《Angel of Colors》Ninth Chapter
Advertisement
I never had been comfortable dealing with children. Looking at Knell, I could tell he could use a long hug…one that I could not give.
So I simply crawled over to him and sat beside him, in a show of solidarity. “Knell,” I said, “Your secret is safe with me.”
“But…?”
“But nothing. That’s it.”
“So you don’t want to kill me? You’re not going turn me in to anyone? This is all okay with you??”
“No, it isn’t. You’re very creepy, and I feel like a fool for believing your angel act. But if what you say is true, you only did what you had to do to survive. I can’t fault you for that.”
“Besides,” I continued, “Since we’re being truthful…I first started to trust you back when you said you ‘wanted to show people that you could do good.’ Now I understand what you really meant by that. I don’t know if it’s admirable or foolish, but the fact that you’re still willing to help normal humans after all they’ve done to you…it definitely shows that you have courage.”
Knell smiled brightly. “That’s what you told Peal,” he said. “I heard everything you were saying back then, you know. I wasn’t dead, just paralyzed.”
“If you heard all that, then why were you afraid that I would kill you? I was defending you the whole time.”
“I don’t know. Maybe you were in denial. And then…it has to start somewhere. Before, I thought my parents were doing the same thing: that they just wanted to keep people away from me. I never expected what came next.”
Suddenly, the air was filled with cheers and applause. The mother demon was making more human noises. It was starting to become unsettling.
Advertisement
Knell stood up. “This demon is going to split,” he said. “It’s getting ready to separate into hundreds of little demons.”
“Yes, Peal explained that to me. It might be too late to do anything about it now, though…”
“No, it’s not! We can destroy it together! That’s what we both came here for, right? Everyone is depending on us, and we made it this far. We can’t give up now.”
“Well, what do you have in mind?”
Knell sank his hands into the colors, turning them shades of red. “Since I don’t have to pretend to be an angel anymore, I can go all out: I’ll fuse with this demon and control its body, so it won’t hurt you. Then you can take it out with one strike, like you always do.”
“But if you’re fused with the demon…won’t you be destroyed, too?” I asked, as the redness spread over our surroundings.
“No, I don’t think so. Don’t worry about me.” Knell grinned.
I couldn’t tell whether he was lying or not, but I didn’t have time to argue with him. The cheering was getting louder by the second. Knell opened a hole in the mother demon’s body, and out I went.
The outside was just as disorienting as the inside: it was an endless sea and an endless sky of swirling colors, as far as the eye could see.
The centers of Fonts were always like that. Like a space outside of reality.
I took a deep breath and thought about the falling rain I’d seen on the day I met Knell. Up was up, down was down. Gravity still existed. The feelings of vertigo would soon disappear.
Suddenly, the mother demon screamed and shook me off of its body, throwing me into the Font. The cheers became screams as well, and the sound was deafening. The colors oozing from its wound were all shades of red. Blood red, like Knell’s jacket.
Advertisement
As I staggered to my feet, I sized up my enemy. The mother demon’s current shape was that of a giant tunneling worm, which explained why it liked to attack from underground. It was above ground now, however, probably so that its “daughters” would be born straight into the Font’s nourishing colors.
The front of its long body writhed madly, almost to the point of changing shape, but as it wasn’t going anywhere, the base of its tail lay relatively still. That was where I would strike. I started to run.
The mother demon kept lurching towards me to devour me, but each time it was pulled back, as if it had been yanked by a chain. That was Knell’s doing. I had to act now, while it was still fighting his control. As soon as I reached the slightly shifting tail, I seized it and hung on.
To my astonishment, the mother demon began to speak over the screams. “YOU AREN’T GOING ANYWHERE, AND NEITHER ARE YOUR CHILDREN,” it said in an impossibly loud, distorted voice. “YOU SAID EVERYONE HATED ME, BUT YOU WERE WRONG. AND NOW WE ARE GOING TO STOP YOU.”
I had no idea what it meant, but I wasn’t about to miss my chance. I took a deep breath. Then, with silver delta in hand, I sank my fist into its flesh.
Advertisement
- In Serial37 Chapters
PathOgen [Forge Your Own Path] Reader Interactive
This is a 100% reader-interactive, game-like book, based on my novel Technomagica. It is written in collaboration with the readers - every comment drives it forward. Once there are enough interesting or fun comments on each chapter, various paths forward begin to manifest that you can [choose] to follow. Summary: Soviet bio-weapons designer Vladislav Kerenski died in 1992. Upon meeting "god" he rejects a continuation of his narrative. It's up to you to help him survive the darkness of the Astral Ocean. This is the only book on Royal Road where your choice can make the MC become a villain or a hero, to die horribly and quickly, or slowly and painfully, to live out an interesting life, to become god, or to be trapped in a nightmarish loop without an end!
8 200 - In Serial455 Chapters
A Tail's Misfortune
For years Sora has been viciously harassed by bullies, being subject to physical, psychological, and emotional torture from middle school to high school. This, however, is going to change as Sora’s sixteenth birthday draws near; reality begins to twist as myths and legends surround her. She starts to change from a demure teenage girl to something else as she struggles to come to terms with her new transformation.
8 172 - In Serial12 Chapters
A festering world
A story about the apparition of the system on Earth, and the adventures of John on a festering world. Contain a lot of mythological figures like the four horsemen, eldritchs and a shitload of gods. Warning: This is my first story and English is not my native language so the story will probably be bad but I will try to improve. I write this story for fun, there is currently no release schedule.
8 98 - In Serial10 Chapters
Strongest Sorcerer: Realm Beyond Recall
This is a long prologue to the story "The Strongest Sorcerer". The Story depicts of the world before the Gin Ordric Dawnfall was born. Where the Great Demon God Malibourne emerges, coloring the 7th realm in darkness and reigned supreme. The curtain also opens for the "Fallen" as he wages his war against the heavens.
8 133 - In Serial16 Chapters
Charmed By A King ~Trollex x Reader~
Queen Barb, has a plan to unite the trolls under one genre of music, rock. You, as her assistant and younger sibling, will support your sister fully and even help out here and there. However, things start to change, after one of Barb's prisoners, King Trollex, starts talking to you more, and even shows you genuine hospitality. Will you choose your sister or the King of the Techno Trolls?-Warning: This has cussing and mature scenes(ik its a kid film, but its teenagers reading this) as well as spoilers for Trolls World Tour-This won't be exactly like the movie, in fact there will be a lot of changes
8 269 - In Serial200 Chapters
SovietBritain quotes // countryhumans
[If this is on a website other than Wattpad, then it has been stolen from me. The website you are on is most likely unsafe and I recommend that you get off it immediately.]Just quotes for my otp, SovietBritain.
8 188