Author: Lily Windwave
Challenger: SolarStarPhoenix

Author's warning: It gets dark and depressing just in case you aren't into that sort of thing.


Drained

Lily's eyes were drained of color, her usually unruly brown hair was now wilting into a flat and dull shape. Her wan body and torn clothing completed the look of an elementally drained portal master.

Kaos' hand trembled with pure horror as his finger lightly rested on the button of a machine attached to Lily's heart. He had always made Glumshanks do the dirty work, he had never actually done it in person, and never wanted to again. He felt no more victory at the terrifying sight. He, for once in hislife, felt guilty, more than guilty.

"Kaos..." a faint whisper was all Lily could manage as her body was slowly withering away. "Why?"

That last word hit him like earth flew out of the sky and crushed him. He was now feeling drained himself. Indeed Why? Was it human nature, the instinct he tried for so many years to get rid of? Was it the hunger of power possessing his mind?

"This is why I despise humans!" Kaos shouted with fury and all the wrath he couldd put into his voice. "Their society controlling every-"

"Motion..." Lily whispered, remembering the passage to which the dark portal master was quoting, "Their mechanic bodies carrying them to their doom, their synthesized voices killing the children in which their artificial eyes failed to see." she attempted a laugh, "I knew you had some intelligence in that brain of yours"

Kaos just gazed at the teenage portal master in awe, she was blessed with a false sense of maturity. She spoke the words, but had another script etched in her mind. She thought 'Hello' but her tongue did not speak it. She was not human. And Kaos loved that about her. He then picked up a piece of paper that she had held in her fragile hands.

I am not normal.
I choose not to be normal.
Normal is to fit in with the ignorant.
those who are mechanic
I act mechanic But wish I could spread my wings.
I have issues I display to the world
Yet you do not see them.
Nor do you see me.

"I see you, Lily."