Hateful Love
Chapter 21: Black & White
By: Juggalomalice
"So then, I plunged the knife right through his forehead, and it just made the strangest sound. Like stabbing oatmeal through the bottom of the bowl. Have you ever done that before? I did it once when I was a kid. Iya got so mad at me. Well to say the least she never served me oatmeal again." Nik said with a cheerful laugh as he turned to look at the seat next to him. "You don't talk much do you?" He asked as he gave the corpse next to him a pat on the shoulders.
The term corpse could be used lightly in this case. The fact was that the body was mutilated so badly, that identification of any kind was next to impossible, as it was mauled far beyond what the norm of human words could detail. The word 'remains' would probably be a better descriptive term here.
Nik knew this of course. He knew that the human being next to him was dead. He knew that the pilots, flight attendants and 125 out of the 128 passengers on this plane were dead. Why wouldn't he know? He ordered it. Just like everyone on the flight before this one, and everyone on the bus before that, and even that taxi driver who brought them to Endsville airport almost a week ago. He just wished he could see it, but at this moment he was only able to imagine it. The blood that lined the windows and floors. That stained seats and plane walls. The limbs that strung the aisles in all directions. No one was spared. As it should be.
"You seem to be in a good mood my Lord." A playful, almost nymph like, female voice said from the seat in front of him. He turned to face the voice. She was Lexx, the Demon Healer he had requested. Her skin was fair and her short black hair was currently tied in a twin-tail fashion adorned in various cute accessories. Her eyes were white on white as if someone forgot to fill them in with color. Though Nik knew none of this. He did not know what she looked like, but she had a twin brother named Daxx, the combat specialist that he asked for. He was currently piloting the plane as he changed it's course to their new destination. Daxx didn't like to speak, but Lexx loved too.
From the moment he first met her she started talking. Though an expert in the human world, this was apparently her first field assignment, so she had the excitement and curiosity of a 10 year old. She asked a lot of questions. The most common being, "What's that over there?", which Nik would reply with, "What's what you stupid girl? I'm blind remember!". Afterwards he would have to play a reluctant game of twenty questions, as she tried to describe what she saw, so he could tell her what it was.
"You're bleeding again my Lord." The voice said as he listened to her flip over from her seat to him. "First class seats sure are roomy." He thought, as he felt her lean against him, and place her hands on his face as the tingling curative magic flowed through her body into his own. He was getting used to the nose and ear bleeds so he never thought such things were important enough for her to treat. She still did though.
Still, as the days passed, his symptoms increased. Nose bleeds, chronic headaches, and seizures seemed to make up the most of them, but there were others far more subtle. He would forget words in the middle of conversations, lose track of time, and his short-term memory was slowly deteriorating. Regardless of Lexx's healing skill he was dying and there was nothing she could do about it. She had bought him an extra day or two at the most. Still an extra day or two wasn't much, since he didn't know how much time he had in the first place, and connect-the-dots-treasure hunting was a time consuming pastime.
"Don't worry my Lord. I'll make sure you live long enough to find what you need." Lexx assured as she gently wiped the blood from his nose. Yes, gently. Demons weren't gentle and he knew for a fact that at least half the people painting the interior of this plane were her doing, but gentle was the only word he could use to describe her. He could imagine her smiling as she assured him of his health and life. Yes, how far does the apple have to fall from the tree in order to make a demon gentle.
"We're almost at the location. ETA 5 minutes" The demonic voice of Daxx was heard over the intercom. Daxx refused to learn mortal tongues like his sister and only spoke infernal.
"Good. So long as we're still on the route, there should be a village less then half a day's walk from here, if we jump now. From there we can get a local to guide us to the location. Tell Daxx to lower us to a safe jumping altitude." He ordered Lexx as he stood up and gathered his carry-on luggage. It had been six days since he left. He had to find it on his seventh because he was guaranteed an eighth.
He felt the plane rapidly begin to descend. It was only a short while after that when he heard two sets of feet walking towards him. Using the chairs as a guide he followed the two towards the exit. He felt the sudden change in pressure and wind as the hatch was opened. Free falling was certain death for a human at this height. For a demon it was recreational activity.
He felt someone grab him as they positioned his arms around their body. The body was smooth, soft, and gentle. It was Lexx's body. "Hold on tightly so you don't get hurt my Lord. I promise I'll keep you safe during the jump so don't worry."
"You're different. Too different." Nik mumbled to himself. If it wasn't for the fact the two were body to body it would have been too low for Lexx to hear.
"Isn't that a good thing though my Lord?" Lexx asked in her innocent voice that was much to pure to belong to a devil.
"Why would you ever think that?" Nik asked as he felt her body tense up for the jump.
Lexx gave a light giggle. "Cause that means you think I'm special, right?"
A grin slowly spread over Nik's face. A grin that hadn't graced his face for some time now. As the cold, bone-chilling air whip past him numbing his hands and face, he couldn't help but imagine what this girl would look like if he killed her. Truly Nik's logic was twisted, broken, and very esoteric.
Elsewhere
Grim and Mandy stepped out of their portal into a rather clean and quaint living room area. The current furnishings gave no indication of anything outside a normal home. A young man with a brown hair, thick glasses, an "L" shaped scar on his forehead and wearing nothing more than a bathrobe was sitting on the sofa watching TV. He looked at them stunned for a moment before finally getting up and giving them an excited greetings.
"Grim! Mandy! I haven't seen you both in years." He said as he stood up and shook their hands in greetings. "I see you finally grew up Mandy. Well it was bound to happen sooner or later. So what do I owe this visit to?" Nigel Planter, full-fledged wizard, asked.
Before either one of his guests could answer his question another hoarse voice was heard from the nearby kitchen. "Planter, where did you put my graham-crackers?"
"The cabinet next to the fridge, second shelf." Planter yelled in reply.
"I found them." The voice replied as the sound of footsteps were heard coming towards them. Turning the corner and entering the room was none other than Lord Moldybutt, holding a box of graham-crackers, and wearing a bathrobe like Platter's.
"Lord Moldybutt? What are you doing here?" Mandy exclaimed as the graham-cracker in Moldybutt's hand cracked and shattered into a million pieces at the sound of his name.
"Please don't do that." Moldybutt requested as he reached in for another cracker.
Nigel smile, "Allow me to explain Mandy. You see Lord MB here is actually my life-partner. We've been that way for almost a year now."
"Life-partner?" Grim questioned even though a warning light was going off in his head telling him he shouldn't ask questions about it.
"Yup, you see several years ago I found out that my bitter hatred for Nigel was just unrequited love. Once I finally confessed to him he was more than happy to return my feelings." Moldybutt explained.
"Actually, he threaten to kill my whole family and me if I didn't go out with him, but after that first date I knew I found the person I was destined to be with for the rest of my life. Isn't that right, MB?" Nigel asked his partner with lovely, dream gazed eyes.
"That's right." Moldybutt replied with a similar look as the two leaned in closer.
"STOP!" Mandy shouted, "I don't want to see this, I know the writer doesn't want to write it and I doubt the readers want to read this next scene either so lets just skip it and get down to business, okay?"
"Sure, what can I help you with Mandy?" Nigel asked.
"I want you to translate this book for me." Mandy said as she handed the green book over.
Nigel took the book and panned through it with Moldybutt reading over his lover's shoulder. "Just looking at this is really impressive. Whoever wrote it demonstrates a clear knowledge of magic that is far beyond your normal wizard."
"They also seem to be a traditionalist in their writing style since they incorporate Arcannomic symbols that are well over a century old." Moldybutt added.
"What does that mean?" Mandy inquired.
"Arcannomic evolves over the years just like any language. Writing with this style would be like writing in old English now. Hmm, might be a Prilbrezo or Corthala production."
"It's Corthala." The young blonde clarified for them.
The two wizards looked at each other with a worried glance before looking back. "I was afraid of that. You see the last time a Corthala book was release to the wizard public through auction it ended up killing several people. That family apparently had a bad habit of triple cursing their works." Nigel explained.
"Its not cursed." Mandy lied since she was unsure herself, "Anyway it was given to me specifically to read. I just don't know how so that's why I'm here. Can you read it, yes or no?"
"Well Arcannomic isn't really read. It's known. It's a magical way to transfer pure thought and memory onto paper. I think I have an old holo-translator somewhere here. A bit will be lost in transfer, but it should give you a general idea of what's being said. Your other option is to wait a week so we can learn it from cover to back." Nigel said as he laid the options on the table.
"Let's try the first one. I don't have much time either way."
"Ok, but just so you know this will still take some time, a day at most, to just shift through all the information." Moldybutt said as the two wizards began to setup their work area.
"Mandy, is this really worth the trouble and time." Grim moaned.
"I don't know Grim." Her voice dripping in weariness as she found herself tumbling into the sofa behind her. "I don't know anything anymore." The exhausting events of the past week, along with this new adventure, toppling onto her like an avalanche as her vision went white. White? Why white?
She remembered something about that. She warned him about it. It seemed so long ago now it was strange to remember it now of all times. She had spotted him at the park that day. He wasn't doing anything. He just seemed to exist as he laid on the grass watching the sky. A gray blotch of hate on an otherwise happy afternoon. She couldn't really remember why, but that detail seemed insignificant now.
"It's not that often I see you out and about." She said as she stood above the young man.
He looked up at her. The trademark grin slowly creeping on his face as it always did when he saw her. "I was just thinking. Nothing special."
"Bad things happen when you think too much." She commented as she kneeled down beside him.
"Now that you're here let me ask you a question."
"Ok." It was more of an automatic reply from surprise than an actual answer. He was never the type for random questions out of the blue.
"Are you alright with this? With us that is? You don't feel forced into this or anything do you?"
She eyed him from out the corner of her vision. This was very unlike him. He wasn't one to worry about others either. "Isn't it a little late to bring up that question now? Jeez, you're acting so weird today." She sighed as she brought her knees up to her chest, "No it feels right?"
"Too right?" The second question shot out at her. His paranoia was acting up again.
She closed her eyes and just slowly shook her head, "No, just right enough."
"Oh, ok."
"You know Grim was complaining the other day."
"About what this time?"
"He says I've changed, but he couldn't tell me how. He just kept saying I've changed. Maybe I have."
Nik sat up so he was now level with her. "Is that a problem? I like you the way you are. Even if you did change a little I'd like you still." Granted in Nik's mind 'to like' meant to 'hate slightly less than everyone else'.
Mandy sighed again as she rested her head on Nik's shoulder. "It's because you keep saying things like that to me. You keep treating me the way you do. When you do that it's feels like a light is being shined in my face and my vision… just goes white. I don't even know if it's a good thing." It was already happening again. Things were fading into white just leaving the two of them alone.
"Isn't that a good thing? I mean all I ever see is black."
It bothered her when he said that. Apparently it still bothered her now. As her eyes fluttered open to be greeted by the light of a ceiling fan unaware of how long she been sleeping there.
"Nik, what exists in the shadows, that you dare not look away from it, for even a second."
"Oh you're up?" A voice greeted her back into the waking world. "Just in time."
"Why is that?" She asked as she rubbed sleep out of her eyes. Her mind still to fogged by dreams to remember why she was even here in the first place.
"We managed to get some information out of the book. Not all of it, but enough to help you I think." Nigel said with a proud smile.
"Let's hear it." She ordered as she walked past Grim. His expression still displaying his disgruntled thoughts from hours earlier.
"Well whoever wrote this book was either insane or insanely suicidal." Nigel said as he looked at Moldybutt and the two shared a slight giggle at their joke. Mandy was not impressed. "Hmm moving on. The book consists of a bit of history, some prophecy; the freaky doomsday hell on earth type, and lots of theory and research."
"I've yet to hear the part that would be useful to me." Mandy quipped.
"Give us a moment. This is the cool part if not a bit insane. These diagrams were in the book. Really ingenious too. Check it out." Nigel said as he chanted a few words of power. Blue beam of light shined from the book as what looked like a hologram of Earth appeared above it.
A network of lines appeared on the planet as Moldybutt took over the explanation. "As you can see this diagram displays an accurate view of the planet Earth's ley-line network. A ley-line being a line of magical and spiritual power which runs through a planet for those who don't know. This in itself isn't impressive. Any wizard worth his salt knows this much. What's impressive is this." As he said that he spread his arms up as a torrent of 12 other planetary maps appeared before them. Similar white network lines webbed across all of them. "These 12 other maps represent 12 other dimensional planes which overlap the planet Earth. Think of them as our 12 closest neighbors who share our street block."
"And that's impressive, right?" Mandy asked. Her knowledge of magic was never that great.
"Well yes and no." Nigel answered as he took over once more. "This is PHD level Dimensional Physics research impressive. Good, but not unknown. This is the impressive ingenious part." He said as the 13 spherical maps rearranged, reconnected and overlapped themselves to form one giant network of lines. "This guy has made a viable unifying ley-line network. This by itself could be a breakthrough in Dimensional Physics by itself."
"There's a 'but' isn't there?" Mandy added as the wizard awkwardly stopped.
"Kind of. This part is brilliant by itself, but this is where it gets…insane." Nigel said as he waved his hand over the book. The page flipping with him as the new interlocked spheres shrank. Numerous lines at key points extended outward into infinity, before docking with a larger network of ley-lines, which encased the original, now tiny, map. "They've gone and created a theoretical prediction of what the ley-line network would look like on the 'outer planes'." Nigel said the last word while hold up his hands in quotation marks.
"That's just stupid. The Outer Planes don't exist." Grim interjected with a mocking laugh.
"I'm inclined to agree with you Grim, but after just getting a glimpse at his guy's research I'm not to sure anymore." Moldybutt admitted.
"Pull back a moment!" Mandy shouted called attention back to her. "What are the Outer Planes?
"Well the Outer Planes are theoretical planes of existence that our beyond our knowledge or even comprehension. Their existence is debatable. To put it in terms that a non-wizard would understand, it's the world where God himself lives. If I had to put money on it I think this guy is trying to reach those Outer Planes." Nigel explained.
"Where is he going to do it?" Mandy almost shouted.
"Whoa, calm down." Nigel quelled, "I couldn't answer that if I wanted to. There are over two dozen locations, and a lot of their locations are password protected, and if this really is Corthala made, judging by the sheer insane brilliance of it I'm convinced it is now, it's probably got a nasty curse for those with the wrong password."
"That stupid bastard! What the hell are you thinking?" Mandy shouted.
"He probably just wants to put a dangerous theory to test before he dies is all. Chances are he's dead already though." Grim answered without much thought. It wasn't until several painful seconds later, and three awkward stares, that Grim realized what he said. So he wasn't entirely surprised when a fist collided with his stomach, as a hand pulled him down by his collar, so that he was forced to eye level with a very pissed off Mandy. And here, he thought, he was the only person who could make his eyes catch on fire.
"Grim, what the hell did you do to my boyfriend?" The question was less asked as it was spat into the Reaper's face.
"Nothing, really." Grim began. His words broken with stutters and nerves giggles. "I just, you know may or may not have granted him a wish that may or may not kill him is all."
"Grim, don't you remember that talk I had with you about staying away from Nik, especially if he ever came up to you wanting to borrow your powers, or have you grant a wish?"
"Well you know. It seemed harmless at the time." The grip on his cloak tighten and pulled him dangerously close to Mandy. A distance that one may consider embarrassing if their life wasn't being threatened.
"And what was it you gave him?" Mandy slowly asked.
"Just a bit of know how. Nothing special."
"Grim!"
"Knowledge of all things magical both past and present including but not limited to spells and rituals." He finally blurted out.
"Grim, what the hell is wrong with you!" Mandy shouted in a frenzied rage. "If a shark came up to you, and asked for more teeth, so he could better ripe your body to shreds, would you have given them to him?"
Grim gave an uneasy laugh, "Mandy, you think I would give an obvious sociopath direct access to hundreds of life threatening magic spells. There's no way he could ever access all that information through any normal means." Grim assured almost sounding proud with his clever forethought.
Mandy didn't seem impressed. She simply stood there. Her head down and her small fist glowing white from her powerful grip. "You idiot. Don't you realize it yet? Nik is evil. He'll cheat!" She shouted before pummeling the Reaper to next week. Her fist pounding into him over and over until a trail of blood flew out, splattered on the nearby sofa, on to her face and up her arm. One would think it belonged to Grim until they realized that the reaper was already dead, but no, the blood belonged to Mandy. Splattering everywhere after her fist split open from the constant hammering of flesh on bone.
She looked over her shoulder, at the two wizards behind, her who clung onto each other out of sheer fear of the terrible visage of the young girl in front of them. "Ok boys, we now officially have a problem. We have an AWOL young wizard who has a burning hatred for humanity, that is on a level that makes Hitler's attempt on genocide seem feeble and childish, and who, thanks so someone here, is now probably walking around with enough magical firepower to level a small city. Now I know Nik would never do anything for the sake of research itself, so if he wants to reach the plane of 'god' himself, it isn't so he can drop off a fruit basket. Our job is to find him before he does something we'll all regret."
Elsewhere in a forgotten underground Nazi research lab in the rural lands of Germany said young man was currently locked inside a large observation chamber. Lexx and Dexx at his sides as two older men cried and panicked behind him. Nik had hired three originally to help them find this location. One was already dead thanks the creatures that now clawed and pounded at the steel door behind them.
"So this lab really was used by the Nazi's for vampire research." Lexx said with near amusement.
"We should have never brought these stupid Americans here. We're all going to die at the hands of those monsters." One of the men cried.
"I don't want to die. I have a wife and three kids." The other shouted in response as they hugged each other in fear.
Nik ignored all of this as he remained focused on an aged piece of paper in the palm of his hand. It glowed a bit before lifting off his hand and spinning frantically. The magic transferring its information directly to his brain.
"We need to find the Director's room. If we exit through this side door here," He said as he pointed in the direction opposite the one being swarmed by vampires, "We should be able to find it shortly." He said as he began walking in the given direction.
"Dexx will be 2 paces ahead of you. A flight of stairs will be directly in front of you in 20 paces, My Lord." Lexx chimed in as she walked behind Nik.
"Finding it shouldn't be trouble, but if we get swarmed by those rats it would be annoying. If only there was a way to buy ourselves sometime." Nik commented to himself out loud. His feet entering a stepping motion at 20 paces as per instructed. He heard the sound of a heavy steel door being opened in front of him before footsteps continued through it.
"We still have those two behind us." Lexx suggested with a smile about the two guides behind her.
"Excellent idea Lexx. Make it so."
As Lexx passed through the door her hand shot out and shoved the man behind her straight back causing him to tumble into the other as they both painfully fell down the metal stairs. With that she swiftly closed the door behind her and turned the pressure lock.
As the three continued on their route they could hear the slight sound of two grown men crying for help from behind a heavy door. This was quickly replaced by the sound of two grown men crying in pain and terror accompanied by the various primal sound of numerous wild vampires ripping said two men to shreds.
"I'm sure that'll buy us plenty of time." Nik said as they turned down another set of halls.
It was a slow search, but not a fruitless one for in due time the Director's office was finally found. Dusty, forgotten, and a nasty old red stained splattered on the side of the room. The lights were broken, but it's not like they would have helped him in the first place. He quickly walked in and as if called by an unseen force walked straight up to the collapsing bookshelf.
"It's here." He said as he started picking up the various books. His hands only running briefly across each before tossing them aside. After a short search he found the book he wanted. Older then the rest with a heavy black leather cover. It's pages yellow with an age that defied common knowledge. "Here we are." He said as he opened the book to the middle where signs of a ripped page were visible. He reached into his pocket and pulled the same paper he used earlier to find this place. The same paper that hand slowly, but surely lead him across the world to find this place. He placed the page into the book as it seemingly mended itself becoming once again whole. "A real book will always call on it's pages."
"Lord Nik, is that really what you've been looking for all this time." Lexx chimed in from over his shoulder. Her face contorted in a manner expressing disbelief. "I don't want to sound rude, but given your current condition, I just thought I should inform you that the book you're holding is blank."
Nik grinned, "It just needs someone to fill out the pages is all." He flipped to the cover page. A series of unknown symbols above a long blank line slowly appeared. Slowly the symbols began to shift and mutate into readable letters.
"This book belongs to…" The book read as the line below glowed almost in anticipation of the name of its new owner.
"Oh My Lord, words are appearing in the book. Do you want me to read them to y.." She was interrupting by a finger suddenly being jammed in her mouth. She froze in silence unsure what she should or was even allowed to do for she dare not tell her contractor what he wasn't allowed to do. The finger wiggled in her mouth gently, almost seductively. She quickly found herself blushing at the action and was rather surprised when she instinctively found herself beginning to suck on it.
It was at this time that Nik found what he was looking for, her razor sharp canine tooth. He rubbed as if he was testing a knife. He quickly pulled his finger back against the tooth as Lexx impulsively followed his motion as if she didn't want to let go. The red liquid that sprang forth from his finger quickly found it's way to her tongue. Against her will and better judgment she found herself moaning at the taste as her legs gave out and she stumbled to her knees.
"Don't stop, but don't put to much pressure either." Nik ordered. Lexx nodded her head, though in all honestly she didn't know what she was agreeing to. She just knew she heard 'don't stop' so she had no intention to. She brought her hands up and held Nik's hand still so she could better 'pleasure' it. The sucking sounds becoming much louder as she began to bop her head back and forth over the digit as the crimson liquid began flowing more fluidly from the suction. Lexx continued her order rather shamelessly as more than one aroused moan escaped her lips. Although at the moment it was hard to believe anything could escape her lips. Even Dexx, her stoic brother, had to look away to hide a blush.
Lexx seemed almost drugged with pleasure so when Nik suddenly pulled his bloody finger from her mouth she moaned with displeasure as she slowly began to crawl up Nik's leg like an animal seeking out a tasty treat. "That's not fair Lord Nik. Just a bit more. Just a little longer. I promise it'll feel good for you too." She begged. Her personality easily being overwritten by her first time desire.
"You did you're job so shut up and sit over there." Nik ordered before he kicked the girl off.
"That's so mean Master." The girl moaned, "You know your blood is used to seal the contracts so it just taste so good to us as a result and I don't know why, but I just want you to do things to me right now."
"You're getting annoying Lexx. I was just using you as a pencil sharpener. Don't look too deep into it." Nik clarified as he brought the bloody finger down onto the page like a pen. "The ritual requires you to write your name in your own blood if you wish to claim ownership of the book. You should learn to control your desires a bit more."
"Oh, but I'm a demon Master. I'm all about submitting to desires." She said sensually.
"I'm seriously considering killing you now." Nik commented out loud as he wrote his full name in the book.
This book belongs to…Nikumu Corthala
As the name was scrawled in the book was more came to life as the blood began to flow faster onto the page and overflow onto the rest. With a sudden howl, as if a thousand virgins were sacrifice at the altar of hell itself, the book began to turn it's pages by itself. Each page, at one point blank, was now being filled with information before being flipped to the next. History, theory, spells, rituals, manuals, maps. Everything remotely related to magic was filling the pages. Everything Nik knew about magic was filling the pages to be more precise and due to his wish Nik knew everything there was to know.
"No matter what a wizard did to stay alive, even if he transcended death itself by becoming a lich, his mind kept aging. No wizard was ever able to make a spell to revive his memory one-hundred percent. The words, 'I forgot' have spelled the end of a great many mages in time and none have ever been able to fend off the assault of time on their great minds. None except the owner of the "Book of Infinity". An artifact that serves very much as a second brain for it's owner for knowledge can be placed in it and accessed at will like a computer." Nik versed to himself as the pages filled up with knowledge. The pain and pressure on his brain slowly relieved itself as the vast information was redirected towards the book sparing his sensitive wits.
Nik grinned as he heard the book finally close signally the end of the ritual. He now had all the knowledge and a means to access it. Now he just needed the power to use it. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a small orb. The name 'Lavok' scribed on it in faded letters. "Oh how I've longed for this day." He said as he made a streak across the glass with blood. "Release" He commanded as the orb suddenly shattered. The white mist inside slowly circling him before entering his body as if inhaled. His smile grew bigger.
"It's good to be the last Corthala." His eyesight seemed almost a small price to pay for such great power.
The sudden sound of numerous claws scrapping against the floor has they rushed towards their location drew Nik out of his power high. He almost forgot they were still underground surrounded by a swarm of vampires and a hoard of vampires was still rather deadly for two demons to fight. Yet he now had the knowledge of over 2000 spells and the power of every wizard, great and not so great, to ever grace his bloodline. It almost didn't seem like a challenge anymore.
Dexx looked over at his contractor. Despite his impressive combat skills a glint of fear was barely detectable in his eyes. He wasn't sure if he could do this. Five vampires; no problem, ten; sure thing, heck 30 and he wouldn't complain, but there were hundreds out there and all of them clawing this way and unlike higher level demons his sister and him still couldn't (weren't allowed to be more exact) to dimensional gate. So whatever it was that Nik had found it better be worth their lives.
Nik seemed less than troubled by the hundred plus vampires rushing towards their location getting ready to rip them to shreds. He seemed almost happy. Insanely happy to be exact as he walked in front of Dexx with his blind eyes shut.
"I guess it was fate that I become blind. I was only able to see black before so it just makes sense that it's the only color I can paint this world." A dark aura slowly surrounded the new born spell-caster. He slowly began mumbling something as the aura grew more powerful and the words slowly became louder.
Darkness that never brightens,
Fire that never cools,
Hatred that never fades,
Become my tools,
So I may carve myself a fate,
From a future that I lack,
So I may throw it all away,
To fade this world into black.
End Chapter 21
What to say? This chapter wasn't as difficult as the last, but there are still parts that bothered me. Anyway, drop me a review if you like it.