A World Of Decree: And The Seven Laws

*Drip… *Drip… *Drip… *Drip…

Small creeks in the rocks filled the empty sound of the chamber with small droplets of liquid hitting the cold, smooth ground. Puddles were formed beneath the cracks, occupying the free space for travel on foot.

The cracks gleamed a purple haze to light the area, giving a warm welcome of anyone that laid eyes upon them. The wall of correspondence stood just as tall as the others, approximately 10 meters tall and covered in lightly glowing symbols.

The environment was narrow, but rather long and tall. Rina followed the pathway in front of her, hugging the walls with her hands for caution. A few turns around corners revealed where the path led her.

Ducking her head under the small rocky ceiling in the way, lifting her head swiftly to resume her normal stance. Her eyes instantly shifted into the distance. About 50 meters away, she saw the wall, and a girl about her height standing in front of it.

She began walking towards the girl, splashing her shoes with nearly every step from all the puddles. Carefully placing her jacket on the ground before coming close enough to see something familiar.

The girl was turned toward the wall, which is the reason Rina was able to recognize her so easily. It was the same dark haired girl she saw at the festival behind Abbadon, the same one who decided to hide herself.

"Rina…" The girl spoke in a quite, yet soft voice, "How many years has it been now? sis."

Rina couldn't believe what she just heard, her face showing every emotion of shock, objection and questions. She recognized the voice as if she heard it yesterday, there was no doubt in her mind about who it belonged to.

The girl turned around to reveal her face, which was half way covered in dark marks and small flakes of miasma around it. Her eyes were pure, corrupted by kindness and hatred that battled each other inside her soul. Her left eye was a dark shade of violet, just like her name. Her right, a pitch black slate of sorrow, creeping up to the rest of her delicate face.

Her jawline was sharp, but nothing too noticeable to resemble masculinity. She was just as beautiful as Rina, wearing female suited robes that matched Abbadon's precisely.

Rina was too scared to speak, trembling with every word, "V-Violet? Wh.. I-I don't know what to say..."

Violet smiled, "You don't have to. I'm sure you have many questions about where I've been, what happened…" Her smile faded away as her memories came rushing back. "I was one of the most recent ones added... I still have a year or two before I'm.." She paused for a moment before continuing, "but I don't want to wait, I need you to end this today sis."

"End this today!" Rina replied with a slightly puzzled tone, "What do you mean? Please.. Tell me! We can help you."

"No. You can't. Even if you could, Abbadon would kill me regardless, he controls us."

Rina tried to say something else to hopefully negotiate, but she knew she wouldn't get anywhere. The only thing she could ask anymore was for an explanation. Which Violet happily gave.

Abbadon spread his darkness into the cave she entered with Calvin and another boy 6 years ago. Abbadon only needed three more to complete his vessels as he prepared to harness the power of the seven laws of the universe. Only needing two for that moment, he let Calvin escape, taking the young ones instead. That cave is the same one everyone is currently in, a trap that was strategically designed by Abbadon himself to lure in the true holders of the laws. Violet was given the vessel for the law of correspondence, while the ginger haired boy was given the law of rhythm.

After Abbadon realized that him and the rest of his vessels weren't able to withstand the power that was given to them, he needed the real lives of the laws, creating illusions and controlling the outcome of most events that lead them into the cave. A plan that would only fail due to underestimation of his opponents.

Violet also explained how due to the darkness inside of her, she cannot control her magic anymore, especially once the real law is in close distance, then it will manually take over the vessel with pure force.

"What do you mean take you over?!" Rina yelled in confusion, eager for more answers.

"Since you're here I will not be able to stop myself Rina.. So please, run away, find Calvin, and kill me with him." Violet replied as her voice began to slowly lose its sound and softness. Her face slowly began to change, losing all expressions and becoming completely lifeless.

"Wait! Calvin is here? Violet!.." Rina stopped, seeing her sister's head drop as her body stood firm. The marks around her eye began to crawl to the rest of her face, leaving Rina afraid to say a single word. Her eyes just stared at Violet's body being corrupted by the evil within her.

Unsure of what to do, Rina couldn't bring herself to attack her sister, freezing in place as she watched her own sister's life taken away for a second time.

"LET HER GO!" Rina screamed at the darkness engulfing Violet's soul, knowing that desperate cries for help won't accomplish anything.

Finally, Violet froze as her head jolted back up into a locked position, staring down Rina with a bright purple tint in her right eye, while her left stayed abyssal black. There was no expression on her face, quietly muttering a spell in a voice that wasn't her own, "Deep Sea."

Water began to fill the open cracks and empty space in the chamber, although Rina remained unfazed. Dark water quickly submerged the entire chamber, leaving Violet remained in the same position as Rina began to struggle.

Rina knew she could breathe underwater and even make herself untouchable by almost all objects by shaping her flesh and limbs into liquid on command, but this seemed different for her. It was her sister's magic, the same as hers, and impossible for her to withstand it.

Her demand for oxygen increased as she struggled to breathe under the depths of the dark curtains of water. The redness seemed to resemble something, and Rina was able to digest the situation in a matter of seconds while locking her gaze onto Violet standing motionless on the ground, underneath the deepness of the water.

Rina could see small holes formed around Violet's arms, drifting into the open sea. It was her blood, Violet's blood was the cause for the inability for Rina to cast any spells she knew, which wasn't many to begin with.

Her oxygen demand increased even further, feeling her life able to withstand about another minute at most. Without hesitation, she quickly began to blossom to the surface, like a dolphin jumping into the open air for refreshment and the need for everlasting energy.

She reached the jagged ceiling of the chamber, noticing the water wasn't sparing a single spot of air anywhere around. Clawing at the ceiling with her fingernail just made her lose more energy every second. She knew if she screamed the air she had would be gone, sending her further into the possibility of drowning in her own sister's blood water.

All Rina needed was just a small space of air to cast a spell, enough to withstand her life. But she never found it, she just stared down her motionless sister while trying her best not to show signs of crying.

Seconds went by fast, leaving only 30 more before Rina would lose all the air she had held deep within her lungs. She couldn't help but just stare at her sister, remembering all the times they had together when she was little.

She remembered when Violet was ready for Princewood, and when she came back home the same year to share all her adventures. The times they would get in trouble by their parents for messing with each other's magic. And the time Violet never came home, with Princewood's administrators at their door to share the tragic news they would never hope to hear.

As Rina looked at how Violet's blood loss made her skin turn pale and blue, the anger took her by surprise. Rina sunk back down to the ground, standing upright as she looked at her nails, rigid and sharp from the scratching.

A moment of hesitation stopped her, however, there was no other option to even consider accomplishing. With a quick flick of her nails across her hand, and an internal scream to follow, she could feel her blood enter the liquid around her.

Trying her best to ignore the pain and focus on her concentration without breathing, she attempted to duplicate the spell Violet cast in her own way.

"Red Sea."

The blood from her hand entered the surrounding liquid around her, merging with her sister's blood to slowly drain the water enclosed within the chamber. After a few moments, the water drained into the cracks and into a nearby hallway that was now visible past the wall of correspondence.

However, there was one outlier to the scene after the spell. There was a thin sheet of blood, mixed in with water layered flat, half way up to the ceiling from the ground. It was like looking at a transparent cube, split midway in a perfectly clean and efficient manner.

Rina looked up at the sheet of blood a few feet above her, seeing the ceiling of the chamber through the thick liquid sheet, dancing in small motions from its natural form. Although she lost some blood from her wrist, the wound was already dry, repairing itself at a steady pace.

Violet's humanity was gone, but her curiosity still approached from the corruption. She looked up with her eyes of death, unsure of what to make out of it.

Rina slowly reached towards the sheet of liquid, pausing for a moment before piercing it with the tip of her index finger, slightly afraid of the outcome. As her finger escalated through the sheet, she could feel warmth sensation she couldn't explain too easily. She could feel colors, life, and a pure light to fill the corners engulfed within the darkness.

She wasn't sure how, or what any of those things feel like. But her mind was taken away by the moment, sending all the emotions humans have gathered from their interactions and life choices into the tip of her finger.

The thoughts, memories, feelings, and interactions she ever had came flooding back in, whiplashing her finger back at her at a tremendous force. And causing her to fall on her bottom in a quick burst of realization and curiosity.

Violet's petrified body stared at her enemy, reaching out a finger of her own to witness the outcome of the sheet of blood above her. Rina watched as Violet sunk her finger into the sheet above, only for her to scream in horrific agony as her finger began to melt away onto the ground in a dark, abyssal flow of liquid. Violet quickly turned towards Rina as her finger regenerated back to normal by the darkness around her.

She let out a deathly scream, followed by a quick motion of her hand in a diagonal position, sending a thin slice of water directly at Rina.

The slice moved so fast Rina barely had any time to dodge, but managed to shift herself to the left and rise back to her feet. The slice of water still hit her left arm, causing a small cut to form right under her shoulder.

Rina grasped her cut with the softness of her right hand, unable to think of an attack until another slice hit her leg this time.

The cuts weren't large, but the blood loss was quite drastic in Rina's current situation. Violet wouldn't stop, swinging her arms left and right, up and down, slicing away at the chamber and Rina's skin faster than a normal human eye can see.

Without a choice, Rina ran behind a rocky formation growing out of the surrounding walls, shielding herself for only a few moments as Violet approached with cereal killer speed. Rina knew what to do, and how to do it. But the outcome would mean the loss of her sister once again, which is not something she could handle.

However, what choice did she have…

Violet clawed her way through the wall Rina was behind, spreading a cloud of dust and debris flying in all directions. With her intention to kill, she couldn't find Rina where her predicted location would be. Instead, Rina was now behind her, standing in front of the wall of correspondence.

Before Violet could launch another shower of attacks, Rina purged her entire hand through the blood above her. Her blue eye glowed so bright it nearly blinded Violet from the mere intensity. The darkness shining within her right mellowed the gaze to balance out through the chamber.

With her hand still through the sheet of blood, her words came out with immense ferocity. "As above. As below."

The sheet of blood plummeted towards the ground, breaking it's formation like a glass window breaking from an obstructive force. The blood drenched Rina and Violet, harming only one of the two girls.

Violet roared in a flurry of screams as the blood layered every fiber of her body, melting away the darkness like snow. After a few seconds of torturous screams and constant scratching at one's self, Violet fell to the floor without resistance.

The darkness around her was slowly vanishing into the open air, leaving her precious body back to normality. Rina ran over to her, splashing her legs with even more blood from the ground, despite already being covered in it. Seeing her sister lying motionless on the ground crept tears to her eyes, forcing her to close them as she approached.

Violet was simply looking at the ceiling, waiting for Rina to come close before using the last of her energy on empty breaths.

"VIOLET!" Rina cried as she stumbled to her knees next to her sister.

"Rina.. Please don't cry.." Violet answered in a soft, brittle voice. "There's no need for tears sis…"

"How can you even say that! 6 Years you were gone, 6 years!... And now, I meet you in the middle of nowhere, corrupted by whatever that was," she sniffed, "And you're telling me not to cry? How-"

"Rina." Violet interrupted with an even quieter voice. "There a few things I must say before…" She looked away before continuing, forcing more tears from Rina to fall on her c.h.e.s.t.

"Don't tell mom and dad you saw me."

"What! How can I stay qui-"

"Please." Rina's eyes widened to that response, but she let Violet continue. "That spell you cast, proves all my theories and experiments… I attempted that spell when Abbadon took me, failing it countless times as it ate away at my soul… The spell shows that you are the true law of correspondence."

Violet's hand began to start fading, panicking Rina to a much greater extent. "Violet! Please don't go, you can't leave me alone here. Please!" Her tears grew stronger, falling on her sister's c.h.e.s.t like raindrops.

Violet coughed before continuing with a smile, "You're not alone. All your friends are here with you, Calvin, mom and dad, your future enemies. They are all waiting for you." Violet finally shed a tear as her life flashed in a heartbeat. Her entire arm was almost faded away, along with about half of her leg.

Rina was speechless, only able to grasp her hands around Violet as she continued saying her final words. "Kill Abbadon, do it for me sis."

She could feel a nod in response with Rina's face planted on her shoulders. "One more thing," she coughed multiple times again, "Tell Calvin I love him."

This took Rina by surprise, causing her to lift her head in curiosity of an explanation. But she didn't get one. Instead, Violet revealed a hidden necklace around her neck, accompanied by a glistering diamond shaped stone attached to the end. It was only about 3 inches big, perfectly smooth on every corner while exposing the black edges that arranged it's perfect shape. It was pitch black, with a small white orb on the inside, only visible with great inspection.

With the strength she had remaining, she took her other hand to rip it off the necklace and hand it to Rina.

"What is this?" Rina snuffled.

"It's the heart of a dragon I killed 7 years ago… The 6 years I was under the command of Abbadon, I slowly sunk my soul into it. Day by day."

"Are you…" Rina didn't know how to finish her sentence, letting Violet explain while she still could.

"Give it to Calvin for me." Violet Face was now beginning to fade from the chin up. Rina tried to wipe away her tears, failing to do so due to the massive amounts of blood staining her clothes. So she just smiled as she watched her sister slowly vanish into the air.

Right before Violet was completely gone, she managed to muster up one last thought to mention. "I'm giving you my magic Rina, you'll need it to kill him… We'll meet again sis. I love you…" Her mouth was finally gone, along with the rest of her body, sending Rina staring at the diamond heart in her hand while splashing it with tears.

However, she noticed the small white orb in the stone glowing brighter, expanding dramatically until it turned the stone shining white through the dark edges that encompassed it. She could feel her sister inside, bringing it to her c.h.e.s.t with a few more tears and a face of sorrow and anger.

She could feel a purple aura enter her body as her sister vanished, along with the aura from the wall that was sent crumbling to the ground. The colossal amount of magic energy that entered her body knocked her to the ground, almost unable to withstand the capacity of the foreighn essence that entered.

She wasn't able to scream to withhold the energy, but was making noises like she was choking, grasping onto the gift her sister has given. After a few moments, she managed to calm down, getting back to her feet and staring at the heart.

Rina could feel a massive power within her, noticing her own reflection in the diamond heart. There was one thing that caught her eye in the reflection. The black eye she had growing up, with all those years of being slightly insecure about it, were taken away in a heartbeat as she noticed it was no longer black.

A beautiful Violet pupil has taken its place, signifying her sister's magic within her. Rina clenched the heart as tight as she could as she carefully placed it around her neck with the necklace that remained where her sister lied a few moments ago.

Pure frustration filled her glare as she started running towards the hallway that showed it's true clearing behind where the wall once stood.

She needed to find Abbadon, and she needed to end this massacre.