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"I am not even going to give you the privilege of the afterlife, you damn monster! You're dying NOW, and FOREVER!"
Elayne's mighty voice echoed through her draconic form, as Nakuna scread in horror!
FLUOSH!
Her Aura transford into dozens of dragon heads, expanding and dividing constantly, and opening their jaws, rushing towards Nakuna's gigantic, nightmarish soul.
"W-Wait a second…! This is…?! No…! NOOOO!"
While trying to fight back but being unable to, Elayne's Aura opened its countless draconic jaws, tearing apart Nakuna's soul and devouring him, reducing his soul to nothing but information from his mories and raw magical power Elayne slowly assimilated.
"I've… lost…?! …?! The Great… Nakuna?!"
As darkness engulfed him forevermore, Nakuna was still unable to believe that soone of his caliber ended not only losing but dying right there.
"I've fought and lived for… hundreds of years…!"
CRUNCH!
"And just now… in this small mission…!"
CRUNCH!
"T-This is where… I die?!"
CRUNCH!
"No…! T-This can't…!"
CRUNCH!
"NOOOOOOOO!!!"
CRUNCH!
Until there was nothing left of him, at all. His consciousness was completely vanquished, destroyed and returned to the void where it ca from.
As Nakuna's entire being was extinguished completely, the entire surroundings slowly changed. The darkness of his endless nightmares, born from the souls of countless people he sacrificed and rged into his own body, slowly dissipated.
Mark, Lily, and Elayne glanced at their surroundings, noticing that the darkness dissipated, turning into bright golden light instead.
The bright golden light… Was rather beautiful, all things considered.
In fact, if one looked closely, these bright lights turned into faint silhouettes as they spread everywhere and disappeared one after another.
"Are those the souls of the people that man had sacrificed to gain his powers?" Mark wondered
"I-I think so…" Lily muttered. "Oh my, just how many… Just how many people did he killed?"
"Haah…"
Elayne sighed, as her Aura, as if it had beco a being of its own, made her feel slightly disgusted, but decided to not overthink it too much. Although after realizing what she had done, she felt weird.
"Ugh, I might get indigestion from eating that thing… I shouldn't have done that…"
She began to regret it already, perhaps eating her enemies wasn't the best decision… In fact, it wasn't a decision she had taken carefully. Her own Soul was indeed "alive" and a being of its own sotis. It was as if her draconic energy was a living being, not sothing she could control all tis.
When they saw a big al and were hungry, they happily pounced at it, even though the "al" was a disgusting monster Elayne would have rather not have eaten at all.
"At the very least, I didn't eat the souls he had absorbed… Those escaped right away once we dealt enough damage to him…"
She felt slightly happy, smiling while nodding, as she looked back at the skies, the pink skies of this endless realm.
With the annoying enemies vanquished and the entire Nightmare Cloud gone as well, which seed to have been sothing made by that Nakuna, Elayne felt relieved that their problems might be over for the mont.
"I'm sorry for what happened to you… I hope you can find solace in another chance at life, wherever you go from now on…"
Elayne looked at the many souls flying away, they were hundreds of thousands… no, perhaps millions. The amount of people Nakuna had killed made him a monster among monsters.
No, perhaps he was worse than actual demons? Not even demons must have eaten as many souls as that Nakuna did, and the funny part was that he once was a human…
"To think that humans can reach such heights, to do such horrifying things for personal gain… It's so scary to think… that a person, an innocent baby, could grow up to beco a monster worse than demons themselves…"
She caressed her belly, feeling slightly worried.
"I'll do my best to raise you well, baby… I will make sure you never beco like these people…"
As she sighed, she suddenly noticed many of the souls flying away wander next to her. Perhaps her giant draconic form attracted their attention.
"Hmm? Ah right, this form… Is it weird or scary?"
The souls didn't seem to be able to speak, only flying around her, constantly leaving sparkles of golden light.
She could almost hear… laughter.
Innocent laughter.
"Heheh!"
Until…
"Bwig dwagon!"
Elayne's large, draconic eyes looked down.
The dozens of tiny souls playing around her large, draconic body…
They were the souls of children.
"…"
Her claws gripped tightly, as she started crying.
That monster…
He didn't even spare children.
"Hehehe!"
As the souls of many children played with her, Elayne slowly moved her giant claws, encompassed in holy light.
As she hugged them all, together.
"I'm so sorry that your lives were taken away when you were so young…"
The souls looked at her, seeing her cry.
Slowly, as they heard her voice…
As they reacted to her compassion and her sincere, motherly love.
FLASH!
The little souls took the form of countless children.
"Mama…?"
"Mama!"
"Mother?"
They had been dead for so long, the mories of these children were faint, perhaps they couldn't even rember how their mother looked.
But as souls, they reacted to her emotions, to her sincerity…
To her warmth.
Elayne couldn't just tell them she wasn't their mother.
Even less that they were dead…
While Mark and Lily looked from the distance, shedding tears in silence…
"Yes, of course… My dears… Let's go back ho, shall we?"
"Mama!"
"I bween waiting fow yu!"
"Mommy, I'm hungy!"
"Hehhe, let's have… apple pie!"
"Yes, yes… everything you want…" Elayne continued crying, hugging the children.
FLASH!
FLASH!
FLASH!
As she nodded to them and spoke to them, comforting them, the souls slowly disappeared.
They moved towards another plane, to the afterlife not even Elayne had reached.
As the last little soul remained by her side, hugging her little hand and playing around, Elayne smiled, gently petting the little baby's head with her claw.
"Awaah? Wawaahh! Heheheh!"
And the baby, while giggling adorably, slowly turned into light.
And disappeared.
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