Apnea

Parasite

Chapter 7

Previously on Apnea...

The meeting carried on with discussions relating to the Horsemen and how to combat the fact that there's neither a Death nor a Pestilence horseman. Markian looked over at Lucifer, who was fast asleep. He thought to himself how inappropriate it was for someone of his title to laze around at such a serious time.

Markian rubbed his eyes and resumed looking at Lucifer. However, Lucifer's eyes weren't closed anymore and his dark orbs stared into his own. Before he knew what was going on, everything began to swirl and he lost consciousness.

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Markian's pov

"What did I tell you, Markian?" The mysterious voice croaked. Who is that?

I swung around, trying to find the source of the voice. I stopped when I realized that I was spinning around in circles.

"WHAT DO YOU WANT WITH ME?!"I shrieked. In a snap of a finger, I was in my room back home.

*BANG BANG*

I swung the door open to meet my father yelling at me to get ready for grace practice. Why am I home? What happened?

"What happened to your wings?!" he inquired, his face filled with horror and disgust.

"What're you talking about?"I questioned.

"This isn't a joking matter...your wings are decaying."

Dread filled my heart as I rushed to the mirror, knocking down everything in my path. Is this a prank? Please tell me this is a joke!

I stepped into the mirror to see my wings bleeding and peeling off. What the fuck is this?!

Then the pain kicked in.

I shrieked in horror and pain, as my once-pearly white wings were slowly being consumed by darkness.

"God! Please help me!" I begged.

"Why are you calling God's name?" My father joined me in the mirror.

"Had I not warned you? Had I not told you to be aware of the darkness and what lurks in it?"he closed in on me. Everything became blurry and I fell to my knees. What is he talking about?

"Father...please...help me!" I reached out for him, but he slapped my hand away.

"You're unclean! You belong to the underworld!"

"No,no,no. I'm not unclean! I don't know why this is happening?"I screamed.

I blinked and a faceless figure with green eyes had taken the place of my father. "Take my hand...I will help you,"he ensured.

I took his hand and was met with a smirking Lucifer. The hand that Lucifer had a hold of slowly became consumed by his darkness.

"Let go of me! Why are you here?!"I thrashed around.

"Because you kept playing with the darkness... haven't I told you to stop while it was still premature? It will only end with anger and tears..."

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"Muki..!"

MARK!"

"MARKIAN! Wake up!"

I snapped back into consciousness, blinking rapidly at the beaming light and my father's shaking.

"Geez, Markian! Falling asleep during the conference? You need to sleep early tonight,"he reprimanded. Was it all a dream?

"I'm sorry, father. I'll try to get more sleep tonight,"I assured him.