In an alternate future... 2048
*Swings, clashes, splashes and smashes disturbs the silence of the eternal night.*
*Flames rise, covering the already clouded skies with smoke and ash. They were burning the remains of a long standing building, it liting up the darkness of that shadow world and giving the war scene the light for eyes to see.*
*Between the flames, shadows and a single Umamusume were fighting for survival. No... actually, the lone Umamusume was hunting the weak shadows that made the bad choice of cornering her alone.*
"W-Wait a minute! We can- we can stop the fire for you! Please! We don't need to be violent here, miss!"
"We were all just hungry!"
"We don't want to hurt you!"
*They spit their nonsense, trying to save themselves from their inevitable fate at that crazy girl's hands.*
ㅡ Shut the fuck up.
*From her black glove, a black oozing liquid comes off and forms itself as a Lance, which pierces trough the closest shadow's stomach since it couldn't identify her between the flames.*
ㅡ S.
"F-FUCK YOU MEAN 'S'??? YOU KILLED MY BROTHER!"
ㅡ Yes. And you're next.
*The lance soon turns into a sword while it still was on her hand, and she slashes trough the shadow effortlessly. The goop of the liquid sword splashes on the ground, slightly mixed with the fake blood of the now extinguished shadow.*
*Minutes after, after many yells and many shadows killed, the grim Umamusume walks off from the burning building. Half of her face... obviously burned and bleeding. She lost her mask inside...*
*She walks off to a nearby dead tree, leaning it to catch her breath.*
ㅡ Ugh... still tiring... even if easy. I lost my mask inside. How will Agnes react with my face like this...?
*Right as she asks herself that, she hears the sound of chains rustling on the ground, approaching slowly and without any tiny bit of fear.*
*Of course... our dark-haired Umamusume catched on to the sounds with a twitch from her ears, and with a sudden surge of energy and highened up guard, she points at whatever was approaching with a gun formed from the strange goop of her gloves.*
ㅡ WHO GOES THERE?!?
*She immediately hesitates when she recognizes... Agnes.*
*Agnes Flame, her child with Dantsu. With 22 years old, exactly the same age of her missing other daughter... Agnes has her hands chained for years, since everytime she breaks them... a disastrous event happens and she loses her sense of self, distorting and attacking anything around her.*
"What is it, mother Cafe...? S-sorry for... coming up behind you without notice. Did you send them off...?"
*...Cafe stared her child for some seconds, when she finally lowers the gun.*
ㅡ Sorry, dear. It's ok. I... finished those off.
*She tries to hide her burnt face from the child.*
"M-mother? Did you hurt yourself?"
ㅡ No... leave me be for a bit, Agnes. I need to... breathe. Its hard to breathe in the middle of all that smoke.
"A-ah... sorry..."
*Cafe leans back to the three, her child waiting paciently right next to her. Her mind wanders for some time, thinking about this world... about where it all went wrong. The people that died to the first wave of the endless shadow invasion... her wifes... and the people that also went missing, like her child Event Horizon, Still in Love- or better, Still in Black, and even Meisho Doto...*
*She soon feels annoyed for not being alone at that moment.*
ㅡ ...Don't you... have anywhere to go, Agnes?
"...No, the others a-actually sent me to check on you, mother... a-and... i kinda miss the times we were alone like this, being able to rest and... calm down from this whole... apocalypse..."
*Cafe goes silent. She felt a slight pinch of guilt... since everything happened, and since she started using these foreign powers to defeat any and every shadow she could, she pushed everyone she loves and who's still alive away... in the hopes that if she die, no one would cry for it.*
ㅡ ...I-... Agnes... just go. I'll be fine.
"B-but! M-mother, i-i... i'm all quiet, i won't say a thing! J-just... let me stay here for a bit longer!"
ㅡ ...Out here is... dangerous. I can't predict how many will come to avenge the 6 shadows i killed on that burning building. If you'll stay here, you'll DIE.
"B-but-"
ㅡ I SAID, GO!!!
*With a flinch, Agnes Flame was too startled to respond to that. She soon bows to her mother respectfully, walking slowly away.*
ㅡ ...
*Watching her child walk away, Cafe picks a device on her pocket. The sound of changing letters are very audible, making even the distant Agnes Flame's ears twitch in reaction to them.*
*Cafe reads what's on the device... and her eyes widen for a moment. Still... she just breathes one more time... and says something barely audible to her child:*
ㅡ Apparently... this is an S for everyone. I was waiting... for this moment...
*She lets her device fall to the ground as she walks away to the opposite direction.*
*The device on the floor... said:*
"Leave everyone you love behind and fight the shadows... until you can't anymore. This is your last prescript."
*...Agnes didn't saw everything... but she heard the letter. S. The most important... and the only important thing she needed to hear at the moment. She runs off to tell everyone about it.*
*Why... is S so important? Because S IS for Sayonara.*
//My fingers hurt.