11-14-2014, 12:05 AM
Once he couldn't hear their footsteps anymore and the light from their torches left long, dark shadows with no flickering lights he moved from the corpse he stood over. Bringing out the katana once more, he went to each cut open or run through body and added his own piercing blade to their carcasses. He watched with morbidly blank eyes as the sludge black blood crept up the glowing sword. That brilliant sense of euphoria hit him like a gentle ocean wave. Ebbing into darkness, flowing into tranquility. Flowing until the image of the fountain came back. Watching the koi leap from the pool and hit the water fall, struggling and pushing to scale it. The naked women rolling over and bathing their supple bodies in sun light. It was beautiful. He was in this ascended state and he didn't want to leave it. He almost didn't hear...
“...pepal...Krahb...pepal d-did...”
His mask looked down at the last of the creatures. A shape like a mouth below the flat head moved. It was still alive. Kill it. Drain it. Feed the curse.
“D...did naht do...this...”
“What?” Yoshimitsu narrowed his eyes, the mask narrowing them in response.
“Krahb...pepal...enno...sinnt...”
“You expect me to believe that, oni?!” Yoshimitsu snorted at the monster, “What did? Mole People?!”
But the monster did not get a chance to reply as it passed. Its body collapsing into death. With a huff, Yoshimitsu fed his blade and watched the blood drain out of the demon. It mattered not. The blade drank the blood so they had to be evil, right? All he had to do to keep the curse at bay was spill the blood of evil and it would be sated. Clearly these kani oni were demonic and deserved this fate.
He left the cave, but god damnit if he didn't hear chanting even deeper in the caves.
“Mohll...pay...pel...eet...krehb...pay...pel...”
“...pepal...Krahb...pepal d-did...”
His mask looked down at the last of the creatures. A shape like a mouth below the flat head moved. It was still alive. Kill it. Drain it. Feed the curse.
“D...did naht do...this...”
“What?” Yoshimitsu narrowed his eyes, the mask narrowing them in response.
“Krahb...pepal...enno...sinnt...”
“You expect me to believe that, oni?!” Yoshimitsu snorted at the monster, “What did? Mole People?!”
But the monster did not get a chance to reply as it passed. Its body collapsing into death. With a huff, Yoshimitsu fed his blade and watched the blood drain out of the demon. It mattered not. The blade drank the blood so they had to be evil, right? All he had to do to keep the curse at bay was spill the blood of evil and it would be sated. Clearly these kani oni were demonic and deserved this fate.
He left the cave, but god damnit if he didn't hear chanting even deeper in the caves.
“Mohll...pay...pel...eet...krehb...pay...pel...”