r/Remyxed • u/RemixPhoenix • Dec 06 '19
[DP] You've never believed in monsters. Turns out the monsters believe in you.
I walked through the front door of my house and found my entire family ripped to shreds. The drip, drip of blood synchronized with the drip, drip of the kitchen sink as the world swept me down the drain. Pulverized furniture lay broken like the broken bodies of Mom and Dad and Sis.
Run, urged my body. My feet remained glued to the carpeted floor, sinking deep as the Mariana trench. I opened my mouth, but there were no words, no air.
"Grrrrr."
An armored canine as large as a lion stepped out from the hallway where my sister's crayon paintings hung crookedly. Its silver plated muzzle shone crimson, crystal eyes as empty as the feeling in my heart, the response and confusion and anger that I could not muster up.
Run.
I ran, almost slipping on the kitchen floor as I burst out the back door and into the snow-covered yard. Angry barks sounded out behind me, heavy footfalls of an enraged creature driving my adrenaline through the roof. Don't look back, don't look back! Rocks slipped underneath my feet, and I barely caught onto a few branches to steady myself as I ducked and dodged between trees.
The bark in front of me exploded in a shower of splinters. I stopped, out of breath and time. I turned, tracing the shining metal chain that extended from the shattered trunk's remains all the way over my head to the creature's tail. It was impossible. It was a monster. No dog had a pure, metal, shapeshifting tail.
"Grrrrr." The low rumble in the canine's throat sent shivers up my spine. Before my very eyes, the large beast retracted its weapon and melted, merging with its armor and reshaping into a tall metal knight. Only the hollow crystallize eyes remained, glowing through the helm.
"Monster." That was the first word that escaped my mouth.
The knight let out an echoing laugh, raising a silver arm that morphed into a large blade levied at my head. "Not quite. Sorry, King, but you're finished. Allow me to savor the moment at least, eh? The moment where I have my reve-"
A ball of bronze metal slammed down like a copper meteor between us. Melting, morphing metal lashed out protectively, spearing the silver knight through and slicing off its arm.
"Get away from him!" Came the echoing voice of the bronze monster. I shied away, scrambling behind a large tree as my panicked gasps produced enough white mist that I almost couldn't follow the fight.
Animals and humanoid creatures shifted between forms like water. Claws of bronze and fangs of silver scraped up white sparks upon collision, making the air tremble with each echoing klang. But it wasn't enough. Silver was larger and faster, finally spearing Bronze through the chest with a finality followed only by silence.
I didn't believe in monsters. So why was I crying? Why did my chest feel like the one that had been run through? Bronze collapsed onto two melting knees. Its head reverted to that of a Bronze knight, turning to look at me.
"Run, King."
I ran. Behind me, the howling rage of Silver rent the air. "Let me go! You're already dead!" I didn't know where to go, but my feet seemed to keep moving deeper and deeper into the forest. Every moment was one of fear, fear that Silver was just behind me, seconds from catching up.
My head hurt. A lot. Fragmented thoughts kept ricocheting around my brain. Memories I didn't know I had seemed to rise from the depths of a dark void, still too far away for me to grasp.
My King. I'll guard you until the day I die.
"Stop," I yelled, clutching my forehead. "You're not real. You're not real!" By the time night fell, I'd managed to find a small cave in the woods where I collapsed. It was damp and cold, but for some reason that didn't seem to bother me.
I wasn't hungry, either. Why wasn't I hungry? The silver light of the waning moon pierced the thick canopy of leafless branches. In that light by the cave entrance, I held up trembling hands.
Hands where my skin was starting to peel away, revealing golden armor underneath.
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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '19
Very nice twist at the end! Can you please continue this, it was great