The Bloody Night Calls

Chapter Three

Error ~*~

Destroy!

Destroy!

DEsTRoY!!!

I clamp my hands against my skull where my ears would be in a vain attempt to block out the voices.

DESTROY!!!

"sHuT UP!" I roar, my tone rising and falling as panic creeps ever closer.

The Voices have returned with a vengeance. It's been three weeks since Ink's threat and the Voices have finally had enough.

The screaming started a few hours after Nightmare left.

It hasn't stopped once in all that time.

White noise mixes with the voices and I groan, bones rattling.

D E S T R O Y !

I crash.

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R E B O O T I N G - I N - P R O G R E S S..............

I awake with a sharp gasp, Soul aching with the weight of Fate's command.

Groaning I force myself to stand, cursing under my breath as my vision swims.

Destroy!

"FINE!" I snarl at the empty air. "I'll go be your stupid Harbinger of Doom so just fucking lay off already!"

I get no response but I swear I can sense Fate's smug grin hanging in the atmosphere. Growling, I wave my hand and summon the thousands of codes that make up the Multiverse. I scroll through the codes with practiced ease, searching for anything new or fading. The young and forgotten AU's make the easiest targets and prove to burn my Soul less once they are destroyed.

Several shiny new AU's greet me, the numbers and letters shining with a silver hue. No doubt Ink had a field day with these.

Really? He made another copy of the Ghosttale Universe?! I sigh, rubbing a hand across my skull. "Seriously Ink... this AU has been dead for a long time. Why bring it back?"

I commit the rest of my targets to memory and swipe a hand down through the air, opening a portal into the Multiverse. But as I jump through I can't help but notice my Soul seems heavier than normal, as if weighed down by chains of ice.

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I watch in grim fascination as one of my target universes collapses in on itself in a cloud of glimmering multicolored particles. In some small way it is strangely beautiful, a reminder that endings only usher in new beginnings.