Ethereal The Time Lord

chapter twenty-three

Crimson is the color that Greets me as I break through the binds. I am covered in it's sticky substance. The metallic stench fills my nose clouding my sences. I close my eyes leaning my head back and cut off my sences.

My hands fall to my sides balling into fist as I take a deep breath preparing myself for what a waits me When I open my eyes and truly look at what I have done. I slowly open my eyes and look at the blue sky above me. White clouds float past on the wild winds and the bright Sun shins down on the blood soaked lands.

I look down around me and to my dismay I am standing on a mountain of mutilated bodies. Their bones crunch under my feet and I look around the mountain to find more bodies lyeing in puddles of their own blood. My chest tightens, my eyes sting, the empty space where my heart once was clinches around the empty space.

"What have I done?" I say falling to my knees my face in my hands. Lifeless eyes stair up at me through the gaps between my fingers. I cling my fist and slam it into my abdomen spilling life from myself as I weave a safe haven for those souls I killed. I stand raising my hand pulling the souls from their bodies guiding them Into the new realm that my mother will never be able to find.

"I am sorry." I say words that hold no true meaning for my actions Spock louder then my words ever could.

My mind clouds again as the binds slip back and I feel Valdis grip down onto my mind. I fall into my mind distorting my own memories of the event. Switching it to ones of bliss as I watch the lifeless bodies. I will never let them know the truth. Until I am free from this I will distort myself and even destroy myself to keep other safe from my hands.

Clarity comes back to me as Valdis turns is back on me and I find myself back within his dark void. He evaporates into it's deeps and I stay where I am unmoving. I have a very vaig idea of what transpired between him and I and from the way My lips fill swollen and my thighs trob with pain. I know all to well what he had done while my mind was bound.

The darkness stirs and Zinyu emerges from its deeps. She float to me and I keep my composure knowing Valdis is watching. Zinyu floats close to me her hand sets down on my shoulder and her forehead rest against my own. I feel fingers dig into my mind and force their way into it opening myself to her.

Her eyes focuse on mine with understanding and she places her other hand on my cheek. (What happened?) she asks.

(look and see for yourself. I do not remember nor to I want to.) I say back to her my features never changing. She places into the deeps seeing what my body did whilst I was bound inside myself. She crings back from me slipping from my mind and holds her head in her hands. She screams out for the mortals I killed and for myself have to slaughter them.

She grabs me pulling me into her arms holding me to her as She crys for me. I keep my composure not moving or outwardly registering what is happening between us. Inwardly I am crying along with her outwardly it is as though I am one of the corpses I had stood upon.

How could I have let this happen? How could I have stoped this? I must become stronger. I have to. I straighten pushing her away from me and Valdis appears before us. The void lights up around us and voices can be heard outside it's boarders. Valdis steps up to me His hand snaps out and grabs the back of my neck. He pulls me to him his slips forming over my own and he force feeds me His power till I am choking on it.

He steps back whiping his mouth and smiles wickedly. "Kill and consume them all. Keep it all for yourself. I need you stronger so we can finish our mission. Now be a good girl and do as I asked." He says and without hesitation I force my way from the void and stand before Alistair and his army of his own darkness.

Their darkness fluctuates in power those who are strongest are at the back and the weak are in the front. But what the do not see is how weak they all are. Yet another fieble attempt at perfecting his army using Darkness that is not as powerful as Valdis in hopes of gaining access to it. Something he will never attain.

I float before them my darkness forming cannons and swords force their way from my form. I compose myself keeping myself void of any emotion or pain. My finger nails elongate Their sharpened points blood stained from all the mortal bloods spilled at my hands. My beast form takes over it's laughter filling the thick air around us.

I look over the army and find Alistair at the back smiling wickedly at me. I charge forward My cannons firing as my swords slice through his ranks and tear them apart with my hands. My eyes never leave Alistair's as I destroy his arm in moments.

Their weak forms falling at my feet. I tear into the last of his men and stop dead. Before me stands a younger looking Zaine. His eyes fall on me as he holds his darkness born blades out ready for me as though he does not know me.

In a flash I take down the last few and stand before this man. His blades slice through my abdomen spilling my acide filled blood and I do not flinch. I place my hand on his face looking into his eyes as my dark side bleeds away from my face. "Zaine?" I ask looking from one light blue, dark blue rimmed eye to the other.

He smiles at me his hands wrapping around my throat and I slap his hands away. I plunch into his mind searching for a trace of my Zaine and find that he is a clone. A copy of the real one and he has been force feed lies about Zaine and I.

I release him from the lies letting him see for himself and step back from the replica of my once sweet escape. I look behind him to find that Alistair ran from his fate once more and used this clone as a distraction. Hot boiling anger fills me causing me to see in red as I curse under my breath. How could I let such an obvious trick foul me? How could I let it destruct me from my true objective? Do I truely care so much for Zaine that it clouds my mind? Alistair has seen it's effectiveness and will believe it will work on me again. Alistair is that foolish. I look back to Zaine's replica and find him watching me intently.

He steps closer to me His hand wrapping around the nap of my neck and he leans down. His glorious face is inches from my own and he smiles sadly. Pain flash across his face and he place his forehead against my own.

"Enyo." he breaths my name his deep voice rich with Zaine's ascent and make me shake as my knees weaken. "Thank you." his lips press against my forehead and he pulls my soft curves against his hard body.

"Zaine? My Zaine?" I ask my voice trembling as My chest tightens and My fingers clinch his shirt in my fists.

"Yes my love." he says his eyes soften with love and anguish.

"How?" I say my lips trembling as my throat tightens with sobs.

"This body holds a small piece of my soul and flesh. It is how it was given life. I am tied to it and in turn it allows me for short periods of time to control it. It doesn't not last long. A day at most." He says his hand running through my hair bringing a lock to his mouth as he breaths in my scent. "Thank you for freeing me. I know it cost you and I am sorry for that."

"Do not be. I would do it again if given the chance." I say and He gathers me in his arms against his body. He takes off leaving the void behind and heads out over the barren wastes that are left after the war. Not to long into our trip he land's on a small piece of rock that is thicker then it is long.

He sets me down and kneels down placing his hand on the smooth rock covered in dust and debris. He runs his hand over the rock freeing it of debris and his hand grasp a metal handle. He stands pulling it the mussels in his arm and back flexing as the old metal door groans in protest.

Dust fills the air looking like ashes falling from the sky as it had done often during my mother's rayne, as the metal door slams into the rock echoing out into the wastes. He holds his hand out to me His smile hiding his true Pain. I place my hand in his and step closer to him. We look down into the dark below us and He leads me down into it's deeps.

Thank you for reading. I hope to finish this story by the end of next month.