Chapter 100: Darkness Rises

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"Useless guards..." Luther's eye's glowed and his sinister aura began spilling out

He turned around and saw one of his brothers standing by the door.

"I-I didn't...know you were b-busy..." The prince blushed and looked away

"The audacity you all have..." Luther's eyes turned completely black and black mist surrounded his body

"Wait!" The prince backed up in fear, feeling the overbearing pressure and terrifying aura coming from Luther

"I've been doing my best to not slaughter all of you that walk in my room unannounced to train my mental state....but you've just interrupted something very important.." Luther pulled away from Ivery and stood up

In a blink, Luther disappeared from his spot and stood in front of his brother. Luther grabbed his face and dragged him out of the room.

"You've already seen too much of her..." Luther was livid with unbridled rage and irritation, he continued to drag the prince down the halls

His aura that was spilling out from him started to affect the prince, making blood start to run down from his ears and nose.

He coughed continuously until he spat up blood.

"B-Brother! Please! Spare me! I-I didn't see anything I swear!" The prince begged and tried to break free from Luther's firm grip

"Shut up." Luther squeezed his face

"Arugh!" The prince yelled in pain, it felt as if his skull was starting to crack

Luther tossed him on the floor and looked down at him with chillingly murderous eyes.

"Why did you enter my room without permission? You better have a good reason." Luther was ready to kill him if he answered with something idiotic

"I-I just needed to say something to you..." He stuttered and wiped the blood off of his face

"Say it then." Luther grinned

The prince shuddered and regretted everything, this man was the monster of monsters...he overheard that Luther had been lenient with his siblings as of late...so he thought he could try confronting Luther about his position as the crown prince of Fresia.

He thought they were all just overestimating him...

Just being in front of him made him feel like he was slowly dying. And being looked at by him felt like he was falling into an endless black hole.

"Say it!" Luther's voice sounded deeper and ominous, thin black veins started surfacing on his skin, the black mist around him increased

"I-It was n-nothing!" He cried and urinated in response to Luther's horrifying presence and sinister power

"Disgusting." Luther scoffed

Luther instantly grabbed his face again and decided to search his mind since he didn't have anymore intrepidity. His most recent memories flowed into Luther's mind.

"Oh.." Luther pulled back and smirked

"You want to be the crown prince." Luther hysterically laughed

"Someone like you wants to take my place? A pathetic thing like you that urinates and cries when they're afraid shouldn't even be called royalty, let alone be the crown prince of an empire." Luther's smirk widened

"You're a disgrace to this family, the Vandell royal family wouldn't be losing anything with your death, you're not even equivalent to a pebble." Luther sadistically smiled and the black mist around him grew larger and larger until it collapsed and scattered all over the hallway floor

"That being said, I'll end your meaningless life right now.." Luther was boiling with anger

He had been trying to train his natural urges to kill, since he realized thanks to Ivery that there are fates worst than death and that it was unnecessary to kill sometimes. But it was apparent that his recent leniency has made people think they could do whatever they wanted, as if he had a change of heart for people other than his fiance.

"F-For someone that is rumored to be infatuated with crown princess Inanna, you seem to be having fun in there with some other girl." The prince already knew he was going to die, so he decided to freely speak his mind since his fate was decided

He was beyond shocked to see Luther having 'fun' with a girl, with all of the rumors about him, his personality, and bloodlust. He used to think Luther was asexual, since it was said that he killed all of his previous fiances before princess Inanna and killed whoever angered him enough, man or woman. But it spread around the castle that several of his other siblings entered Luther's room and managed to walk out alive, unscathed. So he had assumed this time would be no different...

So why?

"Some other girl?" Luther held back his laughter

"That was crown princess Inanna you imbecile." Luther coldly said

"W-What…" The prince just realized the giant weight of what he had just done

It was no wonder why Luther was so angry….

"If you walked in some other day, maybe you'd live to tell the tale like the others..." Luther snapped his fingers

Suddenly several black hands emerged from the floor and grabbed his limbs.

"No! Help! Somebody help me!" The prince cried and shouted

"No one can save you, and no one will save you." Luther smiled widely

Large black spikes popped out of the floor around him making him look at Luther with sheer terror in his eyes. He looked at him with so much fear that his eyes started turning red and he dripped with excessive sweat.

"I'll make sure there will be none of you left, so no one will even know that you're dead..." Luther laughed and slipped his hands in his pockets and stepped backward, disappearing into the darkness in the halls

"No! Don't go! Please brother! Spare me! I'll never do it again! Please! P-Please!" He pleaded and wailed, his nose was running and his head was moving around frantically

There was only silence.

To his dismay, several more black spikes ripped out of the floor, near his legs. He started to shake and his heart went into overdrive.

Several minutes went by and nothing was happening, some people might've felt relieved but all he felt was extreme anxiety, he didn't know where else the spikes would come up from next.

Then suddenly another spike popped up, and maybe it was due to the shock that made him not feel the pain of the spike tearing into and impaling his thigh...

Blood oozed from the wound. And then the searing pain set in. He screamed and cried once it did.

"Shh...they'll hear you..." A deep echoey voice said

"W-What..." He looked around and wondered where that voice came from..

"Brother! Brother, please! I apologize for interrupting you and the princess! I'll do whatever you want! Just please don't kill me!" He cried out to Luther

"It's...too late.." The deep echoing voice said

There were sudden cracking sounds that sounded distant but not too far away...

He pushed his head back against the floor to see what was behind him. His heart almost gave out at the sight of it.

There were three impossibly skinny crawling black figures coming from down the hall, they had no visible faces and they were shrouded in a black mist. Their bodies looked disfigured, their limbs were very long and they made cracking sounds as they slowly crawled.

"Oh god! No! Help me!" He screamed

They crawled faster as his screams became louder.

His heart beat at an alarming rate, he felt it almost stop when all three black creatures surrounded him.

With a closer look at them, he could clearly see they had no eyes, or ears, no hair. They had holes for noses and wide mouths that dripped with a black gooey liquid.

When their mouths opened, he could see their long razor-sharp teeth that looked to be stained with...blood...

"H-Help..." He was only able to mutter that one last word until one of the creatures grabbed his head

The other two creatures tightly grabbed his legs.

He cried in excruciating pain as they all started pulling.

As they pulled his skin began to stretch and tear, exposing what laid underneath. And then followed his flesh. He felt them slowly pull him apart.

With one last pull from the creatures holding his legs, both of his legs were torn right off, separating his crus from his thighs. His voice died from all of his screams, he couldn't shout or cry anymore...he could only make silent screams in response to the pain.

The creatures started to rapidly eat his legs. Blood gushed out of his thighs.

The black creature that held his head continued to pull on it.

"Enough." A deep raspy voice said

The black creatures stopped what they were doing and backed away from the prince.

Luther stepped out of the darkness and grinned, looking down at his brother's sorry state.

The prince's eyes were already filled with immense terror but his eyes almost burst once he saw Luther's face...if he could even call it a face...

What the prince stared at was a black shiny skeleton with hollow eye sockets but there were glowing purple dots in both of those sockets, mimicking pupils. It somehow had long black hair coming from its skull.

"What? Don't you recognize your brother?" Luther asked

"I don't normally use this face since people will think I'm biologically a monster pretending to be human or a monster using the crown prince's appearance to take over the empire." Luther said

"So I only show it to people that are going to die..." Luther's boney hand touched the prince's face

"It's a shame really, you could've just lived the rest of your measly life in luxury and peace...but you chose this route..." Luther shoved his fingers into his eyes, blood ran down from his sockets

"You've seen too much of my woman with these things..." Luther's irritation was rising and boiling the more he thought about it

The prince could only let out slight noises, he writhed in pain nonetheless.

"Let's stop wasting time, I'll put you out of your misery." Luther slightly waved his hands

The black mist scattered across the floor started to travel to the prince's body. The black mist entered his mouth, nostrils, and ears. As the black mist entered his body, it started to attack his internal organs.

Black veins began to surface on his skin and a black liquid poured out of his mouth. His body quickly melted and turned into a puddle of black liquid.

Luther's black mist traveled back to him and he started to reabsorb it.

He sighed and headed back to his room.

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