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Chapter 21 - Chapter Twenty: The Good, The Bad, And The Void

Saint Edward,

The human-lotus legion of Abaddon covered the whole of Hotel Hersey. Covering every inch tangible with the stationed freak creatures, slowly gnawing on the human remains as Casper appeared closer to the Hotel. As if altered by his presence, a few hundred of the lotus launched them in the air from in and out of the Hotel. A swarm of twitching gray clouds lifted up from the Hotel and buzzed right at him.

"Anmoly! What do I do?!" Casper yelled. Anomaly pulled back its wing, and Casper took a dive and closed his eyes reflexly upon the sight of the approaching swarm. While on the ground, the She-Devil stood, raising her arm. "Xy zokkis dtxx, txxw kg luqq," her words caused her hands to catch fire, burning and oozing black viscous blood dripping onto the ground.

The hellish fluid dragged itself across the ground, collected at a center point, and seeped into the ground. "dtx kisiqadt IP dtx jad," she continued, and the ground cracked and fell onto itself, reviling a fiery pit blow. "dtx kisiqadt IP dtx jad!", the earth shook violently following the finished spell. Two pairs of monolith-like arms appeared out of the fire, clammed onto the ground, and pulled its massive mountain-self onto the surface.

Lava seeped from its cracked skin and a gaping maw lined with buck rocky teeth. His roar blasted through the air as his body bloated, pulling fire from underneath. Meanwhile, Casper made contact with the mumbling and buzzing lotus legion. Multiple of them bit into his skin and tore into his skin with their sharp claw. All while Casper's body ignored everything and joined both of its wings in front. Void bubbled in between his palms, and sting shot straight at the Hotel, breaking through the window and latching on to the way.

While the monolith released a moat of corrosive fire toward the lotus legion bundled together thanks to Casper. The mixture of rock and lava blasted through and disintegrated the human lotus upon contact, continuing on its path across the city. Finally dropping and massive collision with the ground, blinding chaotic explosion off in the distance.

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Casper broke out of the massive swarm of lotus, diving down at the Hotel and finding himself fastly approaching a solid wall. "Anmoly!" he called out just before he crashed through the window. Void bubbled out of his hand and swallowed him into a blob. Enabling him to crash through an entire wall, turning into an ink splatter and window. The lotuses to become alerted and instantly leaped up and away from the spat of black oil.

Meanwhile Casper came to a sudden halt in the endless, finding himself absolute blackness without indication as to what was up and down. While the Void expanded and covered the entire hallway in a blink of an eye. Spikes sprang out of the Void and stabbed and stopped the lotuses from moving while tendrils lashed out and wrapped around them, pulling them into the endless Void.

Casper quickly saw the disheveled lotus dropping inside, while on the outside, the Void accumulated back into the puddle and pushed Casper back outside onto the floor. He shook his head, the sense of self returning along with effects of gravity, alongside a tribble taste in his mouth.

But the moment was cut short as Casper heard the pair of hundred feet and mumbling sound marching from both sides of him. But no sooner than the first few rotten heads peeked inside from the cavity Casper had come in through. By that point, Casper was willing and allowed the Anomaly to use his body while guiding it.

The massive arms made of Void pushed out, crashing those lotuses who were caught upon entering. The force shook the building while Casper leaped up to his feet and began to run down the hallway. While the Void coagulated on Casper's arms and latched out on the sight of the marching swarm, crashing them into putrid messes. Making his way, guided by Anomaly to save his sister, or what was left of her, while a shock rippled through the hotel building.

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A wave of fiery hell welcomed itself through the lobby, disintegrating everything and any lotus that was unlucky enough to be caught. Only to accumulate in the center and spread out, opening a gateway. A similar monolith-like creature poured out upside down and broke the floor inward. Making a way down the basement for his mistress, soon the She-Devil walked the paved scorch path towards the incaved floor as the powdery silence of ash became her footing. Waving her hand, the creature sped back into the gate, and the fire disappeared.

She simply slide down and ahead of her laid the lord of the bottomless pit himself. Abaddon, possessing a body of child, contorted and lying their paralyzed due to wild mutation. Her lower half had grown an extraordinarily large abdomen along with a mangles pair of legs, twitching on the floor.

Surrounded by shelfs and crates, few lights still working luminated the creature in the center of the room, accompanied by millions upon millions of insects which covered every inch of the basement starting from the center. Slowly the figure looked up, a drooling face became visible. A single lose eyes, that had went blind, next to it a massive tumor growth has sprouted a mouth of its own.

Who ever this child used to be, its body had been severally been toyed with. Hence was the cost of housing a being so vial and corrupted, that it had to be shunned into a bottomless pit. The tumor parted ways, reviling a collection of managed teeth, growing out from which position they felt like, making the old French nobility breeding a run for their money.

Grayish fluid dripped out followed by a screeching voice, "Who are that which wears the skin of a child of man", Abaddon said. "I am here see you get devoured by endless void", She-Devil replied putting hands in her pocket.

"Endless? I used to shy for that which was endless, but since escaped once, why not twice? To glory to my lord, that dwells his waiting. Why after all, his presence strips sanity form holiness, flesh from skin of man. Oh the magnificent him, that bestowed my wings by which end came to endless", Abaddon said.

Black smoke piled out of the back of the delipidated child, instance and hot, light engulfing smoke emitted and took the form of hundreds upon thousands of pairs of wings. All forming a pattern of out and in flowing and never-ending spiral.

Although magnificent to say the least, She-Devil did not care for such trivial boast, "You seem to be confused, although you were given those by him. However, the escape was imminent by my degree and mine alone. You and your siblings were released to built our abominations. But right about now two of your have fallen, and now you", As she spoke.

Meanwhile above them Casper broke across, ripping and tearing, all while everything felt unreal, like a nightmare. swollen and bloated innered flew everywhere, splattering across the floors and walls. All while Casper kept on moving with sold though of reuniting with his sister.

"We needed a sorts introduction for simplest of minds and your was kind was a perfect first introduction. Take the child who is about to stumble on his sister's remain being consumed. He who has lost everything in this world because of you and your kind. What did you think will happen when he looks through the feast", She spoke.

Casper blasted through the door, taking the attention of all the Locust, interrupting their feast. First one, right in front of his sight from the legion that filled every inch of the room. Dropped the half eaten head familiar to him. lightest blond and blooded hair and the exposed skull bone from the side temple. Those dull blue single eye staring back Casper, puncturing the sight deep within his soul and memory.

Everything went silent, Casper expression held itself in place, displaying disbelief. Moments before he imploded in a violent torrent of void and shattered the entire building, not letting any single creature escape. His heart let out a single undefinable request to void, very source of endlessness inside of him.

With massive boom the structure broke upwards as Void pushed it apart, but nothing fell. Branches of Void suspended the pieces of the broken Hotel in unbounded in the sky above, a mass of accumulated Void stood erected mimicking a tree trunk. The lotus which had attempted to fly away were also caught among the outburst, impaled and held in place by various licorice tendrils.

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"He will come down and swallow you whole to a never-ending torment, and once we are done with you, I will carry him back on his feet and show him love", She-Devil said with a warm smile coming across his face, as notion of deception comforted her. While Abaddon looked back in horror, for it not understood the plan, but for a slight moment perceived the horror beyond the vail.

Suddenly the Hotel shook violently, ripping apart the ceiling and reviling the black tower mass above the lowly demon. To Abaddon's much displeasure the figure of Void, devoid of any light fell on top of it, awhile, Abaddon stare back at the never-ending Void expanding, scratching, and covering entirety of space in matter of a thought. Creating a vacuum and while silence and the rumbling of the structure above took over.

In the last moment, the She-Devil engulfed herself with fire and retreated out of the Void range. While the branches and the trunk expended in a whirlpool of oil sludge. Consuming every evidence of the Hotel and its demonic resident. resorting in a shape of an egg, before ultimately shrinking down.

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In the end what laid everything to waste, was but a broken child. Curled up on the ground, sobbing uncontrollably, falling into ever-deepening hole of despair after loss all that he knew. His family, a loving home, and a place of belonging all ripped away, but there remain a single blimp of hope.

She came to him, gently rubbing the top of his head and Casper looked from his despair all while she embarrassed him. Comforting what was left of him, giving a place for his trust and dependence.