RAGNA=THE=BLOODEDGE
"Rag-?"
Noel cried out in surprise at his presence, but-
The world changed.
Noel, the girl she was with, Rachel, everything ceased to exist as the world around him shifted, no longer taking the shape of a city. Instead, there was something far closer to its natural state, its true concept as the city that desperately reached out for people to come in, to live within it.
Ruins.
Ragna tried to speak, to which the world responded with a massive shriek, a devastating howl that threatened to rip apart his entire being. He feared it, until he realized that the sound was his attempt to speak.
The ruins shifted at the call, and he noticed something among them: A big, long body of black, and deep blood-red. Teeth protruded from any big of its body that even resembled a mouth. Darkness emanated off of it, stealing the very light away from a city that had all else stolen.
The sight of it calmed him, somehow. It was familiar.
A thought occured to him. He looked up, towards the suns, the suns that should have prevented this, prevented the being that was over the city from existing. Before him, there was a faded grey ball, devoid of light, with a massive sword pierced through it. He recognized the blade. He recognized it, but couldn't remember.
In the distance, the other suns also shared this faded grey hue, like ashes, stone turned to fine dust.
How strange. It was all so strange and alien, and yet... numbing.
Didn't he have to do something to those suns?
He he, what did we do to everything else?
Right, that's right, he should destroy them.
At the thought, the being resting in the ruins rose up. A giant, amorphous and yet defined mass of teeth and darkness, fueled by rage and hate, and the ceaseless decay of the boundary itself, the azure. Its maw raced up towards the impaled sun, and in the distance, hundreds of similar jaws attached to serpent-shaped monstrosities of shadow did the same.
The effect was instantaneous. Like a statue reduced to dust in an instant, they were completely swept away by the chaos, ground into a dust.
Oh wow, so that's what its like if we cooperate with the godslayer. He he, I never destroyed something across worlds before.
Ragna couldn't help but smile. The destruction he'd just caused, from worlds away, it was...
Soothing.
Oh, Ragna! I'm so glad! You finally understand how wonderful it is, being one!
Being... one?
Ragna's mind, numb for a hundred years, started to slowly awaken.
Who did he become one with? Who could Ragna become with?
Ragna...?
How did he destroy those things in the sky? How...
He looked down, at his body. Below him was not Ragna the Bloodedge.
It was the Black Beast who'd just devoured the suns.
For a moment, Ragna thought he should feel surprise. Instead, it dawned on him. Yes, this was something he'd chosen. To destroy everything, and yet... the suns weren't there before. How did he destroy them? Where were they?
Do you really have to question it, silly?
Yes, he did. He was curious. Maybe, they're be more to break where they came from.
Oh, I love it when you talk like that. Hmmm, It seems the world itself sent them to us.
The world? Why would the world send things over?
It wanted to protect itself, silly. So, it made this world, for us to destroy everything, while in that world, they just send things to be destroyed!
Oh, Ragna though. He knew the term for that. He knew it, yet, his mind was dulling again. He was tired, so tired.
It's all right, sleepy-head. I'll let you wake up next time we have some fun.
So, Ragna closed his eyes again.
And the world changed.
"-na?" Noel finished, but the look on her face immediately changed.
The suns were gone.
And Ragna screamed, until his consciousness left him.
Deep in the underground of the nexus, a new arrival made its way clandestinely.
Lit by the glow of something alike to lava yet not, was something alike to an alter, or a forge, or a coffin. It hummed with power and purpose, yet had none yet. None, but completion.
But completion hasn't come to pass yet. It wasn't time yet, but soon. Soon, the gate would be open.
Soon, there would awaken the trigger to extinguishing the world, and with that power, that destruction, the world would save itself.
Soon, the chaos would awaken.
