Letting Out the Beast
Warnings: Violence, though not particularly graphic in nature
Disclaimer: I do not own Kagerou Days or Mekaku City Actors.
A first-time writing piece in response to a song, can you guess which? It's incredibly short, as I'm not used to writing fanfictions yet. /darnit school, for such providing limited contact with creative writing/
A white-haired boy of 19 years stood in the center of a black ring illuminated overhead by startlingly bright light.
Shielding his eyes from the blinding rays, he slowly said in a slurred, quiet voice, "Eh… what's happening? I want to go back to sleep…"
A harsh hiss emanated from the area beneath his feet, "Ssssleep? Ssssorry, but I cannot allow you to Konoha… I have sssomething I need you to do, if you would sssso kindly help."
Konoha directed his eyes away from the light and blankly stared at the origin of such a poisonous voice: a widening blackness surrounding him, gradually taking form, metamorphosing into something familiar.
Panic then registered on Konoha's face as he saw a cavernous mouth emerging from the black, engulfing him whole. Despite his struggle to pry open the jaws and escape from the Beast, all attempts were rendered futile by the venomous darkness that seethed into his mind—darkness that transformed into strange figures in his head, serpent silhouettes that all chanted one thing:
Let out the Beast
In his mind, Konoha struggled to preserve his consciousness, knowing that if he were to fail to withhold his sanity, a tragedy was going to unfold itself upon an unknowing group... But the voices grew more intense.
Let out the Beast
A seed of grief and despair was planted in his heart. With each resounding chant, the seed grew heavier, until it had reached the threshold—
Let out the Beast
And with no choice but to yield to the deafening chorus in his head, he succumbed to the choir.
Many bodies littered the floor: a blonde boy with a gunshot wound to the head, a raven-haired boy with multiple bullets through the abdomen and throat, a green-haired girl with several shots in the breast and abdomen, a shattered iPhone showing remnants of a certain blue-haired girl…
And in the center was the Beast—no longer Konoha, but "Kuroha".