Silence and calm, but then…

There’s a rumbling, an upheaval, a ripping apart. A roar, a scream in the darkness that spills out from torn and mutilated flesh. A monster claws it’s way out from within. Twisted, huge and threatening - Destroyer. Destroyer of lives, of hopes, of dreams. Destroyer of all things beautiful. Destroyer of everything.

He stands at ground zero, expression unchanging as the beast rises.

The tempest boils, lashes of fire burst from the heart of the horror, scorching the earth, moisture flashing to steam, sand dissolving into glass. The atmosphere burns away, the stars are devoured and the moon collapses in on its self

He stands unprepared, the burden somehow his. It shouldn’t be.

Sunken, hot crimson eyes meet cool blue. Eyes the color of an unfathomable ocean, a power disguised under outward calm- steady and unmovable. Destroyer snarls and pushes forward, but there’s a flicker.. a slight.. shifting. Claws extend, the darkness thickens, the inferno rages and the howl deafens as the abnormality prepares to annihilate my world.

A surge. Unavoidable force meets unyielding influence. An Impasse.

And then; A word, softly spoken. A trigger, barely pulled. An expression, barely changing. A smile, barely noticeable. A pause, barely detected. An implosion, barely heard but keenly felt. A realization, massively impacting a diseased mind.

….Silence.

Silence and a soft mist descends, settling over everything - calming a rebellious heart, soothing a scarred, blistered subconsciousness and easing misgiving eyes until the stain of dysphoria washes away. Destroyer dissolves leaving a pale, scared, wide-eyed girl shaking in its wake. He enfolds her in his arms and my world repairs its self.

Again.