Playtime - Chapter 6

Hey all, thanks for the patience and your support! Here is another chapter for Playtime:

Allegra is confronted with a existential choice while Zoe is embracing her new me.

Allegra stood there on the side line, indecisive, watching the spectacle in front of her unfold whereby some of the most powerful sorcerers in the universe were giving her daughter the full brunt of their devastating energies. This wait-and-see attitude was a posture Allegra always wore when being confronted with personal dilemmas in her life. Especially during occasions whereby her daughter, Zoe, was involved. 

Allegra lacked the backbone to make tough decisions which were necessary to deal with Zoe's unruly behavior.
With her husband being even more of a milksop then she was, Allegra leaned heavily on Alzador's strength and wisdom in an attempt to keep Zoe somewhat between the lines of decency.
At first, Allegra was grateful and felt like Alzador was really being an anchor the upbringing Zoe. He appeared even more like a father figure to her than her own biological father. Then, when Zoe became older, reaching the early years of her adolescence, Alzador became sort of quirky in his behavior towards Zoe. It did not feel right anymore for Allegra to allow him near her daughter. She was greatly relieved when Alzador stepped down from his role as her mentor. The downside of that change was that there was no one strong enough to rein Zoe in anymore. It resulted her mischievous character to evolve from bad to worse. It was also the point whereby Zoe started to seek out her roots and made frequent visits to the realm of the humans on planet earth. 

While observing the Elite Enforcers compelling Zoe to her knees, Allegra saw a beaming bright light blinking out of nothing, appearing like a luminous orb, floating about ten feet in the sky. Its radiance became brighter by the second until at some point it stung painfully in her eyes, forcing her to avert her look. A voice called out for her name. Its tone, warm and gentle and feminine. A silhouette materialized out of thin air. Its outlines becoming fairly well visible, until it showed an apparition that showed great resemblance with a figure who was highly honored and worshiped within the sorcery's community. 

“Imna.” Allegra gasped in disbelief, plunging down on her knees in deep reverence. It was known that the Goddess of Light only revealed herself to soothsayers who served as messengers to pronounce her words of divinity to the common people. Why would she show herself to her? To plain old Allegra? 

Allegra looked around to see if anyone else on the wrecked intersection was seeing Imna. But saw that all eyes were mainly focused on her daughter, Zoe, who made a desperate attempt to withstand some of the most potent dark energies ever unleashed on an individual. 

“Allegra. My time here is short, please listen to me.” Imna's lilting voice said. Allegra was awestruck by the Goddess's beauty. Despite her age, Imna appeared like an unnatural beautiful young woman in the prime of her life with an intelligent spark in her eyes that kept every beholder captivated. Her presence radiated such great reverence that Allegra had to muster all of her willpower not to throw herself at Imna's feet to kiss them in an act of submission. 

“your daughter, Zoe.” Imna continued. “the girl of marvels. She must be stopped immediately. Or all existence as we know it will be immersed into unspeakable darkness.” 

“The prophecy.” Allegra said in all earnestly. 

“Yes, the denouement is nearing.” Imna said, “when Zoe will ascend to Goddesshood no force will be able to stop her. Not even me. You must stop her, Allegra. You're the only one. You must end her life. Now. You, Allegra, must kill your own daughter in order to prevent an unending cycle of great calamity.” 

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Zoe gritted her teeth, as the muscles of her jaw snapped in an iron-strong clench as a respond on another heightened level of amplified beams, blasted at her by three of the most powerful sorcerers in the universe.
These Elite Enforcers meant business as they kept amping things up.
Zoe's legs faltered, were unable to carry her body as their life's energies got drained like liquid sucked out of a petri dish by a laboratory pipette. Every time Zoe was convinced that she had reached the highest level of pain a person could experience these cocky mutes proofed her otherwise and raised things up a notch.
Being at the end of her rope, Zoe aimed her sights at Alzador, with pleading puppy-eyes, in a last-ditch effort to prevent her unavoidable demise. Zoe did not bear hope that her own mother would come to her aid. And even if she did, the woman would be no match against these Elite Enforcers.
It had to be Alzador. His powers were phenomenal. Zoe believed she had never witnessed the true depths of his capabilities, even after all those years of being tutored by him. It was also a great perk to Zoe that Alzador had a soft spot for her. He had never openly admitted it, but Zoe was quite convinced that Alzador was deeply attached to her. In love with her even. Zoe could use this to her advantage. She needed to have the Stone of Dormancy. 

“Its good… Alzador... Its good…” Zoe gasped, barely able to squeeze the words out as the Enforcers kept blasting her relentlessly. She tried to speak with a soothing tone, but flunked drastically as she pronounced it like the final words of a terminal patient. Nevertheless, they still seemed to have the desired result. 

Despite the immense pain she was experiencing, Zoe's heart soared with hope as she could read doubt and confusion in Alzador's eyes. Zoe saw him grasping something out of his sleeve and beamed with joy as she recognized The Stone of Dormancy, firmly attached within his wrinkled hand. He took one step closer towards Zoe, then another, darting his eyes from side to side from time to time.
Zoe mustered all of her final strength to stretch her arm out when Alzador came within her reach. She saw him wavering for a moment. Zoe feared that he might chance his mind until she felt the warm stone falling upon her waiting palm. Immediately, Zoe felt a tremendous amount of energy surging through her veins. She unleashed an earsplitting scream which caused all windows within a five-mile radius to shatter in a million pieces. It was not a scream of pain. It was a scream of discharge, meant to drain off excess of energy which was suddenly awakening inside her body and flooding it.
 

Zoe's scream morphed into a girlish titter before it transferred to the guffaw of a maniac. It sounded like the twisted laughter of someone who was starting to realize that within moments, she would be an unstoppable force, ready to subjugate everything and everyone to her whims. 

“FINALLY!!” Zoe raised her still scrawny arms in the air. She felt her body changing, becoming more athletic and taller like a fitness model who was molded ripe for a professional contest. Her skin received a more healthier and attractive tone as the curves on her body slowly bulged to grant her sex-appeal a drastic boost. The modest tits adorning her chest increased a couple of sizes until they even snapped her bra open. Her substantially enlarged headlights pronounced themselves in their naked gloriousness, smooth and firm and wonderfully sexy, as they appeared to defy gravity itself. 

Zoe realized that she was transforming into a Goddess. She was certain now. An image of unimaginable power, wisdom and sex-appeal. The vibrations of her divine voice would soon be capable of reaching even the remotest civilizations in the galaxy.
Soon, Zoe will possess the power to roam the landscape as a devastatingly large giantess, obliterating entire cities under her plummeting feet.
Soon, Zoe will be able to harness her Goddess-like powers to shrink whole planets to the scale of bite-sized candy.
Soon, Zoe's powers will only be limited by her imagination and will she be worshiped by many and feared by all. 

It was a matter of mere seconds now. Zoe laughed about the tedious effort these Elite Enforcers went through in their futile attempt of bringing Zoe to justice. Their beams were barely able to tickle her anymore. 

“From now on I will dictate the rules!” Zoe made a dismissive gesture with her hand which caused the Elite Enforcers to explode into oblivion. Zoe laughed when she saw Alzador's shocked reaction. 

“Having doubts about your earlier decision?” she addressed him with her hands on her hips. “you should be. Only a few more moments and my ascension will be completed. My rise will herald a new dawn whereby─“ 

Zoe gasped as she felt a painful sting piercing deeply within her heart. Her hands shot to her chest and clutched the cold black handle of an object which was protruding from it. It was held by the even colder hands of her mother which melancholic gray eyes she'd met just before her legs went limp and everything became black around her.