Rose Blumen ~ Exogignesthai 1

(Licht)

My poison worked even better than I would have expected.

I expected necrosis of the tissues along its spread.

They're being more than killed, they're crumbling to dust.

Like a spark able to burn blood, it ran quickly through its body, killing it all over and in depth along all the blood flows.

Light in the room where I stand begins to fade as I grow tired and need to check the result.

My body gets warmer, stronger, where Dragod is dissolving.

The room itself is moving, collapsing with the rest of the body suddenly dying.

And in my light, I see the two mindless roses next to me suddenly awakening. They look lost, but that pained expression on their face means that they are now free.

L - Let's get ou...

One of them is suddenly crushed to death under an arm, dark, larger than normal.

The other one is screaming in terror at the sight of the crushed skull.

I push my light back into toxic levels, and try to vaporise this thing. I know what it obviously is.

As it jumps at me, we both get thrown through the fleshy dissolving wall, and within the depths of the beast.

~

Another body. A more condensed and resilient humanoid body. Maybe just in case, or intended to destroy me if I were to return.

Dragod's main body is collapsing, but this vessel stays alive, and still stronger than me.

If I die here, I think while it's crushing me through a wall or another, if I die here, Dragod will just start anew.

You will die.

I brush off its punches but it catches my head. Heat in its hands rises, and my face begins to melt. I lost my only good eye.

I yell poorly, but I'm far more than that now.

Light.

I still hold its arm and my other hand brings a devastating light to the beast. My touch is worse than its own, I burn it so intensely that I hear it scream loudly, and then feel it trying to escape my grasp.

I smile, blood all over my dying face.

I push the use of my power further as it managed to escape my grasp.

I go after it while my body is regenerated at great speed. My face regrows and my only eye reappears from scratch in seconds. Only my throat feels dry now. Who cares.

I see god. I see its falling kingdom. Heaven is falling down continuously.

Caves, caverns, are collapsing, in an underground rain of rocks, dirt, blood vessels, tunnels and giant fleshy organs.

A melting foam the size of a mountain turning slowly into a swamp deep below the earth.

Dragod is a few flaps ahead, looking at me and my light through its dark shape.

It's scared now, and dead angry.

Wrath. Its feet leave the ground that suddenly collapsed below, but then vacuumed all over and around and crushed to dust.

It's as if an invisible sphere was now destroying everything in its path.

As it comes to me, my body suddenly tells me sharply that I just died.

My heart isn't beating anymore, replaced by a sharp pain than propagates.

This is the end for me.

My eye looks at the god coming to crush me.

My body will fall apart as soon I stop processing this power now, this magic through my flesh to prevent its collapse and make it stronger.

This is the time to go beyond what I'm used to and give it all.

My fist becomes a bolt of light going against the approaching shadow. We face each other in a new show of strength.

A desperate one for both of us, learning still what the other is able to become.

My light unleashed becomes like a syrupy white magma flowing around and liquefying the rocks it throws at me. I use it like a whip or gloves, striking ahead.

Something between us explodes, and we both step back, now in mid-air, or falling.

We fell in the lower caves. Blood and trees fall around us.

God shrieks and I see it lift its arms, then throwing something at me.

What comes at me wasn't in its hands, but far above. These large claws or vines the dragon had near the surface of the world, still responsive, are coming from above for me.

Pillars coming from the dark skies to crush me like gigantic claws from beyond.

I fly ahead, my light becoming white fire like wings in my back and all over my arms. I will burn you.

I fly around those pillars and cross the world falling apart between us. I evade everything its throwing at me while it's stepping back in fear. I'm closing in.

I dance around it all, and I throw my whip of light ahead.

I wound it again. Its darkness is not infinite in this body.

We yell, and fight. Everything turns to ashes around us, as we unleash our powers with abandon.

The world disappears in a mixture of light and shadows, everything falling near us being disintegrated even before brushing either of us.

I fly after the fleeing god through the endless tunnels of its old body, as it tries to escape.

Everything is shredded apart along its way. I evade it all. I'm dancing against death and winning. It feels strange.

But the exhilaration must not stop yet.

I grab its ankle. I crush it. I then grab its neck. I push the devil against a wall, and then the one behind as we went through the first one.

It seems beaten. A moment of truth where I lacked judgement. It had prepared for that contact.

Before my hands can finish their sentence, god's might goes unleashed. It shreds me apart in a single movement of its skin.

My body lost its skin and limbs, and falls there at its feet.

My light regenerates my legs and arms in a manner of seconds, but it won't allow me the time to stand up again.

My eye is seeing roses in this hell. They are afraid and paralysed by fear. I yell at them to help me, to stop that thing.

I try to stand up, but god is over me.

It plunges its hand inside my empty eye socket and crushes my brain.

~

I recover my senses and awareness in a stupor. As if suddenly waking up.

Did I feel that right?

I'm still there, and god is still right there over me. Only its hand is gooey with something...

My brain...

I didn't die?

God looks as stunned as I am.

I'm not human anymore...

Nothing is left for me but to kill you.

I see arms suddenly grab Dragod all over. It steps back in surprised shock and lets my lifeless body fall.

I see the roses trying to hold god down. They look desperate. Still, god is put to its knees, more from the surprise than their strength obviously.

I want them free. I told you I want them free...

I rise slowly, my body being a weird mess. My limbs and muscles aren't responding normally. They're with spasms or responding a little randomly.

I can still use my light, the last thing holding me roughly together before the end, and I do use it.

I jump at god to burn it down before it kills them.

Back to its senses, Dragod shreds them to pieces, two die there, the other three may be only wounded.

I embrace Dragod and release my worst light.

We burn. It shreds me, but it doesn't matter anymore what my flesh becomes.

We burn. We have an explosive growing exponentially between our bellies. I still hold her tight.

It explodes.

The cave we were in is vaporised. The rain of rocks that kept going all around suddenly stopped and went upward.

The cave was blown apart.

~

I can feel the sky... I can't see it through the first, but I know it's there. The skin or veil between our worlds has been ripped.

Rocks, dirt, flesh and roses are falling all over the land... Roses falling from the sky... It's the second time for me.

But I look aside, and fly off after god that's escaping.

Bolting through the air, I catch it again.

We crash further into the land, far away from where the dragon lied already.

We jump at each other, both bleeding to death and regenerating our flesh in seconds.

We throw fire and death at each other, growing weary, wasting all that we are and could be in this war.

It will soon be over for me.

And looking at it, it's exhausted too...

I destroyed its dream, its greatest creation, its future, its kingdom... I destroyed all of its dreams, for one selfish desire of mine.

Knowledge of their condition for the roses... Self-awareness.

I ripped it from god like freedom.

Dragod is looking at me with a mixed feeling of rage, hate, despair and very deep inaptitude to understand why the hell I was so vehement and violent about all this.

I'm not sure I can explain it to you any better than before god.

We face each other again.

We lift off and pierce the clouds, making thunder rumble behind us.

~

We're going toward the ocean at increasing speed.

It tries to fly away from me, while also trying everything it can to kill me behind.

I still manage to dance around everything it throws at me, and to crush it. I too have one last spell.

Rose...

I pierce god with my arm. We fall.

Rose...

Our powers are mixing with each other's will to destroy the other one. I throw it in that last bit of knowledge I inherited from Blume about nuclear physics.

Rose...

We hit the water somewhere over the Atlantic. A nuclear reaction begins inside the melted flesh and power of the wounded god and I.

The nuclear fire burns us and everything of us in a few instants.

In this world first, in the other one soon after. Even beings-like-her on the other side will be destroyed by this. Maybe science will explain why someday.

I'm vanishing. God as well.

The roses that would have survived this fall from heaven to Earth will be free at last...

Rose... Please, remember me...

I remember...

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