Thanks to Fitz Triangulum, we were able to get pass through Silverbite's hall without a hitch. And as according to Silverbite, it seems like there will be more Champions of Chaos waiting for us. Preparing for their own duel against one of us. With that kind of information in mind, I think I know which one I'm going to have a duel with.
Yes, I still have some form of hatred against a particular Champions of Chaos. Two of them that is. The Twin Chaos Champion, Zing and Zang. They slaughtered Zero Yohna without a single hint of remorse. They were cold blooded. They don't know how much I deeply care for someone like him despite having almost always an argument with him. I mean he's not really my relative or what not. He was just one of the scientist that was tasked to look over me in campus. He was also a child prodigy hence why he is a scientist at such a young age. And now he is going to forever be known as the child prodigy because of those two...
As luck would have it, my wish was granted as quickly as possible. The next hall that we got in looked like a barren wasteland of some kind. Somehow, it felt nostalgic. Nostalgic in the sense of my past. My original past. When I was known as The World Eater. At the end of the hall, two Champions of Chaos lies waiting for us all. It was The Twin Champions of Chaos, Zing and Zang.
Zang welcomed us, "Welcome to our humble abode, ladies."
Zenith gave a sassy reply, "Nice place you got here...is it always going to be like this on every single one of you?"
Zang laughed and told us, "Very funny, Zenith Feathers. You are not wrong in that sense. But you also know what you need to do in order to get through us..."
She answered, "You need someone from our group to stay behind and fight you guys, is that it?"
Zing nodded as he realigns his cape.
With that being said, I immediately came forward, "Then let me handle these guys, Zen."
"I can help you, Blanc." Izzy wanted to help.
"No." I denied her as soon as possible. "I can see through their plan. They are trying to thin us out by the end of these hallways. If I have to take a guess...their level of experiences are higher as we go deeper."
"But..."
I stopped her, "No buts. This is something that I must do myself. I must avenge Zero somehow."
The situation was getting tense but then Zenith told everyone, "It's alright everyone. We can trust her with these two. Am I right, Mei?" she turned to Mei.
Mei was thinking for a moment but she finally nodded, Yeah. I'm sure she's able to hold them off."
And with that, the rest of the group moved forward deeper into the next hall. Leaving behind me against these two murderers. Mei was the last one before the door closes behind her.
She reminded, "Don't do anything to harsh! You still have a live worth protecting!"
"What are you talking about?" I asked.
But the door was quickly slammed by Zing.
"Enough..." he said in a tired voice. "...we begin..."
I immediately rev up my chainsaw blade as furious as I could. Zang brought out his shape-shifting shield and thrown it at me like a Frisbee. I blocked the shield throw with my blade but as soon as I did that, Zang was already right in front of me as he was seen running toward me. He quickly captured his shield and threw it at me again. I couldn't do much but block that. That was already a mistake unfortunately as Zang was already a step in front of me. He decked me hard by using his left elbow.
I was pushed behind as I tried to remain my balance still. I clean off the the area that Zang had struck on me with my free hand and notice that Zing was conjuring something at the end of the hall.
"Oh no you don't." I said to myself as I hasten myself toward Zing.
But Zang knew where I was going as he blocked the path in front of me.
"Where you going? I'm still right here!"
Out of frustration, I released the creature within my chainsaw blade and let it lose against Zang.
"What the? What the hell is this?!"
I let go of my chainsaw blade as Zang continues to struggle with the ravenous living creature. Not wasting any time I made my way toward Zing who was still conjuring something. Just as I was about to get close to him Zang said something to me that made me stop in place.
"Zero's...Friend..."
"What...?" I immediately stopped after hearing that name. "What do you want now?"
Zang then finishes conjuring as he reveals to me a single piece of Polaroid. He handed to me and I looked at it. It was a picture of Zero Yohna.
"Final picture...before death..." Zang told me. "You...next..."
"Get off with that, you monster!" I tried to punch him but Zang used some kind of magic to prevent me from punching his face. Dark purple aura was surrounding my fist. It stopped in place.
Zang continued, "Us, monster...? No...you are..."
"I...how do you know?! Only my close friends know about me." I yelled back.
Zang shakes his head and told me, "Polaroid...tell stories..."
I looked at the picture of Zero that I was still holding and all of a sudden, I begin to hear voices inside my head...
"Looks like we did it...But what now, sir?" An old man voice was speaking in my head.
Then I heard a young man voice, "We need someone to look after her. She is still an experiment for us. Letting her loose just like that would only cause trouble without anyone watching out for her."
"Do you have a candidate?" the old man asked.
The other man answered, "How about that boy of yours, Zero, was it? He seems capable enough. In fact, those two can become friends with each other. They are about the same age if we look at what she looks like now."
"Are you sure about this? Zero is my boy..."
The young man replied, "Well not to worry. If the project fails, that monster will immediately be executed through that hand bracelet she's wearing. It's filled with poison that will intoxicate her."
"When will be the right time for that, however?" the old man asked.
The young man told him, "Only when Zero think it was time to do so. He'll have the button. I only ask you one thing. Will he be able to do it?"
Then suddenly a young boy voice was heard, "I can do it...I can kill that monster if you want."
The young man was glad, "See? The boy is ready. He will be the one..."
Before I realized it, I was already on my knee. Contemplating about what I just heard. Meanwhile, Zing was finally able to break free from the horrendous creature that appeared from my chainsaw blade. With no other life form to eat, the creature hides inside my chainsaw blade.
I could hear Zing's voice, "Your 'boyfriend' seems to always been ready to kill you whenever it was necessary."
"No..."
Zing continued, "So you see, he died so that he won't be able to kill you. You are now free, free from the grasp of imminent death, Typhon Blanc, or if that is even your name...World Eater..."
As soon as I heard that name, I suddenly heard a roaring voice inside my head. It was the voice of my monster self. The World Eater...they talked to me, they understand...I hear the voice crying...I can't stop it...I just can't stop it...
"N-N...NO!" My voice was already jumbled up with an mysterious intangible voice.
My eye started to cry out blood. The blood keeps on falling like fountain as it gushes down to the floor. The blood was thicker than any other human blood. It was the blood of monster, it felt like a solid object. Before I know it, I was drowning in my own blood. My own intangible thick red blood.
Suddenly, a tentacle-like arm appeared from the blob of blood. It quickly got out and grabbed the chainsaw blade. It proceed to swallow it into the blood blob. The bloody blob slowly started to takes it form after that. If anyone were to describe The World Eater itself...it is intangible, more so toward a human comprehensive mind. They call me The Mother of Monsters and I was the one who birthed the monster races that have now become abundant. Indeed, I was a creature who lived way back even before the time of the dragon ruling the world. That time, I was huge and I will eat anything. Hence the name, The World Eater...
"Oh great job, Zang..." Zing sighed, "You made her turn into a blob of mess."
"This...is not planned..." Zang told him.
Zang sighed again, "Of course it's not. It's your fault to begin with."
But then the two Chaos Champion felt something, "...movement...careful..."
The unfathomable bloody blob began to sprout out tentacles all over its form. Several eyeballs have popped out and dozens other jaw have started to open wide. Like it or not, the blob was in a deformed state. Nobody could comprehend its true form. And it have not even reached its original self yet because of the size of the hall. The blob began to try and grab both of the Chaos Champion but the tentacles was immediately cut down by Zang photographic ability. What Zang did was simply took a full photo of the blob and cut the Polaroid at specific part of said picture.
Zing then yelled at Zang, "We can't let her go away, Zang. We have to contain her somehow. It was your fault that she's like this to begin with. What happened with that picture anyway?"
Zang told him, "Maybe...difficult memories..."
"Then make another one for goodness sake...Fix it." Zing reprimanded him.
"Give...time..." Zang began to conjure up a spell.
The blob of monster proceed to try and maul both of them but Zing quickly threw his shield before it was able to grab onto Zang. Zing was caught by the tentacles unfortunately. The shield near Zang had begun to create a protective circle around him.
"You think I only have a single shield in hand, huh?" Zing was not afraid, "Well you're wrong!"
Suddenly, Zing was able to break the tentacles off as he reveals another shield from his own Dimensional Inventory. Zing finally drops down to the floor as he changed his shield into a different form. This time, it had the shape of a dragon's face. The shield began to hurl out fire breath. The flame was able to hold off the overpowering strength of the bloody blob for a while but Zing was forced to change to a different shield.
The next shield he transformed was a shield that was circular but it has blades attached all over it. There was a string he was able to pull. He pulls it like a chainsaw as the blades started to spin around. He then lets go of the shield and let go on its own as it climbed over the bloody blob. The shield was moving very fast as it spins around the place. But then suddenly, a wild tentacle was able to grab Zing's right arm. Zing didn't realize what was happening but it happened too fast. His arm was ripped apart from his body. His arm was immediately swallowed into its belly. Zing was limping as he tries to stop the bleeding on his right shoulder.
"Are you ready yet, Zang?!" He yelled.
"...here...!" He threw a Polaroid toward the blob.
The blob proceed grab it with its tentacle and swallow it down to its bowel. But it was then where I heard voices once again...
"Get up already..." It was Zero. "You're gonna get late for registration day."
"Oh...is it that day already? Why not you take a shower first, Zero..." I can hear my lazy voice responding to Zero.
"Two can play that game..." Zero went away for a moment and returned with something heavy, "Take this!"
Splash! Zero just poured a pail of cold water all over my bed. It was damn cold, I tell you. I hated him for that.
"Get the fuck up already. We are going to be late for our registration for goodness sake."
I retaliated, "Urgh, why do you care so much?! I'm just a monster! Let me live the way I want!"
"But you're not a monster right now, right? You look more like a human to me. Didn't you told to yourself that you wanted to have friends? You don't wanna be a fucking loner anymore...just like when you were on your own as the hell incarnate World Eater. Am I right?"
That particular moment resonated with me. It made me realizes back about my wishes. It's not just a wish created after I became human. But it was a wish I had even before that. I don't wanna be alone...And the first step toward that...
The horrendous blob suddenly stopped as it started to shrink itself. It shrank and shrank until apart of me was visible. All of those fleshes was absorbed back into me. My chainsaw blade was unharmed as well. In fact, it look cleaner than before. Meanwhile, both Zing and Zang was already resting after that encounter. While it doesn't seem like a lot has happened but a lot has indeed happened.
Zang told to himself, "My camera...it's broken..."
Zing then notified Zang, "Oh yeah? Well I just lost my freakin' arm. You know?"
"I guess...that's that for now. She was able to overwhelm us only by using her true form." Zang was able to make a complete sentences.
Zing was surprised, "A full sentences, huh? Are you done playing around with that persona?"
Zang nodded, "Yeah. I'm done. Now...we just lay back and hope that everything is going exactly as planned."
"It's going to work out. We successfully tired her out." Zing told him.
Zang then replied, "But she was also able to tire ourselves out..."
"You're not wrong there. She's a tough one, alright." smiled Zing.
And with that, the two Chaos Champion decided to take a rest as my unconscious body laid down on the floor not too far from them. I come to the conclusion of whatever Mei meant before she left me just now.
A life worth protecting...And that's myself...Considering that the battle between the twins were over...I hope the others is able to go up against whoever was waiting further. Good luck everyone. For now...let me take my brief beauty sleep.
TO BE CONTINUED