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Chapter 8 - Fear

Asteria's P.O.V

Through the eyes of the monster, I see a body across the basement. The black liquid is all over the ground, guts are ripped out of the stomach.
The monster looks down, it's holding the person's heart, already half-eaten. It drops with a loud thump, the long claws dig into the cement with a loud screech, and its eyes trail back up to the body slowly crawling to that dead person.

'Now child aren't you feeling full' the monster's voice is raspy.

In front of the body, it takes a long deep sniff and takes a handful of that black stuff coming out of the body. The monster drinks the sour liquid that's black. It covers its mouth and I feel the smile that it is trying to hide.

"Please stop. . . I would rather not see any more dead people" I yell.

He laughs and rips the person's arm off more black blood gushes out, it uses its tongue and touches the sharp teeth causing a sweet smooth taste in the mouth.
It leans forward and takes a bite of the soft meat, it groans at the tangy taste the monster closes his eyes everything goes dark.
Within the prison of my mind, I see a white light at the very top the single crack that didn't heal from that night I let that little power go inside of me the monster shrieks and opens its eyes. He falls to the ground, his skin starts to burn off, and that same back pain hurts more than last time. Looking at the arms I see them as my white body coming back burning holes in different spots. I touch the face to see what the monster looks like and how scary he is.

I pull my hand away fast and push myself up, the legs are heavy and long. Not only that, but I forced myself to run and find a mirror. At the far end of the basement, seeing it has white skin and red eyes glowing. Its face was round and flat, three black lines going down over each eye. Its lips are thin, and he smiles one last time as I see sharp teeth covered in black blood and shiny light gray.

The face starts to disappear and soon see my own again. I look down and fall seeing my scars healed touching them and not able to feel anything, reaching up and breaking the mirror. A big piece falls off next to me, with a bunch of other small and medium pieces scratch and fall into my skin.
I grab the piece next to me and cut my leg, not feeling anything as the dark liquid slowly comes out. It heals right away. My eyes went wide. Leaning forward and pushing myself up to release, my legs are heavy they won't move. I'm stuck sitting here.

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I crawled my way upstairs, the black blood trailing behind me, it gets harder to move, and my breathing unsteady. Hearing a loud bang coming from outside, my heart skips a beat. I begin to panic but force myself to keep going up, getting closer.

"I hope they kill me, for my good" I sigh.

"Ma'am there's a broken window on the right side of the cabin, one of us can go through and open the door for you" somebody yells.

It goes quiet, then hear a loud thump and heavy footsteps go across the kitchen, down the small hall to the front door.
Reaching the top of the stairs and letting out a long loud sigh of relief, I rest my back on the wall, turning my head to the right and looking at the door not able to move my arms because they are sore.

"CHECK EVERY ROOM FOR HIM, AND TAKE ALL HIS BOOKS! Well, I LOOK FOR HIS EXPERIMENT!" A woman shouted.

Scooting to the left and blocking the way in here after hearing that lady's voice remembering her from that small village where Marsh took me, I lifted my arm and winced to lock the door.
Hearing shouts and people stomping around in the cabin, I cover my mouth as I shake in fear when the lady is going to find me and the person whose dead downstairs in my room, I look down at myself covered in the dark liquid that smells of blood.
Someone wiggles the door handle and bang's the door.

"Dr. MARSH, ARE YOU IN HERE?" a lady screams.

All of a sudden, it goes quiet, I move out of the way of the door and sit on the edge of the first stair at the top.
A hand goes through the metal door, same goes for my right foot, I take a deep breath and hold it in for a few seconds a lady walks through, she's wearing a mask with a dark grey jumpsuit, and there's an embroidered black apple that looks close like a skull over where her heart is she looks around and looks down directly into my eyes. She takes off the mask and lets it rest on top of her head.

"Is that Dr. Marsh's blood over your experiment?" The lady questions.

The lady grabs me by the t-shirt and lifts me off the ground and slams me against the wall, I turn my head in the direction of the black blood and look down the stairs. Tears go down my face. I groan and force my arm up, pointing to go down there.

"S-some person. . . Is dead down there. . . T-the monster in me ate half of their heart, please help them, ma'am" I whisper.

The lady scrunches her face in disgust as she glares at me, she raises her arm and punches me in the eye then the nose, I hear a loud crack my vision goes blurry, the lady pulls me closer to her, she's breathing heavily.

'Child, it looks like she wants to kill you want me to kill her and her team for you?' the monster laughs in between.

I shake my head rapidly.

"That's fucking bullshit, the only monster I see is you, the one with blood all over an innocent person," she says harshly.

The lady tosses me down the stairs, I try to reach for the railing, but my fingers slide right off, and I go tumbling, hitting my shoulder on the edge. I hear a loud crack from my neck, and the back of my head twists and turns along with my body.
I hear the lady slowly walking behind me. I hit the bottom and my head faces the direction of the dead person with black blood smeared all over their face, the lady steps over me and runs over to them, she screams at the top of her lungs and reaches to touch the person and backs away covering her mouth.

"SOMEONE CALL THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT QUICK, THE MONSTER KILLED TWO PEOPLE DOWN HERE" The lady yells.

She turns around and faces me with tears falling that look black. She walks over to me and starts to kick all over my body with full force, she drops to her knees and holds both of her hands together and lifts them in the air, she pounds at my chest, hitting my heart multiple times, I bit my tongue hard to stop from screaming.

"You monster, I'm going to kill you" she cries out.

'I won't let you die on my watch, child' the monster says with a growl.

I start to feel myself go back into that dark prison in my mind, scratching at my body on the inside, hearing that monster laugh along with a big bang from the door upstairs.
Hearing my body heal and cracks starting from my neck down, the monster opens its eyes and looks at the lady he grabs her neck and stands up to slap the monster's arm gasping for air.

"Please let her go, she wasn't going to kill me! She doesn't know it was you who did it you monster" I cry out.

It uses its other arm and takes her wrist and stretches it out straight. The monster bites her bicep with a loud crunch and black blood gushes out, dropping rapidly onto the floor seeing her bone in different areas.
Ripping the arm off, the lady falls unconscious from loss of blood, I and the monster hear a weird noise, and he turns his head to look at a few guards chewing the woman's muscle/skin seeing electric shock guns pointed at it.

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A loud screech comes from the monster. I look up through the eyes and know it's looking up, the lights shine brightly within this dark place I'm trapped.

"I WILL KILL YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS, THAT'S INCLUDING YOU!"

'But my family got killed by all the guards. . . People like you guys'

He falls to his knees and starts to chant an old language that no one knows, the guards press the electric shock gun and it shreaks again, it looks over at the guards, everything is a shade of red.
It slowly starts to get up floating in midair the guards take a step forward, showing no fear, behind them stands the man with the cape his arm is raised eyes shine like stars and a dome is in front of the guards.

"I will tear each of you apart one by one brutality," the monster said with a hoarse voice.