by ChubbyMooshroom9 » Thu Apr 18, 2019 1:32 am
The doors squeak open as you awake, a sickening scent greets your noses. You all clamor out of the elevator, and find yourself in a room with a black and white checkered tile floor, and a single white light illuminating it.A mirror takes up all the walls. You look behind you. The elevator is gone.
You cautiously enter the room, waiting to get jumped by something. But you wait. Wait. It’s a powerful word. What could it mean? Wait, as in stay? Or wait, as in bide? The group waits, nonetheless. Time passes. Nobody knows how much time has passed. Days? Months? Years? Probably not, you’re not even feeling fatigued. You decide your efforts fruitless, you break your back to back formation, and instead look at the mirrors.
The mirrors show reflections of...you. You as children at least. Lucius is a small boy with chubby little cheeks and slick hairstyle. Even as a child, his jutting chin and piercing eyes were a prominent feature. Dressed in a mini lab coat, he looks ready to work in a lab.
Skye looks like a pre-teen. She seems to have all hope drained from her eyes, as if she’s seen battlefields of death. Dressed in typical nurse scrubs, the dead vibe she gives off contrasts her general appearance. However, despite this appearance, one can feel her hopefulness and selflessness radiating from her. To give so much up for others.
Shou is a petite blind girl. She has a wide smile, and wears a cape on her back. Her hair is matted, and her clothes are covered in mud. She had been told not to play in the mud, but what boundaries did such a free spirit know? She would be the very best, bound by no rules.
Laughter reverberates off the mirrors, and you all turn around. You see the fog, making the same twisted smile as ever, watching.
“How pitifully reminiscent” the fog taunts, it’s evil smile contorting into a shit eating grin, while somehow still chilling you to the soul. Shou grips her scythe tightly in anger, but cannot hold back. She swings at the fog, only for it to go through the fog, and to dissipate into fog.
“When will you learn? You cannot harm me; I am you,” the fog taunts. Lucius snorts at this remark, clearly casting doubt onto it’s statement. Shou and Skye nod their heads in agreement.
“I’ve told you before, I’m the fear in the back of your mind, gnawing at you relentlessly. The doubt that cannot be contained. I am the corruptant, I am you,” the fog responds to his retort.
“Tell me, Dr. Royale,” the fog mocks, “Would a true scientist be distracted by such petty things in life? No true scientist pursues love, going out of their way to be frivolous. The sacrifice everything in the name of research, discarding that. They don’t pursue the victims of their experiments, no. You fear me, and I am you. And Shou, the innocent girl slapped in the face by the rules. She could not be the best, she became fearful. She no longer cared, the smiles turned to frowns and her carefreeness became oppressive fear. I became her, and she welcomed me. Skye, the selfless nurse turned selfish to quench her doubts. The money she had to earn was not enough, and she fought me, and I won.”
Everyone stays silent, unable to contest.
“I am fear. I am you. I am all. I am... eternity.” The fog flashes one last grin, before dissipating, and the lights go off, caressing your eyes closed. You feel your body dissipating. And before long, all sensation is gone.
Do not post.(this would be over but I lost half the flavor screen iPhoneX)