The fires consume me
I can see the red
The maniacal laugh and malicious
grins on their faces
The beady eyes
And the fires consume me
Fallen brothers and sisters lay
beside me
Victims of their own seduction
But beyond the menacing faces
I see warriors on top of a hill
All in armor with battle scars
and hard faces
Each of them hold the hair of
severed, mangled heads of
giants they have slain
Some hold many heads
Some have heads piled at their
feet
Then I notice something
I look at these maniacal faces
before me
These evil, confident, laughing
faces
And I imagine wiping off the
laughing look and replacing it
with fear
Then the faces look just like the
heads at the feet of the
champions, my brothers and
sisters
Defeated, dead faces that look as
though they were filled with
terror when the sinews
attaching their head to their
body were severed
Crescent grins and laughing mouths
Bleeding, mangled, terrified with
jaw hanging loose
Beady red eyes filled with victory
and malice and sadism
Dead eyes rolled back, yellow
with rot
A sister tosses one giant's head at
my feet
"You have the power!" she shouts
And the fires consume me
Seeing through red eyes
I do not laugh
I do not smile
Clinching my teeth
The fires consume me
Then, like a volcanic eruption, I
scream at them in horrific,
focused anger and terribly
purposeful fury
Drawing my sword in a moment,
the sound of sharp, sliding
metal ripples through the air
I charge in a split second
And I see the terror on the face
Moments before I slice off the head
The mangled, bleeding head rolls on
the ground
I pick it up by the hair and raise it
high
Pointing my sword at the others,
I say "You're next"
The limp body falls to the ground
I swing with deadly accuracy and
violent rage
When the last giant is slain,
I stand with sword drawn
And the fires consume me
Wild cheers erupt from the hill
above!
I march up the hill to join my
brethren
I look out on the valley below
And see a brother staring at his
giant
I toss one of the heads at his feet
"You have the power!" I shout
And the fires consume him
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