The Enemy of Both Sides

Independent Tezcatlipoca blog from Aztec mythology. Mun is formerly Theenemyofbothsides. Tracking tag: Theenemyofallsides

[youneedamilkshake]

His assurance filled her with relief, to be soon replaced with confusion as he spoke of ‘doing something with her’. Her brow wrinkled, head tilting as she tried to ascertain what he meant. “What? What do you mean purpose? What am I now?”

[theenemyofallsides]

"Well, as far as I can tell, you have become an avatar. Usually, such beings are created artificially, with no will outside of the god in question. However, doing so would have alerted everyone, so perhaps altering you was the best way to go about it. you maintain your will, for now, but as soon as you would die we would be aware. Now, if we were to cut your connection to my brother, you would likely cease to exist at all." 

[thelastxman]

"Inability to change. I adapt to my situations accordingly. I am not some grandmother out of touch with the times. Besides which, you paint me as centuries old, I am only forty-five, with a knowledge of things beyond my years, but I have not even lived past a normal lifetime yet so spare me your predictions for how horrible I will become.”

"Even a pebble causes a ripple in the ocean. Regardless of how small an individual is, they can start something that grows tremendous in size with effects that can last for ages. I am far less pessimistic than you, because when I look to my people, I feel hope. Hope that we are making strides, that things will be better.”

"The sun is the sun is the sun. Nothing more and nothing less. I have no use for gods or personified celestial bodies. And pardon me, but…" she raised her hand, a blue glow emanating from her palm as globules of bright blue lights began to swirl around it. "I am a mutant. My powers returned to me and far stronger than before. I am omega. I may not be human, but being human never served me well. I am no husk, I do more than simply exist.”

[theenemyofallsides]

"Incorrect. You adapt to situations based on what you know from old situations. But, despite you saying how young you are, and you are young for your kind, it does not make anything I have said any less true. Remember, if you have not forced yourself to forget, the resentment you held of others at your current age when you were younger claiming to know how to lead." 

"As for pebbles and oceans, you are correct. But the difference is, someone decides how those ripples go. For while a small action may have lasting and unseen repercussions, no mortal may see what they are. Not as I do anyway, for planning fate is a difficult job, but amusing to me." 

"The sun is the sun, but it is also something else. Just as you claim that you are more than a husk, so too is the sun more than just a celestial body. You may have powers now, but they still do not change, for if they did, then you are not truly dead. But then again, it doesn't really matter; for your heart does not beat, so you are still a husk. And in time, people will not see you as a mutant, or even as human, for to see a vampire as human would make it harder for someone to destroy them. That, and mutants being led by a monster hardly makes mutants appear more sympathetic." 

[batbarbara-deactivated20161228]

"If you’re not going to be an ass about it."

[theenemyofallsides]

"I've answered that question four times. Why shouldn't I be?"

[sapphirescales-archive-blog]

     ”I don’t think so.”

[theenemyofallsides]

"Oh? An individual tells you that if you do not act, they will kill your child. Would that not be enough incentive?" 

[serenitysalbatross]

"Don’t. Please don’t." River clutches her head as the pain increases. It’s not that pathways open in her mind. They were left open, forced, years ago. It’s that his presence and words force her to confront them, to look at that which she could not look at for fear of infinity. She was not made to process so much data. She had learned not to look but now, there was more than her mind could handle. Other ways for the same outcome. Other outcomes. Reality was an infinite and River could hardly bear it. 

"Make it stop," she pleaded. "Please make it stop. I can’t…” Can’t process. Can’t think. Can’t filter it out.

[theenemyofallsides]

The god rolled his eyes; great. A precognitive with no ability to control what they did. As such, the god tapped her forehead, and the infinity would end, or more correctly, she would be unable to see the future in his presence. He thought of stripping the power from her completely, but he was not so cruel as to do that, for such people often had a lot of use to him in the long run. "Rather dramatic, aren't you?" 

[invenina]

"It’s a figure of speech. Keep your face away from me."

[theenemyofallsides]

"I am aware. Though your assumptions might end up getting you in trouble one day." 

[batbarbara-deactivated20161228]

"What are you?"

[theenemyofallsides]

"Must I answer that question for the fourth time?" 

[itsasquirrelthing-deactivated20]

"Oh… That’s good you didn’t bring me here then," she nodded, still eying the jaguars out of the corner of her vision. "…Unless that is what you have in store. Is it?”

Doreen cringed a bit, not happy to picture that particular fate. It was amazing she wasn’t more shocked by his claims of being the god that creates people’s fates. Then again, she’s defeated numerous supervillains wtih little more than luck and nuts, so…

"Wait… If you didn’t bring me here… Who did?”

[theenemyofallsides]

"That is a good question. Perhaps it was someone else, perhaps another god, perhaps a whim from long ago that I thought and only now comes to pass. Yes, that was probably it." The god chuckled, thinking about what it could be. "Now... what was it? Oh yes; today is the day that you die." 

[sapphirescales-archive-blog]

     ”I’m not so easily swayed.”

[theenemyofallsides]

"But you are. It simply requires the right thing to sway you." 

[thelastxman]

"I am the leader of my people. You cannot say I am unnecessary! The mutant race needs a leader and that is what I am. I would not expect you or anyone to understand what that means. Whoever you are, to think you can come around and insult me in this way is ludicrous." 

She circled the other for a moment, scrutinizing him. “Maybe not. Maybe I will be here for eternity. But my work is far more important than some love lorn dime store romance vampire. My work is to save my people! You forget that I am also a mutant.”

She scoffed. “The sun has no gender, it’s a star not a sentient being. Hm, it seems you don’t know me at all. When I was younger I never planned ahead more than a week because I didn’t know if there would be two more weeks for me. When you’re a survivor you just try to make it until the next week, you rarely thought ahead. Thing is, I didn’t exactly fear death then. I just didn’t know when it was coming for me. Stop acting like you know what I feel.”

[theenemyofallsides]

"Leaders rise, leaders fall. If there is no leader, one will rise to take that position. You cannot be the leader forever, for as time goes on, your bitterness and inability to change with the times poisons all around you. Those who do not remember the time in which you lived can no longer relate, and you will be hated and resented, and then ultimately you will either be destroyed by them or you will destroy them." 

"An eternity is a long time, and no vampire has yet to be here for that long. Not even the length of one universe. It is hubris that makes you think that you will be here forever. You may think your work is important, but in the end, it is not important. The entirety of mutants could die, the entirety of humanity could die, and it would just be another footnote on the cosmic list of sentient life forms. Do not presume too much, for it shows how small you are." 

"If you wish, you can meet him yourself. It is far more aware than ou wish to believe. And while you were young then, you are not young now. You are not a mutant anymore. You are not human anymore. You are a husk, and you require a reason not to fall into torpor. After all, I feel far more than you; I imagine that the older you get, the less things you remember how to feel, as your nerves slowly die." 

[youneedamilkshake]

She listened raptly, though in all honestly she understood about half of what he said. As for history books, if she ever had taken a history course she didn’t remember it. Funny, that amnesia left her with so many questions. But she was paying attention, and if she missed something, it was through no fault of her own. 

"So," she ventured carefully after he’d finished, "He’s bad, and he did bad things, and he’s giving me powers because of what I’m going to do, and he’s using me to end the world?" That pretty much aligned with what she already knew. Though he seemed to know a lot more than she.

Aracely bit her lip. “You… You’ll stop it? Can you do that?”

[theenemyofallsides]

"Correct. As for me, I am the god of fate, and if I say that something is not going to happen, it will not. I've stopped him before after all." Even if he hadn't done so because of altruism, he still had. "Now, my brothers will be furious to know that he's done this but that means we need to find something to do with you. And truthfully, I do not know what purpose you will serve to anyone given what you now are." 

[notdirectoranymore-blog]

"I didn’t get to where I am by being submissive.” In fact, it simply wasn’t in her nature. Arrogant maybe, but she had a job to do and if that’s what it takes to get it done, then so be it. “I choose to keep peace on worlds that have no need to be plunged into the chaos they are.” She had no idea why she was discussing this with a God, it was pointless. She raised her eyebrow at him as he continued, laughing at the insinuation. “Yeah, u-huh, sure man. I need to do this so I don’t go loco. Please. I do this because it needs to be done. I could just as well spend my days on the beach.” In fact, the idea was one she rather liked. "I have a list a mile long of places we have restored peace and saved them from messes they didn’t ask for." She had no reason to explain herself, or her job, after all, it wasn’t exactly the most common job going around. But it served a purpose, even if he didn’t see it. "What is it that you want here?"

[theenemyofallsides]

"Well, then I suggest you find that beach, though I think we both know you'd get there, stay a month, and get bored. You claim it needs to be done, but you're not really doing anything substantial. Sure, you put down revolts, but new ones spring up, the fact that outsiders created the peace only causes tensions to simmer until they explode. I am well aware of the peace that you create, and it does wonder to keep things moving." 

"I for one, want what you are providing me with. This conflict will continue, with or without your interference, until one side is destroyed or you create your peace. If you do create your peace, it will serve me better than if one side exterminates the other, because that too would create peace, and it would be much longer than the way you want to do it." 

[cleavageandclaws-deactivated201]

"Is that Mayan or something like that? Aztec maybe?" She could have sworn she had once acquired a pair of small stone sculpures originating from each of the cultures in years past. “You hardly look like a cop, so I’m not exactly trying to hide anything.”

[theenemyofallsides]

"Aztec it is. I am one of the two gods that created the universe. One of the four original gods. I am also the god of fate, among many other things. And if I am being honest, I have no idea what to do with you." 

[forgivenunforgottens]

"Oh? How quaint that you imagine I seek anyone’s approval."

[theenemyofallsides]

"Well, you've certainly done well with that attitude. I mean, the bodies of dead mutants caused by your actions could touch the moon by now." 

[amethystusx-deactivated20150808]

 She scoffed, her arms crossing in an offended manner. “I’ll have you know armor is totally trending. I’m not one to brag either, but I am sort of within the whole “knight”, “kingdom” thing; a princess to be exact.”

[theenemyofallsides]

"Trends come and trends go; kingdoms rise and kingdoms fall. As for a princess, it is fitting to see that you are not helpless. I recall a time when a princess was taken to a tribe of people, led up to the top of the pyramid, only to have her heart removed and her skin flayed so the priest could dance in it in front of the father. He chased that tribe into the swamps, and they became the Aztecs. In essence, you should be careful about declaring yourself royalty, for the wrong people might take advantage." 

[arkhamsirensong]

"Greed will make corpses of us all. Though, I suppose time will do the same. I never could understand how anyone could justify such slaughter the way we humans have though. The spanish wanted gold, and they killed to get it. Regardless of why they were brought, their own motives were hardly laudable. You on the other hand play chess with people. I can’t pretend I find that impressive."

[theenemyofallsides]

"Justify? There is no need to justify it. To do so would imply that there was something wrong with their actions; humans only justify things they know are wrong. When you don't return the dollar you see someone drop, you justify it by saying that it was just a dollar and that they won't miss it. When you lie to someone who asks you if they've gained weight, you justify it by saying that you didn't want to hurt their feelings. There is no need to justify killing those who have what you want." 

"Now, I do not pretend that the Spanish were any sort of saints; they came for gold, glory, and god, and that suited me fine. I do in fact, play games with people, but that is what a god of fate does. If I let you all try to do your own fates, nothing would ever get done." 

[montoyagcpd-blog]

"Fail the test?" The detective frowned as she tried her best to understand what she was hearing. She blinked at the mentioned of killing her. Was this some kind of sick joke?! "My, my, aren’t you sure full of yourself! I don’t— I don’t think I want anything from you. What are you selling?"

She had been thinking about how to get back in touch with Barbara, about what might happen if things continued this way and about how she could change things… for the better. Change the wrecking course that Barbara’s fate seemed to have in store for her and then this person was here… like some kind of genie, asking what she wanted. Coincidence?

[theenemyofallsides]

"Selling? I am not selling anything. If you want something from me, you'll have to sell to me. I was going to appear to you as a headless corpse, but you'd probably attack me, or scream and lose your sanity, or flee, and then I'd have to rend your soul from your body. Thus, fail the test of what you're supposed to do." 

After all, the correct answer was to reach into the corpse's body and take out the heart. "Now, obviously we're not here to waste time. You require something from me, which is why I am here, but the question becomes whether or not you're willing to pay the price for it."