Chapter 444: Crystal [#12]
So... uhm, Jason.
You know him, right? Big, tall, muscular, built like a brick house, thick, big boy, murderous, cuddly, possessive, and weirdly adorable when he wants to- Kaleb is still considering getting him a teddy bear his own size so he could absolutely tear it to shreds by hugging it tightly -with a desire as huge as his cock to fuck Kaleb on every surface he could? That Jason? Well, as it turns out, he is much more than just a single immortal murderous territorial gremlin whose face is a bit fucked up in a cute way- No, you'd think that he is just a murderous guy, but being sorta kinda maybe not really but perhaps married to him was an experience that Kaleb enjoyed! So let me tell how hot it was for Kaleb to watch Jason - who already was a pretty brutal killer - absolutely tear The Shape and The Huntress to pieces with his big, bare hands like an angry big bear.
Kaleb felt like something was deeply, seriously and completely wrong with him because when Jason tore The Shape's arm off of its socket and used it to beat The Huntress' masked face with it, he felt really warm all over and his eyes unfocused for a moment. Of course when a knife sank into his shoulder because he was being careless he snapped right out of his horny thoughts, which helped him locate the other Slashers that he easily and quickly identified based on the information that was available on the internet- The Skull Merchant, The Artist, and The Trickster alongside The Houndmaster? That's the first time he meets her since there is not much information available about her on the internet. "Fuck you-" His hand, sizzling with magic was about to blast the gathered group of foes with a [Fireball], but the spell simply... sizzled out. Kaleb's whole body froze for a moment, only one being came to mind as he watched his magic unravel like a tapestry before fading away into nothing: "Fuck, not him!"
But it was him.
Kaleb turned to look right at the skeletal bitch, floating with its long red ans golden robe was the form of the nightmare himself- Vecna, The Whispered One. With a robe of black and red and gold (where did the black cone from? Oh, that's just dried blood), with a golden sacrificial dagger carved with intricate runes floating right beside his skeletal hand that stretched forward- The fucking skellington had his hand sizzling with bright blue magical energy and a smug amd superior look in his golden colored eyes as he had just [Counter Spell]ed his [Fireball]! "Surrender now... little wizard, your magic is pitiful and weak." With a simple and weirdly condescending sigh, Vecna sent out a few shrouds of darkness, various skeletal spirits screaming for their lives in an intense and loud demonstration of superior magical mastery- he didn't need to even lift a finger for the magic to manifest itself and rush Kaleb with the intent of destroying him. This clearly was one of his signature spells, a spell he spent so long to master that it became an instinct for him to use.
"Oh, fuck off you discount Sans Undertale from Wish!" In response to his mocking magical prowess, Kaleb decided: Hey, if intricate spells won't work, severe violence will! His hands clenched a hatchet's handle as it flew by his face, being thrown by the Huntress- he caught the hatchet mid-air! If Jason had seen that, he'd be proud. With a simple and angry throw towards Vecna, Kaleb also shot various [Eldritch Blast]s towards the skeleton- The truth was that, while he was doing that, he was also looking for the thread that connected the Lich to the fucking bitch spider... He knows how to snap it and release Slashers from the spider's control, which he doesn't want to do with this fucker, but what else can he do? As the attacks were all easily defended by an equally as simple magical shield, Kaleb had found what he was looking for.
Not a simple thread, but a whole damn yarn ball!
"What the fuck?" He couldn't help but mutter- knots tying thread upon thread, all wrapped around each other in a weirdly protective way. "Oh, so that's what it is..." The spider really, really didn't wanna lose the skeleton. And neither did Kaleb want to release the bitch skinless fucker, so he came with a simpler solution! Instead of snapping the thread, he tugged it like it was a elastic band, and when it went taunt, he released it. It was kinda hilarious to watch the "wannabe Sans Undertale but looking like Skeletor" skeleton's eyes widen for a moment before his entire skeletal body was flung away from where they were, like he had been punched by an anime character!
One moment he was there, the next he was flying like a bullet towards the trees, breaking through branches and sometimes whole trees! "Well, not exactly what I hoped for, but I'll take it." Shrugging, Kaleb aimed towards the crow bitch wannabe- He rained down a bunch of [Eldritch Blasts] on her while he tugged at all available threads. This was his territory, there will be no meddling from this spider fucker! He began to pull and unravel the threads that connected to the Slashers, pulling the power within it into himself. He didn't know exactly what he was doing, but he had some idea... This black tether soon appeared right beside his pink tether that connected him and Jay, it was trying to take over the pink color, trying to corrupt it, but it couldn't.
Kaleb began to pull the thread and wrap it around his pink tether- He ducked under a bunch of knives, reflected a squad of ink crows that were much, much weaker than before, and even ignored Vecna as he screamed a bunch of curse words at him. Not the "fuck, piss, shit" category of curse words, but quite literal curse words- words that would melt the flesh off of his bones, would burn his skin, and would... Make his hair pierce his bones and choke him to death? That's a nasty one! Kaleb's keeping that in mind. -and at the same time he was draining the blackness, feeding the pink, and pulling the tethers of threads.
Have you ever pulled the string of a sweater?
It comes undone.
Now, imagine a world made of threads, a whole being made of threads coming undone as a central thread was being pulled away- The spider screeched, it hurt his head a nasty deal and the bright pink color of the thread that connected the two began to dimmer slightly, but Kaleb had something the spider didn't have; A Jason. The moment the pink tether began to dim in color at the rush of black, Jason sank his hands into The Huntress' mouth and pulled out her heart before throwing it towards Kaleb.
It hit him right in the face.
"What the fuck, love!?" Kaleb wiped away the blood from his face with an annoyed huff: "I'm trying-" He felt a foreign energy try to pull him away from where he was, his body was flung upwards by the magical power of the fucky bony man before a dagger dug into his shoulder, making Kaleb clench his teeth. His hand shot out towards the dagger and pulled it out- Kaleb was trying to understand why Jason had thrown a heart at him, until he saw it: A black little spider crawling out of it. "-to kill..." His eyes widened when he saw the small black spider try to escape, and he knew what it was in that moment: He always knew there were threads that connected the spider to the Slasher, but he never wondered where that thread came from because he always assumed that the thread came from the Entity alone.
But it seems that this thread also has a place in the bodies of Slashers.
'Gotta find the spider!' He held onto the golden dagger even when he felt it trying to escape his grip- He would not let this fucker Jack Skellington looking ass stab him again! He shot out two quick [Eldritch Blast] followed by a [Fire Bolt] and watched a bit entranced as the little spider screamed at the top of its... lungs? Do spiders have lungs? Well, it screamed and died, and the strength of the black threads dimmed slightly.
The little black spiders were fragments of The Entity, part of it in a way...
A manageable, very flammable way.
"Oh." He turned to look for a moment at the corpse of The Huntress as it turned into black ash, it flew away being blown by the wind, the Huntress having died. This has happened a few times before with other Slashers, where they die- Their corpse simply disappears, never to be seen again until they start killing again! That has happened a lot with his big boy Jay, but Michael Myers has also died before and his corpse faded away into nothingness only to appear again the next Halloween. "Love, you're so smart~!" With a wide, impossibly wide smile, Kaleb blew a kiss for Jason who bashfully bashed Myer's skull and pulled out his brain- or rather, this bulging black mass of hundreds and hundreds of spiders. Jason, perhaps feeling a bit theatrical and whimsical, took the knee and presented the bulbous mass of spider eggs and a black, dead brain like he was asking Kaleb to marry him.
It was disturbingly adorable.
"Awn, yes!" Kaleb casually swatted at a bunch of thrown knives with his [Wind Gust] cantrip, exploded the big black ink crows out of the air alongside the neverending waves of drones by using [Eldritch Blast] repeatedly like a machine-gun, and he resisted the weird shit Vecna was trying to put him under while also looking at Jason with light in his eyes: "I accept the proposal~!" A bit unhinged, feeling euphoric about the whole battle and the endless rush of power from the interdimensional eldritch demon spider that he was draining for said power (that was, maybe, turning him a bit more... evil?), and feeling happy that he was just proposed to, Kaleb lifted his hand. The black bulbous mass of spider eggs that used to be a brain began to hatch, the newly born baby spiders tried crawling away but his will was strong. "Such a great gift, my love."
With a flick of his hand, the whole thing caught fire. If a single spider could scream like a woman was dying- a cluster of newly born ones screamed like they were being tortured. It was the cry of hundreds of infants, children, and adults that begged for their lives in an unholy symphony of death and pain... Imagine a stadium's worth of people screaming, crying, begging for their lives as the flames consumed them.
It was haunting, but it was weirdly lyrical and in synchrony, like music to Kaleb's ears.
Maybe destroying the interdimensional spider Eldritch God of pain and suffering while absorbing power from it changes you- at least in some way, right? Kaleb felt invigorated, the excesse power that he absorbed went directly through their bond into Jason's body, which was undergoing some sort of metamorphosis? He looked more and more human, almost like his undead status was being revoked, but not at the same time. An undead that was granted life... You'd think that would make him a living being, right? Well, strangely, kinda?
From their bonding, Jason has shown interest in food even though he didn't need to eat. His big body got hotter in both appearance and temperature, and his libido went through the roof. Now that he was getting more human and less human at the same time... What sort of changes will it bring?
'Well, I'll think about that later.'
Slowly, Kaleb turned to look at a bony fucker who had finished casting his spell.
"Fall."
A single word echoed out, and the entire world went black. Kaleb blinked, finding himself in an endless field of ashes, alone with a Lich.
"Well-" Kaleb sighed: "-guess I have to beat the shit out of you."
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