Descent Into Madness

9, An Elf

After our little discussion that took, well, almost forever, I had managed to massacre a part of this ship and Ako had gone back to defend our own ship. As I rushed through room to room, brutally dismembering each and every Blacklite military soldier in my path like a bloodthirsty lion. My sword, my hands and my body were all covered in a scarlet mess and each time I'd run by a room, I'd be met with bloodcurdling screams from how messy I looked. The soldiers would go weak from fear every time they saw me, giving me an easy kill. On top of that, each one I would ask: "Tell me where Akuma is...I need to kill him-" and they'd reply with a cowering voice; with a helpless voice of a child telling me they don't know.

Lies.

I thought to myself haughtily as my pursuit for the reactor continued.

Anyway, while I was continuing my brutal massacre, I paused in one room. "Any more of ya'll idiots who don't listen will end up dead like that elven piece of sh-t."Damn, there's actually people here? With that now in mind, I would try to open the door the voice came from. Of course. It's locked. I turned my facial expression into a stern one for a moment before I gripped the handle and ripped the heavy metal door off its hinges easily. I then shifted my face to look stoic and unamused at the elite guard before me. The guard in question looked over at me and dropped their gun. I had to wipe the blood off my face to see them better and it seemed that they looked terrified of me. "H-hey! What...you're not meant to be here..." He exclaimed; his confidence ironically crumbling. I ignored him for a moment and looked around the place seeing people all cooped up in cells. They all varied in ages, sizes and looks but most importantly, they all were demi-elementals like me. Half animal and all have a powerful elemental ability bound to them. Just like me. I looked down however; one wasn't the same.

A rather small woman who seemed to be around the same age as me was on the floor, her abdomen cut open and a pool of her insides stained the floor. She had white hair, a bow made from what seemed to be roots and a bag pack on her back. I then noticed one last thing after squinting my eyes for a moment. This woman really is elven...but what the hell would an elf be doing in a damn place like this?

"Interesting..." I mused aloud. "How did she get here?" I asked the guard with a voice I forged to be as menacing as possible. "She was a special asset to us...for a small bit but now I killed her. Pity she only lasted only two days I would've had so much fun if only I could-" I then reached out for this mans chest, ripping his ribs and his chest apart to ring his heart out and present it to him. "I'm not allowing you to do such. Now unless you want to be spared, tell me where Akuma is" The guard before me was ghost pale, I could see his face through the visor as well. His face was so fearful I could pause everything and start laughing. I had to snort as soon as I saw his face to contain my laughter. "I-I-I don't know!! Please j-just-" I crushed his heart right before he could say another word and all the people around me looked in horror. Some, looked in utter joy and others just seemed far too traumatised to say a word.

"Bravo, young man!" I saw one of the elderly half lioness say to me, her mane looked shrivelled; her skin and her face looked so aged I thought she was a ghost for a moment. "Now allow me to tend to the lady, one of you, wash the blood off him" She commanded as she weakly but elegantly limped towards this elven lady. A boy with black hair and purple eyes walked up to me and made an orb of water that looked moderately large and then washed me by driving it in the air and sending a wave of water in my face. I felt both refreshed and oddly humiliated. I guess such spells come across me as attacks nowadays since I've been fighting a lot. "Thank you, kid" I murmured a little less blatantly than usual, the tone of my voice came off as. Calm. Not sure why but that just didn't seem to sit right with me; maybe because I've been used to being so harsh and blatant.

A little while later, I'd been analysing a map of the place for a few minutes that someone had on them to plan my sabotage and I got the people to evacuate onto the lifepods on the sides of the ship. "Guess I know what I'm doing-" I murmured. The plan was to make a sort of decoy on the main hallway and then I'd make a large smokescreen, escape through the vents and then come back down to the reactor and blow it up with a MK11 frag grenade I had. Also these grenades essentially use pins and poison instead of shrapnels not to mention that even the slightest touch can make a reactors core blow into a nuke. I also felt someone was behind me, so I turned around and I saw. "You..."

That elven lady was stood behind me with a look of pure terror. Her crimson eyes told me that she was indeed powerless here. "Behind y-you...sir..."

"I know" I caught the blade and then slammed the elite guard on the floor so he was in front of me. "I'm good at sword play by the way. So that was definitely a deathly choice." I added before I drove my foot in the guards face, stomping his helmet and turning his head into a mush of flesh even before he could scream. The lady before me looked even more petrified than when she saw the man, she looked like she'd seen a ghost. "I'm sorry, I just hate these guys; What's their business with elven people now?!" I exclaimed in a far more angrier tone than I anticipated. "I-I...I don't know..." She answered timidly, her voice almost below a whisper. "Are you gonna hurt me...?" I then heard from her. I can't tell why but that gave me this short feeling of sorrow. "Not a chance, why the hell would I harm someone like you? Why did you even come here? Its dangerous as hell"

"I...was getting ingredients to make some potions for my shop back at my planet. And then someone in one of those suits of armour brang me here calling me 'Asset' the whole time. What is an Asset?!" Yeah I could tell this lady was not innocent. Too innocent and naive. Like a plain petal among many shrivelled ones. "They call people they wanna use 'Assets' like me, they wanted to kill me and take my powers but I just refused." As I was beggining to actually walk out of here to run my plan, she said one more thing. "C-can I come with you? I'm scared alone."

"No. You either escape with those lifepods down that hallway I cleared for the others or you stay here. You are not gonna follow me, got it?" I attempted to advise. "I'll be worried."

Agh, fine "Okay sure, but after I clear the rest of them up." I'd reply with an undertone of spite. She seemed happy though nonetheless as she just let out a sigh of relief. So I quickly threw a smoke bomb as I ran out and then jumped up to the vent on the roof. As I jumped, I punched the vent grill off its screws and I climbed in. As quickly as I could in this tight and hellish tunnel, I found the reactor room and broke into the room by kicking the vent open.

The grill would hit a guard on the head and before the rest could fire at me, I threw the grenade at the reactor."Oh...oh no..." I heard one of them say before I sensed the countdown. I only had thirty minutes before the whole place blows to shreds. I quickly skidded into the vent and hurried my way back to the elven ladies room. When I got back, I snatched her wrist and ran back to my ship.

The place was beggining to crumble, pillars falling off and failing the ship, wiring tangling up, energy exploding as I pass it, lights blowing up, guns began to stop working, the doors were all locked and there were spillages of random liquids everywhere.

And despite all that. I managed to get the elf and myself back to the ship.

When I got there...I would be met with a sight worse than I would ever imagine.