COLAB BY DABOMBJK/BLACKPANTHER
Kyle was barely awake, which was still pretty impressive considering the massive gaping hole in his chest. It slightly glowed a tintish green, meaning that some of Phantoms energy was healing him slowly. But it wasnt healing fast enough. Kyle tried to lift his arms or move but it made him suffer too much. Kyle barely held on to s single thought in his current state, but one thing was clear in his mind. Phantom was trying to become a God. Kyle thought it was impossible, you either are one, or not. You cant change. But Phantom seemed certain he could do it. Kyle had to stop him. But he had even lost control against Phantom, was so sure that no mortal could stand against that blast. It was a blast filled with the very essense of non existance. But Phantom survived. His strength was incredible. Kyle tried to speak.
"H-h-he-hel.....help me.....please," Kyle begged the air.
Cupid continued to search. He was still weak, but determined. He called out again.
"Kyle?!" he got closer until he finally spotted Kyle. He made his way to him, but couldn't shake the feeling that something was watching them. It was an odd feeling, but he choose to ignore it. after kneeling down Cupid looked him over.
"Kyle..stay with me. i need to make sure I can lift you" he began looking Kyle over with a grimace at each wound. He started to pick Kyle up.
Kyle flinched at the touch from Cupid and hwoled in pain. He could move his arms and legs, nor his head. Kyle only screamed for another moment before he started hacking up blood.
"Cu-cupid....why are you....here?"Kyle tried to move again but felt another spasm of pain.
Cupid put Kyle back down and pressed his com link.
"I can't move Kyle. one of you darlings needs to get over here" he looked at Kyle and chuckled.
"We're you expecting someone else. I'm here because you got in trouble." his wings spread open and he inhaled. He did not like this. Not one bit...he wasn't at full capacity and he still had that creepy feeling. He rolled his shoulders and made eye contact with Kyle.
"Stay awake. Talk to me..about anything, just stay awake" he was concerned that was for certain.
"Well...,"Kyle said weakly
," Did i ever tell you im dating Eden? did you shoot us in the ass with a love arrow?"Cupid snorted and had a fake offended look.
"You hurt me darling. I am clearly not in a diaper. You two did that on your own." he shook his head and managed to chuckle.
"Nah dude...im not smart enough. I usually hurt people close to me,"Kyle said looking Cupid in eyes, but onlu just barely
," Like my good friends. Im sorry Cupid..in the hall when I was fighting Donovan. I pissed you off pretty bad huh? It sucks im gonna die before I can make it up to you."Cupid shook his head and shrugged.
"I know something about that...well....experienced something like that" a faraway look flashed through his eyes before dissipating.
"If you die I'll find a way to follow you and kick your ass then deal darling?"Suddenly without warning, the messed up tattoo on Kyles back started to glow green again. This time though it passed off some major heat, and what felt like a heart beat pulsed out. with eatch passing second, the heart beat grew louder. Kyle was in more agony than he has ever been in before, and Kyle could do nothing to stop it. Then kyle lurched forward, against his will, and everything was calm for the moment. For the next several seconds, Kyle was blank faced and Cupid was silent. Then the hole in Kyles chest sealed up and the markings on Kyles back grew and grew until he had marks and sigils covering his entire body.
"FUCK...fuck fuck fuck this hurts,"Kyle said loudly and quickly
," I came so close to death my curse tattoo is activating pre mature. Im going...to become...my...brothers.....thrall!Kyle then teleported and appeared in the same spot standing up, with blank eyes. not saying a word he looked at Cupid. Every other second you could see a glimpse of the real Kyle, then it would dissapear, then reapear, then dissapear. Then kyle howled again, in both pain and form waht sounded like instinct. Then Kyle began to multiply. These were not one hundred Kyle clones, they looked like green and black shadows. But theywere fast, strong, and were not very smartso they like to charge, and in doing so they swarmed. Kyle could be seen fighting off the curse tattoo but not very well. More Kyle clones kept appearing and they finally noticed Cupid.
Cupid held as still as possible. Frozen in fascination and a bit of horror. He looked around at all the kyle clones. He inhaled and dug deep. Illusions of his own creation started appearing. One illusion for each clone. They were simple In nature...mostly outlines of different monsters. He inhaled and flew upwards before raising his hands, his eyes glowing. The outlines threw the first punches and some got more detailed then others. One looked like slender man and another like a demon. Each one fighting while Cupid tried to be a safe distance away from harm. Both parties however, seemed too occupied to notice the hiding jackal watching it all.
Kyles clones began throwing themeselves at the illisuions, They were not intelligent enough to use tactics, but hell if a horde of angry clones aint nothing. Kyles clones began swarming the area, as more and more and more kept appearing, with no end in sight. Kyle was in the back, clear from any clones that werent popping out of his back. Kyle kept thrashing around trying to beat his inner demon. The inner demon side wanted to keep figthing Cupid, to be angry, to kill. Kyle didnt want that. Kyle kept fighting back, trying to be dominant. As more clones appeared, the slightly weaker they became, but much much smarter.
Cupid watched and a lightbulb went off. All the illusions dissipated and two appeared. The demon and angel from his subconcious. Both were more illusion like then before and walked to Kyle. They went to either side and the demon chuckled.
"Fighting inner demons eh? We know what that's like. I vote an actual fight. Main against main" the angel shook it's head and seemed to plead.
"No keep fighting it. The demon inside wants a fight so deny it. Don't feed it" no one could keep up with an inner and outer conscious. It's like doubling ones inner voices...forcing the psychopath lane of crazy. Cupids idea was to confuse both parties. Get them distracted then go in there. A very thin trail of blood exited cupids nose as he exerted himself on a normally subconcious set of illusions. It was draining him.
Kyles clones started to slow down in production, but they were still becoming smarter as well as weaker. It seemed like his clones would get the advantage. Kyle stopped thrashing around, but took a knee. Kyle looked at Cupids illusions at eatch side. Then he smiled. Kyle reached out and put his arms up, arming himself with dark matter, palms outward facing the angel and demon. One of his eyes was his natural color, brown, the left was dark red.
"Shut up both of you!,"Kyle said as his voice began sounding like two voices overlapped.
"I will kill you, kill you all! Cupid, that stupid baby, Enyo, Donovan, Eden-."Kyle faltered when he said Eden and he looked pained. But he quickly recovered. His curse tattoo markings glowed even brighter green, almost turning purple.
The demon leaned closer.
"Do it. I would take your side" The demon flicked out a forked tongue and lauhed the sound akin to that of the joker.
"But when you are done what would be left? who would you kill hmmm? what would you do thrall" The demon grinned and flashed pointed teeth. The angel spoke up.
"What about eden? you love her. stop fighting you are better then this" They both started circling kyle. The angel with a pleading face while the demon had a smile that could rival the cheshire cat. If this is what went on in cupid's head on a daily basis...fairly certain his mind is not healthy.
Kyle expressed his rage, shouting profanities and shooting off purple anti matter beams randomly. As he did this his clones started to fall down dead, the evaporating, their essence returning to Kyle. Kyle no longer glowed green, and his marks dissapeared, but now he emitted a feint purple aura, and both his eyes were now a crimson red. Something else weird, his hair seemed a little sharper at its edges. Kyle stopped shooting, and swearing, and calmed himself. Kyle stayed still for a few seconds, then raised his hands to his face.
"So I have the main body......Well.......shit. I like sleeping. Oh well."Kyle looked oevr and saw Cupid.
"HEY..YEA YOU THE QUEER O SEXUAL. GET YOUR BLOATED ASS DOWN HERE. I WANNA SHOW KYLE WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE WHEN A BITCH DIES,"Kyle shouted
,"AND I GUESS IF YOU WANT TO KNOW MY NAME ITS NOT KYLE. KYLE IS..NOT HERE. MY NAME IS KIERAN."Cupid's illusions looked at each other then vanished. Cupid landed and wiped the blood off of his face and shook his head.
"That is the weirdest name ive ever heard...and thats coming from me" he walked forward and held out his hands where a large sword appeared. He grinned and a few copies of himself started appearing. They all spoke in unison.
"I wont kill you...but if I die...I get to explain that to my mother. I am not doing that" They seemed to pause a moment before charging.
Kieran laughed. Kieran held open his palm and aimed it upwards. A small black sphere appeared. Kieran dropped it and then kicked it like a soccer ball, aiming it straight. The sphere flew past the illusions. Then Kyle snapped his fingers and the black sphere exploded into a big spongy wall. The wall flew back, like a yoyo, and Kyle teleported behind it as the wall went zooming backwards towards all of his enemies.
Cupid blinked and dodged. He managed to keep the illusions going this time, but when the wall went out the illusions disipated and cupid dodged again. He huffed and ran a hand through his hair.
"What exactly are you going to do if you manage to finish your plan darling. Sure you kill some people get some nice bloodshed....but then what" changing strategy to try to build up energy. Energy he is running low on. it did not look good for him.
"Well once i finish killing the people at conspiracy,"Kyle said pausing for a moment. Kyle made a painful expression then shook it off. He ignored all thoughts about Eden
,"I will kill people in they city, then illl move on to the next city, and the next. You see, you freak of fucking nature-,"Kyel said stopping to attack. Kyle teleported forward and began hand to hand combat, confident he could win even though he was not very good at it against supers, throwing punches and jabs.
,"-Some people just want to watch the world burn. But dont worry ill let you watch. I wont kill YOU today. Im just gonna hurt you really, really badly. For Kyle. Poor pathetic ass is so fried up in our mind."Cupid was out of energy. The unexpected fist fight damaged him quite a bit before his wings snapped around him as a defense. His voice was muffled.
"Pot calls kettle black...freak" He wiped more blood behind his wings and inhaled.
"Joker rip off." His wings snapped open and he proceeded to fight with fists and wings. In his head he could feel himself slipping a bit. That side of him that actually wanted to help this guy. The side that wanted to kill and reap all the benefits. He fought through it though, but he doubted he could take much more before he snapped.
Kieran took more of a beating tha he woudl ever admit. After getting his ass handed to him Cupids hand to hand combat, Kieran decided to change tactics. Kieran teleported fifty feet away from and wiped the blood from his face.
"Im not a freak, im a highly functionial sociopath.....that happens to love the joker fuck off."Kieran made a finger gun, and put his left hand on his right arm. Kieran began rapid firing single shots of dark matter at Cupid, eatch shot explosive.
Cupid started to twitch. Head movements that could have come from a paranormal activity movement. He dodged each shot and then grinned, a grin that stretched farther then it should have. Horns grew out of his head and it seemed for a moment that a hand laced fringers with cupids and flipped over. The change happened quickly. Cupid stretched and clicked before waving his finger...a finger that now had a claw. Cupid walked forward his wings seeming to fall apart before reconstructing into blood red dragon wings. Demon stepped before Kieran.
"I did say Id help you.' He spread his hands and chuckled, his voice demonic.
"I can help." His head twitched and he rotated his neck as if popping it. Hr grinned again. Somehow...This guy might be less helpful then he sounds.
"Lets paint the earth red" A forked tongue slid out of his mouth.
"I would love to but.....I just dont think you have red blood. Lets see about that,"Kieranput his hands together summoning a Dark matter orb. Then as he pulled apart his hands, more and more appeared in a row. Kieran made a kissy lips face at Demon then right before he attacked he stopped.
"By the way, I cant really call you Cupid can I? Your just so........demonic now. Im gonna call you.....Lucy."And with that Kieran began punching the orbs, which would go flying at Demon. Right before they would hit Demon, they suddenlyformed a rigid surface and spikes pertruded from their entire surface.
Demon's smile seemed to manage to widen at the threat of an attack. He tilted his head.
"Lucifer is an angel" He watched the orbs loom close and tilted his head. Illusions shot up in the form of eden. Multiple copies of eden. An orb did hit him and he laughed.
"Pain is another form of pleasure. But I think I know of something else...I think I know whom I shall go to now." He grabbed an illusion of eden who had been hit by the orbs. She was crying he turned and grinned at Kieran.
"I shall enjoy this...watching you fight yourself as I bury a few arrows in her body" Demon grinned before shooting into the air. One thing about demon...he is not one to just stick around for a one on one. He likes to cheat...or somehow mess with his opponents mind.
Kieran outraged when he saw what Demon was doing. Well he wasnt so much outrage as much as he didnt care, but a soft nagging voice kept shouting in his head,"Not Eden, Not Eden",. Kieran created an orb of dark matter, then made it grow to a dinner table size. Kieran jumped on it and he shot up into the sky, after Demon.
"Lucyyyyyyyyyyyyy im home!"Kieran began shooting razer edged black matter blast from his palm.
Demon chuckled and had some aerial gymnastic moments. He got hit on his leg which caused for demonic laughter. He sped up, but landed a ways away from the compund. He tilted his head and waited for his enemy to get close. He then snapped and an illusion made itself apparent. This one of eden. Demon then created an illusion of a forest. In which he hid in with ease. Illusion eden started crying and fell on her knees. It seemed very realistic and demon seemed to have more control over illusions then when cupid was dishing them out.
Kieran started to shed tears. He didnt understand but when he looked at the fake Eden, which he knew was an illusion, He felt something. No thats not right. Kyle felt something. It ahd been building but Kieran realized too late that he ahdnt taken enough time to beat down Kyle and take control of their body. Suddenly, like a change in the wind, Kyles hair straightend, his eyes went back to brown, and Kyles entire demeanor changed. His back glowed a feint purple, then green, then purple again, in the same image as his Curse Tattoo, then it shattered into pieces and evaporated. Kyle was finallt free of his curse. All of the energy Kyle spent, enough for two men, the emotional trauma, the mental trauma, the physical trauma, all of it hit Kyle at once. Kyle chest suddenly had the red outline of the circle from when Phantom stuck his hand in his chest. The wound was healed on the outside but had returned to being damaged on the inside. Kyles face was bloody, and the bruises started to show more. Kyle was able to mutter "Eden" once last time before he fell unconcious. Kyles balck matter sphere evporated, and Kyle started to fall, and he would land near the compounds back yard.
Demon watched the conflict. He knew that delicious conflict oh so well and while Kyle was falling unconcious he ripped Eden's illusion apart. It was gruesome and realistic. He then disipated all of his illusions and took off...leaving Kyle to fall and possibly die. he ripped off his com link and tossed it as he went.
Anubis had managed to keep up and watched the mortal one fall. He shook his head and trotted after demon. He silently stalked the hybrid and shifted to his true form. Demon turned and laughed...but was soon cut off by a clawed, furred hand closing around his throat and brining him to eye level.
"You have been judged. You are split between kinds, but your thoughts are evil." Pupiless eyes glowed brighted and demon struggled, a shrieking sound emitted from him. Anubis flicked his ears.
"You shall not harm mortals tonight.' Anubis was then holding a now unconcious cupid. The jackal turned and managed to stride to where Kyle was falling. He dropped Cupid and caught Kyle. The face was almost comical as a god of death had no idea what to do with a severly injured human. The solution was to put Kyle down and hit a signal on cupids com link. It was really a random button push...but he hoped it worked. Then the god was then replaced once more with jackal who then went into a hiding spot. Blue eyes glowing faintly amongst the branches of the bush.
In a flash of light, Phantom appeared next to Kyle. He leaned down and gingerly touched Kyles face.
"My little brother, I am..........well......I can forgive you for almost ruining my experiment,"Phantom coldly said
,"But you showed me more good things in the end than bad. For example,"Phantom looked at the bushes where Anubis was hiding
,"You have a God watching over you. I can use that, Soon Anubis..."Phantom looked back at Kyle.
"You removed my tattoo and split your psyche. Well....have fun with that. I made your tattoo carefully and you were never suppose to let what happend happen. Your friends were suppose to be compatent enough to save you. Kyle become stronger and fight me again. Maybe next time you can kill me."Phantom walked around to Cupid and kneeled next to him. Phantom raised his right hand and it glowed bright green on his finger tips. Then all the glows dissapeared except the onw on his thumb. He placed his thumb on the small part of his right under amr, the spot next to his armpit but not on it. It burned slightly, then cooled and the dark green glow burnt out and the tattoo dissapeared. Phantom stood up and almost walked away, when he stopped, looked a Cupid, then kicked him in the face. Then he reached down and pressed the button his Com link that would send a red alert to Everyone with his exact location. Phantom gave Anubis another look, one of anger and wistfulness. Then Phantom pressed a button on the teleport disk and teleported away, leaving behind an echo of his laughter.
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