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Chapter 79 - Interlude

Far out in the Chaos Cosmos, in a perpetual void of space storms and time warps was a construct. This construct stretched for miles upon miles in the Cosmic Void, it's size and nature unmeasurable by human standards. The construct was a tree like structure, with branches that stretched out into the Cosmic Void and roots that stood in nothing but Cosmic chaos essence and warping space. Next to the tree was a crimson construct that stretched down into the unfathomable Void. The tree was a Realm tree and the crimson construct was The Abyss.

Far away from the Realm tree, light years away in the chaotic cosmos, where light and time had no meaning, was a creature. The creature was enormous, not as large as the Realm tree but that was by choice. It's form was unexplainable and it's mass seemed to crush the space around it like paper. The creature's body was utter tangible darkness, with an onyx gleam of light and shadow. It seemed to be sleeping, it's head resting on the crumpling space and doing what could be called snoring, but there was no sound where it was.

"...I... Primordial."

The creature stirred, it's form moving slightly as if disturbed by the echoing whisper. Slowly it opened it's eyes, gazing into the Chaos Cosmos, at the Realm tree light years away. In it's eyes were worlds, stars, galaxies and universes all in a state of unending... destruction. The creature raised it's head and gave a yawn that destroyed the space and time around it. The chaotic essence around it crumbled, withered, eroded and imploded simultaneously but it didn't seem to care.

"Primordial?"

The creature's voice bashed through the Cosmic Void, it's level of power rendering the ability of sound to manifest in a space where sound wasn't possible. The creature gave a sigh and closed it's eyes of devastation, and went back to sleep. The chaos carried on around it as it snored, each breath destroying the chaotic essence around it without care or consequence.

...

Far away from Greenhit, in a desolate ruin of a city, in a dilapidated building, a stench of rot and blood filled the air. The building was dark, the shadows seemed to chase out the night light, and tension and lurid pressure pulsed in the wind. Dirt and grime were distant memories as the building had changed into a repulsive thing.

The wall was lined with large cobwebs of blood and flesh, skin melded to the walls like dirt in an ants nest. The walls dripped with blood, fluids and slender lethal silhouettes moved in fleshy passages , each one was a quadrupedal creature. They were decayed, bloody and groaning like undead horrors, which they were.

They came from the outside, zombies of different statures but each ghastly and fouled by death and rot. Their visage were bloody, and a strange aura radiated from them, different from the mundane zombies. Each one dragged a human limb in their mouths or dead body with their tongues. These tongues were lengthy like rope and they had three in their mouths. Further they walked into the dark bloody passages, like mindless machines, crawling on their clawed hands and feet.

They exited out into a large chamber, the entire outline was flesh and blood, meshed and fused together, creating something like a large organ. Human sized oval shaped eggs were across the wall and floor, some in clusters and others alone. They pulsed with a steady beat, their contents obscured by blood and a fleshy shell.

It was in the center of this chamber that the zombies dropped their cargo onto a large pile of limbs, gore and cadavers. Above the chamber, a large caccon made of bloody and flesh pulsed steadily, slower than a heartbeat. The cocoon was massive, the size of a truck or small yacht, and dripped slimy drips of blood occasionally.

A certain female zombie crawled into the chamber, following the other undead and reaching the pile of dead bodies. Her mouth and skull split open as she retched out a perfectly preserved man covered in bloody slimy fluids. The zombie turned around and left, as more undead piled on more bodies.

Unbeknownst to the zombies or whatever was in the caccoon, the man's fingers curled slightly before he was buried under limbs and corpses.

...

Farther away, in a secret place, a red haired woman hung in an isolated cell, suspended by synthetic cords wrapped around her hands. The room was dark, with a pool of water and no human essentials like a bed or lavatory.The woman had violent green eyes, like a forest of greens and wore a raggedy grey dress for a pathetic attempt at modesty. The woman breathed shallowly, her blood red hair reached the floor, a waterfall of ruby red strands.

Above her, in a room lined with machines and intricate technology, a man sat with narrowed eyes. He looked at a live recording of the woman from a hidden camera, gazing at her body with apathetic curiosity and cold interest. The man was medium height with faded black hair and wore a white lab coat.

"What to do, what to do?" He muttered softly.

Looking down he gazed at a blue control system and with a sharp click the synthectic ropes holding the woman gripped her tighter and lifted her into the air. Tiny metallic pipes emerged from the wall, and like serpent fangs, they plunged into the woman's body, into her veins and capillaries.

She didn't even flinch.

The man didn't react as he flicked a switch and got up with a yawn. He slowly took his lab coat off as the tubes started to syphon the woman's blood, draining her like leeches.

A slight ripple passed through the place, a warping of space too subtle for the man and too complex for the machines to notice. A distinct energy, one the woman hadn't sensed in years filled her nose, making her react.

"No...not yet." The woman's eyes glowed green as her hair started to heat up like fire.

WARNING! WARNING! ENTITY IS RESTING! INITIATING COUNTERMEASURES!

A hundred thousand volts of electricity shot out from the synthectic ropes and electrocuted the woman.

"Ahhhhh!"

"Oh? Resistance?" The man turned to the camera screen and spoke calmly," Subject Terra, you have been warned to not resist. Cease at once."

"I... don't...I don't," The woman's eyes blazed like green magma," I don't listen to the weak."

"I understand." The man said coldly and clicked three buttons.

"AHHHHHHHHHH!"

The voltage increased to a million watts of electricity and the water boiled as she was shocked without mercy. After ten minutes electrocution, new water filled the room as the woman hung limp and weakened.

"I wonder why you resisted." The man spoke, more to himself than her. With a sigh he removed his lab coat," I'll find out in due time, Subject Terra."

The man left, but the computer system was still programmed to electrocute the woman if she resisted.

"My name...is...Gaia." The woman, Gaia whispered as she slumped into unconsciousness.

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