" talking "
' thinking '
[ System ]
{ Author Note }
'Not bad now. Should I finally bite the bullet and take all four simultaneously? ' I look at the memory influx reward with pain and slight unwillingness. I then click on all of them quickly before I feel the world rumble, with my mutations bursting out as light bends around. The floating mountain I am standing on becomes condensed into a small pebble as I teleport into my lair before passing out.
(Flashback)
"dear, are you going to come and join us?" I hear my wife say as I see I'm holding a plate with two sandwiches. I then feel a force hit me in the chest. "I will be out in a second love." My body answers as I look at myself and walk out of the kitchen, being in the third person, unlike in my body like usual.
'No, let me in my body; let me feel like I'm there.' I try to move my now floating form and feel it budge slightly, but I watch the world around me crack somewhat as I do, making me stop momentarily as I watch my body walk out the door.
"Thank you for making food, love," she says as she takes a sandwich and watches the dog run chaotically around the tree. I stare aimlessly at my wife and try to reach out and touch her face, but the world cracks more as I do so.
'Damnit, just let me hold my wife. Wait, where are our kids, Ollie and Ellie?' I start looking around franticly before spotting Ollie inside playing on what looked like an N64 and Ellie outside sitting on the grass, barely out of my view.
'Okay, she is fine.' My form lightens a bit as I watch my hand rest on my wife's thigh, sending a rush of energy through my form for some explicable reason. I hear a crack for a second and watch a broken shackle appear on my left wrist. I then see nine more appear in a ghastly-like form as they blink in and out of existence.
'What the hell is this.' I examine the shackles and chains before I hear a little chuckle from my wife as I snap my head towards them to see her look over at me with her beautiful blue eyes and short, curly hair.
'She is stunning.' I then reach my unshackled handout and see that the world didn't crack. My ghostly hand touches her cheek, making a smile grow on my face and showing nothing but happiness. 'I wish I could have stayed with you. I promise I will try to figure out what happened and come back. I then feel the shackle on my ankle crack for a second.
I then hear the dog let out a small bark, and my neck snaps in its direction. I see the dog looking at an all-black 1985 Ford Ranger, and a girl comes out of it and walks meekly towards where we are.
"Do you, by chance, have any gas?" the girl asks, my eyes narrowing. My wife looks slightly suspicious as well, and my body taps her leg twice. Yeah, we have some gas, though you will have to wait a second for my wife to go get it. Ellie, head inside with your mom." My body answers, and I feel a bunch of flags pop up as I look around the house, knowing that we are a good five miles from the closest town.
"Okay, Dad, but who is the lady?" Ellie asks as she comes running towards me and gives me a curious look. I don't know, honey, but just listen to Dad, okay?" my body says to my daughter as she nods her head before running inside. I stare at the girl, who seems to squirm under my stare.
"So why didn't you top off on gas further down the road," I ask with confusion and skepticism as I look at the Ford Ranger. It also has windows tinted so dark it reaches the point of being illegal. "Well, I accidentally missed the last stop, and I didn't want to chance to make it to the next town, so I stopped to see if you would have any gas." the girl answers as I then hear my wife walk out of the front door with a Jerry can half filled with gas which I take.
"Fair enough, but here is your gas," I say to the girl as I walk forward with the can before handing it to her. Thank you, and I know this looks weird, to which I apologize," the girl says as she meekly grabs the Jerry can before walking to her Ford Ranger with it.
"It's fine. After all, we are a kind family." I answer instinctively, with my body mimicking what I'm saying perfectly, before I walk back slightly. I then feel several loud cracks as I see three shackles break off, giving me full access to my right arm and left leg, to which I happily stretch the two before I feel the one around my neck and waist burn slightly.
'Damn, that burns like hell.' I grab at the shackle on my neck, which only burns my neck more but leaves my hand unfazed by the action. "Thank you for the gas, and I'm sorry for interrupting your day." The girl says as she hands the jerry can back to me, which my body just sets down and gives her a small wave before I hear a gunshot.
The moment the gunshot registered in my mind, I immediately turned my head to see my wife at the door with a hand on her right leg to where the bullet grazed her and heard Ollie scream as the world around me suddenly darkened and turned a blood red.
"What just happened," I say in sync with my body as it turns around and sees that there is a man in the bed of the girl's truck with a rifle in hand as the girl goes to punch me in the face which I dodge with ease. 'What is happening? What is going on.' as I hear my wife scream with what can only be said to be filled with anguish and despair.
"You're okay, Ellie, you're okay. I promise; just breathe for Mommy, okay." I hear my wife say, and I understand why Ollie screamed. I immediately grab the gun I had in my pants as I pistol whip the girl and shoot four times into the truck where the man is. I then point the gun down and shoot the girl in the head before walking towards the truck and shooting once every five seconds to not give him a chance to shoot back. I then have two shots left as I get to the side of the truck.
"Why, god damnit, why," I yell with rage and welling hatred as I see a grin grow on the man's face as he looks at me with my pistol to his forehead, burning a mark on it as the rifle rests under his chin, ready to kill himself. "It's simple, Cameron because we hate you." as he pulls the trigger, his brains explode within the truck as my mind races a hundred miles a second to try and understand what is happening with my body already breaking into a sprint towards Ellie.
'Why, Why, Why.' I keep thinking as all the shackles break beside the one on my neck as it starts to burn at a higher heat than earlier, but the pain completely numbs as I watch my daughter bleed out on the floor. I then feel the world around me crack and shatter apart, leaving nothing but the house and the yard as my wife dials the police and urgently asks for an ambulance. I apply pressure to the wound as she goes to comfort Ollie.
"Ana, grab the first aid kit. I need gauze." She quickly nods before running to the kitchen. Ollie watches in horror as I use one hand to keep pressure with the other, gently petting the top of Ellie's head. You will be okay, Princess, I promise. Just breathe for me, okay?" I say to Ellie as she shakily nods her head and continues to hold in the desire to scream as I watch tears well and fall from her eyes.
"I love you, Daddy. You too, Mommy." Ellie says with a slightly Shakey voice as Ana comes running back with the first aid kit, handing me a gauze, which I quickly put on top of the wound before putting pressure back on it. I see the white gauze quickly start turning red, and I see that the porch is already stained in blood from Ana and Ellie. "We love you too, though you have to be okay, understood. After all, don't you want ice cream?" I say with a loving voice and try to give an extra incentive for her to try and live as I hear very distant sirens.
'They won't get here quick enough.' I watch Ellie's eyes cloud more as I continue to gently rub Ellies head, and Ana comforts Ollie as she watches with concern and indescribable sadness. "Thank you, Mom and Dad," Ellie says. Her eyes then dim, and two streams of tears form. A small smile forms on her face as she closes them.
"No," I mutter as the entire world shatters. I fuse back into my body fully, and the final shackle is gone. I sat, kneeling in the blood of my daughter. I look at my hands covered in the red substance as I then stand up and walk towards the dead body of the girl who caused this all. I kick the body repeatedly before I feel myself get tackled by a police officer and feel myself get put in cuffs.
'Why must this happen.' I lay in the grass with a look of loss and confusion as I hear my wife scream loudly in pain and sorrow at the loss of our daughter. As the world started to fix itself around me, I saw that they put Ana in cuffs as well while taking her and Ollie to the ambulance. I just lay in the grass and questioned why.
(Flashback ends)
'Ellie, ' my giant form raises from the floor. I absently click on a world option, appear in a forest, and just let myself be consumed by my remorse and rage. I start to feel a mass of energy surge towards me, with spirits appearing all around me.
I then start to uncontrollable rage as blazing infernos break from me before being replaced by chilling winds of ice. I feel several people appear as they start to attack me. My form condenses itself down to a hundred meters, and we clash against each other. I feel a spatial pull behind me, but using my Spatiokinesis to repel myself against the pull as I use my Chlorokinesis to grab them with plant life as some easily break out of it, and one of them not even being affected.
I then feel a heavy impact on my left side as I use my telekinesis to manipulate my flesh and stab them with one of my quills as I think more and more people appear. Some even feel like spiritual beings as I start to rage more and more as the image of Ellie shows in my head as I strike the ground around me with my electricity before I feel a chain wrap around my body before I feel myself being pressured down with some sort of Spatiokinesis as my own repels it as I set my body on fire and start to fuel it with magic as it clashes with the energy in the chains.
Another then sends a concentrated beam of blood into one of my legs as Gracebane breaks free from my chest and kills ten of them before I feel one of their presences change slightly, get taken into a strange world, and feel my leg get cut off before it quickly regrows as I teleport behind the person who did it and tries to bite into them before I then feel my tooth become shattered to pieces by the touch of his hand as I then use my telekinesis, Gyrokinesis, and Spatiokinesis to crush them down as I eat them.
The domain around me then breaks as I feel a second presence in my mind, which quickly gets killed and absorbed into the rest of my mind. I rampage amongst the rest and clear through their ranks. I use my Spatiokinesis against the user who has it as well, with them equaling each other out. Gracebane then cuts off his chest before going towards the man with exceptional strength with the chain.
Gracebane quickly removes his head as I teleport around the battlefield and eat all those standing before me or encase them in ice before shattering it. I then bend the light around, making lasers pierce through them and quickly killing them as I empty the field of everything. I teleported across the country, eating anything with strange energy before appearing back in my lair.
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{A/N Well, I hope you all enjoyed the chapter and the more lore gained from the influx and how he then took it out on the world he visited, which was picked for a specific reason as he will be earning a couple of things from there.
But I will now put the usual below, and I hope you look forward to the chapter on Monday, as it will be quite the bag.
[Status]
Species: Devouring Leviathan
Name: Livyatan
OG Name: Cameron
Titles: Legend Slayer, The Winged Storm +10
Length: 543m (1781FT)
DNA Assimilated: 536