"You'd be surprised at how frail you actually are. Your kind sits above everything, looking down at all the humans below as if you're better."
Mardockt knelt and grabbed some grass. He twirled it in his fingers and its green turned to brown as the plant died instantly.
"You aren't though. You can die just like any other mortal, it just takes a little more force. You call yourselves Gods! You cannot even FATHOM what a God really is!"
Patrick stood up, "Christina, you tell me what you see. I'll be the sword and you be the mind."
We'd done this before in the past to fend off wild animals. This wasn't the same. This was us fighting for our lives against something we didn't understand. Maybe the adults felt it. Maybe they were headed here to help us right now. The Highest Tier would know what to do.
"Christina! Concentrate!", Patrick ran forward.
Mardockt stood and continued walking as Patrick closed in. The dark tentacle flew from Mardockt again.
"Left!"
Patrick veered left, straight in to Mardockt's waiting arm. Patrick's feet left the ground and he flipped in the air behind Mardockt. I could hear the pain as Patrick pulled himself to his feet again.
"This is fun. I haven't done this in years! A few thousand years of imprisonment makes this more enjoyable than it normally would be. Come on, don't give up. I want this to last!", Mardockt's eyes had a lust that made me shiver.
At my cues Patrick dived left and right to avoid the tendrils of death as they swung out to do their horrible job. Mardockt didn't move, nor did he stop staring at me. Even though his eyes watched me, it was all I could do to keep Patrick from being hit.
"You're interesting. You can see things you shouldn't. Skills like that are reserved for certain humans, not your kind."
Mardockt smiled evilly and then a tendril shot out toward me. I rolled to the side to avoid it but it kept coming. I jumped to my feet and ran.
"Christina! Where are they?!?!", Patrick was still, looking left and right as though he'd be able to see what I could.
"Left!" I jumped to the side to avoid the tendril that was after me.
I heard a thump and Patrick’s groan of pain. Glancing back I saw Mardockt standing over him staring at his face. The tendrils had faded to nothing.
"See, you were doing so well and just one mistake is the end. I'd tell you to learn from your mistakes, but I have the feeling that you don't have time. You should have left your young friend up here and ran."
"You talk too much." Patrick glared at Mardockt with a resolve I hadn't seen in a long time. He swung his feet up, spinning his body to get momentum. A loud crack was heard as Patrick's foot made Mardockt's neck collapse.
Mardockt stepped back, his neck inflating as a laugh escaped, "Such disrespect. I'll show yo-"
A spear suddenly appeared through Mardockt's chest. A light emanated from it, surrounding him. From his feet the sacred Circle of Ghat formed. Patrick jumped back away from the circle. Hundreds of smaller circles burned in to Mardockt's skin, causing him to scream with pain.
A massive white tentacle erupted from the clouds above and stabbed in to Mardockt. Judging by Patrick's reactions, he couldn't see it like I could. He couldn't see the radiating white aura that stretched across the sky.
"AGAIN?!? You think I can be contained the same way twice?!? I'll be back, sooner this time and when I am, I'll wipe your miserable race off the Earth. Arrrgh! No matter how long you live, no matter how much you forget, I will always be in the back of your heads; and when all the Highest Tier have died I will come back. Who will stop me then?!?"
With those last words Mardockt vanished. As the skies cleared several adults floated to the ground. I recognized half of them as people on the Highest Tier.
"We can not kill the children, but they must learn a lesson. They must stay away from areas that are restricted."
"We didn-" Patrick pleaded.
"Shush child!"
Patrick fell silent.
"You will forevermore be unsigned. Never will you have a chance to sit with the Highest Tier, and all your jobs shall be janitorial."
All of my goals dissolved in front of me as my future was stripped away.
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