A young man dressed in rags and cracked armor with a broken sword in hand slowly walked toward a woman cloaked in flame. The young man's form distorted to reveal a figure in white long-sleeved robes approaching a gate

The young man changed to a man wearing a white hooded robe that showed off a pair of earth-colored arms, holding onto a spear as he faced down a massive creature with multiple heads made of water.  

The scene then changed to a man with H/C hair standing in front of a statue of a hooded figure. Dirty fingers with purple/pink lines running over them reached out toward the cube. 

If I lose it all, slip and fall. Will you laugh at me,

A burning hellscape with countless corpses distorted into a lab with several tubes filled with liquid. 

A battlefield littered with countless figures as a lone figure stood over them, his pure white cloak now brown due to the countless blood that covered it before distorting to a field with black dust. 

A frozen battlefield filled with destruction as corpses and ruins surrounded the entire area before distorting to a room with a blonde-haired figure with an ominous smile on their face with a blonde-haired blue-eyed young woman standing by his side. 

If I lose it all, lose it all, ah!

The white-robed figure's face hidden by the shadows smiled as he entered the gate, knowing that he will never be able to go back to how things were for the sake of preservation of all things beautiful, the good and the bad. A lone tear fell from his eyes as he took his place on a throne of stone before closing his eyes.

A figure dressed in elegant and form-fitting attire smiled as he watched as how his ancient foe, Osial, was sealed away without any help from him by his people. A soft smile on his face, as he watched with crossed arms for the children of Liyue, can now stand on their own.

The man with h/c hair, now younger, watched the memories of the original owner of the power he had. "RISE!" A rock pillar erupted from the ground in front of him.

"I will have order!" Three voices as one shouted.

The elegantly-dressed figure and the man with h/c hair crossed their arms as an asteroid appeared from the sky, tearing apart everything on their way. A power that only a god could attain, for what else could summon a disaster that will create a large amount of destruction? The asteroid crushed into the earth, eradicating everything in their paths, while sealing all those that survived its wrath in stone. 

However, the white-robed young man opened his eyes and spread his arms as the entire world around him sang and danced from the great earth below and pierced the heavens as amber chains bound and sealed everything in their embrace, a sheer imitation of the real thing amplified and refined by a young man that will never reach the pinnacle of his predecessor and successor's sheer might and power. 

If I lose it all, slip and fall

 The white-robed figure gasped as he felt the lance on his chest, where his heart was, launched by a woman with beautiful yet deadly eyes. 

I will never look away

The white-robed figure gritted his teeth as he stared down a creature with four legs and a pair of wings, a dragon. Rushing the distance as numerous stone monuments blocked each attack the dragon did 

If I lose it all, lose it all, lose it all

The white-robed figure's eyes widened as his spear was shattered by an ethereal golden greatsword of flames that shattered the barrier in his left hand that he used as a shield and burnt his hood and parts of his robes, leaving him in his tattered clothes as a pair of Shenzhou-style swords pierced his chest, where his lungs would be. 

If I lose it all outside the wall

The man with h/c colored hair defended himself with a circular shield from a kind blade by a woman with wings before it changed to a lance from a floating woman. The scene distorted to show the original owner of the Geo Gnosis nodding at him as a pure-white sleeveless robe appeared over his clothes as he stared down his foe

Live to die another day

The white-robed man tossed his tattered robes as the blades on his chest were pushed out of his body, leaving no scars as a bow appeared in his hand, cyan green melded with the pure dark-shaded amber as a pure white blindfold lined with golden lines appeared over his eye while several spears of amber and stone appeared like a wing on his back. 

I don't want anything

The scene then rapidly changed between the two as the blindfolded man aimed his stone spear as an arrow at the unknown as the blindfold disappeared revealing amber-tinted obsidian orbs while both wind and earth gathered around the spear while pure overwhelming power and divinity coated the man with sleeveless robes as his E/C orbs are now a pure amber with pieces of his H/C hair ending in light brown

I'm just here to

The Blindfolded man let the spear-arrow go. The stone spear soared through the distance between its owner and its target. 

The sleeveless-robed man readied his spear as he moved. 

Both spears, one sharing the combined might of Anemo and Geo with the other having the full force of the archon of GEo behind it, pierced through the unknown.

BEWARE!

The white robes that covered the figure disappeared, revealing the sleeping visage of Cerberus on the stone throne as a wave of pure willpower crushed the countless beasts that had entered the throne room as he remained in his position.

The images then rapidly changed from one another showing the H/C hair of the young man as he faced down numerous Honkai beasts, Herrschers, and even the overseer of Schicksal himself with countless ethereal golden weapons surrounding him as a golden cube floated in front of Otto Apocalypse

The scene then changed to Cerberus smiling as he watched the real successor of Rex Lapis before staring into the form of the Aeon of Destruction, Nanook, and his legion. 

Stopping, the young man looked at his choices,

Destruction or Preservation

Cerberus smiled and without hesitation, chose his answer.

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Whew! Finally done! 

This chapter is the opening for this story as well as a tribute to RexCelestial for allowing me to use his archon reborn's mc in my fics. You're an awesome guy, dude! Hope to read more of your fics in the future! 

Anyway, some of Y/N's parts in the opening are WHAT I THINK will happen to him as well as some headcanon here and there. I do not own RexCelestial's reader OC Y/N but I have permission to use him. 

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See you guys soon! 

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Extra: (If Cerberus somehow manages to return home)

"Mom! Stop!" Theresa Apocalypse ignored the way how her adoptive nephew/son. The young man was trapped in the tight yet loving embrace of the now older form of his mother while she held him in place. 

"This is for letting us worry about you!" Theresa said, ignoring the way how Stelle giggled and how March snapped his photos while both Dan Heng and Welt Yang gave him apologetic looks. 

Cerberus was bound in the chains of Judah while dressed in a magical girl outfit with bunny-ear headbands. His hair was styled in a ponytail while his face was covered in make-up that made him into a splitting yet muscular version of Fu Hua. 

"No! This is not even the worst thing you'll suffer, young man!" 

"Guys! Help!" Cerberus/Rex shouted while Stelle. 

"Can you dress him up in cuter clothes?" Suddenly, Cerberus paled at how ominously his mother and... friend(?) mechanically looked at him. 

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Also, the polls are now over!

Harem - 7 votes

No Harem - 5 votes.

It seems like we will be having a harem for Cerberus