[Play: /watch?v=jRXQsQKGqIU while reading.]
The experiment was supposed to be humanity's first step into the next evolution.
That, until he came.
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
The research team had worked for months for this moment; the finalization of what would help humanity leave an eternal proof that it ever existed was at hand…
That, until they were all killed.
How I wonder what you are!
The guards were the first, all lines were dead. Then the sound of gunfire echoed to those close enough to hear them.
Up above the world so high,
Then the screams, oh god, those screams that made everyone who heard them feel their spines turned into ice, the pure horror and pain that laced those screams was absolutely terrifying.
Like a diamond in the sky!
Then, entire sectors were going offline, going from the outermost sectors, and then, the base began losing power,
When the blazing sun is gone,
Its darkness had begun to consume everything
When the nothing shines upon,
The power outage had brought panic among the researchers, making them not to notice that one by one they had begun to disappear into the darkness… permanently.
Then you show your little light,
The screams began once again, but this time, it wasn't like the previous one that was heard when the guards had been swallowed by the darkness, this one, had been laced with despair and pain.
Twinkle, twinkle, all the night.
It kept advancing, now, using the memories of its victims, it crept slowly, as if enjoying the fear that it brought to the research crew.
Then the traveler in the dark,
Then, 'it' began whispering, whispers that held knowledge, but to the crew, it was a declaration of their deaths
Thanks you for your little spark,
The crew began losing its cool quickly; the whispers awoke that darkness buried in every single of their hearts and nurturing it. Those little sins, those unspeakable things everyone has…
He could not see which way to go,
The darkness was the same that had told them how to create 'it', it showed those who could see it the way to create 'it', it made them believe it was necessary to create 'it'.
If you did not twinkle so.
And they had believed it, they had built 'it'.
When the blazing sun is gone,
And by doing so, they condemned themselves to a fate worse than death, and per consequence, their descendants too.
When the nothing shines upon,
At last, the camber holding the monument to the beginning of humanity's downfall became the last stop for the darkness, as it had already consumed everything else.
Though I know not what you are,
There, stood a mother with her 4 year-old child, who she had brought to show him the bright future, trying to make him react, as he'd gone in a catatonic-like state since the beginning of the darkness assault.
Twinkle, twinkle, little star.
The mother finally succumbed to the darkness, and the last thing she saw, was a male teen, his brown hair almost merging with the darkness, his blue eyes shining as if mocking her that she had left her only son alone to the darkness.
And then in the last seconds of her existence, she saw the face of this teen along of that of her son. The connection filled her with what would be her last emotion she'd ever feel-
Dread.
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"Happy birthday, Shinji!"
Redwolves Studios Presents:
In collaboration with Winged Entertainment
A Neon Genesis Evangelion Fanfiction
Written by James Sarrae
Prime Requiem Evangelion
Prologue: Welcome Home