Chaos and Order - A Multiverse Fanfic

0130 Selene Evolves - The Birth of Ghost Basilisk!

When the flash receded, they saw a silver mist had filled the entire room.

Mixed in the silver mist were tiny black, yellow, and gray particles like different-colored smoke. The entire mist roiled, churned, and then, with no sign, became a whirlpool. All the mist, from all directions, condensed onto a single point and outlined the figure of a serpent.

Danger banged Kai's mind.

He closed his eyes not knowing why. Such was the difference between his Perception and the arriving death. The extremities of his fingers and toes throbbed, as anxiety, bordering fright, took over his mind. Behind him, Meg had done the same. She had even turned her head away, her eyelids pressing so hard that they looked like hard, black lines.

Petyr wasn't blessed with Perception or any sense of danger, though.

A 6 ft long, viper-like serpent with pure white draconic scales slithered into existence. Its tongue flicked out of its mouth, and when it moved, illusory black and yellow rings seemed to travel across its body.

The serpent's eyes snapped open then.

The right eye was jet black, and only when one looked deep enough that one could see a sea of black tendrils. They were coiling around and over each other, their hunger seemed to know no bounds.

The left eye was murky yellow. Uncountable and nonsensical geometrical patterns ran in that eye, like unsolvable equations of mathematics accompanied by many-dimensional geometrical figures.

When it seemed it was over, the bulge between her two eyes parted vertically. It was as if someone had surgically planted a wet, gray stone into her head.

Petyr stared into the third eye.

Selene stared back.

Then, Petyr became stone, his entire body gaining a dull, gray color of eternal petrification.

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Kai had shut his eyes so hard that it felt like someone was trying to gouge them out.

Selene's hissings were ringing in his ears like the cries of a newborn baby. He wanted to take her in his arms to marvel at her evolved state, but the light crackling sound and Petyr's gasps foretold an unavoidable danger beyond a perceivable source, making him think better of it.

-Master, master,- she called out to him. -Master, I can see. I can see.-

Kai felt maturity in her hisses, mixed with power and her will to prove herself to him. He could feel her happiness, and once more he found himself facing a being whose happiness he could not snatch. Meg had shown the same happiness when she found out about his Glitch.

What Selene had found for her to show such deep and apparent emotion while calling out to him baffled Kai.

-Good. Good,- Kai hissed, failing to think of something better to say. -I am proud of you.-

To Kai's surprise, Selene's hisses became ecstatic, her scales rattling like the pattering of raindrops amidst a rainstorm. -Yes, master. Yes!- she hissed, beaming. -Now I am your strongest Power. I am more beneficial than her.-

Kai noticed the menace hidden behind that her. There was only one her other than Selene with him in the room, and he wondered what Meg had done to earn Selene's quirky ire.

-Calm down,- he hissed. -Are you using a Skill?-

He must find the reason for the danger first, Kai reasoned. There were only three beings in the room who could be the source. He was not, Kai knew. Meg's state was worse than his, he knew that too, given that her Perception was lower than him.