Black And Blue Pilled

Honestly, it would be easier at this point to wipe the slate clean and deal with muggle-borns as they come. While I scanned the rows upon rows of congested housing and spotted each luxurious birdhouse overlooking the magical human farm, I weighed my options. Killing them all might be a mercy. Would it be better to let them die peacefully in the delusions of being super spies and CEOs rather than waking them up to reality? Someone always had to clean the toilet, and I don't see any house-elves. Unless there were workers in these farms.

With a pop, a house-elf appeared. She was 6'2", had skin darker than midnight, and a single braid of white hair. Two magical swords flashed in her hands, one a sapphire blue and the other a ruby red. She moved at almost admirable speeds. She was perhaps 3 times faster than an average human that's almost as good as a chimpanzee.

Jim waved his wand to absolutely no effect.

A wind wall erupted from my hand, only for her blades to cut through, giving her a path. I couldn't believe she cut through wind strong enough to knock a cow over. Truly she was much stronger than an average human. So, I used my skate technique to appear behind her and knocked her out with an enhanced chop to the back of her neck; I felt thoroughly impressed.

"That was the most impressive display of physical talent I've seen on this planet so far. You wouldn't see an office worker moving that fast mid-shift. She actually stopped my wind wall. If the others are like her, then I might have to give them my respect in the form of a golf clap." I said.

Jim sighed. "If you're done fooling around. I want to look inside."

"Yea, about that, maybe it would be best if I go inside alone. There is nothing for you in there." I said.

Jim stepped forward, and he had my respect for that. But I didn't know how long his bravery would last once that door opened.

I cycled the wind to keep our words from traveling far. "My wife just repainted our door; it was an old oaken thing nearly 2 centuries old." The cheap plywood door he held for me had a red X on it. "It's strange as big as our house was; I could always hear my children running to me when I came home. My wife always got onto them about it, but it's a sound I loved to hear." Jim said. "For the life of me, I can't remember either their names or my wife's name. Do you think it's because Cheryl ate that part of me?"

"Maybe, or you never knew them," I said.

Jim opened a pink door to the sound of chirping chicks hopping in and out of a child's skull. I stepped forward and caught the largest phoenix in the room. Before the bird could escape, I broke its neck and absorbed its heat and light before it could reform. Jim fell to his knees and grabbed his daughter's dress of rags. The child must have breathed her last hours ago. I snatched the chicks up one by one and snapped their necks before collecting their sprinkles of light and heat.

"I want to go back. I've had enough of this torture; let me go back." Jim said.

"There is no way back because I am here," I said.

"Stop this, demon. None of this is real; my life isn't this, and these things didn't eat my daughter." Jim said.

I stepped forward and took a pair of chopsticks from my inventory. There were still feeding chicks inside the skull. I snatched them up and culled them too. He stared at me in horror as I did my macabre work. The look on his face tugged at my heartstrings. Jim wanted the comforting illusion he preferred his world of lies. After seeing this place, I couldn't blame him. He was a broken man with no hope left. Without me, he would already be ensnared by another phoenix song.

"Jim Bilbo, I'm disappointed. This isn't the reaction I expected. We haven't even gone to see your wife. After I kill her phoenix, what will she say to the state of your daughter?" I asked.

"I think she will say whatever you tell her to say, demon. This illusion tricked me at first, but I'm on to your tricks now. I will find my phoenix and get back to the real world. She's probably worried sick about me." Jim said.

"An interesting hypothesis what gave me away was it my size or age? Perhaps if I looked older, my attitude would be more believable." I said.

"That's what makes you so unbelievable. No human could be so calm after seeing this. You just killed without remorse like the villain you are." Jim said.

"Perhaps you earned a reward. There are many ways out of this hallucination. I'll give you one. Crawl up on top of a high building then and jump down; it's the only way to break free. You passed the test, Jim; now go find your family and be free from here." I said without a hint of emotion.

I looked down at the dead girl's face. A smile covered her innocent face. Whatever dream the phoenixes gave her must have been happy. Jim's wife was dead, along with his son and newborn daughter. His toddler was still alive but only holding on. This house was marked; the wife probably did it herself thinking she was repainting the door. Jim's son died as I entered the room; two adults had their heads neck-deep in the child's skull while two phoenixes mated with them from behind.

"Extinction is the only answer; after this, I can't allow any of you to exist," I said.

I caught the two males and snapped their necks with my thumbs. They quickly burst into flames as I absorbed their energy. Empty ashes fell at my feet. The adult females struggled to pull their heads free, only to fall over and squawk while they struggled.

"Wait, don't kill us; we're full of fertilized eggs. If we flame, they will die." One of the phoenixes said.

"All of you will die and never return," I said.

"You'll pay for this; our fathers are powerful phoenix lords. We've dined on the brains of wizardlings every morning as the sun rose since we were hatchlings. If you kill us, I promise we'll give you only nightmares as we feast on you." The phoenixes said.

"That would be a problem; what do your lovers have to say about that. What's that? I don't hear anything do you?" I threw them on the ground and stomped them to death. This time I stopped their bodies from flaming altogether. After all, they wanted to preserve their fertilized eggs.