least painful

[3irien.livejournal.com]

Challenge: Drown
Title: least painful
Word Count: 242
Notes: features a negotiation between cloud and hades



they say drowning is the least painful way to die, but the feeling of something liquid circling him, choking the breath out of him is far from pleasant. he opens his mouth to let out a scream but the thick liquid surges in, suffocating him and only a gurgle can be heard from him.

something strange yet powerful courses through his veins and deep within him, a primal growl can be heard. demonic and guttural. and then, there is silence.

"now kid, sign your name here." and he reaches out his arm feebly, taking the floating quill from the air and shakily draws a scribble on the parchment. the lord of the underworld takes the paper away from him even before a complete 'C' is formed.

"wonderful, wonderful. now you should rest, you do agree that your power is much too precious to be wasted around, i am sure." with a flick of a finger, a dark swirling liquid thing surrounds him once again, threatening to suffocate him if he ever opens his mouth. so instead he waves around to be released, but Hades just grins in victory, "i'm glad you're so obedient." and he leaves.

so he closes his eyes and thinks of his home instead. he dreams of blue skies, sunrise every morning, of Yuffie's high-pitched laughter, of dinner cooked by Aerith every night, of sipping warm tea on a rainy day with Leon, of Tifa, Cid, Sora...

and of how drowning is the least painful way to die.

Comments

[jaesprite.livejournal.com]

Ah, I love drabbles that fill in plot holes. ^^ This is an interesting take on the... erm... 'negotiations' that went on between them. I like. Although I notice some jumps from present to past tense in a couple places.

I like the second paragraph, the 'demonic and guttural' force. Also his reflections on his home.

[3irien.livejournal.com]

aww, thanks! I'm never good at tenses but i'm gonna go and read it over to find the mistakes now :)