173 <Aster's Torn Heart>

Sliding down, or up? I can't really tell anymore. We fell in to an empty hall, where Kora who got in front of me said, "She should be here shortly," before going back to silent.

Yet looking at her as she didn't seem to like being quiet, despite her enthrallment, which should have taken away her feelings and given them only to the given command.

So letting the trembling Rika down from my arms.

Walking up to her, and looking at her brown, almond nut face, I put my hand on her cheek and said, "I'm sorry for being rash before, who am I to condemn you to silence"

Runnin my thumb across her cheek, she closed her eyes and opened her mouth, "No, I guess I was acting up too much to force you to do that? I apologize deeply, baby"

Hearing her, I couldn't stop smiling, and taking a step to her, I kissed her in front of everyone, "Eww. . ." Mari said as she was starin straight-dead at the back of my head.

And looking back and over at her, after moving my head away from my Kora, I growled at her, which had Mari rolling her eyes at me, right before looking away.

But turning my head away from them, Kora looked me in the eyes one more time before slamming her mouth up against mine, slightly startling me with the first act.

But kissing back, *Rika whispered to Mari, "From what I get, they love potioned eachother, probably in some sort of Alchemy challenge or whatever these things are???" an hearing that, Mari nodded her head, disgusted*

*But then hearing steps and turning as those two love birds were making out, which annoyed the crap out of his two party members, the both of them saw no one?*

"Hey, Idiots, I think they're coming?" Mari said coldly.

And breaking up the make out session, I turned over to them to not hear a thing, but they were looking over into the blackness of a hallway I couldn't even see currently?

"We should walk over to them, it'll make it quicker," Rika said, but even then, I still didn't hear anything, it was jus' silent in the hall other then the few of us. . .I don't get it?

Looking at their backs, one bloodied and still wet with lots of blood on her common attire, and the other one with dust all over from staying in the sanded room.

They walked away, so grabbing Kora's hand, "Let's follow them, though, be on guard, something seems off about this?" I said to her to hear her softly agree with me.

And walking with me, holding my hand tight, we went along with them till will came across a white circle of spiraling disordered energy? "It's the door to the next trial," I heard Mari as she explained what this was?

But then she decided to be the first one to walking into it without saying a word, "Hey, wait up!!!" and Rika chased right after her, running into the disordered space here.

An watching as they casually did it, meaning that it was safe to walk into, I walked over to it, holding Kora's hand and being a little skeptical of this random, energy here.

Then again, I never trusted foreign magics with me. So walking over to it as the others should be on the other side of dis Portal, "Wait... Aster, I'm so sorry" Kora said making me chuckle, "No, your alright, it's my fault too"

I should have told her talking about him makes me ever so uncomfortable, she must still be conflicted about it?

But then as I was going to turn my head and ask her to walking into it with me, my eyes widened as there was a pain coming out of my chest, and widening my eyes I...

I looked down to see bones coming out of my chest, an a hand sticking out of it, slathered in dark red blood and holding a beating blue heart, still beating in her hand...

And as broken black bones of mine hit the ground and blood hit the white energy in front of us, slowly dyeing it this dark red, I tried breathing but I couldn't get anything.

I was perpetually stuck, breathless and in shock, turning my head, I looked behind me to Kora's almond nut face, tears falling down her face as her hand was sticking right into my back.

"I'm sorry, so so sorry, but I have a duty to my people, an we need a demon, so I can't let you go, but what I can, is, what I can is take your heart and use your powers Aster"

With blood, clotting up inside of me, and it going into all the wrong places without the right pumpage, blood went down my shirt and down my mouth as I looked at her.

"Please forgive me... An I'll never forget you... Aster"

What's she talking about?... Why do I feel so cold...

I feel scared, it's getting dark, it's becoming darker.

My legs are getting weak... My strengths fading.

And I can feel them starting to just collapse.

Collapsing down to my knees, I couldn't feel my fingers anymore, and my head fell down making me look down at the floor, why do I suddenly feel so weak, so cold...

I can't seem to remember, but my head feels so clear?

Blinking rapidly, I glanced up to see someone stepping out of the red energy Infront of us, it was... A Man and a woman, and when looking down at me, I felt something.

A tear from out my chest, making me feel even colder.

I remember a few years ago, I was jailed, it was right before I came to this world, before I was reborn and became Hiro, I met other sorcerer's there, they were everything to me at the time, because they were nice.

The warden was a crule woman, and the guards didn't like me at first, it was us against them, and I remember trying to escape, which led me to getting hanged over a pit of zombies, though I felt terror and fear, it was never like this, this cold feeling that spread throughout me to everywhere in my body, because that feeling was hot.

It was like a burning feeling that really scared me.

This time, it's like this feeling of embracement.

Like when after 5 days of being there, I went beserk, but I was already in cuffs and hanging from a metal wire, it was hard feeling and thick to were I couldn't even bleed.

But after about a week, this feeling overcame me and I turned farel, I was starved for what could have been 3 weeks, till my torture came, she came out of spite for me. It was the warden, who I thought I would kill.

Yet instead I merely feel in love with her.

An that feeling I first got when I did wasn't an explosion of warmth, a nice feeling or that comfort you'd get, it's like I died a little on the inside, and lost self respect.

So is this what this feeling was, am I dieing or is it like something in me is dieing? How the hell would I know?

Afterwards, I crumbled and reverted to a state of nature where I closed myself off and let my body do everything, I turned slutty like a whore, an slept with everyone there.

Guards an Inmates, while sleeping with my own torturer.

I think that's when I first died as TurtleMaster, an turned into whatever I was before, because it took a while for me to come back to my senses and when I had. . .

I was enslaved by one of my own, a sorcerer, traded by my own sister, or that body's sister, and treated no more than a slave by my own people, and looked down by my own clan, gee, what is this, some villain backstory...?

After that it's blurt, but once I came to accept the new me, a demon named Aster, that cold feeling went away, maybe if I accept this, that coldness will go away now?

"Aster!.. .Aster! Stay with me! Damn it Hiro! Don't die!"

I heard a feminine scream as my body went limp, and with my eyes open, fading around my sight to black, I saw a large blade come over at my head, swinging, an Mari grabbing me, and shaking me, saying something.

"For fucks sakes, your supposed to be a demon, why do you keep doing this to me! Why do you keep dieing on me! Please! Keep your eyes open, I'll save you! I will!"

Looking at her as tears fell down her face, I moved my hand up to her face, and touching her cheek, her not able to feel a thing other than this icy feeling now.

"Hey. . .Cheer up. . .Don't cry. . .Not... For me. . ." I said.

*Greg swung his blade over Aster's head to cleave Kora in half as he saw her rip Aster's heart from out of him, but she shifted away in a cloud of sand yards away*

*And looking back over at Mari and Aster, "How is he! Is he... Can we save him in time?!" Greg yelled as his best friend was losing a lot of blood, an could see past him*

*Greg could literally see past the hole in his chest*

*And shocked with emotion, red flames came off of Aster, burning his body, and covering him whole, but Mari refused to let him go, even if she could actually feel the fire, and the fire hurt even her, a fire sorcerer*

*But as a thick cloak of fire covered him, blocking their sight of him, and Greg yelling, "ASTER!!!" as he was just suddenly lit ablaze by fire that looked like the type he's been known to use, it suddenly faded leaving behind...*

*It left behind a small boy, one several inches smaller than Aster, with Horns curling around the side of his head like a sheep, and a long and thin tail at his butt*

*Seeing him, both Greg and Mari were shocked, and for two different reasons, an when they saw him, everything he was using vanished, he released a demonic aura, and gave off this sweet smell, alluring even them to him with a sweet bakery aroma, which's ment to attracted all*

*And seeing this, harder tears feel down Mari's face as she clenched him with her burned hands, and buried her face into his shoulder, as she started to suddenly weep*

*And shocked, Greg stared at him until he clenched his teeth as he heard, "So that's what the demon really had looked like, what a powerful aura, I was right to do this* and it just set Greg off as he turned back to her angry*

"Look, he wasn't the best guy, and sometimes he's just a little slappable, but he didn't deserve this, an what right do you have to call Aster a Demon, out of everyone in the demon cult, he's more angelic than ah Demon!"

"He's a good man, he doesn't deserve this! So why'd you have to go an kill him, Pharaoh! Why'd you do dis to him! We had a deal, so why the hell did you jus kill my friend!"

*Yelling at the top of his lungs, as demonic energy had swelled inside of him, using his anger to fuel it's power and make him and it stronger using just his emotions*

*She raised the blue heart up, "Because, we needed his heart, Aster didn't want to help us, but we needed him to enact our revenge, listen, I didn't want to do this, I had to and I loved Aster will all of me as well, that's why I'm. . . Going to replace my heart with his, stealing his powers"*

*Widening Greg's eyes, and looking at the heart that was still beating and spewing out dark red blood, "His heart, his powers, what the hell type of logic is that..." he said as her story was killing him on the inside; sorrowfully*

"Look, his heart is still beating, like it never left his chest, the hearts red but his is an ice blue, blood still red, no its darker than red, and just the power in it alone is so raw with demonic energy, that it's just terrifying to hold..."

*Biting his lip, he wanted to kill her as she spoke*

"Yet I'm going to take this power for myself and use it to restore us, for Aster, and for my people too, Human boy"

*Lookin at him with a deadly stare, she grabbed the tool on her side, and stabbing her own chest and yanking down, widening his as it seemed ever so surprising*

*She cut a slash into her chest, and then let go of the blade stabbing her hand into her chest, turning what was flesh and blood to sand as she reached in and took out her beating red heart, tossing it to ground and then taking Aster's heart, and licking it for whatever reason, she then buried it into her chest, to pull her hand out*

*Taking a deep breathe, it instantly took affect as her chest beated hard and she grabbed her large chest, to hold it but then she fell down to a single knee panting*

*Her eyes rolled back, and grunting before growling and then, suddenly screaming, she grabbed her neck with her hand covered in Aster's blood, and it seemed into her skin from her neck, making her choke in his blood*

*Letting go of her chest and grabbing her neck as she slammed her face onto the dirt floor, Greg took this advantage and charged at her, but when he did...*

*On the ground, little tendrils broke from out of the floor and grabbed his feet, causing him to trip and fall to his knees as he caught himself on the ground, swiftly*

*But then swallowing, she consumed the blood in her throat, and feeling everything hurt but start to stabilize for the moment, when she looked back at them, Mari and Greg looked over to see her white irises had turned blood red, an her pupils began to split like a cat's would*

*Her flesh started to spike and and she started to feel an immense amount of pain, but seeing that the worst of it was only about to begin and she had just this little moment of freedom, she shifted into a sand cloud and vanished away from them, to continue the merging...*

*And seeing her leave, Greg tore out the tendrils tripping him, and knowing nothing would happen from running after her, after knowing how they move and that they can manipulate this place, he punched the wall in frustration, before turning to the sobbing Mari*

*And going over to Aster and her, he looked down to see his shadow fluctuating, "Damn it Aster, I should have jus listened to you. . .I got you killed. . .I'm, so... So sorry..."*

*But then the others came from the portal, "What's takin you so long! An what's with the rift turning red..." but as Grace said that annoyed, because they told her to wait cause Aster was probably talking wit the pharaoh...*

*Her eyes widened in shock as she saw Aster, on his back, with blood coming out his mouth, Mari over him crying, and then this hand sized hole in his chest. . .*

*Speechless, her breathe quickened and her eyes were watered, "This is some kind of joke right?... I don't get it Aster?" she said walking over to his corpse, an falling*

*Falling to her knees, her eyes shook and she was bout to break down into tears like Mari had, till she looked down to see his shadow expanding under them...*

*Clenching her hands, and clenching her teeth hard, she looked over to Mari yelling, "What are you doing, Aster's an incubus! We need to get that succubus, she can..."*

*Taking a breathe as she swallowed the truth hard*

"If we just get her, she can revive him! I know she can!"

*Getting up as tears fell from her face, she looked over to Greg, who bit his cheek and looked away as he was looking down to the ground near, his closest friend...*

"Greg, if we get Rika she can revive him... she's a succubus, she's of the same race as Aster, I know it'll work, we jus need to get her, and he'll come back to us!"

*She said, but her voice was riddles with denial...*

*And knowing that, but wanting to believe her...*

"Then what are we waiting for, let's get her..."

*Yet when they left, Mari watched as 2 black boned hands crept out of his shadow, which now looked like a pool of darkness, an his soul, this firey green appeared*

*Grabbing his soul, she didn't utter as it brung straight horror to her, and as she didn't even move an inch, no, not even a centimeter, the others came through the portal to see black bones grabbing a green sphere*

*An realizing what it was, the others froze, it's death...*

*And as death in material form appeared before them all to snag the soul of their comrade and partner, they heard, "You've been through enough in this realm, my child, it's time to return home. . .To the dark realm"*

*Death spoke in this chilling voice, and as the bone hand holdin the green sphere sunk into Aster's shadow, which now seemed like perpetual darkness, they jus vanished*

*Leaving an empty corpse of a Behazmeth Incubus*

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