Sudden Cutoff

"Aaron, what are your thoughts on this matter? We have a talking skill, a possessed Hero, and a child. What do we do with this strange team?" Crystet asked Aaron, trying to figure out what they'd do next as Aaron tried his best to hear them over the screams coming from the forest. After all, they still needed to find a place they could call home. Think of it as almost like a base of operations.

"Well, we don't have many options in front of us, do we?" Aaron pointed out. "If we make something too noticeable, it defeats the purpose of us trying to make sure we don't get found out too early, but if we make it too small, we wouldn't be able to make any good plans due to claustrophobia or whatever people might have against small spaces." Aaron continued.

"Well, why don't we just make an average building in the middle of nowhere? Nobody would be near, and definitely, no one would enter." Free stated, taking over Clair's body for a bit. After all, they shared it. "If we needed more space, we could just expand underground. After all, it's not like anyone is going to see anything beneath the surface of the earth. They'd have to be actively trying to find us."

"You make a good point," Aaron admitted, looking into her eyes to make sure he knew who it was. "Free. Sorry, your voice is the exact same as Clair, so I just need to keep checking to make sure whoever is in control, you know?" Aaron apologised. "I don't mind. After all, since we are technically the same person, it's understandable that our voices are the same." Free reassured him, patting him at the lower part of his back. She was short. Aaron was around six feet tall.

Suddenly, the screaming that was coming from the forest stopped. Aaron looked over, curious as to what happened. The screaming didn't just slowly die off. It was sudden, almost as if something was stopping him from yelling out in pain. Aaron began to walk over, but Crystet grabbed his arm as he walked past. "He said he wanted to be left alone. We should respect that, Aaron." Crystet stated, and Aaron decided that he would listen. He sat down, but he had to do it in style, so he just floated around three centimetres off of the ground. Just to be unique.

"You really just have to do stuff like this to get yourself off the ground, huh?" Crystet asked, making a joke out of what Aaron was doing. "Oh, but I'm already off the ground, Crystet," Aaron responded, continuing the little pun, if you could even call it that. "I can still lift myself higher!" Aaron mockingly exclaimed, lifting himself up to ten centimetres in the air. Crystet began laughing, and Free was just looking at them in confusion. She didn't understand the context of the situation, so here it is. There was none.

Aaron continued laughing, but as the laughter died down, he felt strange fingers grasp onto his shoulders, almost like they were claws. Aaron looked towards his shoulders only to see black and red spikes being stabbed into his skin. He looked behind him to see a grotesque being behind him, blood dripping down from almost every pore, and Aaron's first words were these: "None, what the fuck are you doing? I swear if you're some random monster and not None, I'm going to absolutely obliterate you right here and now." Aaron threatened them, causing the monster to jump into a defensive stance. "So, judging by your posture, you aren't the Hero and None, huh? Well, it's time to fulfil my word. At least you knew when to jump backwards, which means you're intelligent enough to understand whatever language I'm speaking to you now. As a final test to see if you can understand me, I want you to simply jump. Just a simple jump will suffice. Think of it as an intelligence test. I want to see if you understand me." He stated while waiting for a response from the monster, but no physical reaction was given.

"I'm disappointed, monster. I thought you could understand words, but it appears you can only sense intentions. Very well then." Aaron sighed before speaking to Crystet. "Crystet, cover Free or Clair's eyes because this is about to get gruesome," Aaron warned them before exuding a terrifying aura as he walked towards the monster. "You honestly made me hope that you had intelligence, monster. Well, I guess I was wrong about that. Time to make sure that you regret failing the instructions." He warned the monster, his aura only sensible to the beast, and, if it could, the thing would be shitting itself in fear. His energy was off its rockers, so to speak, and this was him just letting out a little of his aura. The monster tried to run away, but Aaron kept him in place with his Boundless Telekinesis. "Oh, don't think you're getting away. I'm going to ensure that you die because you're an unintelligent monster. You may be strong, but strength doesn't matter if you can't fight against someone with an advantage. Now, I know you don't understand me, so let me tell you this in a language that you can understand."

Aaron's aura shot outwards, and all the words that the monster could read from it were, 'DIE'. That's all that could be sensed from the aura, and Aaron just rushed up behind the bloodied and blacked beast, and with a flick of his wrist, he sent the monster into spasm, sending blood everywhere. He kept the blood floating in the air, and with a snap of his fingers, the blood became sharp and pointed, and they fired towards the monster's head, impaling him from all cardinal directions. Aaron watched the monster lose all of its senses and die. Aaron then let the body hit the floor. He placed his hand on the body, and the monster's soul went flying up into the air, the body dissolving into dust. "Might as well have given him a nice happy ending.