Strena The Dark Gods Part Four

 The God Of Death

It was four in the afternoon when they arrived at the next village. The locals were all in doors and had lit fires on their huts and one large one in the centre of the village. It was dark now and they knew that they would have to set up camp after this was done and get some sleep.

They could see a man in black robes and masks made of human skulls. With a scythe in their hands. They seemed to move around as silently as a snake. Their ice cold eyes were looking all around everywhere where they heard a cry. Then they seemed to walk to that place only to move away from it.

“Who?”

Quickly Chashathrophogh covered her mouth.

“They are the priests of Augued. A god of death that is ruthless. They go into a community, take it over and would go around after they force the locals to convert to Auguedism. Then all the worshipers will execute the homeless, physically and psychologically disabled and everyone with any defect and call it a sacrifice.”

At this Strena looked down and touched her scar.

So, someone like me…

“We’re going to have to get to the place where he is before they get anywhere near us.”

She nodded.

“Alright, come on.” He whispered as a priest took a glance at both Strena and Zaryb. He wrapped his arms around them so they would not see their scar and would not be seen by them. Yet they were approached by two.

“Are you visitors?”

“Mind you give us some time for us to talk about Augued?”

“No. But I am interested in his dwelling place.”

“Oh. Over there at the other side of the village by where you exit.”

He nodded.

“Sorry to bother you.” He spoke before passing them. They were about to walk on to go to the place.

“Hold on! The girl and the man, they have damage. They are not allowed!”

That was when they were approached by a group of them. Then they saw the scythe coming at them. Only for Wolfox and Kitsuné Ryu to take over and block them. They dived on and thrust diggers into their side. Then they grabbed their scythes and sliced their heads clean off! 

Both let out a laugh from their hosts lips. 

Yet they saw more coming at them and they found their bodies moved faster than a normal human and sliced their heads off. Then more and more rolled down. They rolled over and they saw several scythes coming at them. They dodged out of the way as they flicked their scythes into their scythes as they saw more they swiped their scythes to them. Then the moment they stood they all looked back to see all the priests were dead.

“That I enjoyed!” 

“Ki-”

That was when they heard a clap behind them. They all looked back to see a humanoid creature clothed in darkness and had an exoskeleton that looked like bones with eyes that were like twin flames riding from the empty eye sockets. Its scarlet lips that seemed like blood was drooling out from the corners of his mouth instead of saliva. The nails were long like mouldy claws.

“Good, good! Give us more! Give us more deformed ones!”

They looked up at him. They glared at him out of their eyes.

“Give us more death! We hunger for more souls!”

At this they narrowed their eyes. That was when the mouth opened and black smoke fell. Something told them to get on top of the huts. So they all dived up as an old man was hit by the smoke and the next moment all the flesh, muscles and internal organs melted away rapidly, leaving nothing but bone. That was when he breathed in and something white came from the skeleton and entered the mouth.

“Ugh! Old and stale! We prefer young and ripe! Why could it not be a pregnant woman!” He spoke as a dog fell.

“‘We’? Why do you say ‘we’?”

“We are made of death. We feed on death. We need death!”

“Sorry, but we need our dear hosts!” Spat Kitsuné Ryu as he let out a breath of fire at his feet. Only for him to jump to Strena.

“Our brother raises a hand against us?”

“I will raise a hand against anyone that raised it against me. And I am not your brother!” He snapped as he dived on and thrust her arms forward and went to stab his eye but this did nothing.

“You use our own bone again us?”

That was when she felt his hand push her off him. She felt hot pain in her shoulder. 

Ahh! What-

“Good question!”

Her head dropped down and looked to see boils all over her shoulder!

What is that?

“Aw! Does it hurt?”

She looked on as she looked up to see the smoke coming at her. She felt her limbs move back and she hat in as when she saw the hand coming at her. Her heart hammered in her head as Kitsuné Ryu flew up and blasted a ball of fire at it. This blasted the hand back. She looked at Augued then blast a ball of fire into the face but this only caused the fire to increase.

“Ahhh! We can see better and wider than ever before! Thank you, brother!” He shouted as he pulled the ground beneath him. He fell down. This caused his head to hit the fire in the centre of the village. This set his whole head alight.

“Yes! We can see all! We can see the whole village!”

He must be able to use the fire to see. Strena deduced.

At this he used her hand to squirt water out and this was blasted at the head and started to but the fire out 

“No! Our sight! Our sight is dimming! It’s dimming!” He said, so he kept this up until the fire was put out. “No! We can not see! We can not see!”

That was when he drew her blades but they would not be drawn. He tried this again and again and again but they remained in their sheath.

“No!”

“We will not be used by you anymore!”

Orion! Darkector!

“Yes, we are both Arielsa’s blades not yours!”

“She won us as Strena but we are both loyal to her!”

He used her lips to smile.

“So it must be you.” She felt her autonomy return to her and she drew them, and the moment she did she lost it again. He dived up and cut the throat off the rest of the body. Then both turned up smoke. That was when she hit the ground and was knocked out cold.