Mar 20, 2023 7:36:28 GMT -5
Post by Majin Liari on Mar 20, 2023 7:36:28 GMT -5
Liari drifted through an endless dark for what felt like forever. She could feel she was moving but... Sight...? Sound...? Such things were beyond her at this point. Only a ghost of thought flashed through her mind from time to time, a stray musing as to where she was, a brief reflection of the last thing she could remember, a faint recollection of those important in her life... But as of now, they were just images... no feelings attached. In those brief moments of consciousness, Liari wondered if it was all truly worth it, if killing hundreds-upon-thousands, threatening millions more, and losing everyone... was worth the fight she'd gotten... It was hard to tell, now... She didn't feel the overwhelming hunger for battle anymore, the smug sense of self-assurance. She felt only...
COLD.
Something FREEZING cold CLAMPED around the majin, RIPPING her up from where she was traveling! Its fingers dug into her like the talons of a great bird, WRENCHING her down, down, DOWN, accelerating at speeds she didn't think were possible! In her blindness, her deafness, the majin could only feel air RUSH past her, the CLAW clamping down on her, everything slipping away at a radical pace! For a brief moment, these feelings were her entire WORLD, filling the spaces of emptiness with stimulation, context, and awareness! For a moment, she felt... alive and then...
PAIN! The claw that CLAMPED around her- No... Something else... SOMETHING reached into her being and tore into her MIND! Harsh, unfeeling... but driven, the thing was, plucking at her piece-by-piece, NEVER taking... but searching. Liari felt herself awaken a piece-at-a-time at this THING's command, memories SPARKING vividly... then draining away as if flushed down a pipe! Her death, Ayu, Terra, the people she absorbed, her addiction... The memory lingered on that last one, allowing the majin to feel in full what had driven her for the better part of her life... before it too was drained away.
Hmhmhmhmhmhmhm.... Hahahahahahah....!
The first sound since she... died... was a haunting chortle, a dark and cruel noise that reverberated NOT in her ears... but in her very being! It was distant... almost a whisper... but the power it held... what it spoke to inside... was not. If the majin could SCREAM, her cries of terror and pain would have pierced the black she had fallen into. Callion, Ayu, even that IDIOT Quash would have heard her, felt what she felt... Was this what hell was like...? Was this what Zaks and her children had to go through every time they entered this place...? For the first time in a LONG time... Liari felt small... vulnerable... afraid, as if this thing picking at her would have its fill at any moment and finish her off... for GOOD. If this was hell... If this was hell, then...
Suddenly, a BLAZE of fire ERUPTED within Liari, filling her with ANGER and DETERMINATION. She would BEAT IT! Death was not the end... It COULDN'T BE. If those demon-spawn could FORCE a way out, then Liari could too! SHE WAS THE STRONGEST THING! SHE WAS! SHE HAD TO BE!
How little you understand your own world... The voice reverberated, its terrible hum FLOODING her mind! You were nothing... a nuisance... A side-show to those with TRUE power... You had true power once... long ago. The fingers DUG into the Majin's mind again, reaching DEEPER, FARTHER than they ever had before! They CLUTCHED around something small, HARD, ingrained within the majin's mind, pulling at it like a savage beast! Pain exploded from within Terra's mind, her thoughts bleeding to WHITE, her sense of self SPLITTING in two before-
A BRIGHT LIGHT erupted before her as if she had come out of a tunnel! She... watched as, just below her, a massive pink blast DRILLED into the core of a planet, consuming rock, dirt, air, PEOPLE that stood in it's way. The explosion as the blast went off within the planet seemed to shake the foundations of the universe, the ground splitting as light erupted from the fresh crags, the sky flickering between red, blue, and black as the atmosphere fled the dying planet. Laughter erupted from around the majin, a sharp, twisted chortle of unsympathetic mirth as she was bathed in the orange light of an explosion...
...Then again, another world, a blast rocketing down towards the planet. The setting was different. No people, barren world. Explosion. Laughter...
...Then again, another world. And another. AND ANOTHER. Countless images, THOUSANDS of worlds burned beneath Liari... and it only took three for her to realize... that laughter had been hers. Worlds popped and burned in the void like fireworks in the sky. ...And with these memories... came pleasure... Wild, self-satisfying, shallow... but it WAS pleasure. When Liari watched those explosions MELT through the planet's core, when she saw all things BURN in a radiant flash of light... it was as if, for a moment, everything was as it should be. The heat of the life of a world being expunged at once, the satisfaction of obliterating something so large, the knowledge that you held it... and everything SMALLER than it in the palm of your hand... Brought a smile to Liari's lips! Deep in her stomach, spreading upwards through her chest, a sense of euphoria, no matter how temporary, flooded the majin so thoroughly, it was like nothing else!
Now... Open your eyes.
...It was then that Liari realized... she actually possessed them, eyes... Sensation... FEELING... a body... She could feel her eyes roll behind lids, her fingers, if sluggishly, curling and uncurling at her command! Liari could feel her chest expand and contract as she took her first breath... since her head was cleaved from her neck. As she was bid to do, the majin would slowly open her eyes... only to see...
...The deep yellow eyes of a... being of a nature like Liari had NEVER SEEN, his blood-red face contorting in a self-satisfied smirk as he observed her... like a weapons manufacturer looking over his newest death dealer. ...And then... Liari caught the faintest whiff of his energy.... and she RECOILED in TERROR! The majin's eyes shot WIDE as she shot back, tripping over her own feet and falling HARD on her rear! His energy it... IT WAS COMPLETELY INSANE! It was as if every sense was overwhelmed beyond REASON merely standing next to this... this GENUINE DEMON, this TRUE FREAK but... there was more... OH, there was MORE! It was only when Liari fell did she notice her surroundings. Hell... was crystaline...? Liari had been led to believe there was fire, brimstone, torture and worse down here but... all seemed to be frozen and divided into random shapes and structures... Almost as if...
"...It wasn't always this way...?" The demon smirked, completing her thought! Liari blinked, feeling those fingers... MENTAL FINGERS digging around in her brain again! She cried out in PAIN, her hands SHOOTING UP to clutch at her head... only to realize... these weren't her hands... Terra's eyes widened as she looked down at herself, realizing... she was no longer tall... She...
"My... body..." Liari whispered, the cold hand of fear CLUTCHING at her heart! "It's..."
"...As it was before you tainted it." The demon completed again, his lips peeling back to reveal long, almost vampire-like fangs!
"B...But... How...?"
"Because I willed it." The demon explained, holding an upturned hand out towards the Majin! Suddenly, a copy of Liari would RISE up from his palm in a flash of light, grinning back at her twistedly... before fading away into nothingness. "...Your existence belongs to me, majin."
WC: 1271
COLD.
Something FREEZING cold CLAMPED around the majin, RIPPING her up from where she was traveling! Its fingers dug into her like the talons of a great bird, WRENCHING her down, down, DOWN, accelerating at speeds she didn't think were possible! In her blindness, her deafness, the majin could only feel air RUSH past her, the CLAW clamping down on her, everything slipping away at a radical pace! For a brief moment, these feelings were her entire WORLD, filling the spaces of emptiness with stimulation, context, and awareness! For a moment, she felt... alive and then...
PAIN! The claw that CLAMPED around her- No... Something else... SOMETHING reached into her being and tore into her MIND! Harsh, unfeeling... but driven, the thing was, plucking at her piece-by-piece, NEVER taking... but searching. Liari felt herself awaken a piece-at-a-time at this THING's command, memories SPARKING vividly... then draining away as if flushed down a pipe! Her death, Ayu, Terra, the people she absorbed, her addiction... The memory lingered on that last one, allowing the majin to feel in full what had driven her for the better part of her life... before it too was drained away.
Hmhmhmhmhmhmhm.... Hahahahahahah....!
The first sound since she... died... was a haunting chortle, a dark and cruel noise that reverberated NOT in her ears... but in her very being! It was distant... almost a whisper... but the power it held... what it spoke to inside... was not. If the majin could SCREAM, her cries of terror and pain would have pierced the black she had fallen into. Callion, Ayu, even that IDIOT Quash would have heard her, felt what she felt... Was this what hell was like...? Was this what Zaks and her children had to go through every time they entered this place...? For the first time in a LONG time... Liari felt small... vulnerable... afraid, as if this thing picking at her would have its fill at any moment and finish her off... for GOOD. If this was hell... If this was hell, then...
Suddenly, a BLAZE of fire ERUPTED within Liari, filling her with ANGER and DETERMINATION. She would BEAT IT! Death was not the end... It COULDN'T BE. If those demon-spawn could FORCE a way out, then Liari could too! SHE WAS THE STRONGEST THING! SHE WAS! SHE HAD TO BE!
How little you understand your own world... The voice reverberated, its terrible hum FLOODING her mind! You were nothing... a nuisance... A side-show to those with TRUE power... You had true power once... long ago. The fingers DUG into the Majin's mind again, reaching DEEPER, FARTHER than they ever had before! They CLUTCHED around something small, HARD, ingrained within the majin's mind, pulling at it like a savage beast! Pain exploded from within Terra's mind, her thoughts bleeding to WHITE, her sense of self SPLITTING in two before-
A BRIGHT LIGHT erupted before her as if she had come out of a tunnel! She... watched as, just below her, a massive pink blast DRILLED into the core of a planet, consuming rock, dirt, air, PEOPLE that stood in it's way. The explosion as the blast went off within the planet seemed to shake the foundations of the universe, the ground splitting as light erupted from the fresh crags, the sky flickering between red, blue, and black as the atmosphere fled the dying planet. Laughter erupted from around the majin, a sharp, twisted chortle of unsympathetic mirth as she was bathed in the orange light of an explosion...
...Then again, another world, a blast rocketing down towards the planet. The setting was different. No people, barren world. Explosion. Laughter...
...Then again, another world. And another. AND ANOTHER. Countless images, THOUSANDS of worlds burned beneath Liari... and it only took three for her to realize... that laughter had been hers. Worlds popped and burned in the void like fireworks in the sky. ...And with these memories... came pleasure... Wild, self-satisfying, shallow... but it WAS pleasure. When Liari watched those explosions MELT through the planet's core, when she saw all things BURN in a radiant flash of light... it was as if, for a moment, everything was as it should be. The heat of the life of a world being expunged at once, the satisfaction of obliterating something so large, the knowledge that you held it... and everything SMALLER than it in the palm of your hand... Brought a smile to Liari's lips! Deep in her stomach, spreading upwards through her chest, a sense of euphoria, no matter how temporary, flooded the majin so thoroughly, it was like nothing else!
Now... Open your eyes.
...It was then that Liari realized... she actually possessed them, eyes... Sensation... FEELING... a body... She could feel her eyes roll behind lids, her fingers, if sluggishly, curling and uncurling at her command! Liari could feel her chest expand and contract as she took her first breath... since her head was cleaved from her neck. As she was bid to do, the majin would slowly open her eyes... only to see...
...The deep yellow eyes of a... being of a nature like Liari had NEVER SEEN, his blood-red face contorting in a self-satisfied smirk as he observed her... like a weapons manufacturer looking over his newest death dealer. ...And then... Liari caught the faintest whiff of his energy.... and she RECOILED in TERROR! The majin's eyes shot WIDE as she shot back, tripping over her own feet and falling HARD on her rear! His energy it... IT WAS COMPLETELY INSANE! It was as if every sense was overwhelmed beyond REASON merely standing next to this... this GENUINE DEMON, this TRUE FREAK but... there was more... OH, there was MORE! It was only when Liari fell did she notice her surroundings. Hell... was crystaline...? Liari had been led to believe there was fire, brimstone, torture and worse down here but... all seemed to be frozen and divided into random shapes and structures... Almost as if...
"...It wasn't always this way...?" The demon smirked, completing her thought! Liari blinked, feeling those fingers... MENTAL FINGERS digging around in her brain again! She cried out in PAIN, her hands SHOOTING UP to clutch at her head... only to realize... these weren't her hands... Terra's eyes widened as she looked down at herself, realizing... she was no longer tall... She...
"My... body..." Liari whispered, the cold hand of fear CLUTCHING at her heart! "It's..."
"...As it was before you tainted it." The demon completed again, his lips peeling back to reveal long, almost vampire-like fangs!
"B...But... How...?"
"Because I willed it." The demon explained, holding an upturned hand out towards the Majin! Suddenly, a copy of Liari would RISE up from his palm in a flash of light, grinning back at her twistedly... before fading away into nothingness. "...Your existence belongs to me, majin."
WC: 1271
