Hey people. Been a long time between updates, but with four fanfics going on at once, your brain tends to become fried. Trust me, it's quite unpleasant.
All of you have waited long enough for this story, so I'll shut up here. Because now it's...
"SHOWTIME!"
Chapter Five
Bleeding of Reality
Siegfried and Ivy stared at the open doorway. Something that was pulled straight out of a lunatic's nightmare was standing there. The air around it seemed to ripple, as if just by existing it was warping the very fabric of reality itself. The stone and nearby areas seemed to... bleed, to run together, like wet paint. The creature's laughter, a horrid gurgling and gushing sound, rang out in the room. It placed a hand against the stone and the stone seemed to ripple, as if the force of the impact had been made visible. Siegfried realized with something akin to horror that he was going to die.
The statue Travens had made was accurrate to a degree, but no statue of mere stone could truly replicate the horrid beast. From it's mouth, constantly dripping foam and pus splashed on the floor. Siegfried saw that it moved, as if alive, and wriggled about before stopping and disintegrating (Siegfried's mind couldn't help but think of it as dying). The snakes writhed constantly, and the chittering of their scales on one another drowned out all other sound in the room, washing it away in a tidal wave of scraping madness. Bleeding sores stood open on it's body, and the foul, black blood dripped and ran silently onto the floor. The demon flexed it's massive hands and walked in.
" WELCOME," Thok'ti said, his voice booming in Siegfried's mind and causing him to grab his head in pain (unbeknownst to him, his ears had started bleeding). Thok'ti's laughter rang in his mind. " BE GLAD. FEW HAVE GAZED UPON SUCH AS I IN THIS DAY AND AGE." Sweeping it's head across the room, it asked, " WHERE ARE YOU, SERVANT? VOLDO?" Turning back to the two warriors, it said, " APPARENTLY YOU KILLED HIM. NOT TOO BAD. YOU WILL BE EXCELLENT PRACTICE FOR ME. I'VE BEEN ASLEEP A LONG TIME."
Ivy had taken something from a pouch on her belt. It was a vial, with a cross design on the stopper. Gripping it, she threw it at Thok'ti, praying she wouldn't miss. The glass vial flew through the air, and Thok'ti swatted it with his claw. Too late, the demon saw it's mistake. The vial busted in it's hand, and the holy water seeped out. It's claw didn't so much melt as dissappear, as if it had never been there. The demon's outraged scream rang out in the room.
Glaring at Ivy with unmasked hate, twin snakes launched out of it's body. The two snakes were moving incredibly fast, and there was no way she was going to dodge in time. Poison glittered on their fangs as they raced toward her, triumph clear in their eyes...
Siegfried saw his chance. He was standing to the left of them, and swung just as they passed him. He cut their necks neatly in half. Thok'ti roared and retracted the bleeding stumps. On the floor, the heads twitched, and the necks still attached to them flung blood everywhere. The blood was black and thick.
Thok'ti stomped forward, and twin holes opened in it's massive shoulders. Two blasts of foul gases sprayed forth. The gases would kill anything they touched. Ivy dodged them, hiding behind a pillar and drawing out another vial. She flung it around the side of the pillar without coming out. The vial burst when it hit the ground, and the area about it was suddenly black, filled with a dark cloud of some sort. It flew out and covered the gas cloud, and a gnashing sound was heard. The blackness dissipated with a low-pitched sigh, and the gas cloud was gone. Thok'ti roared and Ivy smirked. The black cloud was a Darkness spirit she had trapped. Damn thing ended up useful after all.
Thok'ti ran forward, it's one remaining claw swinging low to the ground. It struck a column with an incredibly loud, ringing sound, and the place it had touched melted and caved in slightly. The entire pillar sagged forward, looking like a monk bowing in prayer.
Siegfried glanced at the pillar, and had an idea. He didn't know if it would work, but...
" Hey! Jackass! Come and- Oof!" Siegfried said. He'd planned on taunting it and then crushing it under the pillar's weight by cutting through the pillar when Thok'ti was under it. His plan was stopped by the one-armed freak attempting to slit his throat. Voldo had kicked him into another of the stone pillars, knocking Requiem out of his hands, and now Siegfried had both his hands on Voldo's one remaining arm, attempting to stop the gibbering, maddened freakshow from carving him like a Thanksgiving turkey. He finally kicked him off, and grabbed Requiem, but when he looked up Voldo was gone. Siegfried looked around, trying to spot him.
Voldo had excellent senses, although he could not see (Siegfried would not have been surprised at this). He instead "felt" things, "saw" them in black-and-white geometric shapes. He was old, over 50, yet the testing and psi performed on him kept his body lithe and animalistic. They also gave him incredible stamina, and though he was dying, he was able to hold onto the top of a pillar, out of torchlight and Siegfried's sight.
Hearing his master's voice once more (get him Get Him GET HIM) he dropped from the roof, and a war-cry torn from his very heart echoed out into the room.
Ivy had turned to see what had produced that warbling sound, and in that unguarded moment Thok'ti swept his claw at her. Her reflexes kicked in and she ducked- but not before his claw touched the top of her skull. In that moment, her hair died instantly, and several bits of it fell out in violet clumps on the floor. A horrid, searing pain filled her head, and she screamed. Thok'ti rose up and opened it's scorpion pincer mouth, getting ready to bite.
Siegfried had heard Voldo falling, and done the one thing he could do. He fell right on his ass, raising Requiem over himself and curling into a ball. Voldo hit Requiem so hard that the massive blade shuddered, and Siegfried thought that if Voldo had connected it would have split his entire body in half. Voldo, body ringing from it's contact with Requiem, stumbled backward. Siegfried, ignoring the shaking in his arms, got up and swung Requiem, hard. It tore through Voldo's chest, and Voldo's last thought is...
[It was never my master it was Inferno oh beware boy BEWARE]
And then his mind finally, mercifully, shut down for good, and his weary body fell to the floor.
Siegfried turned and gasped in shock and fright. Ivy, whose hair appeared to be thinning, was snapping the Snake Sword rapidly back and forth at Thok'ti. The creature was trying to bite her in between the lashes, and Ivy was tiring. She looked very badly hurt, and Siegfried looked for anything to help her. Glancing up, he saw a glass chandelier, hanging above Thok'ti. Dropping his sword and grabbing a nearby torch brazier, he flung it at the chandelier. The fiery missile split the rope holding it to the ceiling, and it came down, a beautiful comet, to the earth. It's spiked end hit Thok'ti in the middle of it's twisted, horrendous spines. Snakes hissed and screamed as they were crushed under the tremendous weight of the chandelier. Thok'ti uttered a single choked scream before it's foul lungs were pierced. It fell with a crash. Ivy leaped out of it's way and nimbly dodged the broken glass.
Siegfried, thinking the demon was dead, walked towards her. " Well, I guess that-"
" Get away from it!" Ivy cried, searching frantically in her pouch. She had brought a special vial, and if she had lost it, then God help them.
The chandelier shuddered. Thok'ti began rising up, a nightmarish thing. It's body was already repairing itself. It glanced at Ivy and grinned, something she felt sure would drive her mad. Laughter echoed in her mind.
" VERY GOOD! YOU ARE EXCELLENT WARRIORS. BUT STILL, NOT QUITE GOOD ENOUGH."
Ivy finally found what she was looking for. A silver vial, capped with a glass stopper displaying a lightning bolt. She grabbed it, and yelled as she threw it:
" SHUT UP!"
The vial swung up, toward the demon, toward the monster. She drew her sword and cracked the vial once, shattering the glass stopper. Her sword drew back as a strange, silvery liquid began to spill out. As it touched the demon's skin, it flashed-
Thok'ti suddenly jerked, standing stiffly upright. Siegfried heard a buzzing sound, so loud it made the hall seem like a million bees were flying around it. Blue and silver jolts of electricity arced through the air, and Thok'ti was electrified as thousands of volts of electricity flowed through him. The black thing at his body's core which was his essence dissipated as it was consumed by that bright-blue electric fire. The body fell, smouldering.
Siegfried stared at the falling demon, and looked at Ivy, full of wonder. She half-smirked and said, " Demons don't like electricity."
-Stay tuned for chapter six!
All of you have waited long enough for this story, so I'll shut up here. Because now it's...
"SHOWTIME!"
Chapter Five
Bleeding of Reality
Siegfried and Ivy stared at the open doorway. Something that was pulled straight out of a lunatic's nightmare was standing there. The air around it seemed to ripple, as if just by existing it was warping the very fabric of reality itself. The stone and nearby areas seemed to... bleed, to run together, like wet paint. The creature's laughter, a horrid gurgling and gushing sound, rang out in the room. It placed a hand against the stone and the stone seemed to ripple, as if the force of the impact had been made visible. Siegfried realized with something akin to horror that he was going to die.
The statue Travens had made was accurrate to a degree, but no statue of mere stone could truly replicate the horrid beast. From it's mouth, constantly dripping foam and pus splashed on the floor. Siegfried saw that it moved, as if alive, and wriggled about before stopping and disintegrating (Siegfried's mind couldn't help but think of it as dying). The snakes writhed constantly, and the chittering of their scales on one another drowned out all other sound in the room, washing it away in a tidal wave of scraping madness. Bleeding sores stood open on it's body, and the foul, black blood dripped and ran silently onto the floor. The demon flexed it's massive hands and walked in.
" WELCOME," Thok'ti said, his voice booming in Siegfried's mind and causing him to grab his head in pain (unbeknownst to him, his ears had started bleeding). Thok'ti's laughter rang in his mind. " BE GLAD. FEW HAVE GAZED UPON SUCH AS I IN THIS DAY AND AGE." Sweeping it's head across the room, it asked, " WHERE ARE YOU, SERVANT? VOLDO?" Turning back to the two warriors, it said, " APPARENTLY YOU KILLED HIM. NOT TOO BAD. YOU WILL BE EXCELLENT PRACTICE FOR ME. I'VE BEEN ASLEEP A LONG TIME."
Ivy had taken something from a pouch on her belt. It was a vial, with a cross design on the stopper. Gripping it, she threw it at Thok'ti, praying she wouldn't miss. The glass vial flew through the air, and Thok'ti swatted it with his claw. Too late, the demon saw it's mistake. The vial busted in it's hand, and the holy water seeped out. It's claw didn't so much melt as dissappear, as if it had never been there. The demon's outraged scream rang out in the room.
Glaring at Ivy with unmasked hate, twin snakes launched out of it's body. The two snakes were moving incredibly fast, and there was no way she was going to dodge in time. Poison glittered on their fangs as they raced toward her, triumph clear in their eyes...
Siegfried saw his chance. He was standing to the left of them, and swung just as they passed him. He cut their necks neatly in half. Thok'ti roared and retracted the bleeding stumps. On the floor, the heads twitched, and the necks still attached to them flung blood everywhere. The blood was black and thick.
Thok'ti stomped forward, and twin holes opened in it's massive shoulders. Two blasts of foul gases sprayed forth. The gases would kill anything they touched. Ivy dodged them, hiding behind a pillar and drawing out another vial. She flung it around the side of the pillar without coming out. The vial burst when it hit the ground, and the area about it was suddenly black, filled with a dark cloud of some sort. It flew out and covered the gas cloud, and a gnashing sound was heard. The blackness dissipated with a low-pitched sigh, and the gas cloud was gone. Thok'ti roared and Ivy smirked. The black cloud was a Darkness spirit she had trapped. Damn thing ended up useful after all.
Thok'ti ran forward, it's one remaining claw swinging low to the ground. It struck a column with an incredibly loud, ringing sound, and the place it had touched melted and caved in slightly. The entire pillar sagged forward, looking like a monk bowing in prayer.
Siegfried glanced at the pillar, and had an idea. He didn't know if it would work, but...
" Hey! Jackass! Come and- Oof!" Siegfried said. He'd planned on taunting it and then crushing it under the pillar's weight by cutting through the pillar when Thok'ti was under it. His plan was stopped by the one-armed freak attempting to slit his throat. Voldo had kicked him into another of the stone pillars, knocking Requiem out of his hands, and now Siegfried had both his hands on Voldo's one remaining arm, attempting to stop the gibbering, maddened freakshow from carving him like a Thanksgiving turkey. He finally kicked him off, and grabbed Requiem, but when he looked up Voldo was gone. Siegfried looked around, trying to spot him.
Voldo had excellent senses, although he could not see (Siegfried would not have been surprised at this). He instead "felt" things, "saw" them in black-and-white geometric shapes. He was old, over 50, yet the testing and psi performed on him kept his body lithe and animalistic. They also gave him incredible stamina, and though he was dying, he was able to hold onto the top of a pillar, out of torchlight and Siegfried's sight.
Hearing his master's voice once more (get him Get Him GET HIM) he dropped from the roof, and a war-cry torn from his very heart echoed out into the room.
Ivy had turned to see what had produced that warbling sound, and in that unguarded moment Thok'ti swept his claw at her. Her reflexes kicked in and she ducked- but not before his claw touched the top of her skull. In that moment, her hair died instantly, and several bits of it fell out in violet clumps on the floor. A horrid, searing pain filled her head, and she screamed. Thok'ti rose up and opened it's scorpion pincer mouth, getting ready to bite.
Siegfried had heard Voldo falling, and done the one thing he could do. He fell right on his ass, raising Requiem over himself and curling into a ball. Voldo hit Requiem so hard that the massive blade shuddered, and Siegfried thought that if Voldo had connected it would have split his entire body in half. Voldo, body ringing from it's contact with Requiem, stumbled backward. Siegfried, ignoring the shaking in his arms, got up and swung Requiem, hard. It tore through Voldo's chest, and Voldo's last thought is...
[It was never my master it was Inferno oh beware boy BEWARE]
And then his mind finally, mercifully, shut down for good, and his weary body fell to the floor.
Siegfried turned and gasped in shock and fright. Ivy, whose hair appeared to be thinning, was snapping the Snake Sword rapidly back and forth at Thok'ti. The creature was trying to bite her in between the lashes, and Ivy was tiring. She looked very badly hurt, and Siegfried looked for anything to help her. Glancing up, he saw a glass chandelier, hanging above Thok'ti. Dropping his sword and grabbing a nearby torch brazier, he flung it at the chandelier. The fiery missile split the rope holding it to the ceiling, and it came down, a beautiful comet, to the earth. It's spiked end hit Thok'ti in the middle of it's twisted, horrendous spines. Snakes hissed and screamed as they were crushed under the tremendous weight of the chandelier. Thok'ti uttered a single choked scream before it's foul lungs were pierced. It fell with a crash. Ivy leaped out of it's way and nimbly dodged the broken glass.
Siegfried, thinking the demon was dead, walked towards her. " Well, I guess that-"
" Get away from it!" Ivy cried, searching frantically in her pouch. She had brought a special vial, and if she had lost it, then God help them.
The chandelier shuddered. Thok'ti began rising up, a nightmarish thing. It's body was already repairing itself. It glanced at Ivy and grinned, something she felt sure would drive her mad. Laughter echoed in her mind.
" VERY GOOD! YOU ARE EXCELLENT WARRIORS. BUT STILL, NOT QUITE GOOD ENOUGH."
Ivy finally found what she was looking for. A silver vial, capped with a glass stopper displaying a lightning bolt. She grabbed it, and yelled as she threw it:
" SHUT UP!"
The vial swung up, toward the demon, toward the monster. She drew her sword and cracked the vial once, shattering the glass stopper. Her sword drew back as a strange, silvery liquid began to spill out. As it touched the demon's skin, it flashed-
Thok'ti suddenly jerked, standing stiffly upright. Siegfried heard a buzzing sound, so loud it made the hall seem like a million bees were flying around it. Blue and silver jolts of electricity arced through the air, and Thok'ti was electrified as thousands of volts of electricity flowed through him. The black thing at his body's core which was his essence dissipated as it was consumed by that bright-blue electric fire. The body fell, smouldering.
Siegfried stared at the falling demon, and looked at Ivy, full of wonder. She half-smirked and said, " Demons don't like electricity."
-Stay tuned for chapter six!