A deep feeling of despair filled his heart, Soul gave the Noblewoman a long resigned look, tightening the grap on his wound,the pain seemingly worsing after hearing the Noblewoman words
The footsteps of the young slave or of the creature chasing them slowly grew louder as did the Noblewoman insistent
"Tik...tik slave decide we both get eaten or one of us does"said the noblewoman with a silk voice that was as sweet as honey belaying the true nature of her request
Soul staring at his bloodstained hands for what seemed to be an eternity before looking back at the Noblewoman,her pale polished skin now covered with her blood,the wounds that scared her lower abdomen revealing her now seeming glass like interior,the blood that fell from the stumbs where her arm and legs that were once attached too
He was in a slightly better condition but the fatigue from the past days and the wounds inflicted on him by the priest's magic screamed out in agony similarly to the voices in his mind that threatened to tear him apart
His eyes softened,slowly he made his way towards the rock the noblewoman leaned on then kneeled infront of her,his eyes were locked onto hers',he could see the desperation in her eyes,the fear that echoed deep in her prideful soul or whatever she had in place of one
With a frowned and a sober expression Soul gently raised his bloodstained hand up,the droplets of blood echoing though the valley as the noblewoman greedily opened her mouth in order to consume them
Look at wild beast she lunged at him with surprising strength considering she was just a torso with a single arm then bit Souls neck her fangs like needles piecing thought his skin coursing a small wince.
she began sucking Souls life force out of him a strange numbness washed over Soul, from what he observed most of her victims died painful agonizing deaths but his seemed different.
Time seemed to had slowed to a crawled as he looks up at the valley sealing,a smell ray of Moonlight fell onto his face,his skin a lighter shade of brown,as a words echoed through his made,not the maddening voices of the dream or the distorted and somewhat useless instructions of Altair but the dying words of his grandfather
Inwardly he chuckled at the situation he was,of he had sided with the young slave and went ahead with killing their captors maybe everything would have been better or worse but he had to start neutral,granted communication wasn't his strength skill
Regrat echoed through his mind coursing tears to appear not the loud overly dramatic kind but the sober and silent sadness along with an chilling acceptance
The young slave reaching the top of the stairs and the temple entrance,his face twisted in a cold fury as he witness the scene infront before him,the Noblewoman wounds had all healed and her arms regenerated,in her eyes their was a cold unhinged and somewhat calculated glow
As she grinned wiping Soul's blood from her chin then without any hesitation or drop of mercy,she lunged at the young slave piecing his chest with her barehand as on the another side she held a pitch Black heart with dozens of mouths screaming
The young slave shocked by her sudden increase in speed and power attempted to transform but to little success as instead of a seamless and smooth transform,his body instead twisted and miss matched limbs and faces appeared making him seem more monstrous then human
A satisfied grin appeared on her face,she chuckled slowly and her chuckles soon changed into a unhinged laugh
"Why you..."the young slave growled,a disgusted and defeated sneer on his face as his entire face morphed and mutated unable to keep its from,black blood goshing from his form
The noblewoman laughter grew louder more sinister as she slowly crashed the black heart
"I wonder,is it this slave's blood or the look of defeat on your face that fills me with great pleasure..in either case you will have to play for what you did to me earlier"
She purred with a seductive edge before slowly ripping off any limb that appeared on the young slaves body with her free hand coursing deafening and unholy shirks to escape its many mouths
Soul laying on the ground his eyes a milky white slowly crawled into the temple as the voices in his mind slowly vanished leaving only a chilling and inhuman laugh
'whayba pathetic fool you are... risking your own life in a gamble that won't benefit you'the voice said a strange mix of souls own voice,the growl of a beast and something darker
'WORTHLESS!!!...BRAT!!!....
WEAKLING!!!!!....PREY!!!!' It shouted it's laughter only increasing the more Soul crawled
The last of his strength fading he arched himself upright with the first thing he could grab and stared at the middle of the template were mountains of skulls made a dark throne
And on top of the throne sat a figure with white robes on his body and his legs crossed,his face was all but covered in shadow and four parts of eyes or more accurately glowing red orbs stared down at Soul
The figure wasn't alone for above it was could only be described as a living skeleton with the worn grey skinned face of a infant and a single massive clawed hand with the spine of a serpent and on its claw was the rotten corpses of the elder slave,the priest and the scholar
It slowly moved closer to Soul making him realised just how big the infant's skull was and how comical it would have been if it wasn't horrifying
A deep feeling of dread filled his being coursing shivers to reach his very soul
The expression of terror evident on his face as he held his breath
A single word escaped the figure's mouth and seemed to had silenced the pained screams of the young slave and the unhinged sinister laughter of the noblewoman
"PATHETIC"the figure seemed to whisper but his voice came from all directions and sounded exactly like the voice within Soul's mind but his eyes widened in sight of the Figure's face that look almost exactly like his
The figure had the same Brown skin,messy black hair with white strands but more disturbingly was it's eyes mainly the two on the lower corners of the original
The entire thing was enough to make soul laugh out his eyes tearing up but no tears came out instead only his laugh that made him sound more insane then the noblewoman outside the temple
The figure only watched as souls mind finally gave into the madness that plagued him,then simply disappeared leaving only the skeleton infant that stared into Souls eyes, piercing what remains of his mental state and with a sinister red glow
Before he could even blink that creature had disappeared and Soul fell onto the dark marble floor of the temple as he looked at the throne of skulls that once sat his dark reflection and the only thing that was their was a artifact covered with talismans that seemed to be a older more primitive version to the one's used on the finger he ate
Footsteps echoed through the temple, casting a sinister shadow, it was the noblewoman seemingly out of breath and bloodied from her encounter with the young slave
She slowly stalked towards Soul like a predator going in for the kill kneeled in front of him and gently cupped his cheeks with her hands examing the bitemark with a tested mix of twisted satisfaction and affection then followed soul's glaze
A mixture of awe and fear filled her as she glazed at the small wooden box before her,the box seemingly closer then it was a moment about tempted her to open it
She looked down at Soul then back at the box then back at Soul then realisation cane to her and she opened the box revealing a picky finger
Instead of being disgusted or frightened she marely grabbed the finger then looked at Soul opening his mouth forcing the finger down his throat with a sinister smile on her face as she leaned close to his ear
"See you soon darling"she whispered her words echoing in his mind eith a dark promise before everything turned white
"How long has he been under" Altair, smooth husky voice echoed with its usual edge of confidence and childish energy
Striding Into a massive white marble room were a woman sat on a old wooden chair.
The women in her early twenties had pale polished skin,long raven black hair that flowed down her shoulders,eyes as red as rubies and wore a black sports bra and jeans along with a black leather jacket
She stared at the unconscious with unblinking eyes, her focus and concentration boarding on inhuman,she barely noticed Altair entrance.