Chaotically Neutral

Chapter 14

Baby's Breath was on the ground, trying hard to push himself up. He was carrying a large pile of wood that was supposed to be used for building up a fence around an elderly woman's house when the sky had suddenly begun to tear itself apart. BB had managed rolling onto his back to get a better look at what was happening.

The thing that was coming out of the sky was now using its arms to tear out the remainder of its body from the hole in the atmosphere, revealing a powerful torso and a set of strong legs. Once he had landed himself on the ground, the entire sky began to fall apart, its regular blue color completely getting replaced by the space purple that had surrounded the giant man as he had entered into their world.

BB wanted nothing more than to get up and help his fellow helpers, who had also taken a strong liking to gravity and were now stuck to the ground with hardly a hope to even crawl away.

The opened eyes of the sky demon met with his, causing a wave a shivers to overtake his entire body. He didn't break his gaze away from him, as he suddenly felt as though there were two giant fingers pinching his head to force him to look up at him.

The giant started leaning towards him, his smile turning into a smirk.

"Aw, really, Pernicious? I know you've made some stupid design choices before but this is just too much." Using his big hands, the giant reached down and lifted Baby's Breath by the back of his suspenders, dropping him into the palm of his hand. BB was then lifted up closer to his face, where all four eyes were now open and staring right at him.

"I can't believe that the universe actually allowed you to make these ugly things. Why is your skin green?"

The wind was much less strong up here, yet BB couldn't find the strength to stand up. He stuttered a bit in an attempt to say something, but was cut off.

"Nice to see you too. Say, last time we were together you really hated me." The giant pushed BB away further once again, holding him over the top of a nearby mountain. There was a hole at the top, the bottom of which BB couldn't see. "I still really hate you."

The ground near the giant's feet caught fire that spread quickly, burning down buildings and the people that were trying hard to run away from the commotion.

Baby's Breath looked down at what was happening, his eyes watering as he watched all the innocent people suffer, feeling a strong mixture of confusion and complete distraught sadness.

"Oh? What's this? Don't remember how to stop me?"

The giant's fingers began to loosen their grip on the boy's suspenders, dropping him a little closer to falling into the endless depths of the hole in the mountain.

"Or have you decided that becoming me isn't so bad?"

Baby's Breath heard a snap as his suspenders finally gave way, his body beginning to fall quickly. He was still frozen in fear, his body wanting to scream but his throat not allowing it. This was how he was going to go out. Forget anything that he had ever worked on before, his body was going to hit the ground and then he would be crushed into a puddle of blood and guts.

He closed his eyes and started to cry, and cried hard. The world around him went darker as he started in the mountain hole, the air around him growing ever colder.

That is, until he stopped falling without turning into a pile of worthless mush. A warm, blue light was shining through the darkness and BB opened his eyes to find Winston carrying him. His arms were covered in a yellow pattern of vines as he let the boy down. 

The blue light surrounded them grew larger, revealing Amar, Juniper, Christopher, and Pimpernel.

"Guys? What are you doing here? And where's Rick?" His words were breathy, and he had to wipe away the tears that had fallen with him.