[attr="class","textie"]Blood, blood, blood. The man seemed to crave it, and to get it, he would rip it out of these men, the guards to Maria's castle. What an ugly blight it was. The swordsman wasn't sure how he got here. Normally, when he left the Underrealm, he appeared on Earth where he had been destroyed. But this time, he appeared in Texas. Near this huge castle, the huge palace that housed that thing. the Phoenix. It angered him for reasons he could not explain.[break][break]

And so, here he was, slaughtering these grunts. It seemed they couldn't come anywhere close to matching him in combat, based on their scattered limbs, their spilled blood, and their terrified screams. All against a man with only a sword. How pitiful. Of course, Ruin's blade was nothing to laugh at. It was a testament to the upper limits of a man's strength. Not that Ruin was any longer a human, in the conventional sense of the word. More a monster. And this monster had finally attracted the attention of this Phoenix; she flew down to where the grunts had all been slain. And suddenly, they were no longer dead. Some kind of magic? It only made him madder.[break][break]

Ruin leveled the blade to Maria, the tip pointed directly at her nose. "What gives you the right to play God?" he asked, not even caring that she essentially was one, but clearly knowing that she was. It just seemed to make him angry that she existed. It was clear by looking at his face. There was extreme anger in the man's eyes- but it was not all. There was also sadness. And a lack of something. Something that looked to be essential, but he did not have it, whatever it was. He looked remarkably inhuman.[break][break]

The truth was, Ruin knew much of Maria, insofar as her activities as the Host, but he still did not understand her. And that made him angry. He didn't always get so angry, back when he was a real human. Before that living hell that made him into what he was now. Now almost anything could set him off. Like this Phoenix, and her taking Texas as some kind of kingdom from which to rule. And she wanted to "unite" humanity under one banner. Fucking bullshit. She was probably some tyrant. And she was powerful, so there would be few who could even make an attempt at stopping her. Ruin could smell it. He growled instinctively. [break]

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[attr="class","tagsie"]MARIA