At the end of the darkness lied a small glowing fortress that somehow instead of brightening the place darkend it. There the Void King awaited, and he stood outside to greet her. Not knowing if she'd hear him, he said, "Welcome to the Abyss."
"Yes." The Void King was actually happy, that was rare in itself. He was also suprised, another rare thing. Even in his wildest dreams he thought it would of taken longer to get someone. Ah, well. It was better to underestimate his abilities then overestimate.
"You would be more use then he was," the Void King said. He was reffering to the creature she had defeated. "If he could serve me that long, imagine how long you could serve me."
"Become part of my heralds. My rule. You will not only be freeing yourself from this pity excuse of existance... you will save yourself from your own limitations. Become a part of the abyss, and you could have a destiny like no other." The Void King said this in tones without emotion.
Still thinking. Maybe Unzipped/Souless/Unborn?
"I have a preposition," the Void King began. He let out a hearty laugh and smiled at SkyLight. "One that could shape your destiny, and quite a few others if you answer correctly."
"Of course," a voice said that seemed to come from the mirror. Instead of Skylight's reflection, an image of the Void King seemed to expand onto the mirror.
Solomon Grundy, Born on a Monday, Christened on Tuesday, Married on Wednesday, Took ill on Thursday, Grew worse on Friday, Died on Saturday, Buried on Sunday. This is the end Of Solomon Grundy.
"Yes." The creature used it's strength and tried to unzip the zipper over the place where his heart should be. When it would not budge, it resorted to clawing his stomach up, and out fell a piece of a mirror with a string so it could be used as a necklace. The body was slowly eaten by the creatures that had served it inside, and those creatures ate each other. They all avoided the piece of mirror during this, though. The mirror shined, as if imploring Skylight to pick it up or to speak to it.
"Death is the dough to the bread I bake. I have let many others feast on it, why should I be unwilling to taste my own work?" the creature would of been smiling if it had a mouth. It had no more blood, long ago it had dried up. Instead, insects and strings used as stuffing fell out.
The creature sighed with relief as the daggers pierced his body. "Thank you..." The creature did not flinch at pain if he could even feel it, and stood tall. He then extended what could have been a tongue and started to lick the daggers. Not as good as flesh, but to know they had been next to good, fresh meat was good enough for now. Soon there might be a fresher course.
Quick question, how did Skylight attack? With a weapn, fist, etc?
"Then come," the creature spoke out. "If you defeat me, you may speak to the being I call master." The creature let out a visible shudder and prepared itself for the worse.
The insects tried to send images to her brain. Pictures of the Seven Dimmensions. The last image was of the Void King's fortress. "Do you see?"the creature seemed to ask, both at Skylight and perhaps itself.
The creature would not give up easily. While she had done this, one of the zippers had been open and she had gotten small insect-like creatures upon her. They were few, but they would do for the creature's purpose. The insects seemed to shake for a moment with energy, and the voice of the creature said to her through the insects, "You'd really turn your back on your destiny? I have the key. The key to your fate, your key to greatness. Your key to escape from this prison."
The creature spread it's arms wide, as if preparing to give her a big hug. The zippers on his arms began to zip open and shut, as if they too wanted in on it. He had zippers all over his body, therefore his whole body reaked with hunger and anticipation.
"Why dear child, I came from that circle! You were watching, weren't you? Maybe this will teach you not to meddle in other people's buisness," the creature ended these words just as he bgan to slowly advance in her direction. He was in no hurry. Raw emotion flavored meat, from his experience. Oh, he could already taste her. It had been so, so long since his last taste. He could still remember it, though, and he began to drool more creatures from his mouth's zipper. They crawled over him and fell to the floor, the ones that fell advancing to Skylight with him.
The High Mages could no longer hear her... could no longer hear anything. Perhaps it was best. For if they could see her, they would be forced to see the thing below them. For even they had no idea what it was. They were just following orders. They would have even continued to follow orders even if they knew. Not because they wanted to, but because they had to. Once you served the Void King, your fate belonged to the abyss. The creature was humanoid, but appeared to be made of multiple zippers and scarred across the backside of the creature was the word "Void". The creature seemed to use what appeared to serve as it's arm and unzipped the mouth. Insects and other creatures seemed to crawl and fall out of it, but it did not seem to mind. No, that only seemed to rejuvinate it. Turning to what seemed to be directly to Skylight, it shuddered once before saying in low bouncing tones, "I know that you are out there. Come, I will give you a warrior's death. If you defeat me, by my dying breath I shall give you the key to your destiny. Come now, I won't bite. Not while you're alive, anyway. I haven't tasted human flesh in so long..."
As if in an attempt to make SkyLight more confused, the twelve High Mages began to rise into the air. The air began to shimmer with heat, and the Mage Circle below began to glow. All twelve of the mages seemed to loose control of themselves, and their bodies slacked but remained in the air. It could now be seen that something other then mages and soldiers had arrived at the Mage Circle. Could it of been... a human experiment? Could it even be considered human anymore?
The Mage aburptley stopped, as if he detected something. The other mages pretended not to notice this. Any foolishness would be dealt with by the Void King himself. That was worse then any punishment they could give.
