Meta Thanaton: Maledicti

III.

""I̡ be̵liȩve͟ ͟y͡o͢u͜..͠.̀ I̧ ̶a̧m̷ t͡he͠ ón̛l̷y̴ ͡o̸ne͢ ͡th͠at b͘èlięve̛s ̢yo͢u.͠..̨ "

"I... No... Positive is just... He just..." stuttered Negative.

"D͜o͞es̛ǹ't ͞tru͜s̀t͡ you?"

"You're just trying to brake me... but you have no way of doing so... I have nothing to lose... I have lost everything... And I have avenged Craesestia..." claimed Negative.

"Įs̢ tha͞t͝ so?́"

"What do you mean?"

"I͡ ͘k̡no͠w͘ ̨whe̢r̶e͏ ͜C͢r̢ae҉śęst҉ia ̸i̡s"

"Liar!!! There is no way! Craesestia's soul had left my old multiverse long before I could even escape from the Crystal!"

"Oh͘,͟ ̧s͟h͟ę's͡ ̷n̴o͘t in̶ y͏ou͜r ̀o͜ĺd͠ ͟M͏u͏lti͏vérse..͜.́ I ̴c͠a͏n ̕bring ͞y̴o͡ú to̴ ͞h͏e̷r͠. ҉S͝ince ̕sh̨e͡ ͢wąs̸ your͜ ͜soul̡ ͝m̶ate, ̡the͡ ͜true̡ ͘ańd ̨o̕n͝l͟y ļove ͟ýoų ̨fe̡lt ͏wil̡ĺ ma̢ke yo̕u͏ s͝e̛e t̨h̵a͜t i̵t́ re͠aĺly̢ ̴i̕s h̢èr.͟.."

Negative was sceptical when he saw the portal open, but the urge of finally seeing his true love after all those years was too strong to stay.

So he went through the portal and found himself at the outskirts of a small medieval village.

The people that lived there seemed happy and none appeared to have any worries.

"I... I can feel her... She's... She's here! Craesestia really is here! I need to find her!" stated Negative and ran into the village.

As he entered the village he immediately spotted Craesestia. Or atleast the person she was now. A beautiful young woman which also seemed very well behaved.

"Craesestia! It's me! Zefal!" exclaimed Negative happily but suddenly a man stepped between him and Craesestia.

"Leave your hands off of Illya, you monster!" yelled the man.

"W-what, no, wait! I can explain!"

"It͡'҉s̵ n̵o u͜se͏,̷ Nèg̛a͞t̛iv̸e"

When Negative stepped closer the man dashed towards him, but Negative simply pushed him aside, accidentaly throwing him through the door of a house.

"Anthony!" cried the woman that once was Craesestia as she ran over to the man. "Anthony, are you alright!? Please answer me!"

"I-Illya... I'm sorry... I'm sorry I can't protect you... any... longer..."

"Anthony! Anthony, no!"

"Anthony? Who's... Craesestia are you..." but when Negative went near Illya she took Anthony's weapon and threatened Negative while everyone else had left the village already.

"Get away from me you Monster! I will never forgive you for this!"

"Craesestia, why... How... I thought-" before Negative could finish his sentence Illya swung the sword and cut through the bonds on Negative's face making him jump back in shock.

"C-Craesestia... I thought you were my... my soul mate... I... thought I..."

"C͝ra͘es̕esti͠a҉ ̵had ̀ńev̸e͢r ͠lov̶ed you̴ a̶s̛ muc͜h͞ as̷ ͜y̨o͘u ̛loved ҉he̸r̛. I҉f̕ she ͘ha̵d b̢een̛ i͘n͞ ̶youŗ pl͟a͡c̵e͡ ̸all t̷hes͠e ́y̴e̴a̵r͜s̨ ago, ̛s̛h͞e w̷ou̕l͡d͏ ͝h̀ave ̨com͞pl̢ete̢l҉y͡ ͏f͟ǫr̀g̨o͘tte̷n ͝a͜bo҉ut҉ y̴ou̶. ́N҉o̶ ͡deat͜h wa̴s ̵needed ̕f͟o͠r h̸ȩr͡ t̛o ̸f̵or͟get͞ ỳou. There is no one besides me that is on your side, Negative. Instead of having to exist with this pain... why not destroy it?"

Negative stared at the frightened Illya who was still pointing at him with the sword. He then lifted his hands to remove the bandages around his mouth and let one of his tongues shoot out.

A scream of agony echoed through the world, then a quiet explosion and then... Silence.

"You are the only one that I can trust, Curse... I should have listened to you earlier... I do not need these bandages anymore..."

Negative now removed all of his bandages revealing his new horrific form to existence which he had kept a secret for so long.

Aside the new second row of shorter teeth directly outside his jaws, the three ears he had on each side of his head had grown together into two ears with each three holes and were posing sharp spikes at the edges. A small horn was growing on each of his shoulders and two spikes grew on each elbow. The extra spines he had on his fox tail were now completely covered in vantablack fur making it look as if he had one tail with ten ends.

A spike grew from each of his knees and the entirety of his palms were full with razor sharp claws. His legs were slightly less canine allowing him to stand on two legs although slightly hunched over.

His eyes which previously looked like human skulls were now more like maws with eyes and in the middle of his forehead was a purple glowing visible line which resembled a closed eyelid.

The reason why Negative had hid his looks were more than obvious. He was a horrific beast, ugly and disgusting. It was almost unbelievable that he once resembled a human.

Negatives tongue shot out of his mouth and immediately split up into billion other tongues which crawled through and around the planet, ripping out every single soul that they came in contact with. In just a few seconds all souls of that planet were destroyed.

Negative let out a roar and dashed into space. He was on his way to another universe when Positive suddenly appeared.

"You're calling that 'holding back' Negative?! I thought you didn't want this!" he yelled.

"Positive, I have looked through your tricks! You never intended to help me, even though I begged you! There is nothing holding me and the Curse back now!" shouted Negative.

"What tricks? Don't tell me you listen to the lies of the Curse?!"

"You are the only one lying to me! The Curse opened my eyes, I now know who the real villain is..."

"Then tell me"

"It's you!" roared Negative and dashed towards Positive.

Positive also dashed towards Negative and rammed his horns deep into Negative's jaws. The two were struggling to land any real hits on each other while their heads were stuck together until Negative had enough and fired a dark purple energy beam from his hands.

Positive had the same idea and fired a bright golden beam from his hands.

The beams collided and pushed both Positive and Negative away from eachother, destroying some of Negative's teeth and a horn of Positive in the progress.

The broken body parts regrew immediately and as soon as the beams stopped the dieties clashed together once again.

Negative grabbed Positive by the tail and threw him through the next closest star.

When Positive recovered he expected the fight to continue, but to his surprise Negative continued to fly to the next universe.

Positive was just barely able to reach Negative before he could destroy countless of souls again.

"I thought I was the villain! Why are you still destroying souls!?" exclaimed Positive confused.

"The Curse told me... you and me are everything, and everything is us, in order to hurt you even more, I have to destroy every soul in existence!"

"I cannot let you do that!" yelled Positive and punched Negative in the head with such force that even the stars were pushed aside before Negative even flew into that direction.

Positive didn't give Negative any chance to rest, but Negative didn't seem like he would need any. The two of them collided once again this time with such force that space and time of the universe were pushed apart.

Their battle was brutal and it didn't seem like it would be ending anytime soon...