"Lemme get something straight here. What are you? I mean you certainly don't look like any animal I know off…" Nesta inquired with his guard up. He was ready to bolt out of the place at any moment in time. His eyes met the gaze of the grotesque figure. Its blue eyes darted around his body-seizing him up and scanning him from head to toe.
"Is that suppose to make me feel shy? For something with that much of an appetite, you really know how to instill fear in your preys."
"Oh no, you won't be feeling anything when I'm done eating you", it retorted while taking a bite of the mangled body buried underneath its gigantic body. Flesh was torn apart from bones as its powerful jaws snapped shut and ascended off the ground. Bones which got messed up in the mouthful it had taken were crushed into pieces with that single bite. The eerie glow in its eyes became more fierce as the mouthful went down its throat within a single gulp.
Nesta blinked his eyes a couple of times trying to see if what he was witnessing was real or not. Looking at the amount of flesh left for the hungry figure to devour, he knew that it will take a couple more minutes before it will come searching for another meal. He used this opportunity to rush of the place with all the energy he could muster. His bones screamed for restitution as his muscles crudely contracted and relaxed. His body burst with energy as adrenaline pumped effortlessly through it.
"Leaving so soon~! I didn't even get to properly welcome you into my humble abode."
"Fuck you! Do you think I will fall for that cheap trick?" Nesta blurted out while scurrying towards the exit of the infirmary.
"Wait for the dessert! Argggh! Little nuisance, he thinks he can just chicken out on me? Not on my watch…"
SWISHHH!
Nesta turned his head to the side while lifting his arm high enough to give the monster his middle finger but to his utter shock, it was currently nowhere to be found. Anxiety crept into his bones as a dark and gloomy figure loomed over his shoulder.
"Are you searching for me?"it asked through growls.
Upon hearing the deep voice once again, Nesta turned to face it with his fist ready to deal some damage. To his dismay though, the blurry figure was effortlessly running by his side at the same pace he was running. He gulped down saliva when a crooked grin appeared below the blue eyes which were staring daggers at him. Nesta tried his best to slow down a bit but before he could the monster bashed its shoulder into his causing him to crush into one of the surrounding makeshift rooms of the infirmary.
BOOM!
He screamed in pain as his body slammed into the metallic part of one of the beds. Sudden jolts of pain flashed out throughout his body upon impact. Blood came rushing out of his lips exactly when his ribs had cracked under the pressure. His breathing became ragged and hoarse in as much as he tried to stabilize it. Painfully slow, he grabbed the top of the bed and attempted to pull himself up from the floor which now stained with his blood.
"What did I do to deserve this~? huh! Mother luck or whatever you call yourself!"he screamed in agony with his other hand tightly wrapped around his shattering ribs.
"It's foolish of you to do such a thing at this moment. Do not invoke the name of a dead god. That's the only piece of advice I'm going to give to you."
Nesta shuddered when he heard the voice once again. The voice which belonged to the monstrosity which has made his life this living nightmare. He wanted to dash towards it and deliver a blow to it but he knew better. He knew the kind of damage it was capable of at the moment.
Who would have thought that his first visit to the infirmary would be his last. His gaze was fixated at the slit in between the two curtains which gave way into the room he was in. The functionality of his lungs slumped down as his injured ribs slowly pierced them with each breath. Nesta could now feel his consciousness slowly slipping away due to the little oxygen his body could take in at the moment.
"I'm I going die like this?"he asked while standing up his feet which were wobbling uncontrollably. Everyone who would have been privileged enough to witness this scene would have definitely laughed at Nesta who was currently knocking on death's door. A smile crept onto his face and he deliberately crawled over the bed as the same time trying his best to savor every last bit of peace he was enjoying at the moment.
"Won't you come here already, come and finish what you started!"he shouted with a determined look on his face.
Awuuuuu!!!
The imminent sound of Nesta's defeat echoed throughout the place causing the entire building to shake slightly.
TAP! TAP! TAP!
Footsteps were heard slowly approaching the room were he laid. Nesta closed his and at the same time tried fervently to fall into a deep sleep. He wanted everything to be just what he expected-a nightmare. A nightmare which he could just run away from by waking up. He closed his eyes several times but his consciousness which had tried to slip away not long ago was full of vitality.
Opening his eyes to catch a final glimpse of what was happening around him, he could see the monster's bloodied hand bearing claws slowly pulling the curtains apart. It opened it wide enough for its whole body to move through the curtains. Nesta quickly returned back to his original position with his eyelids firmly shut and his lips tightly sealed.
"Let me at least die a death befitting of a man"he murmured to himself.
The footsteps became louder and louder as the monster came closer and closer to the bed. Its blue eyes gave out an ominous presence at same time they were also fixated on Nesta who was currently on tenterhooks-silently waiting for his inevitable death.
"I will do you the honor of giving you a swift and painless death"it said and chuckled with its hands extending into sharp claws that glittered under the dim lights of the room.
Without any hint, the monster's hand descended into Nesta's gut, tearing though flesh and muscles as if they were paper. A fountain of blood gushed out of the wounds created after it retracted its claws. Not satisfied with what it had done, it continued to thrust its hand in and out of his abdomen. Bits of flesh mixed with blood flew haphazardly each time the claws dig deep into the body of its victim.
Nesta's head shook violently with his insides churning and turning while trying their best to clench tightly to the monster's hand. Some minutes ago he was ready to accept his fate but now due to the excruciating pain he was going through he decided to disregard his earlier decision. He grabbed onto the monster's arm and held it still while looking it dead in the eye. Disdain and regret was plastered all over his face which was now stained with blood and bits of flesh,muscle and tendon..
"Do you want me to tear down your face?"it said and giggled maniacally.
Nesta threw out his leg to deliver one last strike from every ounce of energy he could muster within his body. Before the weak strike could hit its target though, the monster's fist connected with his face. His skull caved in as his jaw shattered with teeth flying all over. The flicker of hope that he thought was in his grasp was instantly destroyed. His vision started to blur as life slowly drifted away from his bloodstained eyes.
"N-o I-can't die this…way "spouting out his last words while the fire in eyes slowly faded away, he closed his eyes and reminisced about all the good memories he had made on earth. Memories which included his mother whom he had lost at a very young age. A father figure who wasn't there to support him when he needed. Although he knew that his father betrayed his mother, he still believed in his heart that maybe running away was the right thing to do for him.
...
In a forest surrounded by thick trees and some grasslands, several bolts of lightning struck simultaneously filling up the sky with smoke and the feeling of dread. Out in the open where one of the lightning bolts had struck, laid the body of a teenager. Fire broke out around the place due to how scorched the land became as a result of the lightning. It's intense heat had burned up the clothes adorning the body lying in the open field of grasslands. So currently he was completely naked. Raven black hair, impeccable skin and an athletic body was what was lying amidst the incinerating grassland. Although the flames consumed whatever it touched, the body was miraculously not harmed by it.
Argggh!!!
The scream of agony echoed throughout the silent night. Steadily the body opened its eyes as it scanned it surroundings. The pungent smell of combustion filled the ambience but just like how the fire was not able to devour the body, its smoke wasn't also able to disturb it.
It stood up from the ground only to stare in awe when a screen had popped up in front of him.
[You have been selected by the unknown
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