Song Recommendation # 'Royalty' by 'Ezgod, Maestro Chives, Neoni'

Trigger Warning: Gore, Violence, Death

The soft cue knock nudged the armed security guard to open the door. He pulled the double doors ajar ready to welcome another guest to the Pit's rendezvous. Instead, he was met with one of his colleagues. Same char-black blazer with red collars and an identity card hanging around his neck, dripping with blood....

The man swayed side to side with the red warm liquid spurting out of his burst skull. He barely had his eyes open. The sight forth left the receptor frozen in his senses. He stumbled back watching the nearly dead man swaying in his steps.

"H-hearken unto her, for the noble damsel has arrived" He wheezed pushing the words through his quivering lips while blood crawled out of his mouth and dripped down.

"Who- wait WHAT!?"

Venom loosened her grip at the back of the guy's neck leaving him to fall down like a curtain exposing her figure behind him.

"Me" Tightening her grip on the steel bat covered in blood, a grin beamed on her lips, she swung it across the air hitting the guy forth face first breaking his neck leaving his head to spin to a sharp turn. The body dropped with an audible thud meeting the floor face first.

She stepped over the two dead bodies and walked in with her men following behind who opened fire without a delay of a second. Between the ruthless beasts in black was a maroon head, Felix, her beloved Sapphire, stepped into the war field, not a single bullet escaping his gun as he watched the ferocity of those around him. These were not the dolls he was made to practice on under her instructions, these were living breathing humans, and it was not like he had never killed a person being in KNIGHTS before all this, of course, he had but he had never seen such brutality.

In her presence no one was allowed to speak until asked, no one was allowed to breathe without her consent. And no one was allowed to be alive if she didn't wish them to.

~Best to give me your loyalty
'Cause I'm taking the world you'll see
They'll be calling me, calling me
They'll be calling me royalty~

Within seconds screams filled the insides of the great hall leaving the man with one eye slashed to knit his brows. The owner of this grand rendezvous, Pharoh as they called him. His VIP guests got up from their chairs and questioned each other about the horrific screams and drilling noises coming from outside. The man placed the glass of liquor down and looked back at the closed dense glass doors of the VIP chamber. A hue of blood-red dress shone outside the frozen glass doors with blurry image of the figure headed right up to his doors. Utter confusion kissed his features while the brow of his slashed eye crooked up as he failed to understand who was it or what was happening outside. Until he saw the figure raise something up that seemed to be a steel bat...

Wait a steel bat?

Venom struck the bat hitting the huge glass doors making them shatter into a million pieces and burst like a bubble of water. The shattered glass fell before her bowing down to her majesty. She stepped over everything that came under her feet and walked in.

The man instantly got up from his seat with his Egyptian robes rustling in protest, he stepped back to watch the arriving figure, and his brows met his hairline as he watched the girl walk in.

Silver white hair like the moonlight. The suns of her hazel eyes were now frozen into the moons of her dark soul.

Who is she?

"There you are, I had been looking for you for over a decade now, Surely, you are one heck of a worm to uproot hm~ But oh my, I am finally here, even the eyes of Egypt failed to hide you from me, you were a fool to think you could avoid me" Venom rested the blood-dripping bat at her shoulder with a head tilt and a grin decorated on her red-tinted lips. She looked exactly opposite to her usual attire of all black rather roses blossomed through a chilled frost.

Sliding her hand to the holster peeking over her thigh from between the slit of the dress, she pulled out a Glock 19 from the sparkling black band secured around her thigh. Venom rose it forth cocking the trigger right away. The slashed eye man ducked down instantly dodging the attack while she rounded the bullets, one per head killing twelve individuals in twelve seconds. Twelve of his VIP guests, Twelve contracts, twelve pit's vipers bulleted in the head just like that.

"I prefer privacy" She tossed the gun over the pile of broken glass in her feet and walked forth. The said brought the man to rise up pulling his hands away from his head as he looked forth to the girl with utter shock.

"Wh-White Death, you are the White Death, I have heard them talking- yes yes, I have heard them, they said "The White Death walks red, everyone's been talkin' about it lately, Ha~ you are so true to your façade, it's an honor to have you visit my chamber, Madonna" He scratched the healed scar of his slashed eye and ran it up across the bald surface of his skull, while a peninsular dialect left his words to slur at the edges.

"For them yes, for you No! Call me Karma, Lucifer's right hand, you see he seemed to be having a hard time killing you, so I offered to help him, isn't that lovely!?"

"K-kill me? You are here to kill me? No Madonna, I d-don't want any troubles with you, Please, tell me how I shall serve you, I shall bow down to your majesty yes, yes~" In an unexpected twist, the man with the slashed eye knelt before her, a whimper escaping his lips, a sight that caught Venom off guard, her brows knitted in pure confusion. Such a display was far from anything she had anticipated, and it added a spice of eeriness to the whole environment.

Surrendering? At first eye contact? No one has ever done that before! Okay now this was something that she never expected.

"You do not wish to provoke me, Pharoh? Don't you want to know who am I-" The chains of her questioning words broke on the curve of her smooth blood-red lips spectating the unfolding scenes forth. It was quite a bit of a shock when she watched the man fall to his knees and bow down with muffled wheezes forcing past his lips. Her brows crooked knitting together as she watched him wail in front of her all of a sudden.

"Scared, scared, I am scared to lose the purpose, Madonna, I do not wish to die at the hands of your majesty, serve yes, I shall serve you, be my guest~"

She heard him mumbling the words wheezing past his mouth while his fingers dug against the bare skull of his head.

Purpose? What purpose? What is this? He is surrendering to me without striking back even once and- Is this some sort of trick?

~They left me for dead, I guess they'll never learn
Every time I break there's just more pain to burn
They'll never, never, never learn~

"Unwise of you to think like that, I am not here to join hands, I never learned to do so, I let it consume me what I crave and for now revenge burns in me. You must die, Pharoh for the sins you have done, I'm pretty sure you know what I am talking about" She rose the bat high up in the air swinging it past tearing the blood-scented air to strike against the one who bowed down to her but it felt like a great amount of force as a counter strike that left her strangled within seconds. The bat never hit the man in her feet instead she lost her grip on it.

Chains with thorns, the steel jaws that snapped tightening against the skin of her wrists biting down both hands and holding them captive, digging past her wrists. This left the girl to let go of the steel bat. A pained scream erupted from the back of her throat as the chains were hauled back pulling her hands up with arms stretching above her head into the air Venom glanced with teary orbs to recognize what looked like sliding panels opening in the top corners of the opposite walls exposing the source of the attack. The chains with steel jaw teeth hung tight in the air restraining the girl by both hands in the air while the sharp steel teeth dug into her wrists puncturing the skin in the way till blood oozed and dripped down her smooth pale arms.

So, this was a trick! Of course, it would be, why would he bow down to his own death?

A low chuckle earned her attention, while she struggled to breathe through the pain that pierced into her wrists shooting through both arms to her head with each yank of the chains tightening, stretching her arms wider.

"Oh no no~ You cannot kill me, Madonna, you see your talk about killing me makes me excited, yes very excited, and when I am excited, the least on my head is to let you walk out of here, I am fond of welcoming guests, I love to serve, and it would be an honor to serve the lone child of Seoyeon, now won't it be?"

That last word, that one name earned him her gaze hardening as soon as it struck his existence. It left him choking on his chuckles as he wheezed, piled on the carpeted floor amused to watch the girl in front of her. His one eye, cold and calculating, gazed at her with a chilling smirk playing across his lips, revealing a glimpse of the malevolence that lurked within. "Ah, Seoyeon, I miss her, Her scent, her tear-stained cheeks, and those helpless eyes, I miss the curves of her body with the swell of her belly, I never knew such sluts could pique my interest, I loved it, all of it, from how she begged for her child's life and took me like a whore-"

"SHUT THE FUCK UP BEFORE I RIP YOUR NASTY TONGUE OFF" She screamed wrenching at the restrains that seemed to peel the flesh apart yet the pain she felt in them was no match for the one that sliced her heart.

"Why!? Does it hurt to know? But, don't you want to know how I know all this, don't you want to know who am I?" he hissed, the words dripping with disdain. "Oh, she felt like a puppet with strings in my hands, a mere reflection of her wretched self. She was not weak but that night she held her strength in, I never knew why but you rose, she sacrificed herself for you, a rising vendetta, of course~ such a smart whore she was" Pharoh's eyes gleamed with a twisted delight as he spoke, relishing the opportunity to unveil his sinister deeds. "I always wanted to taste that liquor, too bad, I lost the chance to obtain her corpse, mm~ I could have fucked her corpse even-"

"GRRR~ YOU FUCKER, YOU WILL FACE MY WRATH NOW"

"Your wrath?" He paused, a twisted grin forming on his face as he continued, "You think you scare me child? White death, or Venom, or even the façade of Heartless, you don't scare me with your childish deeds, you are no match for the real evil that lurks underneath, nothing scares me more than myself. Do you know how I am? They call me Pharoh for a reason, I build castles of bones and take pleasure from corpses that's how I worship death, and tonight, I feel not so scared of myself either~ Do you understand? Child of Seoyeon?"

"The eyes of Egypt were never meant to hide me, they were meant to watch you, and they always did, I watched you, every day, every hour, every minute of your life, waiting for you to come to me, Isn't it just the best day, most awaited moment of my life"

He nodded; his eyes unapologetic. "I admit it freely. The pleasure I derived from ruining dear Seoyeon, mm~ I have never felt so satisfied in my life. Seeing you, oh you just look like your mother, I can't help but feel so young, as young as the day I was when I touched her sinful bruised body, forcing her to embrace death every minute, the light of her eyes evaporated, oh it was such a beautiful view, you remind me of good days and oh I wouldn't be lying if I say you don't look like a gateway to have a taste of that liquor once again."

He rose to his feet pushing his steps to walk himself up to her. While his one hand never left the swollen, healed, and scarred skin of his slashed eye. He caressed it as if it was a precious treasure.

"I miss her a lot, you see this scar, she left me with this beautiful mark that very night, when I stole the last of her finger counted breaths. You see, there is a bond between us that I can never get rid of. You are what she left behind and I would be honored to say, I am the most fascinated by you, pretty one, daring, reckless but daring, I would love to snatch this flicker of light from these beautiful eyes too" His hand slid down resting against her thigh peeking from the slit of the dress with fingers dragging up all the way to the holster tied across it. One by one he yanked out the blades and dropped them to the floor.

"You are so much like her, she loved these too, she gave me this with a fine blade and guess what that was the same blade with what master cut her head off" He murmured dropping the last blade to the floor watching the girl huff with her eyes ablaze, those white irises failed to hide the fire burning inside her.

"I know all about you, everything about you, who you were? Who you are? You were the kid who killed her first man at the age of eleven. A teen who gusted his rival's heart at seventeen. And a woman who bathed in KNIGHTS blood without a flicker of remorse, the night you burnt it down to crisps."

"OH~ I do admit you fooled everyone with the news of your death but when I heard of the 'White Death' I was very sure of who it could be, of course the missing corpse of Venom came to life huh~ the born monster as some called you. It was not your fault child, to be born a monster but it was hers. Cruelty runs in our veins like poison for people like you, like me. It runs in the veins of every evil born from an evil, an endless spiral of monstrosity."

"You are the worst of a kind I have seen so far"

The said left the aged man to shake with laughter, an empty laughter that crackled like wood between the burning flames of fire licking the dead remains of once living ciders.

"I feel honored Madonna, such a compliment coming from you is nothing but a praise, Oh~ I thought the day I see you, how would it be, would I faint fascinated by you or I would change my gods and worship your majesty, but now looking at you all I can see if what a good of a whore your mother was-"

"DON'T TAKE HER NAME FROM YOUR FILTHY MOUTH"

"... and how good you must be after all her blood runs in your veins hm~" Stepping up close to her restrained figure the man raised her hand up in front of her face while an old yet strong blade slipped out his Egyptian robes and he held it in front of her.

"Are you ready to die with the same blade that killed your mother hm?" He tittered watching the girl's teary burning orbs shake from wrath and pain. Her trembling gaze solely latched onto the blade, it was a bronze stiletto with rubies engraved on each side of the handle. The red sparkling stones looked like a serpent's eyes reflecting her image to her eyes, but it was not herself she saw in them, it was Seoyeon, same eyes same features and that warm smile always resting on her peaceful face. It was Kim Seoyeon, her mother.

A surge of fury and pain blasted inside her with a scream erupting past her lips. It boomed past the insides of the chamber rattling every dead soul in there. Her men now piled over each other bulleted straight in the head with the machine guns that hung down from the familiar slitted panels across the walls like the ones inside the VIP section holding her captive.

Hearing her screams, his brows knitted as consciousness knocked on the door of his senses. The maroon head groaned softly feeling restrained under the weight of two dead bodies piled over him. His trembling orbs looked past the hazy vision to see the machine guns hanging down the panel windows in the walls they never knew of before. Felix breathed in and out heavily feeling his frozen senses come back to life, the bullets drilled into his arm and shoulder forced more blood out as he tried to move.

It was a familiar feminine scream that left him to halt his actions. Looking around he couldn't see the one he heard but he was sure she was near enough.

"V-venom-" His wheezed-out words died at his lips as a few bullets instantly drilled onto the dead bodies on top of him. Felix held his breath now knowing the motion and voice-detecting machine guns already loaded with bullets waited to snatch any remaining breaths in the room.

I can't move with these many wounds, if I do, I would be shot in the head even before I succeed to stand. W-what do I do?

I can't help her

I can't help- wait why should I even help her? Isn't this what I have always wanted? Her to die! Yes, I want her dead, I want her to die a painful death for what she did to me. She deserves it!

The screams heightened as he lay down there contemplating his thoughts. Breathing heavily, Felix turned his head away as his gaze stuck to the piles of dead men around.

She Killed Jisung, she killed him even when I begged her to stop, she turned me into a puppet, she turned my life into hell- but that hell protected me from all the monsters out there, I can't deny it.

She accepted me for her brother knowing I- was from the enemy side. She trusted me with Yoongi!

What are you thinking, Felix? This doesn't pay for what she did, for how she ruined you!

Another scream cut off his thoughts to how painful it was and Felix let out a sigh. He wanted her to die, he was angry for what she had done to him! But where she took one family from him, she gave another, where one identity was snatched from him, he was given another, where he lost one friend, he got another, with Jisung he felt happy but with Yoongi he feels complete!

Felix wasn't left to rot in the dungeons, she brought him to her family where she devasted his past she built her present and he couldn't deny that! He was safe for his infatuation with her, even if he despised it.

Yoongi would never forgive me if he gets to know I failed to protect his sister. H-he will hate me for this, he will hate me if he finds me alive and her dead in my presence- No, I can't afford to lose him, not him. I can't-

But, I can't risk his life either, it's not safe here! I can't call him here. What do I do?

Same feminine screams once again reached his earshot and Felix groaned knowing he can't let her die, at least not now! It was then that a face shone in the hallways of his mind.

"Master-" The automated bullets cut off his words yet again drilling against the dead bodies piled over him and Felix shut his mouth then and there. Biting down on his lip, he tried to slide his hand free from the weight of the corpses, he groaned to how it was nearly impossible to move even an inch.

He couldn't push them off with his left side already drilled with bullets, it felt too heavy and raw to move. Breathing heavily, he blinked the tears away holding his whimpers bitten back.

I have to do this at any cost, for Yoongi, I can't disappoint him, I have to do this!

Tugging at his right arm, Felix turned over the left side of his body failing to bite back his screams while he pulled his hand out from under the dead bodies. The motion guns drilled bullets against the dead meat shield over him as he screamed forcing his body to turn over.

Pain, too much pain, and all he could feel was his body throbbing with it while he lay on his side now, face resting against the blood-soaked carpeted floor, Felix cried muffling his sobs while his trembling hand slowly pulled the small device from the layers of his clothes.

The blood-covered screen flashed while his trembling orbs peered at it past his hazy vision. The outgoing call left the phone to buzz leaving the machine guns with detectors to spin around frantically drilling bullets trying to find the source of noise.

"Speak-"

"M-master-" Felix choked on the blood that rose up in the back of his throat leaving the raven-haired guy to knit his brows in confusion.

"S-she, you have to save her, she's in danger"

Instantly Inferno rose from his throne, chills rushed up his spine leaving a sickening alarm of uneasiness to ring past his ears.

"Where are you?"

"Th-the Pit..." Before he could utter another word, the thread of his consciousness broke leaving the boy to drop the device to the floor while his limp figure shivered at how it lost the warmth of life coloring the carpeted floor red.

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𝔇𝔞𝔱𝔢𝔡: 12/08/2023
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