Mirror Soul

Chapter One

It was never mine, it was never theirs,

It can never be yours. It is, and always will be,

HIS

A pawn, one of thousands moved by his hand.

At the end of the game, the board belongs...To him.

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I have to get to the police station! A young woman thought as she sprinted down an empty street.

"Get back here!" One of the two thugs yelled at her. The woman, gripped by fear, ducked down an alley seconds before the man could grab her.

"Somebody help me, please!" She begged into the night sky. Little did she know, a creature watched her struggle. It's gaze followed her as she ran straight into a dead end.

No, no! Please! She thought. She got a running start and attempted to climb the brick wall. The obstacle proved unmountable and resulted in the woman falling on her backside. She screamed as a rough hand took a fistful of her hair and yanked the woman to her feet.

"You thought that was it?" The second thug asked in disbelief. "I told you, ya boy owes us, big!"

"P-please!" The woman begged. "I don't k-know anyt-" She let out a scream as the man hauled her up higher.

"We didn't ask!" He spat in her face. "Your man said you'd take care of his tabs, and this is our part of town!" He pulled out a switchblade and positioned it under the woman's chin. "Ain't nobody coming t-"

The delinquent stopped short as the world seemed to distort around him. All three people stiffened as a jagged rip in reality slowly formed in the alley. From the rift, a large webbed foot emerged, followed by four more holding up a pitch-black body that resembled a gorilla's.

The two thugs dropped the woman and the knife as they ran in fear. Before they could, the creature's hand extended and covered the distance in seconds. Both men screamed as the black gorilla arm wrapped around their necks and pulled them through the rift.

The monster revealed itself by stepping further into the light. It focused its eerie, hollow eye sockets on the remaining human. The trembling woman grabbed the fallen switchblade and held it up to the creature.

"N-no!" She exclaimed as it reached out for her. "Stay back!" She raised the blade and sunk it deep into the creature's arm. The monster ignored the attack and dragged the woman into the jagged rip.

As she was pulled into the creature's domain, she realized that she was still in the alley, but also somewhere else completely. The night sky was now blood red, and the buildings she'd known her whole life suddenly appeared cracked and crumbling. She felt an unbelievable pain in her head. Her hands clutched her skull as she vomited on the filthy ground.

"No, please!"

She was forced out of her sickness by the sight of the two thugs. They were held out in front of the gorilla-creature by its freakishly long arms. The monster unhinged its jaw, revealing rows and rows of teeth. It inhaled.

The men's screaming quickly stopped, as two small white orbs were ripped from their chest and flew into the beast's maw. The thugs' eyes became milky and unseeing, as their bodies fell limp in the gorilla's hold. Once finished with its meal, the creature turned it's empty eye sockets towards her.

The woman tried to stand on her feet, but the intense pain wouldn't let her. The monster threw aside the dead men, and faster than seemed possible, reached for her. As the woman flinched in fear and waited for the end, her attacker let out a roar of pain.