In the endless sea of space, the stars shone brightly as they try to illuminate the darkness of space. Yet they are unable to do so even if there are thousands of them, billions, trillions.
They cannot ever hope to illuminate the vast void of space.
Galaxies roamed the entire universe, forming within themselves small galaxies called planetary systems. These planetary systems composed of atleast 6 planets circling the star, hoping to birth any signs of life.
In one such planet a woman with a worm tail for a leg stood infront of three beings. The woman wore a large comical hat adorned with clocks and stars as she held out her injured right hand to the three beings staring down at her.
Her injured right hand slowly turned back to before it was injured as a bright light illuminated from her fingertips. The bright light soon lit up the entire planet as it began to heat up, melting it.
One of the beings, a man that have the upper body of a human and a lower body of wolf with a total of 16 limbs for hands threw the spear from one of his hands.
The bright light on her fingertips soon spun around as the entire planet was slowly sucked by it, then a miniature blackhole was formed.
The spear was reflected back to the man as he clicked his tongue, then dusts of clouds soon formed above him, large enough to encompass the entire planet, bursts of lightning flashed around the clouds as it rumbles with thunder.
The other two individuals smiled as they retreated, they hid away from the two most heavy hitters clash. They soon reappeared a few lightyears away as a rumbling noise encompassed the entire universe.
[#^^@###@!! %#%@&, ^#^×_^^@%££!!!!!]
The voice of the woman screamed as their entire surroundings warped as cracks in the void started appearing, spreading as countless other planets were also affected by it.
One of the individuals that hid, stared at the scene. Then looked up before a large curtain was spread over 10 lightyears. The curtain first twirled around as if affected by air before going down, concealing everything.
The individual smiled as she stared at you. Then she moved her hand over her lips————————
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Rueben dashed towards the being in black goo as Gwynne tried to get a grip of her emotions and her current mental state as memories repeated themselves in her head over and over and over again.
These painful memories that kept reminding her of everything, of her regrets, her choices and her mistakes over and over again as she slowly bled out from the inside out.
Her entire body begged for destruction, for death as her brain malfunctioned due to the overlapping memories. The brain sent wrong chemicals to the wrong channels as it was unable to understand what was going on.
The memories inside her head soon warped more and more, making her forget some of her memories, some changed entirely while others were erased from existence.
Her eyes bled as she stared at Rueben, a light in this dark world before screaming out his name.
"RUEBEN!!!"
Rueben was stabbed once on his stomach as he triggered the gun to shoot but the bullet just went pass through the black goo. Then he clenched his fists and swirled it forward hit it just passed through the being.
Rueben clicked his tongue as he gnashed his teeth in anger.
Gwynne saw that Rueben had not heard her cry for help, her eyes shook as a crimson glow shone from her eyes. She forced herself to stand and dash towards Rueben, who was flung away.
Rueben was about to retaliate when all of the sudden, Gwynne rushed to his side and grabbed him by the stomach before dashing to the gate.
He looked at her in surprise, then to the being and glared at her, "What do you think you're doing!?"
"Saving your ass, idiot! We can't beat that thing as of now!"
The thing turned to the gate as it saw the both of them das towards it. It curled its head to the side for a moment, then its empty eyes sockets curled up into crescents.
Gwynne had another nosebleed but she didn't mind it and used Rueben's body to smash into the gate.
"Goddamnit, Gwynne!! Let go of me, i have to kill that thing!!"
The two soon arrived at the front of the gate as Gwynne used all her might to open the gate, dashing straight towards it and used Rueben as a shield.
The gate bursts out of the way as soon as it made contact with the two of them, Gwynne stopped for a moment, sucked in deep breathe, before dashing with all her might towards the insides of the gate.
"Urgh!!" Gwynne grunted loudly as Rueben fell down.
Gwynne fell on top of him as she coughed up even more blood infront of Rueben's face.
Rueben stared at her in shock, then turned to the monster outside of the gate.
He stared at it for a moment, then to Gwynne, coughing even more, then to the monster.
Rueben gritted his teeth.
What should he do?
What would he do?
"Rueben..." She softly sighed as she stared at him in the eyes.
Her eyes narrow as tiredness enveloped her entire being. Yet her eyes contained a strong determination and belief towards him.
Rueben stared at her, he gritted his teeth even more and stood up. Glaring at the monster, he swiftly picked up Gwynne and ran as Gwynne coiled her hands over his neck and pushed her face on his neck as se coughed even more.
The being stared at them for a moment, then it grinned deformedly even more and let out a screech.
[Its my turn!! I am now IT!]
It stretched its gooey arms towards them, grabbing the edges of the gates and propelled itself forward, turning the entire scene into a swift pursuit.
Rueben turned his head around and saw the being dashing towards them, he let out a burst of air before taking some in and pumped both of his feet.
He dashed as fast and as far as he could while the being screeched maniacally, following after them, slowly catching up to them.
Rueben gritted his teeth as he turned a corner, then saw a door. He was about to run to the door when the door suddenly burst open, the being walked out of it calmly, turned around for a moment, saw him, then started chasing him.
Seeing that, he looked to the left of the door, which was another connected hallway and put some strength on his legs.
The being swept its right hand towards them but Rueben went down and slid across the ground before standing up and dashed to a corner.
The being looked back and saw them escaping, it cocked its head to the side for a moment, then started following after them.
A moment later, another being arrived at the scene, stared at the wall that was hit by the being's right arm and ran after them.
Rueben looked back and saw the being chasing after them with a smile on its face. A moment later, another being turned a corner as saw them.
Wha- Rueben then turned forward.
'That's unfair!!' He thought to himself as he ran.
There were now two monsters chasing after them. Two very identical monsters, the same inky body and annoying gooey face, even down to its size it was the same.
Rueben clicked his tongue and saw another door, cautiously, he ran to the door and kicked it open. As soon as he opened the door, he saw another one resting on the floor, when the door was kicked open, it jumped and turned to the door and saw the two of them.
Gwynne stared at it, then to Rueben before grabbing his left cheek and stretched it wide while Rueben swiftly turned left and ran.
"You dumb fuck!!!" Gwynne screamed as she clenched her fingers even more as she stretched Rueben's cheeks.
Rueben glared at her but didn't have any time to get revenge. They had to run away now, especially three beings that was chasing after them.
Gwynne let him go, her left arm still coiling on his neck, she reach down, to Rueben's waist and took out the flintlock. She put the gun on her mouth, biting it as she reached behind her back to ge a bullet.
"Hold me tightly!" She yelled to Rueben as he stared at her, saw the gun, then nodded his head.
Rueben changed the way he carried her, into something that could help her maintain her balance. Gwynne changed her position for a moment, breathing heavily, she swiftly reloaded the flintlock.
After finishing that, she then turned to Rueben, then to the beings.
Then she started looking at their surroundings, trying to find anything to shoot that could stop the beings from chasing them, or even sowling them down.
Rueben suddenly gasped outloud, making Gwynne turn her head back and saw a large hole on the wall. There were white wisps around the hole, she stared at them in shock.
One of the white wisps span around what seemed to be a box of something inside.
Gwynne stared at it, the white wisp softly shook before going to the front of the box and started rubbing itself on the surface of the box.
"Axerilite—"
Gwynne stared at the logo on the box, then she smiled.
"Rueben! Go there, quickly!" She then turned down to Rueben, who was covered by her chest, Rueben nodded and quickly dashed towards the hole.
The three wisps span around quickly as Rueben dashed forward. Gwynne swiftly took aim towards the boxes and clenched the trigger.
The bullet shot past the air and swiftly hit the box, making a hole just beside the logo.
Tik.
Rueben looked back before swiftly dropping to the floor and covered Gwynne inside as a burst of red crystals scattered around the air. The crystals soon brightened before it exploded into dozen other crystals larger than its size.
One of the crystals stabbed Rueben on his waist as the crystals covered the entire hole. The beings on the other side screeched as they tried to get inside.
Gwynne stared at the scene, before taking out a small knife and hurriedly stabbed it through Rueben's waist, carefully trying not to disturb the crystal.
Rueben was soon freed from the crystal's stab as Gwynne bit her thumb and let Rueben drink her blood.
Rueben clicked his tongue.
"Axerilites...?" He asked softly as Gwynne nodded her head.
"How it got there is a mystery..." She says as the white wisps span around them before disappearing.
Axerilite, a crystal like mineral that would increase in size when a force was acted upon it, the more force used, the bigger the crystal would become.
This crystal was as good as useless but it was a good crystal to use when hunting. All you needed to do was put the crystal inside a beast's mouth and watch it die as the crystal grew inside them.
It was a favourite weapon used by Hunters that were physically weak and it was efficient too. The downsides were that they couldn't get rid of the Axerilite, meaning they also can't get rid of the body.
Axerilites were only used in very special occasion such as Monsters that the Hunters cannot hunt.
Though, how one got the crystal inside here was a mystery, but this place was always so mysterious.
Rueben looked at the red crystals, then turned to Gwynne, "Are you okay?"
Gwynne looked towards him and just nodded her head, "Yeah, somewhat. Though i think some of my memories are jumbled..."
Rueben stared at her for a moment, "...Jumbled..?"
To which she just smiled and grabbed his hand, "Its nothing. I'll recover."
Rueben looked away as he felt his hand shivering. His eyes narrowed to a slit.