Fissures started to form across the dark planet causing earthquakes to rumble world wide, while beams of scarlet light ushered forth like billowing lava. The sky began to form purple, and black veins interweaving and mixing within, inch by inch ethereal pulsing flesh started to form from across the globe. It was like a realistic illusion that faded in, and out, slowly engulfing everything, and eventually becoming so real you could even touch it.
Plants started to writhe, and leak out black liquid, trees began to shiver and make unearthly human like wails, and the world slowly became tainted. Animals started to moan and convulse, and the humans on the planet started to change.
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In a major city located deep in the center of the Byrantine empire, where several paved highways were connected to many active cities, is currently teeming with people. They were crawling out from their homes. A man continuously walked into a concrete wall over, and over until his blood drenched the gray wall. A woman was sitting in the middle of a road her eyes bright and brimming with life, while giving off rasping noises as she slowly strangled herself.
Cars veered off the street and crashed into buildings, men lit houses on fire, and walked in, bathing in the flame, while smiling happily as their skin start to burn, and melt. Children laughed in delight, as red liquid slowly leaked from their eyes.
A woman cried sadly as she stabbed a small carriage wrapped in blankets, while grinning happily in contrast. A man cried in disgust, as he ate a woman's dismembered fingers.
The fissure in the planet grew wider, and wider, and the blood red light start to waft into the air like a thick steam, as it began dyeing the world in it's own color. A single blue bird that fell into the gas started to choke violently, it's eyes started to shrink, a second beating heart started to form on it's head, and its feathers began to rot.
All over the world a majority of the people started to behave oddly, soon the changes would grow more visible, and more extreme.
This was the final result of two beings that should never have met, and a pure love that should have been absolutely destroyed.
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Another black island shuddered violently, and white cracks formed all over it's exterior frame, eventually breaking apart into large pieces, and falling to the ocean depths, sending pillars of water into the air. Disgusting creatures could be seen floating away from the rubble, to be attacked by the mechanical robots in the sea. Large fleshy monstrosities crawled out from the fissures of the earth, attacking the mechanical titans nearby.
In a large open room, where two armored figures lay collapsed on the ground, and the plain floor was filled with fissures; A single man flew through the air like a bullet. He nearly collided face first into the black wall. Only to be stopped with a dull light that slowly spread out to his body, and slowed the acceleration to a crawl. The man pushed the air with his fingers which immediately changed the trajectory, launching him feet first back onto the ground, and causing the dull light to vanish.
A small gasping sound leaked from his lips as Saia steadied himself and stared at the creature before him. It was young androgynous looking man, his skin had dark black cracks across his entire body that was barely containing a red glow hidden within, carnivorous mouths decorated his lower torso, and legs, and weird pulsating tattoos covered his pale bare chest. It's yellow nails were several centimeters long, and leaked out corrosive liquid. Black syringes could be seen sticking out from the thing's heart, neck, lungs, and legs.
But the creature look completely undisturbed, Saia on the other hand gasped for breath as he wiped the blood from his lips. His black jacket looked like it was ravaged by a savage animal, and a trail of blood flowed down the sleeves of his right arm.
His right eye glowed a deep red, and his face looked slightly pale as he studied the naked creature.
“I'm losing a bit of confidence, each syringe was filled with powerful anesthetics, and nerve agents.”
The creature just smirked but didn't say anything, instead Saia saw the creature shimmer for less than a millisecond, and to his annoyance, sharp jagged nails were immediately a few millimeters from puncturing his heart.
Once again a dull light formed a thin shell around him, causing the attackers piercing action to immediately slow down to a crawl, and change direction. A stab through his heart, changed into a scratch across his chest instead, leaving four bloody claw marks that baked the skin black.
Saia immediately pulled back and grasped the wrist in an iron grip, and using his right hand, slam into it's elbow, hoping to break it's joints, only the moment his palm was about to connect, the figure shimmered ever so slightly, his grip turned black, and blood immediately flew from Saia's neck.
A small capsule exploded from behind Saia, releasing a thick toxic gas while the creature once again vanished, Saia maneuvered around the gas, and moved his left hand to the side of his neck that was missing several inches of flesh.
“No fatal poison, but a corrosive substance.”
Several capsules fell from his sleeves, and flew out rotating across his body following a trail of microscopic light that circulated around him in a thin circular movement. With a flip of his fingers, the capsules detonated around him, covering him in different types of gas, and powders.
As a person who played with several forms of chemicals, gases, and lethal substances, he had his ways to deal with the aftereffects. The subject of his nerve agents, chemicals, and poisons was himself. Saia's nanites have rebuilt an artificial, but robust immune system from within his body as a result of the frequent negative effects.
Just as he was thinking when it would appear, he felt a cold shiver, and kicked the floor moving to the side. A black tentacle filled with barbs grabbed his right arm, and a loud crunch echoed out in the room. Saia's red eye flashed, and his left hand clawed the air. The casual swipe sent the light gray powder, to mix with the thick gray gas, resulting in a blinding explosion.
Saia redirected the explosion's kinetic force with a dull light, and jumped out of the way to reposition himself. He studied the creature revealed by the subsiding debris; it remained completely untouched by the explosion, and powders.
“Does it have a instantaneous speed that surpasses my kinetic vision? No, I don't smell or detect any of my gas on it's body, even if it moved past all the substance barriers to get to me, there should have been a subtle change in the gas, and powder.”
Saia stared at his broken right arm hanging loosely, and frowned. It didn't bother him that his arm was broken as much as, how it happened. When he had gripped it's arm before, he felt no resistance as it escaped his grip instantly, and only left him with a burning black scar on his palm.
“How did he escape the deceleration phenomenon I imposed on my arm? A displacement type ability? No, if that was the case, why was my grip seemingly forced open when he disappeared.”
Saia slowly breathed out, and secretly took out a button on his sleeves, and hid it in his left hand.
“In that case, lets test it, and find out.”
He carefully examined the creature when it quickly shimmered, a thick nova of light encompassed Saia's body, that was timed along with the creature. A shadow appeared instantly behind Saia, and reached for his spine, Saia twisted his body, and took the damage in his left arm, before the creature reappeared in the distance.
“Looks like it's actions finally slowed down a bit, it somehow dodged my deceleration, did it figure out my timing?”
A gaping hole of several inches could be seen torn through his arm, but only shallow fake blood flowed out. What was more prominent was that sparks flew wildly, and pieces of machinery leaked from the damage. On the creature's body was a small button attached to it's fingers. The creature noticed the button and crushed it immediately.
Saia breathed out a sigh as he slowly walked around the open space.
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“Acceleration, deceleration, and direction, anything within my territory could be momentarily affected for about 1 to 2 seconds. The fact it took you less than a second to break free should have been a clue in itself, especially since I didn't feel an increase in an opposing force, or energy.”
The creature gave a toothy smile, revealing it's large canines, Saia's eyes sharpened in intensity as black noxious gas leaked out from the mouths on it's body, the very next moment before Saia could even react, half his left arm was torn apart, leaving black miasma eating away at his injury. A revolting smell reached his nose, and a sizzling sound could be heard on the remains of his left arm.
“Just now, did the phenomenon get faster?”
The thing was five meters away from Saia now grasping what remained of his arm in it's hands, veins started forming in the creatures body, and purplish liquid leaked from it's pores.
“The button from before had a tracking signal on it, you didn't bend space but merely walked past everything, broke my arm, and walked back. The timer indicates over 2.3 second have elapsed since the signal, but the movement you displayed is clearly shorter than that.”
“That thing can cause a time related phenomenon, not only that, it's quickly evolving while fighting against me.”
Saia maneuvered slowly, walking close to the creature in a circular motion, reaching a curved wall, while small capsules floated around him as if in orbit.
The creature smiled in a lazy way, imitating Saia's usual expression, Saia likewise smiled back, the light in his red eyes glowed brighter, and an explosion of bright light flew past Saia's body. The creature reappeared to Saia's right side only to run into the launching capsules. The creature smiled as it tried to move away, only to notice something strange happening.
It appeared, and reappeared every second inching away in very short intervals, the capsules flew out in an instant acceleration, unaffected by the constant deceleration Saia was throwing out in incredibly short intervals. Little by little the capsules were closing in, but the creature was nearing one meter away, which was Saia's maximum deceleration range.
Even though the creature was about to escape Saia just smiled, and didn't give chase to extend his reach, in a flash of light, a badly damaged figure in black armor stood in front of the creature, black wires flew out of the armor like spider webs.
The once smiling creature, involuntarily frowned.
...
0.070 seconds, that was how long it stood puzzled, until it felt the capsule explod on it's body encompassing it in a strange sticky liquid that froze it in place. The creature stopped time in it's area, to fend off the wires emitting a dangerous amount of power, only to find more glue like substance multiplying across it's body. It froze time again to tear off the sticky substance.
Only to be wrapped up in the remaining black wires, where a powerful heat leaked out and started to tear apart it's flesh on a cellular level. It stopped time to launch a projectile of teeth into the armored figure.
Only to find out it's sight was no longer there, it's sensations turn hazy, and it's thoughts wander off into a permanent darkness.
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Saia watched as the nanite acid mixture burned away at the creature's skull, while it was layered with a glue like substance. The armored figure cut off some of the black whips stuck in the glue, and turned around to confront more hulking beast, that began to have a more human shape.
“There's a reason this is an open space you know?”
The ceilings opened to hundreds of inner laser turrets, smothering the monsters in laser fire, however this was an intense drain on the island's energy, and required a period of recharging. The creature with time abilities invaded during the brief recharge period.
His survival after all, was not important to the grand scheme of things, it was more important to keep the wave unhindered, so Saia did not forcibly activate the defenses. However as time dragged on, he began to realize the safety of preserving the current amount of souls he had obtained, grew too risky if he waited too long.
As these thoughts grew inside him another island shattered from the inside, and a mass creatures swarmed out like cockroaches. Normally the trigger to release the souls was automated, but Saia had to authority to schedule it earlier.
The higher level organism hibernating deep inside the earth wasn't predicted to wake up until 5 days later, the fact it woke up now meant something had triggered it, Saia could easily guess which thing did it. Apparently it couldn't go further back in the time period, or obvious things would have happened to prevent the situation from reaching this point.
With a slow sigh, Saia dragged himself to the cane planted in the floor, and whispered in a tired tone.
“Administration id 450734, commence initiative TM.”
...
The world suffered erratic changes, a vast amount of cities in the ocean vanished over night, green clouds floating over the black island slowly melted away, and pockets of distortions decorated small parts of the world. Seven multicolored lights glowed vibrantly in hidden parts of the world, and vanished, followed by a momentary purple light that blinked into existence, then out of it.
Saia was now currently sitting outside of the island on top of a giant black dome, initiative TM was executed hours ago, his left arm was in disrepair, his right was in an impromptu cast. He looked indifferent as he sat next to a black armored figure that had large tears in it's armor, and irregular stream of electrcity, danced across the surface.
Saia watched the ancient android, and smiled.
“Thanks for the hard work, looks like you were the unlucky one that got stuck with me.”
“Yes, I found you a bit pretentious, and you talked too much during fights, but it was... Nice being with you.”
“Heh.. I won't deny it, but you took quite a beating from that old zombie.”
“Yes, he was truly an amalgamation of power, I would have liked to have faced him under more fair circumstances though.”
“It's his fault for rushing in solo like an idiot though, but that guy can't die permanently, he can only change hosts, so if you live long enough, you may get another chance.”
“I get another chance? In a world like this?”
The armored figure pointed at the sky turning into an abominable color, and weird textures were forming. A blood like aurora was now amassing into clouds, from the pillar of lights that burst through the crust of the planet.
Saia just shrugged his shoulders, and looked behind the figure, to see a small distortion in the air that was shaped like a whirlpool. A nasty smile formed on Saia's face as slowly got up and walked towards the armored figure.
“Hmm, what is it?”
“Bye.”
A dull light formed on Saia's shoes as he kicked the armored figure flying into the distortion.
“Huh?!”
As the armored figure was wondering what was happening, it was quickly dragged in, and the body slowly disappeared into thin air.
A lazy smile formed on Saia face as he sat back down on the black curved surface.
“Sorry, I wanted more alone time.... Have fun.”
His smile quickly disappeared to be replaced with melancholic expression, his brown eyes seemed tired, and he just silently watched as a terrifying creature rip open the earth with it's long jagged claws, and razor tentacles. It's bulbous black body sagged as it dragged itself out of the deep red fissure in the ground.
The black islands no longer produced any waves, the surviving islands merely floated aimlessly as they were each being invaded by sickening abominations.
Saia could faintly hear laser fire inside the dome, and unearthly screams from within, instead of reacting he merely sat there. The wisps of white breathes flew in the cold air, which was followed by another sigh.
“I lost again....”
A bitter smile formed on his face, he could easily imagine what was happening world wide to a majority of the population, and it was simply put, not going to be pretty.
A distortion slowly appeared beside Saia but he just smiled lazily, using his fingers he dislodged a green ring in between them, and flicked it into the distortion, the distortion vibrated and shook violently, before it disappeared. He just continued staring at something in the distance, with a slight look of interest.
It wasn't everyday a person gets to watch the end of the civilized world two times after all, he watched as the crust of the planet broke apart, where lava spilled forth, and a giant shadow that replaced the night, fill half the sky.
A loud rumbling scream that caused the heart to shake, and the body to break out in a cold sweat, spread out in an shock wave. Even Saia trembled lightly, as he watched this scene from the island.
A little later, an overpowering stench wafted in his nose, and he heard a hoarse breathing sound behind him, he didn't bother to turn his head, and only spoke in a casual manner.
“You again?”
Saia closed his eyes as if they were tired, and leaned back.
The figure behind him inched closer and closer, but Saia did not even bother to react, he just silently examined the towering shadow growing thicker, and larger in the far distance.
“I wish I had a drink, where is Elithas when you need him?”
Saia's mind was currently in a blank state, as the figure was within a meter, an incredible pressure buried Saia, and a cold chill crept into his back.
“I dislike pointless struggling.”
With that said, Saia remained still and silent, not bothering to react to what was happening behind him, he simply no longer cared. As Saia just stared vacantly at a monstrosity that was being born, he heard something whisper into his ears.
It was a familiar feeling, something he recognized as soon as he heard it, and something that was not only ridiculous, but should be utterly improbable as well. At that point in time, he realized how ironic it truly was.
BAD END.