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Chapter 50 - Chapter 50: Intertwining with Future

{Denzel finds himself in a chaotic realm. Open area with dark and chaotic thunderstorms, time appears to be night, Denzel finds himself amidst of this unfamiliar realm, all in state of solitude and pure isolation. Denzel is bewildered by this realm. But, Denzel has a very strong feeling that makes him uneasy.

Denzel, However, appears to be in a very heightened state of consciousness that he has never felt. Denzel starts to feel the exact feeling lingering on surface as he did during his battle with Micheal. Air starts to appear more dense as fear and uncomfortableness takes over, making it hard to breathe. Denzel awareness shifts to coordination where he notices small child running. This makes Denzel visibly more confused yet making him more uncomfortable just by observing a small child. Denzel starts to take step backwards.

Denzel, perplexed by this, thinks to himself, "\[\[Ok... What the... Actual fuck is going on here? Why am I feeling the way I am feeling? Why am I backing up from this child?]]" As Denzel ponders in his inner monologue regarding situation. Suddenly, A women appears out of nowhere and starts to follow child. Denzel instantly feel as if he have very strong relationship to her. Child and women proceed to play with each other while Denzel just observes them. As they both are playing, Intense wind starts to flow from Denzel to both of them. Denzel's hair and cloths flow freely as wind passes by him. Denzel appears even more perplexed by sudden appearance of intense wind. And shortly after, Denzel hears voices of ravens behind him. They are 13 in total, in a group, passing over Denzel to women and child. Denzel immediately feels intense bad feeling, thinking to himself, "\[\[...I have bad feeling about this for women and that child.]]" As ravens disappears, Denzel immediately notices child laying in ground in supine pose with a knife stabbed in the heart, both arm completely dismembered, While women is on her knees—Looking down at child's body. Denzel is completely caught off guard by sudden shift of scene, unable to comprehend what he is precieveing.

Women and child start to slowly fade away into air, However, Before completely fading away, Women tilts her head towards Denzel, Hee face is devoid of all facial features, making her faceless. Denzel's feeling are now even more amplified as he realizes women is faceless. After fading away, Denzel don't know what to make up with so he turns around and starts to stare at night sky with dark and chaotic thunderstorms. As he stares, he notices chair near him. He starts to walk towards it and sit on it. As Denzel continues to stare at sky while pondering over feelings and thoughts.

"\[\[What am I even doing? Why am I even doing what I am doing? I just wish to go to sleep and just... never wake up again. Fall to slumber, dream for eternity. If I am being honest with myself, do I really wish to save humanity as I do? Because if I am being honest, I don't really think so. It's meaningless to save humanity.]]" Denzel starts to embody emotionless state as he thinks it's meaningless. "\[\[Why though? Why should I be the one to save humanity? What did I wanted to achieve since before I even came across such events?]]" Denzel takes a deep breath and sits in silence waiting for answer to pop up. After few minutes of sitting in silence, the first thing that pops up in his mind is, "\[\[Independence! Wait... That's right, Since I was child, I had one and only one goal and that was to achieve independence. Saving humanity only came to me after I experienced that weird looking entity with that other guy.]]" Denzel looks to the side and notices same child with a evil smile staring directly at his soul, this caught him off guard, making him fall from chair.

But child disappears after jump scaring Denzel. Denzel feels fear as he stands up, thinking to himself, "\[\[What the hell..? The hell is wrong with this weird kid?]]" As Denzel fully stands up, He hears distorted voice laughing from the side, saying, "You coward trash! You are easy to become afraid." Denzel's eyes widen in pure shock, horror and fear as he struggles to tilt his head towards the source of voice. But, Nonetheless, Denzel manages to tilt his head towards voice and sees a humanoid reptilian figure with blazing red eyes.

Reptilian figure with a cruel smirk, states, "Hey there, Weak! I have been waiting for this very moment. The barrier between you and me has finally started to weaken... Just as I wanted. All events that led you here, was expected to happen. You might not realize me as of now, But in future, You will fully realize who I am and at that moment, it would be all to late." Denzel feels malice in dense air as he gazes at reptilian figure.

Denzel tries to reply but fails to as fear and horror have paralyzed him from speaking. Reptilian figure starts to speak, "I know your ambitions. Isn't it to save humanity from threats beyond there understanding?" Denzel struggles to speak so he just nods his head as a yes. Reptilian continues, "Your ambitions are quite delusional if you ask me. If you are smart, You would be able to apprehend what I said rather than interpreting my statement as conventional way of understanding." Reptilian figure reduces fear to let Denzel talk. Reptilian figure materializes bench and says, "Come, Sit here." Both, Reptilian figure and Denzel decide to sit on bench. Denzel takes few deep breath to calm himself down.

Denzel (Confusion state): "Honestly, I can see why did you called me delusional. And, It's totally understandable."

Reptilian figure: "Good to hear that trash like you can accept it."

Denzel: "Honestly, I don't know what to do. Like literally. Especially, After current circumstances and what I was revealed to be. I am just left speechless."

Reptilian figure \[Looks at Denzel]: "Huh!?"

Denzel: "I know that this might be confusing to you-"

Reptilian figure: "I know what you are saying, You imbecile. I am just confused, Why are you telling me all of your problems like I am your savior of some sort?"

Denzel (Embarrassed): "Oh... I thought you and I could discuss on my true nature and how to overcome it."

Reptilian figure: "...So, You assumed that I will help you overcome me?"

Denzel (Immediately become shocked and scared): "W-W-Wait... Are you the one...?"

Reptilian figure (Smirks): "Oh yea trash, Indeed, I am the one."

Denzel: "Well... This is awkward."

Reptilian figure: "..."

Denzel: "..."

After few moments

Denzel: "So...-"

Reptilian figure: "Just... Shut up."

Denzel: "...Okay dude, You are just coming out as rude straight up. This is literally our first interaction and you are behaving like a bad mannered child. This is not how I expected our Interaction to go."

Reptilian figure: "Do you truly assume such low level insults were gonna trigger me? Beside me neither, Because I wanted to straight up kill you as soon as I interacted with you, But I cannot act on such tendency because it would lead me to my own demise shortly after."

Denzel (Shocked): "Wait... So if I kill myself, You will die with me? Oh that's intresting as I might act on it then."

Reptilian figure (Widen eyes as he realized): "Yes... Wait, No. No, No, No. That's not what I meant."

Denzel (Confused): "You just said that you will die if I die."

Reptilian figure: "You imbecile, You misinterpreted what I meant. What I meant was, if you die then I will be freed and, which would inevitably mean that I would cause havok and destruction onto this world and everyone you care."

Denzel: "Oh... Is that so? Well, That's unfortunate."

Reptilian figure (sigh of relief): "..."

Denzel: "So, Why don't you kill me now and free yourself if you can?"

Reptilian figure: "I am bored and beside, It's not on point where I can take over you on my will. The barrier between us has only weakned on a very low scale that only allows me to interact with you in dream world only."

Denzel: "Well, That makes sense."

Reptilian figure: "\[\[Gosh, This trash... Talks a lot for a human.]]"

Both, Reptilian figure and Denzel countinue to stare at sky while sitting beside each other for what seem like half an hour.

Denzel: "Do we two really have to fight each other?"

Reptilian figure (Confused): "Huh? What do you mean by that? We are not even fighting right now."

Denzel: "No, I know that we are not fighting yet. But, Like can't we both just be chill and like... Like become friends and you help me achieve my goals and Yea."

Reptilian figure (Visibly confused, annoyed and shocked): "...So, You think I will just sit around here, helping you achieve your delusional goal? What am I to you? A powerhouse of some sort that will help you on your journey? First of all, Knock it off, It ain't happening. Second of all, You do not even have ambition to begin with. I have been observing you since you were born, Your ambitions were ever-changing. You lack conviction on one ambition."

Denzel: "Damn... You really are observing me. I cannot lie, You are right that my goals are constantly changing."

Denzel (Sighs): "I just want to gain independence. Saving humanity or not is not what I can digest easily. From a life I have came, made me try to focus on one goal. Unlike other childrens who grew up with someone to take care of them, I really wasn't. And, This made me try to achieve independence from any external influence. Unlike others, Who will die surrounded by whom they loved and will have loved ones waiting for them on other side. I have no one. Literally no one except for Micheal. No mother, father, brother, sister or any sort of family. The only one I have is us. You and I. Wouldn't it be much better that we two team up to become independent from any external influence, force, entity or being?"

Reptilian figure (Grins): "That can happen under few conditions. If you can accept these conditions then we are on terms."

Denzel (Suspicious): "Well, I have bad feeling about this. But sure, Go ahead and list conditions."

Reptilian figure: Conditions are; You have to let me take over body whenever I want and you will not try to fight back to take over body. Second, No matter how much destruction I cause, You will not question or try to reject my will. You will not question my actions under any circumstance. And, If you accept these terms then consider me as your friend and I will, from now on stop calling you 'trash'. So, Now what will it be?"

Denzel (Serious tone): Nah, With that conditions, I refuse. Destruction is boring in the first place. When I said 'Independence' I didn't meant to destroy and bring chaos onto world. I refuse."

Reptilian figure (grin fades away, clenching his teeth as hard as he can, clearly mad, pissed, annoyed and feeling hatred towards Denzel): YOU ANNOYING PIECE OF SHIT, YOU TRASH, YOU INSOLENT INSECT, YOU ILL-MANNERED BASTARD!! WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE REFUSING TO, YOU INFERIOR PIECE OF SHIT-"

Denzel (Shock by sudden anger): "Woah, Woah! Chill there. Did my refusal really struck a nerve?"

Reptilian figure (Calms himself down and let's out dissatisfied sigh): "You know what, You dastard. I will play along with your shenanigans. Why not make things spice up, huh?"

Reptilian figure grins with malevolence intent and suddenly, Denzel starts to feel intense guilt, regret, shock, horror, fear he ever felt in his entire life simultaneously. Denzel gets the feeling as if it is future and he has killed someone with no remorse. This very feeling was so unexpected and so far-fetched to Denzel that he straight up vomits non stop. Reptilian figure observes events play out and couldn't hold his laugh, So he lets out a loud menacing laugh as if he saw the most funniest thing in his entire life.

Reptilian figure: "WONDERFUL!! YOU ARE VOMITING OUT. THIS IS THE MOST WHOLESOME AND BEST THING I HAVE OBSERVED YOU GO THROUGH. THIS SHOULD BE THE PINNACLE OF GOOD ON MORALITY SCALE. EVERYONE SHOULD BE VOMITING NON-STOP VIOLENTLY JUST AS YOU ARE DOING. WELL DONE!? NOW THIS IS WHAT TRULY TRULY CLASSIFIES AS GOOD. EVERYTIME YOU VOMITED, IT WASN'T AS SATISFYING AS IT IS WHEN YOU FELT SOMETHING SO FAR-FETCHED, YOU COULDN'T POSSIBLY COMPREHEND!!!"

Denzel (Pure shocked, horror, scared, uncomfortable): "W\...W\...What-... I..I...Is This? W-What is this feeling?"

Reptilian figure (Fully Satisfied): "This is the feeling when you are entangled with your future version. You couldn't possibly comprehend such future, could you? Which is why, This feeling made you vomit violently out of pure shock, fear, horror, uncomfortable because you had such unwavering faith that under any circumstances, You will never kill any human? This is why you couldn't comprehend when Eye told you that you were me. And, You lost your shit there but because of that unwavering faith, You stood, Thinking you can take over me without any consequences and even defeat eye, didn't you? But, Right at this moment, Your unwavering faith was shattered completely, you experienced something so intense that it was incomprehensible to you, That such act can be committed by your own self on your own will?"

Denzel stares at reptilian figure out of complete disbelief, shock, fear, horror, confusion, anger, sorrow and other emotions simultaneously that he just cannot comprehend what feeling is he experiencing.