Swept

Rachel and Rebecca appeared side by side five floors down from their previous position.

Rachel's eyes glowed in alternating patterns and shades of colors. She spoke calmly as she moved forward.

"Do you want to observe to ensure that you get good aspects?"

Rebecca smiled "Nope. I want to see you "tame" it. You know who that thing used to be. Watching you tame it could definitely give me hints to improving my techniques."

Rachel nodded. She knew Rebecca was not there due to the aspects. She was just making sure that Rebecca didn't think that she could help in anyway.

"You know when she was sane she said that I would be the one to kill her. She made me promise to utilize her seer and traveler abilities and said the rest was up to me."

Rebecca contemplated on her friend's words. She smiled. She hated being greedy while simultaneously embraced being greedy.

Rachel had caused the abomination, formally her grandmother, to stop on this particular floor. As she walked toward it she thought about how powerful her grandmother was. It always humbled her to think about someone she felt was indestructible being, not destroyed, but fundamentally changed and essentially incapacitated.

Her grandmother had control over more than half of the rainbow, something unprecedented until Rachel came along of course, and she was extremely powerful. She only fell because she became corrupted after venturing into an uncharted realm. She made it back to Trannisa but the corruption had already invaded two thirds of her soul being and she could not be completely purified.

Rachel was twelve years old at the time.

The abomination that was once her grandmother trembled before them. She knew it wanted to strike out at them but it couldn't because Rachel would not allow it.

When Rebecca saw it her eyes widened. She immediately saw that one of its nine heads held the face of Lancey of Trannisa, Rachel's grandmother, and it watched them with smug contempt and quiet curiosity.

It was enormous, so much so it seemed impossible that it could even be before them inside the building. Its nine heads populated multicolored mounds within its upper most region in a depression positioned in the center of the being. The heads were different colors and all of them were different species with her grandmother's face, in the central position, being the only human representative. It had two massive arms that protruded from slightly below its chest. It was covered by grotesque mounds that oozed viscous fluids in muted colors. From these mounds sprouted numerous thinner appendages that ended in sharp spikes, lances, or scythes. It stood on two thick legs that seemed to be made of rainbow colored nark.

The creature quivered and its skin rippled as if worms squirmed just below the surface. All of its eyes gazed at Rachel and Rebecca with unfathomable hatred: all except the dulled rainbow eyes of Lancey. They now looked upon Rachel as if trying to recall something important.

Rachel sighed and closed her eyes. She stepped forward and slowly opened them again. As her eyes sparkled with distant rainbows she lifted her arm and quickly slashed down vertically eight times.

All stilled and became eerily quiet. Seams of varying colors appeared and the creature slowly separated and nine parts began to fall to the floor.

Internally Rachel was surprised. She thought it would take more effort. Externally she was calm and methodical.

As the dissected abomination began to fall Rachel extended her hand forward, palm facing the creature and all motion froze again.

Rachel paused as if within thought and then turned her head to Rebecca "You still do not possess any comrades with spirit abilities right?"

Rebecca was looking forward in a slight daze. She shook her head and looked blankly "Umm… No… No I don't."

Rachel simply turned back to her task and lowered two fingers. Two parts of the abomination separated, one with the black head of a serpent type creature, the other with the purple and yellow face of a beetle type creature.

Both of these lifted and moved toward Rebecca whose eyes instantly lit up