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❝Across the sea, will we finally find freedom?❞
【ɗιαƖσgυє cσƖσя:#007F03 ♙ тнσυgнт cσƖσя #B20070】
|| Need you Now || Lady Antebellum ||
【ɗιαƖσgυє cσƖσя:#007F03 ♙ тнσυgнт cσƖσя #B20070】
|| Need you Now || Lady Antebellum ||
When Erika slit her throat, she didn't die. It was very close, though, and she was taken away. Khryia, too, was forced to vanish and thus Clover had been left alone. Erika had tried her best, of course, but in the end she was empty. She got to meet Umbral, Lord of the Underdark. That man was cruel, he was vicious, and his plan was to use both her and the recovered Fearsome as experiments. "What kind of monsters can we make if we fused high mana mages with miasma?" Umbral asked as he strapped them to the machines. Both Fearsome and Nightbloom were poisoned for months and months as the miasma flowed through. She was even forcibly implanted with child in a vicious act of domination and violation. She glared mouthlessly at him, knowing she couldn't resist because if she did Khryia would suffer.
"I want to see what'll happen." Umbral said, one eye gleaming with scientific joy. "What kind of powerful mage can be born with both mana and miasma?" It kept on getting worse, the miasma poisoning and transforming them even more as the days went on. "Stay strong, Nightbloom." Fearsome muttered whenever they got the chance to speak. "Every villain eventually falls, all we have to do is wait for the chance." He was once an enemy but now he was here, he was trying to fight. But could she really fight with Khryia as a hostage? "Ragdoll's alive. We have to stay strong. Don't lose hope." She tried her best, but it was so hard to keep hoping as the experiments kept on coming. Her senses changed, she grew dark lines spreading from her womb reaching the rest of her body. Every moment was pain but there was still no relief. "I'm sorry, Master." Khryia whimpered, crying as she was dissected again for familiar research. "I'm sorry I can't save you."
When the fight broke out and once again the Underdark was attacked, Manfred had taken the now very pregnant Erika. "Don't summon the dragon." Manfred commanded her with a grin. "You don't want to know what we'll do to her if you do." She nodded faintly, too nauseous and gross to do much else. Victoria tried touching her as usual to get a rise but that didn't work. The shadow mage had all but given up now, nothing but a pile of sadness and a belly that continued to swell. "You should try to cheer up." Victoire told her, licking her cheek. "It's not good for the baby." They eventually made up a machine and using it they could control her powers for themselves. The plan? Watch Estelle team break the barrier, and then take them out and use the miasma to bring mages back to glory, to show humans the meaning of fear.
Estelle died before her very eyes but Erika was able to understand her final moments. Earning the will to move, the shadow mage pulled Clover to safety and secured the crystal of memories before it was too late. She had it stored within her now, all of Clover's memories playing through her head. The betrayal, the abandonment, the loneliness, the misery, all of it was there. She was unforgivable, of course. Back at the base, Erika was put back into her room, feeling dull and exhausted all over again. How long until the baby was gone? How long until this filthy parasite was out of her for good? "Khryia." She whispered, summoning the dragon to her who had a pizza in her hand in surprise. "Master? What took you so long? I was waiting at the Spider's Nest this whole time!"
Erika had a single order. She knew it was too late for her, the miasma was too strong. But Clover still had a chance, didn't she? "Save Clover." She managed before she passed out all over again.