2019-10-14: Children of a Furious God
- Cutscene: Children of a Furious God
- Cast: Amaterasu
- Where: Lake Macalania
- Date: October 14th, 2019
- Summary: Amaterasu stands her ground.
BGM: (Hollow Knight ~ Christopher Larkin - Furious Gods) https://christopherlarkin.bandcamp.com/track/furious-gods
Pyreflies dance about her in a thick fog, spinning upwards to fade in the cold.
Three.
That's three slain, and more -- far more -- yet that still remain. Sin is a fecund parent, Amaterasu considers, and has been bountiful; it may have departed but its Spawn remain.
She leaps, landing astride another, driving down Valkyrja's blade into what passes for its skull. It writhes and flails.
She lands amidst Pyreflies.
Four.
The temple breaks. The temple where her sister and the rest of them -- Ambrosius, Elvis, Minder No. 7... CR-S01 -- may be. She's aware of that, she takes note of it. And doesn't stray from her self-assigned duty. What she can do for them at the shattered temple is arguable. What she can do for them here is certain.
Five.
She'll kill all of them.
Mat, I love you, her sister had said. Kaguya had never said that before--
No, not in a very, very long time.
Even if they only could threaten Kaguya. Even if these will soon vanish like dew under the sun's light. Even if it's pointless--
Even so, she'll kill all of them.
Even if they are the children of a furious god.
Six.
Another is upon her, speeding in quickly in the wake of the sixth. A series of chitinous blades unwind from its abdomen, catch at her limbs, scrape at her armor. Behind her mask she grits her teeth--
And takes off its head.
Seven.
Only to stagger, pain ricocheting up her leg.
Her leg...
The same place as before, after she had been swept away by the tide. Her armor must have been damaged; she had been lax and hadn't checked. And now that might cost her.
Another of the Spawn is upon her. Another, and another. Again, and again, they come at her, affording her no opportunity to attend to her wound.
...So be it. Whatever might happen will happen. In this alone she can find peace. Grasping Valkyrja tightly in both hands, she screams her challenge to ears that cannot understand it and stands her ground.