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Chapter 67: Monument of agony
🕑 Added 2025-08-22 15:45:24 +0000 UTCKai finally let go, his hand withdrawing from Alice's temple as she staggered, gasping for breath. When she looked down at his palm, her eyes widened in horror.
Resting there was a grotesque insect of what appeared to be a wasp that pulsed faintly with residual magic.
Alice's voice trembled. "What… what the hell is that?"
Kai glanced at the squirming thing with mild disgust. "This was in you. That's how he spied on you." He shifted his gaze toward Fogg, who stood amused behind the shimmering boundary. "Probably how you always knew what she was doing. Isn't that right, Foggy?"
The Beast tilted his head and smiled with mock approval. "My, my… you are a smart one, aren't you?"
Kai rolled his eyes and said dryly, "Took you long enough to notice." Then, with a pull of will, he siphoned the corrupted magic from the wasp, crushing its form into ash that drifted through his fingers.
"But what I don't get," he continued, eyes narrowing, "is why you kept her alive. It can't simply be for fun."
Fogg's grin sharpened. "Because she's one of my favorite toys," he said softly, "And my toys are best kept from being broken."
Alice shivered at the implication. Kai, however, just smirked grimly. "Ah. Now I see." His tone darkened as he stepped forward, flames beginning to lick the air. "Well then… let's make sure you experience pain for that comment."
The invisible bindings Kai had woven into the boundary flared, and immediately both of Fogg's legs snapped with sickening cracks. He groaned, only for a wave of splitting agony to seize his head once more, blood streaming from his ears, nose, and eyes, staining the once-pristine white suit.
Kai's vampiric features bled through, his eyes burning, and the veins underneath his eyes blackened as a ring of fire rose, encircling him and Fogg.
"Feel the pain you once caused."
And then the cuts began. Thousands of invisible lashes ripped across Fogg's body, tearing into flesh and fabric alike, blood splattering the floor. He gritted his teeth, but when Kai cast again, and this time he could not hold back.
"Bruciare supe terram, faciendo ignis ga praemium!" Kai casted a combustion spell.
One of Fogg's legs exploded violently, engulfed in fire. His scream echoed through the boundary, sounding raw and animalistic. He lifted an arm to cast but Kai caught it, snapped it in one brutal motion, and ripped it clean from the socket. Blood poured freely as Fogg shrieked.
"Oh now you want to scream?" Kai asked softly, throwing the limb aside. "Then let me give you something worth screaming about."
He raised both hands,Chanting a Nature-Empowered Pain infliction Spell which was otherwise known as "Incantation of the Storm" in the TVD verse, an extremely powerful spell that normally channels nature and the power of 100 witches, capable of killing an Original vampire, the same spell Bonnie intended to kill Klaus with. Usually when enacted, the spell summons a storm and inferno in addition to inflicting pain onto the target. Due to the spell's requirement of a massive amount of power, a witch could risk killing themselves in the process if they aren't too careful. But in this case Kai wasn't just a witch, he was an Original with untold amount of power plus the little amount of wellspring magic he absorbed from the golem earlier fueled his spell. "Phasmatos Infero Eseri Gratas, Disasustos Vom, Mas Pro Je Ta Sue Te. Victamas Veras. Phasmatos Tribum, Niha Sue Exilum, Disasustos Vom, Mas Pro Je Ta Sue Te. Levam, Mina Sue Te, Disasustos Vom, Mas Pro Je Ta Sue Te. Phasmatos Veras. Fes Matos Tribum, Mas Pro Tes Unum. Victas Ex Melam, Phasmatos Vanem. Mas Pro Je Ta Sue Te!"
The air itself answered as a storm roaring within the ring of fire. Wind howled, fire raged, and the weight of Kai's magic pressed down on the Beast. His body convulsed violently, unable to scream anymore as pain consumed him entirely.
"Kai stop!" Alice begged, eyes wide with terror. "You'll kill yourself!"
"Not yet Alice and don't worry this much cannot kill me," Kai growled, voice low and dangerous. "Besides we need him to be more than dead, don't we. That means breaking his body afirst."
When at last the incantation ebbed, what remained of Fogg was a ruined, bloodied mess, he was twitching, shattered, drenched in his own screams. Kai grabbed him by the neck and lifted him easily.
"Oh, how the mighty have fallen," he whispered, his voice venom. "This is what's left of you after killing your students… after throwing away your shade for power. A husk."
But then, as Alice's eyes widened, the Beast's body began to knit together.
"Kai he's healing!"
Kai snarled. "Tenacious bastard." Without hesitation, he plunged his hand into Fogg's chest and began siphoning the raw, surging magic. It poured into him in torrents and it felt as euphoric as it was intoxicating. His head tilted back as power filled every vein.
"Kai!" Alice's desperate voice cut through the haze.
He snapped back, laughing sheepishly. "My bad. Damn that's addicting." He forced himself to stop, leaving the Beast barely conscious, shaking, and broken.
"Time to finish this."
Kai focused, his will cutting sharp as a blade as he casted another one of Bonnie's speciality. A spell she used on Silas, the petrification spell, "Corpus tuum in lapidem vertatur, sanguis coagulatur, ossa durentur, anima ligetur aeternum."
Immediately, Fogg's veins darkened, blood clotting into stone. His muscles hardened one after the other, joints locking stiff, skin paling into granite. The transformation spread rapidly, until the last flicker of life was extinguished and only a statue remained. A grotesque monument of agony.
Kai ripped his hand free of the stony chest and exhaled. He turned to Alice, voice softer. "It's over—"
Before he could finish, a roaring destructive spell crashed into the statue, shattering it into dust. The blast wave coated Kai in a fine layer of gray fragments.
He looked down at himself, deadpan. "Oh great. Your ex-professor is all over me."
Alice didn't laugh. She collapsed to her knees, trembling as the adrenaline broke. Her sobs echoed through the ruined courtyard.
Kai rushed forward, catching her before she fell fully, holding her against him.
"There, there," she whispered weakly into his chest, her voice trembling. "It's over now. He's gone for good."
And for the first time since this began, Kai said nothing. He just sat with her, amidst the ashes of their enemy, as the flames of his boundary spell finally died down.
