Dance Of The Blood

Two men float in the void. There is nothing, no stars, no planets, there are no molecules and atoms, nothing. Young and middle aged men float in the absolute nothing. Their clothes dissolved in this void. This place is not normal vacuum of the cosmos, it is the same cosmos but quite different now. It is absolute darkness and void. Nothing could survive here, except two beings, except this two floating men. They did nothing, just looked at each other. But that was far from the truth. In reality, this two beings were in a massive battle. They had unimaginable power, but they were unpredictable and chaotic. To survive, they had to cancel each other's power. They used all of their concentration, on this specific task. After fully canceling each other's power, they stood still and waited for a chance to get an upper hand. The only way either of them would lose, was if one of them devoured the other. In other words, they had to fight physically. The moment they realized this, they tensed up and waited for the other to slip even for just one time. In this absolute darkness there was just one little dot of light, the only star that was left. Both young and middle aged men heard a little laugh, from that little dot of light. This angered the young man so much that he slipped and lost a little bit of concentration. This was more than enough for the middle aged man and in that fraction of time, he punched young man in the head and completely erased his head. In that same fraction of time he got on top of him and was ready to devour him when suddenly, young man slashed his stomach and tore him in two. This did not stop middle aged man from devouring the young man. When he started to devour him, the young man fused with the lower part of the middle aged man, regained his head and tore middle aged man from his body. Both of them healed all the injuries and attacked each other. Punches and kicks turned into bites. They actively tried to eat each other. But when one of them was successful in taking a bite, the other was able to damage him severely, so the bite was canceled out. They had to devour in one single bite, it would have been easy task for both of them if they had powers, but they did not. Attacks were savage and unpredictable, even though they had no powers, they did not follow logic. They moved in such a way that normal human male body would not be able to. They punched from absurd positions and changed trajectories of their punches mid way. They used kicks and all sorts of martial arts to gain upper hand but nothing changed. They were equal, even when one of them was damaged, before the other could devour him, they would heal and start from the beginning. This non-stop fight continued for who knows how long, they did not care about such things. They used all of their concentration on canceling each other's vampiric powers, everything that was left was used for physical fight. The speed at which they attacked increased, so did the mass and power. The rate at which their bodies were damaged and healed also increased. All of this increased at an absurd rate, so much so that they looked like as if they were just floating. The little dot of light disappeared, their fight was so damaging that the only thing that was left, was them. 

After days, weeks, months, years, centuries, after a very long time they stopped. This was not the first time they stopped, but this was the first time when they stopped and did not try to get an upper hand and start fighting again. They stopped and looked at each other. For the first time in who knows how long, they started talking.

- Earth is gone it seems

- ...

- I am surprised that you have no reaction to it, but everything you ever cared about was already gone when we started to fight all those centuries ago. I know you don't care but there is a way to bring them back. Ekaterina knew that this would happen so a spell was created. When only one being is left in this world, time will turn back and that creature will go back to one specific date in time. Which is the same day we started our little brawl. But here is one funny thing. If one of us devours the other, we will go into a sleep like state for thousand of years, so even if you win, you will lose. So will you surrender?

- Let me ask you this, who do you think I hate more? Lilith or Ekaterina?

- Hmmm, I don't know, Lilith maybe? After all, all of this is her fault

- True, and you are right, I hated Lilith more than Ekaterina for a very long time. That is why you are still alive.

- What?

- Let me ask you one more and last question, why did Lilith made stars disappear?

The second Alex asked this question middle aged man attacked and before he could tear Alex's head off he stopped. It would be more correct to say that the void and the darkness stopped him. This absolute darkness was always part of Alex, this was Lilith's plan, a metaphorical middle finger to Ekaterina and her schemes. To activate this one specific power, everything had to be destroyed, so when the only star and it's solar system disappeared it could be used. The only reason Alex did not use it for so long was because he hated Lilith and did not want to follow her plans. Alex devoured normal looking man and started to change. Some sort of metamorphosis started and Alex changed shape rapidly. He started losing consciousness but before he went to deep slumber she saw Ekaterina laughing hysterically.