Chapter 1 The Vessel awakens
Where am I?
The area was a wasteland with little of what was left was just decrepit ruins of a time before whatever happened here, it looked like I was in the middle of fallout, with zero vegetation adding to the area.
I don't know how long I've been here for nor do I understand what's happened to me. I remember who I am but I don't remember what happened for me to end up here.
Moving my right hand up and out of the long dark gray cloak that sits right around my neck and shoulders I stared at my hand and arm with a frown. My body had now changed instead of the usual fleshy bits. My body was now covered in a black thorax like armour, every part of my body that was muscle was now a thick insect like armour kinda like those part transformations that remind me of that anime terra formars.
But everything from my neck downwards was covered in this armor.
I opened and closed my hand and felt no resistance, I felt almost like a human action figure.
Moving my hand back into my cloak I took a deep breath as I looked up at the sky and saw how clear the sky looked… What the hell happened to me?
I felt and looked like a humanized version of a vessel or I guess a knight from Hollow Knight.
Looking down to the ground I decided to walk, I had no real destination but I just had this need to move, to walk towards a certain direction.
Later at night
The streets were empty, devoid of life and even so I didn't take a chance to go searching the buildings to see if they were empty or not.
I don't know why I felt no need to make my bed in a random alleyway, I just decided to do it.
I noted how I felt no need for sustenance, no thirst, no growl for food.
It was weird, I walked for a long time to get here but I felt nothing, what happened to me?
I was confused at all of this.
I wrapped my cloak tighter around me as I leaned back against the wall of the broken building and slowly closed my eyes, I was unsure if I was capable of actual sleep but I decided to take a chance.
Maybe I was capable of eating or drinking, I just didn't need it.
Or that's at least what I guessed.
Dreamscape
I felt like I was floating in mid-air, all around me was absolute darkness.
At first I found it unnerving but slowly I felt the darkness was rather calming, almost like I belonged here.
I was at ease, until I saw a bright light invade this darkness, it blinded and it felt like I was staring at the sun.
Unlike the light of the sun or most games featuring the bright light as being the good, this light felt sinister and it felt like it was going to set my skin on fire by just being there.
I didn't know what was happening.
I couldn't see anything, not the darkness that comforted me, the light didn't even offer me a shadow for me to look at.
It was torture pure torture, why is this happening to me? Looking down at myself I saw my cloak was set alight with white fire, holding my arms out my black thorax armor started to melt.
It was agony, pure FUCKING AGONY!
"AAAAAAAAAAARGH!"
Gasp!
My eyes flew open as my head started to move, searching, looking until I suddenly held my arms up and saw how they were no longer melting.
With that in mind I looked down at my cloak and found it to be perfectly fine.
"It was… just," I spoke but stopped as my breathing was erratic. "A dream, just a dream."
My voice was rather hoarse but I took no real mind to it as I was shook over that… nightmare I had and the only thing that came to mind that made sense when I remembered that horrible horrible scene was the Radiance.
It was here, I was unsure of how or why it was here but it was, my body felt it's light burn itself deep into my core.
Suddenly I picked up the sound of gunfire, in the distance.
Quickly getting up onto my feet as I felt no fatigue, but still shook from my nightmare I slowly moved out of the alleyway and into the open street.
I frowned in thought as I tried to deliberate whether it was a good idea or not if I should move towards the gunfire, just as I was thinking that I saw from the corner of my eye bright lime green suddenly move.
Quickly moving my head in the direction I watched from another alley that was connected to another street over two teens suddenly run past.
Wanting to know what was going on I quickly run down the street and darted through an alley way but stopped as I saw the younger teen was now on the ground, narrowing my eyes I saw he was in a near mental breakdown, something told me these two know exactly what was going on, but before I could move to help the older teen quickly ran over and pulled her brother off the ground.
As the two talked I heard the loud imposing sound of a machine suddenly interrupt them, the older teen quickly told her little brother to get into the sewers and run before she took off with her right hand suddenly catching on fire.
Seconds later an explosion reverberated through the block and the younger teen suddenly screamed out in horror.
Fuck me did that girl just up and do a suicide run?
Shaking my head I quickly ran over to the teen, once I was in the street I looked over to where the explosion originated and winced in pity as there was a giant fireball at the end of the road.
Not bothering to introduce myself I quickly picked up the teen by the collar of his jacket and ripped the manhole cover, once it was off I quickly let him through and gestured for him to move down allowing me to quickly grab and drag the manhole cover back over.
Once it was in place I looked down to see the teen was hobbling away, the way he moved was almost catatonic in a sense, especially when he out right ignored me.
Rolling my eyes I quickly dropped down into the shin high water and quietly walked after him.
I was unsure how to talk to him or better yet how to comfort a random teen about the death of their sibling that just happened a minute ago.
Suddenly the teen stopped and just dropped his side against the wall.
Quickly I moved over but stopped as I heard the telltale sounds of sobbing.
I took a minute to try and think of something to say but decided actions where louder than words as I moved to place my hand over his shoulder-
CRASH
but I was stopped as I looked up and watched as the ceiling suddenly caved in causing a giant robot to suddenly fall down alongside a tall man.
This tall man was at least seven to eight feet tall, had silver hair and a weird muscular physique.
The only thing that was off putting was the fact he looked like a priest from a metal concert with the leather assembly of clothing, the straight up sunglasses and the lack of shirt.
"Hey you two." hearing the man casually speak to us I could see under the dark lenses of his glasses that he looked at us with sympathy. "You two must be Needless if this thing's after you."
"Uh-uh no I'm not a Needless." the teen quickly corrected with the shake of his head while my eyes stayed on the machine that was staring at us before it suddenly sprung forward.
The priest was quick to retaliate as he threw a simple kick and stopped the robot immediately, it was eye opening to see someone come in and show such superhuman strength.
"Now, run away!" and like that my surprise was turned into annoyance as I quickly grabbed the teen, threw him on my shoulder and ran away alongside this priest.
"AAAAAH what is going on!?" the teen yelled out as I heard gun fire behind us, oh shit!
Quickly jumping up and I felt my body suddenly pushed forwards in a fashion that reminded me of dash, feeling gravity gravity gaining control over my body once more I casually landed back in the shin deep water with a small splash.
"Jump!"
Hearing the call my body immediately jumped upwards, my eyes darted downwards to watch as a missile suddenly flew directly under my feet before soaring through the sewer and hitting a far wall.
Landing back oon the ground I watched as the tall priest leaped over to the robot where he opened his book and… who in the flying fuck keeps a fucking grenade in a bible!?
Suddenly another explosion was set off and I was forced to look away from the light show.
Once everything was said and done both myself and teen that was still on my shoulder watched in mild shock as the priest limped out of the smoking wreckage of the robot with his lower torso covered in lacerations, fuck that explsion must have shot shrapnel against him causing the lacerations.
Setting the teen down I quickly ran over and caught the priest just before he fell forwards.
Holding him up I could just barely hear him let out a pain filled moan as if to say that he did not expect this to happen.
"You are one tough mother fucker." I casually spoke before I leaned his body over my shoulder and started dragging him away.
I felt like I was carrying a giant folded up blanket made of flesh that was starting to bleed over my cloak.
"Oi greeny, let's go if this guys a priest his place must be in a church come on." I casually called over to the teen who was quick to lead the way through the sewer tunnels.
"Jesus, what a day to wake up to." I barely muttered under my breath.
Later outside a church
This wasteland was so peaceful, it was void of people but even so it reminded me of a forest just minus the trees, greenery, bugs-oh wait no I just saw a cockroach.
Yeah no the only thing that even remotely resembled a forest was the wind.
The fresh breeze gave me a sense of serene.
Both myself and the teen saw ourselves in the church front steps, the teen sat on one side while I sat leaning up against a wall.
The teen was staring at his pendant and had a look of abject misery, tears slowly started to roll down his cheeks as he continued to stare.
I knew how that felt, the misery of hopelessness just stabbing you in the gut as you thought back and wondered if anything could have prevented this tragedy.
"It ain't easy." I suddenly spoke up, the teen paused before his head turned up to look at me. "This, it takes a while to get over it, trust me you're going to be thinking about this day for the rest of your life." I said as I looked up at the sky, my face blank as I stared at a specific cloud that floated on by. "If you want my advice, think about this day but don't think about what could happen that shit can ruin you just… think about what you can do so this exact situation doesn't happen again."
"Y-you think that will make things better?" I heard the teen suddenly ask between his sniffles.
"Better? Maybe." I said tilting my head back down I gave the teen a small smile "Bearable, absolutely." with that I watched how the teen nodded his head in understanding.
Hearing the door open I looked over and watched how the priest from before was now walking around with bandages wrapped around his midsection.
"Ah Mr priest, are you feeling better!?" the teen suddenly asked as he got up onto his feet.
"It wasn't much." the priest casually said as if getting your lower torso covered in lacerations was nothing. "You know it was kinda impressive, to guess where I lived and all." hearing this the teen seemed to blush at the sudden praise, huh you know with the way he idolizes his sister you would think he wouldn't be all that embarrassed with getting such attention.
Unless of course he didn't give him the right attention he was looking for… or too much which might have stunted his social capabilities… actually you know what I'm thinking too much about it.
"What a pain." the priest casually blurted out.
"Preach it." was my immediate reply as it seemed that we were on the same wavelength at the current minute.
Suddenly our attention was moved away when we all heard the roar of a motorcycle, looking over my eyes narrowed when I saw a blue haired girl was riding towards the church.
"Eve?" hearing the priest suddenly call a name I noted that he must have known this girl, oh cool more-oh my god!
The girl didn't seem all that bothered with pumping the brakes as she slammed the front wheel directly into the green haired teen and casually just rolled over him.
"What the-shit are you alright there buddy!" I called out as I rushed off my ass and ran over to the teen and paused when I saw how he was laid against the stairs with blood slowly oozing out of his head. "What fuck you just killed him!?" I suddenly yelled at the blue haired girl who was standing at the entrance before she suddenly rushed over and just stepped on the teens body without a care in the world.
"Blade!" the girl yelled out before she was met with a black dress shoe covered foot to the face. "Hey watch where you're going!"
"Are you fucking kidding me you just killed someone you crazy bitch if anyone need to watch where your going its fucking you!" I yelled out as I moved over to the teen, quickly I ran two fingers against his neck as I checked for a pulse and quickly remembered that my body was covered in thorax armor so I was unsure if I was capable of checking for said pulse.
But as quickly as I thought about it I heard a pain filled groan and I slowly looked at the teen as he blinked his eyes open in a slow fashion.
"Uuuuuuh wha happened?" hearing the question coming from the teen I blinked in complete shock as he was… fine.
"What the fuuuuuuuuck?"
"Huh what's the problem?" the girl suddenly asked as I looked at her.
"You killed him, I mean no he should be dead like seriously." quickly I moved the teens head and moved my hand around onto where his skull met the corner of the stair and instead of finding a cracked anything it was just a cut that slowly (and I mean slow like taking seconds slowly) stitching itself back together.
"That's enough!" suddenly hearing the old man I had met before I looked up and saw him walk right out from the entrance. "Honestly you two make such a ruckus."
I just gave the man a blank stare before looking back to the teen who was just looking at me like nothing just happened.
Soon all of us stood in the church, both the now fine teen and myself stood directly in front of the three people of the church.
"So, introductions are in order, I'm Blade. This is Guido, a scientist." The priest now named Blade pointed his thumb over his shoulder where the scientist of interest stood. "I owe him a lot digging way back and this is…" Blade stopped as he looked over to the girl who casually sat on the front of the chapel.
"My name is Eve Neuschwanstein." the girl Eve spoke before she looked away. "It is a bit long so you can just call me honored miss Eve Neuschwanstein."
"That's longer, longer!" Blade bluntly spoke up.
"And what are your names?" Guido asked.
"It's Cruz, my name is Cruz Schild." The teen now Cruz exclaimed.
"I'm…" I paused as I was unsure what to say, I felt like I needed to give them my name but. "It's Hamish." I quickly relented and decided it was better than nothing.
"Ok so I will call you Yamada and you Hollow for short!" Eve suddenly spoke up in a happy fashion as everyone, even Blade looked at Eve like she had a few loose screws in her head.
"You're taking the piss aren't you?" I asked as the girl looked at me with the tilt of her head oblivious to what I just asked.
Regardless, Blade shook his head and looked back towards both Cruz and I.
"Why were you two being chased by that Testiment?" Blade asked, I was confused by what he meant but quickly caught on as I realized that he was talking about that robot that was chasing us in the sewer earlier.
"I-I'm a part of the rebel group that attacked Simeon."
"The pharmaceutical company?" Guido enquired.
"Simian?"
"Simeon, not simian." Blade told Eve who looked more confused at what she was hearing, meanwhile I just casually moved and sat in one of the church pews as I wanted to sit more than stand.
"And I'm the guy that decided to pick him up before… well it's not my place to say but I wasn't a part of any attack or anything." I quickly explained as the memory of this morning earlier gun fire started replying in my head and if Cruz's tone and expression are anything to go off of the attack didn't exactly go to plan.
"It's alright before… when I was escaping it was with my sister but she-she… she's gone and Hamish saved me and then you turned up Mr priest and that's the whole story." Cruz explained before he slowly sat down on the church pew. "Four hundred of us were absolutely destroyed within minutes, if it wasn't for my sister pulling me out I would have died but…" Cruz sat on the pew with tears slowly rolling down his cheeks.
"She didn't make it," I quickly picked up as the three listoners looked at me. "I was too late but I watched as the girl threw herself at the bot… it was something that's for certain." I finished as the teen sniffled trying to hold back the tears but failed.
Suddenly I watched as Eve slowly walked over to Cruz and-
SLAM!
"Ah what was that for!?" Cruz yelled in shock as he grabbed his face in as it was where Eve punched him and it wasn't a light punch either.
I could hear her knuckles meet bone all the way from my seat.
"It's thanks to you now that we have teriyaki stands all over the place!" Eve yelled out as I stared at her with a dumb founded expression thank fuck Blade was here as he quickly rephrased what she really meant. "It's Testament!"
"Well it's thanks to him that whole areas are burnt to the ground!" Eve continued her fair rant, I mean I can't exactly blame her for feeling annoyed about this whole thing.
"It's because of Simeon's interference with the black spot-!"
"Are you seriously yelling out obvious propaganda right now, yeah we get it Simeon is causing shit so the first thing you thought would be a good idea was attack the leader without oh I don't know doing some fucking research?" I quickly butt in, I stood up from my pew and walked over to Cruz and casually stood in between him and Eve in case she decided to get violent again. "Look we get it, Simeon is bad thats fucking obvious question is what do you want to do about it?"
"Cause you and I can go back to that battlefield where Adam is and die there or you could stop and think for a minute, what do you want to do? And if you want to do something, how are you going to go about doing it?" I lectured before I moved to crouch down to Cruz's level. "Do you really want to sully your own sister's image and die just after she saved it?"
"Si-sis." Cruz exclaimed as he grasped his necklace.
"Sis you say?" I heard Eve exclaim behind me. "You got a thing for sis you pervert? It's people like you who do nothing but complain, you're pathetic and needless and from what I hear it should have been you dead instead-!"
"Enough!" I yelled as I stood up and turned to Eve, "Don't you fucking dare finish that sentence." I said in a low tone as I glared at Eve who at first didn't look bothered but suddenly shivered and took a step back.
Before anything else could happen I heard Cruz get up and turned my head to watch as he suddenly ran out of the church, Gidou yelled for him to stop but Cruz obviously ignored him.
"What's his problem?" Eve suddenly exclaimed as my head immediately spun back and I stared directly at the blue haired girl.
"What's his problem, what's his problem!?" I yelled as I forced myself not to lunge at the girl. "That kid has lost the only family he has ever known as well as have his entire belief be crushed by your fucking rant which would be fine if you did not fucking incinuate that he should have died instead of his sister you blue haired moron!" I roared and stepped forward as I was absolutely ready to fucking deck her in the shnoz if it wasn't for a hand on my cloaked shoulder stopping me from doing so.
"Hey hey take it easy," I heard Blade suddenly speak up as I looked at him and saw how he had a serious look on his face. "Eve what you said was actually really screwed up and you really didn't need to say that shit about him being better off dead." Blade said as he sounded rather mature while talking to Eve.
"Indeed, that is why we are going to find the young boy and you are going to apologize to him." Gidou finally spoke up as he stood right beside me with his arms folded looking equally as serious.
"What but why do I-"
"Either you apologize to him or…" I took a deep breath in and then "I WILL PUT YOUR FUCKING HEAD THROUGH THAT MOTHER FUCKING WALL!" I roared at the top of my lungs, I felt the building shake as the volume of my voice had more power in it than ever before.
"EEP!" Eve immediately jumped back and hid right behind a pew as she looked at me in fear. "O-o-ok I'll aaah g-go find Yamada and I'll apologise." Eve quickly said with a bit of stutter, but I was at least pleased to hear that she was willing to apologize even if I had to roar at her and all.
"But before we go I have news pertaining to the Testament brain you brought back with you Blade." Gidou suddenly spoke up, as he gestured for the three of us to follow him.
I figured that we may as well allow Cruz some time for himself to reflect, hopefully he doesn't reflect about him being dead instead of his sister.
10 minutes later
3rd POV
Hamish let out an annoyed growl as he sprinted around, his mind remembering the conversation he just had with Gidou.
Flashback
"Wait, are you telling me we're on a global multi-billion dollar's company's shit list?" Hamish summed up Gidou's overall report about the current situation.
"Well shit… didn't think that would happen." Blade casually spoke up as he was more surprised about the information but quickly grinned sadistically as he thought about the hell of a fight he was going to be forced to go through, the idea of it all was rather thrilling.
"Well… out of the three of us… oh boy I just remembered Cruz." Hamish said with a groan as he rubbed his temples knowing fully well how scared he was going to be when he hears this.
"Indeed, speaking of the young man I fear he will be in more danger compared to you two." Gidou said as a video feed from the Testament played on repeat on what the few last minutes of life could record at the time, Gidou was of course speaking of Hamish's amazing movement as he was capable of matching Blades own athletic prowess if not even more if the old scientist could speculate.
"So what? Are we babysitting him now?" As soon as Eve expressed her own opinion Hamish's head turned and glared at her, the girl immediately bounced at the sudden movement and quickly closed her mouth before she spoke any further.
"Sigh, honestly I'm not sure of what we can do, that boy has gone through so much in so little time." Gidou said in a sullen voice. "But from the looks of it he is going to need a place to stay and heal." Gidou finally said as Blade and Hamish nodded their heads in agreement.
"Sooooo… we should go find Cruz before he's hunted down and killed, shouldn't we?" Hamish said, as he pointed his thumb over his shoulder.
Everyone (except Eve) nodded in agreement as they all moved to leave and find the teen.
Flashback end
Suddenly a loud explosion gained Hamish's attention as he skidded to an immediate spot and his head spun in the direction of the noise and saw a large cloud of dust rise up into the air, Hamish had a distinct feeling that Cruz was right there.
"Hey you see that!" Hamish called out as Blade and Eve who were following just behind quickly came to stop right next to the insect human hybrid.
"That's gotta be Yamada." Eve said as Hamish and Blade nodded before taking off in front while Eve followed, in the distance Gidou is seen just barely keeping up as he was panting in a mad fashion as it was obvious that age was not on his side.
"Damn kids, slow down god damn it!" Gidou yelled out as he barely started jogging after the three once more knowing fully well that they were going in the direction of the smoke cloud.
When Hamish came to the site of the explosion he watched as a tale gangly man wearing a yellow and black trench coat casually walked around as the small green haired teen on his back crawled but was stopped by purple tinted string's that appeared from the yellow trench coat man's hands.
"Now where do you think you're going!?" The trench coat man yelled in sadistic glee as the strings tightened around Cruz's body. "Now you are going to tell me where your friends the Priest and the Knight, those who go against Simeon will die."
"I will not tell you anything-argh!" Cruz let out a pained yelp as the trench coated man stood on his forehead.
"If you don't tell me I'm going to burn this entire area and I will look for his corpse." The trench coat man said with glee as he was going to do it anyway regardless if he was lying or not.
"Tell me." The man growled as he removed his foot and picked the teen up by his collar, Cruz could only groan in pain as the strings left painful cuts and scratches against his body. "Fine then DIE!"
Holding his hand up the trench coat thrusted it forwar-
"Oi tall, yellow and obviously on the sex offendor registor!" hearing the yell the trench coated man stopped and looked up to see the cloaked Hamish who was looking down from his perch. "How about you drop the kid before I tell the sex offender regestry to switch out your ocupation from rapist to pedophile!"
"Hamish! Stop, you can't win! He's too-argh!"
"Shut up you brat." The trench coated man yelled out as he threw Cruz away and turned his full attention to the cloaked man in front of him who jumped down.
Hamish's cloak was dragged upwards as he jumped down, his midnight exoskeleton skin was revealed to the world before it was quickly backed up by the large gray cloak once more.
"Well well well if it isn't the Black Knight, now all we need is the Priest and-oh looks like this has turned into a whole party!" The trench coat man interrupted himself as he looked up and saw the Priest he was looking for turn up alongside a blue haired girl.
"Great three for the price of one insignificant welp, this is turning out to be my day." The man exclaimed sadistically as purple strings once again came out from his body.
"Blade, you got him, I'll get Cruz." Hamish exclaimed as the tall Priest dropped down next to him.
"Hehehe no problem!" Blade exclaimed happily as Hamish seemingly teleported a metre away from his original spot surprising the trench coat man as he tried to follow Hamish was stopped when Blade ran up to him and threw a haymaker into his jaw.
Hamish dashed around the fight until he got to Cruz who watched the fight between Blade the trench coat man with absolute confusion.
"Come on, less squawking, more running." Hamish said as he picked Cruz up and like before the sewer threw him back over his shoulder and sprinted back to the large rock perch where Eve and Guido were now standing.
"Ahahaha come on what's wrong can't use your little ability!?" Blade taunted as he kicked the trench coated man backwards causing him to skid away with a mild grunt that showed his pain.
"Tch I tire of this farce!" The trench coated man yelled as he threw his arms forwards and launched strings that quickly wrapped around Blade's body.
"Kandata String!" with a roar the trench coated man pulled causing the strings around Blade's body to tighten up and cut into his skin.
Blood spurted out from the new wounds as Blade fell backwards onto the ground.
"Oh my I guess I did not introduce myself," the trench coat man exclaimed as he grinned once more in sadistic fashion. "I am Kafka of the Kandata String."
"This string is what lowered down to hell, if there is anyone who could break this string it would be… god alone!" Kafka announced with pride as he stared down at the trapped Blade.
"Meh god's overrated also aren't you I don't know playing a bit too much around with god?" a voice suddenly piped up as Kafka looked back up to the rock and found Hamish with a relaxed grin on his face, now sitting on the rock perch with Cruz standing behind him. "I wonder… how many people in Simeon had a god complex because if what I'm hearing is correct then you are less of a company and more of a cult." Hamish spoke as he dropped the grin and I looked annoyed.
"That would make actual sense seeing as they call their robotic attack drones Testament's which would refer to Moses's story of parting the red sea." Gidou suddenly piped up as he rested his hand on his chin in thought. "And with what we are hearing now with the amount of use of god being thrown around calling Simeon a cult is very accurate."
"Call us what you will but you should be wary cause I will not hesitate to burn the area down in the name of Simeon." Kafka exclaimed angrily.
"And like that you've just further proved that Simeon is a cult, what's next you're going to gather up everyone in the entire… What was it, the Black Spot?" Hamish quickly asked as he turned to Guido who nodded in confirmation. "Yeah the Black Spot and you have everyones souls or something be sucked away turning your leader into the next reincarnation of god himself?"
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…
"Nooooooo, nooooooo are you-!" Hamish stopped himself as the look of shock on Kafka's face alongside his silence was all the answer he needed. "-This is-I'm just… that is so fucking dumb!" Hamish yelled out in anger.
"Out of everything, fucking everything I would have accepted total dominance fo the world but becoming god? How fucking stupid is that!?" Hamish yelled as he grabbed his head and shook his head in annoyance.
"I have no idea what is going on but I agree with Hollow, becoming god is… really dumb." Eve suddenly said as she sounded less impressed with what she was hearing.
"I also agree!" Blade suddenly spoke up as he seemingly stood back up with little problem as he bent his body forwards and pushed his arms against the strings until they all suddenly snapped apart. "I mean I'm a priest and as much as I like screwing with people and saying I am god becoming god is just… dumb."
"Yeah now your idea of riding Simian is not sounding all that bad there Yamada!" Eve said as she slapped Cruz on the back in a friendly manner but didn't hold back too much as the teen dropped to the ground in pain.
"It's Simeon!" Blade yelled out while Cruz groaned out a "It's Cruz." while on the ground.
"Quiet all of you, I don't care anymore you all die here and now!" Kafka yelled out having enough of the sudden back and forth as he felt so very disrespected.
"KANDATA STRING!" Kafka thundered out as he swiped both his arms around and sent a hurricane of purple string that sliced right through the ground directly towards Blade he just grinned and held his arms up to block, Kafka watched as when his strings were suddenly sliced apart.
"What in the hell?" Kafka said as he stepped back with a confused look on his face. "Once again you broke strings that should be absolutely unbreakable."
"Yeah no I don't think god used those so called strings of yours buddy!" Hamish yelled out with an amused grin as Kafka's face scrunched up in anger.
"Shut up, how just how did you do that!?" Kafka yelled, directing his attention to Blade who was standing with the same grin on his face.
"All it takes is looping some strings together and pulling."
"Looping strings and pulling." Kafka parroted but suddenly grinned as he clenched his hands into fists. "Fine in that case!"
Kafka suddenly spun around and jumped into the air as large purple like appendages popped out from his back.
"Try keeping up with all these strings!" Kafka yelled as bigger longer pronounced strings shot towards Blade. "Eat this, TEMPEST THREAD!"
Blade blocked as best as he could byt the force behind the attack sent him skidding and rolling against the ground until he slammed into a nearby ruined building causing a dust cloud to explode.
"Ahahaha how was that you bastard!" Kafka yelled out as he landed back on the ground and started laughing in a mad manner.
But as the dust cloud from the building slowly started to settle Kafka stopped launching when he saw a glint through the dust and revealed a still grinning Blade who simply walked directly out of the dust.
"Learned it." Blade exclaimed as he stared directly at Kafka who blinked in shock and stood back on pure instinct.
"What? What do you mean you learned it unless… how could you have twisted my strings unless you used your own strings!?" Kafka said, realizing how Blade could have stopped his previous attack.
"Like this!" Blade yelled as he jumped up and similar large purple threads appeared on his back and shot directly towards Kafka. "TEMPEST THREAD ZERO!" With the roar of the attack Kafka was quickly attacked by his own ability and being unprepared by the attack felt his entire body ripped to shreds from the contact of the razor sharp strings.
"Judgement! Execution!" Blade yelled as Kafka's body dropped to the ground and the rest of the strings from Blade's attack struck the ground cutting through the earth causing an even bigger dust cloud to appear.
Guidou being the scientist, he quickly explained to Cruz what Blade's Needless Fragment was while Hamish half listened and half thought to himself.
'Needless? Where in the flying fuck have I heard that before?' Hamish thought as he watched Blade casually move over to the group with his grin still on his face.
Suddenly Hamish felt a chill roll down his spine as he quickly looked back at the smoke cloud, his eyes narrow as he saw a lite glint through the dust. Once the dust cleared further Hamish could see Kafka on the ground, the majority covered in lacerations but was still moving as in his hand held a large syringe filled with orange glowing liquid.
Seeing the liquid Hamish's body went ramrod straight as he remembered that tone of orange anywhere.
"Everyone move now!" Hamish ordered as he pushed himself off his perch and fully sprinted over to Kafka. Everyone stopped and watched in confusion as Hamish became a blur of gray and black as he ran into the dust cloud towards Kafka, seeing this with his one good eye Kafka took sadistic glee as he saw Hamish's fear filled face and plunged the needle into his body, injecting the substance into his body.
Immediately Kafka's body stilled before it suddenly moved, slamming a fist into the ground so hard that another dust cloud exploded into existence and the ground shook as if there was an earthquake.
Hamish stopped his charge and waited with a panicked breath as he heard grotesque sounds of bones snapped, flesh tore itself apart and loud insect-like clicks suddenly appeared.
"Ah shit." Hamish muttered before his body told him to move and move he did dashing immediately backwards as a large black and yellow splotched leg swiped at him through the dust.
Quickly dashing back a couple times Hamish now stood out the dust and watched with bated breath as the dust once again settled revealing Kafka once more.
Chapter 1 end
Hi I'm Amvmaster…. Sooooo bet you are all interested in this fic I mean why else would you be here?
Anyway I hope you enjoyed it cause I had some fun writing this out if I do say so myself.
But yeah this fic is not just a Hollow Knight SI body placed in the world of Needless, this is more of a story where parts from the world of the Hollownest are somewhat shoved into the world of the Black Spot and I'm trying my hand at writing something serious with humorous overtones while the undertones are a lot more dark and oh boy Needless gets fucking dark.
I will be going along with the Anime over the Manga cause the manga is actually somewhat hard to find and especially harder to find a reliable website with the full manga at the ready to read.
But hey I'm mumbling on, I hope to see some reviews with criticism's about this fic or just plain questions of what I'm planning or if you want some more insight.
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