Ya'll are so fucking patient! I'm so glad you're sticking around! This chapter took me quite a while to type out because my wrists are getting worse. But I have an appointment scheduled to return to the doctors and get the stupid *shudders* nerve testing (a horrid test with needles and shocking) and then we move on to surgeries.
But enough about me! You're here for the story. Soooo the winning chapter? By two votes!
Dave! Walk in on something bad! (or some other wordings of this same effect)
The walls of the hallways are littered with blood, bodies cluttering the floor leaving few places to step as a small group moves along closer to the echoing pleas of mercy. The group is lead by the tall god from John's room in the tattered cloak looking much too much like Karkat, behind him is Kurloz, Meulin and Dave, and in the rear looking curiously at every body they pass. He has brown hair in a bowl cut close to his head with horns going up in a wave above his head and his solid white eyes. His skin is mostly a light grey color but patches of a light human peach shows through in parts on his face and hands. He's wearing a green suit with a logo of a sword with wings on the right breast.
Dave turns with narrowed eyes towards Meulin, clinging in a princess style hold in the arms of her love. "Are you sure you're alright?"
Kurloz snorts out a laugh as Meulin huffs in annoyance. "WHAT PART OF GODDESS OF REPAIR DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND DAVE!? I REPAIRED MY WOUND IT'S NOT THAT HARD!"
"If you can fix your wounds then why are you still screaming and reading my lips instead of just fixing your ears?" He scowls over at her rubbing his slightly pointed ear in mock pain.
"BECAUSE DAVE!" she sighs dramatically kicking her foot in his direction, smirking as he stumbles over the arm of a fallen god on the floor. "I CAN'T REPAIR WHAT I CAN'T SEE! I'M NOT A MAGICIAN!"
"Not to interrupt this thrilling conversation for the fifth time but don't you think in an area with so much bloodshed we should be a bit more cautious with both our movements and the volume of our words?" The god in the back scolds as he leans over a female body with fluffy hair covering her face and indigo blood pooling around her. He glances from her over to the puddle of yellow blood face down on the floor next to her, arms outstretched. "I mean don't get me wrong, I do enjoy seeing the stories unfolding in every body we pass, but I'd rather not join them any time soon."
Dave sticks his tongue out at the god behind them. "We could always put you back in the dungeon."
The white eyes narrow and full lips pout down at Dave as the god straightens his stance and starts following them again. They shove through a doorway narrowly running into the back of the silent leader of their party just in the entrance of the room.
The begging is loud and clear in the room, the voice hoarse with all of the screaming. "PLEASE STOP THIS! DON'T DO THIS TO HIM! ARE YOU TOO MUCH OF A WIMP TO KILL SOMEONE YOURSELF YOU HAVE TO HIDE BEHIND EVERYONE YOU COME ACROSS AND MAKE THEM DO ALL YOUR DIRTY WORK!?"
The group stares at the scene in front of them. Kurloz slowly putting Meulin down on her feet. Latula and another goddess float in the air, pressed against the ceiling surrounded in a red and blue pulsing glow. The second goddess has long black hair and mismatched horns, one curving in a circle and the other going up into a barbed point at the top. She's sobbing, staring down at the broken body below them, a pool of bright red blood spreading out around him.
Mituna stands below them, hands raised up to point at them, sparks of power weaving out of his flashing eyes. Yellow tears streaming down his face as his body twitches and his hair waves frantically as if an unseen breeze were moving it. The Queen leans against a wall grinning, sharp fangs flashing in the lights as she watches the scene. She waves a hand in the air, her eyes flashing for a moment and the glow around the goddesses disappear, they drop down a few feet before it reappears.
"You think your petty words will get to me?" she snorts her eyes turning from Latula's down to the group of newcomers. "You're the weakest of them all? What do you have, petty tricks. A waste of a mate for one so powerful. It's a shame he's so broken and can only use his true potential when being controlled by someone else." She pushes off the wall stepping around Mituna, her nails grazing against his shoulder causing him to twitch in an attempt to get away as she walks past.
"Kurloz. Why are my precious prisoners out and about?" She turns pink eyes over to the silent god. "Don't tell me you're so easily swayed by a little bit of pussy. I thought you were stronger than that. Not that it matters to me. You've just brought me more toys to play with."
Mituna jerks, one hand moving to point at the group. A scream echoes through the room followed by a sickening splat. Red splashing in the air quickly mixing with the darker burgundy coming out of the shattered body of the unknown goddess. Teal drips down from Latula's eyes as she screams out again staring down at the bodies below her.
Dave growls grabbing hold of the sword he picked up along the way, his body freezing as flashing light surrounds them. Electric sparks tingle along his body as he fights to move, but each movement only adds more pressure and pain from the lights around him. The queen steps up to the now immobile group tilting her head up at the blonde. "Another one? Hm... seems my goddess of fertility was even more disloyal to me than I first expected."
"I'm surprised anyone is loyal to a fish breath whore like you." Dave sneers down at her, hand twitching on his sword. "Latula's right. You're too weak to do anything on your own. Can't even fight someone who has no powers. Some queen."
She smiles. "Well, I can't have someone else right in my presence now can I?" She turns her head back to facing Mituna. "Drop her."
Mituna's body twitches violently, the hand pointing up towards Latula wavering, sparks of light flashing on and off causing her to drop and catch. A stream of curse words escape from his mouth, almost incoherent in his distress as he keeps fighting.
Dave stares up at Latula, eyes wide as he watches her wave up and down in the air. The queen growls stomping her foot. "I said DROP HER!" The light around Latula stops, her body plummeting towards the blood stained ground below.
Heat courses through Dave's veins as he grips harder on the hilt of his sword. His vision going blurry as he watches one of his best friends plummet to her death. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" He rips the sword out of it's hilt swinging it towards the Queen, her hand coming up to catch the blade with ease, fuschia dripping from her clutched fist.
His head pulses, heart beating hard in his chest causing his breath to come into short stuttered gasps. A blur of red on the edge of his sight as the queen's eyes turn to meet his. "Funny. All my years ruling over these weak idiots and I've never gotten to see this with my own eyes."
She turns completely yanking the sword easily out of his shaking hands and throwing it to the floor. "But do you really think in the first time of using your power, you can hold it for this long?"
Dave's eyes, solid red, blink slowly as he looks down at her amused face. He turns his head to look at Mituna, frozen in place, eyes wide, rivulets of tears frozen on his cheeks. Jerking to the side he stares in disbelief at Latula, frozen in the air only a few feet from hitting the ground, the blood from the floor splashing up around her from the force of wind from her descent.
"It seems you're able to stop time itself. But how long will you be able to hold it? Especially against me." She laughs and waves her hand, the air around her going warm for a moment as Latula unfreezes, dropping a few inches before Dave jerks forward regaining control and freezing her again, the red blurring his vision further.
That's all you're getting! The fantrolls featured in this chapter are Fliita, owned by Yuurei Arashi from ff.
Arniss owned by Dwinarnith from AO3.
And her matesprit Medeis!
Thats all of the fantrolls that will be in this story! That's it! ALL WE GOT! THAT'S HOW CLOSE TO THE END WE ARE!
If you're curious for a new story by my I started another AU called Virtual Fantasm! It's a MMO based AU!
Now then! The next chapter?
Continue with Dave's view.
Pop in with John!