Devil May Cry - No Longer Human

20 - Soul's Parting Gift

Being the Goddess of Space and Time was not all it seems. Her power was limited and what she could provide depended on the other's capability.

The future was ever changing. There was perhaps a single stream in which is this correct timeline, but that would depend onto what kind of view one sees when they study the subject of the past, present, and future.

There requires no action to follow the path as it was but a natural thing that went by. Just as how others would be told their fate and would try to change it, they are in fact just following the path towards just fate. It is unavoidable, it is destiny itself.

The Goddess watched through all means of time that revolved her keen interest to the Human world's survival from the demon realm. No matter what she did, the past result was unavoidable, every change led to the time stream fixing itself in correcting the anomaly that occurred. Anymore tampering would only do more harm than good for the mortal's she held hopes of them thriving.

And yes, they did so over the many years that went by. Stories of old became mere fantasy and described as imaginative. But she knew what would occur, no matter what she did to provide more time for the human world to prepare. Anymore interference would lead her to fall from her statue and become corrupted. She has seen too many deities protest, accepting their remaining seconds of life before sacrificing their physical body into an object of corruption as a means to prevent disaster to humans to come. A truly noble and selfless ending.

One such being wielded and presented mastery of thunder, he had pride to his power and showed his resolve to deny the rule when it cane to solving the human world's problem. While the appearance of his might was shown bare which gave hope to the humans, it brought fear to the darkness that shrouded the deity who began to lose power every second before having fallen to be at death door. His resolve was all he had left before that too began to fade. He had accepted that his mind was being taken away, and so with the remaining controlled power he wielded, he transformed himself into something that would hinder the corruption of energy to take hold of the body. Becoming a weapon. But, even such action only provided a little brief time of assistance, only allowing those who bore witness to see it as an holy weapon that was gifted from the skies, darken and become something less than clean.

While some became tools of war, others were not so lucky to have the chance to do so and were killed. With both the corruption taken hold and their power decreasing, such matter was bound to happen when facing a variety of demons that were of the highest of the class. Such deities were left to slowly feel their body become taken over a rise anew from the brink of death. Something far from their original characteristics. They had become simply demons.

When it comes to it, the Goddess saw this only as a miracle itself that her assistance in providing abilities lost to time to be granted to those worthy was something that was acceptable to do. Perhaps the action of not physically changing anything had allowed her a free pass of some sort which had enabled her to be protected from the same fate as the others.

When the war between man and demon came to an end, there was still existence of the barrier between realms opening up for demons to cross over. It was dealt with quickly and swift due to the demons themselves being lower class. Her purpose became a glimpse of belief to humans as time went by and others having acknowledged the reason of achieved certain feats. Such feeling was a bliss and a relish of being acknowledged by those who she wished to protect. However, such action led to others hoarding her statues, hiding them from the world when war drew near once more.

When they prayed for her help, she was unable to do so and could only watch as humans slaughtered other humans. Demons possessing humans and commanding obedience with their dominance with none the wiser that their true skin was not simply human.