Deep below the island, something sinister gazed at the newest addition to its game with pride. A malicious grin seemed to glow harshly in the darkness of the cave, the tar coating the room pulsing with untapped energy and anticipation. There was a mutual understanding between master and pawn, a shared desire, drawn up from buried emotions. Raw, visceral, and locked away thirst for blood, this creation would be the greatest sent up to the surface. With a flick of an appendage, the newborn creature seemed to grin, scuttling up the cavern walls with grace before climbing its way through a tunnel leading directly to the surface. The sinister force leaned back in a crudely carved throne, their toothy grin settling to a satisfied smirk. Their fingers gently caressed a precious artifact, hanging by a delicate string around their neck. It had taken a few hundred years, but they had managed to gather enough energy to perfect their magic while hiding beneath the island, undisturbed. The perfect environment to build up their power to once more make their claim to what should have been theirs long ago.
Their attention was drawn out from their inner musings, as the screams of fury and anguish coming from within the cavern right as the creature left began to echo from a cage. The sinister being turned their head lazily, resting their cranium on a hand to gaze at the dragon with them. The cage was small, built like those overused metal bird cages one saw too often, dangling from the ceiling by a string of tar, which also build the cage. Fire proof, flexible, and too thick for any sort of weapon or claw to cut. "Do stop struggling, old friend." the masculine voice purred, slowly, their voice pulsing like many, many slugs. The little red dragon huffed, unable to move within the cage, but they were much to exhausted from the cut off of the bond to do much. She had to rest. "Don't give me that cheek, Aurrea~" The dragon resisted the urge to gag from the way her own name slid off the being's tongue. She was half convinced that it wasn't hers anymore, from the way they used it, and she briefly found herself thinking that being nameless was better than having such a name said to her again.
"I'm sure... even you see how this-" the sinister power paused, the silence filled with the faint sound of a flick and a hiss, "Was inevitable. In the end-" Suddenly, the being rose from its throne, the tar swirling around its lower region, solidifying and raising them into the air with an inky pillar made from their own body. Harshly, their hand shot out to grab the cage and yank it to their horrid face. Aurrea glare defiantly into the eyes of this hated presence. "I, Viiper, shall win."
Quickly, we pan back to the tunnel where Viiper's most dangerous creation yet crawled its way eagerly to the surface. Its long limbs where tipped with long talons, aiding its climb up the sheer and slick tunnel walls with ease. Somewhat humanoid in structure, the being was clearly comfortable with standing or crawling on all fours, with its elongated torso and digitigrade feet. A long slender tail waved behind it, tipped with an elegant tuft of wavy fur, inky and shimmery. In a way, this creature was one of the more detailed of the creatures Viiper had created, with a slight amount of iridescence to its inky form, but with clearly defined plates across its underbelly, and the faintest of scales coating its body. Wickedly curved spikes rose from its spine, with nightmarish tendrils of ink resting on its hips and forming a thick mane all across its head and neck. With a somewhat lengthy neck, and a sleek snout, the large, blank white eyes almost betrayed benevolence if it were not for the pointed horns curving from its skull. Large, pointed, feathered ears flicked as it reached the end of the tunnel.
Now this was an annoyance, it seemed to think, tilting its head to examine the concrete above it. The corners of its mouth lifted, the grin in no way friendly paired with the multitude of teeth that poked out of the lips from both top and bottom jaws. Raising a hand, the creature swiped at the concrete, uttering a pleased hiss at how easily the material crumbled from their strength. With new vigor, the creature tunneled its way into the foundation of the school, heading towards the pulsing of many, many heartbeats.
Within the gym, many of the students simply sat and conversed, some worried about the sudden disappearance of the headmaster, yet those were few to far in between. Yet, suddenly, one, then two, then a several groups began hushing the kids around them. Surprisingly, most of the conversation stopped, each student listening with strained ears. A few girls sobbed, frightened by the sound coming from... beneath them.
Suddenly, as if it were an egg shell cracking, the floor heaved up into a hill, before the polished wood splintered and warped before peeling away. Up from the center of this, the creature rose, shaking off the dirt and blinking it out of their eyes. They squinted, adjusting their orbs to the new light, gazing around at the sights, the smells, the students, with malignant curiosity. Carelessly, the creature was resting itself on its arms, hands gripping the edge of the hole, hanging there like Ariel from the Littler Mermaid on the rock. "Heeelo~" it sang lowly with a grin.
And then the screaming started.
The absolute pandemonium that broke out made the fiend giggle with glee, leaping into the fray. Students didn't know where the figure was or where it went, but it snapped and clawed "playfully" as it passed, students began slipping in the minimal amount of blood surrounding the masses. The creature flicked its arm out, ink shooting off its body and sealing one of the door ways the students had run for. Taunting the students with a gentle tsk, the creature took to the walls and ceiling like a spider, dropping down in front of the next door way and smiling widely at the students. "Boo~" it sealed the doorway as the students ran from it again.
This game of cat and mouse continued, the fiend thoroughly enjoying itself as it sealed entrances and continued to administer scratches to the students. Luckily, it seemed that it wasn't in the mood for anything more serious, yet, and while the students did bleed, none of the cuts were serious. Some of the older students had gathered enough courage to gather up their power to attack the creature, but it quickly dispatched of them by glueing them to the wall with the tar like substance, grinning each time they passed a struggling student with nullified powers.
Then, like a well trained dog, the fiend had managed to herd most of the students into the corners of the gym, grinning as it passed close enough to growl right into their faces before it scampered away again laughing maniacally. Scamping in a wide circle around the center of the gym, it stoped its leaping bound of a gate to then prowl on all four limbs. Grinning and growling it glanced this way and that, pleased with its work. "Ya'll better keep quiet, now~ The master doesn't like it when beings weaker than him speak out of their place, or else I might just have to silence you myself. I don't think you'd want that now, hmm~" the creature hummed in sick melody, and to add the icing on the cake to this grand entrance, it gazed right at the youngest children in the room on the word "silence". It twisted its head into a tilt with an audible snap and hissed, grinning again as the child it stared at leapt back and opened her mouth to scream. A male senior quickly slapped his hand over the young child's mouth before any sound could escape. The creature flicked it's tail in annoyance. "Clever boy~" it clicked its tongue distastefully.
Their attention was drawn out from their inner musings, as the screams of fury and anguish coming from within the cavern right as the creature left began to echo from a cage. The sinister being turned their head lazily, resting their cranium on a hand to gaze at the dragon with them. The cage was small, built like those overused metal bird cages one saw too often, dangling from the ceiling by a string of tar, which also build the cage. Fire proof, flexible, and too thick for any sort of weapon or claw to cut. "Do stop struggling, old friend." the masculine voice purred, slowly, their voice pulsing like many, many slugs. The little red dragon huffed, unable to move within the cage, but they were much to exhausted from the cut off of the bond to do much. She had to rest. "Don't give me that cheek, Aurrea~" The dragon resisted the urge to gag from the way her own name slid off the being's tongue. She was half convinced that it wasn't hers anymore, from the way they used it, and she briefly found herself thinking that being nameless was better than having such a name said to her again.
"I'm sure... even you see how this-" the sinister power paused, the silence filled with the faint sound of a flick and a hiss, "Was inevitable. In the end-" Suddenly, the being rose from its throne, the tar swirling around its lower region, solidifying and raising them into the air with an inky pillar made from their own body. Harshly, their hand shot out to grab the cage and yank it to their horrid face. Aurrea glare defiantly into the eyes of this hated presence. "I, Viiper, shall win."
Quickly, we pan back to the tunnel where Viiper's most dangerous creation yet crawled its way eagerly to the surface. Its long limbs where tipped with long talons, aiding its climb up the sheer and slick tunnel walls with ease. Somewhat humanoid in structure, the being was clearly comfortable with standing or crawling on all fours, with its elongated torso and digitigrade feet. A long slender tail waved behind it, tipped with an elegant tuft of wavy fur, inky and shimmery. In a way, this creature was one of the more detailed of the creatures Viiper had created, with a slight amount of iridescence to its inky form, but with clearly defined plates across its underbelly, and the faintest of scales coating its body. Wickedly curved spikes rose from its spine, with nightmarish tendrils of ink resting on its hips and forming a thick mane all across its head and neck. With a somewhat lengthy neck, and a sleek snout, the large, blank white eyes almost betrayed benevolence if it were not for the pointed horns curving from its skull. Large, pointed, feathered ears flicked as it reached the end of the tunnel.
Now this was an annoyance, it seemed to think, tilting its head to examine the concrete above it. The corners of its mouth lifted, the grin in no way friendly paired with the multitude of teeth that poked out of the lips from both top and bottom jaws. Raising a hand, the creature swiped at the concrete, uttering a pleased hiss at how easily the material crumbled from their strength. With new vigor, the creature tunneled its way into the foundation of the school, heading towards the pulsing of many, many heartbeats.
Within the gym, many of the students simply sat and conversed, some worried about the sudden disappearance of the headmaster, yet those were few to far in between. Yet, suddenly, one, then two, then a several groups began hushing the kids around them. Surprisingly, most of the conversation stopped, each student listening with strained ears. A few girls sobbed, frightened by the sound coming from... beneath them.
Suddenly, as if it were an egg shell cracking, the floor heaved up into a hill, before the polished wood splintered and warped before peeling away. Up from the center of this, the creature rose, shaking off the dirt and blinking it out of their eyes. They squinted, adjusting their orbs to the new light, gazing around at the sights, the smells, the students, with malignant curiosity. Carelessly, the creature was resting itself on its arms, hands gripping the edge of the hole, hanging there like Ariel from the Littler Mermaid on the rock. "Heeelo~" it sang lowly with a grin.
And then the screaming started.
The absolute pandemonium that broke out made the fiend giggle with glee, leaping into the fray. Students didn't know where the figure was or where it went, but it snapped and clawed "playfully" as it passed, students began slipping in the minimal amount of blood surrounding the masses. The creature flicked its arm out, ink shooting off its body and sealing one of the door ways the students had run for. Taunting the students with a gentle tsk, the creature took to the walls and ceiling like a spider, dropping down in front of the next door way and smiling widely at the students. "Boo~" it sealed the doorway as the students ran from it again.
This game of cat and mouse continued, the fiend thoroughly enjoying itself as it sealed entrances and continued to administer scratches to the students. Luckily, it seemed that it wasn't in the mood for anything more serious, yet, and while the students did bleed, none of the cuts were serious. Some of the older students had gathered enough courage to gather up their power to attack the creature, but it quickly dispatched of them by glueing them to the wall with the tar like substance, grinning each time they passed a struggling student with nullified powers.
Then, like a well trained dog, the fiend had managed to herd most of the students into the corners of the gym, grinning as it passed close enough to growl right into their faces before it scampered away again laughing maniacally. Scamping in a wide circle around the center of the gym, it stoped its leaping bound of a gate to then prowl on all four limbs. Grinning and growling it glanced this way and that, pleased with its work. "Ya'll better keep quiet, now~ The master doesn't like it when beings weaker than him speak out of their place, or else I might just have to silence you myself. I don't think you'd want that now, hmm~" the creature hummed in sick melody, and to add the icing on the cake to this grand entrance, it gazed right at the youngest children in the room on the word "silence". It twisted its head into a tilt with an audible snap and hissed, grinning again as the child it stared at leapt back and opened her mouth to scream. A male senior quickly slapped his hand over the young child's mouth before any sound could escape. The creature flicked it's tail in annoyance. "Clever boy~" it clicked its tongue distastefully.
