Taylor - stripes and shadows (lesbian) [on hold]

Chapter 19 - Twisted

Bit of a longer chapter this time coz I haven't actually gotten that far ahead and feel bad for it.

I would have fallen back with fright if I could have, like before I was paralyzed where I sat, it seemed like I was staring into this creatures eyes for an eternity before it finally knelt before me, bringing itself down to my level, the whole time it’s eyes never left mine but I felt like a spell had been lifted as I could move again, I went to open my mouth to talk but quickly snapped it shut again as I couldn’t think of anything to say, I dared not move incase it did anything, from the way Lance had talked about these creatures I knew that they where to be feared so I sat silently before it, I used the opportunity to take a closer look, it seemed to be a woman, the markings where different from the one I had seen earlier on today, more flowing while the others had been sharp and aggressive looking, hers looked like they flowed across her skin like water, if I wasn’t so frightened I would have found them beautiful, as I watched them shimmer and shift across the surface of her skin I felt myself start to relax, as if they had a calming affect on me, before I could process what was happening she had leaned forward and placed her hand on mine, her skin was cold as it touched mine, but not in an unpleasant kind of way, like when you run your hand through water.

“you fear me?” she asked as she stared out our hands

“yes” I said before I could stop myself

“it’s not me you should fear” she responded looking up and into my eyes again

“then who should I fear?” I asked

“the one who created us, I think that before you come to any conclusions you should know the facts, I want to show you those facts and to show you your past, the life that was yours before this one, the life you have forgotten….” As her last words sank in I felt my mind slipping, it was like I was being pulled into another place, I could feel that I was there but my actions didn’t feel like my own and I felt like I was in someone else’s body.

I walked through streets that felt familiar, the sun was shining brightly, too brightly even, the whole place had an unearthly feel to it, as I passed a window I looked at my reflection, what stared back looked exactly like me but this persons hair was white, yet there face was young, across there face danced swirling patterns of shimmering colures, I watched them dance for a while, going from white through every shade of blue imaginable and back again, they looked very similar to the shadows strange tattoos but in a way they where completely different, they seemed pure in a way that was unexplainable.

The next moment I was standing in a great hall, running on two walls down the sides of it stood statues of people, I didn’t know who they where but they seemed to be important, I felt my body walk along the hall and stop in front of one of the statues, looking up I noticed a striking resemblance to myself, before I could think about who this person might be a voice rang out along the hall “Astra, Astra!” the voice got closer as I turned around and spotted a woman who looked exactly like Kali, the marks on her face where a lot like the shadow who I had seen in the room with Lance, they where sharp and malicious looking, giving her a sinister look but her smile contradicted this as it spread across her face giving it a warm glow as I turned to face her, I surprised myself when I spoke, forgetting for a moment that I was only a guest in this persons body “Sintel’s, where have you been” the person who’s body I was in laughed, it sounded like chimes in a gentle breeze as it trickled out, a happy twinkle came into the woman who looked like Kali’s eyes as she stepped closer to the person “never mind that” Sintel said as she leaned in to kiss Astra, the world shifted again as I jumped from one moment to another, this time I woke up in a bed I seemed to recognize, looking over it seemed like someone had been sleeping next to me, Astra climbed out of the bed and walked towards the door, a light was shining down the hall from what looked like the front door, it had been left a jar, as if someone had been in a hurry to get somewhere, Astra walked down the hall and out of it, myself seeming to know what was going on, I suddenly had the urge to stop myself, I tried desperately in vain to get myself to go back to bed, to not go to Sintel temple but I was helpless, I could only watch as history replayed itself out in front of my very eyes once again, I’d remembered what came next, this was a memory, a memory I would give anything to forget, I walked up the temple steps, inside I was crying, praying that this wasn’t happening but as I stepped through the temple doors I knew it was real, Sintel stood in the exact spot she was before and there in front of her where the last of the great god Dag’s creations, they had become almost extinct when humans where introduced to the world, they where close in resemblance, no one knew much about them or the humans as the creators had left thousands of years before we where born, all we knew was what we had observed of them, I watched in horror as Sintel molded her essence into them, causing them to become distort and cruel looking in comparison to there pure natural forms, she sensed I was there, I flinched as she turned to me, her eyes where smoldering, glowing there unearthly orange as she strode towards me “you should have stayed in bed” a look of sorrow crossed her face “you can not do this, you have no right to change these creatures or mold them to your will” I said “it has to be done, you can’t stop me Astra and I beg that you don’t try” Sintel coldly stated as she turned around to carry on her work “Sintel I beg of you to stop, your destroying something you didn’t create!” I shouted, anger at her betrayal and defilement of these creatures boiled through my veins, causing my power to manifest itself in flashes of lighting that snacked and crackled across my skin “what do you expect, I am the goddess of destruction!” she retorted hardly giving me a backwards glance, I knew I had to stop her, I shifted into my natural form and walked towards her, I wanted her to take me as a serious threat, I walked towards her and grabbed her arm, forcing her to face me “I wont allow you to harm these creatures” I snarled, as much as I loved her, I wouldn’t let her destroy them, the code of the pantheon forbid direct destruction of any living form, in molding her essence into these creatures she was doing exactly that, it may not have been out right killing them but it was changing them from what they where into something completely different, evil in a living form, I knew what these creatures would do to the world if they where let loose, they would destroy every living thing and as a creator I couldn’t allow that “you can’t stop me Astra” and as I watched the past unfolded just how I remembered it, I sent the lighting that coursed across my body through her, not enough to seriously harm her but enough to be a warning of how serious I was, I watched as pain spread across her face for a split second, before she snarled and thrust her hand towards my chest, flames pierced flesh like a blade as it pierced my heart and coursed through my body, a kill blow, it would have been an instant death if it was anyone but me, I looked down at my chest as blood tricked out from under her palm, my blood, my look of shock mirrored itself on her face, she quickly recovered and pried herself from my grip on her arm, turning away from me like I was a stranger, someone she didn’t know or care about, I thought I had changed her but I was wrong, she was destructive by nature and evil by choice, she walked over to where the creatures where standing, there where only two, she had already infused her essence into one of them, with the last of my strength I summoned enough power to bind her where she stood, I had to act quickly, I could already feel myself slipping from this world, I used a marble table to steady myself while I pulled the very essence of my being out of my dying body and infused it into the last creature, I had just enough left to open a portal to the world and pushed it through before closing it behind her, the very last thing I remember is Sintel cursing my very existence as I slipped into oblivion.

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