Chapter 203: The Truth (1) (1/2)
With a wicked grin from ear to ear her sister, Emilia Reid, slowly lifted her hands up to her face, and with one swiping motion, she began to change…
Her previous sandy beige skin slowly crackled and dissolved, revealing the pure white, almost ghost-like skin that laid underneath. Her long crimson hair immediately changed its colour, length, and style, making it more silky smooth than ever before, turning from ruby to silver with various strands of red, shortening from long to just right under her now even larger bust. The sound of bones crackling filled the air as her body began to even further morph, her height growing taller from 5'8” to 5'10”, as well as a change to all her assets, including her face that now showed off her glowing, blood-red, fiendish eyes that had red lines flowing from underneath them, a single large, white horn growing from the right side of her head with a crimson flame burning on top of it.
Abby's eyes that were once deadly slits grew wide. She felt a searing pain in her lurching heart that now had a massive void, almost like there was a hole in her chest. She felt her stomach turning as she tried her best to not throw up all she had in her tightly secured muzzle that just barely allowed her to breathe. If she was able to move her mouth from under her bindings, her mouth would have been wide open in shock, and her body would have been shuddering as a reflection of her mental state that was both blank but in complete turmoil at the same time…
Nothing felt real yet she knew full well that it was real… Was her sister ever even her sister? How long did this last? How did this even happen? A Shalker as her sister? Does she, a Shalker have an ability? Do her parents know? What more secrets is she unaware of? Why does she want her lord? Did she even have a sister to begin with? And if she did what happened to her?
Thoughts such as those ravaged and tore her mind apart, her expressionless face only being there as a result of her extreme mental turmoil.
”HAHAHA! I bet you must be pretty confused right now! Like your entire life had been a lie! What more did you not know? Well, let me tell you now that you know nothing! You were just my puppet! A crippled doll that I used as both a pawn and a test subject! You were never my sister! You and I were never related! I am a Shalker! The Great Villanova Igris!”
The Shalker's words, every last one of them began to slowly trickle into Abby's mind, steadily adding fuel to her inner burning inferno known as her madness, more than ever she needed answers.
”Before you fade away into nothingness, I am going to share some of my secrets with you, a present from me to you for all the amazing help you've been to me! Consider it the last thing you see before your current self dies…” Villanova said, an amused smile on her face, only leading to nothing other than Abby's shaky eyes now looking more intently at her ”sister's” visage, a face more calm yet more monstrous than she had ever seen her before.
She looked both so familiar yet so foreign in her true form.
”As you probably guessed. Yes, I am in fact a Shalker with an Ability, very rare indeed for my kind, or at least that used to be the case,” She said, mumbling that last part from under her breath that Abby was not able to pick up on.
”Since so few of us had abilities and we were on fighting fronts with various different species, we were on the losing end on many of those wars because we lacked 1 very important thing that many people from those other species possessed, magic, or what you here like to call them, abilities. But, out of every single planet. Earth was the only one with those weird pillars and the only one with over 90% of its population possessing abilities.”
”Me along with a few other people of my kind were lucky enough to possess an ability, we were in the right place at the right time, on a planet when it just suddenly rained unknown green liquid. Yet, despite having these abilities, we had no idea how to replicate them. Thus began the war with earth who seemed to know how to do such things,”