//------------------------------// // Broken Past // Story: Cold Scales // by Konatra //------------------------------// Spines could not begin to explain the current state of her mind. It remained unclear as to who is currently in control of her body. Memories passed by the young girl in seconds, she could remember everything in her whole life so very clearly, even up to the point of her hatching. What was odd though were the fragments of memories that were not her own. Various images of lesser demons and titans being torn to shreds by white boney hands felt as if it happened mere moments ago. Faces of several characters she has never met before but felt as if she knew them her whole life. A blue spirit wolf came to mind. "Reiss..." The name came to her, that and the feeling of sudden melancholy. Next, a white collection of star-like dots came together to form a face riddled with age. "Tokan..." The feeling of regret and rage-filled her core. Then the last face came to mind which was a large feral-looking beast that had the similarities of an elder dragon but with brown fur and fiery red eyes with yellow irises. This one had two white horns and a goat-tee... "...Chasm..." The feeling of hatred bled into her veins, so hot that it began to hurt. This face stirred something within the shared mind of Spines and the Hunter. Spines felt a memory of Discord, the God of Chaos, forced into her mind. The two faces while different bore heavy resemblance...."He lives...". A vivid memory came to mind. ___ The brown fur dragon named Chasm peered forward into my face, it felt as if I were experiencing this memory first hand. "It seems you are the lucky winner Outsider..." He gave a light chuckle. My arms were bound by powerful chains that spread all around my body, I struggled. "Give it up, those chains are meant to keep Gods pacified. Don't waste your strength." I grunted and pushed my arms out with all my might, I focused hard and tore my muscles to shreds but I could feel these chains start to break apart. Chasm winced at the horrible noise of tearing flesh and stepped back quite an amount as each chain shattered. In the end I lost all my strength just before I could break free but at the very least Chasm looked somewhat disturbed. He fixed his beard before going on again. "Well you managed to prove a point I was just about to make...so good for you I guess." He huffed. "The short of it is that you are a prisoner for crimes I couldn't care less abo-" I lunged out at the odd dragon, the chain held me back but I could feel it starting to give out. "I HAVE DONE NOTHING YOU FOOL! YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU ARE MESSING WITH I SWEAR THIS GOES BEYO-" Was all I could force at before noting I could no longer speak in fact, it seemed like my whole mouth was welded together. The bloody dragon let out a weak chuckle. "It would do you well to understand respect creature. Whatever you once were means nothing now, however the strength you carry is certainly unfounded and admittedly astounding to the point where we have considered having you work for us in return for your 'freedom'" The sarcasm dripping from his voice seemed to say I was never allowed to leave this dammed place. I focused on my hatred and the face of this idiotic creature. Promptly his face lit ablaze with dark flames, still he seemed only slightly bemused and huffed the dark flame away with one huff of his nose. "Yes yes I get it, in other words-" Already the matter of my fate was cased aside like some minor chore. "The plan is this, the others agreed to share quite a bit of power and give it all to you, now that may sound like a very odd idea yes but the whole point is to make you an unstoppable guardian capable of protecting this sanctum from any breaches. Now you may think 'why don't I just escape with this power?' well stupid, it's simple." With the snap of his fingers, my whole body was encompassed in a skin-locking armor that I could feel melding with my skin it hurt to quite an extent but I refused to make a sound. When the process was done I felt a claw jab right into my left eye, instead of pain I felt quite a sensation of arcane energy flow all around my form. The damage I sustained recently was healed and I felt almost able to split this planet in two but before I could even act on these thoughts another snap of the finger filled my ears. "Sentry!" Chasm shouted, my arms broke through the last few chains without effort and positioned themselves to my sides. I found myself unable to move no matter how hard I struggled. This feeling of immobility was near maddening. Once again the odd dragon looked right into my eye holes. "Yes, this will do...although I predict future tragedy to befall us all...eh that's a problem for future me." He began flying away. "Now be a good sentry and wait for Armageddon, I'm sure by then you'll be begging for a fight." His insufferable laughing echoed in my ears for hours. Days turned to weeks, weeks turned to months and years, years turned to decades and centuries and that turned to millennium. By then the concept of time was lost to me, I saw faces pass me by at high speeds, some looked young and came back as elders. I grew accustomed to the feeling...I knew I had something important to do...but dammit I was losing my earlier memories. Yet even still the word "Void" came back into my mind every so often, that and the feeling of rage and dread. After some time the wall began to break, I felt a surge of power light my mind and soul and I was free. By then I cared not to escape, I just wanted to kill. The battle against these demons filled me with the sensation of pleasure that I didn't know possible. I grew sloppy and eventually was bested by one demon who looked all too familiar but the reason I could not even hope to remember at this point. The pain was numbing as my body was torn to shreds, I was thrown far off into the Sanctum after the gate was destroyed. I heard the screams of many many people. One of the screams came from a voice I took delight in hearing. "Stop! Stay BACK DEMON!!! I SAIDACK!! YEAAHAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!" The sound of tearing flesh never sounded so amazing. For once in so many lifetimes I smiled ___ Spines gasped in shock once the memory ended. "Sweet Solaris! How did you not go insane after so many years of that!?" "In some ways, I did go insane dear Spines" He murmured. "Now that you have seen some of my broken past I need you to trust me in this. I have seen the memories you have had with this 'Discord' it is critical that we find him and inform him about what is going on." He didn't really feel the urge to get revenge or anything, this was bigger than any of them after all. Silently Spines nodded, after seeing first hand what that demon was capable of it would be wise to seek help from a demigod. She began walking in a random direction but stopped quickly... "HOW THE HELL DO WE CONTACT THAT BASTARD?" They both sounded at once.