by Max Barry

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Region: The Great Chili

Wabacha wrote:"No..."

He reels as if struck, for in fact he already has. A hand goes to his face as the other grips his sword with violent anger and grief. "Please... No." Fresh scars open as he is forced to relive event barely two weeks old, his beloved wife turning at Salem's whims into a Lost. Her slaying his father. The passing of the burden to him.

"Why?"

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Joanne bears down on him in his memories, forcing him to fight back to save his own life. Hadn't he sworn the opposite, to give his life for hers? Forcing husband and wife to shed each other's blood in a frenzy of violence. Their daughter screams for them to stop.

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The earth begins to rumble around Kirk, stone breaking away and floating through the air as his hair begins to move.

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The beast that was his wife whirled around at the cry of their daughter.

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Steely blue eyes become electric as his muscles expand under strain, the remnants of the visual signs of Power Release devoured by the Drinker. A power such as that which could still be called upon in dire need.

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The Lost lunged at their daughter, forcing Kirk to make a choice as he lunges in the way, hands outstretched.

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His hand comes away drenched in tears clenched in a trembling fist.

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Would he destroy his wife's soul-

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The ground shatters under the weight of Kirk's advance, his sword filling with power and flame as he brings everything he has to bear on this Forgotten.

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-Or let Audrey die.

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Kirk charges the Forgotten who dares take his dearest's form, mocking him for the choice he made.

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The choice is obvious.

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A scream tears its way out of his throat as he swings down, the distance cut instantly by the power he has gained from the false Power Release, his strike fuelled by his grief, his anger, his shame, and all of his hatred to the god that gave this monster form.

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Under his touch the Drinker consumes Joanne inches before she killed their daughter. There was no way to undo what he had done.

The sudden surge of power already surprised the Lost beast in the visage of Kirk's gravest sin, though the Bat-like lost sunk its claws into the wooden beams beneath it, the muscles on its legs tensing up as it watched for the moment his sword moved. This was the very reason why Salem made it this way, a cursed abomination of Salem's personal design that preyed on the greatest failure of the one facing it.

The distanced slash tore down the very building the Lost stood upon, several others behind it were torn down by wind and fire that sliced stone clean in two and roasted the wooden supports. Though there was no corpse to be seen in the debris that clattered noisily to the ground around him.

"Do you hate me that much~?"

A storm of Air Bullets buffets his body from behind, not strong enough to kill but certainly enough to tear the skin and armour he wore that would be warped by the sheer increase in his fake Aura transformation and the fires he let roar from his body. The haunted voice of his wife taunting him as the Beast saunters on the roof of a building behind him. It was toying with him, it wanted to feast on his despair and rage more, his attack was simply filled with such venomous passion that it couldn't help itself.

"It won't be as easy as the first time you devoured me my love~ Try harder in killing me!"

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