Foxes of War

Ch.21

I woke with a start in shock at the pain in my head. I shuddered, feeling wrong as I looked around to find Berserker was gone, but so was my sofa, the castle, even my babies! My fecund belly was gone! Everything was gone! I was on a slab of stone floating in a void of darkness, naked and afraid!

I hyperventilated as I patted my flat abdomen in shock and anguish at my babies having ceased to exist. I whined as I sat up from laying on my side and looked up at the dark sky to see a moon that looked like a kaleidoscope of different versions of me.

It hurt to look at and made my terror worsen dramatically. I watched intently, seeing on a version of me was a cyborg in some future, four others were in dark worlds like me either sleeping or dead, the last one looked to be with Victor and has tons of kids. None of them were Palutena’s I believe, I don’t know if Victor would keep them.

“Well, well, what do we have here. A stray thought floating about the thought puddles of other stories? What an interesting find!” An octopus-Clam-Barnacle-Squid thing, said as it floated up from the pitch darkness below the slab.

“Ah! What are you?! What did you do to my babies?!” I yelled at it in fear and fury. It laughed in such a way that made my ear want to bleed and filled me with existential terror.

“Me~? Oh, I did nothing to your children. The world crumbling as you slept and timelines resetting did that. FYI: you failed, your world has been consumed by darkness and you’ve split into this little entity here, broken into many tiny versions of you. One went to the world of a lover, who for their stability I’m disconnecting from this web of thought, now.” The eye hurting entity told me before the Marian that was happy with Victor vanished.

“Wait, no!” I wailed since I still wanted to see Victor. The entity just laughed at me and took the sleeping Marians too. Nothing hurt about them vanishing, but my mind felt lighter, like pieces of me were gone.

“There is less clutter in here. Cyborg Fox is going too, but another is doing that now.” The creature said as an ouroboros appeared around her image and it turned to static, the phrase ‘Time is my domain, I bring Chaos to those who meddle in the flow.’ filling in the space where cyber-Marian used to be. “There now I have you all~ to myself.”

“W-what are you going to do to me?! What did you do to my babies?!” I demanded in fear of this thing that clearly held my existence in it’s unfeeling and uncaring tentacles.

“Oho~, the little thought wants to demand things? Welp, tell you the truth, your babies are not things I’m concerned with. They were gone when I found you.” It explained as it floated around me, examining me though it didn’t have eyes. “I have ideas for you, little thought, many, many, ideas.” It chuckled as I gasped in pain and fell back onto the slab, spasming and screaming wordlessly in unbearable body-and-soul-filling agony as tears filled my vision-!

The slab was now empty, the entity chuckling to itself. “Now, where to put her? This world is a bad-end now, hmm, hmmm. Warhammer? NO~ Cyborg is in one, Elder Scrolls~! Maybe.”