Fractured

Myriad Reality

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King: hmm. is he alive?

@souleaterfan320

He is. Fourth is without the source of his powers, and Tier Five is unaware that he's been captured.

Myriad Reality

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*follows*

@souleaterfan320

*Space compresses and then stretches around us, and we step onto a barren planet, empty and devoid of life except for an unconscious Fourth, who has been constricted and attached to a set of pikes arranged in an X*
It's time to redeem your first payment.

Myriad Reality

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King: oh? interesting. I will come with you personally.

@souleaterfan320

Excellent. Please, follow me.
*Turns and walks on seemingly nothing in the other direction*

Myriad Reality

King: we've waited long enough. Harlock? It is time to fufill your end of the bargain.

Harlock: alright.

King: *walks up to him, putting a crystal in his hand*

Harlock: *waits with my eyes closed, a tear falling down my face*

*the corruption starts, taking over Harlock's body in a matter of minutes*

@souleaterfan320

I regret to interrupt, but I have an update to your contract. Please send a binding representative with me.

Myriad Reality

@Legend Begins YIIIIS

@Dark Cloud

Hmmmmmmm

Myriad Reality

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*A single one of my brows rose, as I hummed thoughtfully, looking fairly unconcerned.*

You know, all this threatening my health stuff is actually making me a bit nostalgic. Brings me right back to the days of my old mercenary team. Suzy, that greedy miser, was... a pretty unique one. Heh, Scrooge could never.

*I grinned wryly, before shuddering in remembrance.*

Fucking Yandere though -and yes, that's what that pink bitch actually went around calling herself. Just fuck her and her Groundhog-day, time warping bullshit. Genuinely most terrifying person I've ever fought in my life, especially after she revealed that her power also let her outright control any other aspect of time when I countered said time-looping. Fucking time stop. Honestly, there's something especially existentially terrifying about a time-traveler whose powers have no real limits and trigger on death. Had to "get gud" damn fast with my immateria manipulation to even stand a chance. Only reason we won was that Suzy's power was like this weird sort of "path to victory" type deal. She could name any goal she wanted to accomplish, and then her vision -or so she told me- would highlight something in red... with like, no context at all. She basically had to guess what the hell she was supposed to do at every given step, but by the time Yandere was after us, she'd gotten fairly good at spit-balling it. Could even use it in combat half-competently.

@Lewascan2

*Stares with a confused, bewildered expression*

Myriad Reality

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*My expression was as dry as a desert.*

Neat.

@Lewascan2

*Twists it, maintaining a deadpan expression*

Myriad Reality

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Pardon moi? Ours was on the verge of combat with my introduction!

@Dark Cloud

True true. But they at least knew each other a while before he briefly got on Misty's nutty side.

Myriad Reality

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*The skeleton -Alna- told me even he was wary of the girl, and in some ways, I could see why. There was a new energy seething into the world around me, once leashed but now overwhelming even the skeleton's aura. The reality was that this was not merely some manner of illusion, but full-on spacial or matter manipulation. And yet still... I'd told entire pantheons of gods to fuck off even before dealing with the space whales that could one-shot planets, and the worst they could do was banish me. If there was anything I was good at doing when it was the worst possible time to do it, it was clinging to my Pride and sticking to my guns. And damn the consequences. I'd never apologize for a fault that wasn't mine. I crossed my arms, stared the girl dead in the eyes, and opened my mouth.*

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*My shoulders bled tension in the wake of Alna's intervention. In all honesty, I was fairly grateful for that. I already knew I was outclassed by him alone, but frankly, stupid or not, my Pride would force me to die on that hill of unrepentance in the face of any god-like being. From an objective standpoint, he really had saved everyone a fair amount of trouble, and I closed my eyes and took a few temper-cooling breaths while the skeleton talked the girl down. Once my temper had been reduced to a low simmer, I opened my eyes and mouth again, this time far less antagonistic dialogue directed towards the girl.*

I suppose we're back to being civilized then? Look, I don't get you. Don't know your name, and I'm shit at your charades. Calling you "Tee" was hardly being mocking or a threat or whatever. I assumed under any reasonable course of dialogue that your name would indeed be conveyed directly by your friend, Alna, here, so I could avoid stepping on toes. Instead, you decide doing... whatever the hell that was is a good idea. Honestly, I'm not here to antagonize you, but I'm certainly not going to just lay down and cower like some spineless harem anime protagonist. I got banished for telling the entire collective of my home dimension's god pantheons to fuck off, and so I've kind of got a warped sense of scale when it comes to my life being threatened. Look, I don't want to be enemies, not because I'm scared of you, because -as possibly suicidal as that is- I'm really not, but simply because there's just no point to it. I'd rather not start conflicts for no reason, you know? So...?

@Lewascan2

*Opens and closes my hand mockingly as I spawn a voodoo-esque doll with an uncanny resemblance to you, and stabs it several times with an unusually sharp fork, causing the doll to squeak, bleed, and crunch*

Myriad Reality

@Fractured@Dark Cloud Thankfully, I refreshed the page before my original post, because Alna's intervention may have stopped Collin from dying on his particular hill. XD

@Lewascan2

Yeah, I don't love opening introductions with combat haha.