Deep Night

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Heavy snow falls steadily as darkness settles earlier than usual.
Standing tall in the heart of the city, Akso Hospital remains brightly lit as always.Everyone instantly straightens up like soldiers at attention once they hear a familiar voice.Nervous, they greet Dr. Zayne. After methodically delegating the remaining tasks, the staff watches as Zayne disappears down the hallway. At 2:30 A.M., Zayne gets into his car after finishing his work. A notification pops up on his phone.The hospital director approved his application for the medical research project.His phone rings. Zayne glances at the screen. It's Dr. Noah. This isn't surprising to Zayne. He can already imagine the two Akso Hospital higher-ups discussing the matter. Silence fills the air in response, but the answer is already clear. Zayne lowers his gaze, his expression remaining perfectly unfazed. Not a single hint of emotion appears. Before hanging up, Dr. Noah purposefully lets out another exaggerated sigh.Zayne lowers his phone, its light slowly becoming dim in the heavy darkness of the night. At three in the morning, a lone car glides across the wet streets before coming to a stop in front of Maltosio. The store employee has just flipped the sign toCLOSED." But when they turn around, their final customer of the day greets them. As he places the desserts on the passenger seat, he notices the snow has already accumulated. It's about an inch deep on the road The car radio broadcasts tomorrow's weather report. Overcast skies with heavy snow again.Experts have yet to determine the cause of these unusual weather patterns.Zayne lowers his head, opens his recent contacts, and carefully writes a message about his departure.
As he imagines her reaction... He's embraced in a reverie, his features softening with a gentle tenderness.After sending the message, he opens the notes on his phone. The most recent entry was made at 4:00 A.M., the day before yesterday.
First Dream: ...Second Dream: Mt. Eternal.Third Dream: Mt. Eternal, William.Fourth Dream: Chocolate, potted jasmine, gravestone, monster.Fourteenth Dream: ...Too fragmented. I can't remember anything clearly.Ever since he returned from Chansia City, these
nightmares have appeared more frequently. It's as if fate is sending him omens.Trying to ease the dull ache of fatigue, Zayne massages his temples. He turns off his phone, tosses it onto the seat, and grips the steering wheel.The windshield wipers sweep away the snow, but the snowfall grows heavier by the minute. He can barely see less than fifty meters ahead.When Zayne finally makes out the two white shapes as a mother and child stumbling along, his car is already dangerously close to them.He jerks the wheel violently to one side. The taillights cut arcs through the snow, and the car crashes through the wave-shaped guardrail. It comes to an abrupt stop in a strip of green vegetation.Terrified, the mother and her child fall. The kid in her arms is covered in crystals and resembles a twisted, glass sculpture.In the darkness pierced by headlights, Zayne sees something approaching the pair with slow, deliberate steps. Its breath is warm, its presence screaming danger. It wears human clothes, but there's nothing human about this creature.Crystals have consumed most of its massive body that's hunched over. Strange growths are still pushing through whatever is left of its skinIts face is twisted into a grotesque expression. Its pupils gleam an eerie, dark blue. Each step it takes makes the ground tremble.
With trembling hands, the woman covers her child's eyes.
Inside the car, Zayne's nerves suddenly tense as the ringing in his ears, which had subsided, violently returns.
Sharp spikes grow from the ice materializing in his hand. Zayne raises his arm and aims the icy thorns at the monster.
The colors of the night silently encroach into this power. It's like Death itself is waking up from a dream. As the monster raises its hand toward the mother and child, a cold gleam suddenly cuts through the air and pierces its chest.Fragmented ice blooms from the monster's chest and almost covers its entire body.
The woman looks up in shock to see a figure step out from the car. Moonlight illuminates his cold, almost mechanical gaze.
As the monster lunges forward, a thin blade of ice instantly materializes in his palm.Sleek like the wind and emanating deadly frost, it flies toward the monster's body in the blink of an
eye. Amidst the shattering of ice crystals, everything seems to freeze in time. The monster falls to the ground, and snow flies everywhere. Obscuring all visibility, a white mist appears.
A violent gust of wind howls and sends ice crystals toward the motionless woman.
Still dazed from the recent brush with death, she stares ahead.
From the blizzard, footsteps approach. Each step echoes and is like the ticking of a countdown. The tall man blocks the car's headlights and casts a shadow over the mother and child before him.
The woman shrinks back in fear, and the chocolate slips from the child's trembling hands.
It falls onto the snow. Ignoring her anger, Zayne bends down to pick up the chocolate and holds it out to her.
Ice crystals fall from his fingertips. Landing on the chocolate's wrapper, they melt to wash away the blossoming bloodstains. Heart-wrenching sobs slice the darkness as clouds once again obscure the moon. Zayne's silhouette quickly dissolves into the snowy night.

A/n:im sorry im being lazy today.

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