Elysium

Memory 11

In the beginning, there was darkness. The entire universe was black and cold. God would sit with himself and wonder what the world could be like. He craved some excitement, so then he created light, a blinding warm light. This pleased God, so he decided to keep going. He kept going until a universe was made. This wasn't enough to satisfy his needs so he created animals, and after that bore him, he had made humans. Playing with their lives like a puppeteer; God grew frustrated that the humans wouldn't listen to him. He grew frustrated at the other angels who doubted him, so he abandoned them and banished Satan into the deepest pits of Hell to rot. That is the story everyone knew, but was it correct?

Not exactly.

God had so much fun creating the world that he had not realized all the different dimensions that were also made. The different universes within the same timeline. In those different dimensions, there were different "Devils" each ruling their own plane. The story of God that Leo's world knows is only unique to his plane. It is completely irrelevant in the other dimensions.

Leo was lonely of rotting in the depths of Hell, playing with humans were not his interest as it was for God's. He often sat on his throne in such boredom and he had decided to kill himself. This Lucifer tried everything, he'd hang himself, slit his wrists, jump off high places, but to no avail. He would not die. A singular black wolf would watch him and ask why The Devil would do such things. Lucifer had no interest in this wolf. He found her to be quite annoying in fact. "You have an issue with bothering me, don't you?" The black wolf rolled her eyes sarcastically, "If you have something to say, then speak." Leo's horns glistened proudly in the hellfire. The wolf sighed and her form began distorting, and shaping itself into.... A human? Not exactly, she was just acting as a human like the rest of us. The elegant wolf had an adorable figure, incredibly long black hair, long thick eyelashes, and a simple look. She had a thin black gown reaching to just above her knees, and most importantly she was completely barefoot.

"Xiomara." The king noted.

"It's Xio." The girl corrected, annoyed.

"I know what can cure your boredom."

She says, her voice reluctant.

Lucifer stiffens "and what's that?"

She smiles, noticeably keeping a distance from him, a sense of disgust was evident in her aura.

"There's a girl I'd like you to meet, she's from another world."

Xiomara's voice is soft and gentle.

"I serve her. I have been serving her for centuries now and she is just as self destructive as you are." She wrinkled her nose.

Leo scoffed, crossing his arms over his chest "Why would you wish to help me? You Despise me."

Xio nods in honest agreement "You could die for all I care, but I know that you will be perfect for her and take care of my Queen."

It is evident that Leo is desperate to meet her, even so he tries really hard to hide his sorrow. "The God of this world won't let me leave this place." He stares deeply into the hellfire, that was all Hell was, endless fire and emptiness. No screams. Leo wished for screams, at least he could hear something in the silence.

Xiomara stares back sympathetically, "I'll take you, follow me."

She strides off, and Leo hurries behind her. "Stand back." Her sweet voice hardens, surprisingly threatening. She chants something in an unknown language and a large portal appears before her, the impact making her long hair blow in several directions, for a second it gave the illusion of wings.

"Hurry, this realm will shatter in about a minute. We must go now Lucifer." Xio walks past the portal, beckoning Leo to join her. Without hesitation or looking back, Lucifer leaves Hell, Heaven, and the earth behind. He would never have anywhere to go come back too if he ever decided to leave, a world would cease to exist as soon as the Devil vanished from its place. Cracking and falling apart in the end of the world, a complete tragedy.

Snow, white, cold. This was the first thing Leo noticed while entering this new realm. This was winter he realized. He held his hand out to collect the falling snowflakes and tears start to flow within him. Leo had forgotten how beautiful the world was. All he could remember seeing was constant hellfire, this was such a change for him it was just overwhelming.

"Save your tears for something else you wuss." Xiomara snorts and wanders into the blizzard. Lucifer blushes and wipes his eyes. This was kind of degrading coming from someone like her. As they wandered for a while, in the near distance a meadow could be seen. Full of warmth and lovely flowers surrounding this strange patch of heat.

"What is this?" Leo asks.

"This realm is called Elysium. It is what your dimension called 'earth' it has summer and winter at once. She prefers being right at the center of both." It was just as she said, at the center of this meadow a lovely creature was sitting, watching them. Staring in curiosity, an emptiness in her red eyes.

"In this realm, The Devil never became enclosed in Hell. Instead she slaughtered all the angels in Heaven and they took her place." her voice sounded tired, it was as if talking about this was a burden to her.

Lucifer blinked in surprise, could such a gentle woman such as herself really be capable of such a thing? He felt as if.... Someone understood him for a moment. Xiomara's hair shifts into a white, as white as the snow, along with her gown. She runs to the girl and hugs her

"I'm home!" She giggles and cuddles the mysterious girl.

The creature smiles happily and pets Xio's hair

"I've noticed." she giggles, "Is this the man you've told me about?" Xio nods happily and glares at Leo.

To his surprise, he suddenly felt shy and unsure of what to do. He had killed and tortured millions, but this girl made him freeze into place. The mysterious girl stands and makes her way to Leo. She has a welcoming expression and reaches out to touch his face. They stare deep into each other eyes, and at an instance understood each other, feeling everything one another ever felt, all the hurt, seeing everything that had been seen, knowing everything.

"What is your name?" Lucifer asks gently.

"-------." Xiomara giggles and Leo can't hold his tears anymore. He begins weeping and holding the girl, forever in love with her.

"Thank you for taking me away from that Hell, I can never repay you."

"No, Thank you."

"For what?"

"Saving me."