[I have altered Nergal's true form. It's my story, and his natural state will be as I please. Got it? Good! Carry on! Please review.]
Lydia and Lucien watched Nergal go order, which was quite entertaining.
"$8.19?" Nergal concluded.
"Yes, sir."
"$8.19 for this human FILTH?"
"Take it or leave it, kid!"
'Nergy, use thunder! It's super effective! Critical hit!' thought Lucien.
However, Nergal just screamed in frustration and shouted, "I'll just have a freaking cheeseburger with ketchup only!"
Slowly the cashier redid his order. Five minutes later he returned to his friends, looking rather angry.
"He gets scary when he's mad... " Lucien informed Lydia.
"Shut up." Nergal snapped while unwrapping his human filth cheeseburger.
He glared at it.
"What now?" Lucien asked.
"I hate onions!" Nergal answered, sneering at the offensive white chunks of nastyness.
"Eww, me too." Lydia stated.
"Me three. Sick." Lucien added.
"How dare they give me onions…" Nergal hissed. He had said ketchup only! And they just ignored it! Ohh, they would pay…
But then Nergal looked at Lydia.
They couldn't pay. Not with Lydia watching.
She would freak out, and he could not risk that.
Nergal sighed, calming down and picking the onions off his cheeseburger. When he eventually had it somewhat onion-free, Lydia commented while he ate, "Your teeth are like… really cool."
Lucien burst out laughing and Nergal smiled.
After the football game and the ride back to school, Nergal gathered from the band room the books he'd need for homework over the weekend. When he returned to the parking lot, his hands were full carrying books, notebooks, and his clarinet, so he used his tentacles to open the door. He dropped his stuff in the passenger seat, then entered and closed the door of the 1979 z28, black camaro.
The speakers filled the car with wonderful swing jazz as he drove away from the school and over to nearby back roads. He flipped a switch, initiating dark purple headlights that projected a portal in front of the car. He soon passed through it and entered the Underworld.
"YES!"
Nergal jumped, swerving while screaming in surprise. Fred Fredburger had just awakened from a nap and was now sitting up in the back seat, smiling broadly at Nergal Junior in the rearview mirror.
His heart beating furiously from the shock, Nergal reflexively sent out several tentacles to strangle Fred Fredburger, cutting off a comment of, "Do you like nachos? I like na - " Other tentacles opened the back door while Nergal tried to get back on a road and forced Fred out of the car, tossing him in front of it.
"YES!" Fred screamed, only to get crushed under the weight of the car.
Luckily, Nergal made it home without any more near-heart-attack inducing moments. He gathered his things and entered his castle, going up to his room and placing his homework and clarinet case on a desk. He took off his trench coat and went down to the kitchen, grabbing a bag of chips.
Something felt very strange. The house was quiet. Too quiet.
"Mom? Dad?" He wandered around the castle, becoming more nervous by the second. "MOM? DAD?" They were no where to be found.
They ALWAYS informed him of when they wouldn't be home…
I'm overreacting… It's no big deal… But his thoughts shifted to Grim's warning.
It wasn't much longer until a wall near Nergal crumbled upon a forceful impact. He jumped back, gazing up at a giant bat, his ears pained by the creature's screech.
As tall as the castle it was destroying, it had no eyes, but its wings were covered in blades harder than any gem or enchanted mineral, sharper than any abiotic razor.
The impact of the bat's sonic vibrations forced Nergal through several walls, rage and fear sweeping over him. His skin human peeled off in a quick, rippling rip, his body altering into his natural form of a black, wingless dragon possessing dozen of eyes, sharp horns upon his head, and of course, his many retractable tentacles.
Bioelectricity sizzled, flowing over his body. The bat was quick to dodge a slash lashed out by Nergal's talons as he attacked it in his angry, unthinking rage. This thing was destroying half of his house, intruding upon his territory, his home! Anger and fear had clouded his mind, allowing him to unleash the beast he kept chained in his very soul, an unconscious reservoir of all his hate, his anger, his true power!
Such strength, such rage…they both astounded and terrified him, overwhelming his heart. The cumulative emotions from so many years of pain were returning at once, frightening him beyond anything he had ever experienced. His isolation, his depression, his anger, his hatred, his sorrow- everything was present, pulling at his soul.
Sharp pain ripped through him, pulling the pain from his soul until he was enveloped in darkness. He wasn't sure how long he lurked in the abyss of his mind, but he knew he needed to let go of the past and finally release his pain and all that tormented him.
Nergal slowly regained his vision and became aware of the blood streaming from his body, his scales mangled and his heart pounding.
The bat moved with extreme speed, slicing scales while it flew around its opponent.
Nergal hissed and tackled the bat. It seemed to move with the agility of a butterfly! He whipped out several tentacles in an effort to grab it, but it slipped away with such ease every time.
But he had to destroy this. It had become more than a normal enemy- it was a physical representation of necessary destruction and change, the embodiment of the suffering stored deep in Nergal's soul.
He continued with his tentacle attempts. Though he couldn't grab it, he could at least shock it briefly with each touch as the bat slid away, zapping at any and every chance.
The frustrated Prince of Darkness added more intense electric blasts to his attacks. While some dragons could breathe fire, his ability was electricity- and a lot of it. The electric breathe really angered the bat, invoking more blood lust. It ripped as many scales as it could, until Nergal finally figured out a better plan.
A loud roar was emitted from the dragon, disrupting the bat's sonic vibrations that had been intensely stinging Nergal from the moment of the bat's appearance. The roar horribly disoriented the fiend, crashing into the last remaining section of the castle. This gave Nergal the chance to grab it with his talons, ripping it apart, discarding the bladed wings and devouring the body while a pool of blood collected beneath them.
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