Amethyst Genesis: Bleeding Ruby

White Roses Dyed Red.

Warning, do not read this chapter if you are uncomfortable with mentions of humanity and what filthy things some people do.

Lyra viewed the red bloom from the distance, she noted the floating red mist clouds that were left astray. She and Vrykos were sitting near a mountain range sharing a table playing a trading card game.

"Dear sister. Why is it that we follow the group? We know the location of the seed, wouldn't it be easier, and less loose ended if we took Hal and started the blooming right away?" Vrykos asked with a distasteful look, tilting is head awry.

"This is why you still are the runt." Lyra sighed. "Way too ambitious for your own good." She says playing a creature card onto the field.

"The way the mechanism of the seed works is similar to suggestion." Lyra prods on, using the creature as a material for a bigger creature. "It needs him to, in his free will, to be in the location of it. As due to his decree for the Genesis Seed."

"And if we do it by force?" Vrykos said flipping over a red card with a wide smile. This displeased Lyra. Her face went from a luminous empty smile to a frown as she discards the creature.

"Vrykos. I'm trying not to beat the shit out of you but, really?" Lyra groans as she sets her hand down. "If we take him against his will, the seed will force itself into a shutdown. Our plan relies on the simple path of least resistance." Lyra grins upon the activation of another card's effect. Vrykos sighs putting his hand of cards onto the table.

"Fuck you." Vrykos sighed as he lays back into his chair. "I'll bite, what is it you really want?"

"Aside from being one with my beloved?" Lyra asks putting on an innocent front. "I realized why mortals can never truly see the peace I envision. They still looking out for themselves, the sense of self; the me, me, me."

"They can't progress because they have autonomy?" Vrykos asks taking a card and using its effect, makes Lyra discard the top card of her deck.

"Yes. They control themselves; they make choices that end in vain, illogical and unreasonable. They are stupid." Lyra sighs as she draws a card and places it on the discard pile. She flips another card from the field and smiles. She takes one of Vrykos's creatures and all of her own, she sends them all to their respective discard piles. All in exchange for one creature with absurd stats.

"Greatness can only be attained from sacrifice, even if these animals resist, beg, deny, or protest. I will do the deeds that they need done for them. They don't know what they want." Lyra says pointing towards Vrykos.

"You cheated." Vrykos sighs in defeat, setting his cards back into the deck.

"Little brother, you know I play dirty. Thats why we play games." Lyra says taking a pair of boxes and takes both respective decks into them.

"Yet you never see the true meaning of this game." Vrykos sighs as he takes both boxes from her. "Despite all the strife, all the conflict, plays, and strategies both players deploy; even when they cheat." He says glaring at Lyra. "Lights go out, cards go back into the decks, the pieces go back into the box. And I end up holding them."

"It doesn't matter Lyra who wins or loses because, I am at the end." Vrykos states with adamance.

"It just sounds like you're a sore loser." Lyra wheezes holding in her snickers, she grabs both boxes and throws them into a fleshy suitcase as a hole in reality opens up. She tosses the case in and stands up as the hole closes. 

"Bullshit." Vrykos growls as he folds his chair.

"Do you know why you are wrong?" Lyra says looking at Vrykos with a wide smile. "Because who's cards are those?" Lyra bursts out laughing flicking Vrykos's forehead.