"The Watcher" (LMK x OC)

Chapter 5

⚠️GORE⚠️

I awake in a barren wasteland. Houses are destroyed, dead bodies fill the streets. Blood is everywhere. I look around at the mess the Demon Bull King had created, but where is he and where is my father? I can't feel anything, it's like I'm a husk of a human, completely empty inside. I look down and I see....Myself? Oh God what happened?! My body lies motionless on the ground. My head is completely cracked open with dried blood coming out of it. I'm covered in blood and I can't tell if it's mine or somebody else's. Am I dead? I can't be dead! I decide to walk towards the village in shambles in search of an answer as to what happened here and why I'm like this.

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People are pulling each other out of the rubble of the houses, they are looking for their families and friends to see if they are ok, people are being carried away to the nearest clinic in search of medical help.

"Excuse me but could you tell me what has happened here?" I get no response... I turn to another person

"Sir? Can you please tell me what is happening?" No response... I go to tap on the man's shoulder but... my hand goes right through him. I try to reach out for others but I phase through them as well. Everything has gone silent, my mind has tuned out all the screaming and crying trying to process what I have just seen happen.

"I'm...dead"

I only now start to take notice of a bunch of other people trying to reach out for their loved ones but they also phase through them. My knees are weak and I fall to the round shaking and crying. I think of my best friend Red son and how I'll never be able to say goodbye to him. He'll be left alone. I promised him we'll always be friends but how can we still be friends if I'm dead?!? He'll think I don't care about him anymore and I abandoned him! Who will tell him I'm gone?!? Our friendship was a secret, nobody knew about it except us!

As I'm on the ground I see somebody approaching me from behind. Before I can react a hand is placed on my shoulder and I look up to see... Macaque but a lot more beaten up and bloody. "Uncle Macaque what happened to you?!? He sadly sighs "Apparently the same thing that happened to you Kiddo."

"You mean you were killed by the Demon Bull King too?" I stare at him. "What no?! Your dad killed me..." I stare at him in disbelief. "You must be wrong, dad would never do something like that... and I wasn't killed by my dad."

"You're going through the five stages of grief kiddo." He stares at me sadly.

"What are the "five stages of grief?" I say as I turn away from him.

"Stage 1. Denial.-" I cut him off. "I'm not denying anything dad wouldn't kill me! I'm his daughter! He loves me!"

"Kid, if he loved you he wouldn't have put you through hell!"

"I don't want to hear this."

"If he loved you he wouldn't have set you up to fight against the Demon Bull King when you're clearly not ready!"

"No it's my fault! It's all my fault!" I hug my legs. "If I hadn't been so weak I would have lived! If I hadn't been so useless I wouldn't have had to endure all that STUPID TRAINING." "IT'S ALL MY FAULT!!!" I start to sob uncontrollably.

Macaque slowly approaches the crying girl, hugging her tightly as she sobs into his shoulder. "It's not your fault kiddo. Nothing was ever your fault. He's the one in the wrong not you. You never did anything wrong. You are strong and you are fearless."

"I hate him so much Uncle Macaque... I was willing to do anything to make him proud of me and nothing worked... nothing I did was ever good enough for him! I hate him, I hate him,I hate him! Because of him I'll never be able to grow up! Because of him I'll never be able to see my friend again!"

"I think I know a way to revive ourselves but it won't be easy."

"How?"

"The Lady Bone Demon..."