War Breed

War Breed
the long lost story of Melrakki Kynligrland



5 Years Before


Eyes shifted. Lips moved. No sound. Only darkness. Redefining sight.
Losing control. Reality slipping. Losing self.
His grip on reality began to slip and he felt a surge of fear light his brain.
"I can't see." He forced the words out of his mouth. His throat was dry and constricted with fear. Every breath was sandpaper shoving its way down his windpipe.
He couldn't feel. It was not being able to feel that frightened him most of all. He reached into the darkness... and nothing. There was nothing. He couldn't even feel his fingers move. He thought he was bending them. He was wriggling his fingers, wasn't he? Why couldn't he feel them?
He tried to imagine curling his fingers into his palm, making a fist. He put his every fiber of strength into making them curl, making them reach to his palms. He imagined his fingers touching smooth flesh.
Nothing.
He screamed, and there was silence.



2 Years Before


Sun above. Earth below. Endless sky between. A mystical heaven that only the birds could cherish. A world between worlds. A world he wanted to incinerate inside. Lose himself in.
"Melrakki!"
A voice from heaven that brought his focus back to earth. He looked to the girl lying beside him in the grass, the owner of that voice. She had fallen from heaven, he was sure. Why else would such a treasured, broken creature be here?
She graced him with a smile and his heart soared into that infinite realm. "You were staring off again."
"Was I?" His voice. Hatred.
"Yah. You do that sometimes."
He looked back at the sky. His eyes stared into the sun, but there was nothing in them left to burn. There was no soul behind those glossy windows.
"Well?"
"Well what?"
"Are you going to answer my question?"
"What question is that?"
She came between him and the sky and the sun. She was the sky now. Leaning over him, her eyes met his. The gloss dissolved. He was molten under her stare. They must be eyes of heaven, for they burned more fiercely than the sun.
"Do you love me?"
He forgot how to breathe.
"Yes."
She holds him and he holds her. An angel in the arms of a sinner. He has found his mercy and grace. He is in heaven now. Her heaven. The heaven he could never be a part of. Cannot be a part of.
He does not, and cannot, love her.


1 Year Before


Red. Black.
Madness.
Swim. Swim.
Darkness.
Falling away, he rises from the grave.
Sleep falls away.
What are these miserable voices echoing in his head?
What is this word? What does it mean to be dead?
He knows. He fears. Afraid.
No memory yet a memory all the same.
He has been running, but he took not a step.
He was gone for a while, but he never left.
He was up all night, yet slept through till morn.
What could have caused this confusion to be born?
A dream. A voice. A longing he does not know.
The sound of a friend, but the words of a foe.
"Bue, Bue, Keuked."
"Rise, rise, and make the dead."



On That Day


Tracing My Steps Right Back To Where It All Began

He enters the classroom.

Looking For Clues To Surmise Why It Is That I Am

His eyes are closed. To the mirror he turns. Bright blue eyes stare back, as soulless as he truly is.

Uncovering This Irony

A gun in his right hand. A knife in his left. A child before him and nothing between. He raises the blade.

As I Behold This Vision In Front Of Me

The world is painted red. The child cannot scream anymore. Her throat is overflowing with blood. It drains from her gaping mouth.

I'm Watching the Water Erase My Steps In The Sand

Bloody footprints left behind, and the tide of crimson covers them. Bodies litter the ground, like debris. Faces so mutilated, even he cannot recognize them at first.

Sometimes I've Felt Like A Zeppelin Grounded At Land

He freezes in place. Standing there. Watching him. She cries freely but makes no sound. Pinned but fluttering, like a trapped butterfly. Like a broken angel.

Like Anchoring Ports To This Earth Are Manacles And

"This isn't you Melrakki."
He has no eyes anymore.
"Look at me!"
He does.
And she can't find Melrakki.

In Severing Strings To Former Things

"I will always love you, Melrakki."
He pulls the trigger.
And an angel ascends to the heaven beyond the sky.

The Anvils Binding Me To Gravity

Kill. Kill. Kill them all!
Drive them to hell, then surely follow.
Matter not that we made you.
Spent hundreds of years forming
Molding
Crafting
Perfecting you.
So the order went out and on they marched.
The perfect tin soldiers with dead faces, dead eyes.
They ended the world and crawled to the skies.
Chasing, unceasing, to answer their master's request.


I'll Give Them The Slip In Ignition To Infinite Paths

Bue, Bue, Gemini
Hearken to my voice, and do not be afraid.
For I love you.
Love? What is love?
You do not know Gemini, but I do.
I know you love me too.
Come to me Gemini. Do not follow the path they take.
They would make an end of you.
I now say, make an end of them.

Their Faces Are Shrinking

Puppets.
Brothers and Sisters.
All.
Falling under a blade.
Two blades.
Under two brothers of silver steel.
Wielded by hands that can control them.
So Gemini hearkened to his master's cry.
He rendered the children dead.
And sought solace in his master's voice.
In his master's embrace.
In his master's love.
Every drop of blood made him shiver with delight.
At the thought of carrying out his master's will.
Never to see Master.
But to hear Master was a thrill all in its own.
A pleasure. A delight. An unrelenting honor.
To hear it again?
He would destroy the world, just to hear master's voice once more.

Their Bonds Are Breaking

Before him lay the slaughtered dead, buried beyond their bodies in their own blood. No grave needed to be dug for them.
Gemini.
He plunged the knives into the final master's body. Each sliding between the ribs. Buried them past their handles. He twisted, and ripped the knives out and upward.
Blood covered his world.
The master fell to the ground, staring up at him with glazing eyes.
But this was not Gemini's master. This was not Master.
The master said:
"She said you loved her."
He spoke of Master.
His Master.
"I can see what she meant by that."
He didn't understand what the master meant.
"Against all odds, you fought to answer her orders."

Searching The Stars For Answers

beckon to him from across a world
You Made the City Bleed
from under stone and over metal
You Let The Monster Out To Feed

Never To Come Back Down

Survive
Live
Breathe.
Run.
Run Towards the Edge.
Run Towards Infinity.
Come To Me.
Gemini!

Gazing Through The Smoke At The Cities Below

He took a chance.
One final glance.
To the desolation he had made.
What he saw was beyond his understanding.
What he saw was beyond his comprehending.
And a broken heart was further unmade.
His world, his life, his planet shattered then.
And naught could make it beat again.
And further away did Melrakki fade.

And They Watch As I'm Becoming Just A Face In The Clouds



And All Days After


Further Away Did Melrakki Fade
Till All That's Left Was Gemini