King Me

The King of Necromancers

"We need distance." Aurelia announced, snapping her fingers at Mr. Sato. "We are currently only seven miles away from where team one will be coming in at. If they are as powerful as the Teleporter claimed, we may perish instantly with their mere arrival."

Mr. Sato needed no further prompting. He kicked the vehicle into drive, and they shot off down the nearly empty street. Yancey couldn't pull her eyes from the timer. 2:57. 2:56. 2:55. She was sure she was going to die. She'd relapsed from her confidence of earlier; she didn't want to be here. She'd rather go quietly into the night without ever knowing why she died. 1:56. 1:55. 1:54.

Adoltin pulled his cap off, tucked it over his eyes, and fell asleep in the row behind Yancey. She couldn't believe her eyes. He'd actually gone to sleep. 55. 54. 53. 

"Hurry the fuck up!" Conner yelled at Mr. Sato, who was already blistering down the street. 

Yancey felt she might cry. No, she was crying. She just hadn't realized it until now because she was so confounded with worry. Aurelia took quick notice, "Are you serious, girl? The selector of our team with such overwhelming confidence that she falls to tears."

Yancey could hardly register the words, sobbing back, "I thought it was a videogame. I shouldn't be here,"

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The sky erupted. Blistering light exploded out from above for just a moment, until it was eclipsed by darkness. Darkness and eyes. Thousands of eyes, all wildly twisting and turning, searching the world below for Yancey's team. A meteorite fell down through them, massive, and struck a building far off on the horizon, crashing into the city and sending up a shockwave that rocked their car from over fifteen miles away. And then the meteorite fucking stood up. It wasn't a meteorite, but a massive demonic creature made of tentacles and teeth. Next came a biblical flood, rain slowly dotting the translucent walls of their vehicle that turned into a downpour. Yancey was worried they'd be drowned within the vehicle until the waters began pulling away autonomously, heading in the direction the meteorite had crashed.

They swirled and poured together, forming a massive vortex that continued to spin, faster and faster, tightening down into a monster made of storm and water. It had no perceivable form, not one that lasted for more than a few seconds, as it twisted from looking like some beast born of nightmares and dread into some personification of chaos.

"There's three," Aurelia noted cooly, as if the end times weren't present. "Those are probably the kings of fire, darkness, and water. We're missing pride and mind from team one."

"Why does it matter? Anyone of those fucking things could wipe us and half the planet out." Conner spat, angry and aggressive as ever despite the situation.

"Because it complicates my plan." Aurelia spat back.

Yancey stared up at the thousands of eyes that sat across the now black sky, twisting and turning, searching. Searching for her. "Where are you, little thing? I can feel your fear. Your fear of the dark." Its voice shook the planet, shattering glass from the buildings around them, and even cracking the very window she looked out from.

"Oh god, it knows I'm scared." She sobbed, stuffing her head into her lap and crying. There, in the very darkness behind her own eyelids, an eye formed of the insanity that comes when we rub our eyes. An eye like the ones in the sky above, twisting and turning, searching for its prey.

And then the eye spoke.

"I see you, but I know not where you are. Make yourself known to me. I can make it so, so quick. You need not suffer, o' ye without hope, nor chance."