Endless

cHaPtEr tWeNtY fIvE

Almost there...

As I walked up the stairs, I found myself facing a door with a pattern of thorny vines with roses attached.

It opened by itself, obviously inviting me to more of this beautiful hell.

As I went passed there were more corridors with a black and white checkered floor in all directions with some of them spiralling this time, waterfalls coming out of the sky, and this time there was rose petals flying in the air.

I was on a corridor myself, and it went in a straight line. As I walked across, always on my guard, I saw...something fly by. I wasn't sure what it was, but I made sure to be properly aware of any surprise attacks that might come my way.

As I reached the end of the corridor, I realised that it was the end...huh. Knowing Alyssa I expected the corridor to be endless. Where was I supposed to go now?

I turned around, and I saw that the checkered tiles of the corridor were actually disassembled, and they were all floating in the air.

I guess they were asking for a fight.

There were dozens of these small squares, and they seemed to be making some of kind of strange noise? It was as if they were all communicating with each other, but I couldn't be sure. Regardless, it made me feel very uneasy.

Suddenly, they all flew towards me and surrounded me.

I drew my sword ready to deflect them, however it didn't seem to hit them since they were rather small and agile. They were like bees, but bigger. It didn't make them any easier to hit however. They acted like bees in general, hopefully they didn't have stings...

They then stopped and they flew up in the air, moving erratically while maintaining themselves in their swarm. Even more of these squares started to surround the swarm. They weren't so tough on their own, in fact at worse they were just a mild nuisance. What would they be like together though?

All of them started merging together, transforming themselves into one giant being with thousands of microscopic brains (if they had any) dictating their actions, working as a hive mind.

They all transformed into a giant checkered hammer, surrounding themselves in a dark aura. Like the flower, they had their own strange sounds that they produced, and this sounded slightly like...laughter.

It quickly tried smashing me info smithereens, and I could just barely block it with my sword. Sparks flew and it tried to flatten me while I defended myself with all the strength that both me and my sword had.

As I did so, I heard roars coming from far away. I tried not to let that distract my focus, but it almost did...

I successfully managed to blow the hammer back after I blocked my attack, so before it could attack me again, I quickly looked around me to see that there were even more chimeras. This time, they were all taking their attacks airborne and they didn't seem interested in coming back to the ground.

I was terrified at the possibility of having to face them again, but before I could do anything I had to stop this hammer. It tried hitting me from the sides but thankfully I managed to jump high enough to stop it. Thankfully my enhanced physical strength allowed me to do even fantastical things like jump high like a kangaroo. It felt good being able to do things like this when my body is usually so weak and frail.

The chimeras flying in the air started to shoot those toxic orbs that they had used previously. All of this became too overwhelming...

I had to keep jumping and rolling to dodge, with the hammer and projectiles relentlessly aiming to crush me. As I had just dodged one of orbs, I quickly had to get away or deflect that annoying hammer.