Grandline Koukai: Into the Abyss

Into the Abyss is a Grandline Koukai side story about Silvia and her brother Nyerus' descent into the ranks of the Abyss Pirates.

Synopsis
Scylevea and Nyerus fight the Hydrea.

Story
Scylevea’s eyes traced the down the jagged edge of a deep gorge until the two canyon walls blurred together into a single ominous line, noting the darkening gradient as the water went from a bright azure to midnight to pitch black. It was an example of nature at her finest – simultaneously too beautiful and too terrifying to express.

“That where we’re headed?” She turned to look at her brother, but his gaze was fixed on the immeasurable depths before them with an unsettling grin on his face. Waving her hand in front of him, she tried to grab his attention. “Nyerus?”

“Huh? Oh. Not yet.” Seeming to snap out of the trance, he spoke. “I hear it calling, though. We won’t be able to get through until the other seals are broken and the gates open. Nor will he be able to get out. Even now, I can barely hear him.”

“Hydrea?” Silvia stared at her brother with concern. She’d already come to terms with the absurd chosen one stuff, but the behavior that was accompanying it disturbed her.

“No.” He shook his head, still staring into the abyss. “Hydrea is just a guardian of a being even greater and more ancient. Unjustly imprisoned by the ancient dwellers of land and sky and trapped in an eternal slumber that will only be broken when-”

“Hold on. If it’s sleeping, then how is it talking to you?”  Scylevea raised an eyebrow with a smirk.

“Do you have to interrupt me?" He frowned in return.

“Just answer the question, dummy.” She rolled her eyes.

“His subconscious reaches out to me and I listen.” Her brother shrugged. "I know it sounds absurd, but it's how I've survived this long unlocking the other gates to Hydrea."

“Uh. Huh.” She paused between each syllable to let it sink in. "So where exactly are these gates?"

"This way," He nodded.

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