A/N: Written for Alone In The Blight's 2spooky contest.
Try and run.
It won't save you; I can hear your soft footfalls as you try and escape the inevitable. I can smell you, your fear rank and overpowering. No matter how far you run, I'll hunt you down. I chase you down, so slow! So weak. You never were a fighter, and without me, against me, running is all you can do.
As you glance behind you, you see me. Try calling out, try pleading for mercy. Won't save you. Nothing can save you now. Keep running. Make this at least a little sporting, would you?
This is all your fault, you know. You, who led us here, who thought you had what it takes. Foolish; you're nothing without me. Without even a dagger, you keep on running. Finally, I hear you stop, hear the soft sounds of your footsteps cease. I know where you are now. A dead end; one I led you into.
Try and backtrack, it's no use. I'm already here. Right behind you. You can hear me. Not that it matters; I don't need stealth against one so small, so insignificant as you. I can see your face, lit by the sole torch in the corridor. The light casts dull shadows around us, on us. Stricken by terror, you fall to your knees. Pleading for mercy, hoping against hope I can remember you.
I can. I just don't care.
I approach you, slowly. Silent as the night, I unsheathe my sword. Rusted and bloody, chipped and worn, it slips free. Your fear, I can almost taste it now. Such an overwhelming musk, but no more than an appetizer. before the feast to come. Without a word, I slam the blade into your gut, right through those pitiful things you call armor. As your scream rings throughout the dungeons, I revel in it, in the blood now freely flowing, on the look of abject pain on your face, all of it. That's all I live for, now. All I am. All this, the chase, the hunt, and this. The kill. That's the only way I could feel.
Look at me, tears in your eyes. Trying so hard not to cry. You always were like that, weren't you? Always trying to stay strong, failing every time. Failing now. Don't be sad. Soon you'll have what you always wanted.
Soon you'll be just like me.