Bitter Fog [Khala/Calypso]

Sun Jan 24, 2021 10:00 pm

ENTER KHALA'S POST

Artist: N/A - Song: N/A

Power cycles and churns like an endless loop, so while memories of Nami flickered throughout the remains of the Queen's Manor; the current Queen did not quite reflect these nostalgic thoughts. Instead, the byproduct of Mana's extract continued to amass power within this world of beasts, titans, monsters, and all things foul. For something so pure, gentle, and tender; it was a daunting task and not one the ex-primary avatar of Deveta thought she could handle.

Thus, as the moon's golden glow reflected against the shimmering pale fog of the lands, the emerald eyes of the divine being slithered into the abyss as it stood upon the tops of the manor of the Ex-Queen of this nation. As many tendrils slithered around the feminine body of Khala, it's body snarled out for the likes of Calypso to transport herself here so that their eyes may clash with one another.

"You find yourself in a grave mess, Calypso."

With her body reflecting an aura of honey, the woman's head tilted to the side as her face remained ever void of any emotion. Yet, those words were filled with -- warmth.

"Are you truly prepared to call upon the satanic blood of this world and interact with our darkest kin? All royalty has to deal with them at some point, so perhaps it is wise for you to seek my presence..."

Mon Jan 25, 2021 2:45 am

ENTER THE DREAMER

Artist: Carrotwine - Song: Dark Side Of The Road

With such cries into the abyss for the newly made queen, they could not go unanswered, especially from a being whom she hadn't seen in a long, long time. Materializing from the shade, a woman with pale hair stood at the base of the manor, dressed in comfortable looking night clothes. But despite her cozy appearance, she was unnervingly wide awake, her silver eyes about as bright as the moon, but far less beautiful serenity was held in the glow.

"When have I ever not been in a grave mess?"

The young one smiled, tilting her head to the side as she stared up at the goddess before her; That statement held no sarcasm or coy attitude, rather being a genuine feeling and even awareness of reality - when has she ever been either in or heading towards a dire situation?

When Khala posed such concerns, this only prompted the Asthavon to respond in kind, smile in tow,

"Let me answer your question with another question; Do you know who I am?"

Suddenly, wings of pure mental energies would burst from her back, a chaotic colorful display soon causing the woman to rise from the earth, until she was hanging in the air, face to face with the green haired demon; An effortless sampling of her current ability,

"I knew what I was getting into the moment I even contemplated going down this path. But honestly, no amount of torture or anguish to come can turn me off now. I'll break apart, i'll cry, i'll sob, i'll rage, but in the end i'll be brought back into one once more. I was terrified, of losing myself, I still am, but for the hell i've been through, I don't think 'I' is as easy a thing to lose as I initially thought."

She stared Khala in the eyes, maintaining a smile that held so many things; Pain, rage, mania, disorder, but all looped back to the kindness of her soul,

"I was actually thinking about you; May have been the wind stealing off my thoughts," She chuckled, "What is it you want to accomplish here, Khala? Before I go on..."

Tue Jan 26, 2021 1:10 pm

ENTER KHALA'S POST

Artist: N/A - Song: N/A

A light blue tendril emerged from the side of Khala as it gently caressed the face of Calypso as she spoke her truths to the cold world ahead of her. When the goddess observed her fellow demonic kin, she could indeed tell there were drops of certainty as perhaps the woman had been through enough to make an attempt at ruling this kingdom. So, the green-eyed elder chuckled playfully before her sight aimed squarely on The New Queen.

"To find out if you truly are ready to rule."

There was a pause that lingered in the air before she continued.

"It makes no difference if you aren't prepared, but the creatures of hell mingle with royalty of the surface world and I'm only curious to see if you to won't suffer similar fates as your predecessors."

On that note, the goddess then tapped the forehead of Calypso; consuming the two in a world of light, water, and mist as the sounds of the ocean echoed all around them.

"How can you stand before me and say to the gods themselves that you are ready? What have you experienced to make you ready to be a figurehead in this world of devils, Calypso?"

Now standing on a throne of immense gold light, the shimmering reflection of her power reflected as it felt as if millions of eyes were now peering on her as the voice of Khala started to fill with delight and fill the body with Calypso with power and will.

"...what makes you able to last? So many have tried to touch the hands of will in this world, but much like my late-husband, they only turn to dust in the wind...."

With her eyes closed, the woman again asked the question:

"What will make you not fade like all the rest?"

Tue Jan 26, 2021 2:23 pm

ENTER THE DREAMER

Artist: Carrotwine - Song: Dark Side Of The Road

She stood before Khala as the woman spoke her words of concern and wonder as the scenery around them changed entirely, Calypso remaining silent as she stared at the goddess. Her expression was neutral as she spoke. Even without the ability of empathic clarity, one could sense the sheer amount of feeling welling up in the demon before her, the Asthavon's white eyes darkening as she stared at her, before finally the question was given to her.

And.. In response...

"Why?"

The woman's voice was low, quiet even, as she asked such a question. Even if there was such quiet to her voice, there was weight to that question as she stared at the green-haired maiden,

"Why is it.. That I have to always prove myself?"

A strange aura bled off of Calypso as she posed such a question, her hands tightening into fists,

"How many times... Do I have to be tortured, gored, disillusioned, toyed with, abandoned, and abused... Before I can be recognized as my own person, capable of doing things?"

Despite her voice remaining so gentle, the raw intent and feeling behind it was just as monumental as if she were to be yelling it to the cosmos, her eyes fixed on Khala as she spoke. Such emotions didn't seem to be specifically targeted at her, or at anyone in particular. Rather, they seemed to be lingering emotions of the past, lingering irritations and sensations of smallness.

"If I didn't fade in the thirty years I spent mentally trapped in the Nether, i'm not going to fade when i'm working to better the lives of my people."

Tue Jan 26, 2021 10:35 pm

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ENTER THE ESSENCE OF DREAD

Artist: t=node - Song: N/A - Word Count: N/A

When Calypso had finished speaking, Khala didn't say a word. Instead, she reached out, appeared before the demoness, and gripped her throat like a beast. In this way, the deity let out a hellish snarl before drowning The Queen in a sea of blood as the world around them grew to have a black sun. In this way, the crushing weight of her heart's indescribable anger grumbled around them like an unsatisfied beast. Groaning with the discontentment of an immortal pain no mere mortal could understand no matter the hells she endured in her own life.

"I never asked you to prove yourself to me. You need to prove yourself you can stand in a world of absolute monsters that will devour your essence whole. Demons crave power, strength, and attachment to all things that give them security and possessive peace. Can you honestly look inside yourself and say you have that?"

Voice distorted, the bellowing howl of Khala's bleeding heart screeched out as blackened chains wrapped around the woman's body; constricting her movements as her bloodied eyes stared aimlessly at Mana's sweet little jewel of a daughter.

"I, nor the world, cares what you have been through. Not a single devil cares of even my own struggles. All that matters is that you are resolute in your reasonings for standing before the foulness of the world as a demon that core can endure the storm of whatever it's possessive heart desires."

With another foul roar, the blackened energies of Khala crushed down on her as she continued to prod for that answer she sought.

"So...I will say it again: what is it that you believe you have that will not make you fade? What does your inner blood say as a demon? Don't say anything to appease me or prove your worth to me. Convince yourself first."

Wed Jan 27, 2021 6:38 am

ENTER THE DREAMER

Artist: Carrotwine - Song: Dark Side Of The Road

Calypso's heart did not sway when her throat was grabbed and her body was exposed to such hellish weight of pain and suffering. They were still fairly unpleasant sensations, but she wouldn't crumble and fall apart as easily; This was rather familiar to her.

She stood there, and bore it, staring at Khala's ghastly appearance, listening to her every word, as she even tied her body with blackened chains and continued to crush her with her energies. Calypso panted slowly but heavily, feeling immense tension and pain on her form, but she could bear it, she could bear it and live.

"..What won't make me fade..?"

She was silent for a moment, focusing despite the state her body was put in, before she would respond,

".. I would say, my determination to love and care for others. That... Definitely has kept me from losing my mind or dying multiple times.."

She looked down, sighing gently as her hands tightened into fists, "..I don't have any for myself, so I suppose it all got directed outwards, hah..."

Wed Jan 27, 2021 7:01 pm

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ENTER THE ESSENCE OF DREAD

Artist: t=node - Song: N/A - Word Count: N/A

Shifting again, the world around them changed as the two demons now stood in a blackened field under the shimmering silver glow of the moon's light. With mists of white fog flowing in, the demoness exhaled a ginger breath despite her ghastly visage still being present. As all her eyes focused on the woman, the chains tighten as she continued to speak on and open her heart to the devil.

"All you desire is power so that your love cannot fade into the abyss. You stand before me as a Queen that wishes to take her subject's anguish, make it her own and give them what you lack. That possessive thirst for love is no different than your sisters; albeit it is less twisted and perverse than hers."

Those words were spoken without hesitation. Khala held her ground as her tendrils twitched back and forth; eyes narrowing in as she continued to gaze into Calypso's very soul.

"The world is your enemy and you want to fight all that look down upon you. To claw your way through this paradise of sin and death is your creed. You bare your fangs down upon me in the hopes that you can assert your worth to the others you so desperately wish to seek approval from."

At this point, the woman dissolved the chains and motioned for Calypso to stand. In this action, she'd give a simple choice:

"If I am wrong, stay down. If I am right, simply strike me."

Wed Jan 27, 2021 8:46 pm

ENTER THE DREAMER

Artist: Carrotwine - Song: Dark Side Of The Road

She didn't back down, even as she felt Khala's chains squeeze her very being, grunting as she simply bore it. She didn't sense any malintent from the goddess' form, and thus she didn't struggle to remove her bindings. She merely exercised patience, knowing that the rather grisly-looking goddess was watching her carefully, body and soul. She didn't appear fazed or upset by Khala's words, not in the slightest, and when the invitation to either stand down or strike came, feeling the restraints melt away, the younger of the two didn't hesitate in the slightest.

Four shadowy tendrils would whip out from her form, seeking to strike Khala, knock her off her feet, Caly falling atop of her, her body held up above the goddess' form by tense arms and legs, her white locks draping upon the woman's body as the demon's piercing white eyes laid upon her.

"Yeah, that's the ugly, selfish truth, huh..?"

Despite her appearance, there was a level of sincerity in her tone as she spoke, her lips upcurved in a gentle smile as she continued,

"But if there is to be beauty, there must be ugliness, too. I can't possibly be a Queen without dirtying my hands and being seen as a beast; That's something I accepted when I set out to do this, no matter how much my consciousness has felt irked by it."

She tilted her head to the side, sighing softly as her soft tones were barely over a whisper, "That's simply a promise I could never keep to my younger self; to survive you gotta be able to shed blood as well as be a gentle hand. A balance between the two is what those before me did not realize until it was too late."

Her hands would be digging into the turf, placed side by side of the goddess' head as Calypso sat up a little bit, staring down at her,

"Well? You got me to spill the ugly truth; What're you going to do with that?"

Mon Feb 01, 2021 3:43 pm

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ENTER THE ESSENCE OF DREAD

Artist: t=node - Song: N/A - Word Count: N/A

Khala did not hesitate to have her own tendrils that were drenched in globs of blood and honey energy collide and smash against Calypso's own appendages like a freight train from hell. The dense weight behind the energy made the grounds around them crack, shatter and have debris go every which way but right. Instead, her many eyes stared into the abyss of her descendant's soul as her head slowly tilted into a nod.

"You sought my presence to find a creature able to listen to your calls to the world and spit them back at you for you to digest. There is nothing I can give you that you haven't already found in yourself."

Breaking the distance in a flash, Khala's face grew void as it seemed as if she were staring off in the distance despite being right in front of Calypso. Still, that was a detail that might be missed as the woman rammed her fist into the gut of the woman before having an eruption of golden demonic energy blow through her and push the woman into the distance like a ragdoll. The release of such violent energies bellowed a hellish roar for a half-mile or so; making blinding sounds of thunder deafen the area as she continued to stare.

"What do you want from me with that information? You have the answer to what I will do. I'm merely a mirror to that."

Mon Feb 01, 2021 4:36 pm

ENTER THE DREAMER

Artist: Carrotwine - Song: Dark Side Of The Road

Rather than being sent flying by the strike to her gut, her feet dug into the dirt, her figure stiffening as the earth tore beneath her as she was dragged back a few feet, but her form had sustained itself despite the violent strike to her gut. She wheezed loudly, but the pain was swallowed, righting herself as she would then stare towards the grotesque form of the goddess, studyingly gazing at her until her lips would part,

"..I don't believe that."

The new demon queen would rest her eyes on Khala, her legs moving, moving her forth as her gaze remained on Khala,

"Sure, perhaps there would be doubt if I had come to you about a matter such as this."

She continued, walking closer and closer to her, her resolve strong as her white eyes remained focused,

"But you came to me. That alone tells me you have something you desire to do with me. You could have waited for me to come to you, you could have called me to your home, but instead, you personally show yourself in my kingdom, and now you're doing this."

She stopped directly before the goddess' form, silent for a moment before continuing,

"I know there's something you can do, else why the effort here? It's simple, what I want;"

The air was tense, as she almost didn't want to speak these words, but she would softly shake her head, parted her lips, and knew the moment she loosed these words, there would be no going back,

"Is to gain the power to kill my mother."

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