The R.E.A.P.E.R Project: Cardinal-Archimedean Theytris Lore
—————— The Reject —————— Part 4
•Written by Vittoria St.Martin with the blessing of Exalted Changuis{Red Veil}
•Edited by Exalted Changuis{Red Veil}
#REAPERLore:TheReject
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As the glass fell Doctor Matthias was finally revealed, a tall man, robed in centurion blue and silver filigrees, befitting the medical class. As he lowered his arms, he rushed forward, his perfectly sculpted white mask looked out into the arena below. His dark hair coiled in one long braid along his back fluttered in the heated air of the flames.
The Infested Kubrow had been freed of its chains and somehow unscathed by the flames, it looked up across the amphitheatre away from him spotting the Orokin trying to recover themselves in the level above. With a growl that rose over the flames, the beast leapt upon one of the nurses and a shower of blood poured over the side of the wall and onto the floor of the arena as it hungrily began to devour her. Matthias pulled his eyes away ignoring her screams and looked up at the pinnacle chamber and breathed a sigh of relief that the reinforced glass there had merely cracked and not shattered, the Cardinal-Archimedean would be safe. He swiftly turned back to the room and the staff within.
“...no sign of the subject!” the nurse was frantically telling someone in the room as he turned to face them.
“Everyone!” Doctor Matthias began. “This test is over. Evacuate, summon the Dax, salvage what data you can, we-”
His words were cut off as a metal bar pierced through his chest and something landed clinging to the golden frame of the window next to him. The Orokin in the room gasped, some screamed in terror and drew back at what they saw. Doctor Matthias shuddered as he reached up to grasp the bar in his chest and turned to see what they were looking at, but spotted a small, black hand holding onto the end of the bar and followed it. Clinging to the frame of the window was the void demon, her form dark against the roaring flames of the room below, her burning orange eyes fixed on him, a toothy grin spread wide across her face.
“Testing begins now.” she hissed.
Vitaliya grabbed hold of either side of the bar protruding from his torso and pushed off the edge of the window frame and pulled him out of the room. She pulled the bar out of his chest as he sailed through the air and the Doctor cried out as he was flung like a ragdoll through the flames and harshly onto the floor of the amphitheatre below. He rolled and then slid to a halt on his face on the polished floor leaving a streak of blood in his wake. The dark demonic form landed behind him in a crouched position then slowly rose up and began to walk forward, the metal bar in her hand suddenly glowing red hot. Doctor Matthias pushed himself up with a moan and clutched at the wound in his chest as the Void demon spun the bar in her delicate fingers, the metal now so hot it sizzled as it twirled in the air.
“Applying stimulus.” she sneered then plunged the hot bar into his thigh where his sciatic nerve would be.
The Orokin Doctor howled in pain and squirmed on the floor as the hot bar sizzled in his body for several agonizing moments, then she yanked it out of him. He slumped forward and whimpered pitifully as she leered down him.
“You attacked me. You caused me pain. You deserve neither mercy, nor pity.” she spat down at him as she kicked him over and plunged the hot bar into the sciatic nerve of his other hip.
“Applying. Stimulus!”
“Please please please STOP!” Doctor Matthias wailed his voice cracking. “It’s too much!
Vitaliya yanked the bar out and tossed it away as the man beneath her began to blubber in pain. He looked up at her nothing but a dark shadow against the roaring flames that had engulfed the room. Her radiant hair the color of fresh blood waived in the hot wind caused by the flame as her twisted orange eyes pierced down at him, as if gazing down into his soul. He wasn’t looking at a child anymore, he was looking at a demon. In this moment she was beautiful and terrible to behold all at once. Today was his reckoning and she had come to drag him straight into hell.
“Are you pleased, my Golden Lord?” she asked quietly. “This is what you wanted isn’t it? For me not to hold back? To let go and burn? Is it everything you desired of me?”
She suddenly knelt down and thrust her hands on top of his chest and pressed her fingers hard into him and fire burst forth from her hands. Doctor Matthias shrieked in terror as her hands began to burn into his sternum and went to grasp her wrists, but as he touched her skin his hands began to sizzle from the sheer heat coming off her skin and he drew back. Her eyes widened as they stared with intensity down at him and they glazed over a shade of wicked red.
“You call me a demon. You call me a monster. You call me a devil mind. All these titles I find acceptable.” she said as he flailed beneath her, the smoke of burning flesh rising from his chest. “But I will tell you what I am not, doctor, I am NO ONE’S PUPPET!”
Vitaliya pressed her fingers into the skin and muscle of the Orokin’s chest and he grunted gnashing his teeth.
“I refuse to let you break me - after all, I’m already cracked!” she sneered.
Her burning hands crushed through his sternum, wet sizzling and boiling sounds roiling from within his chest cavity as she reached his heart and lungs. The Doctor screamed and thrashed beneath her in absolute agony. Then his screams here cut off with wet choking gasps as his lungs began to fill with blood.
“I don’t fear pain! I don’t fear death! And I certainly don’t fear YOU!” she screamed enraged yet that twisted smile returned. “Even if I’m executed after this, I’ll die with a smile on my face knowing that I burned your Oro from EXISTENCE!”
With one final push, Vitaliya dug her burning hands deep into the core of Doctor Matthias and found the oro hidden with in and seized it viciously. Blood poured out from the sides of his mask as his hands went to either side of her face in one last desperate attempt to deter her, but all he did was smear blood across her cheeks. She crushed his very soul beneath her fiery hands and snuffed his life from the material plane. His hands fell to the floor and his body grew still in a growing pool of blood. The red light faded from Vitaliya’s eyes and they returned to their normal orange glow as she pulled her hands from his chest cavity with a sickening, sucking noise.
The Tenno sat back on her heels and looked down at the mask of the dead Orokin before her and let her gore soaked hands fall to her sides. An odd expression sat on her face as her mind started to absorb what had just happened. She had killed an Orokin - a god with her bare hands no less. Should she be mortified? Should she be proud? Ashamed? Guilty? Victorious? They would kill her for this crime or torture her, or both, or worse. Yet nothing was as painful as every moment of her current life was, the Void saw to that. Maybe she would be spared? Maybe she didn't care anymore? Vitaliya didn’t know what to think, but she knew what she felt as she leaned her head back and closed her eyes feeling the heat of the fire burning all around her.
At peace.
Fire was the only thing that took her pain away.
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