Shadows of our end - KDA x Male Reader (Original)

Act 2 - 021

"Skye already said a lot," I state.

She nods slowly. "Means you know what happened while you were gone, I don't think anything will be able to tell you how it all went down properly... the same way we won't ever know what happened to you but being alone in the Void? I rate that would have been loads worse."

"Maybe," I let out a long sigh. "And you?"

She looks at me through the corner of her eye, flashing me a smile, "Happy I worked the courage to come and welcome you back properly. Hell, I honestly didn't know how it would have gone but in the end, I am glad I went about it the way I did."

I stop her. "Don't stress about me, I am pretty much the same in most cases. Just..."

"Battle-hardened?" She asks.

"Sure, that's not a bad take."

With a nod. "You looked good fighting out there, bet a lot of people are watching you and wondering what happened in that world. I bet another bunch of them probably want to fuck with you just like the old days. Some things just never change."

I scoff. "From Arena champion to Team captain, to sole survivor to... whatever the fuck we want to call this."

She wraps her arm around my lower back. "Let's stick with alive." I return the same smile, she lifts her hand to my shoulder and slides her fingers down my arm to hold my hand. "But I am going to have you put in some work here as well."

"What happened?" I ask her.

"A lot of things were just left up in the air." She breathes out. "Things changed. Too many losses sent everyone into different avenues and they changed for the worse. I don't expect you to put them back together for me but at least... I don't know, show them that hell should change us."

"The girls?"

She nods. "All of them have been better off, (Y/N). Ahri's been reclusive, Akali's been relying on herself and just herself, Kai'Sa lost her nerve and she's been running herself into the ground trying to push herself to do something, Sera became a lot colder..." she scoffs, "Girl changed the most out of all of them."

"And you?" I ask her.

"I've been sitting back watching the world crumble at the seams, I've been watching all of them change in front of me. We barely get together as we used to, the team is so split we only ever see each other when we do a job and even then we never rely on each other."

I rub the back of my neck. "It's been that bad... no wonder it felt like nothing was the same."

"It's hard to find love when your walls are so high, there were times when we were split up. Nobody survived and we walked out of the war alone with nobody to hold onto, the rifts... the Waves... it took a lot of people but most of us sprung back."

I squeeze her hand. "This isn't a fairytale Eve." She nods slowly.

"I know that, of all people know that. Fuck me... even Erica is so down bad that she even looks at fucking Troy of all people..." she glances at me. "Tell me, it was him, right? He pushed you into that god-forsaken world?"

Should I answer? Or will I cause more problems for them than me? I don't want Evelynn to be in trouble because she knows. But I can't risk it because then I have to kill Fury and I still don't know how I am going to do that.

But there's more to her than what she's letting on. Ashe knows who she is and knows something that reminds her of me. But in the end, as much as I'd hope to get Fury to side against Azreal I have no idea if that is possible at this point.

He's got control over this place and every single student will turn against me given the chance... unless I gather my own following. But then I have to deal with Agents that disagree with me and what I stand for...

I need a valid cause that would scare them.

Despair.

If there was a way to show them what I know, to show that at this point I am the only person on the road to rival his existence. Maybe there are others stronger than me that can kill him but... I am barely stronger than I was weeks ago when I saw him first.

I need power.

I need a shit ton more power.

I have to master the power my 'evolution' offers.

"Yeah," I finally answer.

She nods. "Why is he still alive?" I shoot her a pained stare and she nods slowly. "Something's stopping you from killing him, isn't there?" She sighs before nodding slowly. "I don't need you to tell me but I think I understand what the situation may be, then we should kill him without his heart ever stopping."

I cock my head, "How?"

She breathes out with a serious tone. "His family. Erica. His friends. Take Erica away from him, use his friends against him... and if they get in the way, slaughter his family. There's not enough Agony that the human body can withstand that WILL EVER be enough for that bastard-"

Her grip tightens, and I respond by tugging her closer to me and wrapping my arms around her.

"We can't force it. I'll tell you everything when the time comes, Eve. For now, we place nice and... take it slow."

"Shut up," she mutters against my chest. "I hate you for being right," her tense shoulders relax as she rests against my chest. "You can stop smothering me now, I won't do anything stupid or without your permission."

I let go off her to see her stand there with a tiny little smile creeping on her face. "I just don't want this to end up blowing up in my face, I've been doing my best to plan it all moving forward."

She nods. "I get that."

Memory appears beside us and she cocks her head watching him with an arched brow. "And this is him, right? The one keeping all of the students at bay, what are you?" she turns to him fully and observes his body.

"I am a Nightmare."

"You look like you could be one," she breathes out. "A creature of the Void... I don't think you are."

His head follows her as she paces up and down. "I hail from the Abyss."

She chuckles, "So it must be comfy in his shadows where the darkness can lurk."

"It doesn't remind me of my home but I wouldn't have anybody else as both my saviour and master. My home is far more hostile towards its inhabitants than this bright world, but I find its light beautiful rather than a blight."

She scoffs at his answer, "There are demons that would shun you for that answer, but then again, I almost feel the exact same way." She crosses her arms as she watches him with a narrow stare, "Nightmares... "

"What's up?" I interrupt her thoughts.

She shakes her head. "Hm mhm. I like him," she looks at me and then back at him. "And what do I call you, Nightmare?"

"I am Memory," he answers plainly.

"Memory..." she smiles at him. "My name is Agony."

"Then I shall refer to you as such."

I glance at Evelynn who then winks at me. "It's still Eve to you," she starts walking.

I quickly catch up to ask her, "Is that what your demon name is?"

She answers. "Yes, Evelynn is just the name I gave myself. But my nature, my true name, is Agony. Memory reminds me of a story that once I heard from other elder demons. Pygmies in the Abyss formed out of a manifestation of Pure Dread. To us they are revered as merciless gods... the problem is..." she glances at me, "the story ends with the slaughter of these creatures, they are extinct."

Memory adds, "I am not aware of such a story, we've roamed the worlds for aeons."

She glances at him, "It's an ancient story. I find the resemblance uncanny, scarier if that story does derive from something primordial. As if you were our gods."