5 years later...
'Time passed by faster than I thought when I realized it was 5 years since I came into this world and in that period, I did everything I could do to improve myself which was composed of physical training, vocal coordination and further expanding my knowledge about this world.'
'Also, Me and my mother finally received a letter from father last year and it was filled with his love and adoration for us, saying that he missed us and assured us that he was doing all he can just to return home.'
'With this letter, somehow my unease had lessened as I now know that he is stuck in that place he called his job.'
"Martes, you there? Can you help Mommy fold some clothes?"
"Coming!" With haste, I neatly folded the letter to the side.
At that exact moment, I heard something coming towards this house. like a quake, everything shook in my surroundings "MARTES, RUN AWAY!" It happened abruptly and my worse fears overwhelmed my soul as I cried out to my mother, the one who nurtured and taught me how to feel loved.
"MOMMMM! NOOO!"
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-----Martes' father's POV-----
'The situation has turned worse, the government didn't even have the idea of sending someone here BECAUSE IT WAS NOTHING BUT A WASTE.'
'Worthless buffoons who don't even care about humans but only themselves! I shouldn't have trusted that they would do something heroic when all they do is embellish our tax money for their gains.'
'I just hope I'm not too late...' I distracted myself from the pain I was feeling when all over my body I was plastered with nothing but bleeding wounds that would have killed any ordinary person yet I survived thanks to my superhuman constitution.
I had been running for 2 hours straight and the constant anxiety of the worse scenario was repeating in my head, 'What if I didn't return in time?' thought made my already superhuman body go faster and more resilient since I was already crashing through rocks yet I felt nothing.
"HELP! ANYBODY HELP!" I heard a cry in the distance, my ears picked it up from 2 kilometers away. I quickly move in that direction, however...
What I saw made my body tremble, and all of my hopes and dreams were crushed as I felt the worst scenario in my head had happened. My belief in attaining a happy family all have been dashed away as I saw nothing but a pile of meat that had been crushed by debris and a traumatized child that was my own flesh and blood. He was alive but it did nothing in calming the feeling of something overtaking my mind and body.
Black carapace, green dark eyes, and sharp claws much tougher than steel. My mind brought forth an image of myself that made me have recurring thoughts of my worst fears.
I became the being that I once hated the most.
My mind was filled with anger as I tried to fight back the unholy thoughts that wanted to control me, yet it was all for naught as the monsterification had already commenced and it was only a matter of time before I would merge with it however I still fought till the end, thrashing, clawing and even beheading myself but it all regenerated in an instant. Infuriated by my attempts an intrusive thought playfully entered my mind.
The thought of impaling my only son before casually tossing him to the side like a toy and my wife a pile of mush she had become was devoured by the whispering monster I wanted to stop.
A thought that became deadly as it showed how gruesome it was to be seen in reality.
"GRAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!" I did it. I did what the monster inside of me had wanted yet the calm I was expecting didn't arrive, only guilt as I remembered that he did something so horrible that made me puke my guts out, I was sweating cold bullets on his back. I knew I had done it, I knew that I wasn't human anymore.
I was a monster now.
With a sliver of my humanity left, I drew closer to my now dying son. The young boy's bloody coughs painted a grim reality I had to live with, my son's gaze detached and vacant. I looked at him in the eyes mirroring my whole being with regret, yet I steeled myself to inject the serum I had painstakingly crafted, each drop an embodiment of my desperate atonement. Every push of the syringe was my last act of redemption, all in the name of rescuing my son from the despair I had brought to him.
"What are you doing you monster?" I heard a voice behind me, I turned around to identify it only to be greeted by a powerful fist that sent me flying.
"GRRRAAAAAHHHH!!!" The fist didn't damage me that much as the damage regenerated quickly yet when I crawled out from the hole I was sent flying to, I wanted to recover from the shock yet the intruder followed up with an attack that demolish the environment leaving me in the open, which the intruder gladly welcome as he rained his fist at me. I tried to fight back but due to my inexperience in using my newfound strength, I didn't fully utilize my power and got staggered.
"GRAAHHHHHHHHH!!!" I became frustrated by the constant feeling of being beaten and mustered inside of myself a power that I had acquired when I transformed, It had a gray hue that spread throughout the surroundings, the intruder who was fighting me retreated, vigilant at my new display of power, but I didn't want him to leave, no, I wanted nothing more than to devour him.
"YOu AAr StRoNg, HUmAn! I WilL eAt yOu aNd Be WItH fAMilY OnCe MORREE!"
"Tch...after you killed your child and devoured your wife? That's not happening buddy, you will die here NOW!" With my newfound power, I charged my claws carrying destructive energy while the intruder created transparent circles of gray light around his arms and shouted.
"GRAVITY PUNCH!" Both of our power collided and created a massive explosion that rose from the ground and into the sky, yet the result of the collision was in favor of the intruder as he rose from his feet despite the bleeding wounds on his body and approached the torn yet regenerating monster which was me.
"SoRRY! OLiVia! SoRRY MArtEs! I'M SORRY, I'M SORRY, I'M SORRY! GAHHHH!" it...no..."I" cried a lot as I tore myself from my constant regeneration but it was for naught, the intruder approached me with a deadpan face still unwilling to believe this absurd situation.
"I'm sorry, but I have to do this." I looked at him with confirmation, that I was already too late. I was already a MONSTER.
"Goodbye." I looked on deep into the intruder's eyes and nodded, before being wrapped in a gray cocoon that tore me apart yet I didn't scream even when I became nothing more than the ashes of what I had once been.
------Unknown person's POV------
'I would have never guessed I had the chance to witness someone turning into a monster, yet I am extremely saddened that it had ended in a tragic way. In my inexperience, I was too late to save the boy from being impaled and as I stood in shock at that display, due to it I didn't react fast enough making him eat a pile of meat crushed by the debris at the side.'
'I only knew when I saw the letters at the side, a letter that told me that it was his son and wife that he had killed...It was a disheartening situation but I still need to steel my heart to confront the monster's dying son.'
I came up to the young boy and realized that I couldn't rescue him due to his severe injuries. Despite even hiring the world's most skilled doctors, there was still something he could do- giving the boy a chance to express his last words and wishes. He held a deep respect for whatever the child wanted to convey, understanding that it was the only solace he could provide for a young boy in his dying throes.
"Why...? Why is it that I have to go through this..."
"Am I really that unfortunate? That the whole world hates me enough to torture and kill me?"
"WHY?" I became silent at his words, I could think of nothing, not even comforting words to this poor child.
"I don't know..." I only expressed my honesty, yet I think it was enough as the young boy had already breathed his last.