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A Dragon's Clock (Oh how the sands keep slipping away)

Chapter 9: Fragment of Spring

Summary:

Kyoko starts a dream

Notes:

Giving you guys this now since the next chapter is meant to be Kyoko's backstory and will both be long and meant to take longer. Aiming for it to be 10k words. We'll see how it goes. Anyways sorry for the real short chapter. BTW this whole dream mini-saga will not make sense, it will be disjointed and missing things as dreams do. Just prefacing that.

(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)

Chapter Text

It was a dream you’ve had before. Always alone, always running. How you wish for warmth. Flashes of green that bring warmth and comfort.

 

I’ve had this dream before. It never makes any sense. Sayaka and Mami had died earlier. All that was left was the ice bitch and Him. He was always so warm.

 

He’s the only reason I didn’t become like her. How horrifying to hear the crack of gem giving as it is remade. Her song still haunts me. I remember how she was so, so lonely .

 

Mami tried to kill me. Would’ve hit my soul gem. Issei put her down.

 

The feeling of warmth, of him covered in blood and munching on her intestine, sharing some with me. A warm hearth, made from corpses.

 

He stayed with me. Homura just stared. Did nothing to help, only doing what he asked of her. He let me cling to him in bed, wrapped me in his wings. All of his eyes focused on me. 

 

Then life continued like normal. We would train, he would break my bones, make me spit blood and would expose my brains. I would always ask for more. Running from my failures.

 

In the end, was it any surprise I fell in love with him? When he was there . When the sky was falling and all around me were living corpses. Was it any wonder that he burnt me so?

 

He was hugging me, and then he was pulling out my heart for his cakes. Yuma and Nagisa are cheering him on. The little buggers. Then we were in bed and he was tearing my skin into leather. I could never talk to him about when he got like this. He doesn't remember and Homura wants him to be happy. After all, if this is all it takes to be ẃ̶̢̞̖͖͚̖̭͖̳̟͚̥̫̣͈̿̈́͊͂͋͊͋̉̈́̊͌̍͘͜͠͝a̵̛̟̮̭̠͖̣͈̱̿̓̏̎̓̈́͒̈́̔͋͗͒̿r̸̢̧̡̗̮͖͚̲̺͙̳̺̯̖̿̿̉̏̅̚m̷̢̡͙̱͍̤̭̤͈͓̦̘̟̘̪̙͒͒͗̾́̀̓̈́͐̌̀̕͠ then its not much at all, isn't it.

 

“Stupid girl! You’re a cursed daughter! All of those people you tricked! That you led to the devil’s embrace! You’ve sold your soul to the devil and have doomed us all!”

 

Even when he’s not around, Father does haunt me. I watch Momo run into the fire. (No you wanted to walk her home that day.) Right is crushed into back, up is tricked into forward, left and down melt.

 

The storm always battered us around. Two kids, a failure, an ice bitch, a dragon too good for any of us.

 

The building barely missed me. I blocked the ribbons and dodged the muskets. I stabbed and finished off Sayaka the witch. Walpurgisnacht didn’t even have to block my spear. I swung down and finished off Mami the familiar.

 

I felt my legs being crushed. Watched a light be born. A mountain rises. 



Six eyes of green pass judgment.

 

You are found lacking

 

A roar of loss

 

The world ends in green light

Notes:

Wonder what's that light.

Also remember these girls are crazy due to all the shit that they've been put for. The mere fact they are functioning can be considered a miracle, never the less. Cracks will show. When Issei learns of what he's been doing, there will be conversation about that. The issue is he doesn't remember, Homura takes steps to ensure he's happy (no matter the cost), and Kyoko's not in the mind space to be self advocating and simply doesn't see the issue.

Her thought process is somewhere along the lines of. 'I'm immortal, what does it matter he hurts me and doesn't remember?' and 'So what he's wearing my soul gem ring without realizing, he's my reason for living anyways. It belongs with him. Besides it doesn't matter so long as I stay close to him like a good partner should do.'

She is not in a healthy mental space right now, Issei's unaware and thus unable to fix the toxic relationship. and Homura actively takes steps to ensure he remains as such believing that knowing will only distress him. So while Issei is mostly living DxD with hints of PMMM, the girls are living fully in PMMM and it shows. Besides for Homura is clinging onto Issei in the single most healthy, unhealthy dependency ever seen. She doesn't try to monopolize him. In fact if she believed he would be happier without her, she would leave and simply shadow him.

Tl:Dr the girls are fucked, Issei's kept in the dark, and Homura is the world's healthiest unhealthy yandere.

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