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𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘆 •︎ Il Dottore x Male Reader

This is Chapter 1. You can read the prologue here. Or the full book here.

"What this is magnificent..." was all Dottore could utter as he wandered around in the forsaken temple. The temple was in pristine shape, considering it was abandoned and deep underneath Sumeru's golden sands you'd think the sacred place would be damaged. Yet it was in perfect shape. Dottore could not help but touch the pillars of the entrance. Between the pointed arches, flying buttresses, and the ribbed vaults. Dottore was left in awe. He took in the sheer majesty of these marble walls and pillars.

"Lord Dottore? Shall we move on?" Interrupted the Fatui captain.

"Give me a minute, woman."

"A-apologies I-"

"Stop your buffoonery, Viva. Let us move on." Dottore huffed as he began walking down the grey marble halls. The walls were dripping with secrets and power, and Dottore was planning to get to the bottom of it.

Every step the two took made them tremble, maybe it was the excitement, or maybe it was the feeling of such a strong presence in the temple. Whatever it was, it made them shiver with anticipation.

With great anticipation, Dottore walked up to the stone doors and stopped to admire them. The stone doors had a garden carved into them and were in pristine shape. Dottore ran his fingers against the doors before clearing his throat and pushing the doors open.

As Dottore walked into what looked like a sanctuary, it was dark and dimly lit, the only thing providing light was two candlesticks that held purple flames. The candlesticks were on the sides of a 10ft statue of an elven woman. The statue looked so real as if an elven woman had turned to stone amidst her dance. In one hand she held an empty lantern while in the other hand held a blade. The elven woman was beautiful, with long hair that touched the ground, and tattoos that covered her body.

Said tattoos looked like markings or more like a foreign language to Dottore. Or maybe he was reading too far into this.

Dottore, as he moved to approach the statue, something on the floor of the sanctuary caught his eye. A purple chalk circle, that is behind the statue.

Dottore moved the candlestick on the left side to the chalk circle so it would form an 'L' with the statue and other candle. As soon as it happened the two candles blazed a hundred times brighter and every other candle that was in the temple became lit. The temple looked stunning, due to the proper lighting, and Dottore could not help but feel like a kid in the candy aisle as he moved away from the statue to inspect the lit-up temple.

Viva had suddenly gasped, "Lord, Dottore, the statue!" She said with awe.

Dottore swiftly turned around to see the statue of the elven woman, the tattoos that covered her body had glowed a bright vibrant color. Suddenly the stone lantern became lit, holding a firey purple blaze that rivals any of the flames that came from any other candlestick.

Suddenly the ground began to shake, as the flooring underneath the shadow of the lantern began to crack. Something began to emerge out of the ground. A Gateway that was similar to that of the Spiral Abyss, but instead of holding that familiar Khaenri'ah symbol atop, it was an image of a tiara that was ablaze.

"Lite the fire now this day, or turn thy gaze down in shame.

After all thy burden is heavy, but thy reward shall be great."

A voice cried out before the temple stopped shaking. The portal now sat just a few mere inches underneath the statue's lantern, as the bright flame went out in the lantern.

Dottore soon stood up as he dusted off his clothes, "Viva get up won't you, we have work to do, don't you see!?" Dottore snapped at the frightened Fatui captain as she bounced to her feet.

"Right! Apologies Lord Dottore!"

After hours of inspecting every nook and cranny of this temple, Dottore came to a sure conclusion. The candlesticks on the walls move, there are exactly 12 in the temple, every time one of the candlesticks is rotated, Dottore can hear a mechanism move. It's just a matter of getting the right order.

"Alright Viva, I've figured out your errors.

Move 7 two clicks to the right,

Then rotate 2 a complete 170 degrees,

11 and 12 four clicks to the left,

and 4 and 9 one click right."

Viva sighed as she stood to her feet, tired and exhausted from a long day, but that's what you get for choosing to work under Il Dottore number 2 of the fatui harbingers, but a good portion of the time she wishes she took her chance with Pantalone or Arlecchino. And she would be damned if she were to point out that she had been following Dottore's instructions this entire time and these were actually his errors, but only a fool would do such a thing.

With a heavy heart and sore feet, Viva swiftly got to work rotating the candles. After rotating the candles to Dottore's instructions, the stone statue's lantern relit and the portal opened.

"Thank you for your deeds, our Mistress will greatly reward you." a man's voice called out from the other side of the portal.

A butterfly first flew out of the portal and flew right over to Dottore and gently landed on Dottore's gloved hands. The butterfly was beautiful with a blue and white color pattern, reminding Dottore of the Icy snow back in Snezhnaya. The creature was oddly just as cold as the snow, or maybe it was Dottore's mind playing tricks on him. The butterfly was oddly alluring, calling to him, pleading with him to come... to what he couldn't figure out. Or for much less why.

Dottore's thoughts were cut short as the butterfly was murdered right before his eyes. A man wearing a long robe took the butterfly from Dottore and burned it.

"Why did you-"

"You will thank me later if you allow me to explain." The priest said cutting off Dottore.

The elven priest has long blond hair with bright red eyes to go with it. The man held a blooming gold staff. It was embedded with rubies and had budding and blooming roses all over it, With the top of the staff holding a large rose with a flame coming from it, yet it was perfectly fine. He wore a long black robe, the ends, and the sleeves were laced with a golden lining to match a few gold laces and jewels.

"My name is Feno, I am the head priest who runs the temple on the other side of the portal. What you were holding was one of his parasites. We had an invasion of them swarming the temple, we didn't know why until now."

"I see, was the parasite trying to take blood from me?"

"Lord Dottore should we even trust this man, I mean for all we know-"

"Quiet Viva, and know your place. I'm having an important conversation right now, make yourself useful and go pack up our stuff." Dottore snapped angrily at the Fatui agent for interrupting him.

"Yes, Lord Dottore," Viva said with a bow as she walked off.

"Should you be so harsh to your subordinates?" Feno questioned as his heart couldn't help but weep at the harsh treatment he had just witnessed.

"Please get to the point of this conversation, or step aside so I can explore your world."

"Ah- yes! Dottore was it? I hope you didn't interact with it for long the parasite could have done a number of things to you: infect you, poison you, kill you. Did you feel like the parasite was pulling you in? Giving a sort of familiarity with a certain place? Well, it could have been going through your memories stealing information from you. I have no idea why he would be interested in this planet." Feno rambled on.

"Yes, sorry to interrupt, but who is 'he'?"

【︎ᴜᴘ ɴᴇxᴛ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ɪɪ...】︎

「彼」✽

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𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘆 •︎ Il Dottore x Male Reader

This is the prologue of the book on Wattpad, you can read it here

"Why Shouldn't I get rid of you and your incompetent team!? Let me hear your reasons! I'm sure they're just as laughable as your team's performance!"

The deep red hue of blood was all over the man's lab and face, pouring out even more from the victim it came from. The man in question... Il Dottore, the second of the Fatui harbingers, is a madman who dislikes failure. A man with great accomplishments, but has less patience than a grain of salt.

"Lord- Lord Dottore!" The female Fatui captain said in between gasps, attempting to regain her breath. It doesn't help that Dottore's greatsword was impaled through her chest.

"After extensive research, our team found a gateway to another-" The Fatui captain's words were cut off as she coughed up blood.

"To another world!"

Dottore was stunned.. he was quiet for a few moments before he turned to the papers he laid on his desk. The ones he was planning to rip up in her face as he mocked before finally murdering her...

"So.. these papers? Is it the research your team did while you forsaken my own research? I don't believe someone as insignificant as you could do such a thing."

"It's- It's true my Lord! If you would just be gracious enough to give me another chance! I can prove it to you! Under Sumeru there-"

Dottore quickly cut off the Fatui captain, "I do not wish to go back Sumeru. Such foolish people are there, even if I discover an entryway to another planet. They would entirely reject it just because it's my project. Besides, I do not wish to be rejected once more."

"M-my Lord... Lord Dottore if I must insist, will you please, please hear me out and give me another chance to finish this research!"

"Fine continue you have 2 minutes to change my mind," Dottore said as he quickly set a timer and grabbed the project notes to view.

"One moment my, Lord."

The Fatui captain stood up straight and stopped leaning against the counter. She braced herself. Then proceeded to pull Dottore's claymore out of her chest in a swift motion. The movement caused her to vomit up blood and for blood to pour out of her chest too, but after a few moments she stopped bleeding out. Only for the wound to start regenerating and heal. Within a moment's notice, the wound was gone. The only evidence of the wound through her chest was her, bloodied uniform, the bloodied Claymore she was holding, and the man who inflicted the wound.

"As incompetent of a Fatui agent you are, you are one of my many perfect test subjects. This is the only reason that I'm allowing you the chance to reason with me, the reason why you are still alive and not a corpse like the rest of your team. This is the most valuable thing about you. Which goes a long way seeing as you disrespected and blatantly ignored the orders of the brilliant man that gave you such wonderful abilities."

"Yes, and I am forever grateful and indebted to you, Lord Dottore. My sincerest apologies. Permission to begin my reasoning?" The Fatui Captain asked with a bow.

All Dottore did was nod and start the timer.

"Lord Dottore, deep in Sumeru, In the desert, there are ruins of a temple, and within the temple, there are ancient artifacts from another world! And- And a portal to it too! we've almost reopened it, but the last part of the message we haven't finished decoding yet, we do know after we reopen this temple someone will reward us for it on the other side. We believe it's some form of a priest or something! Lord Dottore I beg of you for another chance. I won't fail-"

The timer went off and the room quickly fell silent. The Fatui captain quickly began trembling, but she didn't dare to move or make a sound. If looks could kill it would, Dottore's burning gaze felt sharper than any two-edged sword would feel piercing her skin. The poor, poor Fauti captain was shaken to her core! She could feel her mouth dying up and her heart racing! Her ears were ringing as she could hear the clock on the wall ticking... It was madness! The Fatui captain felt weak in her knees and could feel herself pass out at any moment! But after what felt like an eternity of intense burning silence, Dottore finally cleared the silence for a moment as he cleared his throat, picked up the notes, and started to look through them.

"I'll allow it." Dottore said breaking the silence.

"In fact, I have grown interested in this project, I will be looking into this project. I will be assigning you a team that is far better suited for this project. Grab whatever supplies you require just make note that you have taken in. I'll request permission from the Tsaritsa and we shall leave for Sumeru immediately once my leave has been approved."

"Madame Tsaritsa, thank you so much for approving my leave. I didn't think you'd accept it immediately."

"Yes, I'm oddly interested in this new planet." The Tsaritsa paused to take a sip of her tea. "Could it be maybe this planet is where the traveler came from?"

"Indeed. My faithful previous test subject has even said that someone was waiting on the other side with a reward if we restore the other side of the portal."

"I see, then do not tally here any longer, Go to Sumeru quickly. I presume you'll need funds so I'll arrange it with Pantalone that Tartaglia will bring it to you."

"Hm, I do believe Pantalone has cut down the amount I'm allowed to spend after my previous trip to Sumeru, as he claims that I squandered the funds."

"I shall handle it Zandik, just make sure to arrive swiftly to Sumeru."

"Yes- but Madame Tsaritsa, in all due respect, you know how I feel about that name.."

"Ah, my sincerest apologies, Dottore."

"No, harm done Madame Tsaritsa, I shall be taking my leave now."

"Goodbye, Dottore, I wish you safe travels and fruitful work."

"Thank you, Madame Tsaritsa.." Dottore said before standing up and taking his leave.

"What this is magnificent..."

【︎ᴜᴘ ɴᴇxᴛ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ɪ...】︎

プリースト❃

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