Trench Of Nalu

Here, in the final abyss Beneath my wicked wind I'm so much stronger Than when last I was here I have returned to seek A darker shard within I have no equal, so I have no fear And the rupture, it beckons This garden of the gods And the rupture, it beckons How darkness calls! Bleak architecture Woven in the walls Never seen it before But I've seen it before U A UN E AA ORA ORA You were chained here Your seed was sown before the shards were thrown Profane ones, Your work is at last propagated, Rejuvenated by Umbra's song So leaving the shallow, I sweep through a wreathe of nameless mammals Into Python The second chamber of the pit What awaits me there Fangs descend down on me I pull them out because I know I won't bleed I'll tear the demon's Flesh with the blade Bring death like a fire The fell shriek of the spawn is my choir Though I've gotten old, I feel lighter Their blood-stains make Lustre brighter SZER A UREWA EWE A AREYA SEN UREWA U In the next chamber I catch sight of A mural depiction The Shield and the Chimera Both unconventional Both may yet make their appearance What will I find here? What kind of shield and Will it help me, do I need it? What dwells down here What kind of demon is This abyssal incarnation It waits in the dark and It begs for my fire A howl deep in this trench messiah Once the shield portrayed is acquired I'll seek the child (seahorse, sealion) Though I've gotten old, I feel lighter Their blood-stains make Lustre brighter! Still, on they come On they come I'm stepping stones Treading relics now recalled A shame to stain the lost Expressions of the cult Nalu, I can hear you In the art and in the walls Nalu, I have found you Who'd have known you were so close Though I learned your name I admit I hardly know you at all On I tread, along your riverbeds Light my way, silver vein! Hidden, crawling, Breathing, defacing Blast unleashed, and walls unmade Shield in sight, and not much time! Jump the rubble, snatch my prize Dodge the rain of Stone coming down All coming down! I hit the dead end But for two small tunnels It's this or I'll be smothered Two stones, Tossed in right and left I focus my Azdin Listen for their landings One stone sizzles into magma So deep within the walls The left one seems to land But how can I be sure? My time - it ebbs away To the beat of the barrage Nought else to do but take one breath, and shut my eyes, And… jump! This slope, it narrows as it goes And so, I let the shield go I have to lose my form and with it, I spend too much power I turn to liquid, funnel down Drip down, and reform Deep in Nalu's womb Blue encrusts these walls Like dead coral Like a corpse Yonder, Umbra calls Past the coral maw Stripped of all but sword From the void above, my foe at last comes forth Babe of the trench, you cannot know what made you Slither, seahorse snout, your flattened wings, they betray you My sense obscured I draw my sword Forget that I am not immortal Your eyes of black Your coral blasts Your godform is born so primal What's your weakness? Encrusted by the after-strikes You slowly ensured your demise So blade in hand, I take my chance And slit you from spine to the snout And though I Slay you, I find myself so spent I might as well have slain myself Still I have one more light to snuff Shining just ahead, Though I've not the strength to reach it Set behind a glassy veil With I, too weak to sink the sword, to leech it I throw myself against the final seal My shattered body now a wreck I pass the verge With one last lunge I still have one more siphon left in me! We scream, as it drinks! The trench, in death, is now alive! I stumble back Buckle to my knees and shut my eyes and wait to die Inside of me, I feel it snap inside of me My enchantments, and my double All relinquished from me So Majgyn, he'd kill me anyway So fitting that the many-legged creatures swarm all over me Help me decompose, if that's what's best for me Yet through the myriad feet, I sense lavender now falling down on me Don't save me now, I'm begging you please You fool, just take the blade, abandon me