The Beast and the Sword Book 2: The Changes

Page 15: The Devils Board PT1

(Second Opening Theme: Sunday's Without God Opening-Birth Performed By Kitamura Eri)

The abyss was where she found herself again; she could feel that she had been laying in water as the bubbles popped the moment they had reached the surface. As her vision started to clear up, she could see a familiar watery surface as she had been laying in it.

Though she felt herself shiver ever so slightly.

"It feels... Cold..." She found herself saying, "... Like it's winter...."

She tried to move though she found herself struggling as she collapsed; the water splashed beneath her. She thought she had been imagining it, but she could've sworn she felt something along her spine, the back of her arms and legs.

"My body... Hurts so much..." She said, "... It hurts to move.... Mom... Dad... Help me..."

"...Et... U...p...."

She flinched slightly as she could hear a voice call out to her. It hadn't been one she wasn't familiar with. All she knew was it belonged to a man.

"Who's... There...?"

The voice soon came again.

"... Hear... Me... Wake... Up..."

She struggled to move though it was as though her body wasn't allowing her to do so. She seemed to have stirred slightly as she felt a blinding light. She had finally picked up her head as she noticed what looked to be a doorway that had been circular and transparent. She could barely see through as she could swear she could feel the heat of the sun, in the cold abyss.

Though one thing she could see clearly, had been a hand, as it was placed upon the glass.

"You can hear me--" She heard the person say, "--Right?"

Prism used all of her strength as she lifted her hand, before she placed it just right where his own hand had been, as if to show him a sign, that she could hear him.

"Who... Are you?"

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Prism had awoken with a yawn as she had rubbed her eyes, and felt her body ache and her head throb. As her vision became clear, she didn't recognize her surroundings. Until she found that she had been leaning on Asta's shoulder and noticed that Feodora, and her Familiars had been in a cage with her. She could hear the sound of someone softly snoring coming from her lap. The little Spirits had gestured towards the direction of the sound as she saw a familiar canine, with a skull as he had been sound asleep.

"... Oh, right..." Prism said as she recognized it had been the little Devil--Donkey as he called himself as she adjusted Asta's jacket that had been on her shoulders, "... The thieves took us, we must've spent the night here."

The Spirits soon spoke to her as some of them that hid in her hood started to ease the pain.

"Yami and Jack will come. It's like Feo said, they're not gonna find them, they'll find me." Prism whispered.

The little Spirits still voiced their concerns as she soon gave them a warm smile, "Don't worry--They still don't know I have a cursed stone. They're going to come soon. For now, we just have to sit tight. Besides--I can't just leave all these other people to fend for themselves." She soon brought her legs close to her chest as she soon had a look of worry; some of the spirits started to lose their color.

"Yami... Jack... Please hurry." She said.

"Prism Aurora Clover."

Prism had been startled by the sound of a voice that seemed to have come just behind her; the Spirits appeared to have hid, while some of them even crawled in her shirt. A chill seemed to have gone down her spine as she noticed that everything seemed to have darkened around her; though then again, it could've been from the poison that was still flowing in her veins.