"W-what the hell." Adam's eyes couldn't help but widen. Those words were almost the same as the ravings he heard. The figure gave a strong feeling of madness, evil, and wrongness as if something divine was corrupted into that of the profane.
Thinking back, Adam came to a realization. Ever since he came to this world, he never heard the maddening ravings.
Adam's brows had knitted. 'Why did I stop hearing the voices? Was some strong being calling me? But even if there was, that doesn't explain why the voices stopped.'
While in thought Adam's eyes had trailed upward to study the "angelic" figure's face.
Fssss!
The sound of air being exhaled could be heard. Soon after, the gray "angel" let out an ear-piercing scream.
Adam quickly held down his head and covered his now-bleeding ears. This had almost no effect as the maddening melody of raving voices touched his ears, now in a much more terrifying form, as he felt the voices trying to corrupt and control him.
The voices were now chanting something new, something terrifying.
"Be afraid!
"Surrender yourself to abyssal desire!
"Become an apostle of the spiral!"
Adam heard and felt those words repeat and echo throughout his mind and soul. Adam could feel himself mutating, he felt like many worms were drilling their way out of his back at two points, Adam also felt a spiral being carved into his chest, his limbs being stretched, his body bloating and tearing his clothes.
Adam let out a blood-curdling scream, he had never been in so much pain before. It was unfair, he never wanted to come down into the cavern, he never asked to be chased by that damned lizard! he never even asked to be in this goddamned world!
Reacting to the sound, the "angel" broke the now completely rusted chains and fell to the ground. The obvious eyes on the gray "angel's" mysteriously blurred face darted towards the writhing Adam. The creature then rushed to Adam on the four of its limbs while flapping its now-blackening wings.
Fwoosh!
Suddenly a cold wind washed over the cavern and gave Adam an unnatural sense of clarity. With his mind now being cleansed of the voices, Adam realized that the stone of his makeshift knife was glowing white, and his intuition was pointing to his pocket.
'T-that thing? but it might make the situation worse. Well, there's no other option.'
Bearing through the very apparent pain, Adam reached into his right pocket and pulled out a red, crystalline object.
A wave of pain suddenly washed over Adam as the drill-like worms burst from his back and coalesced into large, white wings.
Crunch... Ignoring the torturous pain, Adam brought the unknown catalyst to his mouth and bit down on it.
The "angel" had reached Adam at some point and delivered a devastating kick, throwing Adam into the cavern wall, cracking it, and shaking the entire cave. Red liquid flowed from Adam's head.
Adam's body was soon after blanketed by a red, lustrous light. The light was then absorbed by Adam's body which had begun returning to its normal size, but the spiral wound and the wings on his back stayed the same.
The "angel" shot forward toward Adam once again, preparing to attack.
Witnessing this Adam instinctively pulled out the glowing makeshift knife and pointed it forward, causing the rushing gray angel with now fully blackened wings, to be pierced, stopping it in its tracks. The knife then disintegrated.
Huff huff… coming to his senses Adam scanned the gray "angel" realizing it was not moving, he was safe.
The body of the angel had soon melted into a blob of flesh, blood, and feathers.
Getting off the ground Adam came to a sudden realization:
"FUCK! MY KNIFE!"
Sigh... It was gone, never to return. As he was about to turn away and leave, he caught something in the corner of his eye.
'It's still alive!?'
The blob of flesh left behind by the gray "angel" had begun twitching again. All the Flesh, feathers, and blood that had puddled out gathered together and began coalescing into a gray light that was in a discernable shape.
'What do I do? That lizard is probably still outside so I can't run. Do I fight? Do I hide?'
Before Adam even gets to do anything, the flesh had finished condensing and the light was slowly being stripped off, revealing what it became. It was... "A sword?"