Chaos and Order - A Multiverse Fanfic

0090 Paradox - Sacrificing to Hastur!

-Then she... she said the names,- Selene's white dragonish scales trembled as she hissed.

-Stop!- Kai hissed loudly.

He needed a moment to think about it.

This was the decisive moment, he knew. This was the point of no return. If he went through with it, then there was no point in not chanting those words. Only at this instance, Kai could change the course of his future.

Burn the paper, forbid Selene to speak about all of this, and kill Meg as soon as possible.

These were the only sane thoughts Kai wanted to have but had he ever gotten what he wanted so easily?

What? Scared, Blood Demon? A voice sneered within him, testing his courage and what his name stood for. Giving up on Power so easily? The Elite Ability, the Worth, you think they are so easy to get?

No. They weren't. Having them was also the reason that Kai knew how difficult it was to get them into the Primordial World.

Kai licked his lips. Sweat had drenched his back, and above his head, the stars shone paler than ever. -Tell me- he hissed. -Don't speak in one go, though. Pause in between.-

Kai had no way of telling how these things worked. But if he had learned something from his future self, then he knew the moment he would chant those words, the prophecy would come true. So Selene hissed, breaking her voice now and then, and he kept writing. Words after words appeared on the paper, forming a sentence.

When Kai completed the last line, his face crumbled.

Kai felt terrified even repeating those words in his mind.

He remembered that eldritch sequence of events that had happened after his Blood Prophecy. The strange yellow patches, and the appearance of words in his mind as if someone had planted them there.

That was no mere coincidence, Kai concluded.

-Then she said...- Selene hissed, telling him the strangest string of words that Kai could have imagined.

Hastur. Priestess Margrethe II of House Ingrid. Sacrifice. Blood. Kyber Crystal. And the High Priest.

"Please do not mention the Temples to anyone else. They would know. They always find out."

Kai remembered the horror in Selena's voice as she had said those words to him.

The only thing that he couldn't make sense of was the relationship between these three sentences and the Temple of Hastur.

-Tell me the rest in one go,- Kai hissed, closing his eyes.

Selene hissed for long then, with every change in words, Kai's anger flared, his eyes becoming bloodshot under the lids. His breathing rose, and his knuckles became white as his nails dug deep into his palms.

When she finished her hisses, Kai was already standing up, his Fangs in his hand.

"Calm down, master," Petyr said, coming up to him from behind. "Tell me what happened."

Kai glared at Petyr. But then remembered that indeed it was not like him to just barge into something. Especially when things had come to a level beyond his reach. So he wrote the things Selene had told him onto the paper and gave them to Petyr.

Petyr smiled slyly. "Do you think it's wise to go to her?" he asked. "She said she can't take you on. Nowhere did she mention she fears your strength. Then there is this talk of Blessing. Didn't Arlen also mention something about it?"