The Remaker

It dragged her to the center of the room were the smell of blood was the most powerful. She stood at the center with her arms outstretched by its slimy tentacles. Her eyes were wide with fear as she stared at the thing before her. At first she thought it was just a wall covered in blood but soon discovered it was moving. She didn't know how to put the sight before her into words. The only thing she could think of was that it looked like a combination of skinned bodies sewn together into a grotesque nightmare.

The thing came closer to her, its smell becoming overwhelming in this already rot stinking room. She was face to face with the blood soaked creature. For a moment she thought it had no facial features until she saw it had eyes. The eyes were glowing blue, brighter and brighter into her eyes to almost blinding then she saw her life flashing before her eyes. Merope saw herself at the age of four or five stealing a piece of candy from the local market without getting caught. The image changed to a twelve year old version of herself lying to her father about going into the forest. Again it went to another memory of her picking a fight with a local girl whom made her angry about something she didn't remember. Lastly it scanned her memories of her affair with Leviathan. That's when she realized it was looking at her sins.

Merope felt something tugging at her waist with voices in the back ground. She didn't know what the voices were saying but, she knew that they sounded urgent. She wanted to get out, to be away from these sin soaked memories. The thing before her was judging her and it had no right to be in her mind. The tugging became more fierce to the point of hurting, it also brought half of her mind back to reality.

Her mind was half in to the memories and half seeing that her Leviathan was trying to pull her away from the center. "Close your eyes, Mimi!" shouted Leviathan. "Just close your eyes and don't think of anything." Merope did as he said. She closed her eyes trying not to think of anything. As she closed out her memories a sudden image of a woman appeared in her mind. This woman was beautiful and terrifying at the saw time. She wore a red dress that was skin tight her hair a midnight black with ruby stars in her hair. The most intriguing about this Lady in Red was her jaded girl eyes that glowed….just like hers.

Merope wanted to talk to this woman, there was something about her that was familiar as if she was family. Before she could even have time to talk to the Red Mistress she faded into the darkness. Merope couldn't help but feel disappointment and she didn't know why. The darkness cleared from her vision to see she was looking at her lover's face whom was stricken with worry. "What the hell were you thinking, Mimi? It's not safe to wonder in the Labyrinth alone, if I was gone any longer you would have become a prisoner in minutes!"

"I'm…I'm sorry," she said quietly, feeling like a little child. Leviathan didn't say anything only to pull her closer to him. His hold of her was strong and loving. "I couldn't bare the thought of you being a prisoner, Mimi," he whispered giving her a kiss making her fall into darkness of a pleasant sleep.

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Leviathan put a spell on her to sleep. She always looked more beautiful when she slept. He carried her in his arms like a husband with his new bride. Before he left to take Merope home he turned to Angelique, 'Tell me Princess, how did this happen? The Remaker doesn't re-create without my orders,' said Leviathan telepathically.

'I don't know what happened Father. The new creation was done and he noticed her. I guess the Remaker either sensed of another being to re-create on accident or…of something I can't explain as of yet.'

Leviathan gave a low growl. That was a poor excuse for something like this to happen. The Remaker doesn't go behind his back re-create with his orders after all He created the thing himself. Someone was to blame here but, he couldn't put his finger on it. He knew it couldn't have been his adopted daughter, Angelique nor Xipe Totec and the new creation that was made moments ago. All three of them were too young to learn any of the greater powers and the Remaker was part of that. Still, somebody needed to be punished.

'I believe you, dear. Somebody's working against my will and they need to be punished but, I don't know who. Although I do know what ignited the Remaker and he needs to learn a lesson.' Leviathan looked over to the new creation that was observing his new body. 'Teach him a lesson Princess and let your apprentice watch you work,' then Leviathan left.

"What happened? What did he say?" asked Xipe. Angelique smiled at his curiosity. He had been a Cenobite for about a year and still needed to learn but, she liked this one. Usually newborns were overly horny but, this one was special. When she first saw him he was blushing at her presence and when she looked into his newborn mind he wanted to kiss her…that was all, a simple kiss.

"Well…he told me to teach the new one a lesson. He's only part of the reason the Remaker attacked his….lover."

"Isn't he one of us, though?"

"Even the children get punished but, that rarely happens. Besides it won't be like a prisoners punishment, it'll be temporary." Xipe didn't say more after that. After all he was the student here as well. The newborn noticed what was going to happened to him and coward like a child.