LOGINChapter 104NatashaThe second the red emergency light finally reached the thing’s face, every scream inside my throat ripped out at once because what stood at the end of that hallway did not look fully human anymore, but there were still enough pieces left to show that maybe it once had been.Its body nearly scraped the ceiling while it moved forward slowly through the steam pouring from the broken pipes around it, and thick chains hung from both of its arms like somebody had once tried to keep it locked down somewhere deep underground before everything went wrong. Parts of its skin looked burned black while other sections looked stretched too tightly over muscle and bone like the body underneath had kept growing long after it should have stopped, but the worst part was its face.One side looked twisted and split apart badly enough that I could see pieces of exposed teeth beneath the ruined flesh, while the other side still looked horribly normal, almost human enough to make my stom
AlanDarkness swallowed everything so fast that for one terrible second I honestly thought I had gone blind completely because there was nothing around me anymore except the sound of screaming alarms, heavy breathing, and the violent roar still shaking through the hallway walls around us like thunder trapped underground.The creature’s hand crushed painfully around my chest while it held me high above the floor without any effort at all, and I could barely drag enough air into my lungs properly because every breath felt tighter than the last one while its massive fingers dug harder into my ribs.“Let him go!” Natasha screamed somewhere nearby, though her voice sounded distant beneath the alarms and the horrible growling echoing through the darkness ahead of us.Then the glowing eyes moved, dozens of them…maybe more.I could not even count properly anymore because they kept appearing deeper inside the hallway one after another while low uneven growls slowly filled the darkness around u
NatashaThe way it said Alan’s name made every single hair on my body stand up instantly because its voice did not sound angry anymore like it had before.It sounded familiar somehow, like it actually knew him personally.The hallway became so quiet afterward that all I could hear was the broken buzzing from the dying lights overhead and Matt’s rough uneven breathing somewhere behind us while dust drifted slowly through the cold air around the giant creature standing near the destroyed doorway.Alan could not stop staring at it, nor could I anymore.The creature’s body looked horribly wrong up close now that more of it had stepped fully into the hallway. Its skin looked stretched too tightly over muscles that moved in strange uneven ways beneath it while long dark veins spread across its neck and arms like giant cracks running through stone walls.Its shoulders were massive beyond belief, far too massive to belong to anything human anymore.Every movement it made caused the floor bene
Alan“It remembers me.”The words barely left my mouth before another violent crash exploded from inside the room, and the sound slammed through the hallway so hard that the entire floor beneath us shook again while pain shot violently through my skull with enough force to nearly make my knees give out beneath me completely.The darkness around us did not feel normal anymore.It felt alive now, heavy and suffocating in a way that made every breath harder to force properly into my lungs while the smell of rust, blood, and burned wires filled the hallway so strongly that it almost made me feel sick.Another low growl rolled out from inside the room behind the broken doorway, but this time the sound came slower and deeper like whatever was inside no longer cared about hiding itself anymore, and hearing it again made cold fear spread violently through my chest because somewhere deep inside my head I recognized it.Not from tonight but from before.From somewhere buried so far inside my me
NatashaEverything inside me froze so hard that for one terrible moment I could not even force air properly into my lungs anymore because the words that thing had just spoken kept echoing violently through my head in a way that made my stomach twist painfully with fear and confusion.The real Alan.My eyes moved wildly between the creature holding Matt against the wall and the dark doorway behind us where the terrified screaming still echoed endlessly through the hallway, and no matter how hard I tried forcing myself to think clearly, none of this made sense anymore because every second only made the nightmare worse instead of giving us answers.Matt struggled violently in the creature’s grip while his boots scraped helplessly against the floor beneath him, his face slowly turning red from the pressure crushing his throat, but I could barely focus on him because my brain was still stuck on those horrifying words.That one is the real Alan.“No…” I whispered weakly before I could stop
AlanThe handle behind us kept turning slowly with a soft metal scrape that dug deeper into my skull with every passing second, and the sound alone was enough to make panic spread violently through my chest because whatever waited behind that door was no longer sitting quietly anymore like it had been before.It is out now.Natasha’s fingers tightened painfully around my arm while she stared at the slowly opening door with wide terrified eyes that reflected the flickering red emergency lights above us, and I could feel the fear shaking through her grip no matter how hard she tried hiding it.“Alan, stay away from it,” she whispered quickly while pulling lightly against my arm as if she thought physically dragging me backward would somehow stop whatever was happening inside my head.I tried focusing on her properly because part of me still understood that her voice was real while the whispering inside my skull was not, but every word coming from the darkness behind that door kept press
NatashaI stepped out of Alpha Zephyr’s chambers with my chest tight and my head full of noise. The hallway felt longer than before, and every step I took sounded too loud against the floor. His words kept repeating in my head.Someone inside helped them.He didn’t say my name when he said it, but
NatashaThe more I stayed within this pack, the more angrier I became because I didn’t even know who was behind all of this. Whoever was doing it wanted nothing more but to discredit my name, to make Zephyr send me out of the pack. This was blackmail, nothing more and I couldn’t imagine any other t
AlanAnger passed through me in waves that I didn’t think was possible. There were several things running through my mind, all pointing out to the fact that Natasha wasn’t with me and at that moment, I didn’t even know what to do and how to run through everything. I had spooked her, that much I kne
NatashaOver the next few weeks, I was getting used to everything going on within the pack. There were a whole lot of activities going on around the pack that I was more than happy to engage in and I was quite glad about the training Zephyr had put me on. It was tasking at first but slowly, I was g







