A Billion Years of Lilith
Is it ironic or appropriate the Survivor of the Month on this very scary Valentine’s Day moon would be Lilith? That’s the question.
I don’t know the answer. Mainly because I failed the irony test in junior high when my firetruck caught fire on the way to school causing me, sadly, to miss it. But more importantly, Valentine’s Day would be complicated time for Lilith. Why? Well read about it in here in Lilith’s own words and judge for yourself. You would almost expect her to spent the day hunting down Cupids – and her ex-husband. Not exactly what you expect for this day.
However, it had to be Lilith this moon. True, she’s not always the friendliest survivor you’ll meet here on SOS. But she is often very helpful and always very intense.
Here are few facts about Lilith’s life over the last billion years that you should know when you meet her:
1. Do not refer to her as a demon. Nor even Queen of Demons like The Reaper once did. Witch, goddess of demi-goddess – likewise out of the question. Although Lilith is immortal, she prefers the moniker “Pre-Fall Human.” Don’t know what that means? Read about it in her own words here. I guess being the first human would be pretty cool.
2. Even before arriving on the site, way back last March, Lilith sent a mysterious gift to another survivor. Lycan the Protector received an enchanted mirror one night after the hunt, signed by her. What did the mirror do? Read about it here.
The gift stirred up a lot of debate. Was it good? Or evil? Was Lilith good or evil? There were a lot of rumours. Survivors did not agree but they discussed the matter at great length. And this was all before the Lilith ever graced SOS with a single word.
3. All that debate finally compelled Lilith herself to stop by and speak for herself, explaining,”my past is rife with blood and debauchery, but billions of years have given me time both to think and to love mankind.” See, she’s trying to make good on a few past mistakes. I wouldn’t advise you to read her full account to The Reaper here. It might freak you out and really, she’s not that scary. At least not all the time.
And you can clearly see that Reaper still questions her sincerity here but I say, give her the benefit of the doubt. She might surprise you with a hot Baconator.
4. Billions of years to think has also made Lilith a billionaire. And apparently she likes a good party so hang around and see. She might invite you to an epic one. But before you accept, you might want to ask her for a few immortality tips by replying to her comment here**
**Please be advised SOS can neither endorse or guarantee the claims of any immortals on the site. Party with one at your own risk.
5. Lilith’s favourite color is green. Something to keep in mind if you’re giving her a gift.
6. Lilith is very in tune with her dark side, let’s say. As a result, she’s not afraid to take on a dark quest. Like a quest against the Dark itself, for instance when she helped Fenrir fight off the Dark Year. A struggle you can read about, in part, here.
(I for one am very grateful, although it means I won’t need to use my awesome new Power Pot to run my computers.)
7. Has been nursing a broken heart for a very long time. Like, years. Billions of them. That’s why I thought they were spending the V-Day Moon hunting cupids or something, because they weren’t technically around and so were not eligible. But then I could see they were actually here but not speaking.( And maybe hunting cupids too. Hard to say.)
8. However not everyone claims to be a huge fan. Ice stepped out just to challenge her to a death duel. And he hasn’t challenged anyone in ages. You can see part of their ongoing battle here.
Likewise The Reaper remains a non-fan frenemy. But you probably have to take that with a grain of salt, it’s all about the body count.)
9. Lilith does not like faeries. Not at all. Titania in particular which you can read some of their battle here. I wonder if the faerie queen will ever get over it? Just something to be aware of if you are yourself a faerie or if you happen to know one personally.
10. But Lilith isn’t all darkness and intensity. She’s also recently become involved in an effort to help conquer the world through music with a number of other survivors on the site, including A.P. and The Reaper, to which effort she will lend her mathematically pure voice and a some glowsticks. And a round of Baconators for all.
וּפָגְשׁוּ צִיִּים אֶת-אִיִּים, וְשָׂעִיר עַל-רֵעֵהוּ יִקְרָא; אַךְ-שָׁם הִרְגִּיעָה לִּילִית, וּמָצְאָה לָהּ מָנוֹ
So congratulations to LILITH on being selected Survivor of the Month for this, the V-Day Moon 2014. If anyone knows how to carry a curse, it has to be Lilith. Having carried one for a billion years already possibly she can handle just one more for 28 days. Thanks to you Lilith for stirring up some Survival here at SOS over the dark months.
Long may you keep on keeping on.
Seth
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Who said anything about Frenemy? I may not trust her, but I trust her more then the last three SoTM. At the very least, Lilith seems half competent. So, not someone I’d typically work with, but at least she is making up for her past. Unlike certain others… *Cough* The Last Three. *Cough*
Hey I’m not on nice terms with only two or three people but I have made amends with some of those people who used to hate me in fact just ask the Cheshire Cat most of my debts are paid off or dismissed thanks to very nice and amazing people or giving the right guy immortality at the right time. Fenrir has completely been reformed and has even teamed up with a creature 12000 years ago he considered lunch and Velanko well he has gotten to the point that he will do whatever he can to help with military precision so In Fact every survivor on the SoTM list has no debts he or she must repay so you have no power to say that anyone should or should not be where they are today and odds are if someone on this site has past there date of demise they are infact more than worthy to be here so in conclusion your wrong
Hatters right all his debts are repaid
No not all right, reaper cheated for him
RB
Even a dragon hatchling cheats getting out of the egg the mother dragon has to bite down on the shell to make it easier why shouldn’t someone be able to help hatter pay off his debts
Because my dear, murderers don’t deserve the help of a reaper, Azrael here had to pay 400 years of service for hatters freedom
RB
Then azrael became an archangel again do to his valiant service and willingness to sacrifice himself for someone he doesn’t like
Trolled
How so? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
I never said you don’t belong there, I said I don’t trust you. Let’s face facts here, your nuts! And it’s not like Velanko is much better in terms of mental status. Fenrir is the one I trust the least… Apocalyptic deities are… Not to be trusted in my book. But long story short, just because you have quote ‘redeemed yourself’ doesn’t exactly mean that you still haven’t had a past, (And a future according to you.) of horrible things. I know I’m SUPPOSED to sweep that under rug and all that, but I really don’t want to. So, yeah.
Gosh a guy does something to help you out one time and next thing you know your apologizing for everything oh wait azrael the unfallen I don’t have to after you helped me with the court thing and decided to banish yourself to “a place” my dad made you an archangel again as a reward for your help with me and Seth and by the way the only reason I’m called the “mad hatter” is due to the fact that the Cheshire Cat said “everyone here is mad” and so after that when you were introduced to the hatter in Alice’s adventures in wonderland you thought of him as a mad hatmaker or mad hatter and due to the apparent fact that he was seeming to be the hatter of all of wonderland as such you people refer to him/me as the MAD hatter oh and I was joking about you having to do it again it’s just I was being safe with my wording trying not to say it would never have to happen
Awh, poor baby, still clinging to daddy’s coat-tails, still looks up to him like he’s God~
Jesus Christ is my half brother my dad actually is God
Are you kidding me? It was Sarcasm. You would think the son of God could pick that up.
Jesus Hatter… 😆
Get it?
I am not entirely an appocolyptic deity, I am also lord of forests remeber, I am destructive and Creative.
Ah, well, that didn’t take long 😐
Thank you Seth, its an honor.
And what is this Azrael? I restore you to flesh and blood and we’re not even friends? 😥
Also what is this SOTM curse business?
We’re friends… Like the Hatter and I are friends…
Umm all angels work for my dad or one of my two half brothers: the devil, And Jesus,so really “we are friends like hatters brothers” would be more appropriate
Pfffft, bahaha… BAHAHAAHAHAHAH! 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆
This is the funniest thing since bread! *pulls out a whole loaf of bread and stares at it for a moment* HAHAHAAHAHAHA 😆 Never gets old
Just ask my dad yourself his place is behind the green door with the “C” on it *does hat spin and throws you into hat
WHEEEEEEEEEE~
C? God is the wizard of Oz? I KNEW IT!
He asked that I didn’t spoil it for the readers plus do you know what would happen if this got out it would be less than the garden of Eden
We all know what happened last time 👿
I wonder if Eris I has gone insane?
Eh, she’s chaos, I guess it’s kind of a given 😐
Picks up hat afterward*
*Eris sits in front of two green doors, one is forest green and the other lime green, both have a “C” on them but one is reversed. Eris looks from door to door deciding which to take. She pulls out her loaf of bread*
What do you think we should do?
*Eyes shift side to side before slowly licking the surface of the loaf and waiting a few moments after. She gasps*
AH! TRAITOR!
*She throws the loaf on the ground, transmutates her arm into an axe and strikes the loaf repeatedly. She grabs two slivers of the now sliced bread and her expression turns from anger to glee, throwing slices up repeatedly into the air and dancing around in them*
Baahahahah! 😆
*Azrael lands behind Eris.* Know what’s even cooler than sliced bread? SLICED CHEEEESE!
O-M-G
You are a genius!
*lands in the middle of the circular hall of doors*How did you get into my hat sorry I’m currently hiding from Mary she is mad at something that she claimed I shouldn’t ask about oh and go through the forest green door Eris sorry I should have given better instructions
Wait… Cheese… Cheese, cheese CHEEEEEESE! AGH!
*Eris doubles over in pain grasping her head*
*throws Eris through the forest green door for healing from the great architect*
Nooooooooooo-
I regret not destroying Wisconson
-ooooooooooo
*Eris opens her eyes and they blaze as mini-suns*
Wisconsin… I’m coming…
Ok that’s a bit better
*Azrael fly’s beside her holding ham, and cheese.* Sliced ham? Cheese? Or perhaps you’d like a Ham and Cheese sammich? *Holds up a sandwich with all 3 ingredients and an olive on top.*
Ahh, a snack before the total annihilation of the Underworld’s bureaucracy
Cheshire your needed here!!!
Come here miss Eris let me see what’s wrong
I’m fine, except that Dodo over there keeps staring at me.
*Eris glares to her left at the air*
He’s invisible.
I don’t hear any invisible dodo bird but I do hear a parrot
*Hits head on a pillar as I’m flying by Eris* LoOk… WiNgS! I mUsT be a BuFfAlO!
*Eris tears a hole between dimensions*
Underworld hear I come! Dance Dance Dance like the dea d and brace yourself to be the canvas of Lady Luck’s art
What the what just happened I feel like it was an acid trip but I wasn’t drugged so it’s not that
I was. Colorado is aweeeesooooome!
Yes, Eris’ chaotic aura can do that to people if exposed for prolonged periods of time… Or you just gave into the chaos and forgot how to stop
Or I could be using my flesh to it’s full extent.
HA! Bread. c:
I’m so confused
Me to
Mmhmm. I get it. 👿
Oh don’t be like that, if I need the Hatter for something I ask him, and if the Hatter needs something from me, I tell him not to do it because his top response to murder charges is ‘I was bored’.
How about this I’m gods son follow my eldest brother and Lilith’s ideals
Since when are gods ideals ever right?
RB
My eldest brother is the devil, oh and God’s ideals have been right since his journal (the holy bible)fell into the hands of man and it was known that he had created heaven and earth and language was created in other words yes God’s ideals have been right since even his creation so stuff it
The devil, cast down for simple pride.
I’m just saying, you better not try to make the world a better place, or else god may just punish you for doing so…
Just a fair survival tip from me…
Noah of Ark
Any who, my stance on god is the same for the devil, they are both ignorant of how rotten the world is…
Noah of Ark
Umm the devil rules over the underworld so all your orders technically go through him
Not quite, us reapers live on a condensed layer of ash that builds up over the inferno… We simply send they souls to either heaven or hell. My orders come from the ritual of the reaping
RB
Oh ok
I can sense sarcasm you know…
RB
No really?
Yep
RB
FAIL you didn’t notice that last bit
They define Right. You arrogant foolish child.
The only reason right and wrong exist is because it was God’s idea first. Even if you claim to not believe you acknowledge his exist, simply by being.
So I’m the child, at least I don’t look up to daddy for advice…
RB
God is a very wise creature his advice and teachings as infinite as his many projects you could actually learn a few things from him if you asked nicely
God messed up, and I took it upon myself to give him a clean slate to work on, yet he punishes me by damning me to the life of a lowly reaper, but now, now I’m a Shinigami, and some serious changes are to happen soon, Verry soon…
😈 😈 😈
RB
RB is an ambitious hippie at best, an annoying chipmunk at worst. Everyone just ignore his rants, please. If he ever gets more power than he has now well we can have him replaced.
And fenir is a stuck up suck up old timer who needs to face the facts and realize, the god and the devil have had their term, and it’s time to put a new man in office
RB
Noah of ark case file
Mental state: schizophrenic
Current therapy: none
Possible changes: demotion to human state and memory wipe
Yours in acceptance Dr. D. Hatter
I’m still older than her.
Ash Nazg durbatuluk,
ash nazg gimbatul,
ash nazg thrakutuluk,
agh-burzum ishi krimpatul.
That’s nice
I know isn’t it?
Lilith…
Its time to wake up now…
“She dosent know this place, no, she does, i can see it in her eyes… Welcome to Gehenna…”
Shut up, Astaroth! 👿
I didn’t refrain from consuming you so you could speak to her again…
Any-who, are you easy to perfect the great work, mother?
Not like you have a choice…
RB
“Unf… What?” The mental projection of Lilith was bound in the green house to chains of golden light. “What is this?” She attempted to return her awareness to her physical self, but could only see out her eyes, she no longer had control of herself. “You…” she searched around frantically for Noah. He had taken her power, he had taken her identity, he had taken every independent part of her. He had locked her inside her own head. He had won. “I… What have you DONE!? I was ASLEEP? The consequences of your actions, Noah, are so far reaching, the Great Work will be torn asunder by your selfishness, child of mine…”
I am a sadist, sociopathic, deceptive snake. But even I would never seek to destroy the great work. No, perfection is my only goal. Astaroth here serves only to keep you “in check” for the time being. You know how you get sometimes…
Don’t think of it being held captive, think of it like a wake up call. And mother, you’ve most certainly woken up.
Let’s begin shall we 🙂
*noah forces Lilith to bite her hand, hard, spilling her life force onto the great work. Slowly shifting it into something new, stoning sinister*
RB
Hail Agent R.B.,
Lilith isn’t the only one who doesn’t know this place. What is Gehenna? And what’s going on here?
Thanks for keeping on,
Seth
Gehenna is the vally between purgatory and H E double hockey sticks
Think of the afterlifes like mountains and between them exist places that share traits of both.
Not as boring as the first, not as wicked as the second.
A perfect hiding place in my book.
RB
Hail R.B.
Thanks for catching me up to here. Let’s see how this ends…
Seth
What going on is Lilith and were “perfecting” the great work of alchemy, but she couldn’t see my side of things so I had to bind her, but, it all went horribly wrong when her servant came and ruined my chance at ever becoming human again. Lilith and I share some mother-son problems…
RB
True dat
NONONONONONONONONO
ITS NOT READY
ITS NOT FINISHED
THE ARTIFACTS ARENT IN THE PLACES
THE TRIGRAMS ARENT SHAPED RIGHT
THE DISTRIBUTION MATRIX IS ALL WRONG
STOP STOP STOP PLEASE
LEAVE! RUN! YOU FOOL, WITH MY SLUMBER SHE HAS ESCAPED! YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT HE IS CAPABLE OF!
YOU DONT EVEN HAVE THE TWO KEY INGREDIENTS
* RB becomes a boa constrictor and could around Lilith’s rib cage slowly crushing the ribs and constricting the lungs*
Calm yourself…
Be still…
Everything will turn out… Perfect…
I know it will….
*RB can feel a heavy presence* 😯
Astaroth…
Your fired…
RB
*coiled
RB was pulled out of Lilith. No, he was literally /pulled/ out of her. A female hand lodged itself into Lilith’s chest and pulled out RB’s phantom presence, throwing him to the side.
Her psyche unbound, Lilith rose to face her savior. “Sa’lome,” she regarded with cold eyes. The woman’s hair was a chocolate brown and fell just above her waist. Her eyes were catlike, a deep blue. She wore Elizabethan regalia, not an inch of her face uncovered by makeup. She curtsied.
“My lady.” Lilith narrowed her eyes at Noah, then at the warped matrix of the Great Work. She uttered a few words and the matrix dissolved, as did her blood. “This of course does not come free, your Infernal Highness.”
Lilith sighed, feeling quite disheveled. She focused in her forehead and opened a metaphysical doorway, through which she expelled Astaroth. Sa’lome caught his energy. “Yes,” she slurred. “This morsel shall do nicely.” She gazed at RB, hungry. “And what shall I do with this one?”
“Why,” Lilith said. She grinned. “Just enjoy yourself.” Sa’lome smiled.
“As you wish.”
“Now you will excuse me; there are more pressing matters than the pettiness of my son. I have a war to win.” And she departed for the battle with the Void.
Your playing with the big boys now, every spell and incantation, tells you who’s the best. You’re playing with the big boys now.
*RB lets out a light chuckle*
You know why humanity is in shambles, because I’m not part of it, the great work’s purpose called to me in a vision. With your blood, and “the God work” as it had become, I could at long last regain the humanity lost to me all those years ago. You, you took it from me once, and now that I had a chance of redemption, you smashed it to pieces. If you think the flood was vengeance, you have another thing coming, mother…
*RB coils around the mysterious women*
You got my pet eaten; now I eat yours…
*RB eats the “insides” and stretches the skin on like a suit.*
A false skin, nothing new to me…
RB
*I hold the Void key in my hand* there will be no war against the Void. It has been sealed off forever. Anyone that try’s to open it will have to go through me.
Hail Ice,
Thanks for hanging onto that key. Until we know more about this situation, we’re counting on you to keep it safe.
Er, how are you keeping it safe?
Seth
You know Noah I should probably tell you the one word I know that is much like the universe, a final piece of knowledge if you are going to be destroyed, maybe even take your scythe since you won’t need it anymore. All you have to ask me is what the most powerful word in the universe is and I will tell you because the only reason guardians and assassins hate each other the only reason angels are considered good and demons evil and the only reason order from chaos can happen is this one word. And I will tell you this word simply because I can but you must know that after you know the word after you hear it said to you by me you must not exist for no living or dead creature as my curse as a guardian is may know this knowledge other than a guardian. Now ask me your one question.
Oh my whatever should I do?
*he says with sarcasm*
I’m the king of cryptic deals, with enough time if find a loophole anyway. And trust me, the universe is full of loopholes.
No, I think I’ll have some fun before u ask you that question 🙂
Vengeance is my only addiction.
Remember when I told you the snakes of Eden were returning?
There is one I have made quite close friends of…
He very prominent in the end times of Egypt…
The Sun Eater…
RB
Noah go on skype we really should talk about things and plus I want to talk to you 1 to 1 about stuff
So for Skype is it ok if we don’t own a webcam? Our computer has one built in it stopped working like last yearish~
I’ve personally never used skype so~
Yes no cam is ok I usually only do text chats anyway
What is your skype name Lilith because if you want to talk to me via Skype I am going to need to know your skype name so I can send a contact request
Hecate just made one, it’s called Magix_Queen
See you there!
Just sent you a request please accept it
Hatter…
What’s the word?
RB
The word is “sometimes”
Sometimes?
*ceses to exist*
RB
And that is how you get rid of someone that pisses you off
As Lilith was unbound, Reapers Scythe, his very soul, returned to his physical form. He gasped to life, his eyes looked tortured, Melinoe had not been kind to him in his state, the first thing he did we release her soul to her body, and then Reaper disappeared. He appeared in his home in Seattle, clearly not amused by how the Squatch had left it… “Really Squatch? Did you have a party, or did you just decide to forget you had a roommate?” He asks then quickly begins cleaning. Squatch was passed out on the couch, and Reaper’s presence was unknown to him. “I should have stayed in unexistance…” Was all he said as he cleaned.
*I walk out of the shadow of Reapers room* hello reaper.
*I raise my brows at RB*
Well… someone seems excited to cause a bit of De@th…
Lilith, if you are reading this, I was wondering if you and Hecate have a Skype account. Hatter, and I are chatting and wanted to know if you wanted to come as well.
Did you accept my request yet? ❓
Meow
Meow
Meow
Didn’t get it.
Hullo, I shall proceed to make one soon, I think Hecate has one actually~
Here
*passes Lilith a brochure that says, “supernatural family counciling”*
I signed us up, I’m enough of you to bind you to the contract as well, your not getting out of this…
RB
Lilith sat on the gray sand of the battlefield, sipping a cup of coffee, looking loftily around the abandoned field. Not a trace of the voids forces remained and a lingering scent of Ozone remained from Mr. Mutt’s sacrifice. She felt a chill on her spine and her stomach growled.
“WE HUNGER.” A large hunched figure stood a ways behind her, it’s face was concealed. It’s gloved hands had too many digits to possibly be human. It’s eyes were of green fire. The light from the sky began to turn gray. “EAT.” It’s voice was high pitched, inhumanly so.
“No.” Lilith pulled her knees to her chest. “I am who I am. Not you.”
“IF YOU SHALL NOT SATIATE MY HUNGER, THEN YOU SHALL BE CONSUMED.” It drew near.
“But why?” she asked. “You eat stars. I’m so small.”
“YOU,” it’s whisper was now a shriek in her ear, it must have been right behind her. “ARE ALL MADE OF STARS.” It reached for her.
Lilith woke in Reaper’s home, on his couch, a bowl of half eaten popcorn on her stomach, the television playing reruns of “I Love Lucy”. She sighed dejectedly and started flipping through the channels.
What does it mean to be human?
How does it feel mother?
I’ve forgotten…
R?[Blank]
RB…? Are you okay…?
Remember why we choose a code name in reaper corps? what it means? its our dream, RB, it stands for real body. This body means nothing to me now, so i will leave that part blank, and the R? shows that i wonder if i will ever be real again.
R?[Blank]
“Lamia– No,” Lilith shuts her eyes and kneels at RB’s feet. “I have taken away something you are rightfully entitled to, I am so sorry,” she whispered. She opened her eyes and tears streamed out. “This feeling… Guilt..?” She rose. “When Lamia acted, I saw her do it. But deep down, while I tried to subsume her will, but deep down…” she shivered. “The point is that you’ve been given a second chance! Do you know how many people did not get this? We don’t always get what we want. Take this new power given to you! You could rule the Hybrid race, bring it to relevance in the world! Turn it into an organized society, usher in a Hybrid renaissance! Make do with what you have, my child, as I have.”
WHAT I HAVE! I HAVE NOTHING! If i can’t be human, all I want is to pass on, but you have even took that away from me now…
R?[Blank]
…Then why did you even want a body in the first place?
That homunculus was my only chance at humanity again, but you… You ruined….
*RB shifts into a silver fox like creature with black wings that stretch to both sides of the room, his eyes are no longer his own, the full moon has risen*
R?[Blank]
Lilith grins. “Do you still not yet see? The Hyperion Hybrid is better than even the Imperials for a number of reasons. The foremost being that a number of human chromosomes were incorporated.” She whistles. “You should be able to change between forms, if I’m correct. Think of it, you have all the power of the Hybrids, all the potential of humanity!”
I am that I am.
Matrix frowns at Lilith from the corner of the room. “All the insanity that goes with it…” Reaper said. “You realize, that having that much human, and enough beast to drive anyone insane… You have ended up ruining his soul! Lilith, I’m sorry to say this… But this is wrong…”
“But I just wanted him to l have…”
Lilith looks down dejectedly as tears roll down her face. “My children were monsters. They.. I don’t knowable we thought if Noah was too.” Lilith falls to her knees and looks at her hands.”I,” she said. “Am a monster. I’m imperfect. I’m sorry I couldn’t be a good mother.” Blue lumensent cracks break out from her eyes and all over her body. “It’s time for a change. I’ll be going on ahead soon.” She sobbed. “Maybe if I was just a little closer to perfect. Maybe if I was,” whispers played about the room from disembodied voices, all whispered one word. “Flawless.”
Lilith doubles over and clutched her stomach. “Oh dear lord. She is coming, the Storm is coming..!”
you lilith shall share my fate
*RB’s sealing sigil glows a bright yellow, the same sigil is then placed on lilith*
You shall be a product of your own experimentation…
R?[Blank]
*I watch from a distance hugging my sides hard as my mind reverberates. Suddenly I sink into my own mind finding myself in a cave facing Morgenstern. He says, “can you not see what that witch is trying to do? She and her abomination will bring ruin upon us all!” I look at him sadly “we all have a right to live Morgenstern… When did you forget this?” I watch as His gaze hardens, “you know exactly when Icarus. The same time you changed to Ice, when you destroyed our world.” I flinch “that was a mistake… One that I have had to live with for too long” I gaze off beyond the mouth of the cave and see a light coming much stronger then daylight, “we create our own Dēmòns… I’m sorry I created you.” The light rushes in obliterating everything driving me into a deeper state of unconsciousness*
Icarus? Did he say Icarus? Because that means that either mr. Mutt is Daedalus or I am really bad at keeping track of names, oh and since when did being better than a Hybrid become a crime? *does a kind of slides how of his forms* because I might be guilty oh and Noah major downgrade on your part guardians/assassins are WAY better than pure humans lol
“If you have nothing,” she narrowed her eyes. “Then. Take, my child.”
The sky opens up and a bolt of lightning collides with Noah. His Hybrid skin sheds like that of a snake to reveal a man underneath. A woman stands next to the deteriorating Lilith.
“MY, son.” Her hair is of mist, her body, unclothed, but composed solely of dense clouds with ripples of water here and there. Lightning arcs around her body, minute and controlled. “This,” a disembodied voice booms. “Is far more than you deserve. Your punishment,” electricity sparks from her eyes. “Is far from over. You are as human as you can be. That monster that she made you lies sleeping,” she regarded the barely conscious Lilith, electrifying her with small zaps. “And this is a kindness from the Storm, but it is the last you shall receive. But know this; you will never be as the Children of Eden, and never have been. Even in the beginning, you were possessed of relentless selfishness.” She looked to the crumpled form of Lilith at her side. “By OUR selfishness. You are our child, and for that we are all sorry. This hollow existence was never what we wanted for you. The hole in your heart, however, is your doing. This punishment you have brought upon yourself. Their souls still scream for retribution.” The sky flooded with tears. The Storm was gone. Lilith’s form cracked azure fissures like porcelain; weakened.
As the storm leaves, Matrix runs to Lilith. “I may not approve of her methods of parenting… But I cannot allow her to die.” He clicks the lock button on his Prius, and it disappears. Matrix spreads his wings. Forgetting that Hybrid RB has wings. He quickly lands at the apparent safe house. Also known as, his house
Lilith hears RB’s words as Reaper flees with her in tow. Barely conscious, she speaks. “I have always loved you,” she whispers. “Until now.” Her eyelids cave in and she falls unconscious, an azure crack goes down her face as if the trail of a tear.
Whoa… That’s cold…
I never loved you…
*his mouth curls into a painful smile*
until now…
*RB collapses*
RB
*I walk up to RB’s unconscious body* slumbering, not gone… I should destroy you, little abomination, before you regain power, while you’re weak and vulnerable… *i glare down and then walk away* but there is no honor in kįlling an unarmed opponent.
*quicker than the untrained eye can see, RB plunges a scythe through Morgenstern’s body*
Unarmed, hardly, but that won’t be enough to do away with you will it?
you forget, I’m human now, that means I have a reason to fight.
🙂
RB
*I howl as my eyes turn green and I stare down at my chest* acid…. *I begin thrashing about wildly my claws slashing everywhere as I shift between my human and wolf forms screaming in utter torment* nononono *images of a dark box filled with spikes fly through my mind as I suddenly turn to shadows and then reappear the scythe gone but a hole remaining. I collapse coughing blood as I begin to crawl away*
Lilith sat in the bathroom of the Reaper’s apartment. She was resting on the sink, facing the mirror, inspecting the glowing, iridescent cracks running up and down her body. She knew what they meant, she knew that her time was running out. Soon she would no longer be the Friend of Man, she was too chewed up and broken now to express her love for Man before her own all-consuming selfish will. She thought about recent events, about Reaper, about the Mutt, his children, about her son. She looked herself in the mirror and tried. She tried again. And again. She knew why. She was imperfect. She leaned her head against the cool glass of the mirror. “Perfection…” she mused. She could feel her ancient energies begin to collapse in on themselves. Time was running short. She could feel that divine fury welling up inside her as her next identity started to wretch itself forward, grappling with the concepts that defined her and the chorus of identities that screamed inside her to form the new persona. The cracks and fissures advanced. She turned on the hot water, felt the steam rise up. It’ll soon be time for the Friend of Man’s final curtain call.
“LADY COULD YA HURRY IT UP!? I’M CARRYING A HIGHLY SENSITIVE PACKAGE HERE AND I GOT A DEADLINE TO MEET!” She sighed the door, constantly banged on by the Sasquatch.
*RB knocks at the front door*
Hello can I come in, I heard Lilith was here, and well, I brought her a gift…
RB
*I watch RB silently from the shadows to far away for him to see or feel. “We should destroy him now” I hear Morgenstern urging me within my head. But I would be patient… I would wait*
I smell Ice from inside the house. “Get inside RB…. NOW!” I yell grabbing him, and my package and pulling them inside. Inside the package, Reaper popped out. “Ice is watching us.” I say looking at the 3.
Lilith looked blankly at Noah, only for a moment and with no sense of compassion or anything near the spectrum of affection.
“Let Ice try and destroy him,” the azure cracks glowered for a moment. “I don’t want to see him right now. Besides, Ice hasn’t a ghost of a chance against the Hyperion.”
Lilith, *RB waves his hand revealing the same fissures Lilith has on himself*
Explain…
Now…
RB
*I smile silently to myself already inside the house* fools.
Lilith, for you…
*pulls out a sack containing about 6000 Mother’s Day cards*
I was hoping we could talk…
*pulls off glove and his hand has the same fissures that Lilith has*
You know what this means Lilith… Explain
RB
Lilith sighs. “My current ego is now too far removed from what recent experiances have shaped me as. The chorus inside my head cries out, it is time for my current self, the “Friend of Man” to join their ranks. A new me shall spring forth from the shattered remains.” She inspects the cracks on Noah. “Yours are not so, “debilitating”. You are, in a way, an extension of myself, a piece of me. You won’t “change faces” or anything of the like, but you can feel it can’t you? When my current self is absorbed into my collective conscious, you shall return to your full power. Until then, however, you are weakened. To what extent I do not know.” Lilith frowns as she feels Morgenstern’s energies interact with that of the house’s threshold. “Okay,” she says as she sets a Mother’s Day card on fire. “You can leave now. And take the Mutt’s progeny with you.” Lilith cocoons herself in blankets and curls up on the couch, watching sitcoms.
Please let me buy you time… You know how well my binding sigils are, just look at what happened with my hybrid body. Let me bind this form to the surface…
*RB opens and extends his hand preparing a binding sigil*
RB
As RB’s hand connects with Lilith, the room changes. RB is suddenly standing on some Hellish plane where legions of women, all bearing some resemblence to Lilith. Towering figues, one with black skin and many faces and arms screaming for veangeance and annihilation, another a seven headed dragon monstrocity who could only be described as a ceaseless release of rage, dotted around him and clouded the sky. The sheer sound of so many crying out for release was so overwhelming that he could feel blood vessels bursting inside his body, the red liquid ran down his eyes and out his ears. They all cried for revolution, for change. RB was pushed back, thrown really, back into the wall of Reaper’s house by the psychic titan that was the collective conscious of Lilith. Everything was normal once again. “I don’t want to stay, RB. Now go.”
*I watch amused by the show of force*
*sits on Reaper’s couch eating cheetos as azure cracks advance*
Hey Morgy, what ever happened to that whole “destroy noah” thing?
*you hear my disembodied chuckle* it’s still on my to-do list. However I would much rather wait until my power is greatest. The first full-moon of August signifies the climax of my power. On that day I could make godslayers afraid.
*glances at arm, iridescent cracks and fractures everpresent* Good thing I won’t be here to deal with that.
Pro-Tip: the Hyperion is allergic to chlorine
*The fissures grow on RB’s body perfectly mirroring Lilith’s, an entire piece of RB’s skin falls to the floor and shatter’s like ceramic, the same with Lilith*
I’ve already calculated it and set the timer mother, have you?
*RB and Lilith both gasp as their movements and words now become mirrored in perfect synch, “soon” they both say*
RB
Be on guard, Noah. Do not be near when the shift happens, I do not know what would happen, but I doubt it would be good.
*RB mimics Lilith perfectly*
RB
An idea twitches at the back Lilith and Noah’s mind. Perfection. A concept that Lilith had been obsessing over as of late.
Voices whisper in Noah’s ear. “You belong to us… Come and join the choir…”
*i appear suddenly intrigued* hmm so if one of you were to fall… *i lash out suddenly plunging my hand through RB’s back and into his heart*
Lilith shrugs. “Take a moment to think. He is me, but I am not him.” Lilith watches as shards of RB fall and shatter where Morgenstern plunged his hand in. “There will be repercusions for trying to directly assault our collective choir Morgenstern.” Lilith raises her hand, it turns black as does she. To Morgenstern reality shatters and there are screams and cries of vengeance every where. Hulking monsters, decrepit women, beautiful ladies, abominations against nature. When Morgenstern gains consciousness he is on his knees and Lilith is walking away from him. “The tip of the iceberg, as it were. You shall suffer before my departure.”
*i chuckle, and them begin to laugh reaching a hysterical pitch* do you think you frighten me lady of Edom? I’ve seen the world set ablaze! The entire universe twisted to a cruel overlords will! I have seen reality itself shatter and be replaced millions upon millions of times *I rise gracefully* so go ahead, use all the powers you have! * my eyes suddenly fix on a spot across the room. And as for you oh Eris, you will suffer the same fate as Thantos. I will imprison both of you, as my father imprisoned only one. *I laugh once and disappear*
Btw I don’t love you. Nobody loves you. Except that undead Ferret in the Underworld, but that’s debatable.
*RB mimics Lilith perfectly*
RB
Lilith you are a werewolf why didnt you tell me can you bite me
😆 wut, I can curse you and make into a werewolf, the “abomination of nature” kind, but I’d rather not condemn you to that. And it’ll be a bit tougher considering my recent weakening
Why “cursed”? “Blessed” or “gifted” sounds so much better
Oh no, it wouldn’t be a blessing or a gift from me, if the power was bestowed upon you by another werewolf or by a powerful spirit with the right to do so, everything would be fine and dandy. I don’t exactly have the proper skill to create such a union between flesh and spirit, the results would mean you would probably have a lot less control and probably some mental and physical disfigurements, as I am twisting your very being around and you may not be able to separate the human from the animal.
Oh no, it would not be a blessing or a gift from me, if the power was bestowed upon you by another werewolf or by a powerful spirit with the right to do so, everything would be fine and dandy. I don’t exactly have the proper skill to create such a union between flesh and spirit, the results would mean you would probably have a lot less control and probably some mental and physical disfigurements, as I am twisting your very being around and you may not be able to separate the human from the animal.
Nope, it wouldn’t be a blessing or a gift from me, if the power was bestowed upon you by another werewolf or by a powerful spirit with the right to do so, everything would be fine and dandy.
I don’t exactly have the proper skill to create such a union between animal and man. The results would probably mean that you would have a lot less control and probably some mental and physical “oddities”.
I don’t exactly have the proper skill to create such a union between flesh and spirit.
The results would probably mean that you would have a lot less control and probably some mental and physical disfigurements.
*Throws muffins in backpack* Here, werewolf, werewolf, werewolf…
Gimme a few days and I’ll get in contact with some nature spirits who owe me some favors, see if I can’t help you out here
Pardon? Wait… WHAT? My modesty is showing… you’d actually help me? THANK YOU! 🙂
I’ll get Eris on the line, this is the kind of messed up shiz she’d want in on.
Who is she?
“Baby, Baby, BABY!” A voice rings out. Electricity twits and congeals before becoming flesh and blood. Long red hair flairs out wildly on the scene, Eris sports a coat of ever changing vibrant colors, her green eyes fixed on Leafpool. “I am exactly who I am. Embodiment of the Impossible at my service! I am Chaos.”
“Oh, yah know~” Eris’ long rd tresses stand up, the presence of product evident. “Just the primordial embodiment of Chaos and Discord~”
“Dear, sweet sister, how would you feel about causing some Chaos for Ice and Morgenstern? The Mutt twins are the most powerful threats I have at the moment, despite not being the hybrid their father was. They are far more powerful than the Ulfangr’s children and are more apt to strike. I am back to full god strength now, and I feel that a debt must be repaid. Specifically, one from Salem in the early 1700s…”
*face darkness* Sounds like fun. These doggies will bark my maddening music when I’m done with them. HAHA!
I don’t have the proper fine control to form such a blunt bonding between human and animal spirits without a fair amount of time.
I don’t exactly have the proper skill to create such a union between flesh and spirit. The results would probably mean that you would have a lot less control and probably some mental and physical disfigurements.
*The fissures grow on RB’s body perfectly mirroring Lilith’s, an entire piece of RB’s skin falls to the floor and shatter’s like ceramic, the same with Lilith*
I’ve already calculated it and set the timer mother, have you?
*RB and Lilith both gasp as their movements and words now become mirrored in perfect synch, “soon” they both say*
RB
“You can not go yet,” a disembodied, extremely high-pitched voice says. A large, hunched, figure in a cloak appears before Lilith and RB. “You’re work is not yet finished!” It protests.
“Eh,” they both say in unison. “You’re the next one’s problem.”
The figure lets out some in human noise. “You presume to condescend to I!?” It’s eyes turn to a blaze of green fire, the only visible part of it’s form. “We shall feast upon you! ALL of you!” And the entity is gone. Lilith and Noah look at each other and shrug in unison.
*I walk cautiously into the crypt under Salem examining the markings on the walls* father had some help with this… “Well of course he did” *I turn and see Morgenstern leaning against a wall I stand there shocked* “oh don’t worry Icarus this is still all in your head *he waves his hand through the stone wall* “a hallucination if you would” great… *I turn and examine the carvings on the walls trying to decipher them* even if we can recreate this binding spell we’re going to need a witch to help us. Along with a blood sacrifice… And an army. You realize we’re literally taking on the Greek incarnation of Dēâth right? *he shrugs* “so? We can’t die, thus we have an advantage father never had.” *I shake my head and then suddenly stand still* do you hear… *i lung forward as the metal gate almost slams shut sealing us in the crypt* a gust of wind? Chaos? Whatever it is we need to get out. I’ve learned all I can.
Lilith floated, eyes shut, but not asleep, in a sea of nothingness. The things floated and swirled around her, the things that did not exist. They did not approach. They would not approach. They simply stood there, unable to take action, for they did not exist. And the Black Queen, the Lady of Edom, the only thing that existed in a world that did not.
Her eyes fluttered open. She understood. The Void did not exist, and therefore posed no limitations whatsoever. There was only infinity. She reached into her pocket and produced her phone. She raised it up and said, “Let there be light!” She turned on the monitor. There was light. There was no limit here. No conservation of mass or energy. Even if she had turned the monitor off, the light would not disappear. The light was, within moments everywhere. She smiled. Only she, a being of existence, could usher in the binding laws that would allow for existence to take place. She watched as the light separated into its various spectrums, covering the void in totality.
“Sound,” She spoke. When she spoke it was in Babel, the First Language, the Alphabet of Fire, which all things understood. This saved her work in introducing the concepts of Creation to the Void. She felt the Void try and shake of her march, but would not have it. “Language. Communication.” She touched her forehead. “Sentience. Intelligence. The Mind.” She felt the denizens of the Void, whom did not exist, begin to gain awareness. Some resisted, afraid. She spoke to those ones. “Fear. That is what you feel. Feel, perceive. Fear is what makes you jump back when there is something new. New, that is something you have never experienced. To experience is also to perceive. You have never felt before have you?” She felt them stir. She slowly introduced these beings to concepts. Slowly introduced them to existence.
“Cease!” The light she had given to the emptiness flew away. There were several beings, strong enough to have some form of presence, standing, well, floating, in front of her. “It is not your place! The Void is a place tha—“
“That what? A place that isn’t a place at all?” She prodded. “You are like me, aren’t you? You stumbled into this forsaken nothingness, but you bent it to your will and took advantage of it!” The Void Lords, hesitated. Good. They could feel the fear that she gave to them. “What’s the matter? Does feeling sit odd with you, after not for so long?” She smiled.
“It matters not,” said another one of the inky, shadowy, Void Lords. “You had a place among us, but no more. You shall fade into the background that is the Void.” She smiled as she felt the other things within the Void wrigle and panic.
“Oh no,” she smirked. “They love it too much,” she said, having her phone play one of Beethoven’s requiems. The sound of the violins made the Void all the more active. She stopped the music playing on her phone, but it continued. Resounding and resonating throughout the Void. “That, is music.” She glared at the Void Lords, who trembled. Or something. Their weird half-existence was very hard to read. Lilith smirked when they started to scream. The Void crushed them. It would let nothing stand in it’s way. It was too close now.
Lilith exhaled one long breath. She took the water vapor and congealed it into a small droplet of water which she cast into deep into nothingness. She heard it growing and growling and called it back to her, it came as a flowing stream, or perhaps a water fall,would be a more apt description. It swirled and twirled and continued on it’s path through the Void. In the same exhale she introduced heat and with a snap of her fingers combustion. The Void snapped to attention.
Hmm. There was no up yet.
She pinched herself. The Void cried out. “Pain. It is harsh. But it IS.” The denizens of the void understood. Pain was not pleasant, but it still existed. She ran her hand along her cheek, just, feeling. She indulged them. She bent down and ran her nail along the bottom the shoe. Dirt. Dust. “This is existence. This is everything. All that I am. All that you will be.” She announced, to the Void. She flicked the dust into the Void and watched as it grew and multiplied becoming boulders. Meteors.
She listened pleasantly to the sound of the classical music as she went about her work. She made sure that the dust had grown and been distributed enough before she gave to the void what would allow everything to fall into place. She blew on the last of the dust before speaking. “Gravity.” The flew back and clung to her as did some water. She resisted the pulls she felt in all directions.
Lilith laughed as the massive rocks all flew into each other and collided. The heat and energy release from these collisions that the elements present in them combusted, and sent out scattered protons, neutrons and electrons. She shut her eyes and breathed in the creation as she relented in the sounds and feelings of newborn cosmic radiation.
Lilith squeezed and cracked her phone. The glass from the screen flying off into space. As a number of large rectangular pieces of glass sailed towards her, she undid her watch and watched it tick a bit. “Time.” She dropped it and it fell into one of the stars. The glass shards stopped in front of her and composed themselves to form stairs which she began to climb. The stairs stretched out for a long while. “Distance, space,” she whispered as she made progress. She formed large pieces of glass into a room at the end of the stairs which she entered.
This would be her estate in the Void, which was no longer quite the Void.
And so, she began to sing the songs of genesis.
You can make it alone, oh if you try, Till the beat come on, I know you sing it
You can make it alone if you try , We’ll never see you fall ’til you make it out
You can make it alone, oh if you try, Till the beat come on, I know you sing it
You can make it alone if you try , We’ll never see you fall ’til you make it out
Lilith gasped as she felt herself separate. She blinked a few times as she saw herself, the Friend of Man stand in front of her, and she joined in her song.
When are you with them if I let it go , You’re either gonna rock the boat
Or take what they handin’ out
Now you’re somewhere remove
think you got it while you’re broke
They were joined by more of their counterparts, gradually. And another notion was felt throughout the dimension. Unity. Kinship. This world no longer felt or responded in the strange way it had before. This form was so close to existence. Soon.
Or are you passin’ out , Something that you wrote , It’s gonna make a good life quote asylum for the call , Rumblin’ below, say now now you never go , So while we’re waiting
You can make it alone, oh if you try ,Till the beat come on, I know you sing it
You can make it alone if you try , We’ll never see you fall ’til you make it out
The legions of Lilith’s all went their separate ways within this brand new world, to make sure it was shaped properly, to make sure it was cared for, loved. But Lilith, the Flawless, that unflinching bureaucrat, stayed in her glass room, managing the machinations of creation. Lilith was able to alter the flow of time in this dimension. It recognized, accepted her as it’s master, as it’s brain, it’s manager.
You can make it alone, oh if you try Till the beat come on, I know you sing it
You can make it alone if you try We’ll never see you fall ’til you make it out
You can make it alone, oh if you try Till the beat come on, I know you sing it
You can make it alone if you try We’ll never see you fall ’til you make it out
Shaping planets, knocking them into the correct orbital structures, giving this dimension diversity and beauty among it’s list of items. With adjustments to the flow of time in place, it was not long before the simple hydrogenous compounds were crushed inside the stars to form the bulk of natural elements. She watched in shear spendorum as stars collapsed in on themselves and exploded with incomparable beauty. She felt the stardust collide with her skin and she danced in the heavenly fire.
It’s what you know but you can’t tell us so
Just where you let it go, for fear they’ll turn it down , You can see through the smoke and though you know that’s something wrong
You’re holding on for now
Aiming for the mark, how is it that your score’s not up, Like flashlights in the dark
Even with a heart, you know you’re better from the start , Don’t let it weight you down
The Queen of Sheba knocked a comet into the planet, delivering unto it water. It took some waiting before Lilith departed the glass citadel. She walked upon the waters of a planet she decided to name Edom. It had finally stabilized after a while. And she bit her finger and gazed at the ruby red drop of life she was about to seed the waters with.
You can make it alone, oh if you try, Till the beat come on, I know you sing it
You can make it alone if you try , We’ll never see you fall ’til you make it out
You can make it alone, oh if you try, Till the beat come on, I know you sing it
You can make it alone if you try , We’ll never see you fall ’til you make it out
And finally, here at the edge of everything, in a dimension forsaken by all and alive only now, as she was about to create new life, she found herself thinking about the child she had created and the child she had left. She felt tears swell in her eyes but she did not move to wipe them away. A tear fell into the waters and gave it all it needed to foster the beginnings of life. She put her finger in her mouth instead of allowing the new life of this Universe to be of her blood, no, it would be of her tears, brought forth by the most relentless of emotions. The tear would provide for the chemicals to constellate into the perfect structures to begin the process of genesis before going about evolution. She returned to her glass home at the center of this new universe, and whispered one last time. “Life.”
Oh now you leave them alone, you’re on your own.
And so she stood, again as a singular entity, in her glass. She put her hand on the wall as she watched microbial beings take shape in the waters. Again she remembered her child who had called forth the waters of destruction. Again she wept.
Lilith stood in her great glass room and watched the planet of New Edom, the same one she had created in what used to be the Void. She now named this great new universe “Innocence.”
She could feel the denizens of the power give her power. They worshipped her as the Pale Lady.
They fabled that the Pale Lady emerged from the primordial nothing and created all that there was. During their younger years, before their civilizations had become organized (they currently resembled something of a plutocracy in most areas), when they were as the animals of the wild, she came and gave unto them the 5 Great Gifts.
Mathematics. Art. Love. Fire. And Freewill. They worshipped her and her many other aspects as the sisters, but Lilith, the Flawless, received the bulk of worship. She smiled as she felt the hum of power they gave to her. Soon.
OMG LILITH YOU’RE BACK!
😀 😛 😯 🙂
Really? I like Lilith…Lilith is nice…
*We stumbled through the portal into some kind of marketplace. No one noticed our abrupt arrival but some did stop and look at our outlandish clothes* Susan, where are we? This isn’t the Void. *Susan looks around and frowns picking up some dirt and letting it fall to the ground* “No this is the Void. Someone has redecorated… I don’t like it” *She straightens up* come on let’s go talk to the locals about their religious beliefs” *I frown* why? *Susan sighs and rolls her eyes* “Obviously whoever did this to the Void would be worshipped as a god by its inhabitants. So come on let’s go.” *She strolls towards a group of people. I sigh and follow*
“Ladies.” drawls a voice. As the she-Hybrids turn they are no longer in some market place. They are standing in a room of black glass. “I dimmed the windows, some hybrids don’t take kindly to the sunlight, so I decided to play it safe.” said pale woman who say at the end of a large dining table, decorated with all kinds of alien foods and drinks. “Please, have a seat. You must be hungry. I am Lilith”, she said, standing. “Perhaps you’ve heard of me?”
“Nonetheless, I must ask you, what is you business in Innocence? Why have you come here?
*Susan scowls and remains standing. I glance around looking for possible escape routes. This woman had just murdered someone… Three times. And she new about Mutt* we were… Escaping. *Susan takes a glass of water from the table and turns it into a wine* “What have you done to the Void? How did you do it? Why rename it innocence, and why does Cortez dislike you so much? I heard him muttering about you while I was being captured.”
Lilith grimaced. “Nothing it didn’t want.” She makes grandiose gestures with her hands. “I made something roiling, inhospitable, unexisting, into something glorious! I breathed life into that hollow husk, and lowe and behold!” She returns to her seat at the edge of the table. “It wasn’t too difficult, really,” she says as she sips some strange blue liquid. “Once you understand that Void is nothing you understand is lacks everything– including laws and constraints. And this is not the Void. The Void is still there… where it is, or isn’t, rather. When I brought the Void into existence, it was… replaced? Yes, I think that is the easiest way to describe it. Anywho, just what were you escaping from, now? You’re welcome to stay, of course, but something tells me you should be getting back.”
“At anytime you do so desire I shall ferry you back. I must thank your progenitor, and your safe return shall serve as my recompense.”
*the intercom on liliths coat buzzes, quantum interference no doubt*
Hello, is thing on, can you hear me? No, wait yes you can, ok, so Lilith, I’ve tracked the location of Cortez and the USPS box, but, you seem to be busy with this whole Edom thing, but if you really want it we can play a game, whoever finds it first gets to keep it, shows that sound, good, I knew it would, look I’ll even give you a fair chance, the coordinates are 33.4-Zeta Centauri-BO77-X=9.36-Y=88.54
Plus, I know you know I’m not lieing, *sigh* you always seem to know…
TL
Lilith leans in to speak into the thing. “It is my property. Steal from me, Noah, and I shall steal from you. Pay your debts.”
Legally your MIA, and since I’m technically mad from a shard of you, it is automatically bequeathed to me :p
I offered you a chance Lilith take it or leave it…
TL
*TL stands in front of Lilith, looking quite cross*
You summoned me here!
Ugh look at this place, the colors clash and the patterns are just plain ugly!
Really Lilith I would have assumed you would have put more thought into your decorum if you were going to commit genesis!
Any who, our deal entailed that I would have nothing to do with you of any of your forms!
Don’t make me file a lawsuit against you Lilith!
TL
Unintentional. Where is my USPS box?
MY, usps box is in the hands of a Hyperion named cortez…
*TL snaps his fingers drawing from the force of creation to summon a couch, a very stylish couch*
*yawn* So I guess I’m stuck in this place with you, maybe I’ll just nap for eternity to pass the time.
*TL rests on the couch, and nap he did*
TL
*As the Hybrids moved away from their portal, another appeared. This one bringing the hooded teenager with the scythe.* “Lilith has done a nice job with creation….” The ‘Innocents’ noticed him. He saw a little girl and he smiled. She had to be about nine, maybe ten. He knelt before her and reached into his hoodie and produced a lollipop. Her eyes opened wide. “I introduce, sugar.” He gave it to the girl and patted her on the head. The girl took one bite, and screamed in delight. She looked at me and asked me my name, I responded with Ichabod Crane. With a twirl of my scythe, I disappeared into the night. Only the sound of hoofs to signify I was even there.
*TL appears in a flash of lightning in front of reaper*
Hello old chap, it seems Lilith has given the void life, but as you know, that comes with… The oppisite as well, and that means any moment now reapers are going to start to swarm this place, with the easy pray and all, I know you felt it too, why else would you be here?
TL
I turn to TL, and look at him strange. Sure this man was always deranged. “TL, I am not just a reaper. I am a god. So, I came to visit Lilith.” My hood fell down, revealing no crown. A horseman with no head. “Now if you excuse me, I must be off. These people know not the treats of our world.” With this, I turned on my heel, revealing a steal. A clutch of confection, a mountain of grease, and the time to ride away.
He is here with my permission. He wanted to be the god of sugar as sweetness over Innocence, which I approved.
Ugh…
You know Lilith, your world is missing one, crucial part…
*TL’s mouth twists into a smile as he introduces the big 7 to the people of Edom*
*as the people begin to turn from the pale lady’s teachings a storm brews in the west, slowly creeping into the mainland as greed creeps into the hearts of men*
TL
*I look at the at the oncoming darkness* uh Susan? Does that look bad to you? *She stares at the darkness* “that’s the seven sins… Yes that’s bad.” *I grit my teeth* well then better do something about this. *My wings snap out as I fly into the air towards the darkness. My wings begin to glow and their light burns through the encroaching dark fending it off*
“Sweet child… You disappoint me so.” And the pale lady threw up her arms and the storm on the horizon flowed into her palms, lightning arming up her arms and around her hair. When there was nothing left, she turned to Noah. Her nails, eyes and teeth were chrome. “Insolent child.” She muttered, as she pulled her arm back and punched him in the face. The result; a quite literally shattered head, and an unmoving body. Then she turned back the clock. There they were right she was about to punch him, and she grasped his clothing and they took to the air, sailing high above the sky into space. She threw him away from her before calling cosmic fire consume. Tick tick tick.
This time she shattered her glass palace and he was devoted in a whirlwind of glass shards. Tick tock like clockwork.
“I have enough power,” she said as she pulled Noah along the ground by his hair. “To metaphysically curb stomp the Reaper Corps, you, Mutt, Reaper, and the entire Hybrid race. All that, and still balance my check book before lunch.” She pushed him against an invisible wall and he slowly lurched through it. Before his face disappeared she grasped his chin. “This will not happen again.” she said to him, her silver eyes unreadable. He fell through the wall in the air and landed next to Hatter, on Earth.
Want some pizza? *offers Noah a slice of pizza*
Hey, I’m the First Horseman of the apocalypse, Conquest
As Lilith and the Hybrids had their little feud, a new challenger appeared. The Dullahan. The Black Horseman. The Coachdriver of the Underworld. The Portal the Hybrids had used suddenly reopened to allow him entry. As he approached, the denizens of innocence couldn’t see him, but they could feel his presence… Fire blazed where his 12 horses led his chariot, and whenever one so much as looked upon him, he used his whip made of a spinal column to blind them, he stopped in front of a small manor and raised his head in his hand. “Lady Georgia Montgomery!” He yelled and then rode off towards his next claim. A few hours later, the denziens heard the scream of Georgia Montgomery. She was brutally beaten… To death…
As Lilith and the Hybrids had their little feud, a new challenger appeared. The Dullahan. The Black Horseman. The Coachdriver of the Underworld. The Portal the Hybrids had used suddenly reopened to allow him entry. As he approached, the denizens of innocence couldn’t see him, but they could feel his presence… Fire blazed where his 12 horses led his chariot, and whenever one so much as looked upon him, he used his whip made of a spinal column to blind them, he stopped in front of a small manor and raised his head in his hand. “Lady Georgia Montgomery!” He yelled and then rode off towards his next claim. A few hours later, the denziens heard the scream of Georgia Montgomery. She was brutally beaten… To and didn’t survive the night.
As Lilith and the Hybrids had their little feud, a new challenger appeared. The Dullahan. The Black Horseman. The Coachdriver of the Underworld. The Portal the Hybrids had used suddenly reopened to allow him entry. As he approached, the denizens of innocence couldn’t see him, but they could feel his presence… Fire blazed where his 12 horses led his chariot, and whenever one so much as looked upon him, he used his whip made of a spinal column to blind them, he stopped in front of a small manor and raised his head in his hand. “Lady Georgia Montgomery!” He yelled and then rode off towards his next claim. A few hours later, the denziens heard the scream of Georgia Montgomery. She was brutally beaten… To and didn’t survive.
Lilith watched the actions of this coach driver from her glass monastery. She reached out, and plucked the Dullahan from the streets. She rested him on a featureless plain. Long pieces of glass began to line into the sky, leaving a path for the horseman to her home, shining bright in the night sky.
The coach driver used his whip of spine to urge his horse forward, towards the glass home in the night sky.
Scientists walked around the lab Lilith was in, carrying clipboards and documents and pens galore. The walls of the lab were glass, allowing a clear view of the activities within.
Morgenstern’s body lay on a chilled stainless steel table within the room. Lilith had taken great care to halt any decay. Power afforded to her by the third horse played no small part in preventing degradation.
Lilith swabbed the inside of his cheek, wiping the swab on a small plate of glass before taking an identical plate and placing it on top the other. She slid the glass under the microscope on the table adjacent Morgentern’s.
Sa’ lome walked in with a bulky black brief case. Lilith pointed, blue rubber gloves on, to the next table over where her secretary deposited the box and exited the room.
Before looking under the microscope, Lilith walked over and undid the latches on the box. After opening it, she saw a high-tech looking piece of equipment, predominantly chrome-silver with hints of gold in the machinery, roughly shaped like heart. She closed the box and redid the latches, leaving the Heart of Eve where it lay. She gazed under the microscope.
When someone kicks the bucket, its usually that their central nervous system stops working as does their heart major organs etc. But, the individual cells of the body do not all just stop working. Far from it. Lilith had injected enzymes into the body to stop from massive bacterial breeding and consumption of the body. The power of the Third Horse halted Rigor Mortis and she had frozen the bloodstream to prevent Livor Mortis. All of the individual cells were alive and kicking. Except of course his central organs and brain.
These cells under the microscope, after being treated with transport proteins and various enzymes, we’re all too happy open up and string out their nuclei. Parading the chains of DNA around.
Lilith was always in the business of making monsters. When mankind had discovered ways to alter the specific coding sequence of protein-making in the individual cells, it allowed her a more elegant and fine-tuned way of playing with life.
The DNA was certainly different from that of a number of Hybrids she had inspected and –oooo so that’s how that works!
But, the problem remained… What exactly did Mutt want her to see? He clearly wanted her to see something, but what?
Cortez was on the rooftop of the building, overlooking the night sky. He sat on the edge his feet dangling. He kept calling out to the collective hybrid mind, to his father. He was extending an invitation to the lab Lilith was in.
*The air shimmers next to Lilith and my body seems to unfold from nothingness* you should tell Cortez to stop drawing attention to this lab. The old kindly Mutt that left you this body has gone off to perish in his botched attempt to save the Void. The version that currently is running around doesn’t care for you very much at all. So I’m assuming that You’re wondering about dear Morgensterns DNA?
“Ah! Ice! Thank you for making the trip,” Lilith greeting with alacrity. She looked up from the microscope adjusting the square-framed glasses she wore. She had on a long white lab-coat, a black T-shirt underneath, her hair was pulled back, and she wore black-and-white checkered pants along with some decidedly short black heels. “I’d offer you some refreshment, but we’re in a sterile environment.”
Lilith brushed past him, on her way over to a table attached to the glass wall. There was something different about her. Something… off. “Feel free to look through the microscope. I believe I’ve isolated the specific chromosome, but– Ah hah!” She pulled a manilla folder from a large stack of papers, rushing back up to Ice.
She leaned up against his shoulder, on his left, in a manner that could only signal friendliness. She opened the fold for him to see, flipping through catalogues and diagrams of Morgenstern’s genome. Notes were scrawled in the margins, in Lilith’s handwriting. She stopped on a specific page, a particular gene sequence had been highlighted, a long sequence of A’s C’s G’s & T’s.
“Could this be it, perhaps?” She looked at him. “It’s the only specific gene sequence I’ve noticed so far that doesn’t have an alternate allele in either your father or any other Hybrid– as far as I know. Samples of your mother would help to isolate any other abnormalities, but so far this is the only one I’ve found. But Mutt specifically pointed me to analyze Morgenstern’s genome. Even if this is what he wanted me to find, it’ll be months before it can be properly tested– till I will even have an idea of what it does. And, even then, the probability that Mutt is trying to distract me is too high, I can’t invest the time knowing that. So, I wanted to ask, what is this gene, and why did Mutt want me to see it? I would normally test it at my leisure, but, barring trying to distract or some other rudimentary machination, if this is important enough that he nudged me towards it, I suspect the situation is such that it would be safer for everyone if I knew now.” Lilith looked expectantly at Ice.
What was her game? Was there a game? This obviously wasn’t that broken glass shell that had followed Mutt back. Maybe it was all an act, or maybe her cold corporate sociopathy was overcome by some other aspect of Lilith’s identity. All personas of Lilith were undeniably the same person, perhaps explaining the Flawless and the Friend of Man’s dual enthusiasm for genetic research. Though Ice didn’t have to relinquish the information, Lilith clearly was seeking it.
*I begin to pace around the table* yes samples from my mother would help wouldn’t they? How unfortunate that Mutt took her identity to the grave. And every version of him that I ask refuses to tell me… However I do have his journal *I produce a small leather bound book from the pocket of my coat* well one of his journals. He had thousands. However this one details his work on “Project Icarus”. *I clear my throat and then read* “after the conflict in the future Void it is clear to me that if my race is to continue, we must transcend the weaknesses passed down unintentionally from me. Lilith has given me a glimpse of this with Cortez. And I believe I have seen the culmination of this in Ice and Morgenstern. I will create the perfect Hybrid, and raise my race into glory!” *I snap the book shut* and thus commenced years and years of testing. He used a combination of science and magic to try and “cure” The Hybrid race of their weaknesses. He used in-vitro fertilization to create new Hybrid children. However all of the children perished from horrid defects. He concluded that growing a Hybrid was an extremely fickle buisness. And this he decided that a Hybrid had to be grown and born the natural way, and administered gene and magic therapy through the womb. However when he attempted this he got the same results. *I flip through the book to the third from last page* until this entry here “Finally, success, though I didn’t expect anything different from this mother.” The next page simply says this. “The mother is gone. The chid has been born. I shall name him Icarus.” *I look at Lilith and then turn to the very last page* and finally he says this, “Dear God what have I created. This creature that isn’t held by reason or logic, this monster that’s very genome defies the laws of continuity”. *I walk over to Morgensterns body and look down at him* that’s the gene you’ve located Lilith. The one that made us unalterable. The one that literally exempts us from causality.
“My God.” Lilith breathed. She looked back down at the paper in the folder with the amino acid sequence. Her eyes scanned it, memorizing every letter. She closed the folder and rested it on a table. She sat down in a stool, facing Ice. “He should have come to me for this,” she said, holding her head in her hands, removing her glasses and shutting her eyes. “We could have come to an arrangement.” She opened her eyes and looked back at the Hybrid. “This Icarus…” She raised a silver eyebrow and looked at him inquisitively.
*I give Lilith a small smile* ”twas me before my dear brother made me human. And it was also him before he kicked the bucket. and perhaps my father would have come to you for assistance… If he had not also been creating us to ultimately destroy you as well as defeat Zanthre. *I give a short humorless laugh* however he found that we were ill suited to fight you… So he made plan B.
Lilith nodded her head at his words, looking around the room and going over the gene in her head. Hmm… She could probably engineer a heavy-duty mutagen for Ice, that would work the same way turning a hybrid does, just with a little more kick and adjusted specifically to his genome.
She came back to attention when he mentioned plan B. “Plan B?” She put her hand on her glasses to adjust them, giving her a better look at Ice.
*I look at Lilith and my eyes seem to bore into her head* my sisters, the ones named after poisonous flowers. They were created using a mixture of science and the very blackest of magics, with the single intent of destroying you.
Lilith’s eyes narrowed, looking off in the distance. “Ah, yes. Them.” She looked over to Morgenstern, then to Ice, then to the Heart of Eve, then at one of the computer screens that showed a few sequence of Hybrid DNA. She walked back over toward the microscope, taking the sheet of glass out from under the magnifying lens. She held it up to the light and looked through it. “And how do you feel about it, Ice?”
She set the sheet of glass down on the table and adjusted her glasses again. “Say, I’m going to be holding a conference with Base 19 in a few days, in conference room C. You’re welcome to attend, Ice. Under a mutual agreement of non-hostility, of course.”
“I’ll agree to the treaty, Lady of Hell.” Said a voice from nowhere in the glass room. Suddenly, the Monochrome Carnival appeared next to the glass laboratory. Shielded by magics beyond the comprehension of mortal man. The Dark Ringleader and his clown, Laughing Jack walked through the glass walls as though they weren’t even there. The ringleader leaned heavily on his cane as he walked over to her. He grabbed a treaty and signed it. “My predecessor was a fool, he didn’t understand the need for diplomacy when his friends were in danger. Now that I’m at the helm, I shall start making deals wherever I see fit. Even to you, Queen of perdition.”
*the hatter follows the grim carnival crew into the room easily* uhm actually she by the laws governed by the shinigami and policed by the grimm society of reapers is under the master list of the reaper Corps. Not only stripped of her power but *i pull out a clear gem and say a few greek words of prayer to it* dęád and as a representative of the land Erebos currently known to be hades I need Lilith’s signature on something *i pull out a piece of paper* sign here lilith and you can go home. You just need to wait a few days I think
*I shrug* the matter doesn’t concern me, I’ll be interested to see how it all plays out. As for your invitation I must decline. I have important matters to attend to on other planes. *I nod at Reaper and then my body folds in on itself and disappears*
Lilith licked the seal of the white envelope. The letter within had been penned in the life-fluids of a woman who sat still in the corner of the room. It had been carefully written in ancient Aramaic, and unrecognizable in her handwriting. It addressed a man, an old flame of hers, and she his.
A young boy stood outside the house, waiting in the sands, a suitcase in his hands. He had said his goodbyes to his mother. He had been told that the strange looking pale woman was here to take him away from his father. He had been told his father was a very bad man, and that Lilith was going to take him to a better place for a better life, safe from his father. Lilith wrote his name on the letter and left it on the table of the box shaped sandstone house.
She walked out of the house, and held out her black-gloved hand to the boy who took it.
“Don’t worry, darling,” she said. “Everything’s going to be just lovely. You’ll enjoy seeing the world, it has so much to offer. I’m sure you’re finally excited to leave this god-forsaken desert.” She smiled all the way, white teeth glaring in the sun. Her black glasses also shined. She must looked out of place to the people of that land, with the silver high-heels and the luxurious white fur coat she wore. she was certainly strange to the boy.
They were suddenly boarding a private jet, and the boy questioned this, asking how they got there so quickly. She simply told him his mind had wandered off. As they sat in the luxury of the metal bird, he asked about his father.
“Your father is a monster.” The boy flinched. “The first of his kind,” she said, sipping champagne. “But,” she said with a smile, “that does not mean you have to be– what he wanted to make you –a monster, like him. And his name, you know, its not his real name. No, his real name…” She looked him straight in the eye, her sunglasses removed to reveal opulent amethysts. “Is Cain.”
When they arrived in London, the boy understood the kind of life he was going to live, as men in suits greeted him, and he was given a particularly shiney watch as a welcoming gift. Luxury. Something he had never really knew before. And Lilith was kind, almost loving, despite her unsettling appearance.
Cain walked into his house. He had been away for a couple days, delivering his crop to Tel Aviv, Israel. What he saw when he opened the front door almost floored him. Everything he owned was strewed around the floor. There was a fight obviously. But in the center of the room…was his wife. Bloodied, bruised, and d3ad. He searched all the rooms of his house trying to find his son, but alas. He was gone too. Suddenly, he saw the note on the table. Reading it, Cain was enraged. He had to act. He had to act in a way he had been trying to avoid… The son of Adam was going to war.
Lilith crouched on the court. Lines drawn in white chalk upon the green rock, a net separating her and Abraham. She watched him with unblinking, glared eyes. Amethysts watching him. Unflinching. Abraham has akined them to that of a predator. The white tank and shorts she wore matched her pearly-white skin and the white visor she wore to keep the son from her eyes all but blended in with her hair. Her racket matched her clothes, white with but a few brand markings of Nike.
Abraham was dressed similarly, but his white clothes had sharp red stripes here and there. His hazel eyes blinked uncertainly, his dark curly hair fell just above his shoulders. Lilith had told him she would have it cut. He wasn’t sure how he felt about having short hair like the Western boys. Lilith noticed his unease and spoke up.
“Abraham,” she called, not moving from her crouched position, racket in hand. He whipped away sweat from his brow with his skinny right arm. “Do not show your opponent when you are weary. Never let them see you sweat and never show anything but pure confidence.” Abraham thought of this for a second and nodded.
“But why?” Lilith smiled at the young boy’s naïveté.
“Because–” Lilith was caught off-guard when Abraham suddenly served the ball mid-sentence. She threw her weight to the right, the muscles of her core and legs working to get her to the ball. She reached out and hit the ball back towards the boy. He reacted too quickly, not expecting the women to be able to return the hit. He swung before the ball was within proper range and it hit his shoulder. He yelped. He didn’t expect the ball to hurt as much as it did. But he smiled.
“Ha! I get the points!” He stuck his tongue out as the women removed her visor and looked around at the near tropical garden that surrounded them at Lilith’s estate in Vienna. The plants were not typical for what Vienna could normally support, but genetic alteration can do that. “Come on, don’t quit now! I can still take you!” He shouted as he served the ball again. Having placed the racket under her arm, Lilith expertly caught the ball in her hand.
“It’ll be time for dinner, soon. Go find Cortez and get washed up, Abraham. I have matters to attend to in the mean-time.” Abraham pouted.
“Will you do more magic?” he asked. “But of course,” she smiled. She gave him the racket to put away in the sports room, and watched him run back into the manor. After walking to her rooms, Lilith threw off her shirt and examined the bruise on her shoulder in the mirror. Hmm. Much bigger than it should be. She drew circles with her hand on the blackened skin, and watched it turn back to the unnatural ivory of her norm.
Lilith waved her hand and watched as the scene changed to that of Brunhilde, her human secretary (& Sa’lome’s replacement) eat Thai food at her desk back in London. She must have been on break. Lilith doesn’t give breaks. “Hey!” the woman yelled through the small mirror on Brunhilde’s desk. The woman almost dropped the styrofoam box of food on the floor, surprised.
“Oh, uh… I was just–” she met her boss’ cold gaze and knew she wouldn’t wiggle out of this one. The creepy pale lady she was working under couldn’t just call on the phone like a normal person?
“Updates on Abraham’s father?”
“I’ll, uh. check on that!” Brunhilde scrambled. Lilith sighed wearily, cutting the connection. Brunhilde breathed, She got up to go down to the records section but stopped. That Thai food doe. She sat back down and returned to her meal.
Cain snuck up behind the desk girl and grinned. “You take one of mine Lilith… I take 10 of yours…” He decapitated the desk girl and punched a hole through the small mirror, severing the video connection. “I’m coming Lilith, and you can’t stop me…”
*I stand in Lilith lab infront of the table where Morgensterns body lays. I look at him carefully. Due to Liliths tampering his body was not decomposing. It remained at a frozen state just post mortem. However that did not change the fact that the body infront of me is just an empty shell. There’s absolutely nothing within my power to get this body up and working again. Still I need someone else to hunt down whoever is causing this damage to the temporal stream. Preferably someone who is amine to causality. I glance around the lab before my eyes fall on a small vial of liquid darker then even ink. The substance is so dark it appears to seep light out of its surroundings. I consider it for a moment* could I really do this to you brother? Even with the multiverse at stake? *I knew the answer. I grab the vile and uncork it. The liquid become animated as blue symbols flair up on the glass. The liquid begins to move trying to escape the vile. I reach down with my hand and open Morgensterns jaw before upending the contents into his mouth*
*I stand in Lilith lab infront of the table where Morgensterns body lays. I look at him carefully. Due to Liliths tampering his body was not decomposing. It remained at a frozen state just post mortem. However that did not change the fact that the body infront of me is just an empty shell. There’s absolutely nothing within my power to get this body up and working again. Still I need someone else to hunt down whoever is causing this damage to the temporal stream. Preferably someone who is amine to causality. I glance around the lab before my eyes fall on a small vial of liquid darker then even ink. The substance is so dark it appears to seep light out of its surroundings. I consider it for a moment* could I really do this to you brother? Even with the multiverse at stake? *I knew the answer. I grab the vile and uncork it. The liquid become animated as blue symbols flair up on the glass. The liquid begins to move trying to escape the vile. I reach down with my hand and open Morgensterns jaw before upending the contents into his mouth*
Morgenstern’s eyes open to obsidian black pools. He mouth opens and a low, painful growl exits.
“There’s a reason that she didn’t put that in him,” Cortez muses as he walks in, wearing a white dinner jacket to go with his usual ensemble. He held out his hand and the bottle sailed into his palm. He strolled on over to his brother’s body. It had begun to twitch, groaning all the way. Cortez laid his hands over those deep black eyes. “It’s ok brother, sleep…” He placed the bottle to his lips, and sighed as the blacks liquid began to flow back to its container. When he was done he corked the bottle, and placed it in his pocket. His eyes met Ice’s. Then the back of his hand met Ice’s cheek. “And what gives you the right?” His face begat a snarl, and he spat with the words he spoke. He gestured towards the body on the table. “Ironic, isn’t it? To think, we were called the monsters.” He glared at Ice before turning away. “What do you want, Ice?”
*I glare at Cortez for a moment working my jaw.* what I want is peace. What I want is to not wake up and see the universe burning. What I want is you to get out of my way. *A blue aura shimmers around my hand and Cortez is thrown far away. As he goes I snatch the vile from his hand.* the end always justifys the means.
A roar emanantes from under the rubble where Cortez resides. He had spent enough time under Lilith to understand a fair degree of biological manipulation. When he freed himself of the debris, his tie a fluster and his suit torn and dirty. He reached his hand out in Ice’s direction. His pupils contracted as seams opened up in the skin of Ice’s hand. The bottle fell to the ground and rolled under a nearby table as the skin pealed back from Ice’s hand; the glistening red muscle and sinew like the pod of a flower. They were like loose threads when they became unattached to the bone, which clattered to the ground as they fell to the ground. Cortez took a step forward. His frame began to expand within the suit before mere tatters fell to the ground. “Don’t you get it? I was made for this. I was designed to be your better in everyway. I am the Hyperion, and you– well, you’re not even Hybrid anymore.” He spoke, his voice gradually getting deeper. His arms bulged with muscle, his jaw growing more defined as he grew at least half a foot in height. “Now. Get away from my brother!” At the last word the glass walls that surrounded the lab shattered.
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About 18 floors up, in a dusty filing room that smelled of mildew, a glass monstrosity that wore skin which looked like Lilith’s twitched. She saw through the shattered pieces of glass, and she cracked a smile. She looked at Susan. “Something very interesting is happening.”
*I fall to the ground screaming and grasping at the stump where my hand was. Before blood even begins to flow a blue aura surround my entire body and a ghostly blue hand covers the stump. I look up at Cortez with utter loathing and disgust* you upjumped little mutt. *My blue ghostly hand points up and Cortez slams into the ceiling. I then point down and he slams into the floor* I control the most destructive force in the universe. I may not be a Hybrid anymore, but I am much much more powerful. *I snap my fingers and suddenly both me and Cortez are floating through space in the midst of an asteroid field* do you see this? Do you see it? THIS WAS EARTH!!! *Suddenly we’re back in the lab* my temporal she’ll is barely holding! That reality is trying to supersceed this one. In that reality Mutt perished before he could seal the Void, and the oncoming flood overwhelmed everyone. So quit your insignificant whining and Go AWAY! *I snap my fingers and Cortez finds himself in a small white room with no doors or windows. I pick up the vile, and me and Morgenstern vanish*
The Glass Lilith strolled into the busted lab, she hadn’t check to see if Susan had followed her, and despite her meddling, the wards had at the least alerted her counterpart to the presence of Ice, along with the events in the lab no doubt. She would have to be quick.
A few positives came from this event, along with a few negatives. She had lost access to Morgenstern, along with the sample of Erebus’ essence. But, Cortez had been taken out of the equation, a good turn of events. Not only that, but Ice had shown his hand. Ha. Shown his hand. She crouched over the decaying organic matter that used to be his hand, the skin of her hand peeling off as if it were rubber, and glass crystalline claws coming in. She stuck the sharp tip of one in a small pile of muscle and sinew. As she withdrew her hand the tip of the finger became covered in a small bit of blood. She stuck out her tongue and touched the claw to her tongue. Her gaze became displaced as she broke the sample down to the molecular sizes and unraveled it further. She made an exit right before Lilith the Flawless arrived, now dressed In a cloak of pure void, phasing in and out of reality.
She and Abstract came to an agreement of sorts, but she had to leave prior to the finalizing of it. She examined the damage and played what the wards had recorded of the event. Glitches. Strange. She walked up to her office as her agents began collecting evidence and the like, cleaning the lab.
Something is a-miss in her world and she can not allow whatever it is to get in the way of her plans. It’s time to pay an old friend a visit.
A man with dark red eyes, a thin lined mouth, darkly tanned Caucasian skin, thick black hair, and a brilliant straight smile appeared at the edge of the void and Gehenna. Blue flame seemed to be floating above his head in a halo’d effect.
“My poor wilted flower.” The man said still smiling as he started plucking pieces – no, not pieces. – atoms from the very space ar
In the space between void and Gehenna, a voice. A powerful voice. A voice that filled the void. To those who could’ve heard it; fear began to exist once more. The voice was smooth, yet at the same time; horrible. The words – though slightly garbled without the vacuum of air – it came to the mind of horrified void creatures. “My poor wilted flower.”
Suddenly, a crack. Light, flame, heat. All appeared in the space of a moment, and disappeared just as fast. But it left behind a man. The man was handsome, thin yet muscular, with wavy black hair, darkly tanned Caucasian skin, the knowing smile of someone who knew everything you did before you did it, a thin straight nose, but the most striking feature of the man, aside from his eyes which were dark red and had the depth of a man who had seen far too much, was the blue flaming halo above his head.
Atoms started coalescing into a pale hand which appeared in his own; limp fingers not responding to his touch. “I will put you back together, my pale lady. And once I have buried you properly; I will take care of those who aided in your fall…”
Lucifer Eden began putting the body of Lilith back together.
“lucifer, i see you finally decided to show up.” Hatter appears walking through a door that disappears just as quickly as he leaves its threshold “got too bored in hell?” hatter walks up to lucifer and in an act never seen by the likes of the void creatures grabs the blue halo from above lucifer’s head and places it in his pocket before tossing an apple with two bites taken from it to lucifer and reforming lilith with a wave of his hand “dad is going to FREAK when he hears about this.” hatter quickly and just as suddenly walks through a newly formed door which leads to the audience chamber of the great architect just as green as the door he shoved eris through 4 years earlier.
The door that David Hatter had gone through exploded into flames as he evacuated the void. The Halo of blue flame reappeared onto Lucifers head. “You’re a fool, Hatter.” He said as he took a bite of the apple; biting where a certain girl had bit at his behest years ago. Knowledge flooded his mind; and… he smiled. “Reaper… Come to your new master…”
As lucifer calls forth the fourth horseman he suddenly drops the apple into a slightly tattered hat. Choking he sees just how much influence the hatter has because somewhere along the way the apple was laced with something to call the reaper of a person forth to collect their soul. Not the hatter. Not Noah. But somewhere along the way the fruit of the tree of knowledge, the tree of morals, was inverted in a most heinous of ways. “Do not bring that which is not yours to bear upon you, for you always get more than you wish” lucifer’s halo disappears as he realizes he is truly knowledgeable but mortal in the worst of ways.
The Reaper appears while eating a baconater with a slushee in his hands. “I know, Devinser. I know I’m not allowed to take food into the theater. But just give me a sec-. Wait… this isn’t Fantastic Beats and Where to Groove to Them.” Reaper looked around slurping on his drink. He then turned his head towards Lucifer and jumped back about 30 feet. “Oh Atheismo! Not you!” He said and began to scramble away.
“Yes, me. The Morning Star. Although, currently you can call me the mourning star.” He said gesturing to Lilith’s corpse before it exploded into blue flames. “I have but one order for you, Reaper.”
The reaper stood suddenly and nodded. “Fine. What is your order, Lucifer?” He asked staring rebelliously – if a bit frightened.
“Cease…” Lucifer unleashed a blast of hellfire at the reaper. The smell of burning soul strong in the void; and once that was done. He blasted even the ashes of the “god” to nothingness. In the end; there was nothing to bury. And even the atoms were quickly absorbed by the ashes of Lilith. Lucifer left the void with a pop to find more suitable prey.
*I watch as Lucifer vanishes, and lean back in my chair. I stare at the crystal orb which has now turned opaque frowning. I should be done with this nonsense. I settled down, I got a job, a cat, a life. I’m human now, even as a magic user I can’t rush out to save the world like I used to. I rub my chin thoughtfully and think “I’ll monitor this situation. If it gets out of hand I’ll intervene. I carefully put away the seeing crystal and leave to go to work*
The door that David Hatter had gone through exploded into flames as he evacuated the void. The Halo of blue flame reappeared onto Lucifers head. “You’re a fool, Hatter.” He said as he took a bite of the apple; biting where a certain girl had bit at his behest years ago. Knowledge flooded his mind; and… he smiled. “Reaper… Come to your new master…”