Burning Soul

…

Ember’s soul was vanishing as her divinity was diminishing a bit by bit.

Though Eleanor was a Goddess, she couldn’t deny the fact she wasn’t much powerful down on the primal plane!

Even earlier, she had almost exhausted all her power to stop the enemy.

…

Eleanor had been blessed with divinity as well, it’s just that after living on the primal plane for so long her divine powers were lacking, and the source of which was her diminishing divinity. She only had enough to keep herself alive,

but right now she could see no other way!

‘Looks like this is the only way! I might not be able to see you again Serena! I’m sorry to break our promise!’

Thinking this she stood up and closed her eyes!

In a few moments, there was a little halo hovering in front of her body!

It was her divinity,

her life force!

She pulled it out to help Ember.

After focusing all her leftover power into a halo, she opened her eyes and bent to merge it with the Ember’s divinity.

With a great radiance, the two of them merged and the halo descended back into Ember’s body.

Once the Divinity entered her body Eleanor felt weakness and fell on the ground right away!

It was as if she had lost all of her strength right away, though it was expected as she had just given her life force to awaken Ember again!

‘Ah! This is it I guess!’ She thought to herself as she had a vision of Serena in front of her eyes!

She was able to feel her soul slipping out of her body a bit by bit, it was getting cold and dark for her and her breathing had gotten slower.

What made her sad, that for other people, death was not the end but was a new beginning, the soul of the dead, would descend to hell where if it behaved it would be then sent back to the primal plane in another life-form. It was like a life cycle for all mortals.

But for the Gods or everyone above mortals,

death meant the end, they would be gone forever,

no soul would descend,

no reincarnation,

no rebirths,

they would just cease to exist.

…

Eleanor was Goddess of Moon!

Not just any goddess!

In her time, she was considered the most formidable warrior, and it was long before Valkyrie ascended!

It was her strength that made her compatible enough to accompany Serena when she descended!

Being one of the Original Gods, Eleanor certainly had many friends and foes as well! To believe she would die in such a way was just un-imaginable!

She could see her entire life being played in front of her at that moment, all the sad moments, all the happy ones, Serena and Theo!

Yeah!

She saw him and a tear sipped by her cold red cheek!

I shouldn’t have run away that day! I had so much to tell you!”

She said so with regret before closing her eyes for the final time!

…

“That was you who fought with me?”

A calming young familiar voice fell on her ears.

She struggled with all her might to see the face of the little dragon she sacrificed her life for.

Ember was still lying but this time she was not lying dead! Her regenerative ability had kicked in earlier and had already healed the gravest wounds!

She had rolled her body to see Eleanor, who was lying right next to her!

“You have saved me twice; I can’t let you die here!”

She said with her prideful eyes.

“My dear child! It’s all right! You need to continue without me! I can’t maintain my form anymore; I’ve used up all of my powers!” Eleanor replied with regret!

Ember could feel it!

But she didn’t like giving up, supporting her body by her newly grown limb she got close to her and asked,

“I know! But I can help you with the body! If you allow me to?” She sounded determined.

Hearing this Eleanor remembered one of Ember’s abilities,

Sealing ability!

Ember could seal anyone into any life form!

Yes, it was more like a curse, but she could seal any soul into any other body.

…

She looked around and saw a young kitten lying dead!

Maybe the earlier battle got her for good as she had no visible marks leading to her death.

She then looked at Eleanor,

“There’s a lot I need to ask you! You have to live on!”

After a few moments, Ember had gotten almost all her body healed, though she had some internal injuries, she could at least stand and perform the sealing magic as the time wasn’t on her side,

Eleanor was barely hanging in there!

She brought the kitten and placed right next to Eleanor,

“Come forth! I with my advent command thy laws of the forces, sever the ties of thy person and allow her a new vessel!”

“Seal!”

As she chanted this, Eleanor felt like all the world around was swirling, she felt dizzy before becoming unconscious.

…

After a while, she opened her eyes only to see Ember had gotten bigger!

Not only Ember but all her surroundings had grown almost 10 times larger than before!

She even felt weird as she felt her body behave differently than usual! She turned her head to see her body was missing,

“Ah! It just disappeared; I don’t know why! I didn’t know I could use that magic as I didn’t remember it well, looks like it worked!”

Eleanor had turned into a kitten,

a little kitten!

But most importantly she was alive, even now after losing her divinity!

It just showed how formidable Draconic magic really was!

In a moment she had sealed a goddess while saving her from her demise.

…

“I can’t believe it!” Eleanor spoke!

“Whoa! You can talk even in this form! I didn’t know it!”

Ember replied with a shocked expression to which Eleanor looked at her with suspicious looks,

‘you used the magic, right?’ were her thoughts.

But she was glad that her sacrifice allowed Ember to live, though she was now stuck in this form.

“Ohh! We need to get back, it’s getting late! And how come... Master didn’t come looking for me?”

Ember realized it was getting dark, Afterall all that fighting and sealing took well over a few hours!

“Take it easy!

Before coming here, I knocked him out!

He’s asleep.” Eleanor replied with a smug face! It was as if she was proud of her move.

“But you shouldn’t have done what you did! Taking on multiple enemies you didn’t know about, it’s dangerous! You have power but no control over it!” Now Eleanor was scolding the little dragon.

Hearing this Ember lowered her head in guilt, of course, she had the strength to rival that of any legend rank holder but in terms of using it, she was a total newbie,

“I can’t help it! I have never fought with anyone else, that guy in the dungeon, I just wanted to vent off my anger from that loss!” She replied pouting her mouth.

Hearing her Eleanor got baffled,

‘What does she mean by she never fought? Does she not remember it?

Wait after I left the dungeon what really happened?

I thought she was all right! Curse you, bloody Gods, what have you done now?’

She was thinking.

“Ah! Let’s go, we need to move or others will be mad at us! Umm, what’s your name? Mine is Ember! Master named me.” She said with a blush!

‘Ah! Her memories are sealed I guess.’

She nodded and replied, “My name is Eleanor, believe me, or not we know each other well but hear me out!”

As she said so Ember started listening to what she had to say!

“Don’t tell anyone who I am okay! I’ll talk with only you! I’ll teach you how you can use your powers better!”

Hearing this Ember was happy to have a friend,

“But if the master asks, I can’t lie to him!” Hearing her problem, she said,

“Come close I have away!”

Saying this she whispered something in her ears.

“Will that do?”

Ember was a bit suspicious of the idea, yet she agreed!

…

“Ahh! My head! Crap! I heard her scream! And how come it’s this dark! Wait what is this soft sensation beneath my head?”

Theodore was in a baffled state,

he was knocked out good and now was lying on Ember’s lap.

“Ah! You were sleeping so peacefully I didn’t dare to wake you, master!”

As he heard her, he suddenly got up and grabbed her arms and asked,

“Are you alright! I heard your scream and then I was running, and I can’t understand what happened!”

Hearing him she replied with a smile

“Maybe you are tired a lot, we should hurry!”

Hearing this he got up ready to depart when he noticed something!

“Ember? Who is that?”

He asked pointing at a kitten who was hiding in her hair while lying on her shoulder.

“Oh! While you were asleep, I made a friend! Can I please take her with me? I’ll take care of her, I even named her, and she loves it.”

She said with watery eyes to whom Theo just couldn’t deny,

“Okay! Okay! If you are going to take care of her, I have no problem.”

“She’s small and may fall prey to the wild, it’s better we take her in! What’s her name?”

As he said Ember jumped in excitement and replied,

“Luna!

I named her Luna!

She’s soft and fluffy and as white as the moon,

I’ll call her Luna!”

Hearing her call her name, Eleanor replied with a meow! Just like a normal kitten

“Okay, Luna! I hope you can handle some flight!”

He said with an awkward smile as Ember took her majestic Dragon form again to fly off.

As they took off to the sky, Ember looked down at the forest with a resentful look regretting what happened earlier.

...

Looking at her Belphegor was in awe,

“Oh! oh oh oh oh.. How majestic, how beastly, our destiny is intertwined little one! Oh, or shall I call you a heavenly guardian, my head trembles, ah, this feeling this feeling. We shall meet again!”