(UNDER HEAVY EDITING!!) Stellar Serenade: Cosmic Connections

Chapter 44: Always and Forevermore.

The land crashed into this weird forest landscape, Horus slowed his bike down to examine their surroundings.

"Eugh- is that a dead body?" Horus gagged. 

"Yeah... They're everywhere" Aral mumbled. 

"Oh! OH! I HEAR THEM!! Just ahead!! Put the pedal to the metal or whatever that saying was!" Aral yelled. 

Horus shoved his foot into the pedal, shooting past the trees. Aral perked her head up to see the massive spirit standing just a few trees away. 

Aral jumped off of the motorcycle as it re-sized itself and transformed back into the ankh pendant.

She grabbed her slipper and jumped from tree to tree with Horus just below her. The spirit turned towards them, its expression going from amused to worried. Aral threw her slipper up into the air and kicked it forward with as much power as she could muster. it pummeled into the spirit's stomach, sending blood up their throat and coughing out their mouth. 

Aral looked around the area, Nocturnis half dead impaled in a tree branch, a dying fish man and torn apart burning parrot- and, her. 

"Lumi!!" Aral cried, worry transforming into sadness, sadness shifting into anger, the only thing she could think of was pulling apart and torturing that spirit the same way it tortured Lumi. 

The spirit hissed at Aral, digging its hand into the ground, the roots of the trees lit up, white stars pulling themselves out of the trees. The roots pulled out the skeletons from the trees.

"Say hello to my undead lullaby" It sang with twisted amusement. Every skeleton engraved in the trees awoke, eyes blazing with a haunting lavender. 

"Ohhhh! That's what the skeletons were for!" Horus said.

 A skeleton darted towards him, attempting a punch. Horus laughs at it, catching the punch, and throwing the skeleton towards a nearby tree. 

He tore his ankh pendant out, raising it toward the sky, several waves of pure solar power emitted from the pendant, the first wave seemed to decommission the skeletons, and the next wave burned the skeletons, and the nearby hut, to ashes, spreading flames everywhere to reveal a metal cage lined with glowing runes, and within the cage was-

 Xyn, well it didn't look like him, his head was empty, considering she couldn't hear anything coming from his mind, he had taken on some different, more masculine form.

"HOOLY ORISIS!" Horus yelled, holding his head. 

"That- It's- He was here the whole damn time?!" Aral cried.

"Wait who?" Horus asked. 

The spirit's jaw tightened, gritting its teeth. 

Horus pointed at the spirit, giving it a pity laugh. 

Its head whipped around, and its scarf claw thing grabbed Horus and threw him several kilometers away with multiple birds fleeing nearby trees. 

Multiple gunshots cried out, hitting the back of the spirit's head, where the spine and skull met with a singing crack. The gunshots continued, slowly rising higher, once they reached through the spirit's forehead, the bullets ceased. 

Xyn bolted towards the spirit's now dead bleeding body, manic laughing slithering into the surroundings. The sound of his mind shifted, becoming cacophonous and insanite.

Aral watched in horror as he tore through the spirit's skin with his bare fingers, their black blood painting the forest. His face twisted into a horrific smile, his laughing growing louder and louder. He thrust his hand into the spirit's chest, ripping out its rib cage with a loud crack. He continued to snap every rib and claw his way to the spirit's heart, staring at it like it was the only thing that gave his life meaning. He tore it apart, devouring each part with one large bite. Having already swallowed he tore through the rest of the spirit's body, ripping out their intestines and slurping them up like spaghetti. He tore out the pancreas and gut, consuming the two in a matter of seconds. He wiped the blood off his lips, and stopped for a second, tearing through the rest of the spirit in search of organs, finding none, he turned to Aral, who froze.