2025-03-17, 04:45 PM - Word count: 544
THE NIGHT STILL VIBRATED WITH THE ROAR OF THE CROWD THE STADIUM HAD BEEN A TEMPLE OF CHAOS AND GLORY AND TERMINUS ULTIMUS HAD LEFT HIS MARK ON IT PORT ROYALE THOUGHT THEY HAD WON BUT THE GOD OF DESTRUCTION HAD OTHER PLANS IN THE DYING MOMENTS OF THE GAME HE STRUCK FROM DISTANCE A SHOT THAT DEFIED REALITY IT PIERCED THE NET LIKE A SPEAR THROUGH MORTAL FLESH THE WHISTLE BLEW THE SCORE WAS LEVEL THE WORLD HAD WITNESSED HIS WRATH
NOW HE STOOD AMONG HIS TEAMMATES OUTSIDE A CROWDED BAR THE AIR WAS THICK WITH CELEBRATION AND THE SCENT OF SWEAT AND SPILLED BEER GIACOMO SANTORI SLAPPED HIM ON THE BACK LAUGHING LIKE A MAN WHO HAD JUST SURVIVED A WAR THAT WAS UNREAL TERMINUS THE WAY YOU STRUCK THAT BALL IT WAS LIKE THUNDER FROM THE SKY
ULTIMUS DID NOT LAUGH HE SIMPLY STARED INTO THE NIGHT HIS PRESENCE HEAVY HIS EYES A REFLECTION OF INFINITE DARKNESS I SAW THE WEAKNESS IN THEIR WALLS AND I TORE IT APART THAT IS ALL HE SAID HIS VOICE LOW LIKE A STORM RUMBLING IN THE DISTANCE
THE TEAM MOVED INSIDE WHERE FANS AND STRANGERS ALIKE RAISED THEIR GLASSES IN RECOGNITION DON LORENZO GRABBED A BOTTLE AND POURED DRINKS FOR EVERYONE HIS USUAL CALM BROKEN BY THE FIRE OF THE MOMENT TO THE MADMAN WHO SAVED US HE SAID RAISING HIS GLASS
JAY JAY OKOCHA JR AND CARLOS NARVAEZ JR WERE ALREADY LOCKED IN A DEBATE ABOUT WHO HAD THE BEST FIRST TOUCH IN THE LEAGUE BOBBY GREEN WAS AT THE BAR ORDERING DRINKS FOR EVERYONE AND TANK DENSTRO WAS ARM WRESTLING A LOCAL WHO HAD TOO MUCH CONFIDENCE IN HIS STRENGTH
ULTIMUS STOOD AMIDST IT ALL IMMOVABLE UNTOUCHABLE THEN WITHOUT A WORD HE TOOK A SEAT HE LIFTED HIS GLASS FILLED WITH A LIQUID THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN WHISKEY OR THE BLOOD OF THOSE WHO HAD FALLEN BEFORE HIM HE DRANK AND FOR A MOMENT JUST A MOMENT HE WAS NOT THE DESTROYER NOT THE VOID MADE FLESH HE WAS SIMPLY A FOOTBALLER CELEBRATING A NIGHT THAT WOULD LIVE FOREVER IN MEMORY
JANKO DELIBASIC LEANED IN A SMIRK ON HIS FACE YOU EVER ACTUALLY SMILE TERMINUS OR WOULD THAT TEAR A HOLE IN REALITY TERMINUS TURNED TO HIM SLOWLY HIS EXPRESSION UNCHANGING A SMILE IMPLIES A SATISFACTION THAT DOES NOT EXIST HE SAID SIMPLY HOT WITH HIM BUT THE CANADIAN MIDFIELDER SHOOK HIS HEAD I AM PACE AND POWER I DO NOT NEED POISON TO FUEL ME HE SAID BUT EVEN HE WAS IN GOOD SPIRITS THE DRAW HAD BEEN A VICTORY IN ITS OWN RIGHT
FANS CAME UP ASKING FOR PICTURES AND AUTOGRAPHS ONE MAN DRUNK WITH EXCITEMENT SHOUTED TERMINUS YOU MAD BASTARD I THOUGHT THE BALL WAS GOING TO BREAK THE NET YOU ARE NOT HUMAN
ULTIMUS LOOKED AT HIM A SHADOW PASSED OVER HIS FACE THEN HE SPOKE HIS VOICE LOW AND FINAL I AM NOT
THE NIGHT WORE ON THE DRINKS POURED THE LAUGHTER GREW LOUDER AND THE CITY BREATHED WITH THEM ULTIMUS SAT AMONG HIS TEAMMATES AN UNSTOPPABLE FORCE IN A WORLD THAT COULD NEVER FULLY CONTAIN HIM HE HAD CONQUERED THE PITCH AND NOW HE CONQUERED THE NIGHT
TERMINUS THANKS YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TOWARDS THIS ARTICLE.
NOW HE STOOD AMONG HIS TEAMMATES OUTSIDE A CROWDED BAR THE AIR WAS THICK WITH CELEBRATION AND THE SCENT OF SWEAT AND SPILLED BEER GIACOMO SANTORI SLAPPED HIM ON THE BACK LAUGHING LIKE A MAN WHO HAD JUST SURVIVED A WAR THAT WAS UNREAL TERMINUS THE WAY YOU STRUCK THAT BALL IT WAS LIKE THUNDER FROM THE SKY
ULTIMUS DID NOT LAUGH HE SIMPLY STARED INTO THE NIGHT HIS PRESENCE HEAVY HIS EYES A REFLECTION OF INFINITE DARKNESS I SAW THE WEAKNESS IN THEIR WALLS AND I TORE IT APART THAT IS ALL HE SAID HIS VOICE LOW LIKE A STORM RUMBLING IN THE DISTANCE
THE TEAM MOVED INSIDE WHERE FANS AND STRANGERS ALIKE RAISED THEIR GLASSES IN RECOGNITION DON LORENZO GRABBED A BOTTLE AND POURED DRINKS FOR EVERYONE HIS USUAL CALM BROKEN BY THE FIRE OF THE MOMENT TO THE MADMAN WHO SAVED US HE SAID RAISING HIS GLASS
JAY JAY OKOCHA JR AND CARLOS NARVAEZ JR WERE ALREADY LOCKED IN A DEBATE ABOUT WHO HAD THE BEST FIRST TOUCH IN THE LEAGUE BOBBY GREEN WAS AT THE BAR ORDERING DRINKS FOR EVERYONE AND TANK DENSTRO WAS ARM WRESTLING A LOCAL WHO HAD TOO MUCH CONFIDENCE IN HIS STRENGTH
ULTIMUS STOOD AMIDST IT ALL IMMOVABLE UNTOUCHABLE THEN WITHOUT A WORD HE TOOK A SEAT HE LIFTED HIS GLASS FILLED WITH A LIQUID THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN WHISKEY OR THE BLOOD OF THOSE WHO HAD FALLEN BEFORE HIM HE DRANK AND FOR A MOMENT JUST A MOMENT HE WAS NOT THE DESTROYER NOT THE VOID MADE FLESH HE WAS SIMPLY A FOOTBALLER CELEBRATING A NIGHT THAT WOULD LIVE FOREVER IN MEMORY
JANKO DELIBASIC LEANED IN A SMIRK ON HIS FACE YOU EVER ACTUALLY SMILE TERMINUS OR WOULD THAT TEAR A HOLE IN REALITY TERMINUS TURNED TO HIM SLOWLY HIS EXPRESSION UNCHANGING A SMILE IMPLIES A SATISFACTION THAT DOES NOT EXIST HE SAID SIMPLY HOT WITH HIM BUT THE CANADIAN MIDFIELDER SHOOK HIS HEAD I AM PACE AND POWER I DO NOT NEED POISON TO FUEL ME HE SAID BUT EVEN HE WAS IN GOOD SPIRITS THE DRAW HAD BEEN A VICTORY IN ITS OWN RIGHT
FANS CAME UP ASKING FOR PICTURES AND AUTOGRAPHS ONE MAN DRUNK WITH EXCITEMENT SHOUTED TERMINUS YOU MAD BASTARD I THOUGHT THE BALL WAS GOING TO BREAK THE NET YOU ARE NOT HUMAN
ULTIMUS LOOKED AT HIM A SHADOW PASSED OVER HIS FACE THEN HE SPOKE HIS VOICE LOW AND FINAL I AM NOT
THE NIGHT WORE ON THE DRINKS POURED THE LAUGHTER GREW LOUDER AND THE CITY BREATHED WITH THEM ULTIMUS SAT AMONG HIS TEAMMATES AN UNSTOPPABLE FORCE IN A WORLD THAT COULD NEVER FULLY CONTAIN HIM HE HAD CONQUERED THE PITCH AND NOW HE CONQUERED THE NIGHT
TERMINUS THANKS YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TOWARDS THIS ARTICLE.
