To see a Darkened Sun (Dark souls fanfic)

Chapter 18

To see a Darkened Sun

chapter 18

It was dusty, like the halls hadn't been swept since the building was made. He wiped his brow as he looked down at all the work he'd done, and then to all the work he still had to do. It was ridiculous really, that a mere duke would be assigning a god for such crude work, there were hundreds of maids in Anor Londo better suited for this.

He remembered Seath's reasoning as he rested, something about resilience and how he had to learn it if he wanted to live up to his father's name, though if that was really the case then wouldn't Gwynevere have gone through the same thing before? No one ever spoke of it though. Maybe it was his path of magic instead of miracles that warranted this. Or maybe nothing warranted it and the Duke was just having a sick joke, watching a god doing maid's work for him. No he wouldn't do such a thing, he was a well respected Duke and his royal teacher, such a thing simply couldn't happen.

His snakes hissed in frustration as he got back to work, they were starting to get restless, and so was he. It felt like hours before he rested again, now he was on the third floor and only had a few more rooms to go. As he rested he noticed a pathway that he hadn't seen before, it looked like a balcony but clearly had a path attached to it.

He glanced at his broom quickly before looking back at the pathway. His curiosity finally got the better of him, but he reasoned with himself that he could use a break and there was nothing that could go wrong, it was a royal archive after all, his father practically owned the place, at least as far as he knew.

He slithered clumsily along on his tired snakes, he was incredibly low to the ground thanks to their tiredness, right now his knees were almost touching the floor and he was even shorter than a human, it would be most embarrassing if someone found him like this. Though he should probably have been more worried about how spread out his snakes were now, as a few slithered off the between railing without his notice and causing him to fall flat on his face as they snagged on the sides of the railing.

He lifted himself up to see blood dripping from his face, he lifted a gloved hand up to his nose, it was numb from the shock still but it would soon sting. He lowered his now blood soaked hand to the ground to stand up, getting blood all over his dress now too.

He knew he'd have to clean that blood up later, and that he couldn't be seen with a blood soaked dress either, such a shame, it was one of his favorites too. He'd figure out what to do about that later, right now he wanted to see what was at the end of this mysterious path.

Slithering along he was now very careful about where his snakes went. Soon he reached a separate building adorned with two ridiculously heavy doors, they were wide open and lead into a gigantic room, books in every direction and... cells? He slithered over the railing and saw how many floors the building had. There were many imprisoned maidens down there, and at the bottom was heaps of scrapped clockwork

His mouth agape as he saw one of the maidens being taken out of a cell by a strange snake-man hybrid, down to a larger cell at the bottom. There were already five in there, and they were shaking in fear, Gwyndolin tried to hide his disgusted expression with a hand, but that only resulted in his nose stinging, causing him to yelp in pain.

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A loud thud rang throughout the room as Arias was clumsily tossed into a cold cell. He felt something snap as his already beaten body hit the cement, there was a dull feeling of numbness all over, and soon the pain would strike in full force, then he'd die from bleeding out or just plain trauma.