Pandemonium is a wild creature that only one person is safe from.
The world champion sits comfortably in his home with gold around his waist finally feeling like somebody.
Out in his yard, his monster protects him.
It is chained away from the masses but like fools, they forget and try to sneak in its master’s domain.
They go behind the house, jump over the privacy fence and stare into the beast’s eyes while it’s preparing to pull them into the abyss.
They think that if they all attack it, that it will be a simple numbers game. Given enough time, the odds will eventually be in their favor and they can take it down.
Logically, it’s sound and in a world of order, they might have the chance to vanquish their fanged foe but this is not a just world, there’s no order here and in this domicile, one being destroys all logic, one being destroys all things.
Chaos is its name and that monster shows every year that the name wasn’t given to it, it was fervently taken.
I should know, I was one of its victims.
I thought I was above it, I thought I thrived in the chaos, I thought in a weird way Pandemonium was my friend.
I thought wrong, that savage has no friends, anyone who gets close to it becomes a shell of their former self.
They get lacerated with its claws to the point of being unrecognizable.
They get crushed by a pressure unmatched by nature.
Their bodies, all their hopes and dreams, devoured at once.
Despite my comfort with chaos or maybe because of it, I was one of the first it tore apart and destroyed. I was left there barely breathing to watch the others meet the same fate.
Even the so-called winners were so broken down, they couldn’t stand to celebrate the victory.
20 competitors were forced to admit they were no match for the beast even us gods fear.
They say the first sign of insanity is to perform the same action and expect a different result so I’m not going to be like the other fools and try to sneak in the back and hope to survive.
I’m not going to try and knockout a storm that grows with each soul it consumes.
I’m not going to stare into the abyss again and hope it breaks before I do.
No, I don’t need to put myself through pandemonium to get what everyone is willing to die for.
I’ll simply break through the front door for an invasion the whole neighborhood can witness.
I’ll take that gold right from you, the only thing any of us here are loyal to including that beast in your backyard.
Hold on to your gold tight and your creature tighter. Beg it remembers you because once I take that golden leash away, you’re no longer its owner, you’re its prey.
It doesn’t matter whether you’re the first or last to fall, it won’t hesitate to consume you.
You should have waited to invade like me.
If you did, you wouldn’t have to suffer like the rest.