Re: Bitter Fog [Khala/Calypso]

Tue Feb 02, 2021 8:15 pm

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Bitter Fog [Khala/Calypso] - Page 2 JCRrxmK

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Khala only stood there staring at the fellow demon ahead. There was no outward sense of hostile intent as she seemed to be lost in her own thought. Eventually, the deity tilted its head as she rose her eyebrow at the comments hurled her way.

"Thousands of creatures in this universe desire the demise of your mother and many in our family. To come to me for that is absurd."

With all of her eyes being consumed in crimson light, the demonic being bellowed out a hellish roar of power as scorching heat dared to gnaw and burn away Calypso's skin as her tendrils repeatedly tried to gash straight into her gut.

"You will die. You will face pain unlike any other. You will become a pure monster like me and I doubt that is what you want."

Again, Khala would discipline the Queen as she sought to slash her entire body up and leave marks, bruises, and cuts all over as she snarled.

"Slaughtering the one you love will make your mark erupt an unimaginable pain in yourself that will corrode whatever you are into a form you won't even recognize. I refuse to entertain such an absurd request when it is clear so many want you not to become corrupt."

She was quite familiar with the Eris bloodline and the intent behind Pseu, Algos, and even Eris's intent to keep this youth from becoming tainted. So it was a pointless request.

"Power? Perhaps I can grant that. But to grant you a one-way ticket to hell? You can ask my hell demon's to do that as I won't entertain the notion after what I have to deal with."

As nothing but blackened filth hurled from her mouth and out of the cracks in her skin, Khala started to laugh; one which sounded distorted as her own heart turned to coal in its hue.

"That day I killed Iriko and banished his soul into a million shattered pieces is the day I lost whatever light in my soul, Calypso."

Tue Feb 02, 2021 8:49 pm

Bitter Fog [Khala/Calypso] - Page 2 6EdIfMt

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Artist: Carrotwine - Song: Dark Side Of The Road

Calypso knew what was coming next as she made such a request, accepting the onslaught of pain that was to follow. Her skin burned, black patches filled with pained eyes manifesting, however her expression remained unchanged, even as Khala's tendrils slammed into and gored her abdomen, the demon queen barely responsive towards such an assault of her body, darkened blood spewing from her lips as this punishing went on.

She heard her words, felt the assault on her flesh, yet despite the pained look in the eyes manifesting all over her body, she remained unreactive, grey eyes remaining on Khala, until she finished, hearing her distorted laughter,

"Did that make you feel better..?"

Calypso's voice spoke out weakly as her blood-covered stomach was torn open; Wounded, pain-stricken tendrils lashed from the wound jarringly, the eyes on her body practically looking as if they'd be crying out for mercy if they possessed a voice.

"Punishing me for a foolish statement, did that make you feel better..?"

The woman's eyes were dulled with pain, but regardless of her appearance she was still smiling, slowly moving to sit up and stare at Khala,

"You say all of that like you think I care what happens to myself. I don't care."

Her wounds seemed to refuse to heal, leaking blood as the eyes on her body flickered around anxiously, as if confused to why her body wouldn't rapidly close these wounds,

"I don't care how ugly a creature I become. If it means I can help others, bring them comfort and safety, i'm okay with becoming more and more twisted; It's not like I can fight it, either - this curse.."

Her head dipped a bit as she looked down, "I can't fight it.. I can only accept it. That foolish childish wish.. Was such a frivolous desire.. If at least I can bend that to aid others, I guess whatever I am will be content."

Black tears ran down her face as she would then slowly look back up at Khala, her expression full of hesitation and pain, yet at the same time a forced sense of peace,

"At least, that's what i've settled on, after the decades I spent in that place.. I lost my mind many times; If your wish was to prevent me from becoming tainted, then you're about thirty years and then some too late."

She laughed, almost miserably, as she lowered her gaze, "Any time I try to take a step away from that fate, i'm dragged back into it another two.."

Wed Feb 03, 2021 6:07 pm

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"Don't mistake my laughter for anything other than my own grief. I have no desire to lead my children toward something stupid, and pointing out their flaws gives me no pleasure."

Those words were spoken with venom as her own teeth turned as black as night; filled to the brim with that deep shade of blackened blood. With another snarl, the woman broke the distance, grabbing her throat and giving a stare that burned with contempt.

"You are an idiot."

Then, with one move, the woman choke-slammed the Queen into the earth as she continued to intensify her grip. The ground around them broke, buckled, and caved into many cracks throughout the ground to solidify the impact. Thus, chunks of blackened ash and dust scattered as debris rained like a hellish downpour as Khala's unhinged snarls increased in volume.

"Losing the essence of yourself for others isn't noble, it's spineless. All you are doing is making yourself a doormat for others, chew up and spit out like you were an expendable piece of meat."

The woman's acidic blood dripped down on the likes of Calyspo; being unphased by her words or tears. She wasn't her mother, but this was a child of demonic essence and this youth was utterly misguided and it disgusted The Demoness to a great level. There was no pleasure to be found by beating and talking down to her own creations. Only loathing existed.

"If you want to be different than your mother so badly, then killing her will spit in the face of that and just put a target on your back. If you cannot find a solution other than slaughtering her, I will not stop you, but you will have to continue doing that to every single threat until there is nothing but a throne of bodies on your empire."

Then, as her jaw opened, rows of blood spewed forth into Calypso. Filling her with the essence of her divine being and showing her the decay of that earnest spirit that once lived in the demoness's heart. Now she truly was a vile creature befitting the heart of a demon god. All guilt, vengeance, loathing, malice, and contempt lived in her heart as they blackened her powers and brought her closer to the primal spirit of demon kinds wicked power in her mind.

"Choke on my power if you are in such a damn rush to come to hell and burn with me, you idiot."

Wed Feb 03, 2021 7:56 pm

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Artist: Carrotwine - Song: Dark Side Of The Road

Her smile vanished as Khala laid in her initial responses, sensing the feelings of contempt behind her actions, as pain flared throughout her flesh, burning hottest at her neck being gripped so tightly and slammed deep into the ground, Calypso's gaze being beholden only to the burning fury of the goddess above her, hearing her punishing words as this long, long moment went on, and on..

Khala did not even need to speak words to force the woman to actually think, her eyes wide and glassy as sensations of fear, panic, guilt, and confusion rose in her gut.

Am... I wrong..?

Terror rushed through her as she thought, about Khala's words, and her own thoughts. Was she truly.. Just... Dooming herself to a miserable, blood-soaked fate? The one she initially wished to avoid..? No.. No.. She couldn't have... She couldn't have.. This had to be the only way right..?

Right?

...

As Khala moved to give forth a spiteful gift of power, Calypso's head turned away; a physical refusal of such primordial power.

"No."

Black tears rolled down her face in droves as she fully rejected the acidic rain of blood, the pain of her body settling in to her mind as the sensation of burn and tear only made tears rain down all the more. She was silent for a moment, before she would start choking and sobbing, crying hard as she lied beneath Khala,

"I don't want to kill my mother! I didn't want to!"

She cried out, her voice strained by the damage to her throat that refused to heal, her broken body still bleeding and burning painfully. Despite the silent beggings of the eyes along her body, her wounds refused to heal, and bled out.

"But I thought I had to.. I... But.."

She panted heavily for a moment, her body feeling hot as she tried to continue, "..I.. Don't know what I should do.. If that's such a foolish action... But... I don't want power if it's given out of contempt for what i've decided.."

She shivered in pain as she would cough, blood splattering from her lips as her white eyes were dulled, "...I... Don't want my rule to be sustained on a mountain of bodies.. Khala.. I don't want that... But... I'm afraid. I was afraid of the madness swallowing me and I just become another cold ruler... I was trying to force myself to only.. Only.. Benefit others... But... I don't know.. What should I do..?"

Thu Feb 04, 2021 3:53 pm

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"Stop being afraid."

There was a gruff groan echoed from the deictic being as it pulled back from Calypso ever so slowly. The weakness disgusted the being, but it knew it was a needed process to mold its foolish child into something greater.

"Your cowardice and ignorance bring you to ruin. All you've become is a powerful sobbing monster trying to become a martyr for beings that couldn't care less for your sacrifice to continue a cycle you detest out of a sense of suicidal righteousness. It's sickening.

With her tendril giving one hard smack into her face, Khala wanted to beat away those crocodile tears as she was growing sick of this woman's utterly unable to keep her composure together. Even if one stares into the abyss, breaking this easily is not the luxury a Queen is afforded. No matter the twisted mania of Mania, nor the hellish wrath of Inami's pull; neither of those Queens faltered and gave way to such puddles of doubt, uncertainty, and lack of vision even in spite of their flaws.

"You expect to be a Queen, a person that is supposed to lead and guide people when you can't even guide yourself to what you desire as Queen. How can you expect to rise to power and not even have a platform, an idea, or even a direction as to what you want? Quit your miserable crying, wrench. You'll bring my home nothing but ruin with that act."

Snarling with anger, Khala pulled Calypso up by her collar, slammed her into a cliffside nearby, and stared intently into her:

"What should you do? I'll tell you: stop being such a half-hearted recreant of a woman, figure out your principles, stand on them and get back up when you stop sniveling like a broken child who can't grasp the cold reality to make the dreams they want a reality."

Then, with one thud, the woman elbowed the Queen into the dirt and she didn't want to see any reflection of this ignorance again when she stood up.

Thu Feb 04, 2021 9:05 pm

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Artist: Carrotwine - Song: Dark Side Of The Road

Calypso's breathing was hoarse and slow as the goddess pulled her from the dirt, telling her to stop being afraid.. Despite the pain inflicted upon her form, she heard the woman, she listened; through every hot, scalding pierce dealt to her body, she listened to every bit of Khala's intent and word, until she was slammed into the side of a cliff, residing there for a few moments.

"My desires... As a Queen..."

A clawed hand reached out to grab the corner of the cracked cliff, as she grunted softly, a mess of blood surrounding her as she moved,

"..Are.. Solid... I wish for prosperity... I wish for the growth of those who reside in my land... I wish to guide those who are in need.. Of... Guidance..."

The sound of broken flesh moving could be heard as she forced herself to be freed of the hole, her dulled eyes staring dead on at Khala,

"Where... My insecurity lies.. Is in.. Myself.. And only.. Myself..."

She fell forward as her disheveled body hit the ground with messy splatter, lying on the ground for a moment before she moved to try to get herself back up,

"I would never.. Show this degree of vulnerability.. To my people.. Or my enemies.. You are only seeing this.. Because I want you to.."

Her body shivered and shook, "And why.. You ask.. Do I want you to see this..? This disgusting, pitiable state..?"

"I want to get rid of this insecurity... This fear..."

Her breathing was labored as she gripped the ground so tightly, "..No matter what I do... These feelings.. Sensations.. Remain.. These fears.. Grow.. No matter what I do to kill them.. They return.. I can't let that continue.."

Her head slowly rose, blood coating her features,

"..Please.. Help me rid myself of this fear... This restraint.. So I can become who I want to be.. Rather than.. Who i'm wanted to be.."

Fri Feb 05, 2021 2:34 pm

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"Then tell me: what does skewering Mana have to do with growing your kingdom, become prosperous, and guiding them?"

Again, Khala whipped the Queen with her crimson tendril as she continued to beat the woman senseless. The weight of this appendage felt akin to a ten-ton anvil dropping straight on a person's body as her patience grew weary and her restraint lessened against the newly appointed piece of royalty ahead of the demoness.

"Your weakness irritates me. Fear will never cease, but your reaction to it alters the shape of your reality as a creature of hell."

With her claw piercing the chest of Calypso, she pinned the woman to the wall as her many roaming eyes continued to gaze at the visage of the miserable pile of flesh before her. As her mouth exited an exhausted groan, she carried on:

"Your mother is a foul woman filled with terror in her heart. The difference between you and her is the fact she doesn't break like glass at the slightest bit of pressure."

While those claws deepened into the heart of Calypso, Khala snarled with absolute venom as she detested this girl further.

"All you do is flee to your family, look for others to carry you, and scream for help into the night when the power is all inside of yourself if you want to stop crumbling to the pressure of the world. If you desire to be a Queen that doesn't fear, become resolute, stick to your sinful desires; that is your DUTY."

Ripping out her claw from the body of Calypso caused the demoness to turn on her ankle and slam her foot straight into the jaw of The Queen with enough force to otherwise obliterate this entire mountainside.

"Among the stars of the gods themselves, there is no hell or heaven I can rip apart to alter your heart for you to eradicate fear and bring your vision to life. If you cannot see the truth among my words, there is no salvation for a naive imp of a demon such as yourself."

Now with her foot on the skull of Calypso, Khala bellowed a deep, vengeful growl before uttering her parting words:

"This is your help. Diamonds are not forged by gentleness, they are shaped by pressure. Quit being a sniveling child and use the resources that this savage world has blessed you with to find your fangs. You are a devil, start acting like it."

Sun Feb 07, 2021 10:17 am

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Artist: Carrotwine - Song: Dark Side Of The Road

Calypso's features gradually grew more and more unrecognizable as Khala beat, tore, and gored her body. Her flesh didn't repair, her bleeding did not cease, as she was pounded and abused into a bleeding pulp, never completely breaking but creating visible, sizable damage as Calypso was still very much still alive underneath, merely feeling the anguish in her body as Khala scolded and punished her for her stupidity.

.. I do have the power in me, already...

She laid on the ground, forced to think, at Khala's mercy as she had to think about what the woman had to say.

... I'm not that scared, alone little creature anymore...

Her breathing was shallow, as Khala had her foot on her head. Some feeling stirred inside of her.

So why am I afraid..?

Within her mind's eye, she saw a scene; Fire, death, bodies, blood. War itself, strewn out before her, as she looked down, seeing clawed hands covered in blood. A feeling was burning in her chest; Anger, bloodlust.

I'm.. Scared... Of succumbing to the same fate...

The scene in her mind changed, to that of her mother before her, acknowledging her in a space of various greens. She remembered; It was when her mother... Truly showed her love and care for her for the first time. It was a foggy memory, but one she retained all the same, emotions and all.

Then she saw Inami's face, comforting her during her times of change, listening to her fears, trying to console her..

Above her, in a moment of fear and terror, Algos, the one who had probably harmed her the most, had reached down to give her comfort and relieve her of her pain and suffering, sensations of love and remorse all around her.

...

She didn't even think about it well before, but now, faced with it, she had to.

..Despite everything, they're still able to love...

..If they can still love.. I can, too.

Like a nest of hornets, the sensation in her soul grew more and more, louder and louder, her pain transforming into anger and adrenaline, allowing the sensation to flow as her vision went completely dark. She couldn't allow herself to crumble like this any longer.

Shadowy tendrils burst from her gut to lash out at the goddess, if successful would grab Khala, yank her from her current position standing over her, and send her flying with verocity. Regardless, rapid healing would begin, the damage dealt to Caly's body being reverted at incredible speeds as her energy spiked in presence and aura.

".. Get the hell off me."