Endgame
With a sickening squish they land on the other side of the portal and slide to a stop atop an overflowing mound of gray ooze. What could be called the sky is a green and yellow color like the world itself is ill. Distant rumblings and sounds of bubbling pools of ooze are the only noises in this desolate place, but none of that really matters to the two immortal women locked in a violent embrace atop the Hill. Romana is on her back in the sludge and just manages to bring her feet up to her waist as Selene makes a dive for her. She slams her boots into Selene's midsection and pushes with all her might, flipping Selene over her head and sliding down the mound of slime. -I have to time this right!-Romana thinks frantically as she counts down the seconds in her head. She turns back briefly to make sure the portal is still there, but should have known better than to turn her back on a woman scorned. She looks back just in time to get a face full of an energy blast from Selene that knocks her unconscious back into the slime. Selene charges up the slime mound and grabs Romana, this time straddling her waist as she wraps her hands around Romana's neck. She digs her nails into the skin and pushes Romana's head down into the slime, trying to choke and drown her in the muck.
"I will take pleasure in killing you again and again, watching you regenerate and come back for more pain that I will gladly give! You will beg me for death, Eternal!" she screams. In Selene's anger she fails to notice the slime around Romana start to bubble faster, with a green tinge coming to the surface. Suddenly Romana's hand shoots up and grabs Selene's face, steadily forcing her back. Romana raises her face out of the ooze to show glowing green irises crackling with energy.
"WHO SAID SHE WAS AN ETERNAL?" a powerful male voice asks from Romana's snarling lips.
Her hand grips tighter around Selene's mouth as it begins to glow. Selene's eyes widen in panic as she feels the souls of the people she had absorbed straining to be free, the force of them pushing through her throat as the power from Romana's hand pulls them out of her body. Selene visibly begins to change, her skin losing its rosy color and turning a dull gray, her hair becoming brittle. Romana stands to her feet and forces Selene to her knees with the pressure of her hand. When it looks like the last of her energy might go, she lets go of Selene and watches in contempt as her body slides weakly to the ground.
"You are nothing without the souls of your victims, vampire." Romana grunts and spits on Selene in disgust. Selene weakly reaches a thin hand out towards Romana's foot, but it falls short and plops into the slime. "Don't fret, woman. I won't leave you in this forsaken place alone." Romana breathes in deeply and exhales sharply, a stream of green energy flowing out of her mouth into the slime, along with the smoky wisps of six figures. The slime bubbles and the figures rise out of the slime, dripping with gray ooze. "The souls of your fellow Eternals will keep you company!" They growl with hatred and surround the weakened psychic vampire, who screams in fear as they sink back into the ooze and take Selene with them, her emaciated hand reaching out until it too disappears into the slime and they are gone. "Pitiful creature, your powers mean nothing to me! Romana IS eternal, and nothing such as you will interfere with my plans!" he yells.
"ROMANA!" Kurt screams at the portal as Callisto holds him fast to keep him from following her inside.
"We can't go in there!" she yells. "We don't even know what's over there anymore!"
The bright sunlight that lit up the Alley is slowly starting to dim as the sun begins to move.
"Look! The door is going to close!" a Morlock yells.
"Kurt?" Romana's voice returns and her eyes lose the green glow as she turns to the portal. "I'm coming!" Romana takes a step towards the portal when a burst of energy shoots out of the slime a few feet away. -Selene? Could she still be alive?-Romana cringes away but notices that there is a hand reaching out of the slime, and it doesn't belong to a woman.without thinking she dives for the hand and pulls with all her might. -If there is someone still alive in all this mess, please let me save him!-Romana strains her muscles to the limit to get the body out in time. She notices the light getting darker around her and knows in the sinking pit that has become her heart that the portal is closing behind her. "I-won't-let-GO!" Romana screams and with the last word she pulls the unconscious body of a thin man with spiked hair and a patch over his eye into her arms. She lifts the man over her shoulder and trudges through the slime towards the ever- shrinking portal. --I won't let it end like this-it can't!-
"KURT!!" Romana yells to the portal as her strength fails her and she falls to her knees, the pull of the sludge dragging her down. She reaches desperately towards the portal and feels the tingle of the light on her fingers, but she just can't pull the rest of her body through! "I believe. "
Kurt bares his fangs in an angry snarl as he thinks of Romana spending eternity on the Hill when his feelings for her were just starting to grow. "Nein!" he yells. "I von't let you go!" Kurt teleports out of Callisto's arms and leaps at the portal, reaching his hands out to grab whatever is on the other side. He closes his eyes as he whispers, "Have faith in me, Romana."
Callisto makes a grab for Kurt's tail as he disappears completely into the portal, now the size of a piece of paper. "You're a fool, preacher-man!" she yells in frustration as he slips through her fingers. She pounds the ground with her fist as she watches the last of the portal disappear. -It wasn't supposed to happen this way!-There are gasps behind her as the air pops around them and she can smell the familiar odor of brimstone tickle her nostrils. "Do you always wait till the last minute, Nightcrawler?!" Callisto grunts as she quickly wipes away a tear before she turns around to look at the slime covered pile of bodies. Ape quickly picks up the unconscious Morlock to take him to their infirmary.
Ready to pass out from the strain of teleporting three people across an inter-dimensional barrier, the weakened Kurt smiles at the unconscious but breathing Romana cradled in his arms. "Der only vay to save a beautiful fraulien ist vith style."
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With a sickening squish they land on the other side of the portal and slide to a stop atop an overflowing mound of gray ooze. What could be called the sky is a green and yellow color like the world itself is ill. Distant rumblings and sounds of bubbling pools of ooze are the only noises in this desolate place, but none of that really matters to the two immortal women locked in a violent embrace atop the Hill. Romana is on her back in the sludge and just manages to bring her feet up to her waist as Selene makes a dive for her. She slams her boots into Selene's midsection and pushes with all her might, flipping Selene over her head and sliding down the mound of slime. -I have to time this right!-Romana thinks frantically as she counts down the seconds in her head. She turns back briefly to make sure the portal is still there, but should have known better than to turn her back on a woman scorned. She looks back just in time to get a face full of an energy blast from Selene that knocks her unconscious back into the slime. Selene charges up the slime mound and grabs Romana, this time straddling her waist as she wraps her hands around Romana's neck. She digs her nails into the skin and pushes Romana's head down into the slime, trying to choke and drown her in the muck.
"I will take pleasure in killing you again and again, watching you regenerate and come back for more pain that I will gladly give! You will beg me for death, Eternal!" she screams. In Selene's anger she fails to notice the slime around Romana start to bubble faster, with a green tinge coming to the surface. Suddenly Romana's hand shoots up and grabs Selene's face, steadily forcing her back. Romana raises her face out of the ooze to show glowing green irises crackling with energy.
"WHO SAID SHE WAS AN ETERNAL?" a powerful male voice asks from Romana's snarling lips.
Her hand grips tighter around Selene's mouth as it begins to glow. Selene's eyes widen in panic as she feels the souls of the people she had absorbed straining to be free, the force of them pushing through her throat as the power from Romana's hand pulls them out of her body. Selene visibly begins to change, her skin losing its rosy color and turning a dull gray, her hair becoming brittle. Romana stands to her feet and forces Selene to her knees with the pressure of her hand. When it looks like the last of her energy might go, she lets go of Selene and watches in contempt as her body slides weakly to the ground.
"You are nothing without the souls of your victims, vampire." Romana grunts and spits on Selene in disgust. Selene weakly reaches a thin hand out towards Romana's foot, but it falls short and plops into the slime. "Don't fret, woman. I won't leave you in this forsaken place alone." Romana breathes in deeply and exhales sharply, a stream of green energy flowing out of her mouth into the slime, along with the smoky wisps of six figures. The slime bubbles and the figures rise out of the slime, dripping with gray ooze. "The souls of your fellow Eternals will keep you company!" They growl with hatred and surround the weakened psychic vampire, who screams in fear as they sink back into the ooze and take Selene with them, her emaciated hand reaching out until it too disappears into the slime and they are gone. "Pitiful creature, your powers mean nothing to me! Romana IS eternal, and nothing such as you will interfere with my plans!" he yells.
"ROMANA!" Kurt screams at the portal as Callisto holds him fast to keep him from following her inside.
"We can't go in there!" she yells. "We don't even know what's over there anymore!"
The bright sunlight that lit up the Alley is slowly starting to dim as the sun begins to move.
"Look! The door is going to close!" a Morlock yells.
"Kurt?" Romana's voice returns and her eyes lose the green glow as she turns to the portal. "I'm coming!" Romana takes a step towards the portal when a burst of energy shoots out of the slime a few feet away. -Selene? Could she still be alive?-Romana cringes away but notices that there is a hand reaching out of the slime, and it doesn't belong to a woman.without thinking she dives for the hand and pulls with all her might. -If there is someone still alive in all this mess, please let me save him!-Romana strains her muscles to the limit to get the body out in time. She notices the light getting darker around her and knows in the sinking pit that has become her heart that the portal is closing behind her. "I-won't-let-GO!" Romana screams and with the last word she pulls the unconscious body of a thin man with spiked hair and a patch over his eye into her arms. She lifts the man over her shoulder and trudges through the slime towards the ever- shrinking portal. --I won't let it end like this-it can't!-
"KURT!!" Romana yells to the portal as her strength fails her and she falls to her knees, the pull of the sludge dragging her down. She reaches desperately towards the portal and feels the tingle of the light on her fingers, but she just can't pull the rest of her body through! "I believe. "
Kurt bares his fangs in an angry snarl as he thinks of Romana spending eternity on the Hill when his feelings for her were just starting to grow. "Nein!" he yells. "I von't let you go!" Kurt teleports out of Callisto's arms and leaps at the portal, reaching his hands out to grab whatever is on the other side. He closes his eyes as he whispers, "Have faith in me, Romana."
Callisto makes a grab for Kurt's tail as he disappears completely into the portal, now the size of a piece of paper. "You're a fool, preacher-man!" she yells in frustration as he slips through her fingers. She pounds the ground with her fist as she watches the last of the portal disappear. -It wasn't supposed to happen this way!-There are gasps behind her as the air pops around them and she can smell the familiar odor of brimstone tickle her nostrils. "Do you always wait till the last minute, Nightcrawler?!" Callisto grunts as she quickly wipes away a tear before she turns around to look at the slime covered pile of bodies. Ape quickly picks up the unconscious Morlock to take him to their infirmary.
Ready to pass out from the strain of teleporting three people across an inter-dimensional barrier, the weakened Kurt smiles at the unconscious but breathing Romana cradled in his arms. "Der only vay to save a beautiful fraulien ist vith style."
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