DanMachi: The Rise Of Death.

"My body is missing pieces, I wish I could remember."

Jerome looked at his status for nearly half an hour, his mind glued to his level up and rye new skills he had gotten. Slowly pieced things together, Jerome hoped that the void he had teleported to was hos own and the room he was currently in was a soul prison his body had made for the Silver back.

As if awakening to Jerome's thoughts, the chains squeezed the beast again, the same yellow vapour that had appeared before Jerome lost control appeared again, flowing directly into Jerome's body.

Unsure as to what he had to do to activate warp, Jerome left the room with the pained silver back and entered what he believed was the central chamber to his void. As he was wondering about the true nature of the void he was in, a small circle appeared in the centre of the chamber, intrigued Jerome approached it, reaching out his fingers to touch it.

As soon as his fingers made contact with the small circle, it exploded in a giant blast that threw Jerome back across the chamber, slamming him into a pure black wall. Powerful forces began flowing out of the circle, pinning Jerome in place, the circle slowly expanded until it resembled a portal big enough for someone to walk through, once the shape was complete, the portal stabilises and the force pinning Jerome down vanished.

Amazed and confused, Jerome approached the portal and was s.u.c.k.e.d through it, before he knew what hit him he fainted, 30 minutes passed and he finally awoke, in the guild hall in Orario. A beautiful Half Elf with a slim body, pointy ears, shoulder length brown hair and emerald coloured eyes, with glasses on was standing over him when he came too.

Confused Jerome forced himself up and took a few steps away from the half Elf and asked" Where am I? This is clearly not the Elven land known as the Irothon Woodland."

The Half Elf looked at Jerome as if he was insane saying in a serious manner" The Irothon Woodland was destroyed 500 years ago during a war with Ares, you knew that right? Where did you come dorm? You literally just appeared in the guild hall half an hour ago, unconscious and unable to move."

As Jerome went to speak, his mind began aching again, his mind became crippled by pain and he instantly passed out. As his body began to shut down again, he heard the Half Elf say" Hello, can you hear m" before everything went quite.

His mind began to dream, of home, of events that transpired 1000 years ago and specifically the Jaded Crown.

Jerome knew the scene he was looking at well, this was the day that everything he had spent his life working towards crumbled into nothing at the hands of Ares and his army. Outside the castle Varmosa on the Samorisia plain, he lost a son and his families legacy, within the castle he lost his wife, daughter and the symbol of his family for the last 2000 years, the Jaded Crown.

Jerome saw himself leading his wife, a tall woman with long flowing red hair, it flowed down to her h.i.p.s, her body was so perfect it is said she would blind men, simply by entering the room. Other than his wife, he was leading his daughter, Jasmine, a short girl who inherited her mother's hair and physical features, into a tunnel, he told them that he had to put his families crown in the throne room quickly so that the exit would close, as soon as he left the tunnel, the door slammed shut, leaving Jerome pressed up against one side while his wife and daughter were 'safe' on the other.

Jerome shakily said " Yennifer, you need to abandon the castle, take Jasmine and run, it is too late for me, Sirius is already in formation at Samorisia, if I do not meet up with him there, our army will be slaughtered. This is where we part ways my love, I hope the rest of your life is long and fruitful."

Yennifer started smacking the door and screamed "You bastard, open this f.u.c.k.i.n.g door now, you told me we would die together, why? Why are you breaking our promise now? You said we would be together for ever, I don't want to live without you."

Jasmine began trying to persuade her mother knowing the extent the gods would go to, to get at her father. "Mum, Dad is an evil bastard for doing this but he is right, we have to leave now, these tunnels should lead us to safety, no one but us and dad know that they exist."

Yennifer ignored her and continued pleading with Jerome "Let Me In, Please Jerome, you promised!!!!"

Jasmine tried once more, "Come on Mum, there is no way for us to open the tunnel door back to the throne room from here, we need to leave. Gods themselves are coming after Dad, he is doing what is best for us."

Seeing that Yennifer would not back down Jerome simply said"Jasmine you take good care of your mother, it is time for me to go, do not let our line end with us. More importantly, live a good life for me."

Jerome then walked back towards his throne, removing his crown, he opened a section of the floor in the castle which lead to a deep hole. he threw the crown into the hole and said" I hope that crown doesn't remain empty for ever, I hope that our family will rise once more."

Jerome then fixed the floor, picked up his sword that was leaning on the throne and headed out of the Castle doors, towards his destiny, the battle of Samorisia.

Jerome awoke form his dream, he glanced around the room he was in, it appeared to be some sort of infirmary, deciding that he needed to go home and attempt to recover his crown, Jerome rose to his feet and left the Infirmary as he went to leave, the Half Elf shouted" Where do you think you are going? No one has cleared you as ok to leave yet."

Jerome slightly turned to her and said" I need the Jaded crown, I need to go home."

As he walked out of the door he was ambushed by an extremely surprised Jansa and Almeria, they both ran up to him and hugged him tightly however against their expectations, Jerome shrugged them off and said" I'm leaving for my home as soon as I have armour, you are welcome to join me if you wish, you may also leave the Familia now and be truly free, the choice is yours. My home is far away and as soon as I get there I plan to start a lot of trouble, you would at risk of death almost consistently."

The girls both looked at him with anger before saying" Of course we are coming with you, if not for us you would have died, you owe us."

Jerome laughed at this and said" Do either of you know where I can get some good armour?"

Jansa smiled and said" We made friends with a smith in the Hephaestus Familia, she is level 4 and works in the tower, we can take you there now if you want?"

Jerome patted her head and said" That would be great Jansa, thank you."