"I love you. I love you, but you need to go."


The storm had started to lighten up. Dark clouds were starting to separate and the constant lightning and thunderclaps had slowed down and faded away off to the east. The loud crashes and bangs shook the basement of the Citadel where you were now roaming with a cart of cleaning supplies in tow. The lights flickered above you, the lightbulbs buzzing and humming had filled the silence when the storm wouldn't.

You stopped at one of the doors down in the basement and looked at the doorknob. A 'Do Not Disturb' card had been jammed onto the metal knob while noises of… you didn't even want to know what was going on in that room. It wasn't even a bedroom or a comfort room! It was a storage for extra glaive armor!

Shaking your head, you pushed the cart of cleaning supplies and continued you trek down the hall and around the curves of the long room until one of the wheels had hit something.

Looking down, you were shocked to see a phone, but it wasn't just anyone's phone! The familiar leather wallet case that wrapped around the larger phone had rung bells in your head, and as you picked it up and turned it on, there was a selfie of you with him.

Gladiolus.

This was Gladio's phone!

Did he drop it? Maybe he did! Slipping the phone into the pocket of your uniform, you decided to give it to him when you would meet him at the car so you two could go home.

You turned to the cart and continued to push it down the hall until you got to another storage room, this time, with no card or sign or any noises of sexual pleasures coming from behind the door.

Upon trying to turn the handle, you found it was locked. It was weird, this was the storage room for extra supplies for… well… everyone! There were pens and folders and extra everything anyone would need. Why was this room locked?

Digging the keys out from the pocket of your uniform, you turned the key into the knob and managed to get it unlocked. As you were about to push open the door, your foot moved forward only for it to hit something that jingles against the marble floor.

Looking down at the floor once more, your eyes widened as soon as you saw they familiar necklace wore by your boyfriend, only the chain had been snapped apart.

Something was wrong.

Gladio never took that necklace off, he always wears it!

You never turned a knob so fast in your life, the door flew open to reveal the room stuffed with shelves that were stuffed with supplies. However, one of the larger shelves in the back had bee forced to the side to reveal a stairway going down.

Curiosity spiked within you as you slowly crept down the stairs.

Your stomach and mind started to scream no at you as soon as they saw deep grooves carved into the walls, each one was spread out. And as traced them, you noticed they were as if a human hand had done this, human nails had committed this.

A door stood in front of you, a knob was there and it had no lock or keyhole. It tempted you to turn it, and the loud painful cry that shouted from behind the door only fueled the temptation.

Clutching the necklace tight in your hand, you opened the door quickly as if you were ripping off a stubborn bandage to reveal a room covered with scratch marks and dried blood…

And one person.

"Gladio?" you murmured as soon as you saw the half-naked man.

"Y/n?"

His eyes widened as his jaw dropped a bit to reveal sharp teeth. There was an iron cuff clasped around his neck that was connected to a thick metal chain that cemented him to the floor. is hands hung loosely at his sides, his nails were longer and came to a point.

"Gladio? What-"

"Y/n listen to me," he barked as he cupped my face with his large hands, his nails were poking the back of my neck.

As he got closer to me, I could see the amber in his eyes slowly start to turn an acidic gold.

"Wait, Gladdy-"

"Y/n," he cut me off again, jerking me a bit. "I love you. I love you, but you need to go."

He was starting to shake.

"Glad."

His nails sank into the back of my neck and shoulders, his pupils slit into thin lines into a glowing sea of gold.

"GO!" he roared as his teeth grew.