Side & Teaser: Inner Realm

  With my world going black and my consciousness fading I

  was left in fear of what my future holds for me, as I started to drift I fell a

  tug pulling me out of the darkness and as soon as I caved I ended up in a barren

  land with nothing but black sand and a crimson sun.

  With only what I remembered before passing out I at first

  thought I had died and ended up in some spirit realm until I respawn at my last

  safe haven in the trees. However, as time in the space continued to flow it

  started to rub me the wrong way it feels to natural as if I am walking inside

  my own body.

  With nothing happening and no sign of me waking up I decide

  to start trans versing this barren land to see if I can find out more about

  where I am or find a way out of this damn boring space.

  With what feels like hours of walking in I think a straight

  line but never works that way I cannot see an end to this plain, with nothing

  but the sounds of my steps reverberating on the sand I my mind starts to wane.

  As the weight of insanity starts to weigh on my psyche I begin

  to lash out at anything and everything around me, with no change or events

  arising from my actions and the space remaining the same I give up. Why should I

  keep moving forward when there Is nothing ahead in any direction nothing to

  change this bleak existence I am currently living?

  Giving up I just plop where I

  stood letting out a sigh of defeat, as I lay there pondering what am I going to

  do where nothing changes and I get nowhere I start shifting the sand beneath me.

  With my continues actions of

  moving the sand it puts me in a trance where I become empty focusing on

  nothing, being nothing.

  Through my meditative state a thought arose as if I had

  reached enlightenment, the notification about an evolution. Now call me crazy

  even though it said I wont evolve tell I regain control of my body never said I

  couldn’t test it for a ride.

  After all, if I am not dead, not in heaven or hell,

  reincarnated then I must be inside my inner realm like the monks from memory.

  If my theory is correct I am able to bend this realm to my

  will after all it should in truth be me.

  As I came to a decision on my plans I proceed to enact

  them, at first nothing seemed to be working but the more I pushed it I felt a

  light tug almost telling me I am on the right path.

  Pushing myself further mentally I begin to form an image

  with the evolution choices popping up in front of me, after an untold amount of

  mentally draining myself I was able to materialize it.

  With a new found hope and purpose in this dead world I begin

  to look over my option’s once more, yes all of them sound and could very well

  be great in their own way but one just hit’s home to me, After careful

  consideration I select N.G.B Anarak.

  Within moments of selecting the evolution my body starts to

  pulsate uncontrollably spouting energy left and right. As the energy release

  starts to quicken and escalate I can feel my body being torn apart and my body

  morphing into an abomination.

  As the pain intensifies I prey to black out to ignore the excruciating

  pain I am experiencing but falling into despair as I recall I already am

  unconscious and not being sure if it’s possible in this realm.

  With no hope insight I bite down as a massive surge of pain

  rips through every fiber and molecule inside me, second by second the pain

  intensifies forcing my fragile mind to shatter releasing the hold I had over

  the beast within.

  Being unable to pass out I watch

  from the sidelines as what I have been holding back locked far away deep inside

  my inner being is unleashed in this hell hole. Glad that it happened in here

  instead of the real world but also fearful of what would happen if this thing maintains

  control and is released upon my wakening.

  Drowned in concern and fear I can only watch as this other

  side of me forcefully rips our body apart under its own violation further

  driving it mad. With every limb, every chunk of flesh, and every organ being ripped

  to shreds the darkness grows and the beast hungers.

  Guilty for causing this, guilty for unleashing it, guilty

  for my own weakness I cower in hate for myself. Only watching it happen and not

  stopping it like I should I wallow in self-pity.

  As the minutes go by our body regrows then is ripped apart

  by the monster over and over again. With every passing second my rage grows

  with every passing second my tolerance and fear runs thin, soon my patience and

  cowardice runs out and I explode through the darkness forcing my way towards

  this entity inside me, as I get within feet from it I force feed it my fucking

  legs drilling them ever further down its bottomless maw.

  With it coming to realization its under attack it focuses

  its attention onto me instead of ripping our body apart, as soon as it does we

  begin to clash, slash for slash, bite for bite, we continued our internal

  battle fighting for dominance.

  As our fight escalated the stakes raised higher we began

  using [ED] on each other, not realizing the danger of this until we were too

  late. With each cast, every hit the erosion starts to take its toll, but not

  like normal after all instead of on tissue we used it inside our mind eating

  away at parts of our self.

  As the effect began to show we both halted and began to

  panic, yes the alter ripped our body apart but now realizing it was out of

  survival and instinct I understood that it is not entirely bestial and that it

  knows were screwed.

  Setting our differences aside we began doing everything to

  slow and stop the erosion before it’s too late and we wipe our existence out

  becoming nothing more than a veggie. With nothing working it begins to hiss and

  thrash in panic with me almost following along, With the seconds counting down I

  can feel myself fading and fragmenting.

  Losing hope, I begin to scan through everything about

  myself trying and praying that there is something I gained that will allow us

  to survive this ordeal, on the brink of vanishing I recall [Quick Eater] not

  bothering with it originally thinking it just allowed me to eat faster cost me

  a great start. In truth it not only allowed me to eat faster but also grants

  the ability to eat and absorb anything without repercussions.

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  As a new way of light shines on me I begin to suck in all

  of the tar eating away at out surroundings and ourselves with the alter realizing

  what I was doing it to beings to assist, after a close call we were able to

  absorb every last drop and refocus on each other.

  Not caring anymore, we stare each other down, sizing one

  another up, trying to figure each other’s stand point and mostly me trying to

  figure out just what the fuck this thing is. With my original impression of it

  being I mindless monster trying to destroy us and everything around it now

  putting me in a state of confusion after all it did help save us either out of

  survival or just because it deserves more thought.

  With nothing happening I try a long shot by attempting

  speech, now remember I have yet to vocalize anything other than hissing and

  crying. With my attempt I am able to squeeze out +What are you+.

  Just those words alone made my throat almost rip, and now

  hoping it understand speech but also being able to squeeze out a response I wait.

  Alter: PoV

  Dark, cold, alone and hungry these are what I came into existence

  feeling, blind of my surroundings with nothing more than slight feelings of

  danger and warning I was able to enhance them, with more time passing I gained

  the ability to start seeing the outside world through the Host.

  With each passing moment I observed and influenced some

  things slightly either through hunger or warning’s I was able to satisfy myself

  and my urges.

  Noticing the main is slightly carefree at moments worries

  me so I begin to inforce my presence and the feelings of danger and

  alertness.

  Thankfully he began to keep an eye out at all times and

  take things slower, like hunting the wisps again instead of going back to the

  goblins.

  But the dumb shit decided to push his luck and began to

  explore the other pathway instead of improving our self.

  While I watch and keep an eye out something about this new

  place gives me a bad vibe so I start to seep it into the main. As if it was a

  fly the fucker rubs it off and keeps going towards the center.

  Not giving a shit anymore I decide to flood him with mass amounts

  of fear and warning, luckily it was in time before a fucking giant beast beings

  to unleash attacks left and right on us. With us barely surviving I vowed to

  never let the main get us in those situation again.

  With us moving out of the cavern and into the forest I decide

  to help push the main into deciding to live in the trees instead of on the

  forest floor to increase our safety and survivability.

  But of course he has to destroy all of my hard work by

  going towards the sounds of danger, at first it was fine staying in the trees

  minding our own business but then without him realizing it we were being

  watched. So I forcefully jerk our body’s head to look at the figure.

  Without delay we began to bolt it back home, back to safety

  and comfort thank god. After eating the main goes to sleep while I keep watch

  during the night. Noticing something was off I began to release darkness into

  the main’s dream stimulating him to wake up so we can run.

  As I almost thought we escaped from our hunters I relaxed a

  little causing the main not to realize the danger coming that put us into our

  current situation. As the main passed out we woke up in a strange environment it

  took me a second to figure out it was our inner realm but the main was a tad

  bit slow J.

  Noticing the main began to wane

  I started to worry every time he gets bored or a little fucked in the head he

  does stupid shit that puts us in danger time and time again.

  Hoping nothing happens was too much and as soon as he got

  to bored he force materialized the evolution screen, with no time to prepare he

  fucking chooses to test the evolution forcing him out of the chair and me into

  it.

  Knowing what I had to due I began assisting the evolution

  by ripping off body parts so they can regrow and change into the form the

  evolution will grant us. And of course the main took it the wrong way and led

  to this huge as fight that almost caused us to become brain dead due to his irrationality.

  After the whole ordeal he then has the fucking galls to ask

  what I am, like fucking seriously what the hell does he think I am some

  monster, well fuck never mind. After calming myself down I am able to say +We

  are one and the same+.

  PoV:Mc

  After hearing what the entity said short burst of feelings

  and memories start to flash before me linking it to our survival. With guilt

  overhead I am able to apologize realizing that this is another part of what

  makes us and had kept us safe this entire time from my stupidity.

  With an understanding quietly

  said we focus back to our body, with the efforts from let’s just say Sedaris. Our

  body finally finished its evolution.

  Not really sure what to think of it after all it changed immensely,

  before we were about the size of a mule, eight legs, 12 sets of eyes, and metallic

  now how to explain. Well for starters were big really fucking big like a tank,

  still 8 legs and slender but with what looks like some form of armor plating

  that pulsates, and we lost 4 sets of eyes but gained 1 set that resembles

  cybernetics.

  With just the rough description let’s move onto further

  details, it seems were able to shift our form in certain ways in no way

  shapeshifting. For example, we can merge our limbs together to make a much

  larger durable limb, or merge multiple limbs into the main body giving us a

  slicker shape but with a definite image of immense durability.

  As I begin to test the eyes a few noticeable functions are

  time distortion kind of like when we are in life threating situation but now it’s

  at will, along with enhanced visual processing. With some functions that i can’t

  access in here. With that feeling I also notice there are more functions unavailable

  in this inner world.

  Deciding

  it was enough examining I proceed to get use to the new form after all I am now

  by far bigger than before. With not knowing how much time has passed getting a

  feeling of our body I decide that this one just feels so satisfying for both of

  us with a decision made we were about to gun it through this barren land when

  all of a sudden the world starts to shatter before us and unimaginable pain

  rips through our mind causing convulsions before falling into a coma.