And I'm Back!
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Also if you haven't noticed I am updating every other Sunday/Monday.
Fair warning this chapter gets a little angsty. I hope. I'm kinda unsure how this will turn out.
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This should not have happened. Maybe I should have stayed away.
It's too late.
Why did I ever think I would be accepted? That's funny, I thought blood was black not this bright, beautiful red... No, its just my demon seeing things. Huh, never knew life could fall apart this much...
My name is empty 'cause you drained away the love
My name is searching since you stole my only soul
My name is hatred and the reasons we both know
Worthless empty searching hatred, who am I right now
Shinedown - Wearing me out
It's been a week since Kaneki was brought here.
A week is a long time to avoid everyone.
He distrusted that Jeff guy. Not only was almost everyone avoiding him except Sally, Smile as he found out out the dog's name was, and EJ. The mansion had a thick silence hung over it as if all of nature was holding it's breath waiting for something to happen. This wasn't helping his mood at all. About every 3 hours he wanted to go crush something, kill someone, ANYTHING to break the atmosphere. Sally had to check up on him every once and awhile to make sure he doesn't leave.
At least over the last couple days the ghoul learned the oddities around the place. The people here ranged from the most human of them, Clockwork, to the weeping angel thing SCP -173. As he noiced, only 4 or 5 of them were there daily the rest...well let's not talk about that.
Right now he was just glad to have a good cup of coffee. He finally convinced Slender to get him some good coffee mix. It took some threatening, in fact everyone probably hated him that much more now, not that he cared. Well that's what he was drinking at the moment as he read Eto's...No Takatsuki Sen's new book, better known as Hanged Man's MacGuffin. He looked up at the Harvest moon, red as scarlet, completely oblivious to the world for one of the few times in his life. The shadows lengthened as his eyes drooped down slowly. Maybe he should've slept within the last couple days now. His head tilted and he fell into the darkness of his nightmares, his home. The coffee spilled from his hand and slowly flowed over to the shadows behind the half-breed.
By now you would think Kaneki would know better than to be distracted. Probably by now you would be shouting at him to look around quickly. But he doesn't, which now lead him to his fate. Just another one of those what ifs that could've changed everything with its partner if only.
Pages flickered over and the light reflected onto one single line "There is no such thing as fate. It is simple to combination of one circumstance with another."
Red.
That was what he saw. Well should have seen if his eyes were open. Forcing them open Kaneki winced into the blinding light in front of him. Finally it was pulled away and ho looked around as his eyes refocused.
"Finally decided to wake up? It's been about a week." a familiar voice jeered.
Jeff. Of course.
"Well now that you're finally up you can explain why you're here, right? I mean, we haven't had anyone come here in years!" Jeff's voice raised to a hysterical pitch. "You have to earn the right to be here! there is no 'Oh looky I killed a couple people can I live here now?'."
"Of course your 'friends' came to check on you. You know, EJ and that little angel Sally?" he asked hypothetically as he waved a knife around. Bloody. Kaneki felt dried blood on the back of his Achilles heel. But how? "You even stole my dog from me! Of course, out plan was to knock you out but apparently normal needles and knives don't work on you. So we got a little hint. EJ mentioned that you probably had something in your room and he was right!" Oh yeah, the quinque knife and needles I have. Don't actually remember why I brought them.
"So let's see how long you can last. An average human can go a month only on bread and water. But since you have to live up to the name, 2 months on only water; now how about that?" He stalled for a minute. "I'll even do you a favor and give you a while to think it over." He said as I felt the back of the handle of the knife hit my skull. Then everything went black once again.
Thumping could be heard throughout the basement of the mansion.
"Jeff, you don't know what you're dealing with, let the guy go." A siphoned voice could be heard from the other side of the door.
Jeff just ignored the statement for about the thousandth time this week.
The room was vagely like a questioning room at a station. A glass wall stretched across the middle with a dim seating room on one side and our unconscious ghoul chained up in a rather familiar state on the other.
This situation was dull for Jack. He enjoyed forcing the information out of others. But Ben wouldn't have it. Though he had to admit, he liked the odd way his new 'friend' counted. Down by seven perhaps? Even as he was unconciuos you could vagely hear the numbers in every other breath. Every now and again the white-haired figure would wake up and ramble on about some story or another. The Jack payed no mind. It was usually about centipedes or other things of the same oddity.
Days came and went. Its been about a week already? When is this guy gonna ask for something? Jeff even offered him coffee but was denied almost right on the spot. There is something very odd about this.
Keeping EJ and Sally out of this was hard work but we somehow worked it out. They would come and check in on the situation every day or so, but if they tried to help him, well, let's just say 4 against 2 wasn't very good odds. Ben was our official 'doctor' in this situation. Since he was probably the only one with the most technological experience in the entire household. He knew just about enough to keep the guy alive. Well that was until now. For the past hour or so, the gadgets sounded like they were going to explode. Not only that, but Ben said that Kaneki's ,I think that's his name, body has gone beyond human capabilities. Every once and a while when he was awake his eyes would change color and now he hasn't said anything for ages. This really wasn't as fun as it sounded in the first place.
How many days has it been?
I think a month now. Yeah a month, that sounds about right. Rize surprisingly hasn't forced me to snap yet. But I know she will soon, It's almost a matter of time.
Jeff has steadily been getting more annoyed as time has passed. Kaneki now had a couple cuts here and there from when the guy almost snapped. It didn't help anyway, they just healed within a hour. Well they should've. If that was any indication he was starting to get hungry then life downright hated him right now.
Out of the pot and into the frying pan? Huh. I thought I escaped this after leaving, guess not. I could've probably escaped by now but Slender asked I didn't hurt any of them. Well, that might not happen if they don't let me go! You know they could've just asked? But no they HAD to put me back into the SadiIStic SiTUaTion anD bRinG bAck thosE meMorIEs...no stop. Get a hold of yourself.
Kaneki's eyes flickered open. Everyone had already left for the day and left him down here to his own thoughts. It should be another three hours efore anyone shows up to check on him.
-rumble-
No...
-rumble-
Oh no... Kaneki yanked at the chains that tied him to the chair but they didn't snap. After realizing waiting this long probably allowed him to be weak enough not to escape he tries knocking the chair over. It tipped a little but snaps back into place.
They thought of everything didn't they? I should've tried to escape earlier...maybe then I could've stopped anyone from getting hurt. Sorry Slender but I forgot to say I can't keep promises...just ask anyone. I left to protect without realizing it hurt. The shadows grew over his eyes as familiar blood-red flowers filled his consciousness. Hello...Rize. Then the beast was free.
Ben stared at the screen.
He lost.
He never loses.
In all his lifetime, well whatever it was, he has never lost a game. A chill went down his spine as the end music played. Jeff should be back by now, maybe I should see if we can go check on the insect downstairs. Though Jeff will then ramble on about how the guy was just a wimp that begged Slender to be here or some random crap like that. Maybe I'll go alone.
They started calling him the insect, well mostly Ben, because of the constant clicking that could be heard every once and a while around him. It sounded like a hoard of ants were down there to be honest. Sally always hated it so she only visited when the insect was unconscious. Not only that but his bone structure eerily snapped back into place like an insectoid when Jeff rampages on him.
Ben sighed and dropped the controller. Lost looked over at him from the book he was reading but just raised an eyebrow then returned to reading. Silent as usual while staring at his book of weird characters. He just shrugged and went downstairs. The walk to the basement seemed longer than usual, is was probabl just his nerves messing with him. He stopped outside the door to the front half of the room. Faint clicking could be heard through the plaster walls. Great the guy is awake, maybe now he will talk so we can stop keeping him locked up like a criminal. Ha. The irony.
Ben unlocked the door then pushed it as it slowly creaked open. Faint glimmers of red could be seen but only just since it was extremely dark. He whistled as he walked on his merry way to the light switch which had to be on the other side of the room. As soon as the lights flickered on a thick piece of red slammed against the glass then backed of into a corner.
"Well, I'll be. Your a ghoul I presume?" Ben smirked as he pieced together the situation. Kaneki was backed into a corner with a, insect like, or some type a of mask covering his face. The ghoul hissed a little, to Ben's amusement, then turned to sit in the corner again. At some point he probably broke the chair and has been trying to get out since.
Kaneki finally spoke up as Ben stood there, "I jUsT waNT oUt. ThE cenTIPede woN'T lEAve." The ghoul scratched at his ear then looked straight at Ben with the look of hunger in his eyes. "You don't smell human. But you do SmeLL DeiCiouS!" At this point Ben regretted coming alone. Physically he could escape, he was a creepypasta for pete's sake. But if Kaneki went on a ramage there is no telling what will happen. His mind blacked as he felt a faint breeze blow past him. Looking back he saw a red...tentacle... planted in the ground to far right of him. Ben scrabbled back then slammed the door before the ghoul could get out.
The door was slammed against heavily as Ben backed away. Boy, did he screw up. Then he heard a crash to the right of him. Turning that way, he saw EJ holding what looked to be a bloody bag and a broken glass on the floor. Oh. Both teens (generalized age) looked at each other knowing full well the mess they were in. Slender was gonna kill them if Kaneki didn't first.
The wall cracked under the weight of another crash.
Then the door broke and all hell broke loose.
Kay.
Yes I know I cut it off early I'm mentally preparing myself for next chapter. Was kinda expecting this to be more emotional but you guys are gonna have to wait it got shoved back a little by Ben almost dying.
There will hopefully be a fight next chapter but I need to figure out how to potray it. Should it be Semi-stable Kaneki or Centipede Kaneki? or I could just break him beyond repair and aim for Akaneki.
Now questions
Why Ben be sooo weak?
Well, hard to explain. With the game creepypasta's they are well generalized around games. So I just gave them like super ultra hacker abilities and reaaallyyy smart with above average physical attributes. No it is not that they magically appeared in our world as they were in the game. Needs to be more down to earth honestly.
Why so chill when we asked for dark?
My story writing depends on my mood. And I honestly tried averything EVERYTHING to dampen it without being super mopey. But I couldn't get it out the last to weeks sorry guys. But with exams coming up it should be easy! hehe...actually though I think I got it down cause I'm reading this really sad book that will probably emotionally slay me.
Why so confusing with POV?
Its the way I write.I probably tried too hard with this many characters. But as time goes on, other than Kaneki, I will be switching to other characters as Kaneki gets to meet them, so yes overpopular characters will fade of a little as the story goes on. They are just the easiest to interpret into a semi-civil personality while keeping their nature.
Why weird centipede nature and Rize taking over?
I read an odd fan story a while back where Kaneki split his consciousness into multiple parts so I utilized that for this story. Basically Kaneki is normally a very chill version of Shironeki, Shironeki when angered or emotionally distraught, then almost animal like in Kakuja form.
When Juuzou?
Should be appearing in 3-8 chapter if I last that long ;)
That's all that I got. Ask if you have anymore!
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