Bound by his feet, he stands. His eyes bloodshot, his arms bound behind his back. He watches his siblings above wander and wonder. Free to do anything that they want. Laughing, mocking, and insulting him for being unable to do anything. Those bastards will pay. He'd make them suffer.
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A few hours earlier
First person POV
I saw a monster in my dream last night. It had the voice of Mom... But it didn't look like her.
It had two giant wings, each attached to the body of a lion. The head looked like an eagle. It might've been a griffin or something. One of those mythical monsters my friend Michael would talk about.
It called out to me again and again and again. Telling me to go out and to find them. For some reason, I couldn't resist its pull. I kept walking toward it, even as its voice darkened, transforming from my mom's to a man's.
It's voice sounded arrogant almost mocking. Instead of beckoning me to get closer it started yelling at me. Saying that it would kill me if I didn't. It called itself the supreme ruler and told me to kill the child of gluttony. I didn't even know what that meant but the moment I woke up I was no longer in control of my own body.
I couldn't even process the destruction around me, my mind wasn't my own anymore. My house had been blown away leaving me on the floor and unharmed... somehow.
I felt a great pain from my back and ears. The sound of my back cracking and tearing apart made me sick. When it finally stopped, I looked over my shoulder—two giant brown wings had erupted from my back. I went to check my ears out only to realize that they had grown.
I was horrified...I was complete. I was perfect. All because of The Golden Sovereign.
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Present time
Third person limited
An hour had passed since Kian killed and absorbed the two monsters, and he felt invincible. The bite inflicted on him by that jack rabbit monster had already healed and after absorbing both monsters he felt insanely strong.
He kept staring at his arms in deep thought. 'I have magic... but haven't heard of a magic type that does this. Does it even matter. I have powers now that means paying off that bastards debt will be even easier!' A shit eating grin spread across his face.
Although it was soon replaced by a sad smile. 'All those people on the bus. Old man Ross…Kian clenched his fist, his nails digging into his palm. I should be dead too. So if I'm alive… I'll make damn sure I live the life you wanted me to have.
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Timeskip 2 hours
Time dragged on as Kian walked south. His body felt light, incredibly strong, but his mind was heavy. The evacuation site was close now, right in the heart of Felgardis, or at least what was left of it, a smoldering crater where a city used to be. 'Could this be were that monster attack from earlier today started?'
He'd venture into the crater and simply began waiting for the helicopter. He stood there waiting for another 30 minutes to the exact time that the evacuation helicopter was supposed to be there. 'Did Joseph give me the wrong place?'
The helicopter was nowhere to be seen. This made Kian start to panic and panic he did. 'If I encounter more than 2... Those two monsters I encountered were split up from the 15 scourge tier monsters that were here. That can only mean...'
Suddenly multiple roaring sound went through Kians ears. As thirteen monsters started running down from the edge of the crater. Most of them took the shape of wolves but along with them some goblins rode on them and ran on foot.
"Oh shit" Kian started booking it in the opposite direction. The beasts chased after him but they weren't what he was really worried about.
Over the horizon, something moved. At first, Kian thought it was a child. But as it stepped forward, his stomach twisted.
Its face was wrong. Too stretched, too angular, like someone had tried sculpting a human face out of melted wax and then gave up halfway through. Its elongated ears twitched as if listening to something beyond Kian's perception. Its lips curled into a jagged grin, revealing rows of uneven, dagger-like teeth.
And then...those wings.
Great, feathered appendages, tattered and, stretched wide. The wingspan alone could have swallowed the sky. With a single leap, it launched itself forward, gliding toward him like a phantom in the air.
Kian's breath hitched. 'Nope. Nope. Nope!' His feet were already moving before his mind caught up with them.
It jumped up and started gliding towards Kian causing him to start panicking. 'Holy shit it's really fast.' The other monsters were catching up to him too. This caused him to act.
He stopped running and skidded to a stop causing the goblin right behind him to stop in recoil. 'Perfect!' wasting no time Kian turned around and swung a right hook into the goblins head with all his might.
It's brain matter splattered across the ground as it's body fell limply. 'ew' Kian would think as he looked at his hand in disgust. No time to stop though because a goblin riding a wolf was quickly approaching.
Kian barely took a breath before absorbing the dead goblin. He was already moving, scooping up several jagged rocks as he charged the oncoming horde. Just as he was within arms reach of the goblin riding the wolf hed jump.
While air born he'd throw multiple of the rocks with all of his strength towards different monsters. Both the goblin and the wolf died and the other rocks killed the 5 goblins not riding wolves.
He tried to throw a rock at the abomination gliding towards him but it did nothing but anger it. 'Uh oh ' The air itself ripped apart as the monster flapped its wings, BOOM.
The shockwave hit first, slamming into Kian's ears like a sledgehammer. Then,
Pain.
A flash of movement—before he could react, a blur of feathers and claws slammed into his gut like a speeding train.Blurred claws struck Kian's gut like a battering ram, launching him backward. The impact sent him tumbling twenty meters, skidding across the ground as pain exploded in his ribs.
"Fuck... It broke the sound barrier." Kian gasped, air wouldn't come. His ribs screamed, his whole body felt like it had been crushed in a vice. He barely had time to choke down a breath before he saw it, the monster closing in.
Kian clenched his fists, forcing himself to stand. His vision swam, his ribs felt shattered, but he had to move. 'I don't think that I can win this fight but.'
"I have to try."
Kian analyzed his surroundings and saw them. The corpses of the monsters that he killed scattered across the crater. His face split into a grin as he enacted his plan.
He picks up fallen debris in the form of a metal pipe and started getting ready. The abomination standing before him tensed up ready to counter attack.
"See ya!" Kian yelled as he started running away. 'If this works then I gotta give myself more credit in the IQ department.' The monster chased after him easily clearing the distance but before it could grab him it got attacked by the remaining monsters.
'I guessed right, I counted more than 15 monsters. That thingwas never part of the pack, so the remaining monsters started fighting it.'
As the monsters were fighting Kian rushed around the crater and started absorbing all of the dead monsters as he felt his strength skyrocket. But he also felt insanely full. 'I think consuming so much in that short amount of time is what did this.'
But he has no time to relax, he had finished with his meal as well. The abomination standing before him spread its bloody brown wings. The now headless corpses of the monsters lay behind it.
'Absorbing that many made me think, is that my only ability. I'll think about that later I need to win this fight first.' The monster lunged. BOOM, a shockwave blasted forward. But this time, Kian saw it coming.
He could react to it.
The monster tried grabbing him but Kian ducked under it and hit it in the jaw with an uppercut lifting it up slightly off the ground. The monster flapped its wings, sending Kian back with the wind pressure while propelling itself upward.
It did a loop in the air and flapped its wings again creating another sonic boom. It tried to throw a right punch at Kian but he blocked it with his arm and tried to throw a right hook which was subsequently blocked by the monsters left wing.
Although the punch carried enough force to push the monster back slightly. Kian quickly backed away and stared at his right hand. "Lets try this!" He yelled as he threw a full force punch at the ground.
Before the punch connected with the ground a glowing red energy surrounded it and caused the effect of the punch to be even greater than expected. A very thick dust cloud was kicked up obstructing the vision of almost anything.
The monster flapped its wings again to clear it out and looked around only to find Kian nowhere. It looked left and right until...
""Under you!"
Kian burst up from the ground, gripping the monster's legs in a tight grip. His own eyes widened. How the hell did I get down there? He hadn't thought, hadn't planned. His body had just... moved.
He had burrowed. No, the earth had moved with him.
Then he grinned.
"Oh, this is gonna be fun."
Caught off guard the monster flapped its wings and flew into the sky with Kian still holding on. It continued flapping its wings as a sonic boom occured causing Kian to falter but keep his hold tight. Eventually it would even reach the clouds and almost pass them.
Slowly climbing up the monsters back as it rolled and tumbled high up in the sky trying to get him off it. Digging into the monsters flesh with his fingers, he'd slowly climb up it's sides. He would eventually get to the wings and tightly grip them. The monster tried flapping its wings but found itself unable to. It screeched as it started plummeting out of the sky.
As the ground approached him Kian continued gripping its wings and started tearing them off. Shlurch the wings ripped causing the monster to plummet even faster. The monster screeched
Kian continued ripping its wings as finally they fully ripped off. With nothing else to hold onto Kian fell off the monsters back and started free falling into the ground. 'Ah shit this is gonna hurt.' he'd think as he grimaced.
BOOM
Both Kian and the monster impacted the ground causing 2 small crates to be created. "FUCK." Kian would scream as he pulled himself out of the smaller crater.
"You're still alive huh. Guess Im not the only one who can't fly now." The monster crawled out of its crater and slowly stood up with Kian following right after.
"Heh guess I'll have to kill you if I want to get out of here!"