36: Family chaos
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Hatred's shadows slither across the Nightosphere tracking down Pride's, Gluttony's, and Greed's scent. His shadows slowly leaks through the cracks of the cave and drips down, his shadows get some density as it turns into a thick ink. Pride's walking as the fiery letters appear around him, he's deep in his search when Hatred's ink splats on his shoulder. Pride looks at it, he looks up and falls back. Hatred's ink reaches the floor, Pride stands on guard as he summons a katana behind him, Hatred's ink forms into his frame as Hatred rises. Pride stands on guard as he summons his katana blade into his hand behind his back.
Hatred walks his way towards Pride, he keeps his eyes locked on Pride's. The blue and red eyes stare back at each other, Hatred's have something like anxiety in them while Pride's have something like hate and anger in them.
"It's been a long time Father." Pride snarls out as he starts getting them to circle around each other. Hatred knows what he's trying to do, because hello he got most of his ruthlessness and strategy from him. Hatred narrows his eyes as they flash a bit, Pride's does the same as they're testing each other out. Pride lunges out at him, Hatred just raises his arm and his shadows harden over it taking the blunt of Pride's attack. Pride presses harder, Hatred just pushes him off, Pride pulls back. He just glares at Hatred,
"Now Pride, what did I tell you about turning on your siblings?" Hatred asks as he stands there with his arms folded across his chest. Pride clenches his jaw as he feeds his blades flames, his katana roars and screeches from the intensity of his flames. Hatred sighs, "Pride, you're forgetting that I'm your father," Pride makes a Tchk noise.
"So what?! You told me that if you hate someone bad enough that bonds between them doesn't matter! So I will surpass you, I've gotten stronger over the past years don't discredit me so damn fast!" Pride yells out as he opens his eye and its general blue color is replaced by a red with a black spider web. Hatred lets out a startled gasp,
"You awaken the Midaregami?!" Hatred demands as he takes a step back. Pride smirks as he sees this,
"And I can do it in both eyes too! You're not the only one that can; I think this battle should be a battle fought with the eyes!" then the spider web design appears in both eyes. Hatred stands on guard with his shadows turning and churning around him,
Love and Lust pull back from their family members, they're all smiling with Envy looks around,
"Mom where's Dad?" Love's eyes grow huge as she realizes that he's gone. Her eyes scan around as she tries to find him, Lust looks at her with a shocked expression. Lust dispenses into shadows and runs off. Love looks over to her children,
"Follow me! We don't have that much time!" they nod and they all follow behind Lust.
Hatred falls back as he avoids the flames from Pride's attack. Pride clenches his jaw then sends more powerful flames towards him, Hatred kicks the ground in front of him and the shadows explode from the ground, they form a living wall as Hatred blocks the flames; Pride's flames consume up the shadows, they hiss as they're literally evaporated into thin air. Hatred's knocked into the wall making it crack underneath him. He winces as he rises and shakes the rock off of him. The rocks under his feet start moving as Gluttony appears from the cave's wall and gets Hatred in a choke hold. Gluttony grows into his full height and his childish look melts away into one of a full-grown man. Hatred snarls as he tries fighting against Gluttony without hurting him, Pride slowly makes his way over to the struggling Nightmare.
"How does it feel now Daddy?" Pride laughs maliciously as the spider's wed lace starts multiplying meaning he's using his Midaregami's powers. Hatred shoots his head towards Pride,
"I didn't raise you guys to be like this!" He screeches then he lets out a "uh" as lightning punctures through his shoulders and knees handicapping him against the wall; Greed appears from behind Pride as the lightning hisses from his fingers. They make their way over to him, "Bloody hell Greed you're in this too?!" He demands but they don't say anything. "There's a reason why I didn't teach you all how to unlock the Midaregami!" Hatred yells out, Pride smirks
"Just admit it! You were afraid that we would end up surpassing you! C'mon and fight me! I'm not the same little boy from that day!" Pride demands as Greed amplifies the voltage in his lightning. Hatred's about to scream when he muffles it holding it back,
"I'm not going to fight against you all! You're the most precious things I have to me," That's when Pride loses it. He lunges out him. Hatred manages to break free from Gluttony's and Greed's hold, he tries to evade the attack when Pride's katana slices him the side of his rib cage. He gets a good distance away from his sons as he puts his hand on his sliced rib cage, black blood drips out of his fingers, Hatred glares at them.
"Don't test me." He orders as his red eyes look alive with something sinister written in them.
"I see that you're finally alive huh! Greed! Gluttony! Get out this is my fight! I have a score to settle," Pride orders as he raises his katana. Greed and Gluttony disappear as they know what's about to go down. Once when they leave, Hatred looks at Pride,
"Tell me something Pride, who showed you how to activate your Midaregami?" He asks because he knows Pain couldn't, Love wouldn't even be able too, only creatures with Nightmare origins could use it.
"Misery did," Hatred's eyes grow huge
"What?! But that's impossible! He didn't have the Midaregami so how was he able to?!" Pride holds his katana in front of him,
"He told me if I wield this blade, that I could cheat the Midaregami's curse." Then at that moment Hatred falls to his knees. He puts his arm out so that way he doesn't crash into the ground, he clutches onto his ribs as more blood starts coming out of him. "I see you're not as strong as you were before, you seemed to have dulled throughout the eons Father," Pride stands in front of him, he's about to bring it down on him when Hatred shoots his hand out to stop the blade from slicing his head off. He tightens his hold around the blade, he groans as his palm's cut up, he looks up at Pride,
"You're an idiot! He gave you that blade to," he chokes as he feels the cage that locks up Pain in him start breaking. "To undo the Sealing that locks up Pain in me; I'm such an idiot for not destroying the thing earlier, the Illusion Blade can reverse any sealing. The bastards had this planned all along!" Pride removes the blade in shock by the next series of events that happen. Hatred's scarred hand that has the sealing on it bleeds, then there's a light glowing from the scar, Hatred hunches over as he starts throwing up his blood across the stone floor, then from his blood, it gets thick and a humanoid figure starts forming from it. It grabs Pride and throws him into a wall, Hatred screams out as the figure holds Pride against the wall,
"I owe you nephew." the figure says in a voice that screams with thousands of blades slicing into your ears. Pride screams as it grows a body revealing the face of Pain. He laughs then he raises his fingers to Pride's eyes, he kicks and tries fighting against him, "Those are lovely eyes Pride, maybe I'll take them for myself." and there's the sound of something wet being ripped apart and Pride's blood curling scream.