Trials and tribulations
N/A: What am I doing? Just let´s see what I can do with this premise.
The home, as Venus points out, where Kitty is located is anything but cosy is far too alien and unfamiliar now. Kitty was here before yet it feels a lifetime now and nothing remains the same in the house where the Crawling God resides, maybe, Kitty argue with herself, that´s the point, chaos is always changing. Chaos without order is wild and illogical, was that Zaorva´s position as well?
“Kitty?” Venus asked with the evidence in her hand and a worrying expression on her face “are you alright? I got the proof but I´m not sure if that´s enough to convince HIM” Venus flick the lock of her hair behind her ears as stares into Kitty´s eyes.
(There´s something familiar that Venus can´t help by thinking. Far too familiar)
“I know you´re afraid of him, but, I´d have to do this…is my planet"Kitty assures the other woman who is smiling nervous and showing, by body language, how much fear HIM install in the others.
"If the worse comes to happen?” Venus asked and Kitty reply easily holding the shield.
“If we can´t change his mind about Zaorva´s death, then…we´ll fight” the shield once again is glowing on his owner´s hands “I won´t let the earth be destroyed” Venus still looks at the shield in longing and confusion, it wasn´t that secretive as she hopes as Kitty continues “the shield is mine ever since I can remember, father, said when I was four years old I summon this shield and only I could touch it, it never occurs to me that this shield could have a story aside from being my shield” Kitty smiles gently at her faithful weapon.
“He loves her very much and she loved him with all her soul, however, not even him could summon her shield and you can. Zaorva´s death was a mystery that no one dares to solve” Venus explained remembering the few telltale conversations she held with HIM.
“Zaorva wasn´t killed in the planet, something drags her from the space to the ocean,” Venus noticed how Kitty´s face morph into something unpleasant as the word ocean is spoken(Zaorva never liked the ocean) “but the fight was held in the space…and while the final blow may have happened in the ocean, she didn´t die there” Kitty is thinking and analysing the situation, no Outer God ever dies and no one saw Zaorva´s body turning into dust…only HIM.
Could it be that HIM was tired to share power with her? Well, maybe it was a prank that gone awfully wrong as Outer Gods shouldn´t die…
“Wait, you told me HIM killed Chtulu, right? what happened to the body?” Kitty asked and Venus now feels uncomfortable.
“Well…he ate it” Venus replied feeling nauseated and Kitty can understand why “that´s why he is so high in the court, he is that powerful, no other Outer God could have done what he did”
The room feels smaller and smaller and while Venus is scared and knowing what comes next, Kitty, for her part, is calm as someone emerges to the room, a man wearing victorian outfits (the male type) with a sour expression on his face.
“Is him?” Venus asked knowing about his thousands and thousands of masks, however, Kitty only shakes her head boring.
“No, who are you?” Kitty asked feeling bored all of sudden. She has to prepare her case for the trial with an Outer God, she has no time to waste.
“I´m Randolph Carter” the man introduces himself looking Kitty up and down and clearly not liking the view “and I´m one of his lovers” the man stated and Venus is at loss of words while Kitty regards Carter as nothing more than an insect.
“And you are here to tell me to stay away from your man? Look, I know about you, I study your case” Kitty answer coming closer to the man “a racist white old man that thinks himself superior because you survive one of his many tests or maybe he was bored and decided to fuck with your mind and now the white man thinks superior to everyone” Kitty comes closer and Carter take a step back.
“I know about you, I´m not impressed, neither is HIM, living from lucid dream to lucid dream has a high toll to pay, you don´t exist anymore…you are nothing more than his shadow and soon enough you will be forgotten as your energy will be absorbed by him”
“Listen here JEW,” Carter said with a pompous tone pointing his finger to Kitty …the barbed tone dies on his lips as all his teeth fall from his mouth and his finger decay slowly. Now, a new voice emerges in the room and this time it´s really him(Kitty nods to Venus to make extra official)
“Now, Carter, you´re testing my patience and you succeed in anger me, so, maybe I should take Kitty´s advice and end with you pathetic existence here and there” there´s nobody for the voice, but Venus could feel the entity is here. The entity is large than life. The room seems smaller and smaller until Venus understand that´s not the room, is themselves insignificant.
“Hey” kitty speaks easily to the entity who now has golden eyes, no real form, looking at her “if you are going to eat don´t do it here, Venus is scared and we have to prepare ourselves for the trial”
“Right, you love pointless things, lucky for you, I like a good trial, either way…I don´t want to scare poor Venus” the Crawling God of Chaos replied and as the shadows engulf Carter, who looks almost lifeless, Nightcrawler speak one last time “have your way, Katzchen, either way, I´ll win” and with that, the entity is gone and so is Carter.
Once the entity is gone, the room is normal, as much as possible.
“Venus, are you alright?” Kitty asked to the red hair who only nods, not trusting her own words right now “Ok, I´ll contact the X-men and the others, look, I may have a chance of stopping the destruction, however, this does not mean the army should rest”
Kitty uses a magical spell, that works in this place, to communicate with the X-men, Kitty talked with Ororo to warm Wakanda that Belasco may attack there first. Ororo and T´Challa used to be an item until they broke up(T´Challa didn´t understand the mutants and Ororo didn´t have the patience to explain something that is painfully obvious)
“I hope I can convince them…"Kitty speaks fearfully for the first time.
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Nightcrawler is chewing a leg that used to belong to Carter and is paying attention to her moves, his eyes are always on her. Always. There´s something painfully familiar with her moves and Nightcrawler can´t stop by thinking on HER again. She is always on his mind.
Zaorva and now Kitty.
"I like a good trial, so, impress me Katzchen, show me what you got” Nightcrawler stated in his room alone.
Zaorva and Kitty.
Zaorva and Kitty.
Those words are glued in his mind now.