Chapter Six
What am I
"Heh foolish Hunter I told you I would never be gone from you…" "What? Who is there what are you talking about?" "You have forgotten already who I am… Such a foolish little being why we are one in the same I will never know." A face suddenly appears before me eyes. I can't make it out due to the helmet and visor covering it, the helmet is smooth and gleams in the light, and it cures at the top and has two wings like structures on the sides of it. The helmet covers all of his face save his eyes… My eyes, staring back at me. "No I am not you! I can not be you. I was not made!"
"Heh stop with your foolish protests and denials little one… You know it to be true you can feel it churning through you burning away your insides as if it were an inferno just waiting to explode. How can you deny what you are now that we have awakened…? Heh accept it you never had a family you were created not born. As soon as you accept that fact we will truly be unstoppable!"
"No!" "What the hell is wrong with him he has been screaming like this since last night…?" I hear voices float above my head I slowly open my eyes. The light pours in and I shut them again closing out the light, "I don't know he seems to be shaken up over what happened yesterday although I don't see how he can be… It wasn't him that did those things." "….Bio-Signs show increased activity in the cerebral cortex… He has awakened…"
A sudden silence envelopes the room, causing me to mentally shiver from the sudden loss of the noise. I slowly open my eyes again; I see Mewone, Cranberry and the other Force staring down at me intently from their various positions around the bed. I look past them and notice on the far wall facing the end of my bed Samus leans against the wall un-moving his visor staring intently at me. I look from face to face seeing a little concern in each. I turn and sit on the end of my bed and try to piece together the memories I have of what has transpired. At first nothing just shadows and the nightmare, then it all rushes back to me in a flood threatening to drown me in its wake unless I cling to a small fragment of reality.
The HUcast, the battle… The thing I became, it all comes back to me now. I close my eyes and screw up my hands to fists. Tears begin to leak out of my eyes. "What is wrong?" I hear Cranberry ask, I can sense the other two wondering the same about me. I stand up look at her in the eye. I try to say something anything but can't instead I turn towards the door and bolt. My feet are the only ones who know where I am headed the rest is a blur in my memory I only have small glimpses of what happened or what could have happened. I make it out the medical area, head for the teleporter and then slam my fist down on to its console not caring what destination I set in as long as I am away from those four and the rest of Pioneer 2…
I soon open my eyes again and see I am back in the forest area of Ragol. I take off running through the foliage and plant life of Ragol, my feet making the only noise against the ground… I hear another noise turn and see an Al Rappy sitting by a small stream… It hasn't seen me yet and I slowly walk by it hoping not to attract its unwanted attention, I just want to be alone right now… Splash suddenly I look down and see I have stepped in a puddle I turn towards the Rappy and see it has noticed me… I stare in its eyes for a few minuets wondering what will happen when it lets out angry caw of sorts and five more of the birds fall to the ground from the trees… I look and see one is different from the others, it's a Pal Rappy and its huge!
They all turn to me now and slowly waddle towards me… Normally I would have stood and fought them hoping to gain something valuable off of them but I have no weapons at the moment hell I didn't even bother to care if Rati was with me I just want to get away from this nightmare in my head that doesn't stop. I try to run but notice one is behind me and by the time I deal with him all the others will have encircled me as well… I am cornered now, I think to myself maybe I deserver this maybe this is fates equalizer for what I had unleashed on the innocent people and hunters of Pioneer 2. I stand there now and wait for them to come.
"You foolish little creation… Do you really think it would be so easy for you to end your life when we are one?" "What… Who are you? What do you want fro-GAHH!" Pain surges through my head suddenly. An intensive and horrendous pain that I could never know my head felt as if it should have been torn in two over and over again. Suddenly my limbs are not my own I begin to move forward toward the Rappies. Even my voice is not my own I can not speak or move I can only watch… The entity with in me brings his fist forward slamming it into the nearest Al Rappy. The creature's beak breaks and it falls to the ground, dead or unconscious I am unsure…
"What simple little creatures these are hardly worth my effort. Ahahaha! Oh look another one is bold enough to attack me well we will see how long he lives when…! Huh! Foolish mortal stop struggling or you will kill us both!" I don't though I call upon every once of strength I have in me to hold his assault back against the Rappies… As I struggle internally with my self the huge Pal Rappy comes up to my body and begins pecking at it mercilessly as my inner war continues… "Damnit you foolish hunter!" Suddenly I lose control again and the being is driving my body. He slams his hand open palmed at the bird it doges to the right fast for its size. We are now surrounded by them. The new entity in me decides to feel instead of fight. Wings suddenly sprout from my back and I take off into the sky a passenger in a body that is my own but not my own as well…
I land far away from where we started… I begin the internal struggle for power over my body again. "Heh foolish creation you can't win! Without your Mag to act as a regulator on me I will always be the one in control! Accept that fate you are just along for the ride now…" "No I wont accept that I will win I will have my body back you vile thing!" "Heh just try you pathetic little worm! You won't win!" The power struggle begins my body goes lax as our wills try to over power the other. Neither of us notices the enormous Hildet until it is too late… It shoots a powerful jolt of electricity from its inner sacks and the blast instantly paralyzes my body. Tired and battered from the previous fight with The Pal Rappy and the wounds still open and bleeding I can not move at all, I slump to the ground my breathing labored… The Hildet walks over to me and slams its huge fists into my rib cage over and over again. My armor provides some protection but it can only take so much. I hear a small crack and a then shattering of metal as the Hildet's fist comes crashing down against it. Broken, the armor simply falls off my body in three different parts.
The Hildet then slams one of its fists into my ribcage. I feel and hear the morbid sound of my bones breaking and cracking from the force of the blow. Suddenly I become short of breath and I begin to cough. I close my eyes until the fit ends and then look into front of me and notice a red spot before my eyes… Its blood, my own blood…. I am internally bleeding now or a Rib has punctured one of my lungs. The vile Monkey then rears up and pounds its chest and makes a scream of some kind… One of triumph apparently, it then brings its fist down on my back this time not as powerful as before but it sends my body reeling to the ground. I hear another crack and look back…
My right leg is sticking out at an abnormal angle I can see the bulge of the bone protruding form the skin… I don't move for fear of feeling intense pain afterwards for I know the only thing keeping me awake during this is the thousands of pounds of adrenalin coursing through my body to kill any pain I may be feeling. "You fool move before he kills us!" "Shut it you are not in control here I am this is my body and my memories and my heart! Be it organic or non I will not let you have it!" I scream at the other soul in me. The Hidlet hears this and looks at me, puzzled I believe is the term I want to use to describe that morbid monkey face…
A surge of pain re-enters my mind as the Hidlet pulls on my right arm pulling it out of its socket. "GAHHH!" The monkey just seems to laugh and dangle me from my unconnected arm. It soon takes the other arm and pulls on that one as well… "Pop…" I wince at the pain but try not to scream for this seems to only further incite the beast's sick humor. It grunts again and then begins to dangle me from both arms… My left leg the only thing in my body not broken…. I begin to fade though darkness covering my eyes… Damnit I am loosing too much blood inside of me if only I could use my Resta tech I could give myself enough time to set a telpipe and head for… No I can't go back to Pioneer 2 not with this hell seed still inside withering trying to break free of my hold…
I turn to face the Hidlet… That face still laughing at me… "Yeah that's right you continue to laugh you deranged monkey… I still have won the battle though… HAA!" I slam my left foot as hard as I can into the beasts chest. Of course it does nothing it only angers the monkey even more, He begins to pull on both my arms now ever slowly enjoying the sight of the pain on my face…
"Heh too bad for you monster but your about to get a freezing reminder not to screw with Hunters…" With that I launch almost all of my remaining mental energy into a Rabarta blast. The beast lets me drop to the ground I crumple to the forest floor and watch as my luck holds out and the beast is frozen in place… I only have a few seconds and begin my Resta Tech. I feel the healing energy flow through me… My leg soon isn't at the awkward angle anymore all being it is still broken and un-fit to walk on at all. I begin to stumble dragging my leg behind me as fast as I can hoping for some miracle that I can live. I soon hear the ice shatter and the beast Charges towards me again. It leaps and slams down on me with its massive fist sending my head into the earth… Thank god it rained… I turn over and realize he has broken my left leg as well now in the attack…
I begin to laugh hysterically at no one or to any one. Tears form at my eyes, as I think "So this is how I will die by some rabid monkey and a worm of evil inside me eating away at me… Heh so be it then, hell I guess this is fate I don't even know who I am anymore or what I am…"
I look up towards the sky and notice the sun is starting to set, I laugh again at the rose red color it paints the sky, I feel as if I can almost smell their fragrance in the air as I laugh and the tears go down my face. "Ahaha, figures it would have to be a mellow dramatic ending for me… Now all I need is some one in my life to whisper I love you to towards the sky before my end. Ha as if I did ever have anyone or anyone would want me… AHAHAAHA! That's right fate do you're worst no one will ever miss me when I drift away, so give me your best shot! Come on then!"
I scream at the Hidlet insane laughter still gripping me as tears go down my face. The morbid animal lifts its fist up for the final attack, I suddenly begin to lose focus and my sight darkens… I am running out of blood looks like I won't see the end… Heh oh well I had no need to anyways no one cares for me…. Yet before I loose all sight and slip into death I ask the sky this question "What am I?" I suddenly hear a shout of sorts and the animal rear back and a figure jump in front of me. I slip into unconscious just as I hear, "No you're not leavening!" I then feel two hands by my face… I then fall into the darkness…