The Hidden Darkness Within Me

Sitting in the middle of a cold, and dark room was a girl balled up against the wall, shivering with no warmth around her.

Her body shuttered in the cold, and tears streamed down her face, remembering the horrible things they did to her.

The sounds of her own scream was embedded into her mind, and she couldn't get them out.

Her entire arm was missing, her hair was shaven clean off, and her eye was wrapped in a bandage, with cuts and bruises marked all over her body.

["G-Godfrey..."]

She muttered her best friends name, knowing what they'll do to him.

["R-run G-Godfrey... they'll kill you if their experiment fails... l-like they'll do to me soon."]

She placed her forehead against her dirty knees, whimpering to herself, as did the other kids locked behind their prison-doors.

The sounds of children crying was noticeable to Olivia, and it only given her more fear than before.

There was no hope of escaping this hellhole.

Hundreds of kids were captured, yet the officers of Atlantis city couldn't find where they were taken to, and who did it. What will change for them? All they were was just new victims added to this demonic experiments, destined to die.

*****

["Let me go!"] I shouted.

I was restrained by leather straps on one of the beds, as the doctor stood over me, holding a scalpel inside his hand.

["It took a while to restrict you to the bed, without my anesthetics you would've put up quite the fight."]

The doctor managed to stick me with a needle and inject some kind of liquid inside of me, temporary nullifying my magic. You may be wondering how it did that, well it was simple... remember what I told you about worldviews and magic? Well, an anesthetic is a drug that causes a loss of feeling, and awareness, thus, my view on the world was hindered, and my mind couldn't function properly. I didn't have any view on the world, since my thoughts weren't collected properly, therefore I couldn't muster any magic, nor could I focus by linking with my soul.

The doctor was prepared, he knew the weakness of his victims, which only scared me more.

My mind was in a puzzle, and I couldn't piece things together properly whilst I was restrained. I only shook my head back and forth, and yelled groggily.

No one would hear me.

["To begin the experiment, I will be cutting open your flesh, draining most of your blood to get a sample of your DNA. After that, your head will be hooked to a siphoning machine meant to suck up half of your magical power, and place it inside the glass container you see in front of you."]

The glass container he talked about was the glass-cylinder in the middle of the room. I didn't notice it at first, but the reason it was shining so brightly with golden colors was because of the magic stored inside of it.

It was the magic power from hundreds of kids that died from these experiments, and now mine will be going into it as well.

["Let me out!"] I yelled again, unable to muster any strength.

["With your DNA, I can create the perfect machine, crafted by your potential! Instead of level 8 that Atlantis City has, your potential will bring it to level 10! Maybe even more! Bahahahaha!"]

This damn doctor, he was using my DNA and potential to reach higher levels than what Atlantis City has in their level system.

I can't let this happen, not the downfall of humanity! If the demons obtained this much power... then... I will go down in history known as a traitor! Hated by mankind.

They harmed Olivia, now they threatened my own race, and my own mother.

What can I do to fight back?

I can't do anything...

Humanity is gonna lose... all because of me.

My eyes slowly faded into darkness from the anesthetics.

I couldn't see a thing, his drug must've had some sleep-inducing effects put inside of it.

Fighting back seemed impossible now.

I'm sorry Olivia... I'm sorry that I couldn't save you.

["Are you giving up so easily, Godfrey?"]

A voice called out to me in the empty darkness of my consciousness, and a light shone from up above.

The light only shined on me, and I could see a figure emerging from it above me, slowly hovering down in such elegant formation.

I couldn't see any colors, except the outline of their body.

Their hair was long, and they stood in the darkness with glowing blue eyes, staring at me.

["Who are you?"]

I asked the mysterious figure in front of me. Was this some dream? Were we in my consciousness?

["Who I am doesn't matter, you should be asking why I'm here instead."]

I lifted my eyebrows and stepped back a few meters.

["T-Then why are you here?"]

The entity walked around the bright light, purposely keeping itself hidden as it circled me in motion. The only thing I could see was it's blue-glowing eyes.

["I am the one who will awaken your power, and your purpose. You're the only one who has the potential to use it."]

I turned around to see their blue eyes still staring at me.

["Use what? What do I have the potential to use?"]

It laughed at me in its deep, and overlayed voice.

["You will see soon enough when you awaken from your slumber. Take hold of its power, and destroy those who stands in your way, do not fail me."]

["Take control of its power? Don't fail you? Who even are you!? Everything you told me is vague! I don't understand what's happening!"]

["You will see soon enough."]

I balled up my fist, setting my nervousness aside.

["Like hell!"]

I didn't hesitate to dash frontwards, and out from the light, reaching my hand forward to grab the entity.

["Tell me what you know, and your name! I'm not gonna let you escape me!"]

To my surprise, my entire hand went through its body, missing it.

["What the hell happened?"]

I stumbled forward, glancing behind me to see it staring at me.

["You cannot touch something that doesn't exist, Godfrey. My true existence is nothingness, I am able to return to this world as long as nothingness exists, for I am the bringer of it."]

["The bringer of nothingness? What does that even mean? Who are you? Stop dodging my question you bastard!"]

It laughed at me.

["Fuhahaha! Perhaps I talked enough, you have a purpose to fulfill, now get to it."]

It snapped its fingers.

["WAIT A MINUTE, I'M NOT DONE-"]

Before I could finish my sentence, my body disappeared in a flash of light, waking me back up from my unconscious state, and into reality.

I could see the doctor holding the scalpel, carving into my arm.

["What? You're awake? Impossible, the anesthetics I gave you can knock out a dragon for an entire week! Was it the wrong one?"]

The doctor took a few steps back, scared out his mind, but I didn't know why he was, since I was tied up and everything. He should've had the upper-hand, so why was he backing away?

["Monster, you kept your true magic hidden from me all this time! I fell right into your trap, dear demon king, help me!"]

I didn't know what he was talking about, until I looked down at my arm, double checking. I noticed markings all over it, written in some alienated language I didn't understand.

For some reason, I felt stronger? I moved my arm and broke free from the restraint with relative ease.

["This... magic!? What's happening to me? Was that not a dream?"]

I broke free from the restraints and hopped down on the floor, looking at my hands which had a dark aura leaking from it, in black and dark-blue colors.

And then I remembered;

'You're the only one who has the potential to use it'

Was that mysterious entity talking about... this power?

["I will not be killed here! I came so far! I came so far to finally surpass Atlantis City! I won't let you ruin all of my plans, you foolish boy!"]

The doctor held his hand forward, linking with his soul, and conjuring a ball of fire in front of him.

["TAKE THIS, DIE!"]

He launched the ball of flames at me as it incinerated everything in its path, but I merely smacked it away with my hand, sending it through the metal-door which detonated in a fiery explosion.

I could hear fire alarms in the hallway go off, and I walked forward, holding out my hand, scaring the doctor halfway to death.

["No no no! This can't be! This magic power you have, is it truly... is it truly what I think it is?"]

I dashed forward, exceeding my physical limit.

["The magic power you have... it's Dark Magic-!"]

I didn't hear anything he said while I was driven in bloodlust.

My fist punched him straight through the head, exploding it apart, and sending his brains scattering against the wall.

This anger inside of me was uncontrollable.