You keep running. You need to find Zeldris. You need to find your body. You need to somehow yeet Estarossa out of your body and take it back even though the thought of being within a meter of him makes you want to hurl.
Blood and other things squelch beneath your feet. You try to jump up and float, but that ability seems to have been stripped way from you. Is it the location?
You just want to go home. To make this horrible scene disappear. Since everyone near the dais is silent, you run towards the sound of yelling. If it's not Zeldris, maybe it's someone who knows where he is. You duck behind a pillar when you can make out what they're saying and you listen.
The voices have stopped. Or maybe they've stopped yelling?
There's a flash of blinding light and something goes flying past you. Almost as if it sees you, the object stops and hovers near you. It looks like a ball of light, but there are dark splotches all over it, almost like someone spilled ink on an LED lightbulb while it was on. The orb takes a shape and when it does, you're horrified.
You can move.
You still hate him.
How can you...
Meliodas stripped energy from the Commandments. Did he strip Estarossa's as well? Is that why you can move?
Estarossa stares at you. His form keeps flickering between the form you recognize and something else. He stares down at his hands.
"What did you do to me?" he asks. His voice is soft. Is he... Is he afraid?
You hear footsteps. Zeldris?
No. Not Zeldris. Lizzy is walking towards you decked out in wicked cool armour.
"Elizabeth! Where are we? What's going on?" there's panic in Estarossa's eyes, which have gone a shade of bright blue.
Lizzy looks at you, then gestures to Estarossa.
"Is this the asshole who hurt you?" she asks.
You nod. Lizzy puts an arm out in front of you, protective.
"Is... Is she one of your friends? Elizabeth?"
Estarossa falls to his knees. His form keeps shifting. For one second, he'll look like the demon you met and despised, and the next he'll be a man with wings. When he looks like the demon, he glares at you. When he looks like the other guy, he seems to almost be in tears. What's up with that?
Lizzy gives you a look as if to say what the fuck? You give her a panicked look in return.
"Help me!" he cries, crawling towards you and Lizzy. He stops by Lizzy's feet, sobbing. His form is still shifting, but the shifting seems to be slowing down.
"Estarossa?" you ask. Your voice is small. What are you supposed to do?
"Who's Estarossa?"
"Uh... You are?"
"That's... that's not my..." the shifting stops. He's the man with wings and blue eyes. "My name is Mael..."
Estarossa, no, Mael seems dazed. He holds his head in his hands, then faints.
"Where are the gods?" you ask.
"Some are dead. Others stayed back. There were a few who went to see what was going on with Meliodas. That's where I was going when I saw you."
"He... He, uh... Meliodas killed his dad."
"That means you're not bound by the ritual anymore, right?"
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The Graveyard (Zeldris x Female Reader)
Fanfiction(AU) You just wanted a nice relaxing beach day but nooooooo you had to get kidnapped by a cult and sacrificed to a demon prince. You're not dead. That's a start. But you would definitely prefer not to be naked. Stupid cults with their stupid rituals...
