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Chapter Three: Heart Of Darkness
Ruby's POV
"What?", Star exclaimed as he scratched his head in confusion whilst holding onto a white solider piece in his left hand just in front of his face. I sighed as the exact same time as Chaos did due to Star's insane stupidity and recklessness. I mean, who sends in their guardian piece to fight against a group of four warriors? He gets too over confident sometimes. "I call cheats! How in the world can warriors even kill a guardian?", He asked quickly in pure confusion. I blinked and squinted my eyes slightly to his unbearable stupidity. No wonder he lost against Frosty...
"Get a hold of yourself", Sindy said angrily and looked into Star's eyes with her red, shining eyes, ready to throw a fit at him with her bare hands. Poor Star...
"ME!? Look!", He exclaimed with a serious face and held up the small white piece that resembled a man with a white staff right in front of Sindy's face, making her cringe slightly and sigh. "What does this look like to you!?".
She clenched her fists slightly as her anger began to build up like a geyser, ready to release off a volcano-like eruption of devastating steam and heat. "You", She said slowly and took in slow, quiet breaths to ease herself from Star's pointless argue. But to be honest, it's very entertaining at times but as of now, I just want to get on with the game.
"Besides that", Star quickly said and looked away from her eyes, turning his head to face us as his white, messy hair rustled slightly. "Chaos, do you know what this looks like to you?", He asked immediately and stared into his dark red eyes that resembled blood. I sighed quietly and slowly moved my eyes to the right, staring right at Chaos's face which looked like he had a migraine with some hemorrhage. I smiled slightly and looked back to Star who was no looking straight at me with serious eyes that looked bloodthirsty. "What does this look like to you?", He said and moved his left hand from Sindy's angry face to right in front of mine from across the rectangular table. He leaned over it dangerously, looking like at any point in time he could just topple over like a domino.
"A guardian", I said in a quiet voice and took in a deep breath before exhaling it out loudly. Instantly, Star sparked up in happiness as he held the piece back in front of Sindy's face, red from anger and just about on the verge to release out her inner demon.
"Precisely!", He exclaimed loudly and grit his teeth before clenching his right fist into a ball of capital H for hurt. "I thought you were good at this game!", He stated as a cold breeze swept from the left side of the room, making my hair flutter very slightly in it's grasp before it died out to the normal cool, motionless air that had always been wandering this house like a banshee, ready to scream out as soon as someone dies.
Suddenly, Star went in in for the kill and poked Sindy's nose with the chess piece slightly and repelled his hand back before doing it again... From the look on Sindy's face, I could already tell that she was just about ready to demolish this guy... How troublesome can Star get?!
After what seemed like an eternity of silence, Sindy opened her dry lips suddenly and began to speak in a low tone with edge, concealing her sky-high embers of rage within her, ready to burst out and annihilate him with one fatal swoop. "I forgave you for peeking at the girls in the Girls Locker Room, that time when you walked into the girls bathroom, when you changed Frost in his light form AND when you mistook Candy for me and nearly kissed her... but now... I'm going to murder you...", She said with an eerie tone, making Star stare blankly at her face like he was frozen in time to what she had just said. He is capital D for doomed. Looks like there'll be another passenger on one way trip to insanity!
"Star, it has been a pleasure with you on our side", Chaos said as he stood up and placed his right arm onto where his heart was supposed to be with a clenched fist and bowed down, making his hair flutter slightly to logic and physics. "In honour for your bravery and manliness, I say goodbye to you... Sayonara, from Milk and Candy, Goodbye from us all... Sindy, please banish him from this cruel world", Chaos said in a low tone, making Star's eyes widen as he thought that this was his last minute to live. He stared at Chaos, then to Sindy, then to me. I sighed and decided to play along since this is REALLY getting interesting.
"We'll...", Before I could even say the next word, the front door from behind me and Chaos burst open with a loud, echoing boom which shook the ground and window panes like an earthquake. Instinctively, I turned around to see something that really sparked me up with electricity and shock...
It was a girl, taking in deep breaths of the cold air within the front of the door as she noisily grasped onto the edges of the wide open door and immediately slammed it shut with all her might, shaking the window panes once more. Suddenly, there was an excruciatingly loud, muffled explosion from outside that burst our ear drums like a stick into a drum set, ringing sirens of despair within my mind, drowning out ever noise as she rushed to us with haste. She held up her huge grey, polished sniper riffle to the air in what looked like a surrender. At that moment, the loud sirens eased off and was replaced with her loud, hyperventilation. What's going on!?
"Please...", She said and took in a deep, hard breath as she cringed to the pain in her stomach from probably running. "Get Frost... They're... Coming... For him...", She said underneath every loud, unstable breath she took before she began to tear up from the sheer pain she was feeling from within both her stomach and her head. Chaos stood up and rushed towards her with loud stomps as there was a loud booming thud from upstairs... Who would want Frost anyway?... I grit my teeth and clenched my fists painfully as the negative thoughts invaded my mind like a surge of blasting, cool air. Someone probably wants him dead...
Frost's POV
Shoot! What the hell was that? I grit my teeth painfully hard as I rushed out of Mindy's room with loud stomps that shook the floorboards like a miniature earthquake. It sounded like an explosion just took off from outside. I curled my hands into balls of hurt as I made my way noisily down the wooden staircase with loud, echoing thuds. Suddenly, the sound of loud hyperventilation and sobbing filled my entire ears and drowned out my noisy footsteps. Damn, what's going on!?
"Are you guys alright!?", I called out loudly as I jumped the last four steps, landing down onto the hard wooden floor with a booming thud that shook the nearby window panes and door. I cringed to my stupid move as my feet began to throb and send out a much more stronger version of 'Pins and Needles', all the way up to my knees in less than a split second. Argh... I should've crouched the landing to absorb most of the shock. I regret it so much right now... Star must be used to this kind of stuff tho.
"Frost! Get over here, quick!", Diamond called out in terror as the window to the left of me exploded into a million of pieces, propelling large pieces of the razor sharp glass towards me with lighting speed, giving me no time to react at all but to just widen my eyes in pure shock and horror. Luckily, not one piece of glass had made it anywhere close to me, but, a lead bullet ALMOST collided with my skull, potentially killing me in the blink of an eye. I sparked up like lightning and dove towards the living room as another bullet was shot thought the window, making the light blue curtains bloat up and rip to the brute force of the razor sharp bullets.
Shit! I don't even want to think about what would've happened to me if I stuck around there for another second! I landed on my stomach and slid slightly on the smooth, polished wood before scrambling back up to my feet with my teeth clamped shut together in the slight pain of my feet which was slowly easing away like my body was producing it's own antiseptic to sooth off the pain. Or, it could just be the effects of an adrenaline rush. Either way, it's still the same thing.
"There are people outside! They want to kill you!", A girl to my left exclaimed and stood up from the yellow couch to the left of the TV, gritting her teeth and holding onto her grey, glossy sniper riffle from the handle as it pointed down to the wooden floor harmlessly.
My eyes widened in anger to what she had just said, like it had just activated a bomb from within me, causing my heart to punch my chest, feeling like it could just lunge out like a spear and splatter itself all over the girl. My blood froze solid to ice, but my insides boiled to the sudden anger that began to build from within me. People hunting me down, eh? Let's see them try.
"Who is?", I asked with some edge as I stared at her in the eye and spun my body towards her with my hands on my sides as stiff as a stones and as cold as ice.
Everyone stared at us with concerned and serious faces just before another loud, muffled explosion emitted from outside, shattering another window to the right of the jet black TV that rattled to the intense force of the lead bullet colliding with the wall, just barely missing Sapphire and Mindy by an inch. Immediately, everyone but me got down to the ground and hugged it for protection just as another muffled explosion emitted, but only closer. It burst my ear drums, causing my ears to flatten themselves onto my head as my heart and body trembled to the frightening scenario served in a golden plate right before us. Dammit... I can't slice bullets out of the air, that's Mindy's ability... Agh, dammit. I left my swords upstairs!
"Frost! You're fish in a barrel up there!", Mindy exclaimed and grit her teeth as she stared at me with her red eyes, piercing my very soul to how serious she was.
"Hold on! I need to grab my swords from your bedroom!", I stated immediately, making her eyes and face change, looking sad and sorrowful. I took in a deep breath just as another dangerous muffled explosion emitted from outside, making my blood warm up to the normal temperature, allowing me to manoeuvre my body once again with will. I held out my right arm towards Milk before speaking. "Milk, you're with me", I said and she immediately obligated with a firm nod with confidence and trust. "Alright, let's get going. We'll come back safe and sound. I promise you all that", I said with a sigh and beaconed Milk to come with me.
She took in a deep breath before standing up and carefully, walked up to me, watching the floor for any fingers or hair that she may accidentally step on. Quiet creaks of the polished wooden floorboards accompanied every step she took towards me, slowly closing the empty gap between us as the others watched us with widened eyes filled with hope and worry. Slowly, I turned around just in time to see another window pane to explode into many shards of transparent death, spilling onto the wooden floorboards noisily as they shattered even more and slid across the floor with a screech. Alright. We need to think this over. Upstairs, grab swords and come back down. Bloody simple... I took in a deep breath as the soft moans of the floor stopped abruptly from right behind me as Milk touched my right shoulder with a soft, warm hand. I turned my head around to face her and nodded silently. She returned a firm nod with a serious face, making me curve my lips upwards slightly for a heart warming smile that made her face go slightly red. Let's do this.
"Care the windows, alright", Milk warned in a whisper as I took the first, quiet step forward, making the wooden floorboards moan slightly to my weight.
"Don't worry, we got this", I whispered back and gave a thumbs up to my right before pulling it back and continued towards the staircase, cautiously watching the right, shattered window pane that brought back the frightening memory of my life flashing before my eyes. Damn how lucky I was... Next time, I won't be so lucky.
"Run past", Milk whispered her plan and immediately ran right past me from the right safely and stopped right at the bottom step of the staircase, staring back at me with widened eyes telling me to come.
I took in a deep breath and gulped under the immense fear of being shot, but, victory cannot be achieved without taking a risk... So far, my luck today was outstanding. This better be in my favour or else it'll be MY funeral and Mindy's devastation. A rock and a hard place basically. Now to find the soft place. My heart beat excruciatingly hard and loud, ringing in my ears like the chimes of bells as I took a step back and readied myself for the crossing that will determine if luck chose to guide me or to reject me. Here goes nothing! Blindly, I lunged right across the wide open window pane at the exact time a loud muffled explosion was sounded to the far right... So close...
"FROST!", Milk screamed as my entire body collided with the left wall, my head smashed itself against the hard white concrete wall, fracturing my skull as time began to slow down for me... Argh... I'm so stupid. Why did I have to risk it? The bullet burrowed itself into my right shoulder and slowly tore itself through my chest lengthways, demolishing my lungs and ribs as it slowly made its was to the centre of my body. It felt like fire was set within my right arm as my insides where being injected with fifty syringes tipped with pain inducing poison... Is this what it feels like to die? Damn... I conclude my life, as more reckless than Star...
The bullet tore its way closer and closer to my heart with ever millisecond that passed like a minute, making me endure the pain longer, trying to break me and send me back to the realms of insanity... I'd rather die than go into such a place where I lost grip of myself and NEARLY killed Mindy... My blood painted the wall from the left side of my head, dampening my hair like water as my entire mind began to blank out slowly, burning the image of Milk's horrified face into my very mind for all of eternity... Suddenly, chimes of soothing bells run in my ears peacefully, making my eyes widen for the final time just before my entire body dropped down onto the cold, hard floor lifelessly... My...Heart...Stopped...
"Neutralised", I heard a voice from within the darkness that surrounded me endlessly, shrouding my mind with fear and insanity as I grew scared and worried about what may happen to me. What happens to me now? I...I can't... Argh... No...
"We got him boss", I heard another voice accompanied with the sound of metal scraping something just before a small, loud bell rang for a split second. What are these voices?
"Good, now we kill the rest", A deep voice said and I imagined a smirk... I could feel my teeth with my tongue... I grit them as hard as a could, feeling the back of it with my pink, slimy tongue... As sharp as knives... Yes... I remember now.
"All but the one with the long black hair that looked like the Frost guy, the girl with the long purple hair, the triplets and the girl with the long blonde hair. We'll keep them and sell them for some good dough", I heard as some scrunching was heard... The grass... I'll find them...
"No, I'll keep the one with the purple hair as a bride!", One exclaimed as some more scrunching of the grass emitted, despite my lack of vision. I only assumed it since there is no other explanation due to the fact that our entire home is surrounded with a large grassy plain from all sides... I'll steal their souls.
"I'll take the girl with the blonde hair", The one with the deep voice said, making me smile devilishly as I grew hungry... I'll devour their mortal bodies.
"The girl with the black hair is mine, the rest are to be terminated when given the chance, is that understood?", One said and I imagined him licking his dry, filthy lips... I'll send them to the realms of insanity for all of eternity!
Suddenly, my chest began to throb slightly... My body's senses returned to me as soon as a red, blinding flash devoured the surrounding darkness from underneath my eyelids. Immediately, I opened my eyes to see a pair of glowing red ones as my body was cradled in her arms... But I paid no attention to her... They where on the red highlighted figures that I could see through the very walls... Twenty of them, making me smile devilishly before I shook myself out of Mindy's grasp, making her back off from me in sudden shock before I scrambled up to my feet with my mind thinking of one thing and one thing ONLY... To devour the evil beings outside...
"Milk", I suddenly said and snapped at her with my eyes, making her gasp in shock as her eyes widened, but she new what I wanted. Quickly, she ran up to me, thumping the wooden floorboards with ever step as she extended out her right arm, ready for me to dine in on her life crimsons. "Thank you", I said and smiled at her thankfully, making her too, smile before I looked down at her arm and bit it ferociously just under the wrist. She cried in pain as I laughed to it as it became music to my ears. Blood sprayed out of her large wound as I inserted my tongue inside and licked the bone before pulling my head away with blood smeared all over my face... Everyone stared at me with widened eyes, shocked and horrified to what I had just done to Milk. I took in a deep breath, inflating my stomach slightly just before I pulled my right hand up to my face and wiped off the sticky, delicious crimsons off of my face with the back of my hand... "Mindy", I said, making her gasp and take a step back as she pulled out a large, stainless steel kitchen knife from behind her back and held it in front of her as she shivered in fright to what she had just witnessed.
"W...What?", She asked in a scared, rattling tone and grit her teeth in slight anger. "Are you going to eat us too!?", She asked, raising her voice a bit more as the red, highlighted figures drew closer and closer towards the front of the mansion, all wielding riffles and pistols.
"Give me the knife", I whispered and gave her a death stare, making her take a step back and overlap her left hand over her right on the handle as she grit her teeth more harder and painfuller. "Please Mindy, I d-".
"Don't you dare say another word or else I'll end your life right here, right now!", Star exclaimed, forcing me to stop talking as I snapped my eyes right into his white ones with my dark, bloodied ones that were filled to the brim with madness and insanity.
"Old Man, if you want to live, then hear me out", I quickly said in a whisper, making everyone ease down with sighs, releasing only a small fraction of their fears, but as of now, they seem to trust me a bit more. "Ok, Mindy, please toss me the knife before the others come and kill you all", I whispered and snapped my eyes back onto Mindy's red ones, causing her to gulp in intense fear. But what choice does she have right now? It's either they all die or we all live... The option is clearly simple.
"A...Alright... But promise me that you won't hurt any of us... Frost Richtofen...", She said in a low, worried tone before letting her left hand collapse lazily down to her sides, then pulling the knife down to her right in an attempt to toss it over to me. "You better catch this or else... I'll go insane", She warned in the tone of someone about to weep.
"Don't worry", I said and gave her a firm nod, making her gently toss the silver blade towards me, making me smile and close my eyes. Instinctively, I opened my mouth, revealing my blood curling, glistening jaws, rowed with countless of sharp, intimidating teeth. I clamped my mouth shut just as my eyes flung open widely. I licked the metal knife in my mouth and flung my head upwards, making the knife fling up high before quickly falling back down towards me due to gravity. With a smile and a heart filled with confidence and courage, I caught it with my right hand and shone it in the light of the light bulb on the ceiling, making my heart thump like pistons as I thought of my diabolical plan... Yes... If I remember correctly, harming myself in this from does not affect me, even if I slice my head off, I'll still live. Good... Now, Drago once told me that I can summon my blades ONCE every time I transform to my other form. So after the shows over, I'm going to have to slay them all ALIVE!
Ruby's POV
Alright... Frost told us all to stay put and put all of our trust into him... Daddy, I mean... dang it. How can he be my dad if he's a girl? Argh...
"Three, two, one, BREACHING!", I heard a loud voice from outside exclaim, making my heart drop as soon as the front door exploded into oblivion, shooting out jagged splinters of death towards the wooden staircase, charring it black as dust and debris flung into the air like a blinding smoke cloud. I girt my teeth, ready for anything as I could hear the dreaded footsteps of the soldiers march trough the smoke like a pack of wolves raiding the home of their prey.
"Stand your ground! Don't engage with them unless necessary!", Someone said from within the smoke as the floor began to shake along with the TV vibrating backwards and forwards vigorously as the my heart began to pound against my chest like a raging animal wanting to escape from it's cage.
The smoke slowly dissipated into nothingness but the cold, steep air of fear and hope as we all sat on the yellow couch, awaiting Frost to do her job. Immediately, red lasers were pointed right at us as many men in black vests, pants and clothing barged into the living room with smiles plastered across their faces. One wrong move, and it's game over... They spread out and stood in front of us, behind us and some even sat beside us all, pointing their weapons right at our faces, threatening us viciously.
"Hello!", The one that sat to the right of Mindy exclaimed and looked into her eyes as she grit her teeth and looked straight forward, right at the black charred wooden staircase. Her eyes where filled with anger and disgust as the man leaned closer to her soft, smooth face and pointed his hand gun to her head... Frost, where are you?!
Frost's POV
I laughed maniacally as I walked down the black, grey coated staircase with the stainless blade in my hand, staring at them all with my piercing red eyes, inflicting fear into them all. Yes... I love to eat my prey when their hearts are beating against their chest... it makes their flesh fill up to the brim with blood. Ah... I can't wait, but first, let's show them something that only a TRUE insane person can do!
"Stop right there or we'll open fire!", One of the men commanded me and at once, they all pointed their weapons at me with the lasers all aiming at my chest. Haha! I'd like to see them try!
"Observe", I whispered loudly as I ceased my laughter and gave them all an uncanny, inhuman smile, revealing all of my sharp, glistening teeth lined up perfectly and ready to tear flesh apart.
I hopped off of the last step and walked up to the wall where my dark form had died. The blood was still there, fresh with pink pieces of my flesh on the ground directly under it while some where still in the middle of sliding downwards due to logic... But I don't believe in logic or physics! I MAKE UP THE RULES FOR MYSELF! Everyone watched me, staring at me with widened eyes as I held the knife to the wall with my right hand, pointing dangerously at the right side of my head as I gulped and blinked.
"What do you think your doing young gi-", He was cut off by the sudden shock induced into him and every single person that watched me... No one made a noise, just the silence was my audience as I slammed my head onto the pointy end of the knife and smiled with ever loud, skull breaking lunge I made. The pain felt pleasurable, making me laugh maniacally as blood spilt out like a fountain and painted the right wall in complete red with some of my pink, chunky flesh splattering against the wall.
"What... the fuck...", Someone whispered and grit his teeth before pulling the trigger of his black, freshly sprayed assault riffle that looked like the Assault King Forty Seven, or for short, the AK Forty Seven. The bullets sprayed at me, making me smile as they all pierced through my very flesh and destroying my internal organs with complete ease... Little did they know, was that as long as I remain insane, I cannot die unless light is used against me... ONLY when I'm in my insane form...
I stopped what I was doing and dropped the kitchen knife as he stopped shooting at me and backed away with fright and horror... "You'll pay dearly for that", I whispered and spun my body around to face them all with my left eye as my right was coated internally with my crimsons of life and insanity. "I'll strip you off your bones and feast on every single one of you humans that tried to take me down... Charcoal's so foolish to send you lot to try and assassinate me... and now...", I whispered and felt my mind blank a couple of times as my body began to restructure itself, healing various organs and parts of my body painfully, but at the same time, pleasurably. "I'll send your souls to the hell I created...", I whispered and at once, lunged at the man who shot at me and widened my mouth uncannily. Immediately, I slammed my mouth shut from around his waist, causing him to split in half as his entrails spilt out like meat from a grinder, only to be smoother and wet due to his red, shining blood... He tasted like apples... Hahaha! Someone so sour, turned out to be so sweet!
"AHHHH!", One screamed and committed suicide via lodging a lead bullet in between his eyes, causing him a one way ticket to insanity. Bang... Bang... Bang... went another three shots as three other men suffered the same fate. Well, I guess I over did it, but still, I'M STARVING!
"DON'T EAT ME!", One exclaimed from my left as he shot a barrage of bullets into me, making me smile widely at him as I lunged towards him with lightning speed and chomped on his chest, devouring his heart and lungs altogether, crunching his ribs as if they where biscuits or crackers... This one tasted like cherries! I wonder what's next!?
"SPRAY THAT DEMON DOWN NOW!", The one that sat to the right of Mindy exclaimed and at once, they all opened fire against me, destroying my jaw and exposing my very insides more and more with every second that passed... I just kept my composure, patiently waiting for the seventh second to pass...
"FUCK!", Someone exclaimed as the infamous 'click, click, click', emitted from the trigger of all of their weapons, making me cry out tears of delight as my wounds healed miraculously before I lunged at them one by one, eating chunks of their flesh and devouring their souls within the first bite, sending them off to the realms of insanity where they will roam forever and ever until they realise their evil ways. Blood splatted everywhere like a hose, painting everything in red, red and MORE red with their pink chunky organs and pieces of red flesh stuck to the walls and ceiling, leaving the rest to look at me wide-eyed with their pupils contacted to my doings... I warned them not to look... Oh well... wait... AHHHHHHH!
"Stay down!", I heard Star exclaim as my mind blanked out several times before I entered the state of 'Flat Line'... Dammit... just when I was about to get full... I smiled and looked up into his white eyes as I laid on the blood coated floor, dampening my clothes and staining my body in the tasty blood.
"Star, hit her one more time and she'll snap out of her insanity. But for the love of Mindy and Ruby, ONLY do it once or else she'll never see the light ever again", Chaos warned and leaned over me, looking straight into my eyes with his dark red ones... haha! We totally look alike in my dark form! Only I'm dead in that form and I have to wait a whole month for it to heal properly... Bummer, but in a way, WHO CARES!
"Hastela la viesta", Star said, making me chuckle slightly before closing my eyes slowly, ready to loose consciousness. "Baby", He said right before everything went dark and silent... Just the way I like it... Alls well, it ends blood well!
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"See? Insanity is the blasted reason why we cannot control the truths!"
"Light? Darkness? They're both the same no matter what. Both blinds us from the opposite"
"Jokes on you, thinking that YOU'RE smarter than the insane!"
"It ain't about how hard you can hit. It's about how strong stand"
"Strength doesn't come from just muscles, it comes from how much pain you can resist!"