Eclipse - Act 2 - Of Blood and Truth

Chapter 22 - The Feral Ones

Adam

Madness...

It was devouring his heart and his mind. Once the valiant leader, driven by the idea of Justice against Humanity for their mistreatment of the Faunus, into a monster trapped in a cage.

Merely half an hour before he attacked them in the streets...

He was shoved up against the corner, his clothes motheaten and grime had covered the scars around his eye. S.D.C it spelt, the Schnee Dust Company, burned over his eye which turned the sclera blood red from the burst blood vessels inside. It was like it glowed, bright and almost demonic, he gripped his hair, pulling the copper strands with pain. Blood ran down from his scalp, trickling over his scarred eye.

What was real anymore? That was the question he could never find the answer to, he kept seeing things all around him.

He turned, wide eyed as he saw her, stood right in front of him with flaming amber eyes, her cat ears were pointed like that of a Bengal Tiger. Her long locks of black hair were like smoke, embers trailed within the smog as she stared at him, with pale cracked skin. He clenched his hands into fists, staring at her. "You... you did this to me! You ruined everything!" Adam bellowed, but he turned and gasped, seeing Blake sat next to him, looking right into his eyes with a disturbing smile.

"We can still be together... all you have to do is come get me..." She whispered seductively, unusually so – as that was never Blake's way. He could not feel her hands as they moved over him, countless copies of her surrounded him, but his teeth gritted together, and he spun round and punched her in the face. The hallucination vanished, and another pinned him against the wall, staring straight into his eyes.

"You! This is all your fault! You betrayed me! You're a coward!" He brayed, but she shushed him, placing her false finger against his lips with a smile, her eyes turned pale as she grinned.

"I am... but only your love... only your perfection can save me. Save me Adam... oh gods I can't live like this... save me!" She begged him desperately, but he pushed her ghostly figure away. He stood up swiftly, looking around as he pressed his hands against his head with great torment.

"GET AWAY FROM ME! GET AWAY! YOU'RE NOT REAL YOU'RE NOT!" He screamed, until he heard a ghostly groan behind him. He turned and his eyes widened once more, he saw them – his parents – they were on their knees with maggots falling from their mouths and ears.

"How could you betray us, son? Why did you fall in love with that monster?" They both asked him, their voices were merged as they spoke, demonic and terrifying. He then saw a knife press against their faces, before a brand burned against his mother's cheek. She shrieked in immense agony as her skin melted and bubbled from the torment. The dark laugh emerged from the darkness and he walked out, tall with the Brand in his hand.

It was Jacques Schnee himself, cleaned up and looking as perfect as always, his moustache waxed as he always liked it. His mother cried where she was knelt, and the hallucination of Jacques Schnee walked towards him, as two skeletal soldiers held knives to the throats of his parents. "What are you going to do, boy? Are you going to save them? Go ahead, try." Jacques Schnee said to him, stood right next to him. He felt like he changed, and in the puddle of his own tears, his hallucinations had turned him back into the boy he once was.

His hands were shaking erratically, he was terrified, staring at where his mother and father were. Tears streamed down their cheeks as they stared at him, blood poured from the fresh burn on his mother's face. The small boy with short red hair shyly approached the soldier, holding nothing but a fork in his hand to try and save his mother and father. The Hallucination echoed his memories, of how he lost his parents. The soldiers were laughing, clad in S.D.C Armour, yet another Private Military outside of the Atlesians.