-Summer- Normal speech
"Summer" Grimm Language
Interlude (Winter)
Corrected by Guestman
"Under this shattered moon that you created I declare my loyalty to you and you alone my dear Father"
-Vextrice
The snow was falling slowly to the ground in the forest otherwise without sound, a single sound can be heard, the sound of someone sobbing. A little girl was crying and hugging a second figure near to her. The figure was motionless upon the ground, open eyes without life and pale skin, clearly dead.
But the girl wasn't alone in her misery. With a startling roar a demonic figure came out from the trees, a Grimm; the terrified girl ran at full speed with her tears falling to the snow followed by the creature that knew only one way to deal with a human; kill them.
The girl stumbled and fell into the cold snow and the Grimm jumped on her. She tried to protect herself with her little arm, to no avail. The intense pain made a shriek escape from her lips, but she steeled herself and took a little branch with the other hand and stabbed it in the red eye of the monster. In response, the Grimm took some steps back and a roar of pain echoed throughout the forest.
She started to run away but with her arm as badly damaged as it was the monster would soon catch up with her. Then she saw salvation, a cave, she entered it hoping that the monster would not see her hiding spot. She turned to check her situation and unfortunately for her the monster was at the entrance eyeing her. It seemed she was destined to die in that cave. She closed her eyes waiting for the end to come but it never did. Upon creaking her eyes open she saw that the monster seemed like someone that was having some internal conflicts. At the end it left and she fell at the ground exhausted.
After some minutes or hours, she had lost her sense of time, she rose and started to progress deeper into the cave, her wounds on the arm were continually oozing blood. In addition to that, her clothes were completely dripping wet. Either way, she was likely going to die, either frozen to death from hypothermia or from bleeding out.
In that instant she hit something hard but hot. It was completely dark so she couldn't see what it was but even so she tried to touch it. As stated previously, it was really warm and she momentarily forgot how cold she was. Upon doing so however, a strange sensation arose within her and her blood froze the instant she heard a breath. Whatever it was that she was touching it was alive.
Flames started to burn in the dark of the cave, the light of the candles revealing the form of the creature. It had black skin, white mask, long horns on its head; it was a Grimm but unlike any she had seen or even heard of before. Inexperienced though she was, even she could feel the intimidating miasma of despair and power around it. That miasma was too much to take for a five year old girl, who immediately fainted.
...
When she opened her eyes she was on the floor of the cave. Maybe everything prior had only been a nightmare, she thought. After a moment of hesitation she looked at her wounded arm and her eyes went wide when she saw that it was completely healed.
-Curious don't you think little one?-
A dark voice spoke up behind her. She turned around immediately to face the voice and she saw the same monster she had met before. She realized that what she had gone through was no mere dream or even base nightmare. Or was it?
-C-curious?-
She cried out.
-Yes, you have taken on the powers of the Winter Maiden only some hours ago but you are already able to use its regeneration abilities.-
She didn't understand what it was talking about, but she knew one thing: she had to escape.
-T-then Mr. Monster...-
-Overlord, that is my official title-
-T-then Mr. Overlord I-I have to leave, I'm s-sorry for entering your h-home.-
-Do you think I will let you get away that easily? And where do you think you are going dressed like that?-
In that instant she realized what he meant, she was completely naked.
-W-where are my clothes?-
She asked trembling a bit, he pointed to a corner of the cave; she start to get dressed noticing that her clothes were now dry.
-If you leave the cave you will die. There are many of my kin in the forest and they will not hesitate to attack you.-
Upon hearing those words she did the only thing that a child her age could do, she started to cry.
-Humans are so annoying, shut your mouth now!-
She tried to stop her tears but they continued to slowly fall.
-Tsk... why didn't I kill you as soon as I saw you? Bah!-
He walks in her direction and started to pat her on the head and she slowly calmed down.
She remained silent for the rest of the day but when the sun fell the temperature started to decrease too, she started to tremble and she turned to watch the Overlord. He didn't seem to suffer from the cold, she proceeded with caution in his direction and with a trembling hand touched his leg. It was really warm, warmer than she was expecting. She watched his eyes and he didn't react to her touch so she sat between his legs setting her head on his stomach and thanks to the warmth all around her she fell asleep quickly.
...
-You hate humans don't you?-
The little girl asked.
-Yes, they are inferior weak life forms, nothing more than insects.-
He spoke.
-So why don't you kill me?-
-You are no longer a human for you possess one of the Four Essence of Earth.-
-And... what is it?-
-Hmm... how should I explain this? Okay, there are four powers that used together could be equal to my power, and you have the power of Winter, the others are Spring, Fall and Sum-
He stopped immediately, the warmth of the room turned to freezing cold making her tremble a bit. He spoke no further for the rest of that week.
...
Months had passed since the day she entered the cave.
-Are you thinking about your family?-
He asked.
-No, my father abandoned me and my mother...my MOTHER...-
She started to cry again.
-Weakness is the worst sin someone can commit. Too weak to live, too weak to protect someone...-
-YOUR FRIENDS KILLED HER YOU MONSTER.-
She shouted in anger, the tears continued to fall to the ground in the silence of the cave.
-You think that a world where we don't exist would be better? DON'T BE SO NAIVE! I saw what this world looked like before the birth of the Grimm. War and Genocide, Suffering and Death, humankind was destroying itself and they wanted to take everything else with them. Even now they claim to have changed, to have become peaceful, to have moved beyond their primal roots but they lie, they are no different now than when they first attempted to destroy themselves and everything else. They are a mistake, they are an incomplete creature that knows only destruction and it is for that reason that I, tens of thousands of years ago decided to exterminate humans; we maintain the balance of this world, for in destroying the evil of mankind you need a more powerful evil.-
-I DON'T BELIEVE YOU!-
She shouted again.
-Then leave, go out and observe with your own eyes the true nature of humans.-
...
And she did exactly that. She left that cave for the first time in months. She wanted to return to her village, to go home. She spent a few hours trying to find the way but in the end she was able to return home but what awaited her wasn't what she imagined.
The fire was consuming the houses, the corpses of her friends were on the ground, blood was everywhere.
'This is the work of those monsters'
she thought and for the second time that day tears start to fall from her eyes, in that moment she heard voices, she start to run in the direction of the sound finding a group of military men.
-Help me.-
She cried out running in their direction but when she was near them one of the soldiers aimed a gun at her head.
-Please she's only a child.-
An old man spoke.
-The rebels have to be exterminated no matter their sex or age.-
With those words he shot the man in the head, blood and brains bursting from the wound.
-Kill her.-
One of the soldiers ordered.
This was the end, yes, this time there would be no salvation, the despair started to rise inside her 'if only i could be stronger! I... I...' and in that moment words come again on her mind.
'Humankind is a waste of space... humans are only aimless and incomplete creatures... they have to be crushed as the insects they are... to eradicate the evil of mankind an even more powerful evil is necessary... the only thing they know is destruction...'
-I'm so sorry little girl.-
The soldier spoke.
'You are no longer a human, you possess powers that are beyond your imagination. Let them rise from deep within you and free your true nature...'
Ice started to well up from the ground.
-W-What's happening?-
Someone cried out.
-DIE YOU DEMON!-
They start to shoot at her but an ice pillar comes out blocking the bullets; she knew what she had to do, she had to become pure evil for the purification of this corrupted world and in that day she took the first step: she lost her innocence.
...
-So you came back after all.-
The Overlord spoke.
-Yes I will be the one that will destroy humanity, but I need more power and you are the only one that can help me.-
He walked towards her patting her head.
-You don't have to walk this dark path alone, I will grant you happiness in your new existence.-
He looked directly into her eyes.
-The human you were is now dead, from now on you will be the blade of purification, you will be Vextrice.-
She smiled a bit.
-Yes my creator, my dear Father.-
A.N. That's all for now review
