First time writing anything let alone a fan fiction so criticism is welcomed. Hopefully nothing looks too bad and that I'll get better at writing with each chapter.
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Max slept after he collapsed from the weight of his power. As he slept, he soon dreamed and with the dreams came the horrible memories of a dark and ancient city.
"Okay… I take a short cut on my way to school and this is where I end up… great… just great." Max said as he walked down a cold and empty street of a dark city. "Where the fuck am I?" Max was startled as he looked up into the strangely colored sky. "What the hell… Am I tripping or what?" Max shook his head then continued down the street. He wondered around the edge of the empty city until he came to the shore of a great lake. Night began to settle in as he stared over the horizon to see where the lake ended. "Awesome. I think it's safe to say I won't be going to school today. Shit…" Max was about to turn around in till he noticed a shocking sight. "What… the hell…?" Twin suns appeared to sink into the lake as darkness covered the land. "Two suns. Now I know I've lost it." He turned around and headed down another street of the mysterious city.
Black stars hovered above the city after Max had wondered around aimlessly for a couple hours. He started to drag his feet as he became tired. "This sucks." His stomach growled from not being fed for too long. "Where the hell could I be?" The wind howled down the streets, causing him to shiver. "I have to be dreaming, but what dream lasts for this frikin long?" He suddenly stopped to the sounds of approaching footsteps and tattered cloth blowing in the chilling wind. "Should I be happy that I'm not alone in this place?" Max thought as he became scared. Letting fear guide him, he ran away from the sounds. "Fuck that, I need to get the hell out of here." He ran as fast as he could, choosing streets at random. After several minutes of running blindly, he stopped to catch his breath. "This place is too freaky for my taste." He said as he panted. He continued to jog down the streets of cobble stone, observing the alien architecture all around him. He looked up at the towers of the city then stopped, his face paled. "How is that possible…?" Max said as he looked at one of the two rising moons as it appeared to be in front of the tower rather than behind it.
Max continued to gaze at the impossible sight as sweat poured down his terrified face and his vision wavered. He turned to continue running, but stopped as a person obstructed his path. The tall and slim person was covered from head to toe in tattered, yellow rags. He wore a silver pallid mask and a yellow hood. The mask only had two eye slots, which had only darkness within them. A medallion with a yellow symbol on it dangled from his neck. The person gave off a horrifying chill that froze Max in place.
"I want to scream, but I can't!" Max thought as his vision faded into darkness as the yellow figure floated towards him.
Max found himself sitting in a metal chair in a cold room made of black stone when he came to. He tried to quickly get up, but his arms and legs were strapped to the metal arms and legs of the chair. A metal collar prevented him from turning his head.
"What the fuck?" Max said as he struggled to get himself free. Suddenly, the metal door to the room slowly opened. Max watched as several number of dark figures in black robes walked in. "Oh, this can't be good." He thought as they formed a circle around him. He could hear metal moving behind him. "Alright assholes, care to explain what the fuck you want with me?" Max said in a threatening voice.
The dark figures continued to stand in silence as a few of them were setting up some kind of machine behind him. After a few nerve whacking seconds, two more robed figures entered the room while carrying bloody devices that looked like they were used to cut something, or someone.
Max quickly took notice of this then began to violently struggle in the chair. "Oh fuck no!" He yelled. The dark figures grabbed a hold of him to keep him from moving while others tightened the straps that held Max down. "Let me go you mother fuckers!" Max continued to try and thrash in the metal chair in an attempt to disrupt whatever they were about to do to him. Max tensed up as something cold and metal was placed up next to his neck, a sharp point setting on right above his spine. "What the hell are you bastards doing? Let go!" Max's muscles locked up as the sharp metal object was slowly pushed into his skin and into his spine. Max screamed at the top of his lungs in pain as the object made its way down his back. "Stop! Stop! Fuck this hurts!"
It only took the dark figures a minute to get the metal object all the way down his spine, but for Max it felt like hours. He continued to moan in agony even after they were finished. He could no longer move his body as the excruciating pain refused to leave. He panted heavily as they picked up some of the strange cutting devices that were brought in earlier.
"What… What now…?" Max thought as he watched the robed figures draw closer to him with the devices at hand. One of the figures turned on the device he held. The sound it made caused Max's heart to sink into despair.
Max's horrible wail could be heard all across the streets of the dark city. The figures slowly took his body apart piece by piece. First they peeled his skin off and then removed his muscles. They pulled his rib cage open so they could get to the organs within and took them out, putting them into jars. It didn't take long for the entire floor to be covered in Max's blood. He cried out in utter agony as his consciousness refused to end from the intense pain.
It took the dark figures hours to reduce Max to only his head and spine that dangled from the metal object that was still stuck in his spine. Max closed his eyes so to not see the horrible state he was now in. He could barely think as his brain was whacked with a crushing migraine.
"Just… end…" Max thought as tears ran down his face.
Max opened his eyes to find the dark figures beginning the painful process of putting him back together with the parts they had just removed from him. His wails of misery filled the dark city once again. Hours had passed after they finished putting Max back together and to his horror, they began to take him apart once again. They repeated the process of taking apart and putting him back together an unfathomable amount of times. They didn't stop until he had ceased screaming during the horrible procedure.
Max lay curled up on the cold, stone floor of a dark prison cell. He stared at the stone wall, refusing to move even an inch. The cold air wasn't even enough to make him shiver. Unknown to him, a young girl was crouched on the other side of the metal bars, staring at him with love struck eyes. She had long, straight hair that was primarily a black color, but it appeared to change to darker shades of other colors at random. Her eye's lacked pupils and the color of her irises were the same as her hair and changed just as it did. She wore a silky, black one piece with silky, black gloves and black dress shoes. She continued to stare at Max's back for hours before she said something.
"Hi! How are you feeling?" The girl said in a cheerful voice. Max didn't budge or say anything. "You want to go home don't cha? I can't tell you how if you don't look at me… Max."
Max got up and looked at the girl quickly after hearing his name, nearly falling back down as the pain from his last ordeal had yet to fade. "How do you know my name?" He said with a shaken voice.
"I know a lot about you, Maxy. I know everything you've been through, from the moment you were born all the way up till now. I know you didn't live a decent childhood, growing up in a war torn country and then adopted by some very bad people in another country. I even know about… Kay." Max quickly ran towards the girl. He reached his hand out between the bars to grab her, but she suddenly disappeared and then reappeared behind him. "I know it wasn't your fault for what happened to her. All humans are bastards, that's all there is to it." She said as she hugged Max from behind, with one of her hands getting awfully close to his groin.
Max pulled her arms off him then turned around. "How did you do that?" He said with surprise.
"Do what?" The girl said as she played dumb.
"Don't fuck with me!" Max yelled as he grew angry.
"Fuck with you? Well…" The girl lifted her skirt to reveal black, lacy panties underneath. "Can I be on top? My skin isn't as tough as yours so the hard stone floor would bruise me easily and I really don't want to be on my knees here." She said as her cheeks redden a little.
Max blushed as he grew more angry. "You said something about knowing how I can get back home?"
The girl let go of her skirt while giving Max a look of disappointment. "I didn't say that, but something like that." She said as she walked up to him, putting her hands up his shirt and feeling his abs. "But what are you willing to do for me for that information?"
Max looked down at her as her alluring eyes pulled him closer to her face. Before he knew it, his face was so close to hers that he could feel her breath on his face. He quickly pulled back and stood up straight, shaking his head.
"Look. Are you going to tell me how I can get home or are you just here to torment me?" Max said as he tried to keep a calm demeanor.
The girl frowned. "Humph, fine. I'll tell you. This isn't really a good place to do anything anyways." She said as she walked away from Max then turning back around to face him. "All you need to do is get a special medallion."
"Okay, a medallion. How does it look like? Where can I find it?" Max said, failing to hide his annoyance.
"You will know when you see it. And where to find it? All you got to do is make it back up to the streets above. You will know where to go from there."
"Oh is that all? Well that's just fucking great." Max said with sarcasm in his voice. "Are you going to let me out of this fucking cell so I can get to the streets or will I just know how to get out of here on my own?"
"You seem so aggravated for some reason." The girl said as she closed the distance between them again. She placed a hand on his groin. "I can relieve you of some of that stress before you leave for you." She said as she sucked on the tip of her pointer finger.
Max turned around then began shaking the metal bars of the jail cell. "Open you mother fucker!" The jail door then opened. He turned around to look at the girl.
"Oh, well won't you look at that. Seems like they forgot to lock it." The girl said as she smiled.
Max pointed at her menacingly as if he was about to say something, but didn't. He ran out the jail cell and into the dark halls of where ever he was.
The mysterious girl slowly waved her hand. "Bye, bye, Maxy. I'll see you later. You can count on it." She said as her smile became dark and twisted.
Max sprinted down the dark halls of the underground building. He chose randomly whenever he came to two different hallways. To his luck, he managed to find a spiral of stone stairs that led up. He quickly made his way up them. He finally came to a door and kicked it open. He sighed in relief as the door led to the streets of the dark city.
"Well running around aimlessly has helped so far. Not like I got any other good ideas." Max said. He turned around to the sounds of people running up the stone steps behind him. "Time to run like hell."
Max began to run down the dark street, the dark stars above weighing down upon him with a malevolent presence. He again chose random streets to run down as he came to different sets of streets. He turned to go down another street, but stopping as he saw a mob of robe covered figures running towards him.
"Fuck." Max said as he quickly turned around and ran the other direction. "Fucking girl! You said I'd know where to go!" Max continued to run from the dark figures, running down random streets. "Shit. Won't those bastards ever get tired?" He said as he began to breathe heavily. He suddenly tripped and fell to the cobble ground. "God frikin damn it! What the hell did I step on?" Max looked at his feet to spot a large circular object attached to a chain. He picked it up then started to run again. "This is the medallion?" Max said as he looked at it. "Wait a minute. That dude in yellow was wearing it." He turned around to see that the dark figures were still hot on his trail. Max held out his hand with only his middle finger up at them. "Assholes… I'll kill you all one day." He then pulled the chain with the medallion over his neck. He froze in place the moment he did, stunned as forbidden knowledge poured into his mind. He then looked down at the medallion that now glowed. "This thing? It belongs to-" Max covered his mouth before he finished his sentence. "Forget about that for now. I need to get out of here." Max turned around to see the robed figures had caught up to him. He raised his hand to them, a rippling shock wave firing out of his hand and knocking the dark figures back. He then looked at his hand in shock. "Holy… shit." He said. He gave a glance at the fallen figures then turned around. "Let's see what else I can do…" Max swiped his hand in front of him, ripping a hole in the space in front of him. The hole itself was black with a pulsating red trim around the edges. "So this is supposed to be my ticket home?" He turned around to see another large group of robed figures heading towards him. "Don't have much of a choice now do I?" Max took a deep breath before jumping into the dark hole, the hole closing behind him.
The mysterious girl sat on the edge of the roof of one of the buildings with her legs crossed. "I think I should have told him to be careful when going through strange holes. You never know where they might lead." She said as she leaned back to gaze up at the black sky. "Oh well… I'm sure he'll be fine with his new powers." An evil grin formed on her face. "Or will he?"
Max suddenly found himself floating in a black void. Stellar lights seemed to appear and vanish off in the distance. He couldn't tell which way was up as he surveyed the bizarre place.
"Where the hell am I now? This place makes even less sense than the last." Max said. Fear ran up his spine as he suddenly felt a terrible presence. He turned around only to come face to face with a horrific monstrosity of the like his darkest nightmares could never hope to conjure up. He gaped in horror at the indescribable being. He went to scream, but blood came up instead of noise. He forced his mouth closed with his hands to keep him from trying to scream any further. His vision wavered severely as he tried to look away from the thing.
The horror fed off of Max's fear with delight as it floated closer to him. It then surged toward him in an attempt to devour him, both flesh and mind. Max's mouth overpowered the strength in his hands and flew open, a scream of terror emitting out of it.