The trees stand still. Loud thudding sounds being made as, grunts are heard. Each grunt is another small quake in the ground. Shaking the trees making their leaves fall onto the grass, softly.
Another thud, as the trees shake. A grunt of something big and the cracking sound. After that a roar of pain is heard. Resonates throughout the forest. Shaking tree and scattering birds.
Don standing up, a whip mark across his face. A giant cut from the top of his head down toward his chin, wrapped in gold. His breath is heaving. The gold starts feeling burnt as it starts to boil his skin. Making it feel incredibly hot.
"That's why I'm gonna use your girl. All because you decided that you were gonna hurt Gluttony."
Don takes a few steps backward finally landing his foot back and stand straight. Gene walking up to him. Don tries grabbing the gold off of his face. His skin searing off of his face little by little. Leaving a red, hot mark there.
Gene lunges straight at Don. Flying straight over to him, literally. Seems he has grown wings of gold, that are functional. Carrying him off the ground and wings pushing off of the ground.
Whip in hand. Wings protruding off his back. Making him stay suspended over the ground. With a crack of his whip. Gene send it forward, trying to make it wrap around Dons neck. Don grabbing it, gets sent flying back with the whip still in his hand.
Gene drops down and plants his feet into the ground. With a tug so hard it makes the gold start digging into the ground just to stay in the same area. Gene pulls in Don, the gold burning into his hand that the whip is still wrapped up in.
Gene tries to throw a punch, that would have sent Don into the ground but he miscalculated and Don wingspan is longer. Don hits him, with a punch into his chest, with the speed and the strength of his massive body. It makes Gene go flying back. Crashing into a tree. Into another tree, into another into another until he lands into the last. All the trees break upon impact. Gene left sitting on a stump of a tree as he catches his breathe.
'Good, this big f*cker.'
A rushing sound coming straight from where he was throw from. The dark, along with the fact he a little dazed doesn't help him see well. Vampire have a more heighten way of seeing in the dark but him getting hit in the chest and sent flying back into tree, messed with his sight.
Slowly his eye readjusted to seeing again. Making Gene see a hint man rushing toward him at an incredibly fast speed. Each step leaving a giant footstep in the ground. His body seems to have slightly grown once again. His shoulder pushing against tree in the forest.
Knocking them down, each tree drop hard to the ground. Making a big thud, shaking the ground and showing creature that hide under them.
Gene tries to get up but can't. His left leg snapped in half. Bent in a horrible direction, that it's not supposed to be facing. Bleeding golden blood out of his golden. He pulls himself up, holding the tree behind him as leverage. His leg healing but not fast enough. Don grows closer. Each stride making him jump closer to Gene.
Now merely feet away and shrinking rapidly. Gene using all the strength in his right leg to jump out the way. Making it out of the way by just a little bit. But the broken leg got caught in the way. Now fully broken, thinking up a solution to his problem, he transfers his wings into his legs.
Don breaks a few more tree before he comes to a full stop. Turning his body, Don breaks into a sprint, once again. This time just slower than before. Don cranks his arm back, ready to punch him.
Gene makes a whip again, longer this time. Stretching from his hand all the way down over to the ground, the whip making loops. The grip on the whip stronger than before.
Don tries to throw an uppercut. Gene sidesteps out of the way. Making him miss by a calculated margin. Gene feeling the wind blow his golden hair up into the air. Gene rushes past Don, wrapping his whip around Don wrist once again.
Now fully behind Don. Whip around the wrist in the air. He pulls Don over his body sending him flying over him. The whip burning into Dons wrist. Slamming down Don into the ground and making him drop into a crater that big enough for his body. Sending trees flying away from the impact and digging a few feet into the ground. Blocking the line of sight between the two of them.
The golden whip still around Dons wrist. He feels a small tug. Then that tug turns into a yank. Until he gets yanked into the crater. Letting go of the crater and making wings appear once again on his back from gold he stops himself before getting pulled in. Flapping hard enough to give him flight as well. He's in the sky hovering a few feet above the crater. Just out of reach of the giant Don. Or so he thinks.
Don visible in the middle of the crater. With both ends of the gold whip in his hand and wrist. He pulls off the whip from his wrist and drops the gold whip away from his hand. Multiple places on his body have seemingly golden covering on them with gashes on his body. Both wrists are covered in gold, his face has a very small amount on it and his back has an X mark with gold just around it.
Gene flying right above him, starring down into Don's eyes, as Don starring right into the bright yellow eyes of Gene.
Annie is in the background, the form of a raven, higher in the air compared to Gene. Watching over the fight. Gliding around the area they are fighting. In the distance she can see a different battle happening between a big furry creature and a man covered in red armor.
A loud roar is heard from the crater. The giant man grows red with anger. The gold winged man flapping a few feet above him. Stareing down at Don, he runs away. Jumping out the crater and in the opposite direction of Gene. The trees blocking both of their line of sight of Don.
'Where is he going?'
Annie thought to herself, her bird self doesn't have any vocal cords available to talk.
A few seconds go past before Gene and Annie move from their area. Gene looks around for a little before finally setting his eyes on Annie the only bird in the sky. Seems that Annie was who he was looking for anyway.
"He got scared!?"
Looking up at the bird and shrugging his arms.
Soon there is a stomping sound even louder than before. A long with roaring sound that almost as loud as Don made beforehand when he first got out of the crater. Soon both, Annie and Gene see a dirt cloud forming under the trees.
Annie has a better line of sight compared to Gene. She sees, for a sliver of a second, Don running as fast as he possibly can in their direction. Even faster than he was running before.
'He coming back!'
Annie tries warning Gene but she can't, her bird form doesn't have any vocal cords. The only sound the comes out is a squawking sound. That instead of warning Gene distracted him instead.
With a massive jump into the sky. Jumping so hard it makes another crater in the ground, just big enough to match the strength his body is able to exert. Which is a lot. The crater is huge. Bigger than the one that he was thrown into.
Gene looks down last second, but it's already to late. The height Don jumped was enough to reach Gene. Don grabbing his face, his whole hand envelopes his face. In a few seconds Don stops ascending, and at first slowly starts falling. Slowly he gets faster as he descends.
'Gene!!!!'
Annie does another horrid transformation turning into her human form with the same clothes. She poses in a way that she will fall fast but with the distance between them it might not be possible. She tries going faster and faster but it's to late, they are already touching the ground.
Don and Gene slam against the ground. Don holding Gene first making him the cushion as Don falls on top of him. Gene smashing hard against the ground the wings unable to slow him down with the amount of mass holding him down.
His body slams down, back into the crater that Gene previously smashed Don into. Making the dirt around them deeper. Gene lets out a loud scream. His body slamming so hard it sends up dirt.
Right after Gene smashes into the ground. Don falls on top of him. Smashing his whole body into him. Making Gene be the middle between, the ground and the massive body of his.
Don laid down in the crater with Gene. Gene's lower body gone, turned into liquid gold. Golden blood coming out of his lower body. Don stands up looking down onto a nearly dead body of Gene. Soon a raven comes down flying over Gene, then to his side. The raven begins to stretch, tear and bleed in a horrible transformation.
Annie kneels at the side of Gene. Crying for him. His body with extreme injury. His golden blood shining in the moon light. The gold off the body of Don begins to slide off of his body.
"Gene, Gene. Are you going to be okay?! You never had any injuries like this before?"
Annie sat beside him holding his hand so very tight. If it wasn't gold, it would have been turned purple. Her tears making her makeup on her face slowly ruin. Giving it a beautiful and horrible look, both at the same time.
"Yes, I already feel my body coming back together."
He squeezing the hand that's holding his as tight as he can but not very. His body is still a little weak unable to even hold himself up. He making Annie's knees dirty because he can't get up. Her mary janes becoming dirty. The tip of her foot digging into the ground.
"Annie, I'm sorry, I lost, and your kneeing on the ground. Making a mess of your beautiful body."
"No, Gene you need to rest. Your body has to go into slumber to heal faster. Please sleep."
Her tears falling onto his arm. Her hand that's not holding his starts rubbing his shoulder.
Don comes up behind her. His face turning back to its normal color. Less rage in his eyes and more calm, his body also seems to shrink into his small version of what it was. Still muscled out but just less height in it and the muscles not as much as before.
"You win please. No more."
Gene says in a pleading voice.
Letting go of his hand and transforming into a form that's familiar to Don. Is the giant tiger that ate both Warren and Dyral, Helena's father.
"You kill Lena's father, you threaten to do horrible things to her. You die or the girl does. Choose."
Gene using every ounce of strength to even speak right now.
"Annie run."
Gene looks over to the tiger, that stands between both him and Don. The tiger doesn't listen standing right between them both. Not even looking back to see the pleading look in Gene's eyes.
"The tiger dies."
In a last ditch effort Gene blurted something out.
"You touch her, the girl dies. The one back at the farm…"
Dons body changed completely now, his body now shrinks back to his regular size no, extra height, no matter extra muscle. He's back to regular Don.
"… when I first grabbed her… I planted gold on her. If you touch Annie, the girl dies."
There is no more dialogue exchanged between them. Don nearly jumped completely out of the crater. Rushing through the forest straight toward the barn, or as best as he can. Following the path of destruction hoping that one of the paths will lead him back to Helena.
Annie now back to her human form. Holding Gene's hand once again. As the gold slowly makes its way into his body and repairs him from the inside out first.
Rushing into trees. Bumping into them and tripping multiple times. Completely forgetting the two he left behind and rushing over to the farm.
For some reason he's moving faster than he usually can. As his body slowly starts to lose the muscle compared to before when his body grew, now with less mass on his body he's moving faster. It seems as time even moves slower. Don doesn't even notice it, but the leaves around him that are falling from the trees damn near stay stuck in place.
It took Don, less than a few second to make his way over to farm house. His body now growing back to his regular weight. Where he goes back to where Helena last was, she's no longer at the side of the barn. Don rushes around the barn trying to find her. Checking inside outside, making a loud ruckus, the sound waking some of the farm animal that weren't already awake.
He can't find her in the barn. He rushes out looking around. The front door to the house is open. He rushes over there. When he gets to the open door, there he sees Helena, kneeling down.
The scene is melodramatic. The corpse of her deceased father bleeding. Over her. His stomach open, guts falling out. Helena's hand being covered in blood. Her forehead seems to have blood on it but not bleeding.
Brushing her dads hair between her fingers, her red blood covered fingers. Crying, her tears glistening in a sad, and beautiful way to Don. She seems to just finish singing a lullaby when he enters the building.
"Nighttime is drawing closer.
Your feet are growing colder.
With a kiss on your cheek and shoulder.
Go sleep, I'll be here to hold you…"
She kisses him on the cheek. Slowly, she looks up at Don her hand still in her father's hair. The tears stop for a second as she frowns at Don.
"He used to sing me that song everynight, when I was three. That's when my mother left. It was to make sure that I knew he was always with me…"
She starts crying again. She lets go of her fathers hair to wipe the tears from her eyes. Don walks inside the house, kneeling down beside her and Dyral now. So quick, Helena latches onto Don. Grabbing him in a hug. Pulling on his shirt. Throwing her eyes into his shoulder, as soon as she does that she screams.
Her screams are of pain and sadness. Don can hear it in her voice, as it begins to break. Every time she tries to breathe in, she starts huffing.
"Why did he have to go?!"
Her voice so loud. Don grabs her as well hugging her in a tight embrace. She her that she will atleast still have someone at night to hold her.
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A bright light appears beside Keith. Not just light but the fire. The fire that Keith saw in his dream, back at the Gandors place, when he was sleeping on the couch.
The figure from inside the fire moves, standing up and away from its table and chair. It was once holding the pencil writing into a book, but again once it started writing faster when the figure let go of it.
The figure is extremely dark. As if it's an actual silhouette. Not being able to see it's expression, but I can feel it it dark eyes staying over the man known as Pride. The figure speaks his voice sounding mythical, and a little heavenly compared to back then.
"Pride…