Book 3 ~ The Puppet Master

6- The Void. Again.

Soul Eater. Blaze. Advanta Black. Trace. My name is Sora. I am the Demon.

Those are the only things I know, floating in the void.

I opened my eyes to find only the inky black that had surrounded me from the beginning of time.

I was created to kill the Angel. That was my mission. My goal. My desire.

Trace...I knew his name, but nothing else came to mind.

No face, no voice, no memories.

Remember people- Amnesia sucks.

I closed my eyes again and felt the black try to smother me, suffocate me, destroy my consciousness.

I forced my eyes to open and saw something I had never seen before.

I had no words to describe it...

It was...

"It is called light." A voice told me.

"Go to it. It will free you from the black."

I tried to move, but saw that the black had chained me to it.

I struggled, but it was no use.

Then I heard it. His voice.

"I'm waiting for you, Sora! I will always be waiting..."

"Trace!" I screamed, then struggled furiously, and I finally broke free.

I ran to light and once I felt something the voice called warmth on my face, the black was destroyed, and I was floating in white.

"What are you? Why am I here?" I cried to no one.

Then a figure appeared.

It was a little girl wearing white, and her hair wasn't white... it was...

"My hair is blonde, and my eyes are blue," She said.

"My name is Angel."

I kept staring at her.

She sighed.

"I am the one. The voice. The void."

Suddenly her form faded, and a man with 'metal' sticking out of him here and there was standing in front of me.

"I am what they call Subcreo, once Shikyo."

"You are Sora Rei, daughter of Scarred and Night."

"You are the demon, and you will destroy this world for me."

He leaned in close, and I noticed he wasn't breathing.

This... thing... was dead.

"Why would I do such things for a dead man?"

He laughed, though it sounded like nails on chalkboard.

"Because I know where your precious Trace is."

My breath caught in my throat, and I swore my heart stopped beating.

"Where? Where is he?!" I demanded.

"He is with the Angel,"

"And you will lead me straight to her and my miserable creation, Blaze."

A creature with tentacles and looked like a mix of a mutation, machine and pure evil appeared in front of me.

"Now, remember..."

The thing placed its hand on me, and I felt pain I had never experienced before.

It was like being burned alive, then have acid shoved down your throat- It wasn't a pleasant feeling at all.

"Remember it all!"