Horned Dawnbringer

The Anomaly

[CW: Psychological horror ahead.]

[Beltboy]

An even more confusing sight followed within this newfound darkness.

As I gather my footing within this ashy substance I found myself in, something flashes before my eyes.

A great discomfort I've never felt before settles within my gut.

A series of numbers get etched into this substance right before me, as I began to realize I'm another medicated hallucination.

"The choice is yours.. Live or die.." my stomach turned sour toward that voice. There he was again, Hart, standing right behind me.

"There is little time now."

Within a flash of light, I felt my enter body hit a hard place.

"Dream forever.. or live... What do you even want to do?"

This was so sudden.. I wasn't sure of what was going on.

"I can tell, you want the very thing you stole from me. I'm not stopping you but I won't help you. It will be harder for you if you chose to live, kid."

He paused for a moment... The ashy substance drifted away from both of us within a foul swoop.

"Join me. Take the easy way.. it will be easier for both of us.."

"No. No Rodney." He froze again.

"What do you want then...? There's nothing for you anymore. Olathe is gone, your girl is with someone else. Think about it. All of your friends are dead, everyone you cared about is gone. Is ash. Do you really think living on is a good idea?! Are you afraid of the unknown?"

I stayed quiet as he approached me, I felt something growing in my soul, almost a form of power I don't recognize.. I sensed someone's presence but who's I was unsure of...

His voice cut through the white noise within this newfound void I found my thoughts develop.

"You fucking idiot."

... Il destino è nelle tue mani, anche se la fine è imminente.

Goditi quello che hai.

!EVIL ...ynneB, reverof si gnihtoN

Something deep within my soul has awaken, almost deep from another realm. I began to sense an almost foreign presence deep within my being meterializing..

Erinnere dich, wer du bist. Benny Rupert Oberwinch.

Regaining consciousness, I found myself on a floor, unlike the table I was strapped to beforehand.

Everything was cold, and I felt strange, yet a most of all, a puzzling site met me within my reflection, on the large mirror that caught my eye..

[Kevin Shiroux-Hyu, Scientist]

No matter what I did.. he wouldn't mutate, he wouldn't show any kind of effect.. yet, the most uncanny part of this experiment is that his heart stopped upon the first dosage.

How he was able to move, how he was breathing, though unconscious he was still very much alive..

My assistant and I had to move him to the execution room, because he was deemed useless by our higher up supervisor.. yet.. something bothers me deeply, a deep gnawing sensation within my guts awoke inside of me upon picking him up.

My head is spinning now... I keep getting visions of places I've never seen before. Faceless people standing just outside the corner of my vision.. watching me..

The door to our observation deck keeps getting moved while my assistant and I feel like we're being watched.

This man, or whatever this thing is is toying with us.

He needs to be destroyed. And so, I went to work.

As soon as everything was set up, I pressed the button, and prayed that lethal electrocution will stop him, since it was our only hope.

As soon as I-

*Static*

"Echo Victor Echo Romero Yankee Tango Hotel India November Golf

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Bravo Echo

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It wasn't a voice I recognized, yet those words repeated again and once more.

"Oyasumi, Hyu Kevin."

I looked over to my computer screen, and what caught my eye was that it went through. Looking over through the one-way mirror. I saw a sight I didn't expect.

Instead of a twitching corpse of a human or a mutant, I found something drastically different...

"Deg Thuok, deska." In the place of that man stood a large, dark apparition. It's pale face stood within the dark vail.

"I see you, Kevin, you too Annie." The closest thing I could describe this being was almost a crow like creature..

"Nothing can hide. Nothing will.. I will find it all.."

That dark vail I saw shrouding him opened into black crystalline wings, translucent as the dark fog began to be obsorbed within the wings.

His light gray skin glistened within the florescent light, a floating crystal structure replaced his legs

I noticed that thing was looking into my eyes.. I felt my soul be pulled within his obsidian stare..

"Oh Kevin.. It seems like you have been experimenting with people for a long time huh? You have taken so many innocent lives.. you have hurt so many people with your experiments.. but is it your fault? I will spare you if you let me go in peace. Let me find your leader, whoever is in charge.. any form of fighting back will lead to dire consequences. How about you Annie? Who's giving you guys the mags?"

She stood there frozen.

As a young lesbian in her early 20's raised insanely Christian, though forgetting and leaving behind most of her religion. I can see she can associate this thing as a demon.

"I said. Who's giving you guys the mags? Who's paying you to do this?!" We kept our mouths shuts. Too horrified to speak.

"You guys seem harmless. It's best if you take a sick day or something. Only innocent people show fear like that, besides looking within your souls you two don't seem good enough to kill anyway. I'll find what I'm looking for." He vanished.

Wait.. did he just spare us?

"But.. just for safe measure." We heard a small explosion within the containment area. Then my computer's screen glared a dark crimson and shut off.

I was never able to get it working again.

Thinking back, it was strange that he was so forgiving toward us..