Blood in my Soul: Short: The Mastermind

Leo paced around his room, repetitively running his hand through untied hair. He was jittery and he couldn’t stop his hands from shaking.



“Calm down Prince, it’s not that bad, they won’t use your friends for the plan, they let you keep them as friends after all…” Leo muttered to himself, he subconsciously went and gently rubbed his neck, the handprint-shaped bruises a deep purple, maybe he should get Chrome to treat them again? No that would make Seven suspicious, maybe he should start wearing a scarf or a high collared suit-



“Now’s not the time to think about that!” Leo screamed out into the empty, spacious bedroom. He violently shook his head and slapped his own cheek, he needed to calm down, he needed to breathe properly, he needed to-



“What’s all the noise about, Prince?” a smooth voice rang out, Leo flinched and looked at the shadowed figured leaning against his wall, their lips lifted in a smile full of toxicity and menace. Leo laughed nervously and tried to look anywhere except at the person in his room.



“Nothing just… a bit of anxiety y’know?” Leo thanked any deity that was up there that he didn’t stutter, the figure titled their head and hummed before calmly saying.



“Then what was that about saying I won’t use your friends for our plan?”



“More like your plan-“ was all that Leo was able to mutter under his breath before the figure suddenly appeared in front of him and seized Leo’s neck with one hand, lifting the poor man off the ground effortlessly.



“Care to repeat that, you worthless piece of shit? Do you think you can make smart-ass remarks to me and get away with it? You’re not a rebellious teenager anymore, Leo.” the figure sneered, Leo yelped and desperately scratched at the figure’s hand before using one of his flailing legs to kick the person straight in the chest, sending them flying, but not before unhanding him.

“What the FUCK was that!?” the figure yelled as Leo gasped for oxygen, his occasional coughs, racking his lungs. When the figure slowly approached the black-eyed man he snarled.



“What the hell has gotten into you?!” the figure exclaimed, putting a hand on their chin.



“You can’t keep fucking controlling me forever!” Leo growled, tense and ready to defend himself.



“Snap out of it Leo, your dead parents didn’t raise you this way!” The figure tutted, as if they were telling Leo off for shop lifting rather than for defending himself.



“After all, aren’t we friends?” they singsonged.

“We were NEVER friends! You tricked me you piece of shit! Or have you not seen my eyes?” Leo snarled, he angrily pointed to his eyes at the end of his sentence.

“Well aren’t brown eyes really boring?” the figure shrugged.



“YOU CORRUPTED ME!” Leo screamed



“I SAVED YOU!” The person yelled back, “YOU WOULD HAVE DIED AFTER THAT MASSACRE EITHER FROM THE WILDERNESS OR FROM YOUR OWN, INSANE FRIEND!”

There was a silence.



“It wasn’t her fault…” Leo hissed quietly before being kicked harshly in the stomach by the figure.



“Go fuck yourself, Leonard Steven Prince.” The figure growled, Leo had another coughing fit before looking up and spitting in the figure’s face, they recoiled in disgust.

“I DON’T WANT THIS ANYMORE! I DON’T LIKE THIS AND I DON’T NEED THIS!” Leo roared, The figure was silent but instead of raging, they burst out laughing and smiled at Leo.



“Well Leo, it doesn’t matter if you like it or not! It doesn’t matter if you don’t want this anymore and it also doesn’t matter if you need it or not! Because you agreed to this deal and now I’m gonna make your life hell until I grow tired of you! Which will be a while if we continue to have interesting intervals like this!” they said this all so calmly as if stating a fact before bursting into laughter again.



“…Why are you doing this?” Leo sighed out, the figure stopped laughing and seemed genuinely curious.



“Why am I doing what specifically?” they questioned.



“I already know why you use and abuse me but… why did you make this plan? Why do you want to do this? Why all of this horrible science for your one master plan?” Leo replied, the figure blinked and let out a low whistle.



“After all these years that we’ve known each other and you’ve never asked me that.” The figure said simply before looking at the ceiling.



“Revenge.”



“What?” Leo’s confused reply came, The figure frowned.



“Are you retarded? I said it was for Revenge!” they snapped, Leo shook his head.



“I think what I meant to say was ‘Why?’.” Leo said carefully.



“My kind threw me out because of my ideas, that we could conquer the world without powers. Those stupid, fucking peaceful shits threw me out because they didn’t want power! How idiotic can you get!?” The person ranted, before pointing at Leo.



“Reminds me of you.” they monotoned, Leo flinched. 



“So I’m gonna make myself stronger, I’m gonna conquer and slaughter, I’m gonna take over and show them what TRUE POWER IS!” their voice rose with every word they said before they changed their expression from power-hungry to pondering.

“However, one of me can’t take over the world on my own and even if my kind had agreed to my plan, there would be many casualties on our side, not as much as on the World’s side but still.” the figure explained.



“And just by myself, I’m nothing special. I could easily get killed on my conquest so I must make myself stronger, of course, my kind is pure magic so I can’t work out so I must modify myself.” The figure finished. Leo blinked.



“You want to do all these awful things… just so you can say ‘I told you so’?” Leo breathed out, which apparently was the wrong thing to say as the person got mad at this and used both of their hands to choke Leo.



“YOU IDIOT! Are you comparing me to petty, everyday people?! I am not like them, I am a GOD! DO YOU HEAR ME!?” they screamed, Leo choked and shook in fear, tears spilling from his eyes.



“I SAID DID YOU HEAR ME? You are below me Leo. EVERYONE ON THIS EARTH IS BELOW ME! And I will stop at NOTHING to get what I DESERVE!” the figure yelled, Leo managed to choke out an affirmative before the figure let go of his neck, Leo started to gasp for air and curled up on the floor. The figure spat on his face before he exited, leaving Leo to cry and nurse his neck.