Chapter 29: Bearer of Despair
Alistair's Domain...
The Dark lord of Despair, lord Alistair had the great well open, the jade liquid was being quietly stirred by himself and only himself, grumbling all in the way as now he must create things in the dark well of green juices of evilness, although Alistair could not create life, he could however, create something that is far greater than life, Alistair can create something that can destroy it rather than to resurrect life.
Lord Alistair should know, according to the many Bearers of Despair before him, it is said according to many personal records in the library of mortality of previous Bearers of Despair, is that when all else fails, when all of the other bearers are either killed or redeemed, the lord of despair can create an armor made of pure sin, each piece of the armor representing the seven deadly sins, the helm represented pride, the left gauntlet represented envy, the right one represented wrath, the left shoulderpad represented greed, and the right one represented gluttony, the tasset represented lust and the boots represented sloth, it all begins with a set of plain armor, all black and nothing special about the armor pieces that were canvas white, all held together with black chains that hanged from the ceiling, after several rituals of sins, and maybe some dark magic, the armor will then be dipped into the well, and after several minutes of allowing the well's contents to completely cover the armor, Alistair will pull them out, and they will change to their respective sins, the left shoulderpad will represent greed, for it will be a massive golden shoulderpad with chains of diamonds hanging off of it, the chains will be used for lashing and for taking what is Alistair's and not others, the right shoulderpad will represent gluttony, being a massive shoulderpad being made entirely out of meat and flesh, it will have mouths as it's armor ridges and will have massive horns sprout of the armor, representing the lack of control in the shoulderpad's creation.
The two armored boots will represent sloth, the boots will be made out of heavy stone and is somewhat large even compared to Lord Alistair's feet, making Alistair need to use extra effort to move, the tasset will represent lust, the black and red tasset covering lord Alistair's lower body…All except his private part, just to sexually entice, luckily, Lord Alistair has some form of decency, so he decided it would be best to wear some pants underneath the tasset. The Helm would represent pride, being a beautiful white helm that represented the lion, the beast of arrogance, with a mane and ornate designs and all just to make the helm stand out compared to the other pieces. The left gauntlet will represent Envy, being a crude and rusty bladed gauntlet with a tint of emerald green, with the gauntlet having a strange green gem in the palm of the armored fingers, the only thing that the gauntlet that is actually noteworthy, the right gauntlet will represent wrath, being a red armored gauntlet will blades and black spikes randomly sprouting out of the gauntlet with the belief that no matter what you do with the gauntlet, it will cause pain, in fact it has long bladed claws on the gauntlet's finger tips, all coated in lemon juice, chili powder and salt, just to cause pain and inflict great harm unto others
The armor pieces were pulled out of the great well, the Lord of Despair smiled to himself as the pieces of the armor of sin were made perfectly and absolutely perfect to the description of the armor pieces, and with a laugh the Lord of Despair then set the armor pieces unto himself slowly but surely, placing the gauntlets on first, empowering Alistair with the desires for bloodshed due to the fact that someone has something that he doesn't.
He placed the shoulderpads on him, one of the shoulderpad's made Alistair believe that everything that he saw was his and not anyone else's, and the other shoulderpad made the Lord of Despair want even more than what he has, despite not needing anything and already having his share.
He placed the red and black lusty tasset around his waist, empowering the Lord of Despair with a strange desire to pleasure himself and to look for another one of the opposite gender so he can have more pleasure once more with one another.
He placed the Helm of pride onto his head, right after he took of his hood; Alistair was then empowered by the arrogance that Kassius once held was she was still breathing, believing that Alistair did not truly needed his loyal minions to fill out various tasks for he can fulfill those tasks and do twice as fast and twice as better than his minions
And finally, he placed the heavy stone boots on his uncovered feet, empowering him with the belief that Alistair's does not need to try in order to fill out the tasks that his minions once followed, believing that he does not require his full power to decimate and decapitate.
Alistair admired himself in his new armored form, the seven sins being all over him like bees on a flower, the only bodypart that wasn't covered at all was his chest, but Alistair was quick to believe that he does not require any more armor to begin with, only covering the chest with a black tabard.
"Yes…YES!...With this armor of pure unadulterated sin …And my magic to corrupt others to give in to their sins and doubts…I can accomplish anything!" Lord Alistair said with a loud laugh as he once again admired himself and his newly-found strength.
"I will make them rue the day when they defected from my grasp!" Alistair said with a loud roar, his glee in wearing his new armor being not as a strong as the new-found anger in Alistair's demonic heart, he wanted Star and Marco dead, he wanted Mason dead, he wanted Ira dead, he wanted Baron Van Vox dead and he wanted Luxuria dead, believing that it was all their fault why Alistair is alone and more importantly without a following of loyal minions behind his back.
Elsewhere…
Ludo quietly and somberly sat on his throne while his minions of various monsters spent their time waiting for their master's orders, playing with a deck of cards to pass of time of pure silence, the tiny master of evil sighed, not knowing what to do now.
After Lord Alistair failed in obtaining the wand, Ludo has struck a new low, if the Bearers of Despair could not defeat Star Butterfly and achieve the wand, he wondered to himself, who could? With a rather noticeable shrug of the shoulders, the tiny master of evil was contemplating should he even be going after the wand to begin with?
Every time he tries, he fails, even after calling some help didn't work in the slightest, in fact, the help actually helped our two heroes even more so rather than anything else, at least Ludo can keep his minions in line, Alistair had four of his Bearer's defect to our heroes side, and only one of those defections was intentional for our two heroes, now Star Butterfly and Marco Diaz has the help of the former wielder of the wand, a giant beetle knight who's determination is greater than many, a gargoyle samurai monster that can heal and revive anyone he pleases.
All of this thinking and contemplating was quickly withdrawn when a rather large portal opened up in front of Ludo, Ludo gasped in surprise as a response, quickly he barked several orders to his minions to protect their leader from harm, just in case that the thing that pops out of the portal was not a hostile monster and it was only opened due to accident.
"What is this? Who opens a portal in my Throne Room?" Ludo asked in a rather confused tone, looking at his subordinates wanting them to answer for him, his minions did not have any answers whatsoever, something that Ludo took note of.
"I do…" Said a voice inside of the portal, and after the voice spoke in a deep and menacing tone, the newly-armored Lord Alistair walked out of the portal and stood in front of Ludo, his minions and his throne in an extremely threatening way, looking strong yet civilized, brutal yet clean, mighty yet intelligent.
"Ohh…Well if it isn't the thing that failed…" Ludo said, clearly unintimidated in Alistair's brutal and armored form; his minions on the other hand weren't as brave or as foolish as their master was.
The Armored Bearer of Despair laughed, not in a mocking way, but it was a genuine laugh, believing that Ludo's words were simply jokes
"THEY did fail…But does not mean…I will fail…" Lord Alistair did as he folded his arms, Ludo notice the heavily-bladed claw and the incredibly rusty gauntlet.
"In fact…This is more personal than ever before…" Alistair said with a noticeable angry tone in his voice.
"Then why are you here Alistair?" Ludo asked, being clearly bored with Alistair's words and his presence.
"For I will offer you something that will promise you great things, the wand included…" Lord Alistair, this got Ludo's attention.
"I'm listening…" Ludo said, somewhat interested in Alistair's words now due to the promises of Alistair.
"If you help me in my quest for vengeance against Star Butterfly, you will get what you always wanted...Her wand...Her death...Transformation of your body...The destruction of Mewni...All you have to do, is listen to my orders and follow through my footsteps..." Ludo thought for a moment, a claw finger on his chin as he contemplated should he listen to the Bearer of Despair that failed in every time his minions confronted our two heroes
"How do I know you won't fail like the times before?" Ludo asked the Lord of Despair, this got the Bearer of Despair to laugh, finding Ludo's doubt in Alistair's newly acquired strength through wearing legendary armor that was used by previous Bearers of Despair.
"For I wear the armor of Sin...Used by every other Lords of Despair for they were my predecessors , and they were successful when they carried out their own tasks, destroying their enemies, conquering worlds, and obtaining what they want..." Lord Alistair said, Ludo wasn't convinced despite the Lord of Despair's words
"Really? Prove it..." Ludo said in response, wanting Alistair to speak the truth. Alistair once again laughed in response.
"Consider it done...I will bring you the head of a former associate that I consider unworthy of living..." Lord Alistair said as he disappeared in a puff of black smoke, leaving the tiny master of evil with more questions rather than answers.
Elsewhere...More Specifically, A Place Known as Hydrus...
The Former Bearer of Sloth, Baron Van Vox, observed his former village that he used to manage when he young and hot-blooded, the former village that Baron Van Vox used to manage was replaced with a newly made-one and it had similar characteristics to the village of before, small, humble, quiet and yet strangely, lacking the desire to expand without a watchful eye, the Baron looked from afar, not wanting the village people to find out that a Van Vox is near them, probably having the desires to take over forcefully.
Valor tweeted rather loudly as it rested on Baron Van Vox's shoulder, causing the Former Bearer of Sloth to lightly jump in Valor's loud and sudden chirp. The small bluebird seem to quite hungry and was being rather cranky, despite the fact that Baron Van Vox has a small pouch of worms and various other insects so Valor knows that he won't get hungry as he would normally. So the Baron thought that Valor's loud chirps and crankiness were truly uneeded.
"Don't worry Valor..." Baron Van Vox said as he pulled out a worm and with a gentle open palm, allowed Valor to flutter down to the worm and quickly devoured the insect without a second thought, Valor chirped happily, it's chirps being a word of thanks to the Baron of Diligence. Baron Van Vox smiled in response, happy that his friend was not hungry and chirping loudly because of it.
"Now, what do you think we should do Valor? Should I confront my family or should I just live in this new village to make me remember the old times?" Baron Van Vox asked his bird friend, not really expecting an answer from a bird that can speak any words of common tongue.
To Baron Van Vox's surprise, the bird responded to Baron's words, Valor went into flight and flew to the path that lead to the new village, with a shrug, the former Bearer of Sloth followed Valor's desires of wanting to stop wandering and instead settle down in a quiet down.
Too bad this is probably going to Be Baron Van Vox's final decision he'll ever make...
