Demise of the Giant Slayer
 
By Minako Tomoka and Mysti Lake
 
An Original Character Roleplay
 
 
Octavia Kaname
 
  I ventured to the edge of the forest, tromping out of the thorns that bit at me. Once I broke free of the woods' grip, I headed into a clearing. The massive mouth of a cave stood before me.
I could see nothing within but pitch-black darkness, at least out here. I had heard much about Fafnir, the Giant terror that had been tearing apart nearby towns and villages.
 
  I, Octavia Kaname, mostly specialized in vampires, but a far more dangerous monster needed slaying right now, and I had been offered a handsome reward to pluck off the huge hellspawn, so I took up the mission without question. After all, I was the Grim Reaper. I had slain gods among vampires, and I nearly became one of the bloodsuckers myself, so what did I have to fear from just one creature?
 
  Vampires were smart, sadistic, cunning creatures. Giants, from what I knew, were pretty stupid, so I wasn't all that concerned. I slung my scythe, Shinigami, over my shoulder, and strolled into the cave's entrance, vanishing into the blackness...
 
 
 
Fafnir
 
  I had recently secured some fresh meat, since one had walked into my oven...quite literally in fact. So while I waited for him to roast, I napped in my cave. He should have been more careful when dealing with Fafnir.
 
  As I awoke, however, I heard...footsteps? I think, coming from the cave entrance. Curious as to what it could be, I got up, and walked over. I hope this one doesn't take me for a fool.
 
 
 
Octavia Kaname
 
  I moved deeper, trawling through the damp, humid darkness by torchlight. But as I went on, I soon found out that I didn't need it. There was illumination in the cave as I drew closer. It was definitely artificial, almost like electric lighting. It was incredibly out of place for a cave in the middle of Bramblethorn Forest.
 
  I decided that I shouldn't give myself away with the torch, so I extinguished it in a nearby puddle of stagnant water and headed forward. I grabbed my scythe, preparing to launch myself at anything stupid enough to try to sneak up on me or jump out at me. Mud was caked around my thigh-high black boots, and my long, dull silver hair became slightly matted from the humidity of the cave. I climbed up a short rock face and into the wide-open chamber where the light was emanating from. As I stood up and recomposed myself, though, my jaw dropped, and my heart skipped a beat.
I froze.
 
  A gigantic human-like creature beckoned me, around 50 feet tall, at a glance. That in itself shocked me. I had never seen something so huge before. He had short, ruffled brown hair and piercing, cat-like green eyes. For someone who lived in a cave, he was dressed rather nicely. Overall, he wasn't the first thing that came to my mind when I thought of a giant.
 
 
Fafnir
 
  Great, another stupid human entering my home. Oh well, looks like I'll be having a snack then.
 
  Looking down, I saw a small girl. Couldn't have been more than five feet. That didn't catch my attention. No, the scythe did. Knowing right away what she planned to do, I grabbed her weapon while she couldn't do anything to stop me. "So," I bellowed, "you thought you could slay me, hmm?" I knew I had her where I wanted, so using her scythe- can she really call this pin a scythe? Anyway, I drove it into her right arm, impaling her with her own weapon. "Looks like you didn't think this through," I taunted.
 
 
Octavia Kaname
 
  Snapping out of my terrified trance, I moved quickly- but not quickly enough. As soon as I turned and pulled back my weapon to strike one of Fafnir's descending fingers, he caught it and ripped it from my grasp. "Oh, shit!" I yelled. I leapt back, intending to jump away before he got a chance to grab me. A numbing shock knocked me down on my back, and a blade of pain shot through me as I was pinned to the ground. I let out a scream, gnashing my teeth at the agony coursing through my veins.
 
  I glanced to the side, where the tip of Shinigami had pierced my right arm. I had been hit with my own weapon. I flailed about, trying to pull the scythe from my limb, but it was too damn heavy. Even in this situation, fear hadn't instinctively gripped me. Rage did. I glared up at the brown-haired giant and snarled, "You fucking bastard!"
 
 
 
Fafnir
 
  I laughed. "You're right on that one. Mum never married. But that's besides the point. You being a pincushion on the other hand..." Times like these, I can't help but crack a joke or two.
With one swoop she was now in my hand, the blade safely between my fingers. "Well, well, well, what do we have here?" I snarled, admiring my latest snack. "You look the right size to be a snack before my dinner." With that, I put her legs into my mouth, and bit down hard, crunching on the bones, and swallowing them after a few seconds of digesting them. "Mhmm, you taste good."
 
 
Octavia Kaname
 
  I grimaced at Fafnir's bizarre comment. Giants even got married in the first place? But I had other things to think about right now, like the blade stabbed through my goddamn arm and the monster about to make me his lunch. My stomach lurched as he scooped me up in his hand and held me tight. I squirmed with all my might, trying to pry my way out, but in my current position, locked between his fingers, I wasn't going anywhere.
 
  My heart raced, and sweat soaked my tattered, blood-stained clothes. The sudden terror hit me hard. I was in way over my head. This giant...he was indeed a monster, far more monstrous than any of the vampires I had faced off against in the past. And now...he planned on...eating me...not biting me and sucking my blood, but swallowing me whole like a piece of meat...
 
  Fafnir's gaping, hellish maw spread before me. A blast of hot air and a horrific stench struck me. It was a smell I knew all too well. Blood, corpses...the scent of death. A frame of jagged, yellowed teeth filled my field of vision, and my legs fell upon his massive tongue. "No, please don't!" I screamed, expecting to be gulped down in one piece...but I wasn't.
 
  The jaws snapped down on me, and a horrific crunch echoed out, followed by an agonizing burst of pain. I threw back my head and screamed at the top of my lungs. I felt my legs separate from my knees, and no sooner after he pulled back that I realized they had been severed. I continued to scream, baying in horror, watching as he swallowed the remains of my limbs and commenting on how delicious I was.
 
 
Fafnir
 
  Even among the screams I noticed she was bleeding non-stop. Far past the point that a normal human would. It was at this moment that I had a brilliant idea. Ignoring all protests, I pinned her scythe to the wall opposite my oven, with her still on the other end, and put a bowl underneath. "There you go," I taunted, "you can see my main meal while you help me with the sauce." Knowing it would likely take a bit of time, and with nature calling, I left her there to bleed out into the bowl.
 
 
Octavia Kaname
 
  The agony I was in right now was beyond human comprehension. It was the kind of pain that made you beg for the sweet release of death. But from what I saw, Fafnir had no intentions of killing me quickly. The Shinigami still stabbed through my right arm, I was hung down from the wall, and the gushes of blood from my severed legs poured into a bowl beneath me.
 
  Up ahead, I noticed a cast-iron oven roaring with flames. There was a charred human shape within it...what was left of the last person who had dared venture in here. That was what would happen to me? "You...you sick fuck...just fucking kill me already!"
 
 
Fafnir
 
  Returning from my business, I heard what she said, and I laughed. "No, you don't get to choose when you die. I choose when you die. And you won't be roasted, that's for sure!" Checking the bowl, I noticed a good amount of blood had already filled it up. "Well, I no longer need you for this," - my stomach rumbled audibly enough for the both of us to hear - "and I need a snack before I eat my dinner. Thanks for the blood, and for being my snack." Pulling hard, I removed her scythe from her arm, letting her drop onto the counter, before gripping her tightly in my hand.
 
 
Octavia Kaname
 
  I clenched my teeth at the sound of the giant's rumbling stomach. Oh, God. I had seen sadism before. I was no stranger to pain. But what I was experiencing now made my past horrors seem like daydreams. I plopped down on the counter after Fafnir removed the scythe from my arm. I rolled over, growing hazy from blood loss, writhing about and waiting for the end. I was snatched up in his hands once more. Never, ever did I think this was how I would die. Being stabbed by my own weapon, getting my legs bitten off, having my blood be drained for sauce, and being eaten alive- it was beyond humiliating. "Fuck you," I spat at his thanks. "I hope you choke."
 
  Even after my insults, I gazed up at Fafnir with tear-swollen, ice-blue eyes, silently begging him for the mercy of a quick death, at least.
 
 
Fafnir
 
  "Then I hope you suffer in my throat for all eternity," I replied, a bit annoyed she threw my thanks at me like a rag. "Goodbye!" In one motion, I threw her into my mouth, and sealed her from the outside world. Not done yet, I moved her about with my tongue, positioning her arms at the right place for me to bite them off without accidentally biting her head off. Once both arms were gone, I stored them in a cheek - they can be what I use to wash her down with - and swallowed hard, sending my prey to her burial point. Once she was on her way, I grinded up her arms, then sent them back to her.
 
 
Octavia Kaname
 
  A split-second later, I was thrown into darkness. I landed on Fafnir's tongue, trapped within his stinking jaws. The tongue batted me back and forth, tossing me around like a ragdoll. My arms fell onto his molars, and before I could even do as much as pull them away, the teeth came down like a guillotine and snapped them off as though they were dry twigs. Blood sprayed across my face as I wailed, screaming until my throat was torn asunder. With a single flick of Fafnir's tongue, I was knocked to the back of his throat and swallowed whole. I slid down the slick chamber, unable to fight back or even squirm.
 
  I descended into his stomach and landed in a vat of bubbling, churning acids, along with the shredded remains of my arms. The putrid stench stabbing into my nose made me double over and vomit. By then, I had already nearly bled out, and what should have been pain was nothing more than a tingling numbness as the giant's stomach juices bit at me, gnawing away skin, flesh, and bone. And so, this was how it would end. His gut would be my grave, and so was the death of the Grim Reaper...and the demise of the Giant Slayer...
 
 
Fafnir
 
  I didn't even notice her fall into my stomach, but with the grumbling ceasing I knew she had made it. Likely dead by now, I headed over to a wall with "Number of Assassination Attempts" and made another line in the tally with some of the blood on my hand. "Give me all you got, puny humans," I grunted, before preparing the sauce to go with my main meal.
 
 
 
 
The End...
June 14th, 2018.