Lumikki broke into a stark laugh that would cut the intensity of the scene, but did nothing to ease or quell the fear that the captain now garnered. The merriment was short lived though as her disdain for the man on the floor grew.
” All that show, and yet he’s still breathing…I entertained letting him live once before and yer just going to spoil him doing it again. Men like this don’t change, they get revenge. But tell ye what, I found a compromise….” her voice grew more and more cold with every word as her frustration grew and boiled over.
Lumikki dropped the remainder of the chips on the floor as she rose from her seat. The men, already caught in her bind, tethered to the ship. Would feel her ice creep up further in a rapid burst as she was too annoyed to hold her magic back and take it slow. The men would still manage breath, but all their energy and strength would be sapped by the ice. Rendering all in her coil useless as she let them all collapse to the floor. Their weaker limbs were all frost bitten, and if not properly tended, were in risk of permanent damage. But alive they were, all of them.
The captain, to whom she did not bother tethering a spell to, would still lay feebly on the floor. His mind still process the power of the Slayer, but she would not grant him any rest. That he could earn in death if he were so lucky.
With each step the Demoness took, inching forward to the pitiful man, black shards would jut from the floor and hellish black flowers would bloom. Her cold aura was spanning all the ship, in complete juxtaposition to the Dragon’s, and her chill would sap all the heat out of the air and leave no comfort to the men on the ground.
She eyed down Tōga in annoyance but quickly turned her attention tot the captain, even going so far as crouching on the floor to be closer to eye level. She wanted to be sure he heard her clearly and understand the validity of her words, as she only planned to say it once.
” it looks like the Slayer was so kind to spare ye, wasn’t he? Ye could thank him for that, and him alone.” Her eyes were giving way to the darkness of the void, so as she looked into his, the man would only feel more dread. The lofty threat of the Dragon Slayer would not compare to the very real threat of the Demoness.
Dark would disburse below her like a a freshly thick fog. Tendrils would stretch out from within the obscured mist and cling to the man in very tight and uncomfortable ways. The shadows on her face would deepen and contort her features so that she would present closer and closer to the horror that she truly was within.
And now she would speak again with a voice entirely void of joy or mischief. It echoed and shook like the vast Abyss, and just as full of malicious intent.
” Oh but don’t fret friend…..ye better not try yer trick once more on me…..it would be the Dragon Slayer ye pester, and him alone. As in, if I ever catch sight of ye…or one of me birds for that matter……I’ll freeze ya bit by bit and break each an everyone one of yer brittle limbs before I let yet from to the ground from sky high……”She brushed a talon along the man’s putrid arm, freezing the flesh below almost entirely. Her voice now coming out in a soft whisper as she leaned forward and uttered her last point.
” He may now kill ya…..but I would savor yer death and feed yer remains to me birds. Consume yer soul and make proper use of the pointless existence that ye are.……She got up and walked away silently, returning to the men she ushered under wing just prior. Her talons would crave into the wood of the rail as she walked over to the end where she wanted to be. Taking a chunk of the wood with her as she jumped off into flight and landed on her ice sheet.
With a snap, two black frost talons would appear to the side and push the ice floor to the shore. Assuring the life of the men she insisted in her care the ability to life on, but leaving those left of the ship to survive on their own.
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