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The Revenant God
The God of Death waited...
Above him, stars twinkled in the black, nighttime sky.
Around him, a terror-stricken world shared its madness and fears.
Inside him, the light of a hundred billion souls tore him apart.
The Darkness of one hundred billion and
One thousand souls put him back together again...
Even now, the memory of drifting helpless across the icy expanse of space,
The Black Racer's unyielding grip locked upon his face...
Struggling to close his eyes for Eternity... excited the God.
He had become death's master. Death itself.
Burned by the Omega force and left for dead by Darkseid,
A treacherous brother... No… the Racer could not close his eyes.
One thousand years ago,
The dark passions of a thousand men and women
Spilled into his dead heart, the
Ichors of a new, black lifeblood.
And then a heartbeat…
The first in an eternity of damnation.
Abandoned souls,
Abandoned flesh, united,
Reborn as the God of Death.
The newfound hatred of life had flooded his mind as acrid memories bubbled to the surface, replaying the bitter scene of betrayal in the Pit of Infinity. The burning memory of his brother Uxas - crushing his skull with a rock again and again while the amour the traitor Desaad had constructed for him collapsed before its deadly blows - replaying a million times to define the true purpose of this resurrection... Revenge.
The true amour had been worn by his brother Uxas so that he alone may obtain the Omega Effect - the prize of the Old Gods that should have been his. As the blows rained down upon his skull, he felt the Omega Force tear apart his flesh and then his very soul, burning through to his existence until it finally spit him out from the Pit and into nothingness... An eternity as discarded waste.
But the Omega Force had never left him... It had recast him in its image, an image of burned fire. It incinerated his soul and gave him new eyes that allowed him to see across worlds. And that fiery gaze was always upon his brother, Darkseid.
As his brother Uxas had emerged from the Pit to become Darkseid, the God of Evil, so too had he also emerged from his eons of slumber to become the God of Death... Trigon. Drax no longer. Drax had been a fool, weak and trusting. It would be Trigon would repay Darkseid and Desaad sevenfold for their betrayal.
Raven sought the aid of the New Gods. He had willed this to be so. Scheming Darkseid would follow her like a dog to the spoils of war. He would be unable to resist as Trigon was a power that Darkseid could never ignore, a blazing fire before the moth of evil.
The remnants of the Source he had constructed within him burned with power, ringed with the Omega Force… threatening to utterly consume him, to extinguish the darkness of the passions of his heart. The light of the Source within him became increasingly difficult to balance, but he must prevail!
Universal Death was the only path for them.
He had seen the future… as Darkseid had crushed his skull with a rock, he had seen it… ALL was Darkseid. Trigon would create a new Universe before he would allow his brother to rule this one… A new Universe for Raven to rule.
More Notes:
Both Uxas (Darkseid) and Drax (Trigon) are from Jack Kirby's New Gods. The sons of King Yuga Khan and Queen Heggra of Apokolips, Prince Drax was the rightful heir of Apokolips, much favored by his mother, until he was betrayed and seemingly destroyed in The Infinity Pit by his evil brother in their quest for the Omega Effect.
In the comics, a dying Drax is found by Astorr and assumes the role of Infinity Man. In my AU, Drax takes on a much better identity. Readers may notice that Trigon shares a similar ability to his father Yuga Khan… the power to drain the life force of individuals across an entire planet to increase his own power.
Like father, like son… and like daughter?!
Next Chapter: A Long Note From the Author, Part 2 or The Anatomy Lesson, Redux