'What is this?' Austin muttered as he looked at the darkness around him.
It looked familiar yet eerie and unsettling as if there was something lurking in the dark.
Although he couldn`t see anything at the moment, he could still feel and sense his powers still intact, not like before when his mother-in-law pulled him through that portal.
'Where am I?' he asked himself again as he began walking. He could feel a solid ground underneath his feet though it looked as if there wasn`t. The place was clearly very different and new to him, but he couldn`t put his finger on what kind of place it was.
'Did I lose consciousness or something? Or am I dead?' He wondered again with a thoughtful tone while walking.
He had different feelings about death this time. Before, he didn't consider it as to him death was just something inevitable, destined to happen, but now after having people who loved and cherished him, he began having some doubts about his past thoughts, just the thought of them being devasted because of his death made him feel unwell and bad.
He didn't like it. He loved them all so much to make any of them sad or cry because of him, and the worst thought was something he didn't like to imagine.
And as he was thinking like that, he noticed a movement at the corner of his eyes, something was moving and appeared to be coiling around him like a serpent, but everything was dark and black so that he couldn`t perceive its shape and length.
He could see faintly the shininess of its dark black scales moving and could hear a hissing sound coming from every direction as if it wasn`t one but many.
'What the hell is this?!' He asked inwardly with a surprised yet confused expression on his face. He couldn`t understand anything of what was happening.
He didn`t remember when he had appeared here or what he was doing before coming here, it felt like as if there was something blocking his memories making him look confused.
Hisss…..
The hissing sound continued coming from all directions and it was getting louder so it felt uncomfortable as if something was messing up with his mind trying to control him or whatever shit it was trying to do.
"S…Stop!" He said feeling so uncomfortable by the sounds that seemed to only get louder. It was unbearable that his face contorted into a painful and annoyed expression.
He covered his ears with his hands trying to make the sounds tune down a bit but it didn`t as it seemed that the sounds were in his head.
"It`s…so…fucking...annoyingـــــUgh, fuck!" he cursed as he went down on his knees trying his hardest to endure the sounds but to no avail.
Hisss….
The hissing sounds increased another notch again as if their numbers increased making it very difficult for Austin to stay sane as it was driving him mad like that.
Then in between these hissing sounds, an ancient voice that belonged to a woman sounded in a way that seemed to fade and come.
"It comes and go, the urge."
"Who….are….you?" Austin muttered with difficulty as he clutched his head.
"Discomfort brings annoyance, annoyance brings anger…" the voice continued making Austin even more confused but more than that, he only got angry and annoyed.
"The truth you decide to ignore shall bring your fall…"
"What? What do you….mean?!" He asked while struggling as he groaned in pain again because of the increasing hissing sounds.
He didn`t understand anything of what was happening or what that voice was saying, everything he felt and heard felt so strange, yet it resonated deep inside him, like an echo.
Then it came again, this time with finality.
"The past you threw, shall become the present you live. No more loss, no more…death!"
As the last words echoed, the sounds disappeared, everything became quiet, eerily quiet, like before. As if nothing had happened, but Austin was the change that came out of the darkness.
He was still on his knees, but looked quiet, calm in a very dangerous way. His golden hair covered his eyes while his hands fell to his sides. Looking down, he didn`t make any movement, untilـــــ
"Wake up from your very long and deep slumber, the one who ruled the darkness and spread madnessــــــ The Sleeping Chaos!" As the ancient voice sounded again mixed with many other voices looking so disturbing, a water drop hitting the surface echoed before a change began to occur.
Suddenly, Austin`s golden hair turned to black, so dark that seemed to suck in the light at the visible rate noticeable to the naked eyes, while his crystal blue eyes turned to the same color with two white glowing dots in them.
A wide smile spread across his face as he slowly stood up looking at his own hands.
"What a great come back~" he said with an amused smile as he looked around at the darkness.
"Hmm…So good~"
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At the same time on earth.
In Austin`s house, at Kouh town.
There was a great gathering of his wives from Lilith to Asagi, Shiranui, Amanda, even the pregnant Tina who despite her state decided to come once she heard about what happened to her husband, Carla Cromwell was also there along with Ereshkigal, Marjaana, Akiyama Rinko, Ingrid, Aishawarya Lai, Sakura, Scathach, Ephilidis and more.
They all came when they heard that Austin had disappeared into a weird black portal that appeared out of nowhere.
All of them were worried except Freya and Selena (2B), both looked very nervous as they knew what was going on with him as their mother told them in advance.
At first they objected, but with their mother`s 'persuasion' they agreed.
Rias, Akeno and the rest of the peerage along with Grayfia and Venelana also came.
Sirzechs and his father along with Issei and Kiba also came, but seeing and feeling the dangerous aura coming out of those women, they decided to step out and go to another place to bond together.
"So, what exactly happened to my dear?" Asagi asked with a serious expression making her look like the center of the harem.
"I…I don`t know. It happened when didn`t expect it." Amanda said looking down as she held Nezha in her arms, hugging her as if she was an anchor keeping her from going crazy.
Silence descended.
Rias and Akeno looked around at the women who looked incredibly beautiful and sexy with bodies that rivaled theirs and even surpassed them. It was amazing how Austin could gather these kinds of women with different personalities together.
Though they didn`t mind, but the number was just….big.
They wanted to have a good talk with them and bond together, same thought of Venelana, but they decided to leave it for another time as it wasn`t suitable for now.
Grayfia didn`t care about anything but Austin as although she looked expressionless from the outside, she was deeply worried about him from the inside that she wanted to go and look for him but where?
She didn`t know where he went leaving her helpless.
"I think we know what happened to darling." Then in this deep suffocating silence, the voice of Freya came like a lifeline. Selena was beside her, both having serious expressions ready to reveal the truth.