Chương 9: Fragments of Darkness: A Harrowing Encounter
"How old was I? When I realized I could no longer look up into the night sky and stare at the stars. How old was I when I stopped gazing at them with Akira? At some point I realized that when I looked into the sky the stars had disappeared, but how old was I when I realized this? I can't remember, I don't want to remember. Thinking back now maybe those were all signs that this was coming. It all seems like so long ago but yet feels like it just happened. I was never happy and yet the little happy memories I had have been stolen from me. Is this fair?... Where am I anyway? I feel my body drifting, so light, so peaceful, as though I'm not in my body. I can't seem to open my eyes, no, I just don't want to. Try to open them, try harder, try harder. That's it, I can see. But what is all this darkness? Was this why I struggled to open my eyes? Was that worth it? What even happened to me before I got here?...
Stars began to shine and shimmer one by one all around me.
"Wait… Am I in space? The stars I hadn't seen in forever are right in front of me! They are so beautiful"
More begin to shimmer and shine everywhere around me
"So beautiful… Akira, I hope wherever that paradise is you are seeing lovely stars too"
The stars began to fall
"No, where are you going? Stop it! Don't fall!"
I turn around to see where they are all falling to and to my surprise it's earth. They're crashing into it like meteors. I get a closer look at one of the stars and I see a person wrapped in wings and cloth beautiful and yet strange. Once they make contact with the earth they become ugly and deformed and all of them fall covering the earth
"No! Stop! You're destroying it! Stop it! I want Akira to see the stars!"
I turn to look upward and I see one right in front of me. It crashes into me and sends me hurling into the earth
"Stop! Can't you see we're about to crash?!"
The fallen angel doesn't listen. I try my best to struggle and break free, I push and pull, punch and kick but it changes nothing. We drive into the earth with full force and crash like a commit. The two of us beings becoming one. Smelted and melted together in the heat, fused as one ugly, horrific, deformed being. We step out of the crash with our former glory falling away from us as we cry out "MASTER!" Falling to our knees crying as we look up to the sky now painted in red and smoke. We cry out once more with a loud cry "MAAAAASSSSTTTTTTEEERRRRR" And with that last scream, I wake up and see my hand stretched out reaching for the sky above me.
"What just happened?"
I say still feeling a bit drowsy. I take a look around me
"A dream within a dream? No… I'm not dreaming. Just living a nightmare"
I say to myself as I get up
"I was with that thing before I got here and if I remember everything as it happened…this isn't a dream"
I take a bite out of the end of my thumb close to my wrist and I can feel the pain. I spit out the blood after I let out a little scream and I just stand there staring at my blood
"I really should get out of here"
Just then a voice out of the distance calls out to me.
"Hey you"
The voice calls in a loud and angry tone and a sense of authority. It's a female's voice, I turn behind me to get a look but to my discovery, it wasn't a human female. It was a harpy. A woman with the body of a bird with no clothes but feathers covering her breast and her unmentionable, where there should be a bra and panties. Her wings were dark blue and purple.
The feathers that made her wings were growing off her hands. She had beautiful tail feathers that were basically sweeping the floor and almost all her feathers were able to reflect the red suns light. She had human legs, well at least her laps were normal but from her knees down were bird legs. She had long black and white hair with long ears and a cowlick growing at the top of her head. She was surprisingly tall and also had a cocktail of pink and gold in her eyes
"Huh? I can't believe it's an actual harpy"
"Hey you"
She asked once more while she asserted a dominant position that displayed her beauty and her power.
"Just what are you doing out of line"
I couldn't have been more confused
"What?"
She slapped me across the face, sending me flying into a car. That's when I heard another female voice whistle
"You didn't hold out on that one did you. know the goal is to get them alive right? not kill them"
"I couldn't help it. The way he acted so oblivious as if he didn't know what was going on pissed me off"
"Well, you need to keep that anger in check for the rest of us okay? Or else were all in trouble. Got that Minerva?"
"Understood Captain Nibera"
The captain approaches me calmly and offered her hand…Talon to help me up
"Sorry about my subordinate"
She said with a wonderful look on her face
"Could you please explain to me though why you aren't in line"
Time to put my acting and lying skills to good use
"I'm sorry but I really don't know what line she was talking about I was just walking on my own and I must have passed out. I just woke up before she arrived"
"Well that makes sense because I knew you weren't familiar, I think I've just about memorized the faces of all the prisoners we've collected so it makes sense I don't know you. Well you being new isn't a problem we'll just fix you up in a chain and put you in a line with others"
Just then another Harpy appeared but this time she was holding a chain and at the end of it she was dragging two naked men behind her trapped in collars attached to the chain
"Ohhh heeeeyyyyyyyy. Look what I found captain aren't they just precious?"
"Hinabi you have to stop this habit of trying to turn every human you see into a pet. I swear it's a problem especially since you just end up killing them"
"Oh but Captain Nibera they are so cute and besides I found them naked wandering around. I think they might be gay"
She says as she licks her lips. One of the men starts to tug on his chain screaming nonsense and finally stops after he runs out of breath
"You really should stop that because if you break that collar I'm going to have to…"
Before Hinabi could finish her statement the man separated himself from the collar and ran. The other man still chained up called out to him trying to stop him but he refused yelling out he doesn't want to die
"Hinabi"
"Yes, captain?"
"Clean this mess up"
"Yes… Captain"
The harpy Hinabi gets down on all fours putting her right hand down in front of her first and extending her left leg as far back as she can. She cracks a smile and uses her tongue to lick her lips sliding it all the way to her ear. Then she laughs as she charges towards the man. The man looks behind him and sees she's already caught up with him and before I realized it entrails were flying all over with a piece of the man in her mouth.
"Hinabi!"
Minerva shouted
"We aren't supposed to kill or eat the prisoners! Control yourself next time"
"But…But"
Hinabi began to pout
"It's fine Minerva"
Said the captain as she walked up to Hinabi
"He was out of line and we can't afford any prisoner who will set a bad example. You did good Hinabi"
She pets Hinabi on the head and licks the blood off her cheeks
"I'll explain this to the clown myself. He isn't going to question me. As for the rest of you, my harpy's! We cannot kill or eat any of the humans here besides this one!"
She points to the dead body in pieces and goes on to say
"This one that your sister has killed and provided for you, for any of you who hunger and thirst! Now is your chance! Eaaaaaaaaaaattttttttt!"
A flock of Harpy's come down and begin to devour the carcass. They eat so viciously and violently. Nothing wasted, no bone, no muscle, no organ, they eat him up piece by piece whole. I sat there just staring at them, watching as they fought over pieces of him like his penis. That's when I noticed that Minerva next to me was shaking but not at the sight of what her fellow comrades were doing. No, it was something else, she had her hand over her mouth, she was hyper ventilating and it seemed like she was trying to hide it. She was shaking because it seemed like she was trying to control her blood lust. Just then she began to salivate over the corpse. Her feathers ruffled as if having goose bumps when blood splattered in front of her feet. Her breathing sped up rapidly and intensified. She covered her mouth aggressively and held her stomach trying to show restraint. But then her commander came over to her with a piece of the man in her mouth. I took a closer look at what piece it was and to my surprise it was both his testicles still in their sacks dangling from her mouth. She said to Minerva
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