While it wasn't 'real' to him, it still felt real. This pearl of memory provided to him by his 'neesan.
A tiny fragment of her memory.
Of her fight against that... thing, his mind shied away from naming it. Conceptually, he knew what they were, for she had named them and in the act of naming them, made them less.
And yet, he knew with absolute certainty that if he were to name them, if he were to focus on their very concept, that he would open a path for them.
Such a thing was never good, he instinctively knew this without even asking his 'neesan. The things that dwelt in the darkness between the stars, that some might call gods, had no love for those that were [not-them].
As such, calling upon their attention was never wise.
Even in dreams. Especially in dreams.
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'neesan
Part 8
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And thus, he saw with her eyes, felt with her aura the corrosive nature of that which she fought. And knew of its unrelenting and ever changing form, even as she controlled the pace of her heart and not let it react.
The name at its heart, and the thrice radiant crowned names of those that it served, she could see it all. The heat and oppressive might inherent to those names called to her. With but a single utterance of its name, she could command the beast that ravage the surface of the moon.
All it took were words, nonsensical sounds strung together, to command the creature that mortal men might call demon gods. To have it heel to her call, to have it return to the darkness between the stars.
Never to trouble another world. Ever again.
And yet.
And yet.
Doing such a thing would allow tiny hooks into her soul and mind.
And by those tiny hooks would she lose slivers of her self 'til she was more than a mindless and soulless puppet, enthralled in the service of those that Serenity had cast down long ago.
In the face of that, how could she do naught but reject its blandishments?
Indeed, rejection of all its existence.
The name that it bore.
Its attempts to break her, to destroy her with its armaments of light, heat, bone and flesh.
She rejected its attack patterns as she fluttered amidst the spikes launched from its body.
She denied the reality of the its roaring whisper of countless voices in the mental realm.
And as she glided down along its body, she did not even think... she knew that the shell beneath her in all its rancid scent and heat was as air before the blade of her glaive.
And it was. After all, she denied it and all its existence.
Absolute denial.
And yet, as she flew with her wings formed from the light of her soul, where each flicker of her wings allowed her to feel, to sense the spiritual radiance that poured forth from it.
A burning radiance that blazed too hot for the body it inhabited, sustaining it with its might, feeding it that it might grow and change, incinerating and poisoning the flesh that hosted it and land it lay upon...
Ahhh... and yet, and for all its might, she could snuff out in an instance.
If she so choose. At the 'mere' cost of the moon and all still upon it, and she was merciful.
Her all destroying aspect tempered by restrain.
For she hewed to the decrees of those who bore the majesty of Serenity, the wielders of the silver radiance; the guiding starseed equal in its brilliance to all in the heavens.
And so, she played at senshi, valiantly battling her opponent.
Darting from openings in its attacks and attempts at counter-attacks to openings that didn't exist, but would when she arrived.
A holding action as she danced with all the beauty that a senshi could bring to the art of battle.
One meant to distract and direct the target's attention.
As she fluttered away from the crimson bulk of flesh and chitin, she could see/feel/know as it exhaled the tainted and boiling air from its gills. Feel its bulk pull in slight, bulging here and there in an obscene parody of pregnancy as ganglia were formed as roots and extrusions formed along its where it rested upon the surface of the moon.
An inhalation of clean crisp air, a continuous intake of air that was accompanied by the radiance of its naming flaring and burning outwards in slits here and there down the length of its body.
The cessation of its attempts to quash her was a good hint of what it was doing. But then, such a creature wasn't meant to fight one like Saturn.
She was too small, and the lest of its armaments were meant to destroy entire mountains and entire fleets of space faring vessels. While she was meant to slay things such as it.
A smile directed at an unseeing horror was all offered it in recompense as incandescent light flared beneath it. Boulders of solid stone fell inwards from the shattered remains of the mountain giving it the appearance of a decayed tooth from whence a worm of raw flesh had devoured its way out and was even now reaching upwards to pierce the heavens.
For moment, its bulging form remain as it was embedded partially within the shattered mountain, before pushing outwards... lancing at the lavender butterfly before it. A butterfly that danced out of its linear charge, keeping away from it just so.
A delightful imagery that continued for an eternity as the butterfly danced, spun about in patterns elaborate as the creature chased after it into the void between worlds and moons.
And then... silence [entropy] came upon it much like an angler fish would snap around the prey foolish enough to follow its brilliant lure in the depths of the ocean.
From that silence, countless ribbons spun and unfurled... an endless river of lavender hair upon a velvet black bed as Saturn spread her arms wide welcoming her paramour to become one with her. And in that joining, to drink deeply of silence [entropy], to be known to [Eternity], and in that knowing... to cease.
Only the butterfly returned to the moon.
It was here that he always woke up, with the sight of his 'neesan gazing implacably upon the ruins.
And a single statement that he never would remember upon awakening from his dream.
"I se?e ?y?o?u, ?li?t?tl?e ?one.?"
After all, it would be silly to be seen while viewing someone else's memories in a dream, wouldn't it?