Chapter 165
A/N: I Tripple checked… I thought I already posted this AGES ago! Sorry! The Bull’s Beloved is out, and I redid the time period, which I must admit, everyone was right, 1939 in June was weird especially since I was planning on doing a time skip and avoiding the war altogether anyway. Plus, their WWI and WWII was because of vampires.
Xethia
I knew I was probably a hostage… but they treated me well… Jixielnalia, the mate of the Night King was centurion…. Grengelelgovten’s mercy only goes so far.
“Xethia is it?” She asked seriously, and she motioned me to walk with her. Her blue hair and pale blue skin told me that she was The Great Blue Pearl. Her name is also a poem. ‘From the ocean, a blue glamour in the depths.’ Her eyes were also blue… even the whites of her eyes were a dark sapphire, while the irises were ice colored.
“Yes my lady.” I mumbled with a bow.
“…‘She shines day or night, should the light touch.’ I like that.” She smiled. “Call me Jixie, and you may call my mate Grengele.”
“I will try my lady.” I said that truthfully… this place was so fancy I was scared I was going to break something… the food so rich I could not understand the flavors…. This is how great drakes live…
They lift not a finger for game; it’s roasted and they put plants and minerals on it for salt. Some taste like fire, but not… I like that flavor.
“Gren was right… Ice made you a child soldier. What do you know of your own people little one?” She asked at a grand long… thing that I see inside human castles before I blow them up. I didn’t know what it was called. It was wood and flat. She sat in the smaller version of it, and got me to as well.
“This is a table, and those are chairs.” She said talking to a floating orb.
“What’s that my lady” I asked.
“She does not know what an Observer is either… I’m so sorry little one, but the men are holding their grand debates on the war, we Pearls are as well.”
“Oh that’s awful.” Said a female voice from the ball.
“I’m sorry my little daughter! I didn’t know!” Yelled mother.
“Mom? Mom! Where is she?!” I looked excitedly… I wanted to go home! This place was too fancy!
“What is this?” Asked father.
“Oh good. Xethia I want you to sit across from me, and answer some questions.” Asked the Blue Pearl… Mother, the White Pearl, commanded me to follow instructions with a snort.
“Good. How old are you?” Asked Queen Jixie.
“I… Don’t know.” I admitted.
“Alright, how old were you when the war started?”
“500… I saw them do it.” I said looking at the ‘table’…. “I saw and I was too little to do anything… everyone was panicking. All the eggs were being evacuated… they killed Tenner since he was the only big drake at the rookery…. I… I ran like he said…”
Blood pooled on the table.
“Han, come clean the table, and offer her a napkin for her tears.”
“I’m sorry.” I sniffled. “I’m ruining your treasures.”
“You ruin nothing dear.” She shook her head. “Ice, what do you have to say for yourself.”
Father said nothing for a long time. “I have done my clutch a disservice… Can… Can you truly not read little one?” he asked gently.
“No…” I said ruining the nice pink cloth they put me in… my blood tears were thin, and numerous…I covered my face in shame.
I felt cold hands on my shoulders.
“I relieve you from service; this war is over. I will not pound down the mortals at the expense of my brood.” Said father. “This was *childish…* I’m so sorry Xethia… I must make this up to you, to all my little ones.”
“No father… I could not avenge him!” I turned around and cried on his white armor. “He was a child!”
“And so are you.” He snorted icy steam. “What will you do when your beloved comes, and you are no more intelligent than a *slave*? Stay here, and learn peace…”
\---Zairiel------
I’d bathed, had a brownie, watched Housie, and *almost* got caught by this world’s Arviel. I’m not ready, not yet.
I will be when I eat this place… Maybe?
I shifted, but this time the sun would fit in my mouth like a jawbreaker. There was already an anti-magic shell over this place, and I should hurry up before anyone gets too suspicious. Plus… it was weird sleeping on that grilled chicken planet.
I began to swallow them all, about 9 planets were in total on this one, but only 2 were rock. Life was on this one planet, so that would be the only one to aid in sating the hunger… Well, that and their sun, a fresh white star that’d *just* been tended by the looks of it.
Normally, I do a whole speech, but when I was a kid, all I ate ended up Judged… now they are converted to primordial energy.
Normally, I would admonish the god who did this, but there is no need. I must get bigger, and the mortals were made by Excess. By no fault of their own are they to die, but I see why they would corrupt the worlds around them…
And for my mate, entire realms will die. At least these guys would have eventually been culled.
Everything here was just a *little* too overdone…. Everything was either too good or too bad. And on top of it, they’re getting close to intergalactic space travel.
Like I’m letting *that* happen. They’ll spread their corruption to healthy worlds, even uninhabited ones, ruining them before they get a chance to grow.
There was little in between. It makes the people unstable, and should I have eaten this place before my change back home, I assume dad would have either put them on repentance to level out, or gods forbid Purgatory.
Woe to the mortal found by that sociopath.
I swiftly ate this place. They didn’t scream, or feel any pain. I didn’t take any enjoyment for it, but it was So nice not floating through infinity, or space in this case, hungry.
I grew only 3% more; not enough.
Damn.
\[Requirements complete! Consumption of {one} more solar system for size increase.\] Beamed Ziri, while this universe’s console alert… freaked out. \[New ability: Realm Dominion.\]
This world was for sustenance … the *next* one is for size. Also, I didn’t check what that ability did! I panicked.
I felt the teleport of this universe’s head god. Shit.
I dodged the instantly hostile swing of him, and teleported some distance away.
Do I leave and run or stay and try fighting the Jackal Headed God Approaching with A Scythe as big as me? His red sun skin crackled with… roasted pork smelling energy…
I Strategically displaced.
This place can be saved… eating him will kill this universe by leaving it defenseless, and I’m just trying to hit the negative ones. Of course, since I’m a Realm Eater, it’s hands first, questions later.
\[Would you like to enact Realm Dominion?\]
“I don’t know!” I was slow in my giant form, and he was like the size of a wasp, with the cosmic swing that really would behead me. He held solar energy in that swing!
“Meh ak nam mek NA Tu!” He shouted. “Arkvion med Nam, Di de Sol!”
\[Translation: Upon my name I will slay you! I am Arkvion, God of the Sun!\]
“Whatever Boomer!” I yelled.
He’s not the target, and he won’t listen until I’m probably double his strength.
Also, I know he couldn’t understand me, but I probably shouldn’t antagonize Knock-off Arviel, but twice as strong…. This universe doesn’t have two rulers who share….
“Ziri, make a portal to the next corrupt world.” I said teleporting as far away as possible.
He can’t outright find me if-
“Me Tah nah ru tu!” \[Automatic two-way translation: On.\] “Don’t you run from me!”
“Yeah so you can kill me!” I complained. I don’t know what’ll happen if a body like this dies, after *just* eating an entire solar system…. I was done processing it too.
I assume I’ll make new solar systems…. By blowing up. I’m energy based now, not godflesh.