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« on: June 07, 2010, 05:08:23 pm »
The two halves of the planet drifted slowly apart as Chara approached. As the gap slowly widened, the innards of the planet were laid bare... and vulnerble. A colony of cultists, worshipping Asta'ath. Vast pools, containing demonic spawn. And at the centre of it all, Astra'ath itself, a pulsating mass of godly flesh.
A ripple acted along Chara's shell. Its normally smooth surface was disrupted. Great lengths of the metal were extruded, forming crude limbs. These limbs shot into the gap and thrashed around wildly, both pulverising the network of caves and driving the two halves of the planet apart. The blows rained down, the debris filling the space between the two hemispheres.
Once the gap was big enough, Chara moved in. At this point it was not very different from Astra'ath in appearance - they were both writhing masses of tentacles. Astra'ath, however was much smaller, the size of a moon, as opposed to Chara, the size of a sun. Additionally, Astra'ath's bulk was a dark, shapeless mass whereas Chara's shell was a bright, gleaming red.
This did not last long, though. Chara's shell shimmered, and... disappeared. Clearer than the finest of glass, It had turned invivible to all mortal eyes. Unseen, but certainly not unfelt, its limbs rained down blows on the body of Astra'ath.