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death_gone_madThe Monkey and the Lioness were buried alive together. Both were crushed underneath a great mountain.
███████ was not only a goddess of death and destruction. Before she started pursuing destruction, she was a goddess of rebirth. She denied that rebirth was part of her domain after she claimed to have her eyes opened. Rebirth was part of the eternal cycle of suffering and injustice, and bringing about the end of all reality was the only way to end the cycle. But as hard as she denied it, even after she was no longer a goddess, that particular godly trait had a strange way of sticking around.
Still, she couldn't crawl out from under that mountain on her own in a timely fashion. That required the power of a god, and ███████, even with her frightful power, could not do it. Not as crushed and mangled as she was underneath all that rock. Apmeken could. The rock was dissolved by Apmeken's power until a stable space formed around herself and ███████. The exertion of such power exhausted Apmeken and that exhaustion was increased when ███████ began to draw life away from her to mend her own grievous wounds. Thus, when ███████ had enough strength, Apmeken was not able to resist the numerous powerful bind spells placed on her. "What? Why are you doing this?"
"You were ruining my plans, Apmeken," answered ███████. "All my work over these past few millenia ruined by you and your stupid monkeys." She felt around in the dark for a while before conjuring a tongue of flame to sit in the palm of her left hand without burning her. Ah, light!
"How?" asked Apmeken, struggling against her bonds.
"I can't have you or your monkeys interfering any more. This is supposed to be the Age of MAN, not the age…"
"No, these spells, it isn't… Age of Man? It's only been a century since the humans have discovered the blank runestone. Aren't you being a little hasty declaring the age as theirs?"
"They - well, technically we - are much more capable than you give us credit for. Your apes may have muscle tissue that can generate greater forces, but there are ways of compensating as you just saw."
"You were cheating! No human could…"
"Take down a god? Is that what you think you are Apmeken? My priestesses, my own HUMAN priestesses, put me in this pitiful condition. They had some divine intervention, of course. And the mighty god Zaros," ███████ spat at the ground, "whom all you gods despised but only I acted against after my dear brother lost his nerve, he was turned into a shadow by Zamorak and his rebellion while he was still mortal!" She spat at the name of Zamorak as well. "And you! One human was able crush you. And guess what? No gods are helping me. I do not even yield the weapons of a god, as my priestesses did against me and Zamorak did against Zaros." The light of her fire caught the edge of something at the end of the recreated cave. She moved away from the struggling Apmeken to retrieve it. "Just magic and a scimitar. And not even one made from that dragonmetal everyone wants to get their hands on. Just a plain bar of adamant beat into a nice sharp shape."
She had no help from a god. Apmeken, most social and friendly of the gods, had entered the den of the lioness alone because wise Apmeken had known that the lioness was maimed, injured, and couldn't possibly present a challenge to a god. No, ███████ had divine help, divine help from Apmeken herself. Help from Apmeken's hubris. How is that for comedy? "You have only trapped me temporarily. What do you plan to do?" She could already feel the binding spells loosening. Her own magic was slowly returning.
"I don't know yet," ███████ said, picking up her scimitar. She turned and started walking toward Apmeken. ███████ wore a disappointed expression on her face. The sword was ruined, bent out of shape by the rocks that fell on it. "We could talk, but you have always had a way with words," she noted with disgust. "We could fight. Again and again and again forever. But that would be like eternal torture. You may be into that, Apmeken, but I am more merciful than that. But then again, we can't really kill each other, so I can't really be merciful to you. Just like me, you are doomed to suffer forever. Immortality sucks, doesn't it? Oh well, this mountain will be turned to dust eventually, right?" ███████ was at Apmeken's side once again with a nasty glint in her eye.
She needed to fix this. She got into this by going against her nature and trying to take on ███████ on her own. "HELP!" Apmeken screamed. "HELP ME TUMEK…"
Again ███████'s scimitar glowed white hot, and it trembled in her hand. ███████ was unconsciously pouring fire magic into the blade and it took all her strength to keep the scimitar from vibrating out of her grip. She brought the broad side of the blade down on Apmeken's lips, scalding the goddess. "BE QUIET! You little tattle-tale. Daddy won't be coming to save you this time!"
Immediately, the scimitar began to vibrate more violently and it freed itself of ███████'s grip. Not only were Apmeken's lips scalded and scarred over, so was ███████'s palm. As the scimitar clattered on the ground of the newly created cave, a great gorilla materialized wearing the lips of Apmeken as a mask. ███████, realizing what had happened, named the gorilla and solidified her control over the god-beast. "Leeuni! Onto you is granted the lips of Apmeken so that you may proclaim the truth and devour the wicked! And this is the truth: That all of reality is in rebellion from the truth. Existence is pain!"
The scimitar only came to a momentary rest before Apmeken's magic picked it up from the floor. The scimitar started swinging at ███████ who deftly avoided most of Apmeken's attacks. The scimitar, as badly damaged as it was, did manage to cut of a lock of ███████'s red hair, however. The attacks continued until ███████ noticed Apmeken following the scimitar with her eyes. "Troublesome organs," said ███████. "I will remove them from that stupid face of yours." On an unheard cue, Leeuni ran up to the scimitar and smacked it out of the air. ███████ ran after it as it skittered across the floor and grabbed it before Apmeken could work her magic on it again. Once more, the blade glowed white hot but trembled even more violently than before. With the blade, ███████ began the process of chipping the goddess's eyes out. Apmeken did not scream; she had no mouth and Leeuni had stolen her voice.
The scimitar left ███████'s hand, leaving it even more scarred than the first time. A second great gorilla materialized, this time wearing Apmeken's eyes as a faceshield. "Ayuni!" proclaimed ███████, "Onto you is granted the eyes of Apmeken, so that you may provide witness to the evil of reality itself and see the wickedness of the immortal gods and those who quest after immortality." At that, the beast started running circles around the cave murmuring to herself, "Iiiiiiiii see it. Iiiiiii see it all, the wickedness and the weakness."
Blind and mute now, Apmeken could only guess at where ███████ and the two beasts were by ear. More of her magic had returned, and she used her new strength to lift boulders out of the ground and toss them at ███████. It was Ayuni that deducted that Apmeken was using her ears and shouted, "Sister Leeuni, pound on the wall! Turn it to dust! I see wicked flesh outside!" Ayuni herself increased the speed with which she ran about the cave and she shouted "Wickedness! Wickedness! Iiii see it everywhere!"
"Wicked flesh! I shall lick the sinful skin off their corpses! Delicious sinful wicked skin!" Leeuni howled and pounded at a wall of the cavern, pulverizing it and beginning a tunnel to the outside.
When ███████ picked up on why Leeuni and Ayuni were making such a ruckus, she picked up the scimitar and it glowed white hot again. Apmeken figured why the beasts were making such noise and set up a storm of pebbles swarming around her. She heard a few pings as the pebbles bounced off the blade, then wet thwips as the pebbles embedded in and tore at flesh. Then, silence.
███████ screamed in agony as the scimitar melted in her hand and the molten adamant metal poured into the wounds the pebbles made. A third gorilla beast materialized, wearing the ears of Apmeken as a mask. She held her head, which was in pain because of the noise. ███████ lifted her injured hand toward the gorilla and screamed, "This, this is what eternity is! This is what I am trying to end! You, Eruni, have been given the ears of Apmeken, so that you can hear the cries of pain, suffering, and oppression that are spun into the thread that is woven to create reality."
Deaf, dumb, and blind Apmeken was trapped with four monsters under a mountain, but not for long. Her magic had returned fully, and she placed an antiteleportation field with an Apmeken shaped hole in it over the cave. The walls on the cavern trembled more violently than when ███████ collapsed the cave yet Apmeken stayed on.
"She's going to bring the mountain down on us! Ayuni, Eruni, help your sister tunnel out!" ███████ commanded as she joined Leeuni in the tunnel. If she had to punch her way out with her new adamant gauntlet, if she had to melt rock, she would. She couldn't let herself get trapped here.
Once rocks were raining down heavily enough on Apmeken, she left.
The cave collapsed for the second time.
███████ was not only a goddess of death and destruction. Before she started pursuing destruction, she was a goddess of rebirth. She denied that rebirth was part of her domain after she claimed to have her eyes opened. Rebirth was part of the eternal cycle of suffering and injustice, and bringing about the end of all reality was the only way to end the cycle. But as hard as she denied it, even after she was no longer a goddess, that particular godly trait had a strange way of sticking around.
Still, she couldn't crawl out from under that mountain on her own in a timely fashion. That required the power of a god, and ███████, even with her frightful power, could not do it. Not as crushed and mangled as she was underneath all that rock. Apmeken could. The rock was dissolved by Apmeken's power until a stable space formed around herself and ███████. The exertion of such power exhausted Apmeken and that exhaustion was increased when ███████ began to draw life away from her to mend her own grievous wounds. Thus, when ███████ had enough strength, Apmeken was not able to resist the numerous powerful bind spells placed on her. "What? Why are you doing this?"
"You were ruining my plans, Apmeken," answered ███████. "All my work over these past few millenia ruined by you and your stupid monkeys." She felt around in the dark for a while before conjuring a tongue of flame to sit in the palm of her left hand without burning her. Ah, light!
"How?" asked Apmeken, struggling against her bonds.
"I can't have you or your monkeys interfering any more. This is supposed to be the Age of MAN, not the age…"
"No, these spells, it isn't… Age of Man? It's only been a century since the humans have discovered the blank runestone. Aren't you being a little hasty declaring the age as theirs?"
"They - well, technically we - are much more capable than you give us credit for. Your apes may have muscle tissue that can generate greater forces, but there are ways of compensating as you just saw."
"You were cheating! No human could…"
"Take down a god? Is that what you think you are Apmeken? My priestesses, my own HUMAN priestesses, put me in this pitiful condition. They had some divine intervention, of course. And the mighty god Zaros," ███████ spat at the ground, "whom all you gods despised but only I acted against after my dear brother lost his nerve, he was turned into a shadow by Zamorak and his rebellion while he was still mortal!" She spat at the name of Zamorak as well. "And you! One human was able crush you. And guess what? No gods are helping me. I do not even yield the weapons of a god, as my priestesses did against me and Zamorak did against Zaros." The light of her fire caught the edge of something at the end of the recreated cave. She moved away from the struggling Apmeken to retrieve it. "Just magic and a scimitar. And not even one made from that dragonmetal everyone wants to get their hands on. Just a plain bar of adamant beat into a nice sharp shape."
She had no help from a god. Apmeken, most social and friendly of the gods, had entered the den of the lioness alone because wise Apmeken had known that the lioness was maimed, injured, and couldn't possibly present a challenge to a god. No, ███████ had divine help, divine help from Apmeken herself. Help from Apmeken's hubris. How is that for comedy? "You have only trapped me temporarily. What do you plan to do?" She could already feel the binding spells loosening. Her own magic was slowly returning.
"I don't know yet," ███████ said, picking up her scimitar. She turned and started walking toward Apmeken. ███████ wore a disappointed expression on her face. The sword was ruined, bent out of shape by the rocks that fell on it. "We could talk, but you have always had a way with words," she noted with disgust. "We could fight. Again and again and again forever. But that would be like eternal torture. You may be into that, Apmeken, but I am more merciful than that. But then again, we can't really kill each other, so I can't really be merciful to you. Just like me, you are doomed to suffer forever. Immortality sucks, doesn't it? Oh well, this mountain will be turned to dust eventually, right?" ███████ was at Apmeken's side once again with a nasty glint in her eye.
She needed to fix this. She got into this by going against her nature and trying to take on ███████ on her own. "HELP!" Apmeken screamed. "HELP ME TUMEK…"
Again ███████'s scimitar glowed white hot, and it trembled in her hand. ███████ was unconsciously pouring fire magic into the blade and it took all her strength to keep the scimitar from vibrating out of her grip. She brought the broad side of the blade down on Apmeken's lips, scalding the goddess. "BE QUIET! You little tattle-tale. Daddy won't be coming to save you this time!"
Immediately, the scimitar began to vibrate more violently and it freed itself of ███████'s grip. Not only were Apmeken's lips scalded and scarred over, so was ███████'s palm. As the scimitar clattered on the ground of the newly created cave, a great gorilla materialized wearing the lips of Apmeken as a mask. ███████, realizing what had happened, named the gorilla and solidified her control over the god-beast. "Leeuni! Onto you is granted the lips of Apmeken so that you may proclaim the truth and devour the wicked! And this is the truth: That all of reality is in rebellion from the truth. Existence is pain!"
The scimitar only came to a momentary rest before Apmeken's magic picked it up from the floor. The scimitar started swinging at ███████ who deftly avoided most of Apmeken's attacks. The scimitar, as badly damaged as it was, did manage to cut of a lock of ███████'s red hair, however. The attacks continued until ███████ noticed Apmeken following the scimitar with her eyes. "Troublesome organs," said ███████. "I will remove them from that stupid face of yours." On an unheard cue, Leeuni ran up to the scimitar and smacked it out of the air. ███████ ran after it as it skittered across the floor and grabbed it before Apmeken could work her magic on it again. Once more, the blade glowed white hot but trembled even more violently than before. With the blade, ███████ began the process of chipping the goddess's eyes out. Apmeken did not scream; she had no mouth and Leeuni had stolen her voice.
The scimitar left ███████'s hand, leaving it even more scarred than the first time. A second great gorilla materialized, this time wearing Apmeken's eyes as a faceshield. "Ayuni!" proclaimed ███████, "Onto you is granted the eyes of Apmeken, so that you may provide witness to the evil of reality itself and see the wickedness of the immortal gods and those who quest after immortality." At that, the beast started running circles around the cave murmuring to herself, "Iiiiiiiii see it. Iiiiiii see it all, the wickedness and the weakness."
Blind and mute now, Apmeken could only guess at where ███████ and the two beasts were by ear. More of her magic had returned, and she used her new strength to lift boulders out of the ground and toss them at ███████. It was Ayuni that deducted that Apmeken was using her ears and shouted, "Sister Leeuni, pound on the wall! Turn it to dust! I see wicked flesh outside!" Ayuni herself increased the speed with which she ran about the cave and she shouted "Wickedness! Wickedness! Iiii see it everywhere!"
"Wicked flesh! I shall lick the sinful skin off their corpses! Delicious sinful wicked skin!" Leeuni howled and pounded at a wall of the cavern, pulverizing it and beginning a tunnel to the outside.
When ███████ picked up on why Leeuni and Ayuni were making such a ruckus, she picked up the scimitar and it glowed white hot again. Apmeken figured why the beasts were making such noise and set up a storm of pebbles swarming around her. She heard a few pings as the pebbles bounced off the blade, then wet thwips as the pebbles embedded in and tore at flesh. Then, silence.
███████ screamed in agony as the scimitar melted in her hand and the molten adamant metal poured into the wounds the pebbles made. A third gorilla beast materialized, wearing the ears of Apmeken as a mask. She held her head, which was in pain because of the noise. ███████ lifted her injured hand toward the gorilla and screamed, "This, this is what eternity is! This is what I am trying to end! You, Eruni, have been given the ears of Apmeken, so that you can hear the cries of pain, suffering, and oppression that are spun into the thread that is woven to create reality."
Deaf, dumb, and blind Apmeken was trapped with four monsters under a mountain, but not for long. Her magic had returned fully, and she placed an antiteleportation field with an Apmeken shaped hole in it over the cave. The walls on the cavern trembled more violently than when ███████ collapsed the cave yet Apmeken stayed on.
"She's going to bring the mountain down on us! Ayuni, Eruni, help your sister tunnel out!" ███████ commanded as she joined Leeuni in the tunnel. If she had to punch her way out with her new adamant gauntlet, if she had to melt rock, she would. She couldn't let herself get trapped here.
Once rocks were raining down heavily enough on Apmeken, she left.
The cave collapsed for the second time.