Karitsu: The Last Sovereign.
Book 1: Beast.
-Authored by: Dragonoid, AKA Black Dawn Dragon
Prologue:
A long time ago, in a world among worlds, among the countless stars, a battle raged, a battle between titans.
In a whide, flat desert, the majority of the ground was full of glistening, yello sand that appeared to be moving and writhing in a hipnotic pattern like fireflies of the earth. The area did not have anything worthy of note for a mile or so, except for the wonderful glowing yello sand. Wonderful to any normal person walking in the night that is. A huge, heavily lit pyramid shaped crystalline bolder could be seen in the far distance, along with shadowy passages on the sides, announcing the path from Averan to Yorvisk, a well known walled city in the land of Brahv. The desert went on for miles to the left and right with no noticeable landmarks, while light reflecting columns of black stone could be seen beyond a golden pedestal to the south. The weather was chilling, howling wind audible occasionally, wipping small puttles of glowing sand when passing by. The night sky overhead was brightly lit by the full moon of the half, a phenomenon that occured in the 14th, 15th and 16th night of every month. The over all vibe of the land could come across as peaceful, as much as that makes any sense in a wild, heavily Fen saturated desert. However, that was an elusion, hiding the ferocious combat within.
A man and a woman were fighting against an eldritch existance, a 30 feet tall and 20 feet whide amalgamation of spider and lion. It had 8 blood red legs, sporting black stained protrusions from each one's sides. Its head had bloody red holes in every inch, covered in sharp, spiky cerrated teeth, and its eyes and ears spun in a horrifying manner, each one spinning counterpoint to the other. It had a similarly black and red main, but it was coated with venomous spikes instead of bloody red mouths. Its face took on a twisted raging fury to it that made it seam like it was made in that shape, never to change. Finally, it had 2 prehensile tails sticking out from each leg, totaling 16 of the appendages, and its neck emitted black smoke and steam from the numerous venting wholes everywhere along its surface. The smoke seamed to scare the very air, having an aura of stillness each time the smoke came out. As soon as the smoke ascended, the moonlight would get cut off, then shine once again when it disappeared.
"Gaze of the unseen Eye", the man uttered. He was cross between a humanoid with a cressant shape in his ears and a dragon, with scales covering his skin. The scales themselves were green, but the overall color of the creature was red, hinting his unextinguishable fire. He had glowing burning red eyes that looked fierce and determined. A green box appeared in his vision.
"Name: The Doom Weaver Queen. Race, sanguin blood monarc (half primordial). Level: 3048. VE: 49%. BE: 68%. Energy: error/error. Details: Error, error, error.
"Have you found anything we can do to kill this freak more quickly?", the woman asked. She was similar to the man, but with red scales and over all green color, being a complete opposite to him. Her eyes were also green as opposed to his red ones, and she had a mass of soft furry hair in her tail, similar to that of a horse. She drew the hair back, and it hardened and transformed into sharp stingers.
"I'm going to activate my true dragon form. I think we can destroy this bastard and finally save the omnis. You with me?", he asked her.
"Alright, I'm on it, going to activate my form too", the woman replied.
Both the man and the woman recited an incantation in an ancient tongue, (the language of the iniorics), which ment: "Reveal the might of the beast within", and their forms expanded, increasing weight and depth and revealing a deaper coat of scales beneath. Gone were the ruff humanoid outlines, both of the pair looked like huge, physically and magically powerful dragons. They infused their bodies as an instinctual habit with the power of the inner veil, and they advanced forward.
The male dragon roared, then shot out a 30 meter wide sphere of red fire twards the queen, and she screeched, shattering the ears of everything unfortunate enough to have hird it, like the little drakoscorps and the other bugs of the night. The queen recoiled, then she said: "This is mine! All of it! Mine! Miine! I will destroy you all, and this universe will be all mine to command!", with a screechy alien sounding voice.
"You can't even fly though", the female dragon said, taunting the queen, causing her to not avoid another blast of fire from the male beast. "VE: 31%".
"Now, Orga!", the male dragon yelled. The female dragon shot an all encompassing storm of nature energy, causing one of the queen's legs to fall off with a splorch That sent her screeching and skittering wildly. From where the leg was just a moment ago, a gap of inky black blood oozed and congealed like a living liquid ghost.
"Burn the bloody blood!", she said, and the man fired his iconic dragon breath at the twisting moving blood, wiping it off from existance in a burst of ashes. "VE: 23%".
"She's going down!", the man said with a smile on his face.
"Don't get full of yourself, it has that bloodlife ability where it regenerates quickly and can...", "You know more than you should, little lizard", the queen said in a low, shreaky voice. Even her tails were spinning counterpoint to each other now.
"What's with the tails, spidey?", the male said, and the queen turned all of its tails into living blood, and sent them to trap the woman in a blood cocoon. "Oh no you don't, you bughead", the man roared, and used his will to clamp down on the queen's movement, twisting the trajectory of the blood made tails. The queen took them back and turned them solid again. "Warning, the Doom weaver Queen's VE has risen to 34%".
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"Oh god, this again? What's making it regenerate anyway?", the man muttered to himself. "It's the stupid blood, what's wrong with you", the woman replied in a weary voice. The queen laughed, and her maws seamed to nullify the moonlight around them.
"laugh it up you stupid bug", the woman snarled, and the queen laughed again, sending the blood tails twards her in an unpredictable swiftness that caught the pair of warriers off guard. This time, they entered her body, and then emerged once more, seaming smaller than before.
"You ok", The man asked. "I think so, nothing my healing detected.", she replied.
The now shorter tails spun even faster, and a black blood blast was shot out from them by the queen. "You willllllllll", It said. "Faiil!". A second blast found itself hitting the man's mass of scales, causing them to ripple across his body. "Aaaaaaah!", he grunted.
She inched forward, and her poisonous spikes moved from her back to the central maw of her head, then she fired them, towards the man. The man risked a look and found out that the woman was hit by a barrage of black blood blasts from the second half of the 16 tails, but not with that focus she used on him. Then she stopped the firing, and both the man and the woman attacked together. The man commanded reality to part before him and slow the spikes down, while the woman lashed out with her stingers, managing to pivvet around in less than a split second and deflect the wave of spikes rushing towards the duo. The spikes missed them, and before the queen could turn them into blood, the man burned them all, and the woman let the earth absorb the leftovers with a nature press technique.
"Red dragon,", the man opened his claws, spread his wings, and a large, red colored mass of energy twisted in his body. The man circled it around and added more each time. After each circling, he sped the spinning up and up, faster and faster, bigger and bigger, and then, Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom! He released the energy, and a wild vortex of fire and flames engulfed the queen in a crimson inferno. "VE: 13%".
The woman did the same with sound energy, and focused the wave towards the queen's left ear. She screeched again, and her tails wipped around wildly in agitation. "VE: 07%".
"If I dye, one of you has to go with me", the queen snapped. "Yeah right, keep dreaming, queen of the lowly spiders", The man said. The queen vanished, revealing a large amount of congealing blood beneath. "That's what caused her to regenerate every single dang time?", The woman said, then stopped. "Something wrong, or? I thought you knew that it's the bluh...", the man suddenly stopped.
"I, don't know", "I feel this, weird flower blooming in my body", she replied.
"Flower? What flower?", the man said, sounding incredulous, despite the circumstances they found themselves in. "My, my core... It's... Being... Damaged... Aaah
"Aaaaaaaaaaah! The woman twitched in pain, then all the blood, including the newly blood made spider, shot out twards her, faster than any of them could react. It entered her body and invaded it from the inside, breaking its way into it, making a path for itself to reside in
She screamed, and the man snarled. "Get out of her body you stupid insect!", the man lost himself, but then he stopped. Seeing the woman's body twist in wrong angles, causing eternal pain. The characteristic bloody maws now appeared on every inch of the female dragon's body, not just the head. Her over all color turned black.
"Help, me, save, the legacy...", the woman said in a pained voice. Some spots on the dragon turned green, then black again. She was fighting the will of whatever the queen had become, and she was failing.
"Oh creatures of the sky and the earth, heed my call. If my spirit is violated, transfer all my strength and might, and what essense and potential we offered, to our child, save the legacy of our name, for he shal be the inheriter of our power, and let him be named the Star of the Bundarests", the man said in Inioric. A thread linked him with everything around him. It had worked, thank the God. "Now, even if I dye, I won't have to worry", he told himself.
"I am the legacy and the evolution of the doom weaver queen. My will is unending. I am Orgomis", she said in a melodious voice.
"Ah, no no no, that can't happen, dear child. Your father's witchwork is in vain", she said. "He will dye, same as you will parish", she added in her mocking soft and melodious voice that belied her hidious nature.
"I have sealed him with the veil of chaos, I have our friend the Darkest one to thank for that, egros", She emphasized the man's name.
"Don't say my name curse you!", he screamed. And before he could attack, another veil, this one deaper than the one Orgomis had used struck him. "Have a nice death!", She called out to him before he vanished. The last thing he hird was the highpitched gleeful laughter of this creature
The newly formed maw covered dragon tried to seal the revolting energy of her host's offspring within, but then the mark appeared, causing the final touch of her seal to fail.
"Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! The brand! The brand! You have the forsaken light brand! Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"! Before she could do anything, a lump of energy shot out from deap within, and the veil activated. The energy, now shaped like a sphere, shot out into the sky, becoming nothing more than a streak of black light with a bright red glow at the center, and disappeared. The man was long gone. "This will have to do I'm afrayed", the dark dragon said.