Fox opened his eyes groggily, unsure of where he was. For about a minute his eyesight began to clear and he now had a better look at his surroundings. His private office in the Great Fox. He looked down at the time on his watch and saw it was quite early.
"Hmm, must have fallen out." he said tiredly.
Fox got up out of his chair and went straight for bathroom to wash his face off. He turned the faucet to hot and splashed some water in his face. It did the job at getting him more "up" than he was seconds ago.
He looked at the mirror in front of himself one last time and was about to walk out, but he noticed something… odd. He walked back over to look at the mirror again. His eye color was different now; not the normal jade green color they always were. They were purple now.
"What the hell?" he said, dumbfounded by what he is looking at. Fox decided to have a closer inspection of one of his eyes. He would soon regret it. Fox brought his right eye a bit closer to the mirror for a better look and gently pushed down on his eyelid. At that second, something sharp pierced his skin.
"OW! Fuck!" he immediately removed his finger to see that it was bleeding. Something bit him. Terrified, yet determined, he looked back at the mirror to see what it was. To his own horror, a small parasite was hiding inside his eye and defended itself.
"Wh-what the-" then, out of nowhere, pain took over. "GAH!"
Fox held his head in pain, the parasite was in his head now. The amount of pain Fox was feeling was immeasurable.
"Obey"
A voice spoke to him. Fox was truly terrified, he knew that voice.
"Obey Us"
"No… AH, huh?" now pain erupted from his right arm, as if he had been stabbed by a hundred needles all at the same time. He removed his glove to witness in horror as his arm began to deform into a dark claw before his eyes.
"Obey. There is no resistance. Obey" was repeated over and over in his head.
"No… I won't!"
"You must obey!" the voice got louder.
"No!"
"OBEY!"
"NOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
*GASP* Fox woke up in sweat and was breathing profusely. He darted around to see that he was in his living quarters. He looked down at his right arm; all orange fur, skin, muscle. He wasn't done yet. Fox jumped out of his bed to look into the bathroom mirror again. Nothing, his eyes were back to the green color they always were. With that Fox sighed in relief.
"It was... just a nightmare..." he said to himself. It all felt so real to him, he just couldn't believe it. Fox turned the faucet again to wipe his face off. He looked back up at the mirror. Still the same, no change in eye color or anything.
"Thank god…"
With that, he shut off the lights and went back to his bed. He sat down and paused to look back at his arm again, stretching and cracking his fingers in the process. The chilling thought of being infected by 'them' sent a chill down his spine.
"They are gone Fox…" he said to himself, "they are all gone."
Fox layed back down in the bed, but remained awake. He repeated that sentence many times over and over, about 'them' being gone. But even he knew, somewhere in the darkness of Lylat, 'they' are still out there. Watching. Waiting.
After a few minutes, Fox finally began to drift back to sleep. Only a small whisper was heard in the room.
"... obey….."