True Beast I

Not much time had passed since the start of this battle. It was unlike the last time I had fought him. His speed, his power, all of his abilities have been strengthened.

So, this is how strong he actually is… it’s amazing, with this it makes me just want to kill him even more! We both exchanged blows as we moved at insanely high speeds unthinkable for a normal human. My pseudo-sword against his electric claws.

Wait… didn’t he have those spears he can fire at me? Why isn’t he using them? “Unforgivable… I’ll kill you!” I shouted as I swung down my sword.

A moment later he parried it and a part of electricity had travelled through my sword and made its way to me, inflicting an electrical shock.

Ouch… what ***? Kill!

I quickly forced my foot on the ground and slashed my sword diagonally this time. And just like how it’s been this fight, he parried it again but this time it blew me back a few meters.

As I was flying through the air and just before I crash land on the ground, I forcefully moved my feet towards the ground and landed. As soon as the force from that parry earlier had stopped, I moved again, dashing towards my opponent.

Ah. I will kill you! I will tear you limb from ****!

As I got closer, I jumped and thrusted my sword towards him. He, of course blocks my attack. I added more strength to my thrust, hoping to break through that electric claws of his. “Nnggh…” I uttered as I felt the electrical shock. Just before I was about to pull back, he spoke. “You… you’re the different?”

“What do you mean?”

“The air surrounding you, that look in your eyes. It’s not the same.”

“!!?” Though I couldn’t see it, I’m sure I made a shocked face. “Wait… what are you saying?”

“It’s just as I said. Compared to last time, you were able to keep up with me in this form without her help, and yet as we stay still here, you’re not faltering from the pain.” He’s right… How was I able to keep up with him? I don’t have Lumi’s nanomachines active. I **** to **** ***! I am…? Eh…? How? Why? What’s going on? I can’t tell.

“I will tell you one thing… this bloodlust that’s coming off from you. It’s the same as hers albeit weaker.”

“Eh…?” I thoughtlessly uttered as I was helplessly blown back again. Instead of landing safely, I crashed on the ground. “Gah…!” The moment my back had hit the hard ground, blood had come up to my mouth which in turn I coughed it out.

Now that I think about it… what was I doing? I was fighting, but it felt like a dream. It was like someone else was fighting him, not me. If I wasn’t fighting… then who was? No, not right now, I need to get up, he’s still there.

I slowly raised my body up with a sword in hand. “Hyaaaah!” I cried out as I dashed to him again…

In the next moment, he suddenly appeared in front of me and quickly moved his claw diagonally from the right. Hitting my head in the process and I was blown away to the side. After a few quick seconds I had hit the wall. “Ahhhh!” I shouted in pain as I fell down.

It was like my head was split open; the pain is incomprehensible. I couldn’t comprehend it. If a normal human were to get hit the same way, and ended up crashing to the wall. Normally you’d think they were dead.

But I am still alive, my consciousness brimming with life as I experience pain with intensity levels that shouldn’t be possible.

****!

I didn’t notice this until now but what have I been thinking? My thoughts, my feelings are in disarray. I don’t know what is what anymore. It’s like there’s someone else inside me.

I don’t like it. It feels like my very existence is being twisted from the inside out.

Who are you? I thought in an attempt to test something.

I am ***.

Eh…? It had responded but I couldn’t understand it.

As I was deep in my own thoughts… the pain had stopped, my vision which was getting blurry had suddenly cleared up, allowing me to see more clearly. “Forget.” I uttered then all the blood in my surroundings started flowing into me. Temporarily sealing my wounds and avoiding death from blood loss.

I didn’t say that… I did but, my mouth just moved on its own. Wait… why is the sword still being maintained?

“What’s happening to me?” I muttered as I slowly stood up.

“Interesting… as I thought it is the same as hers.” Sameal had once again appeared in front of me.

“Stop giving me vague answers… Tell me what is happening to me?” I asked.

I’m getting desperate… asking my enemy for information. What a fool I am.

“Hmph. Since you’re going anyway, I can tell you this. It is something that I’ve learned just recently too.” He said then the electricity wrapping him had vanished. “The Last Primordial Personality. You’ve acquired it. It is an output where your mental instability rebuilds itself by letting your instincts take control, to stop it from cracking the soul. Meaning to say, you’re no longer just a human, you’re a monster.”

“Don’t give me that shit, you’re the monster here!” I suddenly lashed out, losing my composure. “Ahhh!” A headache had once again struck, the pain received from it is on par with the pain from earlier.

“Your physical abilities grow to great heights when you let it take control but in turn your original personality vanishes slowly the more you use it.”

“Gaaaaah!” I dropped my sword and put both of my hands on my head as I crouched down to the ground.

“What a meaningless function… To save the soul from breaking down due to mental instability, it in turn slowly overwrites the original personality.”

I can’t take it anymore…! I’m going to go crazy! But…! I need to stay conscious. If I pass out now, my wounds will leak.

I will…

“Ahhhhhh!” I quickly raised my body from the ground as I shouted into the air.

In the next moment a shockwave had erupted from my body, releasing to all directions.

“I will kill!” I cried out as blood flowed out from my wounds and covered my entire body mimicking his armor. Sameal just stood there and watched, expressionless as he has always been.

Like a tentacle, blood covering my right hand had extended itself and grasped my pseudo-sword.

“I will erase you… by the time I’m done there won’t be nothing left of your pitiful existence. Let’s go, beast!” I said as I turned my gaze on my enemy.

“You’re one to say that.” He replied as his armor formed again.

The blade of my sword had suddenly spiked as I quickly dashed to him. I sliced my blade horizontally but instead of parrying it like he has always been he dodged it. “Grrr!” I growled as my spiked blade had extended itself even further and swung horizontally in his direction again.

He tried to parry it with his electric claw but it was meaningless. I added more strength and slowly but surely, he was getting pushed back as he held his claw against my blade.

My mind had descended to madness. Only the thought to ‘kill’ has been in mind, nothing else. Sameal jumped back a few meters.

Instead of coming close to me again, he just stood there. As I prepared to jump to his position, seven spears made out of that blasted electricity of his had formed. A moment later every single one of them had launched and headed towards me all at once.

I grinned as I gripped my sword with both hands and sliced them one by one. As they all exploded the moment I sliced them, I ran.

Hidden in the dust, I ran towards my enemy, my prey.

Suddenly I had sighted a large light that was getting bigger and bigger through all of this dust. A moment later, a spear of electricity, bigger than the ones I had slashed appeared.

I quickly gripped my sword tighter and brought it in front of me and blocked the spear. I stood there and held my ground as I felt the intensity of the spear’s heat grow stronger. “Haaaaah!” I shouted as I focused all my strength on blocking it.

The blood from my blade was deforming as it started to absorb the giant spear...

A second later, my foot slipped. My strength had faltered and the spear had continued on its path, overwhelming me. “Gah…!”

Just as I was nearing the wall, blood from my armor had extended itself and stabbed into the ground, pulling me out from the spear. But before I could even react, he had already appeared in front of me and blown me back into the spear.

As I flew, the spear had made contact with the wall and exploded, changing the direction to which I flew in.

I turned my feet towards the ground and forced it to land on the ground. The floor had cracked. The impact and pressure from the explosion is still continuing. Just as the floor was about to break, I crouched and lifted my feet off the ground, jumping towards him.

I readied my sword as I held it tight. He had leaped towards me at an even higher speed than before, avoiding the fall. The entire floor of this area had been broken as they had been rendered to big chunks of rock falling to who knows where. “You…!” He shouted as he swung his electric claws down on me.

Blood had flowed again, sharpening my blade. I swung it upwards, slicing through both of his claws like butter.

Just as my blade had fully cut off his claws, he swung not his non-existent claws but his feet, hitting me and causing me to fall down even faster. It was unexpected. Had he used his feet earlier I would’ve been able to counter it.

I crashed into a part of the falling chunk of rock.

After a couple seconds I raised myself up from it. I noticed something coming at me from the corner of my eye, it was another spear. Just as it was about to hit me, I swung my sword and cut it. Naturally it exploded but it didn’t affect me. For a moment the blood in my blade had expanded as it exploded, shielding me from the explosion.

It quickly formed back into my blade as I see several more spears fly towards me at unimaginable speeds. Instead of wasting strength slicing them all up, I leaped back.

As the spears had hit the chunk of rock and exploded, I felt a presence behind me. I quickly turned around and saw him and I was blasted away again.

I was confused. I was sure I had cut his claws and yet he blew me away. Did he use his feet? No, if he had I would’ve seen it. “What a troublesome opponent…” I muttered as I unknowingly grinned.

As I was approaching the next chunk of falling rock, I bent my feet to land on its side. A part of blood covering me had flowed into my blade making it bigger and sharper than before.

“Forget.” I muttered as I placed nearly all of my strength into my feet and then lifted it off the rock, leaping towards my enemy at a speed that can’t be followed by the naked eye alone. “Hyaaaaah!” I cried out as I gripped my sword tight and swung it as he entered my range.

He raised his claws to block my attack but it won’t work. As soon as my sword and his claw made contact, it started slicing through. Through the electric armor from his claw, burly arm, and now his hairy chest I had successfully cut through.

From the cut I made, black goo had gushed out instead of blood.

Now, it’s over… but I promised, didn’t I? “I’ll tear you, limb from limb.” I said as I turned around. Oh, I’ve taken over the majority of it…. This guy’s been resisting hard, well rest for now, once you wake up it’s going to be all over.

As I stopped moving, I felt some wind pressure, it’s like when you’re on an elevator and it’s going down. I started walking…

We’ve been falling for a while now… is there nothing in the bottom? Might it be the void. Perhaps? Ah, no matter, I’ll just jump my way out of here once I’m done shredding this animal’s corpse.

As I was nearing the beast’s dead corpse, black goo had suddenly appeared beneath it and started absorbing it. “Huh…” I uttered, but just as I was about to increase my walking speed, my movement had suddenly stopped.

I quickly turned my gaze on my feet. The black goo had also appeared and was trying to absorb me as well. “You...!” I stabbed my sword into it but nothing happened. “Forget” I voiced but nothing also happened.

“Bastard!” I shouted out of agitation and frustration as I desperately stabbed the goo over and over. It’s like quicksand. I can’t move! I can’t use blood either! Shit…. I thought but then by the next time I blinked the scenery had changed.

I was on a chunk of falling rock quickly while being sunken into that black goo but the next I saw was none of that. A stone wall, stone floor, stone ceiling, I was in a passageway of the cave.

Where am I? I thought but as soon as I turned around, I suddenly couldn’t move again. “End to Eternity” Were the last words I heard before my body was suddenly encased in something cold…

What is this!? I-I still want to **** more…

My consciousness had faded into darkness.