Neither of them knew the why, nor the how.

But they were very bitter enemies just moments prior. So, it was safe to say that they weren't on the best of terms.

Ambesh stumbled to his feet, using the nearby wall to help him as he moved forward. The beast- no Dusek, was nearby, watching him silently.

Ambesh wants to snap at him, tell him to leave and never show his face again, to tell him that he's a terrible, absolutely sick being.

But seeing the utter clarity that filled his eyes when he tasted his blood, ones that were once so filled with madness and hate that it consumed everything around him.

He can't bring himself to do it.

So instead, he settled for utterly ignoring the other. Or at least, trying to. His body feels far to hollow, and his mana pool is so utterly dry that it feels to hard to walk.

But he's been through worse, he thinks. So he can get through this.

Perhaps not.

Dusek watched as his sibling, the seven reflections, fell to the floor again. Tears still streaming down his face. Dusek was surprised, at first.

To see that this was what became of it's incubating sibling, he thought him weak, at first. Before then recalling how that mysterious light absolutely wrecked the fragile balance they had going on.

Even Dusek himself felt it's effect, the pure opposite of his nature. Fare purer than his twin's twisting mirror mana that reflected to be his stalemate, no. What they felt was one of the purest lights Dusek has ever witnessed.

Almost enough to rival Amaterasu's sun, almost.

Dusek doesn't... feel bad, persay. About what he did to his brother. He doesn't feel guilt for trying to devour his soul and kill him, but he does feel like he owes Ambesh something now.

After all, without his blood he wouldn't have regained clarity.

So Dusek slither's forwards, ignoring Ambesh's cries of surprise and frustration to surround him in void, not pulling on his mana nor trying to consume his soul. He slithers out of the temple.

He felt Ambesh freeze up, and even he himself did as well. Seeing the night sky after so long, the real thing, and not just one of Ambesh's attacks. Was rather breath taking.

But Dusek had a sibling to take care of, so he slithered along, and soon enough, despite what he no doubt wanted to not happen.

Ambesh fell asleep.

Dusek huffed good naturedly when he noticed.

Perhaps he could finally connect with one of his siblings. No matter how rocky the start would be.

It was a sudden thing, not to either of their expectations in either of their plans.

The Soul Devouring Mirror, which gained the name because of the void beast Dusek's containment, what was once known as the Thousand Seals Mirror. Broke.

They don't know how it happened, they, a pair of twins locked into an eternal battle of will and magic. One, who wished to consume the other's soul, and the other, wishing to preserve his soul.

Powerful light flooded the mirror, eating away at what was once endless darkness. What light was once only Ambesh's small flame, was suddenly overpowered by pure, radiant light.

Ambesh awoke, sprawled onto the floor and his body leaking blood. He pushed a hand underneath him, the limb shaky as he tried to push himself up, he failed, falling back to the floor with a grunt.

Everything hurt.

The realm of the mirror where pain and feeling of the flesh no longer existed, only the mental agony and calculations remained.

Everything hurt so much.

He was heaving, he realized. His body instinctively trying to get air into lungs that no longer existed, discarded once they were more of a hinderance inside the mirror than a boon.

Everything hurt, and he felt empty.

His vision grew blurred, feeling the some kind of liquid flowing from his eyes and down his face. He chalked that up to blood. Disregarding the pain, he tried to push himself up once more, only to fail once again.

The second fall set his nerves on alight, everything hurt and he still felt empty.

The drain of his magic is no more, he realized. He should feel relieved. But after Father knows how long he spent in that damned mirror unfeeling, pushing down and carefully guarding his soul.

He doesn't feel much of any emotion, he realizes.

out of the corner of his eye he noticed something, something slick and pasty like ink reaching for him, yet darker and darker. His mind flashed, calculations running through his mind about how to use his magic and to force his body upwards to retreat.

Him feeling empty didn't just extend to his physical state he realized. A sense of overwhelming dread filled up his mind and body as he tried to tap into magic which was once plentiful, but now dried up.

His desperation told him to move, and so he tried. He tried, and wiggled. He tried and wiggled, and only wiggled. His body far too weak and his magic to little to even control himself.

Ah. He's shaking.

The blood running from his eyes doubles, sliding down his face as if they belonged to a waterfall.

If he were a lesser being, he would have thought himself to be crying.

But he is Ambesh, the mirror king. So he cannot cry, he is no longer a kit. He isn't allowed to cry.

So he disregards that small feeling and think them blood instead.

His shaking increased as he felt the void gripping onto his leg, slowly, ever so slowly crawling up his body. His pristine, glowing white fur reduced to not even a whisp of light and matted, dirty fur.

He felt it crawling up his body, not yet consuming him. He can feel it though, the familiar feeling of it trying to pull on his magic.

He feels a feeling of spite and amusement when there is nothing to pull on.

The void reached towards his shoulders, and the familiar inky head of that accursed beast appeared in his vision, mad at the fact there is nothing left to feed itself off of.

It surprised him, however. Breaking through his amusement by taking a bite of his shoulder, blood he forgot he even had spilled out and into the beast's maw.

And the beast- no, Dusek, remebered.

*pokes you with a stick

So I had this random thought about an au. So like, take Ambesh and Dusek, but make them this sorta Venom kinda thing.

So this would be more like.... ok so something happened to the Soul Devouring Mirror, which caused Ambesh and Dusek to just suddenly be free of it.

How it happened they don't know.

Dusek just sticks to what he always did, hanging onto Ambesh like a parasite and taking his magic for whatever reason. He doesn't need it to live, since he's been living before without it.

I guess it's just habit now. But anyways, so then Dusek becomes this annoying little parasite but also not parasite thing. He whispers Ambesh to do things like steal people's souls or something.

Ambesh doesn't do that because you know.

Ambesh and Dusek are now just living their lives in the outside world after staying in a blasted mirror for so long. Ambesh is made from a mirror yes, but even he doesn't feel particularly happy about being trapped in one.

Even less Dusek, who has been trapped in there so long he can't even remember what or why he was even there in the first place. It was just so long.

Ambesh and Dusek are twins, so they're gonna have that annoying sibling energy to each other. They'll insult each other on the fly and then ask what they want to eat.

Dusek is a fucking eldritch horror when he wants to be, him being basically a blob helps with that, and since he's void there's just this primal feeling of unease when he makes himself known.

Oh! Dusek may or may not also be living inside of Ambesh.

Ambesh is basically just glass anyway.

...

They'll be fine.

"He is a pussy though-"

"How do you plead?"

"I plead not guilty!"

"We have mul-"

"SIKE. I did that shit no effort, and I would do it again bitch!"

"For your crimes against-"

"I would prefer the term activities"

"-Heaven, you are hereby sentenced to imprisonment."

"NO ONE CAN IMPRISON ME BITC-"

5 minutes later

"You invaded Heaven, fought over 200 heavenly soldiers, threatened The Jade Emperor. Just to goof."

"What can I say, it just be like that sometimes!"

"This is why you're stuck in a mirror."

@sun-wukong-brain-rot @lulu-nightbon

I did it. The reason why he's locked away in a mirror.