True Cross, True Love [Rin Okumura x Reader]

Dream Sequence

I can't see.

The scene plays before again and again.
I'm outside of my own memories, watching from another set of eyes that are not my own.
Astaroth's claws slice through me as if I was made of paper. I see my own limp form sail through the air and crash onto the ground, the grass turning red with my touch.

I can't move.

I watch in horror as the demon stalks over, a horrific smile printed upon his face. Rin jumps in front of my lifeless body. I can do nothing as he is thrown aside like a rag doll. He unsheathes his sword, releasing blue flames around him, his ears grow longer, like an elf's, his canines grow like fangs and his pupils become red and slit like a snakes.

I watch myself exhale for the last time.

Blue lights shuts off my vision and I'm trapped in darkness once more.

It continues like this, on and on.
Watching the same terrible scene, again and again.
And I know that there is nothing I can do.

Shadows tug at my arms, pulling me into the same sequence.

Blue light pushes me back.

I'm drowning in darkness.

A single tear drops, silvery and fragile like a flower.

It changes, becoming my own pale reflection on the water.

Blue fire snaps me back.

I'm awake.