Emily the huntress
 
 
The moon rose and Emily sneaked into a house.
She was a silver haired beauty with latex clothes.
She considers herself a savior of chained souls.
 
What are chained souls and what is happening in the world?
 
Alike many other stories in Eka's portal, Emily lives in a world where there are 'predators' that devours and consumes other mortals.
 
Your questions is, what happens when a prey is consumed by a predator?
The prey is devoured into the predator's body.
Then the body will start making the prey's body into a part of the pred.
The prey will be scientifically dead.
The universe seems to provide a concept called 'soul'.
Because we have a soul, the term 'reforming' is possible.
Yes, the prey will be a nutrient to the pred's body, and their soul will be freed from the dead body, to be released into somewhere they will become anew.
 
This is how the world is made and how their 'nature' works.
But there is also a bad concept called 'consuming souls'.
What is a soul?
You can never define the meaning of a soul in terms of science or logic.
But we can call it the 'vitality' of materials.
It means that every materials in the world has its own will.
When the will defines its material as a 'life form', then it has a soul.
Many people describe soul as a plasma or ethereal 'ghost-like' figure, but that is just a 'description'.
You won't own a soul just because you drained that 'ghost-like' figure into your body.
Having drained a soul means that its 'will' of life has became a subordinate element of your own life.
 
Let's bring examples from the famous Greek myths.
Zeus is the will of horrible nature, power, and thunder.
Artemis is the will of intelligence, feminity, the moon, and hunting.
 
When those two wills are combined together, we can finally call it 'soul mixture'.
 
Just because you draw a manga-styled blonde handsome muscular Zeus drain that ghost-like form of Artemis, and put a 'soul-vore' tag on that picture, does not fundamentally mean 'absorbing soul'.
 
When you see a severely injured wild baby cat doing all its endeavor to move its body to maintain its life, you will 'feel life' from it.
 
When you see a 30 year old nerd eat, play games, sleep all day without any will to do something, you won't 'feel life' from him.
 
This is why the western philosophy describes soul as a 'will of life'.
 
If you drew a manga where a sexy busty predator devours that ghostly form of a poor prey and enjoy entrapping the prey's ego into a part of her body, you just successfully described torture(SM) in a form of soul-vore art.
If nothing else happens, that is all.
You won't even know what kind of soul that the poor prey had and if it is really devoured.
So you will feel that something is empty or you are not really satisfied with that art, and will continue to crave for more arts.
 
Basically, having a soul means that you robbed its will of the purpose of its being.
It does not always need to be described in that cloudy-ethereal ghost form or abstractful ego mind.
 
 
I know this sounds to abstract and philsophical.
But I just wanted to explain 'what happens' when one's soul(will) is absorbed into another soul.
 
Anyway, let's go back to the beginning.
 
Emily is a skilled gunman who has a hate towards the predators who devours other people's souls.
 
She came to assasinate the infamous witch, Hardy.
 
When she was a small kid, she was devoured into a witch along with her parents.
The most horrible thing was that the witch did not digest Emily and her parents.
The three were confined alive within the witch's flesh, and their body would slowly assimilate with the witch's organ.
After three months of being in the humid pot of the witch's body, Emily forgot who she was, why she was born, what was her dream, how the world meant to her, and what she loved to do.
She only listened to the heartbeat of the witch while the witch's vein was connected with her own, and her own body became a 'part' of the witch's bloody circulating system.
Emily basically had no 'will'.
No, she had a will.
Whenever the witch was in heat, Emily also fell in a strong desire to become a part of the witch's sexual feast and her own body would focus to participate in pumping blood to make everything go well.
When the witch was tired and was ready to go to bed, Emily felt the world was getting heavy and fell the need to go dormant, and she would obey that will to do so.
So Emily was basically part of the witch's will.
 
She never realized that the terrible thing was that Emily was still conscious as Emily, while she was no more Emily.
Because she was still young and did not have enough ration, she did not suffer form it.
But it was her parents who suffered from it.
They were tied next to Emily in the witch's flesh walls.
They were grown up enough to have a mature ego that is conscious enough to know who they are.
They could not bear their own will disobeying their own life.
They first screamed for days, but they soon went tired, and then closed their eyes.
Then Emily saw the flesh walls devour her parents completely, and her parents were forever gone.
Did they vanish from the world? Did they die? or are her parents still deep within the flesh intact or as a new form within the witch's body?
Emily does not know.
 
But Emily began to think that what happened to her parents was also her fate and she was already accepting that fate to also happen to her.
 
Years passed and Emily heard a big scream from the outside world.
Emily was overwhelmed by enormous amount of pain, hatred, misery, and violence.
Then 'everything' was gone.
The witch was dead and Emily suddenly realized who she was.
She saw a tip of blade torn apart her flesh world, and rescue her.
 
When Emily saw the sunlight again, she burst in tears.
She was saved by some witch hunters.
She was greeted by the 'world' again and she regained herself.
 
After that, Emily trained herself to become a huntress.
 
She was informed that the owner of this house was a wicked witch who devoured many kids in the town.
 
The inside was dark, with no sound of life.
Emily moved following the walls, to detect any signs of life.
Then the light suddenly turned on.
Emily was in emergency.
As a skilled huntress, she was never found out while sneaking into a witch's property.
When Emily loaded her gun, she saw a blond witch sitting on a chair in the center of the living room, looking at Emily.
 
"Emily?"
 
Emily was about to shoot at her, but she could not.
 
"How do you know my name?"
 
The blond smiled.
 
"I promise that I won't try to fight you, but I would like to have some talk with you."
 
Because her voice was so soft and friendly, Emily pondered for a while, and she really wondered how she knew Emily's name.
 
"Let me introduce myself again, I am Cavalla, currently known as Hardy, the one who once absorbed your parents and, you almost."
 
Cavalla said patting her belly.
 
Emily breathed hard.
 
"No, no! That witch was killed right in front of me, you are someone else! You deceiver! I saw her die while I was inside her."
 
Cavalla smiled.
 
"I am immortal, a witch who can truly absorb mortal's souls do not die at once."
 
"Truly? what does that mean?"
 
"Many witches actually cannot devour others souls."
 
"What? There are tons-"
 
"They can't. To truly make one's soul into mine, I have to make 'myself' the true owner of my own soul first. The witches who reached that state is less than 10 in the world. The rest are just 'pretending' to devour others souls. All they do is just trapping the preys' body and ego within themselves, drain their power or still their consciousness, and believe that they have the preys' souls, while in fact they do not even own their own soul."
 
Because Cavalla's explanation was so kind and delicated, Emily could only listen to her.
 
"And you call yourself the one of ten?"
 
Cavalla smiled and nodded.
 
"Come on Emily, you are allowed sit on my laps if you want."
 
Cavalla said spreading her arms to Emily like a mother to her child.
 
"Shut the mouths up!"
 
Emily would never unhold her gun towards Cavalla.
 
"You seem to have growned into a rather skilled gunman Emily, you probably had seen many victims who fell to preys to witches, and also a lot of witches already."
 
"I did, I shot ahd cut more than 50 witches before you."
 
"That is a lot.. But to say, have you ever rescued a prey like you?"
 
That question made Emily froze.
 
Emily herself was an exception.
Any other preys who were considered 'soul-vored' never came back.
 
"One who cannot read mana cannot become a magician. One who does not know math cannot become a mathmatician. If one does not even know what their soul is, they cannot truly treat others souls."
 
"You are just trying to deceive me, to run away from me."
 
"The reason why you could be rescued intact is, your soul really became a part of me when you were within my uterus. Many people believe that the prey has to die or their body should be gone to have their soul extracted and devoured. That is not the truth, when you are there, your souls is always there, whether you know it or not."
 
"Wait,, uterus?"
 
Cavalla grinned as she patted her own lower belly.
 
"Yes, you and your parents were inside my uterus at that time, that is one of my favorite part of my body to keep tasty ones. Devouring is a ritual. How you devour the prey and where they go is strongly related with how you will treat their soul, and these young witches nowadays do not even know that."
 
"Then what was your purpose to put me and my parents into your,, uterus..?"
 
Cavalla smiled.
 
"I made your parents into a part of my libido, the sexual energy, and you were supposed to become a part of my 'will of creation and birth'. That means, you were destined to become one of my ovum. The most deepest part of my body. That was why you did not assimilate fast, instead I was boiling you for a long time to adjust your own soul to fit for my own purpose of 'will of creation'."
 
Emily shuddered.
 
"Don't worry Emily. I am not trying to hypnotize you or callback your old memory to make you surrender and be devoured again. You were just 'one of my precious elements' and I am doing my 'duty' for the sake of my own soul.
This is how a well trained witch treat the world, obey the will of themselves, and keep maintaining their own soul. Although you were freed from my own body and soul by my mistake and became 'Emily' now, I still have debts that I tried to make you mine. So I feel the need to explain 'me', that is all."
 
"Even if that is true, that won't change anything. You die here today!"
 
"But you can't kill me, did you still not realize? You are a part of me since the day when you were inside me."
 
"Shut the fuck up!"
 
Emily triggered her gun.
 
But the bullet did not penetrate Cavalla, but only the ceiling.
 
"See?"
 
Emily could not believe this, this is not her mistake.
But when she tried to shoot Cavalla, she felt disobeying her own life.
Just like when one tries to commit suicide, but fails.
 
Emily fell to her knees and vomitted.
 
"Urr.. no.."
 
Cavalla stood up.
 
"Poor Emily, I thought you were stronger girl than I expected. You've gone through harsh life of witch hunter and have the life of my 'will of uterus'. But maybe you were not 'boiled' enough and this all drama was 'too much' for you. I feel sorry for you, I apologize, I feel the 'duty' for your trauma and sorrow, Emily."
 
Emily felt the world go hazy and Cavalla come to her.
 
"N.. no.."
 
Emily lost her consciousness.
 
 
 
When Emily woke up in the morning, she felt so refreshing and the world was so bright with happiness.
She was in a luxurious bed in some kind of well built house.
 
"What is this place?"
 
Emily lost all her yesterday memory.
This Cavalla's mansion but she was already gone.
 
"Did I forget something?"
 
Everything about Cavalla was gone form her memory.
 
"Well I have no time to enjoy my rest, someone is suffering from witches at any moment, I have to save them!"
 
Emily got up from the bed and left the now unoccupied house and went to hunt the witches.