To Break A Curse

2.79

(TW~ talks of death)

Colt dodged tendrils as he tried to get closer to the large mass of darkness behind him. He could hear Roman screaming out and it tore at him.  Dark growled as another tendril crashed into the ground beside Colt, making him roll just to dodge, landing roughly in front of the towing mass of darkness. 

"Stop running. You're like an annoying cockroach." Colt's eyes set with a serious expression as Dark appeared in front of him. "You should have died a long time ago but you just keep kicking. Unfortunately, these will be your last moments." Another bout of screaming from Roman, and Dark smile letting the darkness that contained the god branch out and wrap around the demi. Colt grunted as the demonic aura stabbed into him. "It's only fitting you should suffer the same as your God, yes? I am one for the dramatics of course. I'll be sure to end that pathetic God of Darkness in the same fashion as I killed his demi as well."

"You won't get the chance." Colt spat out only to groan as the darkness around him grew tighter. 

"Won't get the chance? Colt, I've already won. That... Virgil is in no state to fight. You've lost. Your god is captured, and it will only be a matter of time before the little mouse is a stain on my heel.  Face the facts, Colt... It's over." Colt just chuckled making Dark falter in confusion. "Are you in denial or just that stupid? I mean, I've always known you were an idiot but..."

"You haven't won shit, Dumbass." Colt laughed louder as he forced himself onto his knees, with the towering darkness directly behind him. "You think that just because you have us in your 'darkness' that you've won?"

"You forget, Dear brother... You aren't immortal. Only that god of yours and he's too busy screaming-..." Dark sighed with a sort of vile satisfaction as Roman's screams got louder. "To do anything to help. So... Once again, I will state, that I have won."

"No, see that's where you're wrong." Dark frowned as Colt's smirk only grew. "Because... I know something you don't."

"And what exactly would because all I see is you being delusional."

"Roman isn't just the God of Creativity, Asshole. He's the family." Dark rolled his eyes as he raised his arms, summoning more tendrils to grow behind him. "And He will NEVER allow anything to happen to us. He will ALWAYS come through. So you may think you have us beat... but you can never defeat him." The screaming slowly dimmed making Darks eyes shimmer with pride in how they sounded choked before going silent. 

"I think I just did." Dark boasted as the tendril all moved to take aim, each one pointed towards Colt prepared to skewer him. "You're God is out for the count, and your grasping at broken sticks. Gods are worthless anyway. Worthless nothings that would just watch the humans they chose kill each other than do anything to actually help them. You know this." Dark laughed ignoring how Colt only seemed to smile more. "So why put your faith in something so pathetic?"

"Because I know him. I trust Roman with my life." Dark growled hearing just how sure Colt's voice sounded. "Roman would do anything to protect those he calls family... and he chose ME to be his son." 

"You sound pathetic. His son? You're a Graberson-..."

"I am his son." Colt repeated with a spark in his eyes that would clearly never fade. "He's my father... and I love him."

"Well... I suppose it doesn't matter as you will die and he will have to live with that." Dark called out before snapping his fingers. All the tendrils shot at him with blazing speed only making Colt's eyes narrow.

"DAD!" He screamed out and just before anything could happen, light burst through the darkness cutting the binds that held him, making Colt's eyes dart over to see Roman's sword stuck in the floor. Scarlet flamed erupted through the air burning the tendrils away as heavy footsteps slowly pushed out of the darkness, revealing a very pissed-off god with pitch-black eyes, black tears showing demonic poisoning trailing down his cheeks.

"Stay the fuck away from my son." Roman held his hand out making his sword fly back into his hand from where he had thrown it.

"Dad..." Roman blinked, eyes darting over to Colt, who just smiled. 

"I love you too... now, stop being stupid." Roman hissed, albeit with a small smile.

"I'm afraid that's all he ever is." Dark called out as he sent more and more tendril at them, the darkness swamping the room till the two could only see themselves. Roman tensed, having to focus on the fight to blast all the tendrils away with his fire. Dark's voice bounced through the air making it difficult to pinpoint where he was. Roman pulled Colt behind him as his fire trailed up his arms. "But that seems to be a shared trait in his... chosen family." Roman's eyes flashed as he blasted flames to the side only to find a wall of darkness, and growled. Roman's eyes darted about making sure to keep an arm out to keep Colt behind him and protected. 

"I mean... A God, who lashes out in anger over everything like a child. Not to mention being the original idiot who gave up his divinity for love." Roman's growl only deepened at that, however, he refused to let it get to him. Another god who so stupidly gave up his invulnerability for a man who couldn't even remember him." Roman's fire fanned out angrily, eating away at the darkness, only pissing Roman off more who couldn't seem to find the demon. "And a demi who thought he challenge not only a Demon but one of the Graberson twins with nothing but a pathetic bow and arrow. As if he wouldn't get wrung full of holes within a second"

"YOU KEEP ALEX OUT OF YOUR MOUTH, YOU BASTARD!" Colt screamed out making Roman have to hold him back.

"Colt, don-..."

"Pathetic really." Roman's voice cut out as Dark's voice seemed to flood in from every corner. "He probably would have lived had you not been so... weak-willed. You had Mark convinced after all. He was being treated like a king and you came and just had to 'break them out'."

"YOU SHOT HIM!"

"Colt, stop." Roman was desperate to try and calm his son down. He could feel the electrical shocks that burned against his skin. He was scared Colt would end up running into the darkness and get himself hurt. "Please, calm yourself. He's trying to anger us."

"He killed Alex, Roman." Roman's eyes softened seeing the pain the demi was in before shaking his head.

"I know, but we have to be smart about this-..."

"As I said before... Colt is incapable of being smart. And if you want to do the 'smart' thing, I would stop trying to protect such a liability." Colt hissed gratefully, his skin feeling hot the touch as his electricity sparked worse. "After all, Death just seems to follow him, isn't that right, Colt. Alex... Your mother."

"MARK KILLED HER-..." Roman's eyes flashed feeling the burning of Colt's skin start to actually hurt, smoke blooming up from where he held the demi.

"No.  No Mark didn't kill her." Colt's breath came out in pants as Darks chuckle sounded around them. "You opened your little mouth just like always... and I drove my sword through her chest. Just as I shot that demi... and just as I'm going to do that God you both are protecting. Death will ALWAYS follow you, Colt... BECAUSE I WILL MAKE SURE IT DOES!"

"I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU!"