I drove towards prey, my loping strides eating the distance, I chased it primarily by the fear it gave off, and other emotions I was too distracted to pay attention to. I don't know what the rest of the colours I could see meant. Unlike the Bultigin that had only the yellow colour of fear, this had several.
I got closer to it, its rapid beating heart a symphony, I laughed in delight...my body felt fantastic, I have always been athletic yet my new body strength and endurance put my previous meat sack to shame...as an experiment I stopped breathing, yet saw no decline in my performance, Instead, I became a whisper, I glided along the ground...I stretched my arms out, delighting in the way the wind blew against my skin...I was now a few feet behind the creature, and it had no idea I was that close. An instinct perhaps made it look back, its eyes widened and mouth was opened to scream, when I thrust my arm out, underestimating my strength I pierced through its mouth and with a weird fascination watch my arm extending and pierced a tree, a few feet away. Tendrils shot from my arm to envelop the creature, a few seconds later it was Ash.
Guttural cries surrounded me, looking around I saw a group of creatures like the one I killed....that sneaky bastards had been leading me into a trap...of course, I realised that for a while, my senses giving me an almost three-sixty panoramic view of my surroundings, but it was fascinating getting their hopes up only to kill it. I needed their fear, the hopes in their eyes crushed as I fed on them.
I charged toward the one closest to me. It barely recognised the danger before I crushed his head, tilting my arm I shoved it into the stump of his neck, my arm now in its bowels, tendrils erupted as I drained it dry, a cool heat radiated from my arms into my heart and I almost moaned in pleasure.
My fingers merged as my arms elongated nearly touching the floor... there was seven more left.. let me call them goblins, for they certainly fit the archetype...green bulbous head on a thin neck, less than four feet tall, armed with crude machetes and clubs.. I swung my now bladed arms in a circle, catching three of the goblins in that swing, effortlessly bisecting the creatures the tendrils rushed out of my arm, not allowing both halves of the bodies to fall to the floor before it was consumed. New waves of pleasure filled me.
I opened my arms as I zoomed to the last four, they were clustered together, panicking. Foolish decision ,"come to me" I grinned my smile stretching unnaturally to my ears. My tendrils were faster, they had a mind of their own, four huge line shot from my chest piercing the goblins, I turned away disinterested in fallen prey, their screams had attracted others of their kind....
I leapt upward, slinging my arms to the nearest tree branch, I pulled myself onto the tree and observed the rustling greens. counting my new meal running into my abyssal gullet, and they were substantial, in the hundreds, " five hundred and ...thirty-two " my internal calculator corrected me, again I marvelled at my senses.... Could I eat all this meal?. I still don't know the limits of my new body, already few had gathered below me, curiously checking the ashes on the floor....
no better ways to find out than to try...
I noticed a particular goblin, it was taller than the rest, and had a long mane of red hair that was tied at the waist, it was given out orders I think, the guttural shouts it gave seemed to motivate the others, and I thought to myself, how would it taste?.
I silently traversed the trees, until the goblin in question was directly below me, I shimmered down the tree, head down first, my hands and feet easily piercing into the tree, my face was directly behind the creature, I drew in a deep breath, it was female...as she kept screaming out commands, I felt I could understand them...like a piece of scattered music you dimly remembered from a feverish dream, shaking away that thought, I extended my neck like a coiled viper, she was two feet away from me, when I got so close I could taste I skin, I whispered into her ears....
she stiffening in shock, was an added bonus.
"cry out in adoration before me" I chuckled
like a badly tuned marionette she turned her head to me, almost seemingly compelled to, as if spell bounded by my voice... I let her scream before opening my jaws biting off her head "good goblin"
pleasure became me! this was the first time I tasted prey with my mouth, I let the tendrils eat all my catch before, I dimly realised I had fallen to the ground, my mouth connected to the goblins neck as I squeezed her into my embrace, more waves of delight kept pouring into my maws from my voracious suction, cries of the goblins surrounded me, I was lost in pleasure so deep it defied my understanding of it.
I shivered in throes of orgasmic delight...I felt dull aches all over my body a little while later, the goblins had lifted machetes and clubs raining blows on me for all they were worth , I could care less, as the grisly content in my mouth moved down my throat it was all I could do to not scream out in ecstasy.
More of their kin surrounded me, I perceived three other similar goblins that shared the same hair, they issued cries and torches were bought forward. Before long I was on fire, and that was enough pain to draw me out of my bliss or perhaps because my prey had become mushed skin, my tendrils finished the rest. I stood up in flames..
"foolish. They wash our body in flames, we bath in stars"
Sensing my body down to the cellular level, I was being damaged, but the cells that held me together was very resistant to flames, each individual cells were very lively, like little snakes, they coiled and stretched, actively fighting against depletion even going as far as absorbing the heat as fuel, I could stay in fires of this intensity for weeks and will emerge stronger!...
with an abominable howl, I leapt at the goblins, my eyes red with slaughter. for how long I fought, I could not say, it was one whole haze of pleasurable conquest..
I became a roaring lion, a swirling tornado, my tendrils and bladed arms tearing apart prey, in singles, then doubles, and then tens. I became faster and faster, a bloody tornado formed around me that rapidly turned grey as the very essence of life was fed into me. Ash floated in my wake.
I tore through everything in my path, trees and minor hills crumbling to dust, the air screamed as I pierced through them... fires consumed what was left, the flames waving their reverence after me, they stretched like a cloak of fire, an orchestra of destruction, and I was the conductor.
I was terror incarnate.
I awoke from my daze to see the forest on fire, trenches littered the ground, an acre size field of forest had been levelled during my feeding frenzy. Ash blew around like incandescent fireflies...I was in their midst... turning my head the world had become small.
No it was I that grew, I was at least fourteen foot tall, packed with inhuman slabs of muscles that slowly shrank and got denser, blood finally flowed in my veins, dense pool of mercury that carried pure life force and energy.
I was naked, my skin glabrous the wind blew a wave of white down my shoulders, they were my hair.. silvery white and waist length it's flowed down my back with mystical grace.
I was a giant, my feet pressed against the ground as I walked, my body mindlessly brushing across burning trees, crushing logs beneath my tread. It could have well been caked powder, i revel in my might.
A transcendent stillness came over me Unwittingly I began to hum, a familiar tune my mother used to lure me to sleep, all but forgotten, after all I was barely two years old when she passed.
A brief moment of levity came over me and I was horrified at my presence. This was lost however as I felt a deeper connection to the cosmos, my being was a washed-up with glory, as the stars themselves sang of my beauty...a choir band that stretched for infinity.
The shadows of the fire washed against my skin, the starlight became jealous as they poured a stream of glory on my body.
A shock wave ripped the ground around me, as streams of starlight pierced into my bones, it merged into cells, painting them in vivid shades of crimson, and I arose from the ground my feet disdaining the earth.
the skies split apart and the firmament was opened, the last of the gates has been crossed!
My ascension was nigh.
I glorified in my perfection... drunk in bliss. I heard a roar. my elation was ripped from me as a huge fist emerged from my chest in a shower of blood...