Earth Mort is the Garden of Eden. The last place he wants to be.
The place where his counterpart has created to hide her most monstrous and powerful superweapons. Powerful than even the Endbringers themselves.
The new Entity - Taylor - has brought him here in this inhabited dimension with only the Worldenders for company.
When they first arrive, the female Entity has been curious about the presence of the monsters and Zion has no way of stopping her when she has set her course in meeting them.
To the West, the female Entity has first communicated with a fifteen-foot tall lion-headed monster surrounded by crystal, who can turn whatever it touches into more crystal.
Even with the female Entity by his side, he had to admit that he is afraid during the encounter when the monster has set its numerous gemstones eyes on him. Zion knows that his counterpart Eden has rendered the monster inactive, not ready for deployment until forty revolutions from now when the end of Cycle is nearing, but with the new Entity - Taylor - communicating with it, Zion feels only the sudden surge of pure, unadulterated terror - a very human emotion - at the possibility that the female Entity is going to deploy it soon into the world and accelerate the Cycle.
As a previous Avatar of an Entity, he should encourage the new Entity to help with the Cycle. However, now that he is rendered human, Zion can only feel how very small he is compared to what he previously was. How he can easily be discarded after being used as a test subject for the Entities experiment.
With him being human, he finally understands what the term 'Saving your own skin'. He doesn't care about the other humans. He only cares about himself and surviving for a very long time.
So as Zion watches the female Entity and the crystal monstrosity communicate, he has to intervene before the female Entity will say something to make the Crystal Worldender activate.
After the female Entity has imbued him with some of her flight ability, Zion is able to fly and catch up to her while they travel, although at a slower pace in his case. At the moment, the two are hovering over a mountain of crystal where the monster resides.
"Taylor," He states softly, trying to draw the female Entity's attention and not the Crystal monster.
To his relief, the golden woman turns towards him. However, the monster made of millions of crystal and gemstones turn towards him as well. Fortunately, the monster does not do anything but stare at him with curiosity.
"It's nearly an entire day," Zion says to the female Entity as he meets her golden eyes. "I have a human body now and this body needs nourishment. Taylor, I must go and find something to eat because I am hungry."
"Hungry?" the female Entity inquires, cocking her head to the side like she usually does. "Nourishment?"
"Yes, I need food. Nutrition." Zion informs her in simple terms to make her understand. He knows that the female Entity no longer needs food or sleep or anything else for sustenance, but since he is travelling with her as her companion, he must make her understand that he is a human with needs now.
"Comprehension," the golden figure states.
"Since you understand what I need, can we leave now?" Zion inquires, carefully glancing at the crystal monster who is simply observing them.
"Agreement," is the female Entity's words.
Then, without further ado, Zion finds himself being dragged straight into a portal.
The moment they leave the monster's presence, Zion can only feel relief. Although he knows that there are three more of those monstrosities in all corners of this dimension, which he hopes the new Entity will not visit.
A moment later, Zion and the female Entity Taylor appears over a green landmass surrounded by indigo waters. He surveys the land for a moment and wonders how to obtain what he needs.
"Scion. Need Nutrition? Taylor Provide?"
He hears the Entity's question and realize that she must be trying her best to learn and communicate with him in human speech.
Scion, do you need food? Do you want me to get it for you? He can understand from her inquiry.
He turns his attention towards the female Entity flying beside him and looks at her contemplatively.
After a while, he finally says, "Yes, if you can find me something to eat, I will be really grate-"
Zion is not able to finish his sentence when the golden woman suddenly disappears from the spot in a blur of golden light as she zips towards the landmass below.
He doesn't need to wait long before the female appears once more. This time carrying something in her hand.
"Food?" the Entity asks as she hands something to him.
Zion stares at the object in his hand before glancing back at the golden woman who hovers before him.
"This appears to be a purple rock," He says blandly. "Do you want me to eat a purple rock Taylor?"
"Not food?" comes the Entity's inquiry.
"No, it's not food." Zion states.
"Comprehension," The golden woman replies right before she dives down once more in search of food for him.
Zion watches her disappears while he waits for her to return.
She comes back bearing something huge this time and Zion can only stare at the thing she brought with a frown.
"That's a tree," He remarks bluntly. "Why did you bring me a tree?"
"Food," The female Entity states, pointing out towards the round pink forms hanging from the tree.
Zion frowns while he drifts closer to the tree the Entity is carrying with one hand. Slowly, he picks one of the strange-looking fruits. He scrutinizes it in his hand, he sniffs it for a second, and then takes a bite out of it, where Zion immediately spits out the foreign food when he tasted something acrid and foul.
"Are you trying to poison me?" He asks the Entity after he uses his hand to wipe away the after taste from his tongue.
"Negation," comes the Entity's reply.
"Well, you clearly don't know what I want or what food is," Zion states. "I'm beginning to suspect that something went wrong during your transformation because you would know something as simple as food or nutrition. Yet you seem to clearly missed this information entirely." He says to her before he adds beneath his breath,"I think you are more than an idiot than I ever was when I was still an Avatar."
He is certain that the golden woman heard him because the tree that the Entity is holding instantly burst into flames and Zion notes with great surprise when the Entity expresses her first human expression.
The Entity's golden features is set into a deep scowl and Zion feels the impending sense of doom at the sight of the golden woman's wrathful aura.
"Taylor Intelligent. Not Idiot." The female figure states right before she drops the burning tree, where it immediately plummets down below.
A moment later, Zion observes with growing dread when the golden woman starts to gather a familiar golden light in her hands. With her eyes, hair and skin glowing gold as she floats in the air, Zion can only watch when the Entity unleash all those pent-up energy from her palms and straight into the landmass below them.
At once, the landmass shatters in an explosion of such magnitude that the indigo ocean roils and burns with such heat that it obscured the shattered land when everything sinks into its fiery depths and Zion feels like he just watched himself eradicate Kevin Norton's homeland once more.
Afterward, the Entity Taylor turns her golden eyes at him and Zion swallows his suddenly dry, human throat.
"Amm..sorry?" He manages to say without choking on his airway. "I shouldn't have called you an idiot."
"Acceptance," The Entity response, appearing pleased with his apology.
However, it seems the female Entity is not done yet and delivers her own insults at him.
"Conclusion. Scion Idiot Human. Taylor Intelligent Entity. Agreement?" The golden woman states as she floats right in front of him while she presses her face close to his in an almost intimidating manner. Although she appears non-threatening, Zion still can't help the cold sweat that breaks down over his human back while he tries very hard to keep still.
Zion can clearly understand what the Entity Taylor is saying and so he replies hurriedly before she does something to him, like perhaps incinerate him on the spot, "Yes, yes, I agree. You are a very intelligent Entity while I am only an idiot human. Yes, agreement."
"Satisfaction." The Entity states while she reaches out to pat him on the cheek. Zion can't help but flinches when he feels her dangerous hand on him.
"Come Scion. Follow Taylor." The Entity orders as she begins to fly in a different direction while she leaves a golden shimmer after her glowing figure.
Zion has no choice but to follow the female Entity.
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Using one hand, Zion bit unto the red apple that the Entity Taylor had found for him after nearly an hour of searching for another place of vegetation. This time the Entity has to scour other lands in search for some food, which resulted in only more destruction while the Entity accumulates dirt and mud that stains her shimmering golden figure.
Not that Zion cares. There are no sentient beings who live in this world. So Zion allows Entity Taylor to do as she wishes as she wrecks havoc and devastation in her wake and frolic around freely in her naked, dirty, but still in her golden glory.
The fruit is delicious as Zion continues to eat in silence. Although, he is hyper-aware of the golden eyes carefully watching him.
The female Entity is currently sitting close to his side and simply observing him eat. However, after a while of chewing and swallowing the fruit, Zion finally decides to do something about the oppressive silence around him.
Picking a fresh apple from the ground, Zion present the fruit to the golden woman, who simply stares at the red fruit.
"Here. Try it." He tells her and reaches out to grab her hand and place the apple in her palm.
The female Entity just simply regards the fruit with a blank expression before she glances back at him.
"Eat it," Zion says to her. "Humans call it an apple. I'm sure you've eaten one before when you were still one of them."
"Ap..pol." The female Entity states slowly, experimenting with the word.
"Yes, that's an apple. I know Entity doesn't need sustenance, but I do recall that they have the ability to consume food." Zion tells her.
He watches when the new Entity raises up the red apple close to her eyes as she inspected it.
Afterward, she appears like she's sniffing the fruit.
"Try eating it," Zion suggests to her as he takes the fruit from her hand and brings it close to her mouth.
"Open your mouth and take a bite," He tells her and he observes how the Entity's features remain expressionless as she processes his suggestion.
After a moment, the golden woman finally opens her mouth and bit into the apple.
"What do you think?" Zion inquires with interest as he watches the female Entity chews a portion of the fruit.
"Sufficient," is the Entity's short reply.
Still watching her chew her food, Zion absently takes a bite from the apple that the Entity has bitten.
Without warning, a golden hand grabs his wrist in a painful grip. Zion stops chewing almost at once and immediately freezes when he is subjected by a penetrating golden stare from the female Entity.
What did I do now? He can only wonder in silence.
"Taylor's Apple. Mine." The golden woman states firmly as she snatches the half-bitten fruit from his hand.
Zion simply gapes at her for a second in shock right before the female Entity suddenly pounces on him like a woman possessed. The earth beneath him cracks as Zion abruptly finds himself lying flat on his back with the female Entity on top of him, straddling him. Naked, golden, and with her tongue in his mouth.
Something hot and foreign instantly surges through his entire human body, which make his heart beat wildly while he can't help but gasp out loud when a hot, wet tongue sweeps inside his mouth to take the portion of apple he's been chewing.
Then, like a wisp of smoke, the golden figure disappears from his view, her weight over him is gone and Zion is left to stare at the scarlet horizon of this world while he remains there as he tries to catch his breath and calm down his racing heart. But more than that, he tries to ignore the blatant response of his human male body to the female figure who had been on top of him a second ago.
After a while, Zion still feels like someone just poured molten heat into his bloodstream of how he feels at the moment. He can still feel the imprint of the female figure on top of him and he seems to have a hard time trying to shake the effects of her sudden action.
Slowly, very slowly, he turns his head to look at the golden woman, where he sees her sitting calmly nearby while eating the apple that he gave her. The female Entity is acting like she hadn't just slammed him on the ground and taken the half-chewed fruit from his mouth using her goddamn tongue.
I shouldn't have bitten on her fruit…Zion thinks. And now I am experiencing something only human males do when subjected to attractive human females.
Inwardly, Zion allows himself to groan at the entirely human predicament he finds himself in.