Kingdom Hearts: Army Of The Roses

Chapter Eight

  The rats... The rats... Those filthy rodents! Simple fucking creatures... They hide from me, beyond my eyes~ NO! From behind them... I feel them... Oh god, I can feel them... They drag their barbs across my bone... From within my skull they scuttle and scrape... Running wildly, they tear through my thoughts! Leaving only scraps of my sanity behind... Only... Shreds for me to hold...

God their whisperings... Chirring and scratching into my mind! They offer me misery and anxiety shrouded in a paranoid psychosis of chaos!... I can't handle it any longer.

My talons stilled their trudging dig to my heart and, instead, dug into my ears. I must get them out! They must be freed!! My sanity demands it... Tearing through my scalp, I ripped patches of hair before hooking into my lobes. Why can't they just shut up... Why... Why?!

Cracking and chipping, my claws began to falter. Holding my palms before me... Black ichor clumped before crashing to the floor. But my talons?! They poked~ bulged through mounds of gore... The pain... Before I could lend them my touch they fell from my hands... Pittering into darkness, they fled from me!~

Oh god here it came again...

Heaving myself forward, over my hand and knee I coughed scorching bile from my lip. Thrown from within, I tossed my lungs onto the filth of my abode. Right after dragging out clots of guts and flesh...

My own body was turning on me; the way a host would turn on a parasite.

Oh any creature that claimed to be god please help me!

My hands began to sift through the disgust, for my teeth I looked! Finding a single or pair that had yet to escape! I tried to skewer them back into the grey pale of my gums...

This pain... This horrid feeling... All sufferings before it were inconsequential til now...

Oh... There was a sound... Quivering to posture, my mourn-soaked eyes looked upon the air... They looked upon that horrendous truth... Oh, but it sang so softly... A melody of deafening silence that roared within my flesh... An anthem that culled my mind and held me at a docile calm...

The world around me began to tear and burn; embers of physicality were taken with a breeze I could not feel, a wind I cared not to mind... I couldn't part my thoughts... I needed to be swallowed by this madness, if it meant hearing the sirens of Narnia I would sit a lifetime within this second.

However... As the call began to fade my flesh too began to melt: slipping from my bone, my blood began to boil. Before I could fight back I was drowning in the simmering clumps.

The light!!

These shadows could not take me! I dug my fists within and began to fight this constricting sorrow. Crawling upward, my grasp tore through the insanity!!

From the mud I dragged myself; choking on breaths of clear air as I pulled my will from this shallow grave I had been left in. Shivering, my thoughts rolled through waves of a deafening anthem. But, I remembered!...

Nearly jumping to my knees, I felt my body. Quick hands patted my skin before holding my chest and throat: my lungs, they held as beautiful bellows... They hadn't left me... And my heart, as my tips rested at my neck, I felt its rhythmic beat pulse... Scurrying, my fingers rose; stuffed into my maw, they ran across my teeth and shoved into my gums... They were there still...

Grand breaths of relief shuddered and shook out of my body. As laughs of hysterical cheer broke the silencing air, I found it within me now the time to find where I was.

A f~... A forest... At the rim of a valley, I held under a tree at the edge of the wood... Where... Where am I?