Everything Changes, Part 2: 1 of 2
Mar. 11th, 2006 06:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
withamagicwordIt is a moment he will remember his entire life. He is fighting demons and humans who work for them. The humans are innocents, but possessed and fighting with demonic strength and power and speed. With odds at fifty to one, after only fifteen minutes, Captain Marvel feels like he has been fighting all day long. He is sore, bruised and bleeding.
The leader of the demons charges and attacks, striking Captain Marvel in the forehead and opening a gash that bleeds and quickly makes it hard for him to see. But he strives to clear his eyes and fight on. In the shadows and through blood and pain he is attacked by the head demon and several other demons, who rush him with their talisman. He had been told by Phantom Stranger that is he stops the demon leader, destroying it's earth host, he can send the rest back to Hell too.
In the middle of the battle, he is struck hard and falls back, blood getting into his eyes even as the head demon strikes against him, looming over him. With a desperate lunge, Cap strikes, snapping the neck of the demon, crushing the talisman... but when he clears his eyes of blood, he finds the demons still there, and that, in his hands is a human, one of the possessed., who is now very, very, dead.
Oh my god... I killed a man...
The words echo in his head.
He reels back from the action, never having killed before, never even having dreamed of it, except in nightmares, and is sick all over the pavement. Then he launches himself upwards, towards the sky, abandoning the fight,. His heart sinking, and his soul shriveling, he castigates himself, disgust, fear, and pain crushing everything inside him. As he flies, he hears raucus demonic laughter behind him, swelling like a discordant chorus.
Tears stream out of his eyes as he flies blindly into the sky, aimlessly.
He has killed a man.
And nothing will ever be the same.
The leader of the demons charges and attacks, striking Captain Marvel in the forehead and opening a gash that bleeds and quickly makes it hard for him to see. But he strives to clear his eyes and fight on. In the shadows and through blood and pain he is attacked by the head demon and several other demons, who rush him with their talisman. He had been told by Phantom Stranger that is he stops the demon leader, destroying it's earth host, he can send the rest back to Hell too.
In the middle of the battle, he is struck hard and falls back, blood getting into his eyes even as the head demon strikes against him, looming over him. With a desperate lunge, Cap strikes, snapping the neck of the demon, crushing the talisman... but when he clears his eyes of blood, he finds the demons still there, and that, in his hands is a human, one of the possessed., who is now very, very, dead.
Oh my god... I killed a man...
The words echo in his head.
He reels back from the action, never having killed before, never even having dreamed of it, except in nightmares, and is sick all over the pavement. Then he launches himself upwards, towards the sky, abandoning the fight,. His heart sinking, and his soul shriveling, he castigates himself, disgust, fear, and pain crushing everything inside him. As he flies, he hears raucus demonic laughter behind him, swelling like a discordant chorus.
Tears stream out of his eyes as he flies blindly into the sky, aimlessly.
He has killed a man.
And nothing will ever be the same.
