Strena Powerless Part Six

 Dehumanization 

When she woke up next she saw Chashathrophogh watching her through the bars of the door.

“Don’t do it!” She tried to say but she did not. The words just would not reach her mouth. Which told her one thing; it was already too late. She could do nothing but watch as she slipped out of the bed.

“We are going to the marketplace to gather some supplies. Can I trust you to keep him under control?”

No! Don’t let me out. It’s not me! It’s not me!

“I don’t know. I saw Dark Lord Gajellidor come here last night.”

Suddenly she saw the crocodile tears coming down her cheeks.

“A-and I couldn’t stop him from telling him everything!”

Chashathrophogh nodded as he placed a hand on her shoulder.

“It’s alright. Zarry has had the same experience. Yet, we must be off.”

Suddenly she heard the laughter flood her head.

“I’m going to have such good fun with this!”

No! Please, stop it!

“Oh no. Your suffering is far too hilarious!”

‘Hilarious’? What is so funny about all this?

“All suffering is hilarious to me!”

That was when she found her body walking out. Her face looked somber, almost like she was walking to a funeral. Yet she could feel him fighting back a smile.

They were soon on a small island. She could see a normal man. He was just a normal small man. There was nothing significant about him. He was not rich nor was he too poor. He had a good and honest business. He had only just managed to save up enough to get to this market island. Yet he could only afford one. He had bought a necklace with black, yellow and red coral beads for his wife. Who he had been in love with since childhood. He had also bought a new strange game for his daughter, who loved board games. One day she was determined to beat him.

He passed her by. Her hand flicked out and the next moment he fell on the ground. His side was bloody and then he screamed. He looked up at her as Kitsuné Ryu laughed at him as he slowly bled to death.

Why? Why did you do that?

“Kitsuné Ryu!”

He shrugged.

“What? Couldn’t help myself!”

Chashathrophogh pulled her in and looked at him.

“You switch with Strena right now!”

At this he let out a scream. 

“What is it?”

“This man is being mean to me!”

At this all went to him. Some took out a knife.

What are you doing?

“Shh and watch. This is going to be hilarious!”

“What is going on?”

“He said he’s going to hurt me if I don’t go with him.”

“What?”

He rolled his eyes as a woman took her away as all the men flocked to him. They went in for the kill only to be the ones falling down dead. 

Kitsuné Ryu ran as he used her lips to laugh as he went to look for her. Yet he had taken her body far away from him.

That was when she saw an old man. He was once a pirate. One of the passionate ones but he was ambitious. Yet one day, when he was feeling a little too ambitious his crew grew cold feet and abandoned him and on this island back in his youth. Then he soon found out that at the time people found the island and quickly turned it into a marketplace overnight. By this time his eyes had become infected by a grain of sand and had gotten blind. So the only thing that he could do was beg and he had been doing it for over sixty years.

“Please!! Anyone there?”

“Yes.”

“Can you spare me some food? I don't care how much. Just a small piece.”

He smiled. 

“Sure!” He spoke with her lips. He then took out just a small piece of bread. He used her fingers to rip off some of the bread and gave it to him. He soon gobbled it down.

“Thank you!”

That was when she started to hear him coughing and he forced her to look at him as he pressed his hand towards his throat. He coughed and coughed and coughed. Foam started flowing from his mouth. Soon his skin became pale and yellow as his eyes bulged.

Please! Stop it! Save him! Don’t let him die! Please! Please! PLEASE!

Then the foam turned red as Kitsuné Ryu laughed and laughed. Soon he put her into a torturing laughing fit that hurt her stomach and throat as he moved no more.

That was when she felt a hand on her arm. She looked back at Chashathrophogh. He looked at her completely livid.

“Why did you do that?”

“What! I just simply put the poor beggar out of his misery!”

At this he slapped her.

“Do you know how many men I needlessly killed?”

He then started to pretend to cry again.

“I’m sorry! I can’t stop him! He keeps on making me kill!”

He then rolled his eyes.

“Do you honestly think that Wolfox hasn’t done this exact thing?”

Her face dropped.

“Not falling for it, eh?”

“Not in the least! Now stop this, now. We are here for supplies.”

“You really care about your friend, don’t you?”

“Yes. Why?”

“Well what if you had to choose between them? Would you choose to save her or your dear friend?”

He looked up the side.

“Does she have anyone that cares about this poor, poor girl?”

“Her uncle-”

“Oh! Poor girl! Will you kill her?”

“No.”

She felt her smile widen as she spotted an ordinary woman walking by her. That was when the fire rose up and was flung at her! Then the woman fell down. She screamed and screamed as the fire consumed her. Soon she collapsed.

At this, Strena no longer felt human. She was nothing more than a vessel of an evil creature that could kill at any time.