Broken

Dead.

She was…..dead.

Red splattered all over, shining faintly in the half-light. The creeping stench of rot, slowly filling the air. Mangled, broken, jutting shape in the shadows.

She was dead. He killed her.

He still had the taste of her flesh and blood in his mouth. Still could hear the crunching of her bones between his teeth. See those scarlet eyes of hers staring at him, long after he had gouged them out.

Everything was dark and cold and humid and warm all at once, and yet he wasn’t feeling any of that. He could hear only his heartbeat hammering loudly within his skull, his choked breathing. His own strength abandoned him, and he tumbled and knelt down on the gore-stained rock. Not even his sight worked, for the night and the blood staining his face conspired to make everything blurry

As well as his tears.


…..Why…..

Why did this happen?

What had he done….?

She….she was his friend…..his…his only friend….all they had gone through….all they had shared….and then she….and then he….he….

She was….

….No. She was not his friend. She had NEVER been his friend. That wench USED HIM!!!! All this time she had been tricking him!!!! Those plans of hers, those promises of glory, the triumph together! The smiles, the hugs, the stories, the sweet words, all lies!! Lies!!! Everything was LIES!!!!! He was dancing to her tune this whole time!! And then she just leaved him to die!!! HE HAD BEEN A TOOL!!!!

But he showed her. Oh yes he did. He lost her and found her and lost her and found her and lost her and found her and MADE HER PAY. In BLOOD and FLESH and BONE and LIFE. Who was the tool NOW??!!


…Just…what had he done to deserve this? He always struggled…always tried so hard to get through….all the time with his brothers….and when he was alone too…he fought to stay alive, he got his own food, he dug his shelters. He had succeeded where he had seen many others get eaten. All he ever wanted was to live the good life. Be powerful, careless, successful, feared! But life always went against him…always always always…..

And when he found that someone….when he thought he had a real friend, when things finally, finally seemed to get better for him….he was taken for a goddamn fool.


Why was it ALWAYS like this? Why it looked like the very world was against him??

Maybe…maybe he was still that weak?....


A pale light suddenly caught his interest. From under the blood and the streams of tears he stared at the outside of the cave. Night had already arrived, and the full moon was in perfect view. Huge, bright, unusually close, hanging proud and bloated on the frosty sparkle of the nocturnal skies. Triumphant, even

Taunting.


And then the anger that so devoured him reached a new level. His slobbering, bloody fangs gritted, his eyes squinted, lips pulled back in a positively wrathful snarl

Almost out of raw instinct he stormed out of the cave, to the dark and rustling open. He looked up at the moon again, panting and foaming at the mouth like a rabid kensha, eyes now irritated and bloodshot from the crying.

And he roared, bellowing as loud and high as his lungs allowed him to. A primal earth-shaker that echoed all over, rousing the swarms of bats high in the trees and startling awake the smaller critters in the ground. Anyone that saw this scene would have been truly horrified, watching that bloody giant yelling so unearthly, shaking his fists at the moon above in wrathful gestures.

But, they would have caught something else in that scene. Not just blood-thirsty anger, but also sadness, agony. Utter sorrow.


Two can play the same game. If this was how things were going to be, so be it! Let the world throw all it’s got!! He will be STRONG!!! Strong to go wherever he wants!!! Strong to do whatever he wants!! Strong to KILL whoever stands in his way!! ! He doesn’t need anyone, anything!!! All those runts and weaklings and parasites, the stuck-ups and wastes of life, he’ll show them what a TRUE predator is!! He’ll show them!! He’ll show EVERYONE!!!


The world was challenging him. He was going to challenge it back.


And he was going to WIN.