We were relaxing in Harmonia’s house when all of a sudden, the ground quaked. We were all forced down a hole into an abandoned building together. There was a random monster chilling at a structure. Ari went to give it headpats, but it didn’t seem to mind or even pay attention to them.
We investigated more and walked through and noticed various puddles of black goo were all around it. Spider accidentally stepped in one and got her foot trapped in it. It burned her, almost like it was being digested. She was able to get it out, thankfully. We continued our trek through the filthy abandoned warehouse noticing even more puddles of the void black sludge and also blood stains everywhere. While traveling upstairs, Harmonia slipped and fell but Claire was extremely lucky and caught her. On one of the walls, ABADDON was scrawled on it. Cole tasted some of the blood in the room and figured out it was Thrall’s blood just off the taste.
I heard Thrall saying something in his deep growly voice. “Abaddon, why? Why force me here? Why make me await them here like this? You are evil, truly, in all your sinful indulgence.” Even so, we continued going forward through the warehouse from Hell.
When we made it outside, we saw our enemy.
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There's... something. Something pitch black. Something made of darkness.
On It's hands and knees, facing towards the pit where the waggly tentacle is hovering over, is a monster.
Larger than everybody in the party when KNEELING. A massive blindspot in their vision.
"...丨ㄒ 丂乇乇爪丂 爪ㄚ ㄒ丨爪乇 ㄒㄖ 乃乇Ꮆ 卄卂丂 尺ㄩ几 ㄖㄩㄒ."
It gets up, hunched over, turning towards the party.
"丨爪 丂ㄖ尺尺ㄚ."
Standing at... what, 12ft? It absolutely dwarfs everybody in the party. It is muscular, very much so. It has 2 sets of arms, the secondary set being smaller than the main set. It has massive claws. It's hands, which have 4 fingers (including thumb), are honestly more claw than anything else. Monstrous claws. It has digitigrade, bug-like legs and 2 toed clawed feet.
It's lower arms and lower legs seem to be... covered by an exoskeleton, between the sections of which faintly glow red. Everything else seems to be covered in a heavy coat of fluff. Soft looking. Cuddly, even. Well, if it wasn't a monster threatening to kill you, that is!
It's head was a bit.. round. round looking. Moth-like with it's large glowing red eyes and fluffy moth-like antennae. No visible mouth..
There are large metal shackles with chains around it's ankle. It has a large, gaping slash across It's chest, revealing a melting soul. A beating soul. A soul which pulses with a piercing bright red, lighting up the otherwise complete darkness of it's body.
It steps forward, shaking the building.
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We began our fight with Thrall dealing damage over time. Everyone seemed to be doing well in the fight, including Cole who got a huge gunshot on its soul, revealing more of its body to us.
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He hits the shot. Exactly. Right in the center.
It stumbles and nearly falls back, covering the gaping chest wound with it's hand as it violently coughs up tons of that black liquid shit mixed with it's blood and a bit of glowing red drool.
This also gives them a great view of...!
OH
EW???
WHAT THE FUCK
3 rows of teeth? Old hat. Try 5. Attached to what is essentially mandibles that will absolutely tear and fuck up your entire.. you.
Ari looks at the giant moth and its rows of teeth, laughing. He takes Harmonia's gun and fires at it's exposed spot on its leg. Ari does not, infact, hit the spot he was aiming for, but still hits close enough to cause damage. Terminal gets knocked to the ground as Thrall falls to it's knee in reaction to the gunshot, vomiting up some more of that gooey shit onto the ground. RIP spraypaint art lol. Terminal gets his legs crushed. Ouch. Eat shit. Those bones getting fucking CRUSHED. Terminal yells in pain as he tries to get at least a foot away, laying on the ground and grabbing his leg. Thrall does... No attack. Nothing. Just more violently coughing up weird shadow shit. Cole, poor bastard, gets splashed with it. Like, fucking soaked in it. Ow. A jade knife appears in Spider's hand as she teleports onto the creatures back and plunges it deep into his neck, aiming for where the carotid artery should be. Spider hits exactly what she's aiming for, promptly getting fucking COVERED in blood. Holy shit. a lot of blood. Buuut, she gets quickly knocked off by torn, practically nonexistent moth wings twitching to get her off. Red wings, no pattern from how shortly they were clipped.
Luna unsheathes her sword and, against her better judgment, rushes in for a slashing strike on the creature's right leg! She screams "Hyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!" After rushing in, she rushes back to her previous location. She cuts right through the exoskeleton. Bloody. Hell yeah.
"Take that you BASTARD!!!!!!" Luna fist pumps in the air. Photo fires an energy beam at the beast.
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We continued to fight on, doing more and more damage to our former friend, when someone else joined the fray: A tall, human-looking thing with seven horns, twelve eyes, four arms, and six wings. It wore a cloak, and had a black exoskeleton. Its eyes were a deep red. On its forehead, the sigil of Abaddon was visible. This is Abaddon. And holy fuck was it threatening.
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Claire sighs, ignoring Abaddon. She runs up to Thrall, and shoots him in the torso with her gun. She can easily shoot through his hand right at his soul. Thrall weakly points at Abaddon.
"乇ᎶᎶ卩ㄥ卂几ㄒ... 千ㄖ乂ㄒ尺ㄖㄒ."
"Kill word active," Cole's eyes go blank as he stares at Abaddon, grabbing his marked sword.
"Ꮆㄖㄖᗪ... Ꮆㄖㄖᗪ."
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Thrall said a phrase to Cole, which activated his kill mode switch. He was helping us, fighting off Abaddon’s will.
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"You turned on us this damn easily?..You fucking oversized body pillow..!!!" Terminal growls, as white webbed wings stretch out from his back. He struggles to stand, but with a single fast beat of his wings he lunges off the ground with his sword and aims to dunk the blade down like a basketball at Thralls's throat. He plunges right through. Riiight through his neck. Coming out covered out in blood AND weird black sludge, Terminal's sword ends up plunged into the stone. Thrall's body starts to melt into a mix of shadow goo and blood.
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Terminal, finished off Thrall in a blaze of glory. He growled as white webbed wings stretched out from his back. He struggled to stand after a prior injury, but with a single fast beat of his wings he lunged off the ground with his sword and dunked the blade down like a basketball at Thrall’s throat. It was incredibly effective, killing Thrall nearly instantly. Truly the GOAT of our crew, the Greatest of All Time. Thrall, Demon of Gluttony, Unholy Servant.... is dead.
We turned our attention to Abaddon, who was also here to fight. As before, we slowly caused as much damage as we could muster, but no matter how hard we fought, we weren’t able to do much.
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Abaddon sends a tendril flying towards... Harmonia. It impales Harmonia's chest, fatally wounding her.
-9999hp.
"HARMONIA," Claire runs up to Harmonia, grabbing her corpse, sobbing.
"FUCK NO NO NO," Cole looks at Harmonia.
"...what." Luna stares in shock. Drew drops to his knees, unable to move. Thrall's corpse melts fully, disappearing in the chaos. Harmonias eyes are widened as she lays there. Cole's sword drops to the floor, his eyes glowing the brightest of reds. The air around them feels warm. Claire's tears evaporate. As soon as they hit her face.
"You... mother FUCKER!!!" Claire yells, stepping away from Harmonia's body. The air around them begins to burn. Luna is completely silent in respect for her fallen friend. The ground around Claire ignites.
"I won't stand for this!" Photo screams. Cole starts humming at 60hz, his arcs glowing bright blue as he picks his sword up, ignoring the heat.
"All she wanted was to live her life. And this is what she gets in return." Luna's voice is devoid of any emotion. She focuses herself harder than she ever has. Claire's hands ignite. Photo grows to an enormous size, covered in black fire. Knight would be sad, if the feeling weren’t engulfed by UNYIELDING RAGE.
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At our shock, Abaddon shot a single tendril at Harmonia, impaling her and killing her instantly. Everyone broke down into tears and shock. Harmonia, Lover of Claire, De Facto Leader of The Kiss, Friend of All…is DEAD.
As we continued our mutual breakdown over our dear wonderful friend’s death, a new being appeared.
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Harmonia’s body becomes engulfed in shadows as Something forms from them. Everyones gets the distinct feeling that they are being watched. From everywhere, like they’re in a massive eye. Spider and Arimidex recognize this feeling. This energy. It stands at 8 feet tall, made of shadows and tendrils that curl in the air. It feels like there are eyes everywhere as a tall being in a suit appears, it’s head replaced with a floating… mask? No. That’s its head. It resembles the twin masks of theatre, tragedy and comedy. It cradles Harmonia’s lifeless body and stares at Abaddon in pure, indistinguishable rage.
”Abaddon.”
"This is new," Abaddon tilts its head. The plantlife around them has all lit on fire. Tears drop off of Drew's face in what can only be described as a cascade. Luna feels no emotions. She'll cry when it's over. Harmonia's right hand is visible as Abaddon's sigil burns away and is replaced with what looks like a black and white tattoo of the theatre masks. 🎭. Everyone feels their energy regenerated, any exhaustion lifted as they feel their abilities strengthen 10 fold.
”The Kiss. Fight. Fight For Her. For Harmonia. For Eris. For Aesop. For Eran. For The Doctor. Fight. And I Will Aid You,” the being says, it’s voice a cacophony of voices that should be impossible to understand and yet, they all do. They know exactly what it says with the correct inotation and emotion.
"Let's fucking finish this," Cole says.
"Let's fucking go, KISS!" Luna lack of emotion and heartache turn into a very smug smile. This is it. The Grand Finale.
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Our attack’s strength increased ten-fold for a while and then hundred-fold. Our moods brightened and ailments fully healed as we unleashed hell upon Abaddon. We finally felt like we could finish this nightmare off for once and for all. We continued our attack until… Abaddon disappeared, seemingly back to full health. The battle was called off. We weren’t able to win. It broke our spirits into tiny pieces. The sky seemed to turn blue and rain fell upon us all. Abaddon is gone.
The aftermath of the fight was about what you’d expect. Our health returned to full and emotions were wild for everyone. I noticed over at Thrall’s body, a chunk of something was inside of it. I touched it and realized what it was. Eris’s soul. It was finally released and sent to the afterlife, releasing her of the pain Thrall caused her. She’s finally at peace… So why does it feel so awful? Over in another corner, a screaming infant was found. Photo took this child and brought the child home. With all of us tired and emotionally struggling, we all went home together, minus three friends. All three will be missed dearly. Over in the Raindrops server, the machine Lucille built was activated. Who knows what this will cause? Only time…will tell.