Chapter 304 - Deaths Challenge (1/2)
”Yeah. I'm not so sure I'm on board for that,” Laz responded, wondering if she was kidding. Taking a look at Death though, Laz realized that she had a serious expression on her face.
”I'm not kidding,” she simply responded.
”OK. So... To satisfy you... I have to die?”
”Well. Yeah. Kind of...” she responded, hesitant.
”Why...?”
”I'm not sure I can really answer that.”
”Uh...”
”Ok. You were able to give the other's what they wanted, yes?”
”Yeah. I think so.”
”You did. But I'm a little different. You see, normally, you might think in your head, how do I satisfy death? Kill death? Do you really think that death can be killed?” She said, trying to make Laz understand what she herself didn't really understand.
”You're saying you can't be killed?” Laz asked, a bit shocked.
”I don't know. I can tell you that since that night when we were all cursed, there have been plenty of times that I should have died, but I didn't. So... I honestly don't know.” Although she was serious, there was also hesitation that Laz could easily detect.
”Let's ȧssume you can't die then, just to move along this path. But then the only way to satisfy you would be for me to die? How does that even make sense? I mean, along those lines, I could just bring someone else in and kill them and boom... death. That should do it to, right?” Laz was trying to make sense of this since he had no dėsɨrė to die.
”It can't be anyone. The only one that can truly understand me, like how you understood the others, is you must experience death yourself... I think.” Her voice dropped to a whisper at the end, hoping that he wouldn't hear that last part. But of course Laz did.
”You think?”
”Well... I've never done this before, ok?”
”...”
”And it wasn't that you truly beat the others, you just showed that you understood them well enough to give them what they wanted. That's the same thing here.” If it came down to it, Death knew more about what her sister's needed than Laz did. It wasn't just about their needs, it was about showing understanding or being enlightened as to what each of them were. As such, the only way he could truly come to understand death, no matter how many times he killed others, was to die himself.
”Alright fine. Kill me and let's get it over with...”
”Well, you'll need to... wait, what?”
”Just go ahead and do it. A smaller wound would be better though. Making my head blow up would probably be a bad thing...” Laz said, completely at ease as he made that statement.
”Blow your head off?” Now it was Death's turn to be confused. She didn't expect that Laz would just suddenly change his mind as she thought he would need a lot more convincing and a lot of explanation and ȧssurance as to what was going to happen and how he could get through this. But now, he was suddenly ok with death? It didn't make any sense to her.
”I really hope I don't have to do that since I would be bald for a while.”
”No... No... you don't need to blow your head off.”
”Good. Ok, You ready?” Laz said.
”Ready? Ready for what?” Death asked.
”I figured that I would probably be able to kill myself easier than you could and make it a bit less gory. So since your ready, here goes,” Just as Laz said that, his sword, Sever, appeared in his hand and before Death could stop him, Laz stabbed the sword into his heart and pulled it back out, causing a fountain of blood to accompany it.
”WHAT ARE YOU DOING?” Death screamed, watching this happen.
”Killing... myself... quickly....” Laz struggled to get out before the world started going black.
”I MEANT YOU JUST NEEDED TO TAKE THIS PILL!!!!” Death said, pulling out a pill she had grabbed from her nightstand and had been holding in her hand.
”... Fuck...” Laz said before passing out and dropping over.
”FUCK. YOU STUPID FUCKING.... AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!” Death yelled at Laz as she held him, her mind going in twenty directions at once.
But she needed to do this first.
Would she be able to save him after this?
Was there enough time?
Just as the Ivy sister named Death was about to explode from indecision, the decision was taken from her hand. A large black shadow wielding a massive scythe cover in spikes and chains suddenly separated itself from her body as she drooped down, falling asleep on top of Laz's limp body. The shadow then rushing into Laz's head as though it was nothing.
Everything was suddenly quiet in the complex. The other girls, in various stages of sleep, suddenly became limp as shadows rushed out of them and sped for Laz before disappearing as well.
...
Laz was standing within a dark world of nothingness. Everything was black, colorless, shapeless, with no ground nor sky and no horizon. Despite this, he didn't feel afraid. This darkness wasn't new to him thanks to a certain someone. He didn't experience a shortness of breath nor a sense of dread, instead finding the darkness to be somewhat... peaceful.
He also noticed the shadows moving around within the nothingness, but he didn't say anything or even pay them any attention. Instead, he sat down, crossed his legs, rested his hands on his knees and closed his eyes, waiting.
What was he waiting for? For whatever was going to happen. Since he knew something would happen, there was no reason to rush it.
Instead, Laz just sat there and worked through the method of how to train his eyes. This was the first chance he had to do so and he wasn't going to miss it.
Time seemed to fly by, but also not move. There was no way to tell how long Laz sat there, going through the technique before a sudden noise awoke him from his meditation.
Standing in front of him, or floating... maybe hovering. Whatever.
In front of him were four shadows that were slowing revolving in a clockwise circle around an imaginary center. None of them had true shapes but since Laz had these golden eyes, he was able to notice splashes of darkness that seemed a bit darker than the rest of the nothingness.
Laz couldn't help but grin in spite of himself.
”We come from a dark world,” a voice that was everywhere and nowhere at once sounded out.
”A world of nothing.”
”A black void of infinity.”
”A desolate wasteland of empty.”
”A dead planet.”
”We found escape within the stars.”
”A calling.”
”The summons.”
”And we left.”
”We followed the voice.”
”Freedom, it promised.”
”A living world.”
”A future.”
”Light.”
”But we were deceived.”
”Tricked.”
”BETRAYED!”
”WE WERE USED!”
”ENSLAVED!”
”SEALED.”