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A Man Reborn
"Go."

Somewhere, Lysanna clawed at the shards of mirror, using the last of her strength to send the message.  The words came to Tal'shen as needling pain, piercing her mind.  "Forget them," her mother said.  "Go now and do as I've created you to do!"

Tal'shen felt her mother die.  It did not matter.  There was no feeling of attachment; only the drive to carry out her purpose.  Growing still, her monstrous form filled the room.  She shot two massive tentacles upwards, rending a large hole in the ceiling.  Outside, she blinked in the fog.  London, that was the name of this city, wasn't it?  A good a place as any to begin.

Inside, Maya coug
Change
The scream reverberated through the room and Paul's memory. The thing that shared his body reeled back in surprise.

"You will die without my help!" It sneered.

Paul ignored the protests. He focused on the pain. The every present, burning pain. He screamed again, happy that he could feel himself more and more. He peered at Maya, who stared at him in wonderment.

"This has never…Paul..You're changing back!" her hand holding the wicked knife lowered.

Paul felt relieved at this. He could hear Tal'Shen's screaming but it was becoming quieter as he focused on his body. He could feel the tentacles starting to push out of him of their own accord.
We are Progeny"Breathe. . . " was the first word he had heard when the disjoint world came to a formless solitude, a blank existence. The voice was deep, inhuman but neutral, and though he would not trust it given the turn of events, he was grateful to have felt nothing rather then pain when he rose to his feet to see it; the source of the voice.

"Who are you?!" Paul demanded with mistrust. The figure mirrored his looks with the exception of it being a dark silhouette.

"We are Progeny; the outcome of how you choose to end this."

"How I should choose?!" He snapped, throwing an angered point of accusation. "You've done nothing but throw me in nightmares!
All or NothingALL OR NOTHING
Odyssey II - Chapter 7

Paul's scream is soundless, without vibration, boundless without borders. Heard by no one, reverberating through the psychic realm, a cascade of destruction. Both sisters battling within his very blood, phages using his cells as a playground and a battlefield tearing apart his very flesh.

"He has spirit after all. Welcome to our realm, Paul You will never leave this place." Tal'Shen voice is cold, diffident, indifferent.

"He only does what he must to survive Tal'Shen, you would mock him for that."

"His will means nothing, Maya. Our Mother must be served. The only question is how."

Maya binds more of
Dream scapeby *Lostboysmee, 1 week, 1 day ago
Literature / Poetry / General Poetry / Free Verse

Dream scape

An eternal night's
endless span
through the gates of Morpheus

Crossing a bridge
over a lightless chasm.
Guarded by the spectral visions of Aeschylus

They "Look at me from the depths of the earth"
The lost and the forgotten retreating in to the darkness
The dread of knowing, no light can save them, or me.

(remix)
Through the gates of Morpheus.
Guard by the spectral visions of Aeschylus.
An endless span of eternal night,
A bridge crossing a lightless chasm.

They look at me from the depths of the earth.
The lost and forgotten retrea
What Goes Up Might Never Come Down Odyssey 4 Chap7They say what goes up, Must come down,
But my feet cant seem to reach the ground,
Because when you walk in the room,
It spells my inpending doom,
As my heart does a Sonic Boom,
Leaving me high as i race across the stary sky,
And i can not lie,
Id rather die,
Than go on without you....
Yes, its true,
As my vision fades to blue,
Id rather die, then be without you....
Fire And Ice Odyseey 4 Chap7When You Walk In The Room
You Set My Heart Ablaze
When We Touch It Creates A Steamy Haze
That Blocks My Vision In Several Ways
Feeling That This Is Just A Phase
I Should Tell You That I’ve Felt Like This For Days
As I Wander Through This Endless Maze
You Are The Ice That Calms My Mind And Slows The Fire
Keeping Me From Doing Something Out Of Desire
And Not Telling You How I Feel Is Costing A Price
As The Fire You Entice Inside That Feels Kind Of Nice
Will Soon Devour Me Alive Even Though I Am Still Brand New
So I Have To Ask, Do you Like Me Too…
Odyssey - Chapter 7 Is it over?From her mirror Lysanna watched her sister hack the tentacles and Paul internal struggle. Distress grew more and more on her face as the man continue to fight despite the fact that his memories and stamina was draining out of him.

And then it turned pure frustration and anger as Paul defeated her offspring.

"NO!" She cried.

And she smashed the mirror to pieces, her eyes smouldering.

Paul woke up to fin himself lying on the floor, which seemed to be drenched in which he assumed must be the tentacles' blood. The only reason he could assume that the green liquid was that was because he noticed some of his own blood mized within it.

Groaning
Deep Blue Eyes of DoomOUT, Paul screamed.

And just like that, Paul was out.

Out of body, out of mind, and out among the stars.

But the stars were replaced by endless streaks of light that came in an infinite rainbow of colors. But the longer he stared Paul began to hear the screams.

He was seeing the human race being replaced in a horrific display of severed skin, blood, and tentacles but still no explanation why.

Then he saw HER.

This thing looked like a corroded version of Maya with ash black hair, grey flesh with black veins pulsing venomously across the flesh, and eyes with a kind of blue that fit frozen corpses. It was convenient that it chose to look l
RebirthHe was here. But where was "here"? Who was "he"?

He stared.

What was he looking at? A mass of flesh twisted. Half of it was peach colored, stained scarlet. And the other half?

A monster.

Pulsating currents of gelatinous substance reflected a thousand colors, glowing eerily. Scales and thorns of grey curled like a ribcage, like a shield around itself. Its alien neon colors rippled with the thrashing of its tentacles. The other half was that. It did not feel like it was part of the sallow peach creature. That beast had an evil sort of grin to it. It was an uninvited stranger burning the house in which it stole into. It was a parasite. It wa
Shifting PiecesLysanna was crumpled in a pathetic heap on the dirty floor with just enough strength to hold the two mirror shards in front of her shriveled face. She was about to die, at least this part of her. Her spawn, Tal'shen, was at the very moment being birthed into the realm of humans. There was only one thing left to do; she exhaled heavily onto the shards, fogging them over. As the moist remnants of Lysanna evaporated on the mirror, so did her husk of a body. She crossed over, through the mirror, until she found the rest of her; mother and child one at last.
The moment the symbiosis occurred, her strength, and drive, returned. Maya had been righ
To become somethingHe kept screaming, despite knowing it was a fruitless effort of clinging to life, to his humanity. Paul’s mind was clouded by Tal’Shen’s thoughts, leaving little room for his own. He fought back, rebelling against the parasite, but it was useless, for Tal’Shen was stronger.
He then realized survival was out of reach...
He oddly felt comforted by this thought. Accepting the fact that death was a better option than becoming an empty shell under the command of another, he released his mind from Tal’Shen, falling into oblivion...
If  this was dying, he thought, it isn’t bad.
The pain disappeared...memories returned. His name was Paul and somehow...he was alive. Where he was, he didn't know, but he had to be “somewhere” if he was aware of his existence. It was a surreal feeling...being nothing yet existing somewhere in the pressing darkness...
An orb appeared, its surface swirling with different colors. It pulsated feebly, its light weak.
Chapter 7: BirthrightsWaves of heavy rain hammered against the walls of the ruined Battersea power station, an ice cold wind twisted its way around the rusted iron frame work and a malignant darkness blanketed all.  

The children of the abyss moved slowly, surrounding the derelict building.  Thick rubbery tentacles flopped out and writhed against the ground dragging their bloated bodies closer and closer.  Out of drains and along water pipes they came.  Up and across walls they moved sucking and groping.  Through broken windows and down tight corridors they squeezed their bulks, converging on a room deep in the basement.

Maya's hands were shaking; she was terrif
Conscious AwakeningEverything was dark. Tal'shen had taken over Paul’s body, though it couldn’t risk destroying his brain and most vital organs, as it needed his body to survive.

Paul was somewhere cowering in the back of his brain, like a caged animal; fear his predominant instinct. He could barely form a coherent thought, all memory had been wiped from him or, more accurately, hidden in some distant region of his brain which he could no longer access. He lie at the back of his mind for God knows how long, screaming for help, and unknown to Tal'shen, clawing his way back into his conscious mind. After what seemed like a lifetime, Paul began to for
The something of nothing (Why there is no truth)...

...

Blackness.

Soft, warm blackness.

There was very little light, in fact, there were only three faintly pulsing masses of rainbow colour slowly glowing in the all-encompassing darkness.

He... He was... He was?

...

It didn't matter. There were fragments of dull colour and swatches of vivid images that bled into his field of vision, but they were ignored.

It was comfortable, and he relaxed into its embrace.

The broiling colours in front of him grew more and more distinct. There was a dark green hole in the blackness that reached towards him with greedy, clawing tendrils. Next to it, a larger dark and sickening purple slowly bled i
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A random songOne day or night everyone will die.
That's something noone can deny.
One day or night everyone will die.
That's something noone can deny.

But before that we have time to fly.
Above us is always the beautiful sky.
But before that we have time to fly.
Above us is always the beautiful sky.

Above us is always the beautiful sky.
That's something noone can deny.
Above us is always the beautiful sky.
That's something noone can deny.

Even though one day or night everyone will die.
Before that we have the time to fly.
Even though one day or night everyone will die.
Before that we have the time to fly.

Some have less time to make their flight.
But
Inspiration in their eyesChildren's eyes alone inspire the world.
Passion in the skyBeautiful birds in the sky
are never tired to be alive.
With their passion to sing and fly,
they know no hatred and no lie.
Nature itself admires their beauty,
with their song it moves along.
Not distracted by a false duty,
birds always remain calm and strong.
Plants and animals share their passion,
not bothered with fame and glory.
Life they see as a joyful session,
peace and freedom mandatory.
In our minds noone diesWhen she died
everyone cried
someone said
she's still alive
pointed to his head
said: she's not dead
let me remind
she's in our mind
if we don't let
our minds forget
people we met,
we won't regret
that they have left
that they are right
in our heart
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1st intermission1st intermission

Four people always died,
Four people always tried.
Some of them cried,
while others just denied.

When it happens again,
some, if they can,
fight the First Man,
to reach "Destiny's Fan".

intermission -end-

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Ch. VII - Through the Eyes of Reminiscence

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Catching sight of herself in the mirror, she started to vomit.

What is happening...

She never noticed the black, formless shadow appearing next to her until she heard the eyelids slide up violently, and rough hands reached out and pulled her out of the grey mist into darkness.

What is this... I have seen this before... it is so familiar and yet so different...

Something large and shapeless, flowing like a blood-covered sky, swam past and circled around her. Orbs of light blinked in and out of existence as a Voice echoed within her skull.

Give it to me! It is mine!

Her eyes danced from side to side, her head was splitting, sweat was dripping down her neck and face, everything was hot and cold, everything hurt with a screaming pain, but she couldn't seem to make her mouth move to do it.

GIVE IT TO ME OR SHE WILL KILL US BOTH!!

OUT.

For a moment Paul didn't know where he was, who he was and what he was. He wasn't even sure if he was at all.

"Don't you see that you're having a fit? I have to put her between your teeth so you don't swallow your tongue."

A readheaded man was standing above him, talking to him.

"Who are you?", Paul asked.

"Oh dear, I'm your mother of course. Don't you remember?"

"What are you talking about... where am I... what is going on..."

"Don't fight it, don't resist it. It will be over soon and then we will be togather."

All of a sudden the readheaded man started to scream. His head was twitching and changing its shape. For a moment it resembled Paul's head, but when it changed to Maya's head it stopped shaking. Paul remembered again where he was. He was still on the ground and Maya's blade was still cutting through his flesh... or so he thought. When he looked down he didn't see a blade but Maya's body having turned into a mass of different colors trying to enter his body through his skin.

Indigo. Vermilion. Rust. Mahogany.

Different minds collided, clashed at each other, pushed each other back... and then the door opened. Paul barely kept his eyes open. He was tired, he had no strength left. Maya slowly turned her head to look back at the door. A man was standing in the doorway.

"You won't get Tal'shen. You won't get her body. You won't get me. You won't defeat us. You won't kill us. I won't let you. We won't let you.", said the female voice.

The readheaded man entered the room, the remains of Lysanna's thoughts pulsating in his mind.
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Chapter VII of Clive Barker's community-project "Odyssey II".
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Mood: Amazed ~reggar Nov 30, 2012
Very well written, I love it! :)

It connects all the previous chapters, flows nicely with the rest of the story and tells a lot while not disturbing the horror-action sequence. It also brilliantly conveys the characters' emotions, putting the reader in their place.

To tell the truth, it got me a little confused at first, but it immediately captured my attention and you've created the perfect setting for the final confrontation. I hope this gets chosen for the 7th chapter, I'd really love to see how it could go on. :aww:
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~4ourEver Nov 30, 2012
Thx. :) And yeah, that was my intention. I've tried to connect as much as possible and still make progress with the plot. Since the last chapter is supposed to finish the story (unless Clive Barker decides to write a 9th chapter himself, or an epilogue) I felt this was kinda necessary. The way the chapters have been written, the story is clearly more about Lysanna, Tal'shen and Maya themselves, than about the whole "race" they're supposed to belong to. :)
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~reggar Nov 30, 2012
True, there's not even that much told about about the physical beings they are, the story seems to revolve more around Paul and his perception of all that's happening to him, with only bits and pieces of information about Lysanna, Tal'shen and Maya, mostly about their psychology and aims.

An epilogue would be an interesting idea, but something like that probably would've been announced. :)
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~Sayuri14 Nov 29, 2012  Student Writer
:) Nice way to bring the prologue along with the plot :D
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