Klein Cylrit
The rain had stopped midway through our journey to the spider queen`s burrow. Raya and I were mostly silent. Virginia told us about many different tales about Grey`s presence in the Dream Realm. They were... interesting.
She was leading the way as usual, I followed her right behind while Raya was two steps behind me.
"So did he really ride a dragon?"
Virginia smirked at me enthusiastically.
"Oh, yes. He rode the first ever dragon in over a millennium."
Raya stumbled over a rock. I looked at her from the corner of the eye, she had an awkward expression on her face.
"Where did he even find a dragon?" she asked.
Virginia shrugged her shoulders as we crossed a giant log.
"I don`t know. No one knows." Her eyes darted at the webbed trees around us. "My father said he used a dreadreaper. A species of Awakened Beast which can shift forms."
Raya snorted.
"And is it true?"
Virginia shook her hand.
"Nah, I don`t believe that." She tilted her head. "To be said, I thought there were dragons in the Green Realm, no?"
A small chuckle escaped me and I looked at Raya ludicrously. Virginia stopped walking and glanced at me then to Raya.
"Did I say something wrong?"
Raya sighed and weaved her hand up in the air in a jest of apology.
"No, it's just... I don`t recall us having any dragons throughout our history."
Virginia`s face fell.
"T-There are no dragons...? Deathdamn, my entire thrill just washed away."
Raya rolled her eyes at the poor Virginia and kept walking, getting ahead of us.
"Green Realm had dragons, at least it is theorized that it had, over two thousand years ago."
I walked next to Raya with a wry grin.
"Do you really believe in that conspiracy? All they found was a giant wing fossil. It could have belonged to any ancient bird species."
"Even so, dragons still exist as mythical creatures don`t they."
I opened my mouth to argue with her but when my even brain decided there was no point in doing that I just closed it and continued my pace. Maybe it was best to shut up.
The Sun was gone and the Verdant Moon arose once more, the bright stars were next to it. The more we marched deeper, the more the webbing in the trees increased.
"Why are there no spiders yet?" I asked Virginia.
Virginia quickly got in front of us, her morning star ready and steady. The Awakened woman`s upbeat face had shifted into a much solemn one.
"Because it knows" Her voice came so cold that I, without a problem could feel the chill brushing me. "I believe the mother spider could sense the demise of her children. The sound we heard earlier was just a hint they gave us to scatter in dread."
"If the queen knows, shouldn't it attack us by now?" Raya asked, her own voice was as cold as Virginia`s, maybe even colder.
"The queen is not a mindless beast. All the Awakened Beast, no matter the species, have an advanced intelligence compared to a normal animal."
"It`ll ambush us then, is that its plan?" I posed with my hand pointing around us.
Virginia nodded her head, her face sour. At her gesture a shiver ran down my spine.
"Will punching the queen hard will even help us kill it?" Raya asked.
Virginia stopped and turned around, raising her morning star to Raya`s throat.
"You two handle the pawns, I`ll take on the queen myself."
Raya`s eyes narrowed down, a frown was on her face. I couldn`t remember seeing her this angry before. She had something weird going on her mind.
"We have two runes together. If we fight the queen, there is a better chance of victory," she said.
Virginia`s spiked weapon dropped to her side. Her eyes looked to the left then to right. Her brows furrowed.
"We are close," she said. "If you focus hard, you could sense the small presence of spiders."
Both Raya and I leaned our backs to one another. I was sure the two of us could sense the quiver coming from the opposite person.
Virginia raised her morning star once more, clutching the weapon with both of her hands instinctively. She walked a little further deep. Not too far from us. While Raya and I both looked around the trees. Even if they are larger and heavier, they are still spiders. And spiders hunt in the shadows.
Virginia tread back to us, the leery was all over her face.
"They should be here. I could feel their aetheric presence. Don`t unleash the runes yet," she whispered. "They might just be scouts."
The green aetheric motes swirled around us. I clenched my fists and let out a really shallow breath. Raya gritted her teeth and pushed her back from me.
There was an eerie silence all over the place. Cold wind of the night washed over all of our steady bodies. Virginia relaxed her grip on the morning star. My eyes danced all over the trees, searching for any abnormality. Liquidpsats were far more simple than the colossal spiders. Passing them was relatively easy. Whilst Raya used that space bending ability zero, Virginia and I used aether to enforce our legs to jump across. We clinged to one another so, and spun around in the air like a teetotum until we flew past the Blacklight river. It was a weird tactic but it worked, even if we almost fell straight into the river.
This was not the same, we did not have fancy techniques to save us this time. We had to punch our way through, and for what? What kind of an insight could we learn from beating some large arachnoids?
I wish I had more time to ponder—but all of it scattered away with the sound of a squeak coming past the trees. Virginia stiffened her grip and channeled aether into her weapon. The weapon grew and sharpened. She motioned for us to wait, waiting until a long string of web was shot towards Virginia.
She immediately swayed her morning star, cutting the web. And with that four spiders jumped from each side. I activated my rune as aether drifted towards it. My vision drained of any color and my eyes and hair both glowed in white. I leaped from the ground, phasing through one of the spiders and securing its heart. Raya unleashed her own rune, the girl`s hair became translucent and her eyes glowed violently. She was in the sky, dancing around the frugal of webs.
I landed on the ground at once and then jolted through another spider behind Virginia, killing it instantly. And on her name, Virginia had already slayed three of the eight spiders. Raya killed one other spider by wrapping blue chains around its body and then crushing it with the shackles. The offensive ability of the Rune of Freedom was not so a joke. Not so free at all.
Two spiders remained standing, their legs made a shrewish noise. The mutli-eyed beasts shot a ranged web and stuck it to the trees behind. With the help of the webs they leaped back and hung on the trees, their gazes set on us unchanging. The spiders made an itching sound and prepared to jump back. They were much more in rhyme than I first thought, they hopped and lunged towards us in a very accurate synchronization. The spiders attacked to eat us with delight, but instead they fell to their own legs. Virginia`s morning star had thrusted through both of the arachnids in a surprising angle. The last of the spiders fell in the beat of a heart.
Virginia was like a portrait of insuperability. She placed her foot down on one of the spiders and picked back her weapon with a sneer playing on her blood smeared face. I released the aether on the rune and my color came back once more. Raya descended next to me, blood had spilled over her uniform. She watched the Awakened woman with chagrin, frowning at her aversion. The aetheric surge of the Rune of Freedom vanished from her body as her appearance returned back to normal.
"Whats with the long face?" I asked, knitting my brows.
Raya merely shrugged off the question. My friend walked past me and stood before Virginia. Virginia wiped the blood off her face and looked at Raya.
"Whats wrong?" she asked.
Tilting her head Raya stared at Virginia with a disgruntled expression. Virginia arched a brow, probably wondering what was going on with Raya. I did too, to be honest, no one can truly understand what is happening in another`s head. But Raya acting so strangely made no sense.
"Gray and delay." Raya murmured to herself. "Fair and train. Come to hide, jump to fight. King on cling, corner blink. Shall be a trick, can`t be a kick. Death can do, life can coo. No more fell, Grey can bell."
A small smile curled in Virginia`s face.
"You really do like to sing a lot. No wonder how you taught King`s Dance to yourself."
I walked through the spider corpses laying limp on the ground.
"Could more be coming for us?" I asked.
Virginia`s smile dropped as she answered the suspicion.
"If the queen`s ready to sacrifice more, than sure. But, I can`t imagine an Awakened Beast being that stupid."
"So your point?" Raya charmed in, looking around the trees worrisome.
"I believe every remaining spider has gathered around the burrow. Killing that bitch is not so easy."
Raya flexed her knuckles, relaxing them savagely. The anxiety that had wounded me since I fell to this island suddenly broke free. It breaks my heart to see a song of freedom embracing a blister of hate. Raya hides much more than she shows. Mount Eckly had edged me to dread, but Raya filled me with dread. I could almost hallucinate ruin next to her. What the hell is wrong with her?
"Klein will take the queen," she claimed. "He has a better chance than either of us."
Virginia untangled her hair and hurled it in the wind brushing us. Her entire attitude seemed more sharp.
"And what will we do if Klein gets stuck in the ground?"
Raya crossed her arms.
"Still, if he just phases through the beast, then we win."
Virginia sighed deeply at Raya`s insistence.
"Do I have no words for this?" I asked, trying to sound warm to ease the coldness coming from Raya. "I could try to defeat it. If phasing through and grabbing its heart is enough then there is no harm in trying."
Virginia placed a hand on her face like a disappointed mother.
"If you two really want to try it, fine. There is no reason in trying to convince thy ambitions anyway."
A smirk danced on Raya`s lips.
"Worth enough." She turned her gaze at me. "Don`t die on me, understand? We need to get out of here as soon as possible."
I supplied my finger with an uptight grin.
"Whats the worst that can happen? Even if I create an opening for one of you to lend the finishing blow is fine by me."
"Just don`t die," Virginia said, wrinkling the worry in her voice. "Both of you."
"How many spiders are proximately left?" I asked.
Virginia scratched her chin for a moment. Her eyes moved around us and in between the trees. Her teeth's jaw tightened as she did so.
"Eighty. Maybe a little more. Less?"
I squeezed my fists.
"How can we bypass that many giant, starving spiders?".
"If we manage to kill the queen, then the rest of the colony should scatter. We should pray to the Supreme Tarn that the spiders don`t go mad."
"And if they go mad?" Raya asked.
"Then we sure are fucked. They will try to crush anything on their lost path."
"Thats messed up." I muttered under my breath.
Raya glanced at me pleadingly. She opened her mouth and motioned the words out without ever actually giving them voice. "Don`t act so fast, don`t lunge too slow," she said. I nodded my head at her and glanced at Virginia again.
Virginia turned her back to us and watched the night sky with astonishment.
"Night looks much more beautiful today," Raya whispered as she sat down on the cold stone ground.
The ground had bits of grass here and there but still it was just a faint load.
Raya brought her knees to her chest and hugged them lightly.
"Klein," she whispered. "Do you think Grey can win his duel?"
I walked over, standing next to my friend and watching the Verdant Moon. Though my eyes did not stay up for long, guilt dragged them to my toes.
"I should be honest, I have no idea who's going to win that damn duel. Beyond that, I can`t fathom in what sanity did Grey challenge that man."
Raya sulked her shoulders.
"Grey`s unceasing ass did most likely." She let out a soft, sad chuckle as the words left her mouth. "What will I do if he dies? I can`t even stand the thought of him losing his spiteful life."
I looked away just for a moment, not sure how to put my words into voice. Heavy air left my lungs to my mouth and then to the world as I gave my proclamation.
"Even if he dies, we will continue to live on. And we will still have a duty that is fated. We have the power to change our world, don`t we? Isn`t Grey`s dream of making a world without the false grace of the Five? We`ll honor him, till the end of the tread of life." I gave her a gentle smile and offered my hand. "Although, I don`t believe even the slightest of him getting killed. Remember what Sunny had said, 'Because he`s the kind of a person who fights against fate.' And you said it yourself Raya, Grey is proud and stubborn. He is arrogance incarnate. "
Raya`s eyes jolted open, tears resisting to form on her eyes. My friend gladly accepted my hand and I pulled her up. She brushed herself and smiled. And even so, the smile only managed to live on her face for just a blink. She opened her palm to glance at the Rune of Freedom.
"I know, in my bones. Grey will win. I will triumph. And the Five will fall. Tonight is the last day we stay in this isle."
Virginia gave us a slice of bread and we shared it evenly. It was probably going to be the last of the food we were going to eat in this dire island. It seemed like there was no danger around, even if there were still likely eighty or so spiders waiting to hunt us down.
She sat down next to us and ate a small piece of bread. The bread moieties were hidden in one of the pockets on her armor. Now there was none left.
"The webheads are dangerously silent," Virginia said, glancing around while eating the piece of carbohydrates.
Raya who was resting her chin on her hands huffed boredly.
"You said they would attack by now."
"I know what I said."
I could almost see the opposition in the conversation. Raya still looked visibly cold towards Virginia.
"Can`t you two just wait in silence?" I asked annoyingly.
Raya stood up suddenly, her entire face a mirror to impatience and a grumble of an expression I didn`t ever think of her having. She drew the aetheric motes towards herself, and I could also visually see her own aether running at the rune on her palm. Her eyes glowed in purple, her hair became translucent once and once and once again.
"What in Tarn`s horns are you doing?"
Raya glared at Virginia in a very weird way, her mouth was a play away from saying something stupid. At the sight of her weirdness I cast my eyes down and Virginia took unsure steps toward her. A shy away from chaos.
"Bait," Raya simply said. Her fingers danced in the air like she was lush.
"Put that damn rune down you idiot. What are you thinking? They might be just waiting for us to do something irrational," Virginia barked bemused.
"If they were here," Raya looked around in a phase of privation. "...then we could have sensed their presence, no?"
"There is still the possibility that they might be hiding them."
"Shits," Raya laughed uncharacteristically loud. "Even we can`t do that. And didn`t you sense the presence of spiders earlier?"
Virginia looked at me in disappointment and also a bit of irritation, rubbing her temples she almost yelled:
"Hiding aetheric signatures is pretty hard for low Awakenings like us." She glanced back at Raya. "Please Raya, don`t be absurd."
Raya raised her index finger fully to the air and swayed it around with a mock phiz.
"Mmm, so, you say some spiders have better aether control than you? Come on Virginia, even you don`t believe your own words."
The woman`s arms reached for Raya but before she could ever think of that I unleashed my own rune. White glow covered my hair and eyes as any shade of any color was gone from my dear vision. I slowly phased my left leg through the ground, trying to control the vim of the rune.
Virginia`s eyes crinkled in the corners.
"You too?! For the bastard bolems you are, deathdamn."
Virginia almost looked like she had surrendered to our intense intents.
"I don`t, uhh, to be here," Raya muttered as much as she could. "And Grey doesn`t, Klein sure not."
"Are you high?" I asked, my eyes twitching.
"What the fuck, How can she by drunk?"
I scoot closer to Raya and examine her eyes. The gush of hate and ridiculousness was there to be seen with naked eyes.
Raya sneered fatuously.
"Nah, I am good, very g-g-good even."
"Does the Rune of Freedom cause all this?" I asked, my hand weaving in front of Raya`s face.
Virginia examined Raya`s behavior with an unusual tendency.
"I don`t know, there was never a recorded bearer of the Rune of Freedom in the GrandCentral Archives."
Raya pushed my hand away, her eyes lowering.
"I don`t need more un-information."
I raised my hand again and once more Raya tried to shove it away, though this time her hand phased through mine like my hand was a ghost. I pulled my hand back and looked at it. It felt strange to have powers like this, I feel much far from anyone else to actually being in the midst of their winds and yells. The Rune of Space is yet to be solved truly and utterly.
Raya receded and looked around, her eyes moving in fast motion.
"The Rune of Freedom lets me, let me, huh? It lets me see around the world much more clearly." Her hands flew around the green aetheric particles. "They are very near. Then to be more overt."
I flicked Raya`s forehead, she yelped and pouted. I sighed and looked straight at her eyes.
"Stop using the rune," I said.
Raya crossed her arms and stuck her tongue out.
"Nah, I am better like these."
When none of us looked amused by her attitude. Raya mumbled sadly and turned off her rune. Her eyes and hair blued again.
"Y-You are mea—" She paused and looked around, then to the Rune of Freedom and then to us. "Why am I feeling somber?"
We did not answer her, only a chuckle came from our mouths. Raya dimmed and snorted.
"What?"
I pointed at her rune with a grin.
"You were—how should I say, a bit tipsy."
Raya arched her brow but lowered it, turning her head and looking around.
"I saw something here, I know it."
She walked closer to the road we were going to take, to the farthest depths of the trees. She lowered her body and looked around the path. Her hand reached out to the stone ground.
"What is it?" I stepped closer.
Virginia did so too. All three of us stood in a crouching position as we stared down at the trace of the web. Virginia slowly strolled her hand on the scratchy, fluid web.
"This is not new," she assured.
I scowled,
"They know we will come for them."
Raya crossed her arms, her eyes closed and opened in a scathing manner.
"If they know then they—" She was caught off by the sound of a spider's skittering afar. They were here, just chose to not to attack.
"They are playing with us," Virginia said as she raised her body.
I looked at Raya,
"Seems like your bait worked."
Raya dragged a hand down her face.
"Don`t worry, kid, being high is just the side effect of the rune."
My head perked up.
"The runes have side effects?"
Raya glanced away, her eyes focused on the webbed trees.
"Grey had told me about those…Well not exactly, but he did mention the runes being a problem."
Virginia folded her arms.
"The Rune of Destruction held by the boy is directly a surge of ruin. Grey Nirmala holds the very undoing of the universe." Her eyes rolled cynically. "Of course it would cause problems."
"Were there any bearers of the Rune of Destruction before?"
Virginia shrugged.
"Not to my knowledge, but the Rune of Destruction was already studied by the Alchemists upon a grand order of the Dream King."
"What about the Rune of Creation?" Raya asked.
Virginia glanced at me then to Raya.
"The Rune of Creation had a bearer before Grey Nirmala."
My mouth was left hanging open and Raya`s pupils shrank.Virginia turned her head repeatedly trying to find reason for our shock.
"There always needs to be a bearer to furnish a Concept Rune to the next wielder."
Both Raya and I looked at our own Concept Runes. They were dim, black, yet still their energy ventured through our bodies.
"Who were they then? The bearer before Grey?" I asked.
Virginia stared at her right arm, where there was a tiny scar.
"From the Old Empire, and its selfless price, Prince Godwyn the Unburnt."
Raya shook her head indecisively.
"How can a prince from who knows how many centuries ago could be in contact with an extraterrestrial entity?"
The question was not directed to Virginia, it was to me. She wanted to know how Organizer was in touch with him, and I know a fact that Organizer gave Grey not just one rune but two, yet now, I still have no idea how Raya has a rune of her own.
Virginia weaved her hand in the air as she lifted herself up.
"Enough talking," She looked at Raya. "If your brain is fine then let's move."
Raya shrugged and we finally continued our journey.
The fog had fallen upon the world once again. It was hard to see anything. The sound of our steps were echoing around the forest and rebonding back to our ears. It was terrifyingly silent and calm. No spiders for us to battle against.
"They really are waiting for us," I said with dread.
Virginia acknowledged me with a nod. But we had the cause to fear more. As the silence stretched we eventually stopped right in the roots of a colossal tree.
"This one is big," Raya muttered dazedly.
"It is the nest." Virginia assured.
Obvious as she said. The tree was completely gray. It was enormous and above it was not just leaves of webs. There was an entire network of them. And also there was a giant gate of webs in the middle of the tree. It was closed, looked fresh mostly.
"How many are waiting for us up there and beyond that?" I looked at Virginia.
She also had no idea, I could figure that by her messy demeanor. Virginia gripped her morning star with both hands. She was firm and ready. While I activated my rune. White glow was once again my primary quirk and color had drained of my eyes.
Even if the surge of aether throughout my body was hard to control, I had gotten used to it, mostly. It was still hard to control the phasing of the Rune of Space. And even now, my right foot was stuck under the ground. I could still move, I just couldn`t get it out of the rock solid floor.
Raya looked the most skeptical out of the three of us. She probably was trying to figure and consider if she should use the Rune of Freedom.
Raya looked at me for a brief moment and I nodded my head. She gave me a tiny smile in return. Her features changed to alien as the rune was activated.
All of us leaned our backs on one another and prepared for any incoming attack. At least we were until our focus was shattered by the stuttering of Raya.
"Oh, umm, I think there are spiders up there," she said. Her finger was pointing towards the network of webs.
Virginia and I glanced at each other.
"Ugh, for the bolem ass, you need to be kidding me!" Virginia hissed.
I almost fell to my knees 'cause of what Raya was doing. She was mumbling a song under her breath.
"Please Raya, tell me that this is a joke? Please."
Raya ignored Virginia as she looked around baffled. After a long minute had passed, Raya eventually looked at us funnily.
"Sowry. Did I do something wrong?"
Virginia smiled tightly and I placed my hand on Raya`s shoulder.
"Turn the damn rune off," I said. My voice came out a lot harsher than I intended.
Raya placed her hands on her lips as she shook my hand.
"I think not Cylrit. This rune is mine and mine only to bear."
She looked unnecessarily proud.
"For the love of Tarn, we are in the middle of a death state and this is what we are dealing with. Raya, at leas—"
Virginia was cut off by the giggling of Raya. At the sight of her giggles Virginia looked down defeatedly."Fuck it." Virginia growled and prepared herself to dash forward.
I stumbled to stop her.
"Wait! Not now. We have to do something about her."
"Yeah, he is right, Ms. Hiems. I am here too!" Raya scolded with a pout. "You guys are really rud—"
Both of us stumbled back involuntarily as a sting of web catched Raya from her back and then pulled her up in a flash. All that came out of poor Raya`s mouth was a "hagh!".
"Well now were are fucked," Virginia said, looking up to Raya as she was getting towed by the web. She then shrugged.
"Eh, she could manage herself. Now, Klein, focus."
I didn`t want to leave Raya like that, but I had to.
Virginia dashed forward, ripping a hole on the gate made out of web. She was faster than the eye could watch. I followed her right after. My foot was annoying to move with. Yet the trouble I had would vanish as I yanked my foot off the ground. I staggered in the air. It was for a short time. I balanced myself almost immediately and phased through the entire herd of tarantulas. Virginia was putting in good work with them. But I did not have a sole second to waste for these, I will find and then take down the queen.
Raya Marin
A scream ripped out of my mouth as I was getting pulled up, to the peaks of the large tree, or whatever one may call it now. The damn rune was dancing randomly around my body. Feeling the Rayatastic flow of the realm was enthusiastically beautiful. It was a dream made reality. Who fucks about some big spiders?
"I am free!" I shouted.
Giggles and chuckles everywhere, echoing in my ears.
"How delight! This so pulchritudinous. Hahaha!"
I opened my eyes wide and let the spiders bring me to their goofy nest. The sting loosened from my back as I found myself laying in a big web facing the scarlet eyes of a spider.
"What? Ugly."
The spider`s mouth ached as it opened it all the way. I could see its teeth clearly, they look scary, I guess? Maybe fear of their mouths is not so cute like they show in movies. Oh, Grey would dislike these. Though, this is a funny way to show their last moments.
"Hey, meanie. Wanna try something? No? Fine."
I grinned mirthfully and jolted straight through this bastard`s mouth. These have no shit on me. Every intense tense it had was gone now. I gushed right out of its buthole, covered in blood.
"Ew! You are so dead! Haha. Get it? Cause you`re dead."
Right in the middle of my humorous joke three spiders jumped on me.
"Huh? You guys are cooked now."
My hands danced in the air as blue chains erupted from thin air, shackling the trio of spiders and then crushing their bloody legs then the bodies completely.
I looked around in a frenzy. Then with the faintest noise of laughter, I jumped down from the gargantuan web. Descending fast down, I could see the damn gate ripped apart and Virginia butchering the poor spiders. That bitch of a woman. Oh, it will be a pleasure to slaughter her.
I landed right at the ruined webs of the giant gate. Virginia had already killed ten of the fifty spiders. She was a remarkable Awakened in hunting down these multi-eyes hags.
Virginia only glanced at me for a moment before turning her focus back to these wretched tarantulas. I joined her of course. But it was sad to see that Klein was nowhere to be seen. Hmm... I ponder what my dear friend is doing.
Blue chains danced around the dark inside of the tree trunk. The inside was covered with webs. They were not really a problem, mostly a drag.
"Hmm, you should be dead," I said to a spider as my chains wrapped around its body.
The battlefield was more of a playground really. I danced across it. Coming before three hungry spiders I simply moved my finger in the air and chains surrounded them, smashing their fury bodies. Of course, it was dull. More were sprinting at me. I bit my cheek. These spiders are really mean. I closed my eyes and just let it happen. My legs moved and followed one another, my hands swayed around. Aether danced with me, my chains followed me.
The sound of the spiders getting squeezed by my chains was a weird noise to hear. Huh? Or was it not? I don`t know. Or maybe I just don`t care. Who needs to care when freedom is theirs?" O, freedom. My freedom is mine and mine alone. My freedom is all I need. Mine.
I clasped my hands in front of my chin and prayed for these bastards. Their deaths. I would love to see the same thing happening to the Endless Greatness of the Five. Chaos swirling blindly in a whole. Bloodshed everywhere. All these spiders, those hard sons of bitches were going to be eaten by me. Laughter spewed from my teeth as I continued my dance, following a path forged by none other but me.
"Life and death amidst like a rampart! The different variables of the same equation!"
Hahaha! This is all so fun to hear. Joyful and so damn awesome.
All of it is my choice to make and mine only. My little, dear freedom. How lone and pretty. Deny so hard. Death comes for us all.
Everything is just so fun! I spun around the world, playing with my chains, swinging them without a care. The presence of the spiders began to fade even more with each rag. What a wonderful island this is. It is filled with joy and life. Should the Five feel my liberal power? I guess they should. Who wouldn`t want to hear me? I am awesome and pretty and kind and great. Raya is awesome. Wobbling around the world as if nothing is important! That is freedom! That is me! I love freedom.
Thumb my feet and sneer. Giggles and chuckles are flying all around me. Helluva, all it is so great.
"Sprint to victory! Dance to laugh, shed to see. What must be, could not be me."
All of these poor spiders try so hard to defend their beloved queen. Hmm, but I get all sentimental seeing these piteous spiders fall again and again. Huh? Was that a lie? Maybe, maybe not. Who cares!? I don`t need it.
"I am so lucky to be born! To have Grey all to myself. Ah, my yearning for solitude and liberation, here, I am here."
Worry is a joke, how sad.
"Sorry my spider friends but I think it's time to depart."
I opened my eyes as only two presence left in my wake. One of them was of my dear friends and the other was of a beast.
"Huh? Oh, hello mama spidey!"
I waved at the giant spider. It was four times bigger than its pawns. It had pure white fur and scarlet red eyes. Its teeth were sharp, legs long and keen.
The queen`s alone nestchamber was filled with human sized crystal eggs. I could see the baby spideys all the way around.
"How cute!" I yelled at the mama.
Klein was stuck on the ceiling because of his phasing, he stared down at me with a mean face. I also waved at him and my friend let out a breath. I gasped dramatically but my princess play was thrown away by a mama spider lunging at me. I closed my eyes and turned around, with just the simple motion of my fingers, chains emerged and catched the poor mommy. The mama tried to be free of my awesome designed chains. Too bad that it had no chance of winning.
I turned my head to face the mama spider. It was getting held down by six chains that arose from the ground. I want to know how these chains work.
A wide smile played on my lips as I gave the mama a courteous bow. The spidey tried to bite me with its big mouth, but against her will, the chains made her unable to reach me.
"Sorry spidey, but I could feel aether running out so shall we end this a lit sooner? Oh, yeah, I know you would agree with me. Thank you so much!"
I bounced on my toes as I tightened the shackles around its body. The spider tore out a screeching as the chains slowly penetrated through its body.
"Don`t be sad mama. You tried your best."
I glanced at Klein who had gotten himself free of his phasing.
"Hey Klein, look!"
Klein appeared next to me in a wink. He looked up and down at the soon dying spider. He narrowed his gaze.
"No," he uttered. "Something is wrong."
I tilted my head curiously.
"Huh? Why? Look, we catched the final boss."
Klein shook her head as he backed away.
"Hurry up and kill it already."
I turned to the mama spider.
"Ouch, I know it is bad. I know you tried your best, but my dear, we have to get out and take back my darling, okay?" I clutched my chest. "The Dream King is the problem, not you."
"Raya, do it already.," Klein insisted.
I snorted at him.
"Can you please be patient for a second? Thank you."
Klein reached a hand to argue but he didn`t and simply turned away. I smiled triumphally and firmed the chains as blood spilled to the ground. The spider queen opened her mouth to bite me.
"Hey, I know you are in pain but didn`t we already talk—"
My words were cut off as an agonizing scream tore out of me. Klein instantly turned to look at me but what had happened, had already happened.
"It burns!" I yelled, falling to my knees and hands. "It burns!"
My face was burning so painfully that any thought I could manage to conjure was stinging almost immediately.
Klein reached for me but I didn`t let him. It is so fucking anguish! The left side of my face is hurting so much. Aether was flowing directly at my face but the pain was still there. It had no desire to leave.
Klein held me from my shoulders and straightened my body. But my eyes were already losing all the vision they held before. I couldn`t even feel them anymore.
"Cole!" I screamed my brother`s name. "I am hurt. Please help me."
But Cole was not here, instead it was the cold darkness that had welcomed me to its embrace.