A/N: Thanks for the reviews everyone. Justin case you were curious, Vegeta and Trunks were shocked the condition the young girl was in and her behavior (you would be to if you actually saw her yourself, trust me). I should've put their reactions before the description of what they saw though…I apologize. I also wanted to say that in the chapter, any time someone is looking through another person's memories, it is as if you could walk through the scene, you are not seeing through the eyes of the beholder (the way I am choosing to write it anyway). It's as if you are walking amongst the cast of a play on the stage except they can't see you (obviously since it is a memory). Kind of like Harry Potter if any of you have read it. Note: there is a reference to rape in this chapter.
Chapter six, Oh Ruptured Soul of Mine
Eshkar storehouse, 2:27 p.m. August 4th
Storm fought for power, whatever it was did not want anyone to see what was going on inside of the mind of the girl. Inside the mind, Storm sifted through her memories. Nothing was unusual with the girl and Storm was a little puzzled as to why this sudden change had befallen this innocent child. It was then she came across a crack. Another soul had possessed the child and forced itself, including its memories, into the host. Storm watched the last memory of the spirit…
A young servant girl crept towards gigantic double doors. In her mind she pictured a map of the castle, the throne room behind those gigantic, oak doors. Her fingertips feathered the handle as her heart beat wildly.
A voice bellowed from within, muffled only by the enormity of those doors. With the very precision of a thief, her tiny, trembling hand grasped the handle and opened the door. It was as if the huge structure held its own breath as she let only a slit of light to pass into the throne room, barely visible.
"I've been hearing some rebellious slaves speaking outwardly in defiance of your law, your majesty." A foot soldier reported.
"They need to be disciplined. The heretics must be silenced. Certain measures must be taken in order to keep order. It is better to be feared than to be loved."
The king replied harshly. His tone bit at the girl's ears like a snake, injecting the venom of fear into the young girl's being.
"Yes, your majesty." The soldier agreed.
"I want you to have my army kill the first born of every family—boy or girl, it doesn't matter. Kill those who get in your way."
With that he was dismissed. The soldier began to approach the doors the child was hiding behind. She dashed down the hall like a fox, fleeing wildly from the hunters dogs. Thankfully she was unseen by the passing soldier. Her heart pounded, threatening to burst form the cavity that held it as she hid behind a smooth marble support.
The army passed by, marching and breathing in unison. The girl squeezed her eye lids together and pressed her body up against the cold marble, willing herself to become a part of the structure itself, wishing to disappear. Sharp screams echoed throughout the village, the wailing of mother's whose children were so ruthlessly slaughtered. She pressed her hands firmly onto her ears in attempt to block out the miserable sound. She waited for what appeared to be an eternity of suspenseful moments.
When the wailing had subsided for the time being, the young girl curiously crawled to the back door and escaped.
She gazed, horror stricken at the sight of bodies littered on the cobblestone road. There were even some mothers were slain, clinging to their children.
The girl recognized the body of her older sister. The sight of her dead wrenched at her heart. She ran, tripping over her own feet and somehow landed at her sister's side.
"Ohirme…" she managed to choke out in her despair.
Footsteps sounded from behind her and fear filled her heart again. Whirling around, she looked into the face of a soldier. The man was plump, barely squeezing into his armor and he smelled as if he hadn't bathed in days. He chuckled menacingly and the girl flinched. He walked closer to her and she could smell his rancid breath as he spoke.
"What are you doing here all alone, little girl?" he whispered, his foul breathing fluttering her black hair. Her lower lip quivered uncontrollably and she was sure he would kill her just as he had her sister.
"Do you want to go home?" the mocking voice hit her in the stomach as she remembered that she had no home—her sister had always found them a place to stay, weather it be an alleyway or the kitchen of the king. The man smiled evilly.
"I'll take you home." He grasped her hand in his iron grip and before what was happening registered in the girl's brain, the man pulled her into a near by house. She screamed suddenly in fright but was quickly silenced by the man's hand as he shoved her onto the bed. Her eyes grew wide and she kicked about wildly as he tore off her clothes. Pinning her down, he forced himself on her repeatedly and strangled her when he was finished, ending her life.
Storm pulled away from the memory in disgust and drew back into the thoughtless gap, a gap between one's thoughts and memories. A place in her own mind where she had withdrawn to so many times to meditate.
Her ears picked up the wretched sobbing of a little girl. In the distance, a blurry figure appeared in the black. Storm struggled to focus her mind as she approached. The girl turned to her, face like stone.
"Now you see," the girl said coldly, "You've seen what I've been through and now you must die!" the seemingly harmless girl began to change before her eyes. "Now, I will feast upon your soul!" her voice came out mangled and garbled.
Vegeta and Trunks looked on in horror as the girl broke the bonds which were restraining her. The girl's eyes rolled in back of her head and she sprouted twisted bat like wings. Her finger nails grew long and jagged, like ten dangerous swords.
Trunks saw that Storm's body was in peril and rushed forward.
"NO!" Ithar screamed, stopping him briefly mid-stride. "You mustn't touch her! If she breaks concentration now her soul will be lost forever in the mind of that girl!"
Trunks battled inwardly as he watched the girl spread her wings and open her mouth. He clenched his jaw as she charged at Storm. It took a hell of a lot of will power to stay put.
Storm dodged the first attack in her mind but felt the pain in her body. An image of her fleshly body appeared in the gap.
But I dodged it…?
"Talk to her!" Trunks cried.
"I can't," Ithar mechanically stated, "She cannot be contacted when invading someone's mind, she has to figure out how to defeat the spirit on her own." She finished
"Hang in there, Storm…" he whispered, half to himself and half to her.
The girl-monster prepared to attack again but Storm anticipated this. She lunged forward with clenched fists, preparing to hit her full force in the stomach. Her spirit-body flickered for a moment as she passed through the girl-monster. She whirled around mid-stride to see what had happened.
"What…the…hell?" She said aloud as the girl-monster hit her body full force again. Storm cursed. "How the hell am I supposed to hurt you if I can't even touch you?"
Vegeta felt weak. He hated that feeling. Not being able to protect someone when you were only a few feet away. He felt unrest and decided to use a Gallic cannon attack to blast the girl-monster through the building.
"NO! Don't!" Ithar shouted, as if reading his mind. Vegeta lowered his attack hesitantly. He didn't like being bossed around by a women—goddess or not.
"Do you want her soul to perish with that girl?"
"How the hell am I supposed to help her then?" he gruffly shouted back.
"By letting her figure it out herself!" she said through her teeth. "As long as her body does not die, the spirit will not devour her soul."
"Shit." Storm's body took another blow. The girl-monster prepared to attack once again.
"WHY CAN'T I TOUCH YOU!" Storm shot a blast of energy in the girl-monster's direction out of pure frustration. She gasped in shock as the girl-monster took the full damage of the attack and went flying away from Storm's fleshly body.
Suddenly the girl-monster flew across the room, as if thrown by some mighty force. Ithar threw a sideways glance at Vegeta, her eyes displaying 'I told you so' mockery. Vegeta glared in response to this.
The girl-monster slowly rose as Storm took a stand in front of her body. She smirked (yes, just like Vegeta ) as if to say 'come and get it'. The annoyed girl-monster flew at her, only to charge head first into a blast of fire based energy. The girl-monster's winds crumpled as she fell to her knees and Storm thought that surly she was beaten. She lowered her guard too soon.
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