Venomous Death [Algos/Ulv]

Ulv would listen to Algos' offer, and six heavy-set black arms would extend out from the woman, reaching over to pull her into a hug, should she allow it. The arms were definitely strange things. Very real, very much there, and yet without a wisp of spiritual power or indeed any kind of understanding as to how they came to be.
"You're a good girl, aren't you? Me and you did pretty much the same thing, only when I totally fucking snapped it was in Saburo City and Kamui was there to deflect the Oscura I would have wiped the back half of the city away with. But don't worry, I am not just sitting here waiting for death. It's why I came to see you and accepted your offer to be by your side"

Ulv would tap the symbol on her wrist that Algos had given her before.
"I am going to die. The me that is the collection of Ulv, Hvit, Mirja, Beowulf, Iko, Ruin, and The Beast, will all be laid to rest. And after that there will be a Demon by your side. She will care for you, though that is all I can assure. You can do whatever you want with her, but I will be well and truly gone. So any deals you strike with me about her will not carry over" Ulv would, should she have been allowed to bring Algos in in the first place, lay her head on the Princess' own. A warm, friendly embrace.

"As for pain, I can't tell you about that. The physical discomforts; the blindness and loss of balance and tiredness and puking blood and teeth falling out and getting tuberculosis suck. But pain? I don't know if I feel that anymore. For a while now I have had a mentality so incredibly powerful I can simply will earth-shattering constructs almost my equal onto the physical plane for a fair amount of time. And that comes simply because I want it to. Pain for me is like learning the alphabet. I might be in it, but if I am then it is something that I have just squirrelled away in a subconscious process so simple I don't even realise I am suppressing it"

"You have your own vilified version of yourself. My actions are more subtle but no less vicious and merciless. My life started with butchery for no real reason. We could have stopped and spoken, I could have taken them all down none lethally. I was beyond them, even then. Had I not possess the aformentioned incredibly, stupidly powerful mentality, my legacy would be death at the end of a mindless rage across the continent. Or a far more insidious and subtle use of my power to ensure any being I wished to possess would have no thoughts except the thoughts to please and obey me.

And yet, like myself who offers a hand rather than a fist, you are here. Talking to a dying woman who will soon be utterly irrelevant to you rather than putting all force into repairing the relationship with your family, or reconsolidating your hold on the Demon World, or looking to Heuco Mundo to wonder if any of Nagato's grudges linger and if that will be a problem in the future. Thus, I call you a good girl. Wrongness in a moment of passion is not evil. Wrongness, cold and calculating, is evil"

She would say nothing as Algos bit into Ulv's neck and started to drink from that. While there was physical pain aplenty, there was a disturbing lack of torment in the woman. Or rather, it was great effort to find sorrow alone. Everything in Ulv's heart was touched with passion and vigor, every emotion down to the simplest of things had the spark of resolve clumped onto it like an everpresent gas. Even the Fury that was by far the greatest source of darkened and destructive emotion within her was bound tightly within an even greater shell of conviction and principle.

And there was no escaping that even in the physical world, as Ulv's blood crackled and roiled to the touch. Warmer than any blood ever should be, it was a taste beyond any human blood. Both from the fact that she was genetically divulgent from humans in a big way, and the problem Ulv had was her reiatsu bound itself down to her smallest atom, and from there was burning her away. To drink Ulv's blood was to drink in the flame of resolve at her very core. And considering how Algos reacted the last time Calypso had such a thing......

Well, Ulv was too tired to question ramifications. After all, what was Algos going to do, kill her?

Still, Algos seemed to have let Calypso go, of her free will, though it pained her. Cupping the Demon's face with her hands, she would nod like a proud mother bear.
"That is good. Keeping her would only hurt yourself and her. This way she can come to reconnect with some distance between you two. In time you two will become close by a different angle. I know the despair when you realize the woman you love will never love you back. It is something I have felt twice in my lives now, and really not something I am ever looking forward to for a third time. It feels like there is a monster in your heart, chewing it's way out, vomiting spite and vitriol as it does.

But that is not the true ending. That is not forever, lest you let it be. There are a trillion demons counting on your passion and your capability to move forward. For them, for yourself. To overcome what you are at the core, to fight past every fibre of your being is a grand journey, though myself and Hvit both are proof that you are better for it when you do"

She would stare Algos in the eyes, still afire with vigor even in her guttering death days, and hen nestle her back in.
"You are not alone. Do not try to deal with this as if you are. Friends, and Family, are there eternal" she'd but a warm and soft hand on Algos' head and stroke her hair comfortingly. Maybe none of this had any impact on her whatsoever. Ulv had experience with that, between Henrex and Shio and Yaksha and Takehiko and Tatsuya and Elyss and...the list grew every day.

"Besides, no need to worry about Calypso. Vanyel is a good kid, he'll treat her right. I once blew his arm off, you know? Few years ago in Greece. It was fun"

"Many in the world do disagree with me on many points. It's proof I have been out into the world and met people" Ulv commented, a deeply held conviction there. Nobody alive was agreed with by everyone. But Algos wanted more, if it was because she liked the hug or because the short-lived energy inside her was sparking against the void she didn't know. But she didn't need to know, and just laid down, holding Algos closely, it was nice. When was the last time she had laid down like this with anyone? Let alone someone that really needed it?

"Ha. You only move forward out of your own greed, pride, and pettiness. You think that is in the least ways unique? Positive or negative, nobody in the world is truly selfless. Everyone is doing it for their own reasons, their own desires. Things they want to see happen. Nobody helps to help" Ulv's voice was a little less powerful now, as she drifted into a half-sleep of eminent comfort. It was unavoidable with beautiful women by your side.

"We can always...have a child together..." Ulv spoke, soft and airy. Was it a serious request to Algos? Was it her conflagulating the situation with another memory or even the hope of a memory? The answer was unclear.