Tyr Anasazi
"Leave me alone, you worthless blabbermouth!"
"Look, I just wanted to..." Harper had no time to finish his sentence. Tyr was sending his menacing "I'm gonna kill you in the next 10 seconds if you don't run" looks, so Harper decided it was probably for the better to just listen to his self preservation voice.
"Why am I still here? I should be trying to unite the prides, not to waste my time chasing futile dreams that a relic from 300 years ago decided to revive! I wish I wouldn't've signed for this mission, but it served my purposes...then again it no longer does, and better offers have arised."
"Then why don't you just leave?" As the question was asked the world went black and Tyr lost any sense of his surroundings.
"What is this?Don't you know who I am? I will tear you limb to limb if you don't show yourself!"Tyr was trying to preserve his calm, but the darkness was just to powerfull even for his nietzschean training.
"Oh, I know who you are...The question is do you know who you are? Other than your name?" The voice was mocking now.
"I am the reincarnation of Drago Musevni!"
"Are you? Really? I heard differently, could be wrong tough..I heard Tamarlane was the one, and I also heard you resent him for that!" Anger filled this last statement. The voice seemed darker with every word.
After a moment of silence the voice decided to continue since Tyr chose to remain silent.
"Tamerlane is the one, you resent him for that!" Again a statement, the voice spoke as if it held all the answers.
"No, I love my son!"
"Jealousy and love don't cancel each other out! Don't you know that? They are just two sides of a multisided thing, so easy to feel, yet so hard to understand...You want your son's place that's why you claimed to be Drago born again. You want to rule over the prides!"
"I did it to protect him! Who are you?"
"A bucket." Two words so simple yet so hard to understand.
"What! Are you crazy?
"Well I suppose that's a matter of opinion. My opinion is that I am quite sane. Yours...well I can't really control that now, can I ?"
"I know that you are crazy! Do you know who I am ?"
"Again that question? You are a Drago Musevni wannabe who couldn't cut it, jealous of his own son, traitor of his coleagues that you believe beneath you. A coward in a brave armour! That's who you are TYR ANASAZI! And don't kid yourself you are any better!" The venom in these last words was piercing Tyr's mind, the voice was right this was who he was, and he enjoyed it. He knew it, but he wasn't about to give up, not to an unknown voice, not to a known voice, to anyone.
"If you had honour and pride you would show your face."
A sudden laughter pierced the darkness.
"My honour and pride keep me from showing my face to a worm like you! Don't you have some dirt to squirm?"
"I am above you!"
"Sure, keep telling yourself that, maybe you will end up believing it! Only worms, parasites ude others for their own benefit and then, when they are done they try to leave the empty shell that fed them and start draining the life from another living being that they toss again and again...The crew, they are only a host to you, something to abuse and dry for your own purpose."
"Yes! I would never befriend a magog and a...kludge. A worthless rat!"
The voice was silent for a few moments, like this wasn't the answer it expected, but it came back as if nothing would've unphased it.
"A worthless rat? Is that what you said? Well, on the evolutionary scale I thing, actually I know he is better, I mean rats are on a higher level than worms, aren't they? i could be wrong, dunno.." The voice was almost childish now.
Tyr was beginning to lose his patience if he ever had any, but he couldn't think of anything that could defeat that voice. What was it? His conscious? He never believed in the existence of such a thing so that couldn't be it...Maybe it was the Abbys, maybe he had heard his calls, he needed the Abbys and was more than willing to start an allience with Him. It would get him closer to his goals, much faster than any Andromeda ship ever would. And he wouldn't have to spend his time pretending that he gave a damn about every helpless planet that Dylan believed would make a great Commonwealth addition, then again if he would have his way there would be no Commonwealth.
"Interesting toughts you have, I must admit!"
"You are inside my mind! So I was right, you are the Abbys! You finally decided that I am a worthy addition to your cause? I am honoured to meet you!" Tyr said convinced that he knew who he was dealing with.
The voice went silent again. Silence seemed to spread for hours.
"I am not the Abbys, but quite frankly you two deserve each other. You will meet your desired ally soon enough but if I were you I wouldn't rush to this meeting."
And with those final words everything came back to normal. Tyr stood up, strange he didn't realised he wasn't standing anymore. He couldn't figure out what just happened, but he felt like he had just lost something very important, but what was it? He'll figure it out later, now he had more important things to deal with.
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"He's lost, the darkness is there, I guess Misha was right. We should look for our other Nietzschean subject." Elo said with a sad voice.
"Rhade? But it's too soon!"
"Is it? We need him and he needs to wake up, to face the world and what it has to offer. There is no time like this, nor has there been. The Paradin is strong, but without them he is as weak as any other in front of the Abbys."
Lys considered this for a minute, but he decided to propose patience, after all their leader had advised them to take caution in their interactions, and getting the Big Boss pissed was not a very good idea.
"We'll deal with Rhade later. He is still inside the light. Harper needs help. Maybe more than the others, he can't fail, not now."
"His nightmares are back?"
"Yes, and these are the kind of nightmares that can come true at any moment! The kind he had as a child!"
"Then we should hurry, let's go save his soul!"
"Let's!"
"By the way",Elo said "I will deal with Harper, you should talk to Misha"
"Me? Why me?"
"Oh, you know that whole, you're newer and you should always obbey your master thing, now get a move on it", and with that he gave his young friend a not so gentle push through the portal that led him to Misha.