Author's Note: Geez I'm gone for a while and most of you want a fight with Skreel and Agony again. –Sigh- just relax and enjoy the story Royal Guys and Gals. The Mob Festival hasn't begun yet and you still want bloodshed. For now just enjoy this chapter that will involve Hayden and the Shadowlings as it goes back and forth between them so I hope you all enjoy.
Chapter 52: Corruption
-Recap-
"Her soft breathing, her cute face, her long, angelic silk hair, her gorgeous eyes, her magnificent lips…it makes her…it makes her…it makes her so angelic."
"His shining eyes, his pale skin that resembles snow, his deep black raven hair, and those lips of his…they make me…want to kiss him."
Cupa then moved herself closer to Hayden and he did the same. Both of them breathing slowly and steadily as their faces closed the distance towards each other. It was as if time slowed around them and they didn't seem aware of it as their eyes lowered slightly as they were mere inches from closing the gap between them.
-Now-
Hayden's eyes began to glow intensely and black veins formed on the back of his hands though Cupa didn't seem to realize and neither did he. They two were mesmerized in each others gaze and the aroma that everything around them didn't seem to matter.
"Cupa," Hayden said softly.
"Hayden," Cupa said softly.
The two closed their eyes giving into their lustful desires. They wanted to kiss each other, feel more ecstasy then just a kiss when they were done and maybe even more, yet when their lips seemed to touch Hayden opened his eyes widely and backed away quickly while clenching his chest. Cupa's eyes opened seeing this and looked at Hayden to see him clutching his chest in pain.
"A-are you alright?" Cupa asked with a worried voice.
"I-it's…grr…I need to use the bathroom!" Hayden said as he rushed out of his room.
As he ran out of the room Cupa was left alone as she felt her heart sink. She grabbed her chest having that horrible feeling and closed her eyes as a tear came out.
"I'm so stupid," She muttered.
Hayden slammed the door shut in the bathroom and locked it. Since this was a special bathroom for him it was closer so it wasn't a long run but it didn't mean anything. Hayden began panting and sweating as he still gripped his chest. The pain he felt was staggering and immense that his breathing was getting heavier.
"What…the…Nether!" Hayden groaned.
He then collapsed on the Iron floor with a loud, painful thud and lied their on his back. He began spazzing out on the floor. Tears rolled down his eyes and saliva came out of his mouth as he began to groan loudly before turning into a sharp scream. His shirt then had a darkened spot around it before making tearing and spurting noises. Then a sharp tear came from his chest and liquid came pouring out and leaked on his shirt making it even darker and causing what appeared to be black blood seeping out of Hayden. He screamed loudly as he jolted his body upwards as he felt the pain before falling on the floor in his puddle of blood.
Saliva came out of his mouth and tears kept on falling from his eyes after he experienced that. Pain was coursing though his sore body though he used what remaining strength he had and grabbed hold of the collar of his shirt. Pulling the collar down he averted his gaze to where he felt the pain and his eyes widen as he saw a gaping, bloody black hole in the center of his chest. As he stared he didn't see his heart and this scared him.
"What the…Nether…did she do to…me?" Hayden said.
He placed his hand on the hole and felt a sharp pain when he touched it. He gritted his teeth trying his best not to scream and dug his hand inside the hole. A sharp pain surged throughout his body but Hayden still stayed strong and gritted his teeth as he moved his hand around inside the hole until is eyes widen. He pulled his hand back revealing black blood that covered his entire hand and stared in horror as he spoke.
"I…have…no…heart. Wh-what did Karen…do?" He said before fainting from the pain.
-Elsewhere-
The darkened clouds and the light purple rain that fell from the sky made the darkened island more ominous then it appeared. Shadowy figures soon roamed the lands. Some talking, others laughing psychotically, fighting or lustful things with one another. Though the Shadowy figures kept their distance from the darkened spire since none of them were allowed by it. [Yet at least.] Inside the deep darkened parts of the spire was Raike as he walked down the blood red illuminated halls. He averted his eyes above as he looked at the ceiling to see the hanging corpses of his failed Experiments. He stopped and looked up at the hanged bodies and his eyes seemed to produce some sense of sadness towards them.
He then shrugged off his feelings and his eyes went back to their emotionless state and he continued walking down the hall. He then reached a door and opened it and saw three figures in the room that turned away from the glass they were looking at which showed a chamber.
One was a young man who was about 20-years-old. He was about 5'11 in height with short neatly brush black hair, and pale colored skin along with sickly yellow colored eyes and green pupils. He wore He wore a black doctor coat that had some white tints on it making it look like it was made out of metal, black pants, black leather gloves, and black shoes though on his face was a black gas mask that covered the lower portion of his face and had to straps that went to the back of his head.
The second one was a young woman who appeared to be 18-years-old. She was about 5'9 in height with a slim body that showed her curvaceous body, mid-length blood red ponytail that was over her shoulder, pale colored skin, her face wasn't visible as it was covered in bandages but her right on the other hand was which was a sickly yellow color with a amber pupil. She wore a white doctor coat similar to the mans though it was open buttoned revealing a seductive black colored nurse-like outfit though she had stitches on her neck, stomach area, and thighs, knee-high black boots, and a black nurse hat on her head.
The final one was a cute young girl who appeared to be 11-years-old. She was 4'8 in height with a petite body just like any other girl, pale colored skin just like the other two, neon teal hair that made two pigtails that went to her knees, and one sickly yellow colored eye with a red pupil. She had a eye patch on her right eye which seemed to have black liquid around it, and wore a black dress along with no sleeves at all, black laces wrapped around her legs and black dress shoes. Her entire arms had stitches around them and dried up blood were around her arms.
The three bowed respectfully in Raike's presence as he stared at them. He then motioned them to rise which they did and the young man spoke first.
"Master Raike. We have been doing as you have instructed." The man said in a calm and somewhat young voice.
"I see. Were there any problems with Maria in any way?" Raike asked in his usual emotionless voice.
"There were quite a few Master." The female said, before coughing behind her bandaged face.
The man began to rub her back when she started coughing and she raised her hand showing that she was fine but he still looked at her with sincere eyes.
"I see…please explain but try not to strain yourself." Raike said.
"Y-yes Master. We have been keeping watch over her as you said and she's been showing signs of…irregular patterns. After you have left to report to Neydah she has been going into a state of rage and destroyed most of the things in the room. We have sent some of the subjects you have requested in your notes to restrain her but-"
The female was then interrupted by a loud shrieking noise and the four calmly looked through the glass to see what was happening inside the room that she was talking about but saw that the glass was splattered with blood. Raike's eyes seemed to widen as he saw the blood slide off the glass and looked in the room to see bodies spread across the floor in gruesome ways and in the center of all the massacre was Maria though she had gone through some changes. Her clothes where ripped off of her revealing her body, on her back where wings through they seemed to be broken or haven't developed yet and bones that seemed to be apart of her spine, a tail with small boney spikes on it, elongated arms that had massive skin tearing and elongated legs that had becomes distorted and reptilian like with talons for toes, longer hair that seemed to cover her face and sharpened teeth.
The four looked at the girl to see her somewhat bigger then before but not bigger then the room itself. They saw her eating what appeared o be a body in her hands and Raike seemed to find this quite similar to when she ate Kratos's head.
"Bio signs in Maria are increasing at an unstable level. Probability that she may become a threat to us is high. Shall we detain her Master Raike?" The little girl said, while she tilted her head while looking at Raike.
"No." Raike said as he still stared at Maria.
Just then the door opened and the four turned calmly to see Allison, and Karen walk in. Allison had a calm look on her face as she looked at the four before looking through the glass to see Maria. Karen on the other hand looked as well but turned her attention back to Raike.
"I didn't expect you two to be here." Raike said.
"I came here to see what you were doing but turns out you are doing another one of your experiments." Allison said.
"…she is not another experiment or patient Allison. She is someone that I came across after disposing of Kratos." Raike said.
"I understand." Allison said with a nod.
"Anyways…did you do what I ask that involved my little Haydie?" Karen asked.
"Yes I have." Raike said.
He then turned his gaze to the little girl who looked up at him immediately with a smile on her face.
"Sally, please be a dear and bring in the mixture I had you and Veronica made." Raike asked.
Sally nodded and left the room with a slight hum coming from her voice. As she left Raike walked over to the door that led inside the observation chamber.
"Master I don't think it's a good idea for you to go in there." The male said.
"I agree. Please don't go in there Master." The female said.
"Jack, Veronica, I assure you that nothing will happen. Just stay in here and continue to write down some notes about what I'm going to do." Raike said.
"As you wish Master Raike." Jack and Veronica said with a slight nod.
-Elsewhere-
Hayden's body lay on the floor of the bathroom with black liquid escaping his mouth. He soon groaned and slowly opened his eyes. He slowly sat up from the floor and held his head.
"Ugh…what…happened?" He said to no one specifically.
He then opened his eyes rather quickly and pulled his shirt back and saw the hole on his chest and shivered as he remembered what happened.
"No…no this can't be real. I have no heart so…so why am I still alive." Hayden said in fear.
He looked at the ground but the blood that was supposed to be there wasn't there at all. The floor was clean with no speck of blood on it at all and his clothes were clean of the blood. He slowly got up from the floor and approached the Mirror by the sink he took of his shirt and placed it on the rim of it and looked at himself. His skin was completely pale and black veins were around his torso and his arms. The only part that seemed to have no veins at all was his neck and head. He then looked at the black hole in the center of his chest and touched the rim of it.
"It has to be Karen. She did this to me but…what? Is this what she was talking about? Is this what she meant by bonding?" Hayden said softly.
He then got startled when he heard knocking on the door and turned to it with a shocked face.
"Hayden, are you ok?" Cupa asked through the door.
"Y-yeah I'm alright!" Hayden said while trying to keep calm.
"Are you sure Hayden? Cupa said that you've been in there for a while." Sophia said from behind the door.
"Yeah…you sure you're alright bro?" Flare said from behind the door.
"Yeah we're a bit worried about you." Elena said from behind the door.
"I said I'm fine!" Hayden shouted.
The girls were silent behind the door after Hayden yelled and he seemed quite bad about it. He then grabbed his shirt and placed it back on him and walked towards the door and when he opened it they tackled him down on the ground and hugged him. Hayden looked at the girls seeing them hug him rather tightly but he didn't mind at all with what they did and tried his best to hug him back.
"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to shout like that." Hayden said sadly.
"It's alright Hayden." Elena said with a smile.
"We know you didn't mean it bro, so it's cool." Flare said with a smirk.
"Yeah so don't feel sorry about shouting Hayden." Sophia said with a motherly-like smile.
"We understand." Cupa said with a smile.
Hayden looked at the girls and nodded and the five got up from the ground.
"So! Now that we have that out of the way why don't we go have something to eat." Sophia said while clapping her hands together.
"Alright then sis." Elena said.
"Yeah I'm starving so lets go eat something." Flare said with a grin.
"Yeah let's go eat." Cupa giggled.
The four Creeper sisters walked off rather happily while Hayden walked beside them staring at them. He was happy to see them happy but a frown slowly formed on his face.
"I love it when those four are happy but…I don't think it will stay that way for long. I really hope that they don't find out about this…thing. I'd hate for them to find out about this but…what bothers me is that I don't even know what's happening to me at all. All I know is that it involves Karen but…even if I somehow do find out I doubt I'll be able to stop it." Hayden thought.
"Hey Hayden hurry up or we'll eat up all the food without you." Flare shouted.
Hayden snapped out of his thoughts and looked at Flare, Cupa, Sophia, and Elena staring at him with grins showing him that Flare's words weren't a lie. He smiled and ran over to the girls and the five sped on to the Dining hall where they normally eat.
-Elsewhere-
Karen and Allison stared into the chamber behind the glass of the observation room and saw black blood splatter across the room. Verona continued taking notes while Jack recorded what was happening inside the room on a devise as he began to type on a keyboard. Sally was also in the room after finishing the assignment that Raike had given her and looked though the glass window.
"So…this Hayden that you speak of, what is he to you?" Allison asked as she averted her eyes away from the chamber.
"He's nothing but my little brother who I love dearly Allison. He's the reason for my existence to this very day." Karen said with a smile.
"I see. Do you ever think that you should allow him to live the life that he want?" Allison asked rather curiously.
"Yes I do because that life that he wants is with me Allison. You may not understand what me and my Hayden went through all those years ago and I will not allow him to feel loneliness again." Karen said.
"So…why did you bother asking Raike to make a serum for you then?" Allison asked.
"Because it's my business and not yours Allison. So please stop asking all of these useless questions." Karen growled with irritation.
Allison stared at Karen with a calm expression before turning her attention back to the glass where she saw Maria eating again. Jack and Veronica seemed to look up from what they were doing after the conversation had ended. They looked at each other with an uncertain gaze and then turned their attention to the room where they saw half of what had been Raike's body lying on the floor as Maria devoured his flesh though she seemed to have reverted back to his original form though with the lack of clothes and her body being covered in red and black blood. She finished eating the flesh and seemed to produce tears as she done so as she looked down at Raike's mangled body.
"It seems that she reverted back to her regular form." Sally said calmly.
"Yes…surprisingly when she started eating Master Raike the cells in her body started de-mutating her." Veronica said as she scribbled down some notes while looking calm.
"Still…I hope Master Raike got some progress from this incident." Jack said as he typed on the keyboard while looking calm.
"I believe he has." Sally said.
As they continued taking down notes the upper half of Raike's Body regenerated and the young man sat up slowly as he held his head and because of Maria tearing apart half of his body he had lost his mask along with the clothes on his upper body so now he waked from his torso which had somewhat of a slim appearance with moderate muscles, and his white hair which covered his face.
"That was…unexpected." Raike said rather surprised.
He then removed his hand from his face and brushed his hair back as he looked up at Maria who stared at Raike happily seeing that she didn't kill him while revealing his face. He appeared as a handsome, pale skinned, 17-year-old teenager. His eyes had gone through a drastic change after regenerating his body and they were now black with amber pupils.
"Jack, Veronica, Sally. Did you get the information that I asked for." Raike said as he turned to the window.
"Yes. All of it has been calculated as requested." Veronica said from a speaker in the room.
"Good…Sally, Veronica. Ready a bath for Maria and bring her some clean clothes. Jack…I want to see the notes and some new clothes as well." Raike said as he got up from the ground.
"Yes Master." The three said.
They then trotted out of the room with their orders and Allison seemed to take note on Raike's attitude towards them then the other comrades. She then averted her eyes to Karen to see her walk out of the room and stopped her.
"So when you get Hayden, what will you do with him?" Allison asked.
Karen stopped her movements and looked at Allison with a insane looking smile.
"I'm going to make sure that no one has him and I'll make sure they all die by my hands if they ever lay a finger on my little Hayden." She stated.
Author's Note: Yes I know this chapter had some gore in it but who's to say that this story wasn't going to have gore at all. Now that the Shadowlings will be joining the fun soon things will be somewhat intense my dear little Readers. So I hope you all enjoyed this chapter because the next one will involve our dear Ender-Creeper Prince and Princess along with the Enderman Prince and Princess. So…have a wonderful day Royal Guys and Gals.
