Honkai Impact: The Serpent's Tale

Chapter 12: Do or Die

Time seemed to have completely frozen in that moment as Alex didn't make a single move or utter a single word.

After all, how could he? He was pratically mortified at the sight.

As for Owl, he stared at the ice shard that had pierced him through the chest before he slowly looked back, blood dripping and falling from his mouth as well as standing behind him he saw Ana with an ominous pink/purple-ish glow and aura on her.

"A-Ana......?" Was all Owl could muster out as the girl would pull the shard out of Owl's chest, resulting in the boy falling down to the ground as Ana began to let out a monster-like wail yet again, signifying that the Herrscher persona was quickly coming back into control.

"O-Owl!" Yelled Alex as he quickly ran to his side. 'Crap. That wound is really bad!'

As Alex tried his best to drag Owl away, the boy just looked up at Ana.

"W-Why........? How......?" Weakly said Owl as Alex heard this.

"Hm? H-Hey don't talk. I gotta get you back to help. The Herrscher's becoming extremely unstable." He said.

"Damn that thing.......damn....it all...."

Ana once fully exposed face and had been completed covered once again as Owl seemed to have finally accepted the hard truth upon seeing that.

'Ugh.....I guess this is the truth....that nothing has ever changed.....since then........why? Why do you keep avoiding me? Why suppress your own feelings? I only wanted to stay with you.....why deny this simple wish....? What did.......I do wrong...?' He thought to himself as he'd finally fall unconscious.

Truth be told Alex was struggling to drag Owl away as obviously taking all that dead weight anymore was gonna be a hassle.

Suddenly however, Alex felt Owl began to convulse and twitch severely  as he let him go.

"H-Hey what's wron-!?"

Before Alex could finish speaking, Owl's suddenly let out a loud yell.

"RAAAAAAARGHHHHH!"

He began to thrash around forcing Alex to back away as suddenly, Owl's chest ruptured as a ton of glowing tendrils began to emerge from his body.

'What the...........wait that shard from Ana. Is the Honkai taking over Owl!?' Thought Alex as he saw Owl continued to thrash around as he got onto his kneels and bent down in immense pain as he continued to yell.

The tendrils would then wrap around Owl completely, sealing him off from the outside world as that would be the last he was ever seen.

Alex could've even begin to fathom what he was seeing as the Herrscher of Ice began to slowly approach where the now trapped Owl was as she placed a hand on it.

The boy swore he could've saw one singe tear fall from her cheek, the last showing of Ana's will as the trap began to glow pink.

At that moment, an extreme blizzard began to storm through the area completely blocking Alex's vision as he was unable to see what was opening.

In fact it was so bad that he had to close his eyes due to how bad the visibility was.

All he could heard was the sounds of the storm around him, the ground rumbling beneath him, and the Herrscher of Ice's loud, blood-curling screams.

This lasted what felt like an eternity until he began to feel and hear the blizzard storm die down a bit.

When he opened his eyes, he saw that instead of the storm being where he was, it now circled around him on the outside as if he was in the epicenter of it.