Fox Tale Of A Dungeon Boss 30 Chapter 30: A Meeting Of Dreams

Light. A blue sky overhead. And pain. Lots of pain.

'Ouch. This... really... hurts.'

My entire body hurts so much I can't even identify where the pain is coming from.

And then there's Touka above me, and I can see she's saying something...

"...just awake... he... doing my best... few days?..."

And everything is black again.

Then... a dull red light.

A flare, a burning torch set in a brazier standing in the middle of... wherever this is. I step forward, water splas.h.i.+ng underfoot.

I walk, up to the flame, and I stare.

The brazier is made of bone and ribbons of flesh tying them together, with crimson red flames. Not a hint of yellow, orange, or any normal color. In the reflected light, the water underfoot looks like blood, but I can't smell the metallic scent from there, only from the brazier and flame.

Then a rumbling noise, becoming a voice.

"What a foolish child."

I look up, and turn around, but n.o.body is there.

"Do you fear it? What lies before you?"

I look back at the brazier. What lies before me? I think... and then I say what I honestly think.

"It's disgusting."

The voice begins to chuckle, then laugh, then it's roaring with laughter, "AHAHAHAHAHA!", until finally it quiets down as soon as it came.

"How ironic, considering that's you."

I blinked in confusion. How could a brazier be me???

"Look," and in the background low laughter still sounded.

I look down, and I'm missing pieces of myself. A chunk of my arm, a good portion of my ribs, most of my right foot, my left knee... just gone. All the parts the dungeon made, the grey flesh that looked like it didn't belong when using a.n.a.lyze.

All that remained was Kitsune flesh, leaving me a raggedy zombie.

I looked up at the brazier, the bone, sinew and flesh. My flesh. My bone.

"What? It's what you've been looking for right? It's the body you couldn't get! Go on, take it! You won't die anymore, AHAHAHA!"

I s.h.i.+vered, in fear or disgust I don't know. I don't understand what's happening, why this is here, where I am or what happened to me.

Suddenly the voice's low laughter filling the background is gone, leaving silence as the s.p.a.ce rumbles, a light appearing far above, like a golden sun in the distance, a star.

It's falling, coming closer and closer, until I see it's not a star, but something is inside the light, and it crashes to this place, throwing up ma.s.sive waves of water as it enters the ocean I'm standing on, showing me my surroundings and what's underwater by its light.

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I'm on an ocean of black water, and underneath the water is thousands of corpses, the entire ocean bed so close it's within sight. Except it's not the ocean bed, not really. It's the pile of corpses in the ocean, so many they cover the ocean floor all the way up until they're within sight.

The light stops above all those corpses, and then it turns, unfurling 9 golden tails as it swims up to me, faster than even the waves it made.

A tsunami of black water thrown by its descent comes upon me, but it bursts out of the ocean, and the tsunami is vaporized by its light, turning into black steam that seems to almost flee.

And before me is a fox of a size I cannot describe, glowing with a golden holy light, with fur so bright it appears made of molten metal. It's eyes appear to be the same red-gold as my own, but with flecks if true gold strewn throughout.

I hear a heavy snort, and turn around to look past the brazier, where before there was darkness, and find the owner of the earlier voice.

A black fox, with rotting skin and bald patches where its fur fell out, with bright red eyes and drooling fangs bared in a snarl, bigger than I could ever describe. These two opposing t.i.tans, standing atop this ocean filled with corpses, and me in between with my brazier.

A voice, filled with some sort of honor, sonorous and n.o.ble, rang out.

"Child, why have you come to this dark place?"

I blinked. "I didn't mean to come here."

He, cause that voice wasn't exactly hiding any masculinity, turned to the other, who sounded a bit more androgynous earlier.

"You are not allowed to summon any of our children to this place, demon."

'Huh?' If any could see how confused I looked, they might laugh if they couldn't also see the beings on either side.

"I summoned no one. The Kitsune May carry your soul and magic, but my flesh is their flesh, oh great G.o.d."

In his last words, the Demon Fox(black rotting one) held a great amount of sarcasm.

Indeed... focusing on, the view of mana showed his body carried the same red black miasma as mine, but where I had gold white threads of power, he had red black strings that looked different as they were cohesive and solid, rather than a s.h.i.+fting gas-like appearance.

On the other hand, in the Divine Fox I saw gold-white threads like mine, along with a golden-white mist filling his flesh.

The Demon Fox snorted. "Plus, it's not like there's any reason for us to fight. Our kind are dead and gone. He is the last of our children, and he's a dying fool, who can't become complete because of a soul beyond his flesh."

"If the Soul is too strong for the flesh, then it is your quality in him that is too weak." Pointed out the Divine Fox.

Silence, as the Demon Fox turned to regard me. "Child... do you know who we are?"

'Uh...' I kinda shrugged. "I can a.s.sume you two are likely the creators of the Kitsune race? And one of you or both are that G.o.d-Demon-Guardian living on the mountain?"

"He knows so little of us... how much has been lost to the slaughter? This child knows nothing of his race or civilization, born to a world empty of family." The Divine Fox looked at me as of with pity.

"Hmph. Very well, I can't ignore someone making me look back with such a pathetic excuse for a body."

The two looked at me, and the fire spread from the brazier, leaving it as it floated in the air, disa.s.sembling into the body parts that it was made of.

The crimson flame ran into the water, floating down into the waters, not disturbed a bit by the waters surrounding it. Then it reached the bodies.

Fire leapt, racing and growing unimaginably fast, all the corpses being reforged in fire, showing the truth. Every last body was a Foxkin, hundreds, thousands, millions of dead Kitsune with fire leaping in their bodies, as the two Foxes stood on either side of me.

"We, the Two-That-Are-One, the Forgotten G.o.d, the Crippled Demon, will await you upon the mountain oh child."

"Come to us brat, and if you prove yourself to truly be a child of ours in virtue and nature, we will give you our last gift."

Then both spoke at once. "Our time is gone, and you are the last. We are dying, so come and receive our last breathe. Whether you continued the line somehow, or simply live out your days until all remnants of us are gone, and the Kitsune truly die, that is your choice."

"Now hurry up brat." Said the Demon, who for some reason gave off an air of concern despite his words and appearance. He... cared. He was grouchy, but still.

"Go... wake child." The Divine have a sense of distance, propriety and n.o.ble honor, but affection was clear.

Everything began to fuzz out and turn gray, and that was the end of my dreams.