Guilty x Creatures Ch. 67

Fiona cried out in stark relief as she felt it herself. Emanating out from the gem mounted to the collar around her neck was a sudden pulse of awareness. And from this pulse a familiar and welcomed presence began to flow into her mind, bringing with it a sense of instant salvation.

And the most comforting thing about this for Fiona, was that she could tell right away that this presence was absolutely furious.

"What do you think you're doing to my dark elf!?" roared Anton's voice as his raw fiery anger flowed out of Fiona's bloodgem and manifested itself into a cloud of glowing orange warmth that engulfed the dark elf in a protective embrace.

"Mine!" raged the woman as the last visage of any human-like quality fell away from her and she appeared as a monstrous screaming face surrounded by a haze of smoke and a swarm of writhing, black tendrils.

Opening a huge mouth filled with gleaming fangs, the monster let loose a bone shattering scream as Anton's presence took the form of an enraged flaming eye and reared itself up high above her.

The two incorporeal beings immediately clashed as they both fought in earnest to wrestle the dark elf away from the other. Their battle reaching a stalemate, Anton quickly shifted his attention to Fiona and spoke to her in her mind.

"Fiona! I can't fight her off alone! Not in this state. You have to help me!" exclaimed Anton as he mentally shook Fiona's dwindling consciousness "You have to focus! This is the only way we can save you!"

"Save me..." whimpered Fiona "Please... Save me..."

"I'm trying! I'm trying! But I can't do it alone! You have to listen to me! You have to focus!" urged Anton "She's trying to destroy you, Fiona! You can't let her!"

"I can't stop her..." sobbed Fiona as she mentally shivered at the remembered pain of being burnt away.

"You can! I can show you how! I can help you!" declared Anton "But you have to let me! You have to focus! Let me work through you, and I can show you how to fight her!"

"Fight her... Yes... Yes, I want to fight her!" cried Fiona.

"Good! Good!" said Anton "Then focus on me, Fiona! Let me in, and together, we can beat her!"

Turning to him in her mind, Fiona pushed all the pain and fear she was feeling at that moment aside as she focused everything she had left on Anton. Gazing at his raw presence she could suddenly feel his intent, desires and fears. She knew, having spoken to him without speaking, that right now he was afraid, afraid that he would lose her forever, afraid that even now, she wouldn't trust him enough to let him save her.

That was truly his biggest fear, that she still didn't trust him.

"You're so stupid..." whispered Fiona as she let him in.

The monster still gripping the dark elf paused as the fiery presence she had been grappling with suddenly vanished along with the glow that had been surrounding and protecting her prey.

With the dark elf now open and ripe for the taking, she wasted no time on any celebration beyond a smile and set forth on devouring the last bits as quickly as she could before that damnable presence returned.

But just as she was about to tear back into her meal, a sudden and intense burn erupted in the center of her being. Looking down at herself, she blinked in confusion as she found an odd sight. The dark elf's fist was now covered in angry orange flames, and had been driven straight into her middle.

"You stole her essence..." whispered the dark elf as a suit of flaming armor began to form around her "And we're gonna make you pay for that..."

The monster tried to scream out in rage but was cut short as a mighty punch smashed into the side of her face.

Feeling Anton's power and knowledge flowing through her, Fiona trusted him to form the correct spells through her body as she stood up tall and faced her adversary head on.

"Try to eat me!" raged Fiona as a great chain was summoned into her left hand "How dare you!"

Wrapping the monster up in the chain and anchoring her to the ground, the armored dark elf leveled her right hand at her enemy and let Anton unleash a billowing stream of fire across the monster's being.

"Everything you took from me!" cried Fiona as she gleefully dosed her enemy in fire "We're taking it all back!"

The monster roared in anger and pain as she struggled to escape from the bindings that were constantly tightening around her.

"No!" she screamed as she felt the presence from before resurface among the flames and begin to rip into her with its own fury.

As she burned she felt this presence gathering bits of her and funneling them back to the dark elf. What she had just gained was siphoned away first, but more would soon follow. This presence knew what it was doing, it had done this before, it knew how to hurt her.

As the essence of the monster began to flow into her, Fiona's eyes widened to their fullest. The haze of broken information coming in to her was nearly overwhelming, and at first it was difficult to separate what were her own memories from those that weren't. After having a chance to get her mind wrapped around what she was witnessing however, several things did start to become more clear. And as she was able to start making sense of the creatures thoughts, she discovered that many of the beings secrets and intentions were suddenly laid bear for the dark elf to see clearly, and she did not like what she found. This creature, was evil. Pure evil. This thing would have destroyed her, just as she had destroyed so many others that had slipped into her clutches. Innocent minds, toyed with and consumed for no other reason than to entertain this monster with their pain, fear and suffering.

This thing deserved to pay, it deserved to pay dearly.

To her horror, the realization quickly took shape in the monster's mind that these two beings had worked together to turn the tables on her, and there was no other choice now, she had to escape them. She hated to do it, but she would have to run. At least for now.

"Don't let her get away. Not yet." said Anton in Fiona's mind.

"Don't worry. I got her!" smiled Fiona as she took in the lost knowledge that Anton had returned to her and quickly formed an aura field around them all "She's not going anywhere!"

Trapped and restrained now, the monster abandoned her plans for escape and changing her tactics on the fly, shifted her attention back to Fiona. Focusing as best she could through the wall of flames, she locked on to her target and sent out a large tendril which quickly snaked its way across the ground before rising up and wrapping itself around the dark elf's waist.

"Wha!? Hey!" cried Fiona as she tried to rip the intruder away from her body "Get your slimy hands off me!"

"Fiona! Wait!" cried Anton "Don't burn yourself!"

Stopping the flow of flames just before the dark elf could attempt to turn them on her assailant, and inadvertently herself, Anton mentally grit his teeth as the laughing monster quickly took advantage of the lack of flames and sent more tendrils straight at Fiona.

"Bitch!" raged Fiona as she feverishly fought off the wave of riling appendages.

Time for you to go..." growled the monster as she strained against her restraints and formed what looked like a doorway right behind Fiona.

"...Wait?...She's trying to send you back? Good! Fiona! Let her go!" exclaimed Anton as he both readied another flame spell and allowed the chains around the monster to start slowly breaking apart.

"What!? No!" cried Fiona as Anton's spell erupted out of her and burned away all the monster's tendrils "This bitch tried to destroy my mind! I'm not letting her get away!"

"You can't just sit in the Void and hold her like this forever though!" said Anton as the monster's tendrils again reformed and tried to drive the duo back and into the doorway "Now's your chance to escape. Take it, and let's get out of here!"

"...You?...No! Not yet!" growled Fiona as she summoned her own chains to rebind the monster with as Anton's fell away.

"Fiona! Stop! She's going to force us out of the Void anyway! Let's just get out of here, now!" reasoned Anton as he added his own weight to the effort of dragging Fiona through the doorway.

"...Argh! Dammit!" seethed the dark elf as she grudgingly let herself be pushed backwards.

At the last second the dark elf narrowed her eyes as she watched a broad, smug looking smile spread across what was apparently the monster's face.

"...Why you ugly bitch! You think you won, huh!?" raged the dark elf "Well we'll see about that, Rozzie sweets!"

"...What!? What did you just say!?...Wait! No! Fiona, stop!" cried Anton as he felt the dark elf plant her mental feet and begin to focus her power "What are you doing!?"

"Giving this bitch one more squeeze before I go!" growled Fiona through her smiling teeth "One last hug to remember me by!"

Winking a series of glowing neon green rings into existence around her enemy's mass, Fiona smiled evilly as waves of her chains erupted out of the rings and began to viciously wrap themselves around the predator turned prey.

The monster roared out in fury as her withering form was painfully crushed by the chains merciless embrace. Enraged, she redoubled her efforts to banish her adversaries back to where they had come from.

"...Fiona!...Get out!...Let!...Let her go!...Now!" cried Anton as he felt his connection to the waking dark elf begin to fail "...Now!"

"Not till the last second..." growled Fiona as she tighten her chains as much as she could "I want her to remember this..."

"...No!...Fiona!...Don't say her!...If you!...Pull her through!...Stop!...Get!" called out Anton as his voice began to crack and fade with the breaking connection "...Fiona!...Fiona!...Fio-!"

Feeling Anton's presence slip away from her, Fiona knew it was time to end this as she wasn't about to try and face this monster alone. And since she felt satisfied enough with her revenge already, she leaped up and allowed herself to be thrust back and through the doorway behind her. Keeping her chains locked around the monster, and squeezing her as tightly as she could, even as she fell backwards through the doorway and out into an open, white void, the dark elf began to laugh gleefully as she felt the creature's anger still raging all around her.

"Yeah! Stay mad, bitch!" smiled Fiona as she was engulfed by the white light that was now surrounding her "Stay mad forever, Harozza'mukulamei! You stupid, ugly bitch!"

The stillness in Anton's room was shattered as he suddenly bolted upright and shouted.

"Fiona! No!" he cried out before blinking in the dim light.

Finding himself back in his room and sitting up on his bed, Anton quickly threw his blanket to the side and got to his feet before heading towards the door.

"M-master!?" exclaimed Kianna as she awkwardly lifted herself up on one elbow "Wh-what's happening!?"

"It's Fiona. She's about to pull-!" started Anton before stopping short as the sound of a loud thud filled the air and the house shook a bit as if something heavy had just landed within it.

"...What was that!?" questioned Kianna as she pointed her ears straight upwards while she and Anton both looked over to where the sound had come from.

"...Oh no....She did it. She really did it. She pulled that thing through....She pulled it right into Reality." said Anton in a tone of disbelief as he stared into the empty space in front of him "Its loose in the house... This is going to require some backup. Kianna! Stay right here! I'll be right back!"

Turning away from were he had been staring, Anton quickly made a beeline for the portal he had set up on the other side of the room.

"Wait, Master! What happened!? What did Fiona do now!?" cried Kianna as she frantically scrambled out of their bed "What's in the house!?"

Pausing just before the portal, Anton glanced back at her with a look of seriousness on his face.

"A nightmare." he said solemnly before disappearing through the portal.