Scuuuuooowww♪
Splooooshhh!♪
Scuuoolwwwp♪
Spliisshhhhh!♪
“Huh?”
Huh?♪
Huh?♪
Huh?♪
Huh?♪
Huh?♪
Huh?♪
Shiryu’s voice echoes back,
Scuuoolwwwp♪
Spliisshhhhh!♪
An ocean of black water–no you can’t even call this water, it’s texture more lava, burst and splashes it’s substance around,
(Is thus death?)
Shiryu finds himself partially submerged in this substance,
…scuuow♪
He slips out not feeling wet or hot or anything for that matter,
Both his arms and legs are intact but they feel strangely different,
“Hello!?”
Hello!♪
Hello!♪
Hello!♪
Hello!♪
Shiryu attempts to look around but despite his eyes being open it was th same as being shut everything was dark for him, blindingly so, the young man couldn’t even see his own hand in front his face
“Kage, are you here?”
Here?♪
Here?♪
Here?♪
….
Sccouuwoopp!
No reply.
Aside of the pops and bursts everything remains in complete silence
(Aghh, how did I get here again?
My memory feels blurry,
There was a ship, an aircraft flew above us…
And..
I flew?
I….
I can’t remember properly)
“Is anyone here, anyone around!?”
Around!♪
Around!♪
Around!♪
Around!♪
Shiryu tries stepping forward but his foot starts sinking again,
“Uhhn,” He pulls out
“If this is some kind of torture prisoner, let it be known that I have full memory of hundreds of albums in my head, and can play them on repeat if need be!”
Need be!♪
Need be!♪
Need be!♪
Need be!♪
(What should I start with?
The dark side of the moon?
That seems fitting given my situation…
Now how did the first track go again…..)
…..
“Breathe,
Breathe in the air,
Shiryu is your name correct?” a sharp male voice speaks
“huh–who?
Who’s there?”
“Close your eyes to see.”
…
…
Shiryu shuts his eyes and the darkness and–
“Yaa-ahhgh!
What the?” he opens his eyes twice as fast to the darkness again
“Close your eyes.” The voice repeats
…
…
“Uhh, who are you?
What is all this?”
Scuuoolwwwp♪
The ‘liquid' Shiryu stands in becomes visible on his eyes closure
Spliisshhhhh!♪
It swishes around,
Not water but a hot slush of flesh, human flesh, animal flesh, beast flesh, all of it mixing together hot and gelatinous
“Don’t bother trying to move there is nowhere to go from here.” A distinguishably dressed man tips his fedora to Shiryu,
The man’s face a melted blurb…
“And you are?”
“My name was Ginobelucci you may have heard of me.”
“Ginobelucci?
You’re the one responsible for the dragon.
Where, where are we?”
“Nowhere, not dead but not alive either,”
“How does that happen?”
“The sea of flesh around us is from the ones consumed by me and you and I who are not a part of the pool are the ones that sat on the throne.”
“You mean that chair lf spikes?
I didn’t sit on that, I–”
“Didn’t you? How ever else would you be here?”
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“….”
(How did I?
Why does my mind draw a blank after seeing that ship in the sky?
Something else happened…)
“Did everybody die?”
“I don’t know” Ginobelucci extends his arm
“Are you ready to join us now?”
Scuuoolwwwp♪
Spliisshhhhh!♪
“Join you?”
“You have already sat on the throne and merged with us, the next step is to supersede me, the last person who was seated,”
“No,
I’m not doing that,
Wherever this is I want out.”
“You are nowhere you can’t escape, time won’t pass so it will feel like an eternity but also a short while simultaneously,
Eventually you will forget everything you knew and become me.”
“Is that what you want?
Who am I talking to exactly, Geedorah or Ginobelucci?”
“There isn’t a difference between those names, we are the same person now,
Out motive is simple, survival,
We don’t want to perish so we go to any extent to survive is that wrong?”
“….
What you’re doing to people is….”
“Is what?
Wrong?
Those humans do it all the time with creatures lesser them, they farm them and breed them for consumption,
We are no different,
Everyone wants to survive don’t they?”
…..
“That is not what you’re doing,
Draining people’s strength and creating monsters out of it,
You think I’m gullible?”
“Heh,
Those things are done out of love.”
“Love?”
“That’s what the humans would call it,
Love for is what they call their survival incentives,
So we do the same,
Our incentive to survive is by consuming all living things, even as eggs we consume
Humans’ incentives are to form packs and relations,
We don’t have those restrictions, and you don’t either Shiryu, you are also a dragon
You feel it in your heart when we get near, you want to consume me, just like I would you,”
(….. That’s not what love is,
Is it….?)
“….
This is what you wanted all along?
You’re still a human yourself Ginobelucci?” Shiryu counter presses
“My memories as Ginobelucci are still intact, yes,
This is not what I wanted I didn’t want death and monsters rampaging around my city,”
“Yet you went and caused it.”
“….
Yes, yes, I did,
I don’t know why I did that,
I used to be an adventurer but my passion was discovering rare artefacts and requiems, it was my greatest passion that led me here, I had learned that there were two legendary beastman requiems somewhere in Furlheim city, and then I fell in love.”
“Huh, what do you mean by that?”
“I don’t recall much more after
The person who told me about the requiems I fell in love with them,
I can’t remember if they died or is still living,
All I remember is being in love for a long time.”
(hmm, there’s another requiem like the dragon in Furlheim, and what’s love got to do with it all,
I feel like that word is haunting me.)
“….
Are you dead Ginobelucci, Geedorah?” Shiryu asks out loud…
“… No, but something affected our power causing us to revert,”
(It must have worked.)
“Ok,” Shiryu extends his arm,
“Merge with me.”
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