The God of Unkown

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    In the cold December air, walking along the icy road just as dusk approaches, starting to feel sick. Leaving all he knew behind, it felt wrong. But he had to get away, so he walked mindlessly, with no destination. With all hope of finding shelter from the cold fading, the thought of hypothermia sets in. Then a truck comes barreling down the road. It pulls over and lets Damien in. The driver asks where is he headed, all he responds is, "As far as I can get from there." As the driver accelerates, he looks confused, yet doesn't question it. The drive was a long one, with the feeling of endlessness due to the prolonged silence and the small talk. As the next town approaches, Damien exits the vehicle. He thanks the driver and continues walking. The only thought in his mind was "How could it be? There is no way it should be able to find me, but it keeps doing so." Damien walks into a nearby diner and orders a cup of coffee to go. He pays for it, then leaves. Walking along the road once more, a minivan stops and asks where is he going. Once again he responds, "Away from there, from it all. I need to escape." The woman behind the wheel looks confused, but offers a ride. As they head down the highway, they have a bit of conversation. Mostly how old he is and where he's from. When he tells the mother of two behind the wheel what town he used to live in, she asks, "Isn't that the town where six people went missing in a week?" All Damien says is "Yes, it is." He is cold after watching the people he loved get killed, brutally murdered by a being far greater than anyone knows about. One night on the deep web had gotten him into a very dark site. One that had incantations and lines of cryptic text within the articles. One stood out among others, "Beware the beast, beware the sight, once you see it, you can say goodnight." As he clicked on the link, some Latin came up, reading, "Come down from the sky, let loose your rage, break free of the chains and shatter your cage. Bring us light and show us the way, into tomorrow for a brighter day." ("Veni descendit de caelo, solve iram tuam, libera conteram de catenis, et contritio in terminis tuis caveam dabo. Converte nos, et ostende nobis lucem itinere, in a clarior cras hodie".) As he read the lines, he felt something inside him tremble. He felt that he shouldn't have read it out loud. Now, he knows he shouldn't have. He unleashed something that consumes worlds. He unleashed a god, a being much more vast than one can imagine. It is a shape-shifter, it can play tricks. Everything in its way gets devoured. It is something from ancient times, before the dinosaurs, before Earth. It was consuming worlds before the universe was whole. There is no name for this entity, and it can take many forms. From people, animals, and plants, to grotesque monsters and masses of flesh. These are only a part of the entire being. Once let loose, it sends a manifestation of itself on a much smaller level to a world and blocks out the sun, brings a world of dark, then devours it, leaving a barren wasteland behind. There is no evidence of life even existing anymore. This was explained below the incantation. As he read, he didn't believe it, until his door broke down, and a beast comprising of tentacles, flesh, arms, and snake heads entered. The sight was horrific. The sound was terrifying. His mother and father came to investigate, but in seconds they were ripped apart by the limbs and tentacles. There was only one way out, through his two story window. As he jumped he felt something grab ahold of his leg. It was a tentacle. He grabbed a knife and cut it off of his leg, and the squeal the beast let out was ear-piercing. Damien dropped to the ground and took off running. It chases him to the shed, where he locked it in and set it ablaze. As he heard the noises inside get louder, the door flew open, and a specter of some sort flew out and into the sky. Damien started for the road, walking, leaving the shed on fire, letting it spread to the house. He didn't want any evidence of that night.

As they rode in the van, it was just the two of them, still conversing slightly, yet not saying anything. All of a sudden, the van tilted and hit the guard rail on the side of the road. It began to flip and landed in a ditch right side-up. There was a variation of the beast he burned in his shed in the road. He ran towards it, metal pipe in hand. The mother screamed in terror, as Damien went to swing, but the beast grabbed it. He looked horrified. They took off running, as fast as he could. They looked back to see a tall, lanky nine foot monstrosity charging after them. It had fur and long claws. It was gaining with each stride. Hand outstretched, almost grabbing them, they cut right, into the woods. It just barely missed them. They heard the snap of flesh and bones, it was disgusting. Then, the beat of wings and a screech like nothing ever heard before. A shadow was thrown over the treetops as it flew over them. As the two reached the nearest gas station, they hid in the restroom. "What the hell was that?", Jane asked. "That... was a monster. An ancient being created long before this world, and i unleashed it. It will devour this world through its different forms, draining the life and resources until nothing remains." Jane begins asking more questions, like, "How do we kill it?" and "Is there a way to escape?" but Damien knows the answer. There is no way to escape a god. Plain and simple.

As they went to a hotel to stay the night they couldnt help but stay awake as the creature hunted for them. Without avail, they tried to sleep. When the next morning came, they aquired a rental to get back to town. Never had they thought their paths would cross again. As Damien started walking back to town, he couldn't help but remember the past night. running, trying to escape. The fear, the anguish. Yet, he knows there is no escape. Why did he read that incantation? Why did he have to read that article in the first place? He didn't know. He wanted answers and he got them. A little more sureal than he expected. As he walked down the lonesome road, he felt like he had no one anymore. Everyone who loved him is gone. They're all dead. Why was he running? That answer was simple. Fear. He knew everyone died, but not by the hands of an unnamed entity.

As he walked to the library, he noticed a homeless man crounched beside the road on the corner. He gave him a little bit of change, then walked in the library. He logged onto the internet and looked up local news. A goat farmer lost four goats to a beast. The farmer gave a description describing it as "Bigger than a wolf and much more vicious. It was about five foot in height. It even reared up on its hind legs and ran. As it did, it more than doubled in size." Damien couldn't believe what he was reading. Just a few miles outside of town, it traced him somehow. After all, gods are all powerful. Then he looked at the window and saw the homeless man, peering inside. There was something up about him. As he slowly raised his head, Damien noticed his eyes were all black and his grin was wide...too wide. It streted ear to ear almost supernaturally. Then a tentencle came crashing into the window right for him. It was plowing through the bodies of other patrons not stopping until it reached its target. Him. Damien ran out the fire escape. The alarm sounded and everyone fled. As he exited as fast as he could, he heard a screech of the beast. The god. A shadow was casted over him. As he looked towards the sky, he couldn't comprehend what he saw. the homeless man was levitating, yet changing. He became the most gruesome, grotesque, inhuman thing he could've imagine. It morphed and contorted into a large mass floating in the sky. There were smaller spawn of it raining down. They slightly resembled the god itself, but were variations. Some had scales, wings, arms, tenticles, even dagger-like appendages. And they wrecked havoc among the city. Setting buildings ablaze, tearing down homes, smashing and ripping through cars. The people around him were slaughtered like nothing he'd ever seen. The movies don't do real life carnage justice. The blood filled the streets, the screams were terrifying. How did him reading an article come to this? The cops tried to shoot at them, but ever hit made them stronger. The national guard was too far out to try and stop them. There seemed to be no escape until the car pulled up. It was the mother of two...