Post by ParamountKeymaster on Oct 8, 2013 18:09:53 GMT -5
In the dark of the night, a lone figure ran across the fields on all fours, growling and panting between gritted teeth. It stopped by the river and anxiously checked its surroundings, twitching and pacing like a caged animal.
On the outside, he looked like a normal teenage boy... well, "normal" aside from the glowing yellow eyes and bloodstains on his face, arms and clothes. But on the inside, Evan's mind was crowded and his body was burning, restless, and so very hungry. He could barely think straight, and his only coherent thought processes were about feeding, killing, and finding others like him.
But there were no others like him. And that begged the question: What was wrong with him?
So hot... So hungry... Must find help... Must find others...
The more he thought about this, the more he remembered his previous encounters. Everyone seemed so different to Evan, and his first reaction to this was to remove what was different... destroy what didn't belong. But when he looked at himself, it was the exact same reaction: Different. Something about him was different. He didn't know what it was, but everything about him felt wrong, out of place... and so pitifully, utterly weak.
Evan bent over and looked into the river, not knowing what he would see. In the water, he saw a creature with pale skin and black hair that covered only the top of its head. It was him... and yet to his unfocused mind, it wasn't.
What's different? What doesn't belong? Can't be different... Can't be weak... Must destroy what doesn't belong!
He snarled at the boy in the water. The image just shook its head in return. "Pathetic. Just pathetic. You don't even know who you are, do you?"
This... thing... Whatever it was, it was insulting him. Acting like it knew better than Evan. He let out a threatening roar, blood and saliva dripping from his mouth and into the river.
"Oh, for crying out loud," the reflection sighed. "Get ahold of yourself! Look me in the eye and try to THINK! Who are you?!"
Evan shook with anger. Half of him wanted to strike this offender down... and yet some other half, buried beneath the layers of hunger and fury, felt the instinctive desire to follow this being's order. And so he thought...
Who...? We are one... The same... Superior race... We hunt... Kill... Grow... Together... Must be together... Can't be alone... Need help... HElp...! Stronger... Better... TOgEthER...! Others...! MUST FIND OTHERS!
"Are you still in there?"
He looked down at the boy in the water again. Why did Evan feel the need to listen to him? He was different!
With a thick, raspy, disused voice, Evan hissed out the words, "Whooooooooo... y-yooooooouuuu??"
"Who am I?" the reflection repeated. "I'm no one. I'm just a projection created by your mind in an attempt to conserve some trace of humanity."
There! He did it again! He was MOCKING HIM! Evan roared again and viciously attacked the water, swatting and biting it in an attempt to silence this infernal creature. Of course, he only succeeded in getting himself soaking wet, washing the blood off in the process. Once he and the water had calmed, the reflection returned and said, "Well, that was pointless."
Can't silence... Can't kill... What's different? Why different?
"Listen to me," the reflection ordered sternly. "There's no one out there who can help you, not in the way your twisted mind is hoping for. You're only deceiving yourself. Remember who you are, Evan. Not who THEY are. Just who YOU are." And thus, the image in the river vanished.
Evan? What's Evan? Not right... Doesn't belong... We are not Evan... Not different... Different? What's different?! CAN'T BE DIFFERENT! MuSt EaT! MUsT kILl! MUST DESTROY WHAT DOESN'T BELONG!!!
On the outside, he looked like a normal teenage boy... well, "normal" aside from the glowing yellow eyes and bloodstains on his face, arms and clothes. But on the inside, Evan's mind was crowded and his body was burning, restless, and so very hungry. He could barely think straight, and his only coherent thought processes were about feeding, killing, and finding others like him.
But there were no others like him. And that begged the question: What was wrong with him?
So hot... So hungry... Must find help... Must find others...
The more he thought about this, the more he remembered his previous encounters. Everyone seemed so different to Evan, and his first reaction to this was to remove what was different... destroy what didn't belong. But when he looked at himself, it was the exact same reaction: Different. Something about him was different. He didn't know what it was, but everything about him felt wrong, out of place... and so pitifully, utterly weak.
Evan bent over and looked into the river, not knowing what he would see. In the water, he saw a creature with pale skin and black hair that covered only the top of its head. It was him... and yet to his unfocused mind, it wasn't.
What's different? What doesn't belong? Can't be different... Can't be weak... Must destroy what doesn't belong!
He snarled at the boy in the water. The image just shook its head in return. "Pathetic. Just pathetic. You don't even know who you are, do you?"
This... thing... Whatever it was, it was insulting him. Acting like it knew better than Evan. He let out a threatening roar, blood and saliva dripping from his mouth and into the river.
"Oh, for crying out loud," the reflection sighed. "Get ahold of yourself! Look me in the eye and try to THINK! Who are you?!"
Evan shook with anger. Half of him wanted to strike this offender down... and yet some other half, buried beneath the layers of hunger and fury, felt the instinctive desire to follow this being's order. And so he thought...
Who...? We are one... The same... Superior race... We hunt... Kill... Grow... Together... Must be together... Can't be alone... Need help... HElp...! Stronger... Better... TOgEthER...! Others...! MUST FIND OTHERS!
"Are you still in there?"
He looked down at the boy in the water again. Why did Evan feel the need to listen to him? He was different!
With a thick, raspy, disused voice, Evan hissed out the words, "Whooooooooo... y-yooooooouuuu??"
"Who am I?" the reflection repeated. "I'm no one. I'm just a projection created by your mind in an attempt to conserve some trace of humanity."
There! He did it again! He was MOCKING HIM! Evan roared again and viciously attacked the water, swatting and biting it in an attempt to silence this infernal creature. Of course, he only succeeded in getting himself soaking wet, washing the blood off in the process. Once he and the water had calmed, the reflection returned and said, "Well, that was pointless."
Can't silence... Can't kill... What's different? Why different?
"Listen to me," the reflection ordered sternly. "There's no one out there who can help you, not in the way your twisted mind is hoping for. You're only deceiving yourself. Remember who you are, Evan. Not who THEY are. Just who YOU are." And thus, the image in the river vanished.
Evan? What's Evan? Not right... Doesn't belong... We are not Evan... Not different... Different? What's different?! CAN'T BE DIFFERENT! MuSt EaT! MUsT kILl! MUST DESTROY WHAT DOESN'T BELONG!!!
