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WARNING: some bad (gore) content inside, please read with caution and skip it if you find it necessary
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so to the story we go
Chapter 23: Mental Battlefield
Normal POV: Venom's Hideout, during Astrid's escape
Venom watched everything his mental slave was seeing, through a special artefact, a sphere he stole from a planet that was called by its inhabitants as 'Middle-Earth'; taking it out of the hands of an amateur wizard that wears only white was child play for him
"... where are you going my little slave?" 'even thought I can't touch her, I can at the very least make her avoid the other boy, so not to make my plans fail'
when she heard a small girl scream, he knew something was wrong she was having flashbacks of the day the scrawny boy tried to commit suicide and that was all wrong; she shouldn't be having flashbacks of that day unless she...
this worried him
Venom used the orb to see her memories of the days he was unconscious
"..." his eyes went wide and terror followed by horror as he saw the memories and what have happened 'this is not good, not good at all. if she stays with that boy, my plans will be washed away... by this- this petty love, I have try and make her hate him, I have to-'
"Astrid?" a voice snapped him out of his thoughts
there was a human standing in front of his puppet, a human he never saw in the village, who was he?
as he listened to him, he tried to pry open his head, but something was keeping him out, a force- two forces that he knew too well: Fenix and Dragon... his worst enemies in many years ago and now his hunters, trying to find him and destroy him once and for all. now they have send a scout to fight him? if it wasn't been used against him, he would give a compliment, but those were his enemies and anyone who is an ally to them, is an enemy to him
'let's see how you will deal with against my slave' he thought darkly before making dark green flames appear in his hands and started moving them around the orb while his snakes started hissing and making throat noises
he's a soldier of Hel... he came here to take him away...
Venom whispered these words in Astrid's mind, making her attack Cole. he could only grin evilly, his enemy wasn't fighting back in fear of harming the girl, this was going to be his doom
he laughed and commemorated his easy victory-
"ENOUGH!" a shout snapped him out of his small commemoration
he saw Cole talking to Astrid making her calm down and think clearly
"no you don't" Venom said before whispering in her head again
He's lying...
this did the trick and soon she started to struggle against her captor, but he wasn't trying to hold her up or even coach her into believing him, he was just... glancing at her seeing her eyes-
"...no..." if he was looking into her eyes he would see the spell ring in there, making it obvious that she was being controlled
Venom tried to make her not listen to a word he was saying but her mind was starting to resist him, he had to do something about this or else he would lose his pawn
a terrible idea came to his head, making him grin evilly "Bring the ceremonial relics!" he said to his snakes
these relics were taken from many different worlds and now he was going to use them all to get a boost in power
when Astrid and Cole entered the house, he was arranging the relics to allow himself to receive the boost he needed, but he was slower than them in that matter
"finish arranging the relics! I have to delay his progress or else I will lose my slave" he said to his snakes and moved back to the orb
meanwhile
"Alright Astrid, I know you don't need to be told twice but don't move or think of anything, apart from Hiccup ok?"
she nod her head, closed her eyes and laid down on the bed, while he placed both his hands on her head.
'I hope I know what I'm doing here' he thought before he started to conjure his spell
soon tendrils of light started to come out of his head and started going to Astrid's head, when they connected he stopped reciting the spell
from the outside it would look like they were both sleeping, but a magician would know what was going on there: Cole just entered Astrid's mind!
he better be careful or else he might never come back alive again, or sane for that same matter, his own mind would be lost inside the head of someone else, forever...
In Astrid's mind
Cole opened his eyes and saw that everything was dark... all except for a silver light coming from below him, it were actually his hands; both were now, lines of silver light just like the rest of his body and his clothes. he soon started to run determined to find the source of the spell. as he went on searching there were memories floating around him, that were flying above him, her days as a small child playing with her friends, which surprisingly included Hiccup; the day she received her first axe; the day she stole Hiccup's journal for the first time-
but he didn't have time for that, Astrid needed him and he was not going to disappoint her. he have to find the source of spell and take it out before the spellcaster showed up
Somewhere else
a small red vortex appears out of thin air( metaphorically speaking) growing in size until it was big enough to swallow a human, then it sucked itself and exploded making a dark green lighted human form appears, twisting the memories floating around him, turning them into horrible nightmares... it was Venom's doing...
Venom opened his eyes, here they were red blood like. he was going to find that human and destroy him once and for all, for he wouldn't allow him to live and become a bigger threat to him or his ambition.
some time later
Cole have been running for- he actually don't have an idea of how long he was here, but what was really bugging him was the fact that he travelled too far already and he was yet to find the source of the spell in her body...
he was feeling an odd, wicked and sickening presence somewhere, this was urging him to move faster than he already was
"Hiccup...*moan*"
he stopped on his tracks, wasn't that Astrid's voice? he looked to where the voice apparently was coming from-
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Cole have had enough and was about to try and separate the two teenagers, when he heard a lid hitting the ground, like it was thrown there; at the sound of the lid hitting the ground both teenagers separated, with Hiccup in front of Astrid in a defensive stance, who noticed the action and didn't liked a single bit
"Hiccup! I know how to take care of myself, thank you very much" she pout angered and a bit loud, while turning her back to him
'oh boy...' Cole thought
he was about to do something when-
"I don't think you can't protect yourself, Milady." Hiccup to her with a neutral tone, which was mistaken by both, Astrid and Cole, as anger
"I did this because even if you don't need protection, I want to protect you, even if you hate for doing so" he finished with his voice leveled on the same neutral tone which he used at the beginning
Astrid looked back to him, her eyes wide with shock, but also with a glimpse of guilt "I'm so-"
"Don't be" Hiccup interrupted her abruptly, making her step back fearing he would want her to leave and never talk to him again "*sigh*... I shouldn't have done this without warning, of course you would be offended by this... what I'm trying to say is: I'm sorry. I offended you as a warrior and of course you would feel insulted, for that I'm sorry Astrid"
this made Astrid eyes go wide again, he was apologizing for offending her honor as a warrior? this made her smirk
"I have a request for you" she said in a lustful tone, that went unnoticed to Hiccup, but send Cole's parental self into an high alert, if he was a Monstrous Nightmare he would have coated himself on fire, standing between both teenagers and would be roaring like a mad dragon
"Forget it girl, you're not getting it-" Cole started saying putting himself in front of Hiccup
"what is it, Milady?" Hiccup asked, cutting Cole off
"Are you kidding me-" Cole yelled turning to look at his adoptive son, only to have the boy passing through him reminding him that he was seeing a memory, not the actual thing "*sigh*... what have you asked Hofferson?" Cole asked himself, while watching the rest of the memory
"I want you to protect me" she said, making both boy and man look confused "But only when I can't protect myself or really need to be protected, not matter how angry I get while you do so" Hiccup slowly nod, but was getting the idea
that Cole calm down, maybe he could allow them to date normally after all...
"Also" Astrid said before she threw herself on Hiccup, pressing her body against his "I want you to obey every order I give you" she said in a very lustful tone and started kissing Hiccup before he could even think of a reply
Forget
everything
he said
before,
that's it!
the second this is all over, he's going to put those two in a very tight leash
"THAT'S IT! YOU TWO ARE ONLY GOING TO DO DATE OVER MY DEAD AND ROTTEN CORPSE!" Cole yelled and moved his arms towards the memory, trying to make the two lovers(there's no way to call them love birds or any other thing) to separate
"I can help them with that" said a voice that came from behind Cole
Immediately on pure adrenaline and instinct, Cole dodge roll through the memory and unsheathed his sword, that suddenly was on his back, and countered the attack with a thrust stab towards his enemy and separate his twin blades from the handle sending multiple attacks with both swords.
Venom sidestepped the first attack, but when the broadsword split in the half, he jumped out of the blades' reach but not without being followed by his enemy's deadly attacks. he unsheathed his poison covered blade and paired what he could from the attacks
when his enemy stopped for a split second he found his opportunity to deliver a finishing blow. he thrust his blade aiming at his enemy's heart, already seeing his victory arriving but the silver lined man somersaulted over him, forcing him to dodge roll out of his opponent swords' reach.
when both turned to face each other, none dared to make the first move, but Venom started laughing
"I must say... I was expecting someone older... and stronger than you" the spellcaster said between laughs
"you look, what... seventeen? Eighteen?" he asked mockingly to Cole after recovering a bit from his laughter, but started all over again
Cole just looked, his facial expression was neutral and was almost losing his temper (again) but what held him in place was the fact that this was exactly what his enemy wanted him to do, so he was keeping himself collected in order to not fall on the obvious trap laid for him
"I was expecting them to send a man to fight me but they must be desperate to send all... this" he gestured to Cole, finally stopping to laugh
"you just gestured to all of me" Cole deadpanned
Venom then noticed something, something in the way he deadpanned, the color of his eyes even though very different, they still remembered someone, someone he thought he would never hear or see again.
"you know... you remind me of someone... someone I met in the past... are his descendent?" Venom asked thinking that Cole would know what he was talking about
"What are you talking about? who you know?" Cole asked tightening his grip on both swords' handles, his fighting instincts kicking him into high alert
"oh... no one special, since for you on your time, he's already dead" Venom said dismissively, loosening his battle stance and lowering his sword
he silently whispered a spell making his shadow move out of him and going behind Cole. Speaking another silent spell he made his shadow raise from the ground, becoming a solid clone of himself, wielding a weapon, a serrated knife
"probably you never heard of him anyway, but don't worry..." he added turning his back to Cole, smirking he added "you will meet him pretty soon"
Cole was so focused on the enemy just ahead of him that he didn't noticed another Venom arriving from behind him, with a serrated knife at hand...
When he understood what Venom meant, it was already too late
"Argh!"
in the real world, Cole coughed some blood, but remained inside Astrid's mind, where his mental projection was kneeling down with a knife at the side of his chest, he pulled the blade out and threw it away, then tried to raise
"No, no, no, no, no, no, don't even try" Venom said casually, then smirked evilly turning around to look at Cole " 'cause there are more coming"
Cole's eyes widened and he jumped, grabbing the handle of his broadsword and standing away from where Venom was standing
The spellcaster just raised an eyebrow asking "who said to you that I was going to do it"
this time Cole noticed something behind him and without thinking clearly he turned around swinging the blade-less handle towards his enemy
Venom was about to laugh of his stupid attempt of fighting with a sword handle which, ironically, was without a blade to hold when his eyes fell on the blades on the ground, his blood froze; those were one of the most powerful and sacred weapons of his people, many were wield by sacred warriors of the past, but of all of the things, why was THAT in the hands of mortal human?
a cry of pain came... his own cry of pain
he was thrown out of the girl's mind because of that attack, but what drew his attention was what was on the side of his body...
glancing to the side of his body, he could see it, blood... oozing from a wound that appeared in him...
his snakes stopped working on the ceremony to help their master
"Massssster! we will delay that human for you my Liege" a red and black snake said and it soon started conjuring a spell that made it become a human in a battle armor
"I, Dreadhell, shall make that human pay for what he did to you my Liege" the snake said and conjured another spell that made it disappear in thin air
soon other snakes did the same and they all went inside Astrid's mind to fight Cole, while Venom used a few medicines for his wound, that wasn't healing with magic no matter how hard he tried to cast a spell on it. the only servant that stayed behind was Silverfangs, who continued to work on preparing the ceremony
when he patched himself up, one of his snakes-soldiers came back from the girl's mind bleeding with a large slash wound across the body and the armor ripped apart around the cut
"I'm... sorry master... I failed..." the soldier said before dying
Venom just went back to the orb, ignoring the soldier that have just died fighting for him and entered his slave mind again, when he came back he saw some of his servants lying on the ground with large wounds on their bodies
"what are you still doing here, go back immediately!" Venom barked enraged
his servants, even though deep wounded, obeyed and retreated
turning his gaze towards the human, he understood why he was wounded and why his servants were defeated: the handle materialized a blade of energy; raw like ore and dancing like a flame...
this blade was capable of harm magicians through their magic, or in other words, even if the magician is protected by a magical shield that blade would pass the damage directed to the shield towards the spellcaster, making he or she be wounded no matter what they were using as a shield
this made Venom furious... this pitiful human was wielding one of HIS people sacred weapons and against him, two things that make him furious: being opposed and seeing weapons of his people at the hands of someone that wasn't him.
he attacked wildly and furiously, using both his enemy's blades. Cole defended the first attack but wasn't capable of avoid the second, the blade connected to his side and Venom pulled the blade
"AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Cole cried in pain, back in the real world he coughed more blood thanks to the wound
not focused but still awake, even through the unbearable pain on his side, Cole punched Venom in the face. this took his foe by surprise, taking the chance he swung his energy sword across Venom's stomach making his foe scream in pain, since the blade have opened his mental projection's stomach
Venom released the swords and grabbed his stomach, trying to ease his pain, in the real world his stomach have received a scar and forced him to cough some blood for the pain he sustained, but he was still inside the girl's mind. rage filling his own mind, Venom was about to attack without care for how wounded he would be come, but wanting to kill the human when-
"Massssster... the ccccceremony hasssss been finissssssshed" Silverfangs said to his master
Venom smirked and forced his mental projection turn into a stone version of itself, while he regained control of his body "begin the ceremony at once!" he ordered before going back to Astrid's mind, facing the human with a wicked and evil smile "You lost... pitiful mortal!"
Cole was about to strike, not allowing Venom to do whatever he was planning to do, but The madman raised his hand and shape sweltering Cole was held in the air by an invisible hand, smothering him slightly, but the grip on his neck was becoming tighter. Cole tried to slash the invisible arm but has no success in the task
"Prophets, you're really just a damn stupid, pitiful mortal human, aren't you..." Venom said shaking his head slowly "... you can't fight something that isn't physical and do you even know how to use the handle on your hands?"
Cole stopped struggling and looked to Venom, an eyebrow raised and his face saying 'And you know it because you use one of these all the time'. Venom laughed, thinking that Cole was expecting to be told how to use the sword in it's full power; both stayed where they were for a few minutes, then Venom dragged Cole towards him, tightening his grip on Cole's neck, until he was with his own hand choking his enemy
"I don't know you are and don't care why they chose you, but I gonna tell you this; for three years, you have been a pain I couldn't get rid of no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't get myself free of you!" Venom said, finishing with his grip tightening even more around Cole's neck
Cole was starting to feel light headed and was seeing black dots, his vision was becoming blurry, but before he could faint Venom released him, just slightly so that way Cole wouldn't blackout
"You know, since you were capable of keeping yourself hidden from me for three years I gonna tell you what will happen next" Venom said, bringing Cole closer to his face "after I kill you I gonna regain control over that little blonde girl and make her KILL that scrawny weak boy. but the better part is what I gonna do to her"
Venom then whispered the next part on his ear "I gonna rape her..." Cole's eyes widened with horror
"painfully... slowly... mercilessly..." those words rang in his ears, making him clench his fists
"and when I'm finished with her... I gonna put her chained to a wall and make every single one of my soldiers rape her restlessly and mercilessly... even after she's broken" Venom looked at Cole's eyes one last time, his foe eyes were burning with rage, to that he smiled "Goodbye mortal" he said and snapped Cole's neck, making his mental projection evaporate
Venom looked at his surroundings smiling "my servants! come and expand my control over her mind, leave no corner nor memory untouched or destroyed. TAKE DOWN THIS MIND! BEND IT TO MY WILL!" he roared
"YES MASTER!" his soldiers answered in a single voice
soon they were twisting and corrupting Astrid's mind
back to the real world at the same moment
Cole's body was on the ground, he was long gone...
*Thud-thud*
but his soul wasn't willing to go and something was forcing his heart to beat again
*Thud-thud*
I...
...*Thud-thud*
...*Thud-thud*
I gonna stop him...
Cole's hand twitched into a fist
...*Thud-thud*
I'm going to stop him...
... *Thud-thud*
no...
... *Thud-thud*
not stop...
... *Thud-thud*
...*Thud-thud*
A white flame suddenly engulfed Cole's body, not burning him but strengthening him... bringing him back to live
...*Thud-thud*
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I gonna... I gonna...
*Thud-thud* *Thud-thud* *Thud-thud* *Thud-thud* *Thud-thud* *Thud-thud*
*Thud-thud* *Thud-thud* *Thud-thud*
*Thud-*
at that moment Cole's eyes snapped open, his eyes became slits and his iris went from brownish to red blood; his eyes became dragon eyes...
...*Thud-thud*
...*Thud-thud*
I GONNA KILL THAT MONSTER!
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FenixX13... *evades being squashed by a giant foot*
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