A Sky of Two Suns, Both Hidden From The Denisens of below by The Thick Gray Fog, A Light Rain of blood Occasionally Made The Color of The City Shift From Gray to Red,
The Houses were built on The Walls,Made of a Dark Gray Material that was a mixture of Stone and Wood.
Every house had a Long Dark Gold Elevator Type of Construct.
The Figure of a youth Lay Peacefully With his eyes Closed, Gray Minimalistic Clothing contoured his Gaunt body,Stains of blood Contrasted his Slightly Tanned skin as well as his Gray Colored Hair.
'It Smells like death...'
Vaal Awoke With a Piercing stench Ravaging his Sense of Smell,The Stench was so horrid That For a Slight moment,He didn't See The Disfigured Person Looming over him, It's Skin was almost green, It's jaw dislocated,And The Arms were bent Backwards.
' A Corpse?'
The Creature raised it's Right hand and brought it down madly,Barely missing The youth who moved his head sideways.
Vaal Grabbed The Ghoul's Forearm and Stuck two of his fingers inside It's Eye area, he Then used his Left leg to Flip It over, Receiving a Scratch in The Process.
In a hurried movement,He jumped to his feet, After Analyzing The Surroundings,a knife came to his vision,The Handle was Pitch Black and so was the Blade,A distance of about 10 meters separated him and The Small Blade,The Closest Potentially Dangerous object was a Rock Located Only A few steps Away from him.
Vaal decided to Get the knife and not the rock,Once The Blade was in his Left hand,The almost Green Ghoul was already up.
The Creature seemed to have trouble locating him, therefore he made sure to stay quiet and sneaked behind it's back,With a Swift stab,The Knife Pierced Through The White Skull.
It took around a second for the thing to stop moving.
Yet he could not rest yet, because 3 more appeared from behind,Vaal didn't take action and waited instead.
Soon, another battle unfolded.
After it ended,Vaal Spent some time Carefully Looking at the Surroundings before Deciding to find Shelter,Which came in the form of a Medium Sized house That Seemed to Be Not in too much of a pristine Condition but not too destroyed either.
'where am I?,Based on The infrastructure,It should be the Gray City,Yet now it may be more accurate to call it The Gray and Red city with all The Blood.
Well,There's a way to check... But For Now I should find somewhere safe.'
' it may be safer to stay inside a Man Made construct...Yet it's possible that there are some of those things inside...I should First Check,Look for places that have transparent Windows That I can peer inside,but that Also have Corners That are hidden from the windows,Preferably one Where I won't need to frequently Pass by and risk exposing my location...
That Should do.'
...
' The Tallest one at The Front was The First To strike,it reached out with it's right hand to attack,I used my left hand to push it's forearm to the right.
This was possible by using it's structure against it, although the ghoul was probably stronger than I am,When attacking me it was only properly structured to the front and not the sides, Therefore it lacked the capacity to stop me.
Subsequently,I Exploded Towards The Left, Completely avoiding The Attack,My Knife Pierced Through The Ghoul's Skull, Bringing forth it's quick Death.
I pulled with as much strength I could muster, Managing to have The full Blade Available When The 2 surviving Ghouls Came attacking simultaneously.
I noticed that the one at the Rightmost had an improper running posture that would make it fall down backwards in case it suddenly died, Therefore I took the chance and Threw The knife at it's head after feigning an attack and Dodging The Swift Strike it performed Using The Hand opposite my right.
The Creature Fell down immediately,
It's Compatriot however,was still as lively as ever,It chased after I,who no longer possessed a weapon, Therefore I ran with all my Might, keeping my best chance in sight.
After a few seconds of being chased in a straight line,I abruptly moved to the left and then the right,The Ghoul attempted to follow after me,but it's lanky proportions and possibly lack of bodily control Caused it to stumble for a moment,This Frail Vessel of mine turned backwards, Going In direction of a dead Ghoul.
Upon arrival,My hand swiftly retrieved the knife,I Rose to my feet just as The last creature was about to attack,I placed one hand in front,the other threw the knife, Causing the Ghoul to move it's head to the right and immediately launch forward to bite me, probably thinking that the blade was no longer a danger,but my left hand grabbed it By the handle,In sequence driving it into the Creature's Skull.'
'An impressive battle performance should I say?'
' I do Not Remember Possessing such Battle prowess,Sure,I had studied some combat by Reading The Diaries of The Mercenaries,But being able to apply that information in combat is a different story...'
' And not only this,the very way I think seems different,I am Calmer,Less Reactive.
But The Most Glaring oddities are Clearly The Name I had Given back then,It just came out Instinctively.
And The fact that I accepted to cleanse my Fate without even thinking much about it, like if I was following a predetermined command...
Born in 695 P.T., Just like I.
Lived in The Hashles,Just Like I.
The names of our mothers are The Same...
A Similar Voice,The name...
The Demon...Is I?'
' How?,Have our Consciences Merged Somehow?Is he possibly an alternative version?
Fate Doppelgangers aren't A new thing,Every time a fate Collapse occurs,new versions of the ones affected by that collapse come to existence, but they cannot coexist with the original versions,since they
disappear once The Collapse is either Purged or manifests in the real world...'
As he Wondered about the strange situation,A sort of ringing noise echoed inside his soul,Signifying That The Coordinates of The Divergent Point has Been sent to him.
' So it's Around Over There...Quite Far from here,How Many Of Those Things will I have to face in order to arrive There?'
'And I also have no food or water,I might die of Deprivation Before even making it there, Should I Try to Eat those creatures?'
' The City Seems Deserted,Where is Everyone?'
' I will Rest First For a While and then look For Food and Water At The other houses,Or if needed I must Go towards The Well,I am Not very proficient in Using FATE Tactic Wells,But I Should be able to Extract some water even if it takes a while...'
' Now... Let's See What changes have occurred in my soul...'
Vaal Focused Strongly on his Soul Sígíl,A Certain Spherical shaped Mark Made of 6 different Curved Rectangular Lines Rotated Steadily within a Dark Void, However, unlike before,Words writ in Gold Carved Themselves In contrast with the blue lines,and in The Middle of The Sígíl,A Blood Red Eye Was Present.
Thin Bloodied Chains Connected The Sígíl with The Void, Allowing Them To exist alongside each other.
' Writ?,Why did I think of writ?,Writ refers to a sort of mandate Given by someone...,Does this perhaps mean That The FATE is something given to humans by A Individual being?
If These Odd Toughts That Sometimes appear inside my mind are to be trusted...'
' This eye,What is it?, I've never heard of a Soul Chain That Has one of these...
Could it perhaps be a result of Forced awakening?, Very few is known about Forced awakening, especially by the masses,So perhaps that may be it,but it could also be Because of The Masked Demon.
Something Has Definitely Shifted within me ever since I had That Vision,On The Surface,It appears as if I have Somehow Assimilated parts of The Demon, Bringing me closer to him...'
' I'll Think about this later,For now Let's Focus on My Grímouíre.'
Vaal's Light Brown Eyes Turned Amber Gold,The Soul Sígíl Rotated Rapidly,Once It Stopped,Certain Runes Appeared on the Palm of Vaal's Right Hand,The Words of the Ancient Language Conveyed The Following:
Leading Light- Unforgíven
Echelon - Soulless Unreverand
Engravings- Lower Impure
Force Axel-Monarch
Strings-Zero