Something to give to the list one last time before it goes...
- John & Rod
Children of an Elder God
a Cthulhu Mythos / Neon Genesis Evangelion crossover
http://www.thekeep.org/~rpm/eva/
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John Biles & Rod M
present
Children of an Elder God
part 19
"Tumbling Down"
Preview
Red eyes stared blankly at the wall, as they had
been for endless hours. She didn't know how long she was in
there exactly. Time had no meaning in a place with no sun,
no moon, no clocks.
Time didn't matter to Rei Ayanami. Few things did.
The room she was in was barren, cold steel walls all
around her, except for a part of one wall, which was made of
an advanced form of plexiglass.
She had remained silent during her incarceration,
during Gendo's reprimand, and was silent even now. The only
hint of her mental state was the way she seemed to be
staring generally downward, as if hanging her head in shame.
Still she remained silent.
For the first time since being placed in the room,
she moved. Her eyelids slid shut for a moment, a single
tear traveling down the side of her face. Surprisingly, it
didn't become absorbed into the fabric of her straitjacket,
but continued to roll down, dropping to the floor in a
nearly perfect sphere that rolled away a short distance.
She blinked again and another tear came rolling down, and
another...
A few minutes later, Rei sat at the center of dozens
of tears, shining in the light like translucent pearls. One
of them clouded over, becoming milky white, then slowly
began to grow in size, the other teardrops soon following
suit. They all took a small embryonic shape, then developed
arms, legs, the telltale red eyes and blue hair...
Dozens of little Reis, only inches tall. At first
they all walked about, as dazed and emotionless as their
creator, but soon they were behaving in strange and unique
ways.
One Rei was giggling and blushing, whispering in a
tiny voice awkward poems of love. Another was wearing
a plugsuit and studying an Eva pilot manual seriously. A
particularly perky Rei was running from Rei to Rei and
asking "Will you be friends with me? It's good to have
friends!" Yet another Rei was far away from the group,
seemingly younger than the rest, crying miserably, being
held and comforted by older Rei, one with dark brown hair.
"I didn't mean to!" the littler Rei cried. "I didn't want
to! I didn't mean to!" to which the older Rei responded
with soothing words and a comforting hand stroking her
hair. "It's okay, it's alright, I understand," said she.
There were stranger Reis than those, oddly grotesque
Reis in many different forms. One Rei's lower half was that
of a spider, and she skittered about warily, spinning a web
between the floor and the wall. Another Rei had claw-like
hands and gargoyle wings, flittering about the room like a
deranged butterfly. One particular Rei was dressed in black
robes, a small black book in her hand. It seemed she was
reading from the book, and in a tiny yet bellowing voice,
she chanted, "IA! IA! CTHULHU FHTAGN! PH'NGLUI MGLW'NAFH
CTHULHU R'LYEH WGAH'NNAGL FHTAGN!"
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The guards stared at the monitors in utter surprise
and fascination, watching the Theatre of Reis act out their
creator's feelings. Working at NERV, they knew they would
see some strange things, and had already seen some bizarre
things, but this, they felt topped the list.
"Say, ah, shouldn't we altert Gendo 'bout this?"
"Oh. Yeah."
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c o m i n g s o o n
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