[TW: Gore, death, overall ickiness]Red eyes fluttered open, peering into the darkness that she had been pulled down in to. She blinked a few times, trying to gather her bearings. As her vision adjusted, Leto realized where she was... There were mirrors everywhere. Black, and mirrors, and more black. Sitting up, Leto swallowed and pushed herself to her feet. As she took a few steps towards one of the mirrors, her bare feet echoed throughout the emptiness.
"...Hello?" Her voice was quiet, but it was her own, the familiar accent causing her to sigh with a hint of relief.
Her fingertips touched the cool surface of one of the full-length mirrors and she pushed, expecting it to liquefy as it usually did. Instead, she met resistance. Her brows furrowed with frustration and she turned to try and push through the next mirror.
And then another.
And another.
And every time, nothing happened.
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She saw the back of her head first, and it had Leto hopeful. "Mintaka?," she called out to the girl with the head of white hair. When the girl turned to face her, Leto took a cautious step backwards. Her eyes moved to glance at the box that she held, then back up to meet her gaze. Leto shook her head slowly, taking another step backwards.
"No, please don't," she began to plead.
The girl smiled wickedly at her, slowly lifting the lid with one hand. More blackness oozed out of the box and like the fog she had seen earlier, it moved towards her, curled around her feet, surrounded her. Her eyes closed and she shook her head frantically. "No," her arms wrapping around herself tightly. "No," she repeated once more. The room was silent.
Slowly, she opened her eyes and choked back a sob. The room was filled with her failures, both as a Senshi and as a normal, teenage girl. Her father was craddling her mother's body in his arms after she had taken her own life when her daughter was presumed dead. Her former teammates of the Blood Moon Court- including Scylla, tenderly holding the dead body of the agent she killed to protect her. Dioptase. Wolframite. Rota. Europa. The Senshi she had awakened into her own Court and abandonned. Navi, standing proudly with that ******** Knight that made every inch of her being furious. Chariklo. Her girlfriend with their children- children that weren't really
hers because she couldn't even provide that for her herself.
Leto backed away from the growing group of people she had disappointed, only to back into one more person. She jumped, startled, and spun to meet grey eyes. Ares glared down at her, scowling, and with one swift movement a knife met Leto in the gut.
Red eyes welled with tears, her lips parted enough to sob. She stumbled backwards, blood pouring from her abdomen. And then she fell backwards, down
down
down
into the darkness once again.
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