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This is a tragic tale about an ancient world and two beings who would change a world forever...
Those two humans who would change the fate of a world.
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Two humans from one of the many human worlds, a class of worlds known for being far behind the rest of the known worlds.
However, the guardian of those worlds, known as “Crow,” had an idea.
He was tasked not only with protecting these worlds, but also with sending the souls of the deceased to other worlds, where they would be reincarnated as demons or Angels.
Crow decided to use two human babies of different bloodlines as guinea pigs, being the first humans to make contact with other worlds.
He would set this experiment in motion and choose a particularly strange world, in the sense that it was ruled by a god, or in this case, a goddess, who was not the best possible person.
As we know it, this is the world of the original Gray Garden.
He would simply appear out of nowhere in that world, amid a prolonged downpour and the darkness of night.
With the two babies in hand, he would leave them at the royal castle of that world, fading away in silence.
Sooner rather than later, the cries of both babies, who had been separated from their real parents and taken like guinea pigs to another world, would summon two angels well known to us to see what those baby cries were all about.
When they stepped out onto the front of the castle, what Wodahs and Grora saw were two babies they had never seen before, and to make matters worse, their skin wasn’t white like theirs.
However, fate had something in store for these two babies.
As strange as it might sound, both babies would be adopted in that world, under the care of Etihw, who would act as the “mother” to those two babies.
Etihw, though not particularly affectionate or kind, would feel something very strange around those two children. A warm feeling, but one that was overshadowed by her personality.
The love these two babies would receive from the angels would be so great that they would be considered part of the family; both were named by Etihw,“Revlis” for the baby who was a girl, and “Yerg” for the one who was a boy.
They would grow up as siblings, and both would be raised in the same way, but interestingly, their personalities would be quite intriguing because of how different they were.
Yerg was considerably more cheerful and even innocent than his sister, always looking on the bright side of things and trying to find the good in everything, with an energetic and loving attitude, as if trying to cheer up his bitter mother, calling her “Momma Etihw.”
Revlis, on the other hand, although cheerful and affectionate, was somewhat more direct and realistic than her brother; she was well-mannered but viewed everything in a very objective way, allowing her to easily see through people.
Despite everything, the two loved and supported each other as siblings, vowing to maintain an unbreakable bond.
As for the angels, Sherbet and Rigatona treated them as equals; despite their different personalities, they showed affection for these two boys in their own way.
Ciel was a special case; since she was like an aunt to both of them, she cared deeply for the two childrens and spent a lot of time with them, looking after them as best she could, seeing hope and happiness above all in Yerg, with his energetic and cheerful attitude.
Wodahs and Grora would also take care of them both, with Wodahs cooking for them and Grora making them laugh when they were babies.
During this beautiful time in their lives, both would also be put through training at Etihw’s request to see what abilities they possessed.
Yerg would prove to have a knack for swordplay, especially considering that he used to steal Wodahs’s sword when he was younger out of curiosity, which made him quite skilled.
Revlis was not the case, as she did not possess even 5% of Yerg’s combat skill; however, she did demonstrate ability in another area, since she was more interested in her mother’s power, so Etihw trained her, enabling Revlis to use her mother’s power.
Even though they both noticed that they were growing much faster than everyone else around them, and that their skin wasn’t snow-white, they didn’t care, since they both felt at home alongside the rest of that world.
However, their future would change forever.
Since neither of them were angels or demons, but rather belonged to an different species, they were not under Etihw’s jurisdiction, so she was unable to sense them in that world, unlike the rest of the angels.
This would give them plenty of freedom to explore the surroundings, during which Revlis would come across an area that seemed to emanate a dense aura and appeared to be sealed off.
However, behind that seal, she would simply knock on it as if it were a door, only to be met with another knock and a girl’s voice coming from the other side.
Revlis would strike up a friendship with whoever was on the other side, who would introduce herself as “Olivia,” and she would become her best friend even though they couldn’t see each other for obvious reasons.
As time went on, Revlis would get to know Olivia better; she would explain to her what the other side was like, and she would learn of the existence of the Demons.
Olivia would explain to Revlis that she wasn’t a demon, but a human who had come to that place because she wanted to be with her father, who had died and been reincarnated as a demon, but with his memories intact.
Revlis, intrigued but aware that revealing it might not be a good idea, decided to keep quiet about the matter, at least to the angels and her mother.
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One day, while she and Yerg were sitting by a lake, Revlis told her brother about Olivia and the demons, and he was fascinated by the topic.
At that moment, an idea occurred to Yerg, one that, unbeknownst to him, would change not only their own fate, for better or worse, but that of the entire world.
Seeing that Revlis was talking about this Olivia as his sister’s best friend, and realizing that the two of them had never actually met in person, Yerg came up with the idea of freeing the demons and uniting the two of them so that she and Olivia could be together as best friends.
However, even though this might seem like a wonderful and even innocent idea from her perspective, it would end up changing her life and her sister’s.
When he told his mother, Etihw, and asked if she thought it was a “great idea,” his mother showed no apparent reaction.
To her, demons were a cursed plague, just look at Wodahs, who was one of them and was betrayed by his own kind, and is now an angel.
She, still with that cold stare but with a tremendous rage boiling inside her, would punish her son in a way that seemed like brutal revenge, yet would not kill him.
Yerg would offer no resistance to this, mainly because of his noble nature, which would prevent him from fighting his mother, who, fed up with it all, would say to him in a cold voice, “If you want to be with the demons so badly, I’ll let you be locked up with them.”
In this way, Yerg would be taken to the place where the seal was, which would be opened briefly, and as if he were trash, he would be thrown into that place.
This would mark the beginning of the apparent end...
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All the angels, though devastated by this, especially Ciel, couldn’t say a word; they could only accept what had happened and see him as a traitor to the boy who had spent years there.
But above all, Revlis would be devastated by what had happened.
She cherished and loved her brother dearly, seeing him as a role model and finding hope in him and his innocent yet joyful smile, but now... He wasn’t there.
He wasn’t in that world to accompany her with the bond they had both formed. Although she still had her loved ones, the feeling of loneliness would be so great and agonizing that it would begin to change her forever.
Etihw would focus her attention on Revlis, treating her daughter as her one and only true daughter, a decision that, though Etihw didn’t know it, would only cause something to begin forming within Revlis that would become a danger greater than herself.
Hate.
Although Revlis had lived happily with her mother her entire life, now, because of what she had done, a hatred and resentment began to grow within her, more intense than a red-hot metal bar.
She began to grow increasingly cold and withdrawn, which alarmed all the angels she spent time with, making them wonder if what had happened was truly affecting her deeply.
Despite everyone’s efforts, Revlis didn’t seem to be cheering up.
Because it was something that couldn’t be fixed when it was shattered into a thousand pieces.
However, during that time, Revlis would improve the magic she had inherited from her mother, becoming much more capable of wielding it than before her brother’s exile.
Some thought it was simply to push that event out of her mind, as if it were a way to escape that pain, but the reality is quite disconcerting, isn’t it?
She hadn’t improved her magic just to forget what had happened; rather, she wanted to improve her magic to do something that seemed like madness, and in fact, it was, to a large extent.
She felt helpless seeing that no one wanted to confront Etihw about what he had done, so if no one was going to do anything...
She would have to do it with the help of the demons.
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Revlis planned to break the demons’ seal to set them free, and to kill her mother in revenge.
Even though this was madness, and would endanger her loved ones, she didn’t care about anything anymore at this point.
She had lost the most precious thing in her life: her brother, the person who understood and supported her the most. And the fact that everyone else did nothing didn’t help.
She no longer cared about those people; she saw them as slaves who were forced to follow a mad goddess, her mother. So it would be SHE who would put her mother in her place.
One day, seemingly without anyone noticing, she would leave the castle and run to the site of the demon seal.
The time had come for her plan to begin; her revenge against her mother had to start, as she could no longer bear her brother’s absence.
But then, something would happen that would change everything.
She would arrive at that place, where she used to talk to that Olivia she had never met in person, the place where her brother had been banished, the place where she saw hope for an end to her suffering...
That place where... her brother would come out of there...?
She would try to use her magic to break the seal, which, being the same as her mother’s, would apparently have an effect.
Or so it seemed, because something unexpected would happen.
Her brother, the person for whom she was doing all this, would come out of there as if in a flash.
Revlis’s reaction would be obvious; she would immediately run to hug him and cry on his shoulder.
However, Revlis didn't expect what was about to happen.
After the siblings were reunited, Yerg asked her what she was doing there, to which Revlis explained her plan to her brother: to free the demons and destroy their mother.
But this was something Yerg would not accept.
Yerg would show that he still wanted to convince their mother to unite both sides, since, in fact, he had promised all the demons that he would get them out of there and that they wouldn’t have to fight, but rather be able to unite both races to live in peace.
Their first-ever argument would begin, as their ideals were so diametrically opposed that the situation would become extremely tense.
Yerg would still want to end the conflict peacefully without spilling blood, since that was something he had promised his sister, to make it possible for her to see Olivia.
However, in the middle of the argument, tragedy would strike Revlis right before his eyes.
Yerg would be attacked from behind with several sharp stones from Etihw and several swords that would pierce him or inflict serious cuts.
For obvious reasons, Yerg would fall to the ground, bleeding out from the brutal wounds on his body, at which point Revlis, though in a state of shock, would kneel beside his brother.
He would simply look at Revlis, asking her forgiveness for having to witness his death in that way, but that no matter what happened, he would tell her his final words, which would torment her and ultimately break her:
“I know that one day both races will be able to live together in peace.
I know that will happen, because even if it takes thousands of years, sooner or later it will happen.
That’s why I want you to know that, even if we are separated, we will always be brothers.”
And so, Yerg, that boy who fought to the very end to fulfill his sister’s dream, would die...
Amid the tension, Revlis couldn’t even weep inconsolably over what had happened; rather, she would rise and, with a gaze as cold and full of rage as her mother’s, would simply stare at that loathsome being she couldn’t even consider her mother, but then, she would begin to glow so intensely that the very ground would start to tremble.
She had already fallen into complete madness at the sight of the death of the person most important to her right before her eyes, the death of her brother.
She no longer cared what might happen to her; now, she wanted only one thing.
To make that goddess suffer at any cost.
She had decided she would do anything to destroy her mother, no matter the cost, so that is exactly what she would do.
She would use all her magic to make that place tremble, and suddenly...
A blinding flash of light would erupt at the scene, leaving everyone, including Etihw, temporarily blinded. As their vision cleared, they would notice something that would initially confuse them, but would later leave them stunned.
Revlis and her brother’s lifeless body had vanished.
Realizing this, Etihw would come to understand that Revlis had sacrificed her own body, using it as a catalyst for her magic.
Possibly due to the magnitude of that action, Yerg’s body would have disappeared as well as a result, or so she thought.
There was only... a bloodstained sword where Yerg had died.
However, the terror for the angels was only just beginning.
Completely oblivious to what had happened to the two boys, they wouldn’t realize that the seal had finally been broken, and that, from that spot...
A hand would begin to emerge, rising slowly, which Etihw and Wodahs would recognize as the devil of that place. Kcalb.
A horde of demons following the Devil Kcalb emerged from that dark, dense place, and although, ironically, the angels seemed terrified by what was happening, the demons appeared to be just as shocked as the angels, as all the demons fixed their gaze on that bloodstained sword, which they recognized as Yerg’s sword.
That boy, who had given them a glimmer of hope that things would get better, had failed...
The demons would go from being in shock to displaying a terrible rage reflected on their faces, especially Kcalb, who would be more furious than anyone.
Despite everything, that boy who had managed to win the demons’ affection was murdered by his own mother, a deed he would see as utterly abhorrent and unforgivable, compounded by the confinement she had imposed on him and his people.
There was no doubt about what would happen.
That event known as the Great War would begin.
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The blood spilled by the loved ones of those two boys would be scattered all over the place.
Almost everyone, except for Etihw, Kcalb, Wodahs, and Grora, would perish in that war.
A war caused by those two boys who were neither angels nor demons.
However, against all odds, and despite everything, the war would finally come to an end.
For after so much bloodshed and death, after all that turmoil... calm would have set in.
The war would end, and Etihw and Kcalb would decide to make peace and start over together, now in another world, which Etihw would take charge of creating.
However... there was something she had to do.
After all the conflict, she would pick up Yerg’s sword, which was still there.
That boy who had been her son, whom she had treated like trash and who was now dead, would make her feel such excruciating guilt that it would bring her to tears.
In the end, she would decide to take that sword to the new Gray Garden and leave it planted in a place that would mark the beginning of that new world.
Thousands of years would pass... Etihw would have changed and would have ensured that all the dead could be reincarnated into new beings, as we well know, but...
Something very strange would happen to that sword.
Beneath it, a withered tree would grow, but it would wrap itself around the sword, trapping it in the tree’s crown and roots.
It’s worth noting that Etihw decided to seal that sword with some of her power to prevent anyone from removing it normally, making it seem impossible, but she hadn’t anticipated that something would begin to form beneath that sword, from the person she thought of every time she saw that piece of old metal.
What she didn't know, and hadn't anticipated either...
Was that, in that sword, her adopted son's soul would remain there in some form.
When Revlis sacrificed his body, his brother’s corpse disappeared as well, but what no one knew was that, in reality, Yerg, as an unforeseen consequence, had ended up inside the sword, now existing as a spirit within it. And as mentioned, since he is not under the jurisdiction of any god, because he is a human, no one can see or sense him...
But... what happened to Revlis?
If Yerg ended up in that sword...
Revlis should be there too, right?
She... isn’t there?
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In that ancient place...
That place, abandoned thousands of years ago, seems to hold nothing.
There is nothing visible to the eye.
But there is something there.
The spirit of a girl who still lives there, tormented by her hatred and resentment toward her mother.
A girl tormented for life.
That girl who became the FATE of that place.