Chrysalis - Chapter 394

Chapter 394






Beds are wonderful things, don't you think? Especially if you have a good one . My family had never shown me affection in any meaningful way, but I did have decent stuff . At least, I did until the collectors got hold of me . My bed had given me the welcome and comfort that was missing from everywhere else in my home . Warm, snug, safe . My head resting on a soft pillow, the reassuring weight of sheets and blankets . It had been my sanctuary . A vessel that could carry me out of my life, away from the rejection, harsh words and angry eyes . How bad can life be when you have a comfortable bed? Probably terrible, but hey, I have my own policy .

I had to wonder if Garralosh had felt the same way, in her past life . Gandalf, the System, said that all of us were a little odd, in our lives, which was why we were chosen . Perhaps this would be a common thread between us . Or at least, increase the thread count… heh .

As the increasingly irate crocodile prepared to attack once more, I hit her right in the face with all of my most fluffy bed time memories . Sinking into a mattress, drowsy with sleep, cool sheets covering me and my pyjamas . Pyjamas! Damn I miss Pyjamas . Why the hell didn't I wear them all the time? Superior to regular clothes in every respect!

Ah!

I let myself get distracted by my own mental attack! How's Garralosh responding? The giant crocodile has faltered once more and I take the opportunity for another cheeky Omen Chomp! The mountainous reptile is missing a few chunks from various places and ichor is steaming off her still burning scales . The hiss and bubble of it is a constant background noise in the battle at this point .

CHOMP!

Take that! In fact, she still isn't responding, I'll take a chance and go for a sneaky second chomp, inflict some of that deep damage .





CHOMP!

The hit to my stamina is massive but the outpouring of energy from the Vestibule replenishes me . The Will of the colony is becoming my strength! Already my health is near full again and the regeneration gland is nearly ready to go once more . This is insane!

A wall of anguish slams into my mind, stunning me for a short moment . Awww snap . She's not happy!

[STOP BRINGING IT BACK!] she screamed and then promptly exploded .

Not literally exploded in the 'flesh flew everywhere' kind of way . But power and heat burst from her in a calamitous wave of rolling fire that blew me backwards and gave me a thorough roasting at the same time . I felt pain erupt all over my frame as my carapace began to sizzle, the organs and muscle beneath rising to a temperature they don't like to operate at . I'm a smoking ruin of an ant! She did that in an instant!

"Vibrant! Are you alright?"

"Fine-fine! I'm too fast!"





"HCK! Good for you…"

I cough and a small cloud of smoke is spat out of my mouth . I need healing! I activate my healing gland once more, the precious healing fluid that built up since my last use began to flood into my system once more . Only half of a full dose, but I'll take what I can get!


My vision is hazy as the wall of fire that rolled over me toasted my vision to a degree, but the mind bridge is painting a picture of what Garralosh is doing right now .

She is full of rage, thrashing and clawing at the dirt, snapping at the air . Tons and tons of reptile lashing out with all her strength is a heck of thing to be close to . Her anger is cataclysmic . The ground shakes and the air is filled with the sound of her fury . She's like a natural disaster made manifest, a titan, something primordial from before the gods were born .

All I can do is try to keep my feet and scramble back to create some distance as I heal up . I really need to thank the unshakeable faith the colony has in me at this point, as their energy continues to flood my body, healing me and restoring my reserves . I'm not sure why they have faith in me right now, I'm not sure I would!

My eyes come back into focus and I can see Garralosh in all her fury . Her eyes are mad with rage as she unleashes her terrifying strength in an uncontrolled frenzy . So strong is she that her strikes into the ground are causing shockwaves that are collapsing the colony's tunnels beneath us . Long sections of ground fall straight down to create troughs and trenches where before there was only flat earth .
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She's not liking this! I would go so far as to say that she's really hating it!

…

I should keep going!

My sub-brains continue to churn out magic . The most powerful of them is maintaining and operating the mind magic construct on its own as the other two cooperate to weave together the sensations and illusions . It appears as if the Vestibule is also supporting my brains as even they seem to be holding up under the strain of constant spell weaving admirably well . The vestibule is the gift that keeps on giving!

The ground around Garralosh is destroyed, burnt and thrashed into a mess and she doesn't look like she's going to stop any time soon . With Vibrant behind me, keeping her speed aura covering me, I decide to go in once more . I need to take every opportunity to do damage!

As I dash forward I smack her with more memories from Earth . Cola . Fast food . Couches . Television . Sport . Anything I think she might be able to remember, anything that might disrupt her thinking .

As the barrage of mind magic slams home, I maintain a little distance, just in case she decides to explode again, but she doesn't . I'll have to take a chance . I dash in once again .

CHOMP! CHOMP!

At this close range I decide to take a risk and try something different . I raise my abdomen up and lower the front sections of my body to improve the angle and expose my business district! Even with just this position I can easily fire my acid straight forward thanks to my new additions!

POW! POW! POW! POW!

I rapid fire a few blasts of my new and improved merchandise straight into the wounds I just caused before I turn and dash as fast as I can away . I can see the ripple of pain run through the enormous frame of Garralosh as the acid begins to eat into her . Why isn't she healing herself? She must have a healing gland of some description, surely…

All the while I continue to send a constant stream of mind magic across the bridge . Any impression, any thought or sensation that might work, I package it up and blast it across . I can feel it impact against her mind, also . Each time the magic hits home her thoughts shudder away from it, desperately trying to protect herself from remembering what her life had been like .

But then something changed . Her mind opened up, reached out across the mind bridge and seized hold of mine . I felt like a mouse gripped in the fist of a gorilla . What the hell is happening?! She battered me with her pain and fury, turning her madness into a weapon that she used to beat me right in the mind .

You want to play this way?! I doubt you know mind magic like I do! If she's going to open herself up to me like this, then I'm going to step on through!

All four of my minds switched focus and my body grew completely still for a second as I spun together a spell of incredible complexity . When it was finished it appeared like a ship woven together of spider thread . I put myself aboard and launched it across the bridge, straight into the mind of maddened Croc .