sense of adventure. Ever heard of the phrase 'curiosity killed the cat'? Well it did not just kill the cat, it wiped out a whole population.

The light can only do so much. It can not save a those who do not listen or those who have been consumed by the dark.

10,000 years ago, the world was in fear. People had been going missing, one by one. It had been happening for a year, around 47 people had simply been plucked from the face of the Earth. All these people had no fear of the dark and had a taste for adventure. However, no one would consider these reasons to be why the disappearances occurred. By the 31st of December, 52 people had been taken. There was no trace of them, most had good lives and would not just run off. Any and all investigations were called off a few weeks after the 52nd person had gone. It normally happened every Monday, without fail. Someone would wander off from their friends, family or be seen walking out from their house, and never come back.

As the next year past everyone was fearful of the disappearances happening again. Yet everyone stayed. There were no more reports of people wandering off, no more reports of people not returning home, no more disappearances.

Soon, life continued as normal. Tales of the events were told but soon became myth, just like the light and dark stories. Generations after generations, lived and died on Earth before people started vanishing again.

It occurred for a year, every Tuesday. Even with more advanced knowledge on sciences and elements and technology to help them, once again, no trace was found. Everyone looked to everyone for help. No one had the answer and were all just as afraid as each other.

The disappearances occurred four more times with the same gap of 2,000 years. The same amount of people disappeared each time. 52. Every time it was a different day of the week. The only day left was Sunday.

After the sixth time had passed, a pope claimed they had received a vision from God about hiding all traces of the occurrences away. This led Churches to ban speech or writings of these stories and locked books about it up in the very bottom of the church, protected by blessings.

As generations passes, new popes became head of the churches that had these stories in. The stories of light and dark seemed to be more frequently told, with more fear held within them. The popes were more and more drawn down the spiral staircases of the church, through the long corridors, down another seven flight of stairs and all the way to a large wooden door with symbols all over. Chains were laying on the ground in front of the door, like they had been ripped off by a large beast. The light and dark stories were spreading round the world even quicker then before. The popes pushed the doors open and stepped in. They became trapped in the room, the door disappeared, so did the chains and everyone's memories of these popes. In 6 churches, with 6 popes trapped, with 6 books.

No one knows what happened in those rooms. Not even I. What is known, however, is the popes became known as elder demons. Stronger than all beings in existence. Stronger than angels and demons combined. Elder demons are dangerous, yet have seemed to leave humanity and every thing else alone for as long as they have existed. They have never been seen nor heard by anyone. Yet all those who know and believe in demons and angels and religion know about it. This book is the only thing in all Universes that tells us about their origin and power.

"Can we know about their power now we've listened to the boring stuff?" Satan glared at his eldest who dared to speak out of turn and so informally.

"Did I say you could speak Samuel?"

"Well no but-" He earned another glare from his father.

"Due to that absolute disrespect I shall no longer tell you anything about them, you shall go to your room and wait for punishment. Am I understood."

"Fath-"

"Am I understood."

"Yes sir."