Chaospheory #13
The one where it's a horribly unbalanced PvP match
"It's a new version. Remade to use a different source then FEAR, and as such it's a bit weaker. It targets as opposed to its usual 'area of effect', and it copies the spell instead of stealing it outright. However, it is, in essentials, the same attack. Releasing negative light to draw in positive... and there's only one person, excuse me, thing that can use such an attack" Zin whispered as he sneaked over to Zach as if the slightest noise would cause the young creature to explode with tension, "This changes things"
The estimate Zin made about Zach's tension, and his FEAR, was not far off. Almost as soon as Zin had took one step forward Zach tripped over his own feet trying to back away from him. Once he hit the floor he examined himself and saw that the bangs of hair that dangled in front of his face had turned pink, and he could imagine his eyes had changed the same way. 'Why am I so scared of him now?' he asked himself, 'because he's right' the low, cruel voice that lived in the dark places of his imagination responded. Zach shook his head and turned to Zin, who was drawing ever nearer, "Stay back!" he commanded
In spite of Zach's hostility, Zin smiled as he approached. "Oh, calm down" he reassured him as he moved, "I'm not going to hurt you. You're like a son to me, and a brother to Amber."
Zach tried to stand up, but sadly his legs were not up to the task and he fell back down within seconds. After taking a second look he saw that the toxic pink color had spread to his legs, and by feeling them he noticed that they had not only gotten weaker but softer and stickier as well. "W-what's happening to m-me?" he stuttered
Getting on his knees, Zin looked the melting Zach in the eyes, "you're shapeshifting, it's one of your main abilities. See, the original Akumu was a purely magical being, like an elemental, eidolon, or familiar. However, unlike those creatures you were made up of your own trait, FEAR, entirely with no other instructions in your spell work to give you a set form, but when the E.L.O.D experimented on you and Amber you got stuck in that human form." he clicked his tongue, examining that obvious pain poor Zach was in, "you really should've revealed yourself sooner, I could've helped."
After spitting out a painful pink slime Zach worked up the strength to speak, "w-y w-ould yo- he-p me? You'-e m- enem-, r-ght?" he struggled to talk while his lungs slowly turned pinker and weaker.
"Why?" Zin chuckled, "It's rather simple. The people of this world has been so kind to split the things of this world into 'Good' things and 'Evil' things, with anything they can exploit being 'Good'. You and I have both refused to play their games and are thus 'Evil', but we are also alone. All I want is for us 'Evil' things to have a home, and the warlocks can give that to us, to you."
Zach's face had started to melt now, his jaw started slipping off, and his vocal cords were little more than rubber bands. So the best he could manage in terms of sound was a pathetic, "Blurb?"
"All the warlocks want from you and Amber is the FEAR." Zin continued, "Once they have that you, I, and your sister can all live a peaceful life, where no one will come to hurt you, either of you. No one else will offer you this to you, an evil thing, and you are an evil thing, you don't even need me to tell you. You can read SOULs right? Look at anyone, look at Gaster here who thinks I don't notice him trying to UNPLUG THE EXTRACTOR!"
Gaster was indeed picking at the tendril of HATE that connected the DTExtrator to its power source, careful to not get himself electrocuted by it, but before he could fully separate the machine from the tendril Zin's shadow appeared in front of him and pinned him to the wall with one powerful hand. "What is this?" Gaster cried
"Look at him Akumu. In his eyes we've already been weighed and measured. He judges us giving no thought to the fact that we even have SOULs of our own. I doubt he even thinks we're alive"
He was right, Zach noted. A deep look into Gaster's SOUL revealed his feelings. He saw him and Amber as nothing more than magical accidents. Creatures that only felt an instinctual need to cause harm to everyone they come across. He saw them as... evil things.
'So the truth comes out' the voice in Zach's head returned.
'This is... who we are?' he asked it
'And everything we will be.'
'A killer of the innocent?'
'A judgement for the guilty.'
'The end of a race?'
'The dawn of an era.'
'HATED and FEARED?'
'Respected and worshiped, and all you have to do is choose'
'Who am I?"
'Who I am."
With this decision now before him the pink feeling that seeped into every atom of Zach's fragmented SOUL grew to uncontrollable levels. His limbs crippled themselves to uselessness, his mind took in every moment it counted as its last, and ounce of will to move, to fight, to even live was suffocated by the unnatural pink stillness.
Zach was filled with FEAR.
But with FEAR came understanding.
Now he knew, DETERMINATION was the will to change, to move, to live. DETERMINATION means life, and life means movement. FEAR on the other hand was anti-movement, it tricks the SOUL into thinking that non-life is life, making it betray itself, hiding its glow. However, this raised a new question. If DETERMINATION and movement were one and the same, and movement and life were one and the same, wouldn't that mean that FEAR is not only anti-movement but anti-life as well? And if that's the case then wouldn't it make it not only difficult but impossible for a living creature to be born with a SOUL of anti-life? Zach said no. No he was not born as this creature of anti, he will not become it again, and he was defiantly not going to let this guy who downright attacked him tell him otherwise!
Zach was filled with INTEGRITY.
Zin extended him hand, and after considering it for some time, Zach picked a shard of glass off of the floor and stabbed it. "I'-m n-t" Zach started, but then realized he still had a hard time speaking with all the pink stuff dripping from his mouth. So he took his glass shard and cut off a peace of his shirt sleeve, and tied that piece around his mouth to catch the drippings. Once most of the pink flowing had stopped, he started again. "I'm not who you think I am. You don't know me."
Zin targeted the resilient Zach with an evil gaze from his intact eye, "And why not? I made you, why would there be anything about you I don't know?"
"Because I decided I wasn't." with every word Zach spoke out against Zin a blue glow sparked in his SOUL, growing brighter and brighter as he defined himself. Soon it overtook and even replaced the deep shades of pink that were his master what seemed like forever ago.
HATE flared and shifted around Zin's face as he clenched his hand into a fist, "Decided you weren't?" he echoed back at Zach, "It appears that someone forgot to teach you a very basic lesson in morality. You cannot just 'decide' that your past doesn't exist! YOU CAN'T DECIDE YOUR SINS AREN'T YOURS!"
Calmly Zach looked at his reflection in the glass shard he was holding. The cloth covering his mouth, soaked in pink, but also the blue now shining in his eyes, and finally he made a decision, "I can decide not to do them again, and more importantly…" he looked Zin in the eyes, "I can decide not to make them a part of me" and with those words Zach sealed his fate, "I'm not Akumu," he said, "but I'm not Zach either. 'Zach' was a name the E.L.O.D gave me to keep track of me, and it doesn't reflect who I am. Call me…" he thought about it for a moment, "Echo," he chose, "My name is Echo." The blue in his eyes took over his SOUL, his body, even the shard of glass he was holding.
Echo equipped the Glass Dagger: ATK; -2, MaxHP; -5, Weapon Special; Lesser Drains
Echo leveled his new weapon at the shadow holding Gaster up against the wall, and concentrated. Before his eyes three magical bolts shaped like shards of glass, like a mirror broken, appeared facing the way his blade pointed. He swung his dagger and the bolts flew, striking the shadow's back.
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In the same way the bolts caused physical pain to the shadow, who howled and released Gaster, Echo felt the wounds he had received in his previous fight with Zin closing themselves.
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Now stronger and ready to fight again Echo extended a hand to help the fallen skeleton up, "Dr. Gaster, it looks like we have a common enemy. I would like to propose a temporary truce till this fiend is dealt with"
Gaster examined Echo as close as he could, calculating every way this could be a trap, but in the end he relented. "Very well," he took Echo's hand and stood up, "a temporary truce"
A chuckle came from Zin's side of the room, "I get that we're all having a great time uniting against me, but perhaps you two should turn around"
Echo did as directed and his eyes widened with shock
The DTExtractor had done its job, all the FEAR in Amber's SOUL now rested in a neat little ball outside the machine, but more upsetting to Echo…
Amber's Light had gone out in the process
AN; "Robotech275 chapter 14 . Dec 28, 2018
Plz more."
Okay, but why though. Why out of all the thing you have ever wanted or needed you decide you need this. You have a new episode of ACTUAL GLITCHTALE coming out in 2 months, why do you want this C- grade fanfiction? Please answer that then get back to me, I legitimately need to know.
Anyways, with that out of the way I'd like to say that it's nice writing fanfics again, don't know how often I'll be doing it, but I'll be doing it... for times, so already know what I always say, but I'm gonna say it anyways *cough cough* PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE review