Face Your Demons

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{Tessa POV}

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I felt myself be dragged through space as I appeared in a room, yellow code floating around me. My parents were across the room. They both screamed, and something began to happen.


My mothers flesh began to decay before my eyes. Her skin peeled, her eyes bulged out of her skull. Vines of flesh and blood sprouted from her legs, dragging her to a kneeling position rooting her into the floor. All that was left of her midsection was a spine, her waist was connected permanently to the floor as veins ran through the wood from her. She slumped forward, and her lungs grew in size, bursting out of her back through her ribcage, heaving as she breathed. Her lungs produced beams of yellow light as she gasped for enough air to fill them.

Her arms elongated, becoming ten-foot-long appendages, with fingers extending to twelve inches. Her mouth opened. Her jaw kept descending, until her mouth was a two-foot-wide hole to the abyss. The flesh on her face was stretched and torn from the transformation. Her arms were more bone than skin, and her waist was a horrid cone of human tissue, keeping her in place.


My father yelled and grabbed his head. Opposite from my mother, his head expanded. Layers of bone formed over his head, covering it. I could hear his muffled screaming. His legs expanded, the muscle growing larger and his legs growing longer until he towered above me at fifteen feet tall. He pulled his arms down, ripping them from the cage of bone around his head. His muffled screaming multiplied in volume. I can only imagine how loud it must sound to him. His torso inflated. I could see his massive ribcage bulging through his chest. A whole opened, revealing a massive yellow glowing heart. It was quickly covered with bone. The bone seemed hinged, however.

Spikes of bone erupted from his back, covered in blood and tissue. His handless arms grew to the floor. His hands regrew, but they looked more like mallets than hands. Blocks of flesh attached to his arms. I could even see the veins running through them. The bone cracked where his jaw was, revealing rows of newly grown teeth. He coughed up bile and screamed again. One of his arms grew massively, ballooning into a cylinder of flesh and muscle. His "Hand" Morphed into a tube, firing a laser of yellow energy.


I rolled out of the way to the beam, drawing my sword. My hands and knees shook. The wood under my feet cracked, and I stumbled forward to avoid being stabbed by a pillar of muscle extending from the floor. I tried to call upon my powers, to teleport somewhere, anywhere, other than here.

I heard my mother, or whatever she had been turned in to, call my name. Her eyes were ablaze with rage. She screamed again, the floor beneath me cracking. My father swung his hand as me, and I dodged. The spike came up and impaled his hand. He screamed. In pain or anger, I couldn't tell.

"KILL US! PLEASE TESSA!"

Their words froze my bones. I couldn't speak to Reap3r, but I still felt his energy flowing through me. I narrowed my eyes and charged my mother. Her arms flew forward, catching me and throwing me across the room. I landed on my back and slide, rolling out of the way of a laser fired at me. I saw my father sprint at me. I got up and ran, sliding between his legs as he went. The floor cracked in my path, and I dug my heels into the ground. Stopping right before the crack.

I scrambled to my feet and ran toward my mother, firing my gun as I ran. The bullets pierced her, but she showed no signs of dying. I readied my sword, being sure to dodge her arms this time. I swung at one of them, cutting it off. She shrieked, and the floor around her cracked, growing spikes that I couldn't get through. I gritted my teeth and turned back to my father.

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