Luna Rising

FOUR

"Saye, what is that you want me to see-" I say as I enter but pause with wide eyes and back hitting against the wall, shocked. "What the hell is that?"

One of the boys, the youngest one, has some kind of one-eye creature. It's like a dark gooey substance paste, and someone just glued those plastic eyes for arts and crafts. Its round yellow eyes look around frantically. I feel a chill running down my spine, seeing how disgusting it is.

"In the Demon Realm, these are called Carcurus; they are low-level creatures that find a victim and stick themself on a host sucking the life force out of them."

"So, they are like you and Arlo?"

"Sort of, but once the host lost its life energy, the carcurus will use it as its body like a puppet."

That's fucking creepy.

"How the hell did this happened?"

"My guess, even though these boys only took a whiff of the miasma, it didn't have the chance to turn the boys into ferals. Those hunks got there on time."

When Saye says hunks, she is referring to Dominic and Malik.

A low growl built up in my throat when she called Dominic a hunk.

What the fuck?

"So, the miasma with a mind of its send it's little children do the dirty work. Luckily, the older boy is free, and I gave him the pill you made, but the other one, that thing came into view."

"Are you telling me it can do that?!" I almost scream.

This situation is getting out of hand. Inhaling the miasma is one thing, but life-sucking alien demons is a whole lot of problem. If anybody comes into contact with the miasma just a tiny bit, this world will be in chaos.

"Wait, how come Dominic and Malik didn't get caught by those things? They were close in contact as well," I point to the ugly demon and ask.

Saye rubs her chin. "They only grabbed the boys and thus, made contact with them. You see, the miasma has a mind of its own. They can have it go into you like planting a seed. The carcurus is made from the miasma. Even though the little boys didn't stay long, the miasma had time to plant the seed," she explains. "Thing of the miasma as a parent and the seed as its child. If these boys were to stay longer, the seed would have already become fully grown because of the help of its parents. It will bloom inside the host, which causes a certain person to become feral. The seed implanted on its host drains the life force off from them, and it feeds the miasma."

"In other words, like plants, this ugly thing didn't get enough juice from its parent and turned into that to finish the job?"

"Correct."

This is all too crazy, I say through my head. I need to gather my thoughts before we proceed to save the boy. I know the miasma is a living thing. It will take on anyone brave enough to go through. But the ultimate question is, who started this?

I know a demon had unleashed it but who?. Saye and Arlo said that the dark demon magic resonating in the miasma is full of malicious and evil.

I haven't figured it out because I was hooked on finding the what source instead of looking for who the fuck did it?

"Okay, so how can we remove it?" I asked Saye, and I made a face, not wanting to touch that thing.