Jul 26, 2022 18:13:27 GMT -5
Post by Majin Liari on Jul 26, 2022 18:13:27 GMT -5
(SUPER HEAVY WEIGHTS AND TRAINING DUMMY ACTIVATED)
Liari stared out over the landscape before her blankly, her eyes seeing all be beauty, the color, the liveliness of nature and processing NONE of it. How could she...? She wasn't real. None of what she had known about herself was real... It was all a lie... right down to her identity of personhood. Shaza's words repeated again and again in her mind, retelling how he was made to be a librarian of life, to capture, contain and catalogue life-forms into himself as a means of retaining their knowledge, uniqueness and power. Such a thing was HORRIBLE to Liari, the idea that someone could be made just to do ONE THING, that they had no will of their own to do anything for themself, to have their entire existence dedicated to a cause! What was even MORE frightening was seeing that there was a SECOND Shaza, a FAT one trapped inside the thin, afraid of being consumed once more by the boundless voices in his head, his independence jailed! It was the worst thing she could image, being a willing slave... and yet, that was apparently what she was born to be... Majin: magical automatons built for a purpose and Liari didn't even have that. She had NOTHING. Her whole existence was a lie. She had been living something FAKE, believing it was real for the whole time she existed on Earth. Friends.... What even WERE those to a machine like her? She wanted to love them.... to HOLD THEM IN HER ARMS and tell them she cared... but how could she? How could she KNOW ANY OF THOSE FEELINGS WERE HERS!? HOW COULD SHE KNOW HER KILL-SWITCH OR WHATEVER WOULDN'! BE PULLED AND SHE WOULDN'T SNAP THEM IN TWO WITH HER EMBRACE!?
Oooohooohoo.... What dark thoughts you have, girl...
Liari's eyes SNAPPED to attention as a voice ECHOED through her mind, Liari's head snapping this way and that trying to find the source!
"Who-... Where are you!? Show yourself!" The majin commanded, ANGRILY, her aura FLARING... before she suddenly DROPPED to her knees, her energy dissipating as fast as it was summoned! She felt something... ODD reach into her, as if an invisible ghastly hand had reached into her head and SQUEEZED her brain, slowly starting to MOLD it! Liari CLUTCHED at her head, her eyes clenching SHUT with PIAN and agonizing frustration, VEINS BULGING along her body as she growled and hissed!
Such inner turmoil... such darkness buried deep inside... You remind me of another minion I once had...
"A....Anoth...er!?" Liari uttered through gritted teeth, her fingers nearly CLAWING at her own skull! The grip on her mind... in its fragile state, was too strong! She... She couldn't force it out! It was as if a bear had leaped from the woods and had her head between its jaws now: no matter HOW she struggled she was completely at this thing's mercy! "W... what do you- GAAAAAAUGH!" Suddenly IMAGES of her past interaction with Shaza were PULLED to the surface, images FLASHING past her vision a mile-a-minute as being played in x10000 fast-forward! Her eyes felt as if they might MELT in their socket, her skull smashed to JELLY! She... She couldn't bare the PAIN but... the more she fought, the more it HURT!
Heeheeeheeeeee! I see... You struggle with purpose... I can give you all the purpose you need, Liari...
"GAAAAAAAAAAUGH!" Liari HOWLED, her aura SPIKING around her, the majin REALING BACK as a PILLAR of PINK AND RED ENERGY SPIRALLED OUT FROM HER BODY, the sheer SHOCKWAVE of its release FLATTENING THE GROUND FOR MILES AROUND, SHREDDING ALL SURFACE MATTER TO LEVELED, FORMLESS BITS! More images played before her eyes, this time... of loved ones... but something was wrong they... they were all going AWAY! Kombu slowly faded into the black, FORCED AND PACKED DOWN so deep in the Majin's mind, she couldn't even SEE where it had gone! Callion too slowly disappeared, his proud smile that day before West City... slowly giving into the black.
"N... NO! I... WHAT ARE YOU... DON'T TAKE THEM...."
I thought you wanted purpose... You will have it... ONCE I MAKE YOU MY MINION! PAPARAPAPAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH!" Liari SCREAMED at the top of her lungs, her aura BLAZING IN AN INFERNO OF RAW, UNCONTROLLED KI, her signature slowly growing darker, HARDER, SHARPER, as if taking on the feeling of cold volcanic glass! Her body was now covered in BULDGING VEINS, her form slightly bulked up with more defined muscle mass! ...But the most defining feature of all... was the black "M" now painted across her forehead, indicating that her purpose... had finally been given.
The majin mark... HER mark... was now branded upon her flesh.
Liari's WILD surge of power would slowly subside as Liari's body fell limp, her form hunched over as a dark, sinister smile slowly arched across her lips. Her body... it was OVERFLOWING WITH DARK POWER! IT WAS AS IF ALL THE BLOOD INSIDE HAD BEEN REPLACED WITH ENERGY... SHE FELT LIKE SHE COULD DO ANYTHING! And that hand pressing against her mind...? It no longer brought distress... but PLEASURE! It was from THIS the power stemmed from, the strength to DO ANYTHING SHE WANTED! This voice... it granted her, what felt like, UNLIMITED POWER! That city...? She could DESTROY IT! Quash? She could CRACK HIM OPEN like a coconut crab and not feel a THING! ...And that was the biggest boon from all of this, wasn't it...? Liari couldn't feel... ANY pain anymore! All that worry about her purpose? GONE! All that agony regarding Quash's betrayal? IRRELEVANT! She... She was UNSTOPPABLE!
"Heheheh.... HEHEHHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Liari cackled, her laughter growing LOUDER AND LOUDER with each chuckle, her aura SURGING ONCE MORE!
Ah, I see you are enjoying your new power, my pet... Good! You can use it as you were meant to! Come to me! I have work for you to do!
"...Yes..." Liari rumbled, her voice low, rough, UGLY as if spoken from a beast. This voice... it was no longer the forceful intruder she had thought it to be before. No, it was... enchanting... ENTRHALLING even, as if every twing of its off-beat tones were nothing less than the most beautiful song in the universe! Liari just HAD to listen... and obey. All that rebelliousness, that fear of being controlled? Buried under a million tons of nothing. She remembered NONE of it... as if it had never existed. ALL that mattered... was the voice... and what it had asked her to do. Images of locations, knowledge of them all came flooding into the majin's mind, her twisted smile stretching wider and wider as she had come to understand... THIS was what she was made for... And maybe THIS was what Shaza felt when he was doing his duty... Even just ROCKETING in the direction of the VOICE was enough to make Liari CACKLE with joy! She had FOUND purpose! Nothing else mattered! HAHA! SHE WAS FINALLY FREE!
...Liari arrived at the spot shown to her in the image, smirking as she found a hole in the ground surrounded by... a kind of space metal. A SHIP, the images told her, buried beneath the ground... Clever... but how could the voice not be? It knew all in its wonderful and terrible wisdom! The hole opened up revealing the interior of the ship as Liari approached, the majin hopping in and lowering herself rapidly down into the bowels... The place was massive... with MANY FLOORS, each containing massive rooms! The ship... was HUGE... but that wasn't important... Not when the voice was only a few meters away!
Liari's boots clacked against the bottom floor... as she beheld the bottom floor: A MASSIVE Ball sat in the back, it sitting upon a round pedestal of sorts with some kind of meter just below it. To the side... was a hermit, his form tiny and unbearably thin, his head massive and wrinkled and, combined with the skin-color... resembled an ANCIENT potato.
...But Liari knew who this was IMMEDIATELY and dropped to one knee, bowing her head before the voice...
"Ah... so you know to respect your betters... good..." The figure snickered, his voice like grating nails on a chalkboard. He turned to face Liari, his hands tucked behind his back, his massive eyes looking at Liari with sinister intent! "I am the great wizard Babadi... And I am your new master."
WC: 1412
Liari stared out over the landscape before her blankly, her eyes seeing all be beauty, the color, the liveliness of nature and processing NONE of it. How could she...? She wasn't real. None of what she had known about herself was real... It was all a lie... right down to her identity of personhood. Shaza's words repeated again and again in her mind, retelling how he was made to be a librarian of life, to capture, contain and catalogue life-forms into himself as a means of retaining their knowledge, uniqueness and power. Such a thing was HORRIBLE to Liari, the idea that someone could be made just to do ONE THING, that they had no will of their own to do anything for themself, to have their entire existence dedicated to a cause! What was even MORE frightening was seeing that there was a SECOND Shaza, a FAT one trapped inside the thin, afraid of being consumed once more by the boundless voices in his head, his independence jailed! It was the worst thing she could image, being a willing slave... and yet, that was apparently what she was born to be... Majin: magical automatons built for a purpose and Liari didn't even have that. She had NOTHING. Her whole existence was a lie. She had been living something FAKE, believing it was real for the whole time she existed on Earth. Friends.... What even WERE those to a machine like her? She wanted to love them.... to HOLD THEM IN HER ARMS and tell them she cared... but how could she? How could she KNOW ANY OF THOSE FEELINGS WERE HERS!? HOW COULD SHE KNOW HER KILL-SWITCH OR WHATEVER WOULDN'! BE PULLED AND SHE WOULDN'T SNAP THEM IN TWO WITH HER EMBRACE!?
Oooohooohoo.... What dark thoughts you have, girl...
Liari's eyes SNAPPED to attention as a voice ECHOED through her mind, Liari's head snapping this way and that trying to find the source!
"Who-... Where are you!? Show yourself!" The majin commanded, ANGRILY, her aura FLARING... before she suddenly DROPPED to her knees, her energy dissipating as fast as it was summoned! She felt something... ODD reach into her, as if an invisible ghastly hand had reached into her head and SQUEEZED her brain, slowly starting to MOLD it! Liari CLUTCHED at her head, her eyes clenching SHUT with PIAN and agonizing frustration, VEINS BULGING along her body as she growled and hissed!
Such inner turmoil... such darkness buried deep inside... You remind me of another minion I once had...
"A....Anoth...er!?" Liari uttered through gritted teeth, her fingers nearly CLAWING at her own skull! The grip on her mind... in its fragile state, was too strong! She... She couldn't force it out! It was as if a bear had leaped from the woods and had her head between its jaws now: no matter HOW she struggled she was completely at this thing's mercy! "W... what do you- GAAAAAAUGH!" Suddenly IMAGES of her past interaction with Shaza were PULLED to the surface, images FLASHING past her vision a mile-a-minute as being played in x10000 fast-forward! Her eyes felt as if they might MELT in their socket, her skull smashed to JELLY! She... She couldn't bare the PAIN but... the more she fought, the more it HURT!
Heeheeeheeeeee! I see... You struggle with purpose... I can give you all the purpose you need, Liari...
"GAAAAAAAAAAUGH!" Liari HOWLED, her aura SPIKING around her, the majin REALING BACK as a PILLAR of PINK AND RED ENERGY SPIRALLED OUT FROM HER BODY, the sheer SHOCKWAVE of its release FLATTENING THE GROUND FOR MILES AROUND, SHREDDING ALL SURFACE MATTER TO LEVELED, FORMLESS BITS! More images played before her eyes, this time... of loved ones... but something was wrong they... they were all going AWAY! Kombu slowly faded into the black, FORCED AND PACKED DOWN so deep in the Majin's mind, she couldn't even SEE where it had gone! Callion too slowly disappeared, his proud smile that day before West City... slowly giving into the black.
"N... NO! I... WHAT ARE YOU... DON'T TAKE THEM...."
I thought you wanted purpose... You will have it... ONCE I MAKE YOU MY MINION! PAPARAPAPAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH!" Liari SCREAMED at the top of her lungs, her aura BLAZING IN AN INFERNO OF RAW, UNCONTROLLED KI, her signature slowly growing darker, HARDER, SHARPER, as if taking on the feeling of cold volcanic glass! Her body was now covered in BULDGING VEINS, her form slightly bulked up with more defined muscle mass! ...But the most defining feature of all... was the black "M" now painted across her forehead, indicating that her purpose... had finally been given.
The majin mark... HER mark... was now branded upon her flesh.
Liari's WILD surge of power would slowly subside as Liari's body fell limp, her form hunched over as a dark, sinister smile slowly arched across her lips. Her body... it was OVERFLOWING WITH DARK POWER! IT WAS AS IF ALL THE BLOOD INSIDE HAD BEEN REPLACED WITH ENERGY... SHE FELT LIKE SHE COULD DO ANYTHING! And that hand pressing against her mind...? It no longer brought distress... but PLEASURE! It was from THIS the power stemmed from, the strength to DO ANYTHING SHE WANTED! This voice... it granted her, what felt like, UNLIMITED POWER! That city...? She could DESTROY IT! Quash? She could CRACK HIM OPEN like a coconut crab and not feel a THING! ...And that was the biggest boon from all of this, wasn't it...? Liari couldn't feel... ANY pain anymore! All that worry about her purpose? GONE! All that agony regarding Quash's betrayal? IRRELEVANT! She... She was UNSTOPPABLE!
"Heheheh.... HEHEHHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Liari cackled, her laughter growing LOUDER AND LOUDER with each chuckle, her aura SURGING ONCE MORE!
Ah, I see you are enjoying your new power, my pet... Good! You can use it as you were meant to! Come to me! I have work for you to do!
"...Yes..." Liari rumbled, her voice low, rough, UGLY as if spoken from a beast. This voice... it was no longer the forceful intruder she had thought it to be before. No, it was... enchanting... ENTRHALLING even, as if every twing of its off-beat tones were nothing less than the most beautiful song in the universe! Liari just HAD to listen... and obey. All that rebelliousness, that fear of being controlled? Buried under a million tons of nothing. She remembered NONE of it... as if it had never existed. ALL that mattered... was the voice... and what it had asked her to do. Images of locations, knowledge of them all came flooding into the majin's mind, her twisted smile stretching wider and wider as she had come to understand... THIS was what she was made for... And maybe THIS was what Shaza felt when he was doing his duty... Even just ROCKETING in the direction of the VOICE was enough to make Liari CACKLE with joy! She had FOUND purpose! Nothing else mattered! HAHA! SHE WAS FINALLY FREE!
...Liari arrived at the spot shown to her in the image, smirking as she found a hole in the ground surrounded by... a kind of space metal. A SHIP, the images told her, buried beneath the ground... Clever... but how could the voice not be? It knew all in its wonderful and terrible wisdom! The hole opened up revealing the interior of the ship as Liari approached, the majin hopping in and lowering herself rapidly down into the bowels... The place was massive... with MANY FLOORS, each containing massive rooms! The ship... was HUGE... but that wasn't important... Not when the voice was only a few meters away!
Liari's boots clacked against the bottom floor... as she beheld the bottom floor: A MASSIVE Ball sat in the back, it sitting upon a round pedestal of sorts with some kind of meter just below it. To the side... was a hermit, his form tiny and unbearably thin, his head massive and wrinkled and, combined with the skin-color... resembled an ANCIENT potato.
...But Liari knew who this was IMMEDIATELY and dropped to one knee, bowing her head before the voice...
"Ah... so you know to respect your betters... good..." The figure snickered, his voice like grating nails on a chalkboard. He turned to face Liari, his hands tucked behind his back, his massive eyes looking at Liari with sinister intent! "I am the great wizard Babadi... And I am your new master."
WC: 1412
