Chapter Forty Four: Before The Beginning Of Corruption
Black's POV
Today, I will work myself until I bleed from my ears for the sake of tomorrow. If I drop my guard for even a second then it's all over... Drago told me some valuable information about Quad. About how he's nothing but corruption and grieve in a physical form. A disturbing entity that once has the whole blood of pure blackness, they can spread corruption to an entire landmass at will. Large bodies of water seems to be its weakness as well as light...
Hopefully tonight I can get a good night's sleep with White... Only IF she manages to keep herself from turning half-insane after drinking my blood. Last night, she had my face buried in between her breasts!
"STAY FOCUSED!", Frosty exclaimed at the exact same time Milk did from both sides of me, instantly causing my eyes to widen as I shot two quick glances to the right then the left, managing to catch a sparkle from the tips of their razor sharp weaponry. To my right, a demonic black scythe and to my left, a long white katana just waiting to embed itself into my delicate flesh and rupture my insides.
With no time to loose and out of desperation mixed well with instinct, I dropped down to my knees, smashing them hard against the soft light green, freshly cut grass the smelt of dew as I gripped my Night's Melody in my right hand as right as possible, never daring to let it go less a valid reason was in play. I held it diagonally across my chest, gritting my teeth as their blades just barely scratched my head by mere atoms. My skirt lifted up slightly, showing off my legs and black female boxers to the others who watched. My hair bounced up very lightly and spread out like the black wings of a fallen angel, giving me that graceful appearance which greatly intimidated my foes.
As fast as lightning, I placed my left hand onto the floor to my left, leaning on it as I swung my right leg around to the right, connecting with Frosty's ankles, passing through and spinning around to knock off Milk. To my surprise, she jumped it with perfect timing, spinning majestically mid-flight clockwise before ceasing all of a sudden, raising her blade up over her head ready to strike me point blank into the tip of my skull. Not on my watch!
I coughed, gritting my teeth before rolling to the left on my sides, carefully controlling my blade as one wrong move could easily cost me. Milk struck the ground where I once was, cleanly slashing through the earth as if it was made out of sponge. Hah! I'm glad I wasn't there! Getting on my fours, I lunged myself straight up and charged for her, slashing the air in front of me with lightning speed, emitting a small sonic boom which blasted away every single atom away in front of me which made friction and resistance almost impossible.
Her light blue, beautiful eyes widened like the moon, staring blankly at me as I made my final push straight towards her. She's lost hope of the battle. She knows well that right now, no matter what she does, she's dead. Even if she summons her two yellow orbs! My blade will slice clean through them!
Her jaw dropped slightly in shock, thinking that I'll slice through her clean but instead, I smashed my heels down into the earth like breaks, sliding up towards her perfectly just to be able to gently place the sharp edge of my metallic black and red-striped sword onto her soft white neck, pushing gently and making the blade sink in very very lightly... I smiled, blinking once before giggling which made her snap out of her trance and blink, regaining some colour in her eyes before she too smiled warmly at me. Awww! She's adorable!
"Woah! Damn you've gotten better at hand to hand combat. You didn't even swing your sword to take me down!", Frosty exclaimed enthusiastically from behind me as she noisily approached, making me pull back away from Milk with a good step back, letting my blade explode into a billion fragments of black crystals that disappeared almost immediately like ender particles. "I don't think there's anymore training needed for you. Especially if it's just for the first guardian", Frosty yawned as I completed my 180 degrees turn, watching the near identical girl of myself stretch her arms high up above her, expressing her amazing figure whilst she tightly shut her eyes and smiled at the same time. Her black, cat-like ears found only on her and Chaos only with the insides of the furry little triangles coloured in a light shade of pink, just like Star's and Jace's. They both thrones up as straight as knives, looking like they were stretching themselves as my light grey cat-like ears twitched vividly upon hearing Milk sigh from my right, causing me to blink sigh quietly, still staring at Frosty, my 'light' form... But right now, I'd say THIS form is the definition of evil. Literally.
"Do you think Chaos was watching me?", Milk asked me, making me suddenly cough on the air that got caught in between my throat due to how surprising the question was. I leaned forwards, holding onto my neck with my right hand softly to help ease it down. "H...Hey. What's the matter? If your sick then we'll patch you up".
"Not sick. Surprised", I managed to say right before coughing one final time, clearing my throat right after and with the back of my clenched right fist, I smashed it against my chest... "Ahh!", I moaned from out of the blue, turning as red as blood and as hot as the sun... I... I forgot I'm still a girl! "I mean... Don't you and Chaos love each other?", I corrected, flopping both my hands down to my sides as Frosty did the same and gave us a curious look.
"YES! We've kissed many times! But I don't want his eyes to wander onto another girl!", Milk stated loudly, obviously audible by the others who I bet watched and scratched their heads with confusion.
"Chaos is a girl right now, you know?", Frosty said in a low tone of voice playfully, smiling softly as she leaned forward. "You still kiss her nevertheless?".
"OF COURSE!", Milk cried, stabbing her sword into the ground with brute force and annoyance as Frosty's scythe too was in the same position to her left. "What are you making me say?! L...let's just get inside... Lunch should be ready", She said, sounding a lot more calmed down...
"I'm going to skip. I can't trust Melody's cooking. Wanna know what I found in the last meal I ate from her?", I said with a depressed sigh, looking down at the colourful light green grass with a smile... This feels... Like the calm before the storm...
"Aw. That's too bad... Anyway... I have a question to ask you. A serious one. Do you think that the other Overlords are working with 'Them'?", Frosty asked me, tilting her head to the right as I looked up and stared her in the eye with my light blue and light red ones... A unique question. The automatic answer would be no but... I DO have a hunch that the Overlords have something to do with this...actually. Now that I look at it, it's likely that they are...
"Sorta".
"Sorta? Ok. I'll take that as a yes. Oh! Lizzo's waiting for me! Cya inside Black Melodice!", She exclaimed, looking past me to see my twin sister... Melodice?
"Melody", I corrected her with a small laugh, watching her take off, passing by me from the left like a hurricane, spinning around to see the others standing before the yellow manor where we lived... "So, Milk... What's Chaos been up to lately?".
"Nothing much... She's just being Chaos", She joked, getting me to laugh a little as a cool, swift breeze attacked us from the left, causing our hairs and attire to flutter gracefully to the right...
"Haha. That's good to hear... Say, what do you think is going to happen tomorrow?", I asked her calmly, wanting to hear her thoughts aloud to try to put some of my theories to rest.
"Well... According to history, the three guardians have extraordinary power and can easily manipulate their surroundings to their will. I think... Anyway, since this Quad entity is corruption and grief in a physical form and has the ability to turn the entire continent upside down, I'd say that he'll be hunting you down since he needs your blood to spread the corruption...", She said, taking in a deep breath as I turned my head to the left, staring into her light blue, shining eyes as she stared at the others who messed around with each other playfully like kids... Hehe... Technically, we are kids... But our minds are more greater than any adult's. "I bet there's going to be traps all over the city central. Whatever happens, you MUST keep your cool and don't expose yourself. If what Drago said is true, then all you have to do is wait him out for fifteen minutes then he'll die... But in those fifteen minutes, he can flatten out the entire human zone like it's nothing but paper"...
"That seems plausible... But... I know well that I'm going to have to reveal myself. He's going to bait me out easily by killing people...", I said with a sigh, gritting my teeth a little to how annoying it was... I'm easy to flush out of cover... Too easy...
"If so... Then... You'll have to make sure that he takes as LITTLE blood as possible no matter the cost. The amount of blood is the amount of land he'll take. So make sure you have someone ready to help you".
"White will", I immediately replied.
"Great, then your set. Best of luck Frost- I mean Black! I'll make sure to evacuate everyone out of the human zone until it's alright", She said in relief, making me blankly blink in confusion to what she said... Until it's alright?
She looked at me, blinking strangely before catching on my confusion and smiled as she began to explain herself. "Oh. There's going to be a barrier trapping everyone inside of the human zone until all the corruption becomes cleansed if all goes south. But I have faith in you. Finish this with a north!"... Cleanse the corruption if I fail... Sounds a bit clichéd
but... This IS Corozin after all... Or what the humans from the other continents would call, Minecraftia. OR it's old name, Six Point because of the Maidens... In the end, this all depends on White's ability. Not mine.
White's POV
There's only a few stars out tonight. Seven to be exact, and all surrounded one slowly shimmering star that looked like it was dying, ready to burst into a colourful supernova. The night was cold as always, yet calming and as silent as ever. I hugged my knees close to my chest, gently smiling as I stared up at the night sky in awe despite the lack of the other colourful objects. Tonight, was a very cloudy night, but they never seemed to cover the seven stars nor the half, light blue moon that shone behind me, casting a shadow of myself to stretch out a good five metres ahead. This all depends on me tomorrow. Black will get caught and... I'll have to free her before she can lose anymore blood... Her sweet, tasty red blood... The taste... The warmth... The sensation I get from swallowing it is the best... I just wand her... To hold me close from behind...
Two, soft, strong arms slowly slithered around my stomach as I though about Black, smiling more brightly with a red face... The arms felt just like hers... The gentle way she'd always hold me... They tightened, making me sniff right before I felt a soft, rounded surface press against my upper back whilst a flat one pressed against the red of my back...
"Are you cold?", Black's voice asked me from right behind me, sending a dangerous chill down my spine as I pushed myself back onto her, making her grunt a little to my sudden movement... T...That was real?! I though I was imagining it all the way! "Sorry... I guess I should've warned you", She laughed, making me smile broadly just by hearing her voice in a cheerful tone, forcing my heart to beat twice as hard...
"Mhm. But I kinda like it when you hold me all of a sudden", I said, flushing red as she held me twice as tightly and rubbed her face against my left cheek thoroughly, making me giggle to how warm and soft she was. "What are you trying to do Black?", I asked her.
"Nothing... I used to do something like this with Mindy, so I wanted to try it with you. You both feel the same", She chuckled, ceasing her actions before suddenly, she pulled me down onto the grass on top of her, causing me to let go of my knees as my legs were now stretched out in front of me with hers... Why isn't she wearing any shoes or socks? Huh? Ahh!
"Black?! W...Where are you touching... Ahh!", I moaned meekly, closing my eyes shut as right as possible to the sheer amount of pleasure that was suddenly introduced into my very bloodstream, causing me to melt in her grasp... Ahhh... "D...Don't nibble on them! They're sss...ensistive"... Ahhh! No! I can't fight back when she's got me like this!... It feels so... Good! My ears! Ahh! She can't... Nibble on them like that! AH! No... "Black... You're so mean... Ahh!", I moaned in pleasure, unable to move as my eyes narrowed, focusing on absolutely nothing...
"Or I think she used to do this to me... Either way, I'm not letting you go", She stated in a muffled manner as a soft, calming breeze of cool air swept us from the right, causing my bare thighs to freeze in an instant. "If someone does this to you in a fight, how will you win?", She asked me. But I didn't answer nor react... All I could feel was endless burst of pleasure attacking me from everywhere within me head to toe... Hmm... Huh?... "Never...".
Suddenly, the sensation stopped, throwing me back into reality as all my senses came back to me at once like an asteroid... My heart beat as fast as a steam piston as Black, from completely out of the blue, buried her face into my back. What's she doing? I blinked and was about to say something to her but was stopped, frozen as I felt warm liquid begin to dampen my white shirt from behind... I blinked again, gulping as my eyes widened a tenfold to the constant vibrations of her body and to the relentless beating of her heat pounding my back like a hammer... Is she... Crying?
I stared off into the distance blankly, unable to comprehend what was going on with her until she whimpered "I don't want you to ever leave me. Never. I don't want to experience that feeling again when I lost Mindy. When I lost you. So please... Don't go", She sobbed... I felt incredibly sorry for her and grit my teeth a little, feeling the back of my eyes swell with sadness and sorrow...
"I won't. I'll always be with you no matter what", I whispered to her truthfully with passion and a piece of my crystallised white heart... "So don't you worry about a thing Black. We'll go through everything that stands in our way until the end of the universe", I said more louder with pride, placing both my hands on top of her forearms that were wrapped around my waist... She felt warm, soft and... GAH! Now's not the time! Oh no... It's THAT time already?! I guess I have no choice but to obey my desires...
"Drink my blood. Drink my blood until I go pale and fall asleep. I want to forget about tonight... Please...", She cried... Hmm! My thirst for her blood is now uncontrollable because of that! I have to do what I have to do, even if she resists!
Ruby's POV
Ah! I left my wallet inside Black's room!
"Sorry sis! You catch up with Diamond! I'll be back in a jiffy!", I quickly said to my sister Sapphire who stood at the bottom of the wooden staircase wearing a turquoise dress that reached her knees and matched her hair colour almost perfectly. She stared up the staircase, straight at me with an annoyed posture and narrowed light red eyes.
"Be quick! Diamond's probably already with Star and Lizzo!", She called back as I swiftly turned my back to her and turned right of the staircase. My footsteps were moderately loud and creaky as I approached the first door on the right side of the house, extending my right arm out towards the golden circular door handle that reflected the bright overhead lights of the hallway in a star-shaped fashion. Grasping onto it, I immediately twisted the handle clockwise, hearing it clank as it successfully unlocked, allowing me to enter the room without any obstructions...
As soon as I walked in, I straight away spotted my wallet on a table to the far upper right of the room along with a few other things I couldn't really see from here. Curiously, I power walked right up to the wooden, chest-height table where my wallet was and was utterly surprised to see three syringes and a plastic bag full of red liquid to the left of them whereas my wallet was positioned to the right... A note was left on the top. I read the note and sighed...
"I can't believe she left these things behind. I guess I'll have to bring them to her", I muttered to myself as I smiled a little and turned red to the thought of Black...
"RUBY! ARE YOU DONE YET?! OR ARE YOU IN THE TOILET AGAIN?!", I heard Sapphire scream out at the top of her lungs just outside the door, making me jolt in electricity as I immediately began to take the things off the table like a machine.
"Coming!".
"C'mon! Time is precious right now!".
"I said in coming sis!", I called back as loud as I could, grabbing my light red wallet made of amazingly smooth and soft leather as the face if the wallet was made of small, rough chunks of tiny pieces of rubies. It suits me too well! Swiftly, I lunged it straight into the right pocket of my crimson red miniskirt... Now, to hold the other items for Black...
But I don't really get why she needs to take theses syringes. Let alone a bag filled with... Blood... Her blood... Huh?!
Black's POV
Ten minutes left then it's all over. Just ten minutes... I beg that nothing happens during this time constraint... I stood still on my own, looking around for any suspicious movement as many people all dressed casually walked up, down, left and right from the fountain I stood beside. I'm trusting everything on White. She must NOT fail to help me once I get attacked.
Constant conversations kept me awake and prepared to save absolutely anyone who becomes the bait. White sat not thirty metres away from me on a dark green wooden bench, staring at me with a small smile and a look of confidence as she held her sword in both her hands on her lap. She wore pure pale shorts and a white shirt with some red claw marks on it to make it stand out a little more. But little does anyone know, is that it's blood.
I however, wore my classic black shirt and black miniskirt. My trademark attire! Extreme comfort and mobility! For me, armour is useless since I rarely get hit unless it's an unexpected attack...
Pushing everything aside, Quarter hasn't come yet which adds some doubt that he's an ally of ours. Still... He DID give us valuable intel... Nine minutes left. I wonder how long this will last for...
I sighed, blinking once as I turned around, staring up at the yellow clock tower that pillared up like a tower, casting a shadow over the small buildings to the far left. I stared up at the giant clock, watching it's long slender black arms move slowly and accurately. 4:01 PM... I wonder how long I'll have to wait...
"Hey... Samuel? Are you alright? Samuel?!", A woman screamed from a crowd up ahead, making me look down and stare off towards the commotion with narrowed eyes and a pounding heart fill with anxiety and fear... What's going on over there? "Answer me! Someone call an ambulance!"... Is it starting?
"AHHH! Something's got my leg!", Someone screamed from far behind me, causing my eyes to widen a tenfold as more and more screams began to emit from everyone until it finally became a composition of screams of terror which served as the music of the moment... I grit my teeth, looking all around me to see nearly everyone caught and wrapped with black roots that shot from the ground. I took a step back, backing off from
one that just shot out from the bricks in front of me, throwing the hard rocks to the side like missiles... Crap! If anything happens to them now, then I'm going to have to force myself out and fight! And at the same time, I CAN'T get caught!
Their screams ceased as the roots covered their mouths roughly, cutting some of their skin which made them wail in a muffled manner whilst I took another good three steps back, both fists clenched and my back to White who was more than ready.
I stared at the miniature forest, looking left and right to make sure that nothing was creeping up to me and bent my knees a little, ready to jump away if one happens to burst out of the ground... Those things make a great ambush! Silent and deadly! Damn this! Things are already going south! And there's only five minutes left!
I kept my stance, watching the helpless people begin to bleed from their mouth as the roots began to cut them, draining their blood to check if they match my one... It'll be obvious... Too obvious...
Dammit! I feel so bad just watching them all suffer! But there's nothing I can do right now to help... And if White goes in, then I'm vulnerable to anything. This is probably the first time I want to go insane and kick some ass, but the casualties will be fucking sky high!
After a good minute, the roots began to emit some purple aura that consumed the people the constricted, giving them a purplish appearance. I clenched my fists, blinking once as footsteps and metallic clanking approached from behind me, making me swiftly turn around to see White make a full sprint towards me along with three other people who were scared out of their skin. I don't blame them...
"Black! One of the roots have Lizzo! They think it's her!", She cried, sliding up to me with lightning speed as her hair fluttered behind her magically, making me suddenly fall into a trance... Argh! Now's not the time! She reeled her left arm behind her, twisting her body to the left slightly before releasing the safety switch and flung her arm straight for my right hand, tightly clutching just below my wrist with painful force that stopped my blood from flowing... "What are you doing here Black?! Don't lose yourself to this! Stay focused and aware! Quickly!", She scolded me with anger and a blazing fire in her light red eyes as she grit her teeth and turned around, tugging on me before completely dragging me straight towards a giant monster that looked like a giant golem, but only did it have many white roots hanging from it's back like needles and it's four arms resembled syringes that contained a purple substance inside... W...when was that there?!
We ran straight past countless of people, all moaning for help and weeping in agony, but we ignored them an pushed through. It was painful and it broke a small piece of my heart... We need to do this! If we want the agony to end, then we'll have to endure pain first! No pain no gain!
Our footsteps were hard and heavy due to the burden we both carried on out shoulders. Out hearts were strong and our mid a focused on one thing and one thing only. To defeat that creature and save everyone! She released my hand, slashing the air in being of us with a swing of her pale blade which allowed us to gain more speed. Twenty metres away till we make it to that colossus beast made of... What?...
I grit my teeth, digging my nails deeply into my creamy white palms as two of it's white roots held Lizzo up high in the air in front of it's face, opening it's mouth as wide as three freight trucks, revealing it's completely heart stopping, horrific insides that scarred my mind just as bad as my demonic past...
"Black, if you go insane because of this thing, I won't forgive you!", White said in a disgusted tone of voice that had a deathly hint of terror written at the back... "We need to save Lizzo first!".
"Rodger!", I replied with a frown to how menacing the beast truly looked as we finally reached the ten metre line. It towered before us, just as high as the clock tower itself and was made completely out of oozing, dripping HUMAN flesh and bones... I saw many faces plastered across it's body and bones as small as my hand, showing that this thing has also killed infants... Unforgivable... I won't back down!
"AHHH!", Lizzo screamed out at the top of her lung as she blankly stared into the horrific mouth of the creature that bared an endless spiral staircase of jagged, bony teeth that descended down deeper and deeper into it's body... But in bye centre of it, was a red, slimy head attached to a long, slender red tentacle that slowly approached Lizzo... I nearly puked on the spot the moment it's entire face was visible... It had four eyes, each with multiple pupils and a large creeper-like frown that looked like a wound. Disgusting... I won't be getting sleep tonight because of this! "AHHH! No! No! Don't eat me!", She cried in horror, causing me to grit my teeth as White made her first attack. She charged up to it's left foot and sent a registering slash towards it... But unexpectedly, her blade literally bounced right off like a rubber ball, causing her to lose balance and spin around like a drill. Dammit! If not even her blade can puncture through that, then not even my own blade will!
"Huh?!", White exclaimed as I ran towards her, watching the creature's foot rise up extremely fast and hover just above her, forcing my heart to rattle and smash my chest like hammers. Oh no you don't! "N...No!".
"OH NO YOU DON'T!", I yelled out at the top of my lungs, gritting my teeth as I channelled my black energy through my entire left hand, emitting an aura of darkness which caused the creature's white roots to immediately attack me with everything they have. Not today! I grasped onto White with my right arm and continued my sprint across as it's foot plummeted down onto the bricked earth, sounding off an earth shattering thud as the ground shook vividly for a brief moment... I lost my footing on a lose brick that suddenly rose from the ground and smashed itself against my right foot. Dammit... Time seemed to slow down at this point... I blinked, watching the slender shadows of it's roots torpedo straight for me as my beloved White slipped from my arms and from her arms, she lost her sword...
Her sword was the first to hit the ground. It's hilt hit first at the exact same time a broke rose and hit the blade that slowly tumbled to the ground... The blade pointed off to my left and was dead in front of me, but because of that brick... The blade was able to rise back up and point directly into my stomach... I can't escape... This is inevitable... We've lost already...
But it's funny. My stomach seems to be the only place where I get impaled no matter what... Since time's running slow for some reason, I'll have to endure the pain. Hopefully I don't go insane...
The tip of the blade shone like a beacon right before it tore a hole through my black shirt and slowly begin dissect my stomach... The my weight times the resistance of my body times the speed will be the time to how long I'll have to endure this... H...Here it comes...
I cringed, feeling the tip poke into just the right of the centre of my stomach, meaning that it'll miss my spinal chord once it comes cleanly through which is a big relief... Ack... The curved edges of the tip then sliced through my skin as the tip tore through my abdominal muscles and begin to make its way towards my womb. The pain was legendary, but I've bared more pain before. But nothing comes close to the pain I experienced in my past. Haha. I barely even remember it. Argh... This pain... After this, I'm going to have to go through hell... Those roots will have me and there'll be no escape whatsoever. Gah...
The blade sunk deeper and deeper inside of me, completely passing through my womb and now rupturing my intestines... Damn...
Time resumed, causing my eyes to widen as all the pain hit me like a grenade... I fell completely onto the blade... My head smashed against the floor with brute force, inducing a painful concussion of distorted screams of my name and dreadful whispers of insanity... The handle cuddled with my stomach, warming me as my body grew cold due to major blood loss... Strangely, no blood shot out from my mouth. Thank goodness... It's dangerous for me to taste blood in times like these.
My vision was invaded with nothing but a purple tint... Purple... More purp- AHHHHH! I grit my teeth to a striking pain that demolished my back and paralysed me entirely... I could see a shadow... A long, thin spike... And liquid... My liquid... Blood...
The shadow then moved away, and so did the numbing effect, leaving me helpless as I fought the pain on my own, staring at White who tried to stand up but was unable due to a leg injury...
"Black... Black!", She said my name as the purple his intensified more brightly, blinding me as I listened to her voice and nodded to make her know... "Everything's purple... I can't see anything!", She yelled. So it's not only me...
I closed my eyes for a bit, trying to focus hard on trying to muster up my energy to heal myself naturally but to no avail... Dammit... I'm going to die if I don't do anything... But what-
"Attention everyone, a biological attack is to hit the city central in less than one minute, please evacuate the area and stay indoors", female said over a megaphone... Argh!... This really is the end!... Hold on. A biological attack?... What would that be-... You've got to be kidding me... Oh no... Corruption! The purple stuff!... No...
They took almost all of my blood, meaning that about half of Corozin will be under the influence of the corruption...
"Haha... Hey... Black. If you can still hear me, don't lose faith because they merely took a quarter of your blood", White chuckled from out of the blue, making me gasp in surprise. Huh?! "Last
night, I took nearly all of your blood and in the morning I took some more and left it in a small plastic bag along with three syringes for you to recover from your fatigue... Two thirds of the human zone will be under corruption now... And all we have left to do is cleanse it"... Amazing... She had a plan all along! I'm getting drowsy... Really... Really drowsy...
"Five. Four. Three. Two. One".
Welcome to the corruption.