Chapter 234: Black Blood.
"Hahaha~ this is wonderful, Master Vestic was fully aware of what he was doing when he chose us from the others," Renia walked across empty space as though it was tangible ground beneath her feet.
"Dr'ul, S'mael, Adonai and myself, we all thrive in such places more than anyone else aside from death himself, but he is incapable of interacting with the physical world," She chuckled, catching a dive-bomber by her head and crushing it causing blood to float and splash across her and blocked another from above with her elbow breaking him almost entirely in half with the weight of his momentum.
Her grotesque appearance had returned to normal with the exemption of her fingers retaining the black claws, and she was no longer shrouded in chaotic energy, her eyes burned as bright as Dr'ul's, and her hair had turned entirely black, her skin seemed more lively than ever while her presence exuded a brilliant yet dimmed crimson aura.
"I feel so much Chaos inside of you all, I do not know what you did to your bodies nor what the black eyes and veins mean, but your very presence has become chaos; chaos I can feed on, chaos I can manipulate!" She fanned four of her hands around herself causing everyone lower than the rank of Captain to bleed out and die in an instant and then she opened her mouth manipulating every drop towards herself, drinking down the cold blood and swallowing it with a delighted expression.
"I could kill a thousand suns with this much chaos, creating more chaos, spreading more destruction, causing more creation which in turn will ignite even more chaos!!" Renia spread her six hands wide and started roaring as the stars around herself began imploding one after the other. "It is an endless cycle of beauty!"
From her spine grew a tail as smooth as her skin and as tall as her body as she hunched and balled her fists.
"It was always a mistake to challenge the Godslayer, but today the Emporium will understand that he is not the only threat in our collective!" She vanished from their sight and one by one the captains started vanishing, reappearing seconds after their disappearance as mangled corpses, but something interesting the leading captains in their state of madness noticed was the fact that each new corpse came back without a drop of blood, it was only when she had killed the lesser captains and targeted the 9th Captain Varen Hawk that he understood what was happening.
"Y- you!" Captain Hawk tried prying Renia off himself but she snaked herself around his body and bound his hands to his side with four of hers and held his head and face with the other two, locking her legs around his waist and her tail around his legs and then laughing at his futile struggles.
"Little human captain, so frail, so easily vulnerable...
it is so pitiful of you thinking you stand a chance against us gods, but fret not, your journey was not in vain, you have delivered into my hands the most intoxicating and most concentrated picking of chaos I have ever sunk my fangs into," She opened her mouth around the captain's neck and bit into his flesh, humming in glee at his screams while her arms started squeezing and tearing at his body as she drank his blood down to the last drop, and then snapped his with a deep laugh, releasing his head and groaning in extasy.
"What is happening?" The 7th Captain, Neoma Thrax stared at the bodies around her, everyone was dead and she hadn't seen how even though she was still in the midst of her berserker state because of the PowerPoint drug coursing through her veins.
She had been shocked back to sanity, Renia was moving so fast that she couldn't make sense of it, so in a fit of fright, the captain took off flying as fast as she could away from the field of bodies soaring past a star and crashing face-first into a small burning Celestialbody when she tried exiting the pull of that sun.
The planet cracked after the captain emerged on the opposite side spinning out of control and crashlanding into a mountain range of snow and ice.
"Can anyone hear me?" Neoma opened her Comms, but all she received from thousands of channels were screams for help, it seemed the others were in similar or probably worse situations, she switched to the captains' channel, but it was silent there, contrasting the screams of the other channels.
"What is this, how could this have happened to the 3795th?" She asked aloud, opening the quiet channel again.
[This is Captain Neoma Thrax, respond.]
*Silence*
[Captains, please respond.]
*SILENCE*
[Somebody, say something!] She snapped flicking her finger on the earpiece and switching through the various channels until she was once again on the first channel. "Captains, General, can anyone hear me, this is the 7th Captain, Neoma Thrax, does anyone read?"
Minutes passed by in the sub-zero atmosphere of a hostile planet with her standing still, causing shards of snow and glass to crash against her vertically from the powerful winds, small spider-like creatures with tentacles beneath their belly the size of cats crawled to and fro in the strong winds, immune to the cold and thriving on this barren place.
After an hour of silence, the captain accepted the possibility of her comrades all dying and started walking, she walked and walked until she found herself at the foot of a mountain and there she closed her eyes and took a deep breath, the black blood would no longer trouble her mind, but it still ran through her body granting her virtual immortality as her cells regenerated faster than they died.
"I cannot return without dying, those are Vatui of royal descent, Celestials of the highest Order," She spoke to herself coming to a cave and walking inside.
"I cannot send a distress signal unless I have access to a ship, but the ships were all destroyed by the one who called herself the goddess of war," She tapped her suit and a light shined from the crest of the Emporium lighting her way as she ventured deeper.
"I... I do not want to die like that," She rubbed her forehead as her mind conjured up the mangled bloodless images of her comrades that she had seen before fleeing. Find more content on m|vl-em,py-r
She tapped her forearm with a sigh bringing up a small holographic image in her augmented vision.
[Armour is at 79% integrity.
Lifespan is 420 years ETE, (Emporium-time-estimate)].
"I'll stay here, with PowerPoint running through me I'll be fine, I just need to keep my mind from deteriorating and maintain my integrity, by then I am sure a lot will have happened, but there has to be someplace in this vast universe where intelligent lifeforms exist, even if they are small and backwards, I can live the rest of my life-"
*Crash*
"Iyaah!!"
She spun and struck blindly, missing her mark after something hit her back and fell to the ground, turning to meet what had shocked her she yelped and stumbled backwards in panic when she came face-to-face with Captain Hawk's dried-out corpse and then backed up a second time hitting the opposite wall of the dark cave when the space above him was torn open by a crimson and black phantasm and Renia poked her head through sideways.
"I finally found you~"
"N-no, stay away, get away from me!" The Captain screamed and fell to her ass hugging her head and shaking in terror, y-you're not real, I'm already seeing things, it's all the toxins in the air, it's this cave, you're not real, you're not real!"
"You are the last one, sweet, sweet Neoma," Renia chuckled, spreading the tear wider with her six hands and stepping through, wiping black blood from her lips and licking her fingers clean of it.
"How do you know my name?"
"This little thing," Renia tapped her ear and the communicator in Neoma's ear blinked and beeped. "Alpha was kind enough to alarm me of a little stowaway calling for help, but to think it was a big bad Captain hiding in a little cave, how enticing~" She stepped closer and the captain started shaking before her again.
"You're not real, y-you're not... real!" Neoma shrieked when Renia stood before her and her crimson eyes glimmered through the dark.
"I am real, my little birdy." Renia loomed over her. "There is no fight left in you, have you given up on your mission?" She asked and Neoma seeing a chance at living nodded furiously.
"I swear, I won't leave this cave as long as I live, I'll stay here forever, you won't ever see me- eeek!!" She stopped talking and began trembling again when one of Renia's hands dropped on her head as the goddess took a seat before her and opened her arms.
"Come, little birdie, enter the embrace of chaos and disappear forever, I will ease your pain, I will ease your fears, I will erase everything that troubles you," Renia smiled at her seeing her tears flow and her lips quiver. "Give me your chaos and I will grant you ETERNITY."
[Chaos Manipulation]
[Mind Manipulation]
[Memory Manipulation]
[Attraction]
"Come to me," Renia continued to smile watching her chaos seep inside of Neoma's head and gloss her mind over in a black hazy fog. "Come," she called again.
"Eternity?" Neoma asked, sliding off her seat and into Renia's arms as they all slowly wrapped around her and held her firmly.
"Yes," Renia whispered in her ear allowing her to regain her awareness and begin to struggle, but it was too late, now within the arms of chaos there was no longer any hope of escape. "Eternal death, your soul will disappear within the eternity of my chaos and your delicious blood will be my sustenance!" Renia leaned the woman's head to the side and licked her lips.
From the outside of the cave where the winds howled and the snow and glass flew sideways, the light of Neoma's battlesuit flickered and went out under the shrill screams she managed to make as she was torn apart by the embodiment of chaos that sought her black blood.
"Hnn, Delicious... hahahaha~"