The Book of Cosmi

Chapter 7: Fool

| Cosmic |

Fools. The Omniverse has a great deal of those within it. You can't ever change that sadly. Chaos and Light exist so will idiots and geniuses. It's the way things work, how it has to work. Helcurt was no exception. Unfortunately he had fallen down the pathway of idiocy. For what reason I do not know, but it had to be stopped once and for all. Even if it meant losing my greatest creation, the first Cosmi God, the prince of the Cosmi Gods.

I stared down Helcurt with a stern look as I scoffed.

"How could you possibly create such a miserable beast? It is destroying OUR realm."
"Do not look down upon this dragon the same way you looked down upon my brothers and sister. You murdered them right in front of me with no remorse whatsoever. You're no good man Cosmic, just a sick one!"

I was confused as to why he was accusing me of killing them? They were perfectly okay, when a God is reverted to a state of light, they're unharmed and pure, they're happy. Did he not know that? He had done experiments with us briefly before, and I sure as hell know he didn't forget those experiments because he's smarter than that, and had fun doing them. I responded swiftly.
"Murder? We simply put them back to an orb light state, Helcurt. We had to modify something in their DNA, it'll make them happier than ever, and then you'll truly be able to bond with your siblings, child."

Helcurt responded as fast as I did.
"Sure, of course! Experimentation, that's all you ever do. That's all you ever THINK OF US AS. I think you finally got tired of experimenting with all my brothers and sisters and siblings and decided it was a good idea to kill them off while I was gone. And then treat me like a fool and make me think you didn't do this. You were probably coming up with some idiotic excuse to further that nail in the coffin."

He had it all wrong, but I knew how this stuff worked. This was so bizarre to me, my own child didn't even believe me anymore... He was already motivated to destroy me. I hoped I didn't need to destroy him either. Then there was Helcurt's mistake, approaching me in the manner he did. He dashed forward at me at speeds that were beyond light's speed and pulled out his gun firing an array of bullets towards me.

I split into two people, a black soul, and my physical body, dodging Helcurt's attack as a whole. He was fast, really fast, but I had knowledge of fighting like no other, so dodging this attack was like walking on a normal day. I didn't really have time to waste though. I propelled myself off the ground and jumped over him. As I was aerial I landed behind him and grabbed Helcurt by the back of the neck, tightly. From here, an electric shock was sent down his body which paralyzed him completely. His gun would drop to the ground and I would hold him there with an inescapable grip. I pointed my gun up to the Primeval Monster and shot it. A bullet came hurling out my gun and the moment I fired, the bullet had already broken through the fabric of reality and space-time. The Monster would collapse into golden dust which dissolved into atoms afterwards, dispersing outwards and becoming something actually useful instead of just a killing machine. Shock and fear went through Helcurt, just by holding him down I could tell that he was afraid for his life, and he better have been. He made a fatal mistake. I had to punish him for his actions, my child was not going to get off easily. Not Helcurt, he knew better. He was better than this rage blinded being he had become.

I pulled him close and whispered into his ear...
"Only a fool would try to overthrow the strongest beings within the Omniverse. Maybe next time you should listen and open those ears of yours, because we wouldn't have to be here right now, Helcurt 'Nefarious' Cosmi-11. I wish I could've seen you grow into something greater. Your time... has come to an end."

"YOU SICK MANNNNNNNNN!!!!!!"

And I fired.

To my surprise, my plan to kill him immediately failed when I saw Helcurt liquidate into the ground. He had turned into a puddle of shadows. I could not help but stand there in disbelief, however out of the corner of my eye I saw a black figure darting at me. I turned immediately and ducked beneath it and put it into an arm lock, the black figure soon turned into Helcurt. Maintaining my arm lock on him, I twisted his arm and got behind him and then proceeded to force him face first into the ground. He squirmed and struggled to get out but I held him down good, asking him repeatedly if he was done.

Of course he wasn't.

He managed to land a solid kick on my gut when I was talking, which would loosen my grip just enough for Helcurt to break free. He was always good with sly and quick technique, he wasn't a full power house. I was in a daze, trying to fight back, multiple strikes landed on my body, hitting weak points on me, specifically jointed areas, causing me to fall to the ground. I heard Helcurt cock his gun and fired immediately. I felt a bullet penetrate my back, but as it did, it'd stop immediately right at the skin, no blood would spill and the bullet would lie firmly in my skin, unmoving. I subconsciously had increased the friction the air had on the bullet, causing it to slow down exponentially. I flicked it on and only a mark of the bullet would be left there. I turned around and got back on my feet by doing a kip-up. While getting up, I threw my feet into Helcurt's knees, causing an audible CRACK to be heard. He fell to his knees and I heard even more cracking. I ran right at him and kneed him in the face, sending him flying backwards. While he was aerial, I'd grab him by the shirt and smash him right into the ground.

I peered down at Helcurt, I peered right into his crazed eyes. I saw nothing more than Corruption in them. He was too far gone... Suddenly I felt heavier. Gravity suddenly became far more powerful. My body could easily withstand this stronger gravity, but my movements were far slower. I blinked, and in an instant, Helcurt was gone. I blinked again and I saw a Vitality blast hurtling towards me, multiple actually. As they got closer, they became larger and then formed into different shapes. One was a bullet, one a spear, one was a dagger. As I looked around more and more Vitality would appear forming into so many different weapons. I tried to run, I tried to do anything, but it was too late before I could react and I was met with pierced skin and blood pouring out of me. I clenched my teeth, gritting them together, groaning in pain. I tried to slowly pull out a dagger from my body, but more blood started to leak, and I stopped. The issue with these weapons, was they were more than just simple weapons, they were made of Vallen Kigeao and some of them were even cursed weapons. I slowly realized though that the weapons were begging to drag through my skin, causing worse injury. This gravity was terrible. I saw a black boot step in front of me, and my vision got shaky...

"What a predicament... you either pull the weapons out and potentially bleed out or you let them tear deeper and deeper into your skin."

"Child... You think too little of me."

"You think little of me too, and look who's struggling right now."

I glared at him and the world around me became discolored. I was stuck between two terrible choices and the increasing strength of the gravity on my body was only becoming worse. I reached for Helcurt's leg. I gripped it very hard, pulling him towards me.

"Go. To. Heaven..."

From the palm of my hand a white blast would form and pierce through Helcurt's leg, completely obliterating it. He'd fall to the ground and yell in pain. A shockwave would surface and the gravity manipulation would be cleansed and all the weapons would disappear from my body, however the injuries remained. I got up and walked towards Helcurt, but he would dissolve into shadows again and appeared before me once again. He held me in an unknown power that I had never felt before. I was paralyzed, I could not do a thing. Stuck in this position, a dark domain would encase us both. He would glare at me, landing a multitude of quick blows on my body. I could feel the pain but I could not do anything.

"The powerless feeling is exactly how everyone else in this family felt, I'm sure of it. You senselessly slaughtered them before my eyes. The great pain they must have felt, dying by their own creator's hands. You can't do anything. I hope you realize that I've learned far more about this Omniverse than you have ever told anyone... All will be revealed in time."

He would throw me around, beating me senseless. I could not do anything. We'd go through dimensions, Universes, planets, everything. Every punch landed on me was more powerful than the next, all with explosive damage. Helcurt was a boundless being. He could destroy a Dominia with a single punch, and now I was feeling that power. The reality around us would constantly be warping, the space around us constantly changing. Even time was meaningless. My soul felt damaged...

After what seemed like forever, we would return back to the Realm and I'd lie on the ground, dying. My vision was blurred, my eyes could not fixate on one single thing. But then, I saw him. That face... that demonic grin, that corrupted soul. My shirt was destroyed from the attacks, holes covered my body, blood pouring out more than before. The blood loss was truly getting to me. I could hardly stand at this point. I managed to pick myself up and stand once more.

"Still have some fight left in you, Father?"

Anger slowly began to simmer. That simmer slowly became a raging flame. I clenched my fist together, pain laced my body worse than I had ever felt before. I stood there motionless. Helcurt was talking, boasting over beating me, taunting me. I listened to none of it. His muffled talking slowly turned into just the simple ringing in my ears. My eyes stayed firmly locked on my child the entire time. His endless talking always bored me...

Colors began to wrap around me. Purple, orange, green, red, white... the colors of important aspects of the Omniverse. They all collected into my palm, and with a swift punch, I knocked Helcurt right to the ground. My eyes filled with rage, the silhouette of the Omniverse within them lit up brightly. I stood over Helcurt and reached down to pick him up by his shirt. I glared at him for a brief moment, getting one final look at that ugly face of his. That corrupt soul would be cleansed forever.

In the palm of my open hand, a star formed, small yet powerful. I slammed my hand right into Heclurt's chest and a supernova explosion would occur. Bright lights blared across the Realm and settled down a few moments later. He was still alive. His durability and endurance was as good as mine. I tossed Helcurt to the ground and kicked him to the side. I flung a Vitality orb at him that would disfigure his body.

He began pleading for mercy, for me to spare him. His pleas only powered me more.

Time, space, and reality would break as I proceeded to beat Helcurt with seemingly no end to it. Every punch I threw, reality would warp. Every kick I threw, space would slowly disintegrate. Every last strike that I landed on him, his soul would be destroyed. I sent blasts that had heats that could rival a fabled purple star. I used Vitality to create and destroy stars and blackholes. Every fiber of Helcurt's being would be CLEANSED from this Omniverse.
He WAS simply blasphemy.

"You. Will. REMEMBER. ME..."

With one final strike, a power inconceivable to all would bring Helcurt to his final end. His entire body would be turned into nothing more than atoms... his soul, utterly destroyed. A small invisible particle of Deformed Light, ended it all for him.

All would settle down and I would stand there motionless, barely clinging on to life.
"You wish... you were... me..."

I blacked out and collapsed.