Control Revamped

Chapter 2

Blood God

It had only been two hours since I unlocked the power to become Scion. I was already in Webb City Missouri, making record time. The whole time, I was afraid that I would turn back into my human self mid-stride and break my legs, but apparently, the transformation was endless. Finally, I slowed down as I reached a house that I recognized only through pictures. The home of my ex-girlfriend, Nicky. I returned to human form, slowly stepped up to the front door, and knocked. Only a few seconds later, the person I had hoped to find came to the door.

She wasn't a skinny girl, but she wasn't large either. She was just right, a girl anyone could like. Her long dirty-blonde, almost brunette hair flowed behind her, but at the moment, was slightly a tangled mess. She looked as if she was slightly in distress, from what I could tell, another fight with her mother, or her sister Tammy. Once she realized who I was, a bewildered look came across her face. "Drew?.. What are you doing here?.."

"It's hard to explain Nicky. Can I come i-" At that moment I saw someone down the hall come out of her room that I hoped to never see. His head was mostly shaved, except for a mohawk that tilted to the side. He was a bit pale, very skinny, but had a threatening amount of muscle on him. His deep brown eyes seemed almost black. From descriptions Nicky had given to me before she broke up with me, I knew who it was. Aedden, her abusive ex-'boyfriend'. And even worse. His shirt was off.

"Who's this punk Nicky?" I glared slightly with disappointment.

"I'm nobody…" I looked over to Nicky, getting a closer look, realizing that she was also a bit sweaty, and her skin was tinted red. "I hope you enjoy yourself Nicky.." I slowly began to walk off, ignoring Nicky as she reached out for me, but her hand slowly dropped back to her side and she shut the door. As I walked further down the street, I thought to myself on how horribly I must have screwed up for her to go back to a guy like him. But as a wallowed in self-hate, a scream rang through the air, and struck me into consciousness. I knew that voice. But I had never heard her scream before. It was Nicky. And despite her leaving me, I still had to save her.

I still loved her.

I quickly ran back to the house, and kicked down the door, then ran to her room to find a disturbing sight. Aedden was overtop of her, pinning her down with one arm as he held quickly held up his other hand in a fist, about to strike, while she cowered beneath. I growled in anger and grabbed his wrist before he could strike, but Aedden turned to me, and I saw something even more frightful. His eyes had turned entirely yellow, and his jaw detached as he shrieked, his cheeks splitting open as a solid flow of gelatinous blood flowed between the tears. He swung his arm and threw me aside, crushing me into Nicky's dresser, doing more damage to my back to add on to what Mecha Sonic had done to me earlier that day.

I grunted in pain, my eyes shut tight. But once I heard her scream again as he was about to strike, my eyes opened wide and a powerful red light emerged from them. Just before his punch landed, there was a hole in the wall and Aedden's mangled body was out on the grass, while I was Scion standing a dozen yards away, knowing that this wasn't the end yet. Aedden's mangled body slowly got back to it's feet, and the blood began to drain from it, hanging in the air as a separate mass, forming a very familiar opponent. Aedden's body went limp again and fell, leaving the apparently long dead body once again immobile, as the one who was controlling it was revealed.

"I was wondering when you'd show up, Chaos." The liquid creature shrieked once again, an earsplitting sound that would normally strike fear into anyone. But not now. If I fell to cowardice now, I would fail. Besides. At the time, I didn't care if I died or not.

Chaos let out the first strike, whipping his right arm in my direction, which I quickly dodged, summoning my katana and chopping a mass of his body off, leaving it a puddle beside me. He then whipped at me with his left, causing me to dodge toward the puddle. That was a huge mistake. I stepped into it, and my foot stuck instantly. The separate mass I had cut from his arm was still part of him, and still alive. Even worse, I was still trying to move once my foot stuck, and I fell back into the mass, landing on my back. I was entirely stuck now. Chaos then pulled the mass in and held me in his expanded hand, preventing me from attacking. It seemed I was doomed.

Chaos could have killed me there and then. But for some odd reason, he didn't. He just held me there, and suddenly, I saw the blade of the katana I had dropped strike through Chaos's neck, slicing off his head, and causing him to become nothing but a puddle. Once I was free, I jumped forward and grabbed Nicky, the one who had swung the blade, and got her away from him before Chaos could attack again. After just a second or two, Chaos had reformed, and let out another shriek. I just glared at him as I walked away form Nicky, leaving her a good distance out of Chaos's range.

"Chaos, You've been stained with the blood of man, and the blood of a criminal. You're no god. You're as mortal as anyone else." I summoned another katana and got myself into position, ready to charge with something a bit more powerful. "And I'll prove it." Chaos shrieked once more, and I suddenly charged at full speed, mach three, and just as I reached him, Chaos was already about to wrap himself around me. Just before the gap closed, I went into a spindash and shattered his defense, shredding him apart and spreading him across the battlefield. I chuckled as I landed, but stopped as I noticed all the scraps of Chaos flying towards me. I ran out of range just in time, before his scraps collided and Chaos reformed.

"You're not gonna make this easy, are you?" Chaos of course couldn't talk, so he just charged at me, extending his arms toward and around me. I leapt just in time to dodge, but then I found that Chaos had the advantage over me while I was in the air. Before I could land, Chaos was already right beneath me, and grabbed my leg. I was swung to the ground and slammed down, then Chaos spun and swung me into the wall, crushing it down, and demolishing a good portion of the house. Before I could get back up, Chaos pulled me in, weakened and beaten, and absorbed me into his body while I couldn't struggle.

He was drowning me. I could feel him trying to seep into me, trying to suffocate me. I knew I was doomed. The last thing I saw before passing out was the red liquid around me falling to a puddle and I dropped to the ground, falling unconscious.