Secre: Huh? This dream again?
Secre looks around the ruined place where bunch of people are fighting here and there, she could see and hear but her movements were all out of her control. A figure with a blurry face wearing a witch hat above her long purplish-pink hair looks at her while a cat made of yarn stare at a guy who is floating in front of them.
???: We are counting on you nero.
Secre nods and turns around, she begins casting a spell on a wierd wall alongside a few others while a bunch of people try to hold off a single person with a scale in hand from attacking.
Secre: ' it's this dream again, i ha- WAIT... Nero? Did I just hear her?' *her focus heightens as she looks around for anything of notice* 'is that.. the bounty hunter?'
As secre focused more, the blurry face of a person with blond hair and lightning covering his body slowly subsides to match the face of luck.
Luck: Is that all you got?
???: Quite arrogant words for a mortal insect.
Secre: 'woah.. what is this spell?'
Secre watches through the eyes of her dream version as the wall slowly begins changing throughout the dream before a swirling portal appears, something shoots through like a arrow and next second the floating guy with horns was on the floor with a deep black slash wound running down his chest.
???: Thank you everyone... I will take it from here.
The figure raises his sword and soon a burst of energy showers into everyone, secre felt a surge of energy throughout her body while relief flooded her mind.
Nero°: Thank God you are here... Asta.(To differentiate between them I added ° for nero)
Secre: 'eh? Asta?' *focuses on the figure's face*
The face slowly clears away and reveals the face that Secre recently met. The next second everything turned black as everything became devoured by darkness while painful thought spreads throughout her mind.
Nero°: 'What is this place? Where is everyone? I don't feel my body. Somebody save me.. help me. Asta.'
A unknown time in a endless Darkness with only loneliness that secre didn't experience before.
Secre: ASTA.
Secre comes out of her dream to find herself laying down in a unfamiliar room with a hole in her clothes around her abdomen. A person slams open the door and comes in with what appeared to be wet folded cloth used for cleaning wounds.
Asta: You are awake,*comes closer and tries to check her temperature by touching her forehead* I was worried for a second that the effects were still there. all that high fever y-
Secre quickly grabbed asta by his arm pulled him onto her, she hugs him tightly while shivering from fear and loneliness. Her vampire instincts activate and she subconsciously bit Asta at the neck. The pain paralyzed asta as it directly hit the nerves.
Asta: 'THE HECK IS GOING ON?' *tries moving his body but to no avail* ' I can't move.. and this pain'
Secre: *slowly backs away* Where am I? What is this place?
Secre looks around when suddenly a strong headache comes, she fells to her knees while clutching her head with a pained expression. The memories of the secre in her dreams, through only partial comes to her mind and digs their way in.
Secre: This.. I am nero? What happened back there. I need-
Nero quickly turns around to see Asta laying on the bed with no movement, his breathing has reduced to half the frequency it was and his eyes are blanked out.
Nero: Asta? What the hell is going on here? Why are you in my- *notices the bite mark on his neck and quickly flowing out blood* Did i bite him?
Another shock comes to her mind, the emptiness of the void and her unknown years of loneliness enter her mind alongside her memories as secre Se auguilus this time.
Nero: Gragh *she leans against the wall while clutching her head* STOP. MAKE IT.STOP.
Some minutes later the pain slowly subsides and nero looks down while panting,her complexion pale and a bundle of jumbled emotions in her heart. She barely stands up with effort and lays beside asta while drinking his blood.
Nero: ' just How did he remember me when we meet last time? What happened exactly?'
After having recovered her energy by drinking blood, nero casts a small amount of sealing magic to stop the bleeding.
Nero: Asta. *Nudges him* Oi wake up already, I know this isn't enough to make you faint.
Even after constant nudging Asta didn't wake up, his complexion got more and more pale and nero's expression gets more and more panicked.
Nero: Oi wake up*grabs him by the collar and shakes him* I don't like joke you are doing... *Her expression turns to one of horror as she quickly brings out her grimoire and scans asta* Sealing magic: sense takeover.
Nero felt an absurd amount of pain from the neck that spread to her entire body.
Nero: The nerves!!
Just as she begins panicking, a low grunt comes from asta.
Asta: Urgh.. *his eyes slowly return to normal and he forcefully makes himself sit while having a pained expression on his face* This pain.. did you have to bite me so hard, I was one inch away from dying the-
Nero jumps into Asta's arm while crying and sobbing, Asta through confused decides to comfort her and begins patting her on the back.
Asta: Why are you crying when I am the one pain?
Nero: I. thought I lost. You again.
After a minute of sobbing, nero wipes away her tears and looks at Asta with a smile. She realised she was too close to asta and slowly backed away to the other side of the bed while maintaining her poker face.
Nero: Asta. What happened to us? What was that darkness?
Asta: Huh? You remember?
Nero: I saw it in my dream just now, I saw everyone disappear and me floating in darkness with no body and control over myself except my thoughts.
Asta: *sigh* it's a long story. Let's go get luck first. He is sleeping down stairs alongside his new buds.
Nero: Those bounty hunters? Atleast his personality is still the same.
Nero and asta together went downstairs and helped up the sleepy crew, Asta goes into the kitchen and prepares some food while nero looked completely zoned out.
Nero: You learnt to cook?
Asta: Not just cooking, I am a runesmith, a grimoire maker, a knight and a good merchant in the streets.
Nero: *mouth opens so wide that her jaws almost split* So much? I refuse to believe that brawn brain asta can do something like that.
???: I call lie.
From behind luck comes in with a plastered hand and multiple bandages on his body.
Luck: Stop trying to be smug asta, we both know you are lying.
Asta: You also regained your memories?
Luck: Yup.
Asta: in a dream where you ended within a endless Darkness?
Luck: Eh how did you know?
Asta: *chuckles and slow focused on the food for now* We will talk later at my workplace, go get cleaned up I will get the food ready.
Nero: But y-
Asta gives her a confident stare that she remembers quite well but this time there is more than just bravery behind those eyes. She and luck relents and goes to get themselves freshed.