"Where the fuck am I?" I mumbled with my eyes wide open. Adonis felt the desert wind blowing more sandy wind to his face. He put his hand to his face to prevent sand from entering his eye. Adonis felt his leg already buried in sand.
"Wait legs?" Adonis quickly looked at his body immediately. Adonis looked at his body again in shock. The shock immediately disappeared and turned into renewed horror. Nothing changed, worse Adonis was melting.
No not melting, somewhat like evaporating.
"But I can clearly feel my legs" Adonis mumbled.
"I can feel them but moving then seems like I'm crawling . When will this brand of nightmare end?" Adonis said in a depressed tone. A maniac look appeared in his eyes, he began screaming at the top of his lungs, while scratching the worms off his body. Adonis scratched his head in exhaustion. Everything seemed to get more confused by the minute. He has almost even forgot how he used to look. He kept scratching his disfigured head as if trying to draw blood, but all that came out was pus.
His accumulated fleshy mass couldn't enable him the luxury to lie down. He was still a massive blob of flesh, with worms and pus all over. With the new addition of slimy tentacles as hair. Adonis once again took in his surroundings.
"Praise to Gaia" He mumbled.
The desert wind hummed in the background with sand swirling everywhere. The air still felt breathable, as if the sand and heat didn't affect anything. Then again it wasn't really hot at the moment, almost like spring. The strangest thing was the sky, more like the lack of it.
"Space?" He whispered softy. This..
Probably the only result he was truly appalled was the the presence of eight sun's. You could still still see the stars as if it where the night sky. At the same time you could see the moon shining so bright, you would confuse it for a sun. What was more odd was the lights.. Northern lights, something seen in the Neo continent at the south pole and part of Shura continent at the northern pole.
But first of all, why is the aurora in the desert?
I'm definitely not on earth right now. The stars glitched as if they shifted as if they moved.
Adonis was about to denounce it as his eyes failing him, until he picked out a monstrous shape within the space.
'Grggggg'
Something like a sleepy growl sounded throughout the desert. Adonis his heart beating like a drum against his chest, his breath labored. Almost as if he forgot to breathe. Then again probably because he forgot to breathe, doing his best to bend his body to look towards the sand. Like somehow the being, no monster!-above will not see him.
The beastly growls continued to thunder in the desert, like it was a grumpy toddler waking up.
Suddenly Adonis felt the beast standing up, shaking itself in the process. The gravity that was somehow manageable became totally unbearable all of a sudden. The sudden increase in gravity was enough to push the slouching Adonis to the ground.
"Please please please.. " He whispered in his head continually.
He couldn't even explain anything around him again, one moment his taking his surroundings the next moment is trying to stay alive. Especially coming from someone that was so ready to die a few moments ago. His brain was constantly being overworked to it's absolute limit. At the same time his body constantly being put in fight or flight mode has made him somewhat numb.
"But the cowardly nature never changes hehe" He mockingly thought. Adonis after crouching on the sandy ground for about five minutes, somewhat got tired of eating dirt. Even with the ever increasing gravity he still tried rolling himself to face the sky. He probably didn't take his surroundings well enough, he was laying face flat on the plateau edge of a sand dune. The gravity plus his his constant wringing made his only support break below him,leading him rolling down the sand dune.
Adonis started breathing heavily after another dune stopped his rolling. He also achieved his dumb goal of looking at the beast in this world's sky.
He looked longingly towards the sky trying to look for the beast. But he was now below the two dunes and laying face up blocked his view of the moving star patch on the left. He continued his labored breathing, already esperated for his own sake. He felt like he was getting more stupid by the minute.
Adonis POV
Suddenly I heard a draconic howl coming from above, in the new world's sky. What first came into my mind was 'Dragon'. Whether it's the one from the Mediterranean or Eastern Folklore , I didn't know which one to pinpoint exactly.
I heard the furious beating of wings of the creature, the feedback of the the takeoff was clearly evident. It started dust storm already, the wind pressure has already scattered the twin dunes at my left and right side. It was depressing to always be in some sort of problem constantly.
I laughed at my predicament in my mind. As if it wanted me the grotesque mouth that used to be on my back appeared on the front of my body, it's original position.
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"Malka fure shan" the ugly mouth chanted. It continued chanting the absurd lingual. Adonis pushed the grating voice to the background, at the same noting the voice got progressively louder. But that was a subset right now, there was a big problem in front right now.
"What am I supposed to do right now?" Adonis questioned out loud, if you could properly look at the disgusting transmutating mess he has a face, you could somewhat see a dumb look on his face.
The sound of wings flapping got louder, oddly matching tempo with the grating chants that was also getting louder. Adonis could almost draw a resemblance of everything that has happened to him to a ritual. And like a sacrifice, plus the fact he doesn't have an idea on how to escape, the only truth he knows is that he is going to die.
DEATH
"Oh death, how I wish for you right now. Your presence here would be the best gift in my life." Adonis whispered out loud with tears leaking from his only obeying eye. As if to snide him the chants got louder with blood leaking out for every eyeball on his body. Everything somehow was out to mock him, and properly drain every bit of confidence from him. Like someone was playing with him. In a weird turn of event, as if to properly mock him for his inability to control the situation. The pressing gravity disappeared in an instant, and he started floating as well as the sand and the unique desert biome, that he ignored earlier. The wind pressure disappeared, so as the desert storms and tornadoes already forming. Adonis rather than worrying about the present situation, gave up. As if something was purposefully pulling him up, possibly due to the fact he was floating up faster than every other thing in desert. He ascended towards the weird sky.
At the moment Adonis saw it, a dragon!!
Different from the one he had in mind, not the eastern or the western dragons. A body as if it was part of space. Adonis tried to look for a word to tag it to.
"Yeah cosmos" he thought inwardly. Stars where scattered across the beast majestic body. The eyes too, like two sun's. Although the right one was a blue sun and the left weird red sun. It stared directly at Adonis, as if too let him take him in better. And stunned he was, the wings unfurled again.
Size?
Adonis could adequate quantify anything right now. He took his eyes away from the strange dragon in front of him and took in the space in front of him.
He was in space!!
I mean sort off. The stars where scattered all over, clouds of multiple colored gases moved around, stars swirling together at a particular point, beautiful lights. Like an artistic painting by Apollo himself. It was then Adonis noticed the dragon, flapping its wings and flying off deep into the swirling stars. Adonis just floated appalled, just absolutely mesmerized by the picture in front of him. Like he chose his grave, Adonis closed his eyes and suddenly the gravity came back on.