Post by Captain Kabe on May 18, 2024 4:48:03 GMT -5
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Kabe lay at rest. His body was throbbing, battered by a harsh and brutal encounter and changing hands in his slumber as to who was in control. His mind floated in silence, a black and blissful abyss, until it was regularly interrupted by flashes of things. Thoughts that weren't quite his own. Visions of violence, pangs of hunger, and wants of primal and savage things. Things that weren't his memories. He hoped they weren't his memories.
Were they his memories?
Though he wasn't concious, he did struggle with that. The line between where his own thoughts, ideas and memories ended, and where the things that were of this other thing began. And what was it, really? He floated in that abyss troubled by the thought. Where was he anyway? He didn't know. That part in the darkness was hard to remember. Was he alive?
A disturbing thought would travel and interrupt the question, and he'd just as soon shake it away as it appeared. A vision. His hands covered in blood. Dion standing in front of him, a hole in his side. Something bleeding, still throbbing with life as it quickly died in his hand. Some vital inner organ he'd ripped out from a vicious gash. And the taste. He'd feel sickened by the way his mind convinced him he loved it.
But more disturbing, more shocking and scary was the vision of him stopping. He felt dread at stopping. He felt genuine disappointment watching his own hesitation. Was that him? Or was it the animal gnawing at his brain as he slept? And before his hands moved to hurt his most precious boy, his brother, his son, his child, Kabe would wake.
The memory of sleep was hazy. He could feel pain all over his body. Someone had stopped him, he hoped. It was hard to remember. But he had been attacked with a kind of savagery that only came from protective instinct, and his thoughts fell immediately to Zhalla and he was certain it was her that had done this to him.
He deserved it, obviously. He knew that.
But he wasn't sure if he wanted to be right or not about assuming it was her. That would mean Zhalla had seen what he'd done. She'd seen Kabe in the aftermath of a great many horrible things he'd done before, and for some reason she still seemed to think the world of him. But this was something different. Something he wouldn't have done. Something he couldn't have done. Had he really done it? Attacked his own child?
He sat up slowly, the motion feeling as though it tore and stretched at raw muscles in his core, and he coughed blood into his hand as he blinked and the room came into view. "Fuuck..?" Kabe groaned as he looked around. It was a secure room, one he guessed even a Super Saiyan couldn't get so easily out of. It was a cage. The kind of cage you put something you want to make sure can't leave. His gut sank at that.
He didn't do well in cages.
For a moment he was frantic. He stood up, blood rushing around his insides and making him see stars, as he moved around the room running his fingers along the walls, testing how tough they were even as it hurt his tendons to push with his hands. It hurt to breathe and yet he was breathing ragged, quick breaths like someone sprinting, and there was music playing but between his ringing ears and his panic he couldn't hear it at all.
As he paced he spied some water and food left for him, and aching he crossed the room and seized the water desperately, chugging it until the vessel was empty. He stopped still after drinking and stared at the food. It looked good, but... he couldn't. Anything he tastes right now would still taste raw. And he didn't deserve food, right?
He brought his shaking left hand up to his left ear, running his thumb and finger along the gold earing hanging from it, and took in a breath. He heard the hiss of air depressurizing and gave up on the idea of being ready. He coughed a little more blood and spared the both of them a snarky greeting, turning towards where he'd heard the sound and looking to the floor, unable to meet Zhalla's gaze.
/KABE [110,000 | DMG 0% | KP 6 MP 0]
//ITEMS [Wedding Ring]
//ABILITIES [Saiyan Pride, Tactician, Mimicry]
/WORDS [WC 735 | TWC 735]