Title: Eyes Of A StrangerGenre: Horror/Dark fic
Characters: Linkara, Harvey, Spoony, Bear, Dr. Insano, Lord Vyce, Alien Cleric OC, 90s Kid, ChaosD1, Entity
Warnings/Triggers NC-17 Disturbing imagery and bodily harm, Allusion to Seizure, minor self-harm, dub-con, gore, alien possession, violence, blood, language, profanity, and deep dark character angst all around.
Summary: What would you do if an innocent bystander was drawn into your world against his will? What if he was possessed by a being that was killing him from the inside and didn't know the grim fate he would receive in the end whether by the monster's hands or yours, what if this person...was your own friend?
A/N: I don't own TGWTG nor its characters, they belong to their respective RLP and no disrespect is intended from this work, no matter how scary this story appears to be. Special thanks to 
butterflyslinky thank you and enjoy
Note: This takes place after the Lord Vyce arc but somewhere between the first and second part of the "Entity" storyline. Also if you squint you might see a slight Dr. Who reference. ;)
Eyes Of A Stranger
( Read more... )"BACK OFF!" The Host screamed, "I HAVE GONE THIS FAR TO HAVE YOU STOP ME OLD MAN!"The alien man rolled his eyes. "You have come far, yes. But You can never go far enough to escape me. Now come down before I have to do something drastic."
"I would rather let this body DIE than give up to the likes of you, you and that-" The Host spits venomously, "-Champion!"
The Alien Cleric sighed, "Leave the body of young earth man at once, or face the wraith of my power!" He holds up the staff as if he was Moses from the Ten Commandments facing off against The Red Sea and suddenly bright golden symbols appeared on the ceiling around ChaosD1 making the creature yell out in pain and drop onto the bed. But still conscious. Linkara hurried to Spoony, who was lying on the floor, still whimpering in pain.
"Do you need anything high-priest Yewail've?" he asked the cleric as he knelt down to pick Spoony up.
"Most obliged but I think you should attend to your partner there first, I will handle this abomination from the depths of the dark obsidian!" With that a circle appeared around the bed glowing yellow and bright, it surrounded ChaosD1 and a shield of light covered him, "This will keep the body in place while I expel the The Entity out."
The glow started to illuminate the outlines of the tendrils making them visibly noticeable to anyone seeing them. The length of the curved hooks at the end made Linkara nervous, as they were no bigger than the blade of a sickle.
"That...oh my god...those THINGS were attached to his body?!?!" Linkara paled in fright."Yes," the Cleric said. "That is the physical form of the Entity. Now be quiet and take care of your friend. There is nothing more you can do here."
Linkara was going to speak out in protest, but he closed his mouth, and nodded before dragging Spoony out of the room and into the living room.
The Cleric stood just outside the restraining circle. "You have a choice, Entity. You may leave this man's body unharmed...or I can destroy you. Which will it be?"
"I...will not...give in...to you or The Champion....I will make everything he sees and touches disappear before his very eyes!" The Entity growled and shook all over feeling the rays of the calm beautiful light burn him from the inside out. The Host screamed out angrily and grabbed his hair to alleviate the pain it was feeling. The Cleric spoke in a strange tongue, "FKIZU' DE WA! MON-TI'MZY'TEK NOQUL! GRU'RACK'TA!"
The light burned brighter and the monster howled once more in agony, it couldn't give up, it must not, not when he had already settled into a nice home into his earthling's body.
It had to fight back!
~*~*~*~
In the living room, Linkara looked up from where he was carefully wiping the disinfectant out of Spoony's eyes. The screaming from the other room was truly horrific to listen to and the alien language didn't help. For once, Linkara didn't know what to do. He had to care for Spoony, but knowing that Chaos was probably suffering in there...it was hard.
But he had to trust the Cleric, so he simply returned to the task at hand.
Linkara grabbed a towel from the kitchen and wiped the smell of disinfectant off Spooony's face, shaking him awake, "Spoony, are you okay?" He asked, "Speak to me!"
He rubbed his hands on the gamer's neck.
Spoony groaned slightly. "Linkara," he whispered, his voice a harsh rasp. "Linkara...need...Insano...swallowed some...disinfectant...don't know...Thanks" He started coughing and choking. Linkara put Spoony on his hands and knees then rubbed his back letting Spoony forcibly cough up as much as he could muster while taking out his communicator and calling for Dr. Insano to tell him everything.
"Insano...yes...no, I've got a specialist with him...It's Spoony. Apparently he was force fed a large amount of disinfectant...Peroxide...yes...okay. Thanks." Linkara hung up and a moment later Insano beamed in and hurried to Spoony's side.
As he let Dr. Insano do his scientific medical trade, he looked back at the door of the bedroom nervously.
~*~*~*~
Inside, The Host was on his hands and knees bowed over curling inward from The Creature reacting to the alienistic exorcism ritual, the hands and feet were bending in awkward angles and the head moved from side to side, Yewail've kept chanting and reached for the belt lined with small pouches attached to it and pulled out a small red one full of sparkling purple powder. The Host began to speak in an eldritch-like tongue.
"Beneath the seas, besides the flames, off the coast where The Lost Beast came-!" The Host chanted, "-to bring the world misery and shame, a piece of the world is missing-!"
"Vzeulua! Mo'Chakuka!" The Alien Cleric exclaimed as he took a small handful of dust and threw it upon The Host.The tendrils flailed out violently, one shattered the glass window on the right side of the room, brushing against the broken glass sticking out of the frame dripping what looked like black inky blood down the window frame and onto the carpet. Another tendril flew at a picture of Linkara's family hanging on the wall and broke it into four pieces. Yewail've backed away cautiously as a result. The creature within screamed, long and loud. The Host's body seized up as though he was once again having a seizure.
The Cleric kept chanting, his voice calm and steady. "Wyl'ne'ap'tho bijh'in'lar'sta," he murmured.
The Entity's screams didn't lesson, but there was another voice screaming. Not a long, loud, deep guttural growl but Chaos's voice was starting to seep through. Alien Cleric approached the man slowly who was writhing in the bed, sobbing. "I'm sorry boy, but this may hurt some more, it's only for the sake of your well-being we do this, do not be afraid..."
Chaos managed to look up, breaking through enough to nod weakly. "Do what you have to," he whispered.
Yewail've admired how brave the man was and smiled, he took the glowing staff and pressed it against the earthling's shoulder, tracing strange designs over the man's back leaving behind white beaming symbols of three circles within a triangle that burned ChaosD1 and disappeared into his body, causing him to thrash and lay on his back with his arms and legs stretched out spread eagle, screaming and shaking as if imaginary wires hooked into his chest and were pulling him upwards.
The Alien Cleric stood back and prepared for a incoming attack from one of the claw tendrils coming at him in retaliation. As one of the claws flew toward him, the Alien Cleric murmured a few syllables and the claw was grabbed by an invisible wire and restrained. The Cleric drew a large circle above Chaos with his staff, murmuring all the while, and one by one each claw was restrained. The man's human arms and legs did a few twitches before stopping.
"Remember your friends young human," Yewail've told him, "Remember your humanity, your life, your happiness, don't let The Entity take them away for a second it's trying to destroy you and everything you hold dear in your mind. Defy it!"
"I'm...trying..." Chaos gasped. "I can't...it has my mind...it has me...I don't have the strength!"
"X'ZL MU RULA!" Yewail've cried again, and ChaosD1 could feel his body unable to move.
Chaos felt as he was paralyzed, pressed deeply into the bed, he closed his eyes feeling as if a milling blades were slashing at his soul, shredding them into a million pieces. Out of the corner of his eye something thick and inky trickled down the side of his face. The man's entire body flushed red with his rapid heartbeat circulating blood throughout his system making all of his pulses pound so hard he could hear them. Chaos broke out into a cold sweat and screamed again feeling the creature fight to hold onto him, refusing to unlatch itself from his soul.
"We're almost there human," The Alien Cleric told him, "you must be brave now...for your friends!"
Yewail've made a sweeping motion with his staff and the tendrils begin to slice apart into pieces of blood and gory chunks of unseen flesh splattered everywhere around the room and all over the bed, slicing itself away one by one until black inky lines started to appear on the walls of the bedroom and spread. Chaos screamed, louder than ever, but it was his scream, a human scream, as the last of the tendrils fell away. The Cleric murmured, "Je're'loc, hu'so'mai," and then lowered his staff.
He studied Chaos carefully. "How do you feel, human?"
The man rolled over on his stomach and grabbed his stomach, something dead and heavy settled in the bottom and it made him feel queasy, clutching his stomach tightly, he started coughing up a black, thick, tarry substance from his mouth. Meanwhile, Linkara looked up from where he had just finished wrapping a bandage around Spoony's eyes to prevent the light from irritating them further. He glanced at Insano.
"Go on," Insano said. "We've done all we can for Spoony."
Linkara rushes in time to see ChaosD1, hunched over on the bed still coughing up what looked like a gallon of motor oil, "Is he...?"
"He is not going to die," the Cleric said. "At least, not now."Linkara went over and put his arms protectively around Chaos holding him tightly, he looked around to see that the black substance on both the bed and the walls started to move on their own absorbing into the walls and floor vanishing from sight, "So, is it finally gone?"
"Its out of your friend...the creature has been defeated, for now, It runs with its tails between its legs moping that it has not won," answered the Cleric cryptically.
Linkara nodded. "Thank you. I'll take you home when I'm sure my friends are taken care of.""Most obliged Champion," he said, "for that, I wish you well in the upcoming battles again."
"The what, what do you mean, it won't attack him again will it?"
"I hardly doubt it now, it knows that if it did it would have to contend with me, after all, because that earthling became his host, it doesn't mean that was his true target."
"Right," Linkara muttered. "So what was its target?"
Yewail've stared at Linkara solemnly, "It was you…"
Linkara stared for a moment, then nodded. "Makes sense," he muttered. "So what do I do now?""First heal your friends and then, prepare your team Linkara for the upcoming battle against it," Cleric answered, "for it's not done with you yet."
"It's not, why could you have killed it, you had the power to fight it, I saw what you could do!"
"Because I don't have the means to kill it, I can only protect others from its corruptive mind and body attacks, but you Champion, it falls upon you to stop it. It's here for a reason Champion and now that Lord Vyce cannot stand in its way, its up to you to fill in that role hero, good wishes in the upcoming battle ahead."
Linkara sighed and nodded again. "Thank you Yewali've. There's food in the kitchen...help yourself to whatever you can find."
"I accept your warm hospitality, I never tried your earth food before," He stops, "Well, except there was that one time...""Really, when was it?"
"An earth human-or so that is what he seemed to look like-wandered into my temple one day exploring, absolutely fascinated by everything there he saw, he had with him a female human as his companion he came up to me very bravely in fact and was quite a nice friendly fellow-what you earthlings would call a 'social butterfly'...he offered me one of your earthling foods he carried about with him as a peace offering to share among us." The Cleric explained.
Linkara just stared for a minute, "Uhhh, that was n-nice of him....What was it?"
The Cleric thought a moment. "I believe he called it a 'fish finger.' And he offered a wonderful sauce to go with it that he called 'custard.'"
All Linkara could say was a small "Huh" sound, as the Cleric left the room and into the kitchen, leaving the two of them alone.
After a while, he heard the mmo gamer stir from within Linkara's arms, speaking in a very weak and tired voice.
"Linkara, did he just imply that he-?"
"We will talk about it later, for now lets get you comfortable," Linkara laid him down on the bed,"How is everything?"
"Physically, I'm a little tired," Chaos explained relaxing finally, "but mentally everything feels weird, I don't know what kind of stuff I did, and it seems like I don't want to know. But I will have to won't I?"
"Eventually, look, if its any consolation, Spoony forgives you for dumping that disinfectant peroxide on him," Linkara said, "he is being attended to by Dr. Insano so he should be okay now."
"Dammit Linkara, how could this have happened to me?"
"Look, you were in the wrong place at the wrong time, that is what happened," Linkara told him petting him gently, "you didn't ask for it or bring it upon yourself. It was nothing you ever did. Okay? It wasn't your fault. The Creature needed someone there to get at me, and you just happened to be there, but it wasn't your fault."
"Still, I can't help but think what kind of monster I was," he rolled over on his side, staring out the window, "even if it was really me it can't help but feel partially responsible for all the trouble I caused."
"You didn't Chaos, I had no idea that it was even inside the house," Linkara replied standing beside the bed looking down at his friend, "I will understand if you never want to visit this house again."
"Its not that Linkara," he said, "its just wondering how to deal with it-whatever...THAT thing was..."
"Its called "The Entity" and as of this morning I had no idea it was even here, or what it was capable of, its traveled from plant to planet creating havoc upon everything it touches. It's hard to explain without adding any confusion, just know that whatever it is, it won't hurt you anymore, I promise."
"Thanks," there was something in Chaos's voice; a infliction that Linkara couldn't quite place, the man wouldn't even look at him, "Is it okay that I rest a bit until I go back home, I'm...just feeling tired right now."
"Yeah sure, rest up as long as you want, I'm sure the exorcism must have took it out of you-"
"Can we please NOT mention that right now!" The MMO Reviewer snapped, looking over at Linkara, "I don't want to even think about what just happened okay?"
"Yeah...okay." Linkara silently turned around and left the room.
~*~*~*~
Linkara found The High-Priest Alien Cleric in the living room talking with some of his friends, he still couldn't take his mind off of ChaosD1, what does something like what he had to go through do to a man's psyche?
Especially a man who wasn't used to strange fantastical things unless it was pixilated make-believe behind the screen of a monitor, with the kind of comforting assurance that it would never happen to him in real-life. That they were merely concepts for entertaining stories and plots to games played for fun. Not a life and death struggle that nearly kills you and harms those close to you.
"How is he kid?"
"He is okay right now Harvey, just fatigue from the ritual, I'm going to let him take a nap in there until he is well-rested to return back, until then I will get you home first High-Priest Yewail've."
"Many thank Champion," The Cleric got up after finishing his snack and crossed his arms over his chest bowing, "Zli'Karak Mo Toiveyga da monu - which means 'peace of mind, body, and spirit be with you throughout life-expectancy' friend."
"Thank you, that is very nice of you to say that." Linkara smiled, they walk off together to a quiet secluded corner of the room where Linkara looks back at the closed bedroom door before whispering to Yewail've.
"My friend, I'm worried about him honestly, he sounded upset before I left the room, he doesn't want to talk about the whole possession and exorcism thing, should I be worried?"
"Its not a happy subject most like to think about, especially with some of the incidents you described to me over the communicator when we first spoke," replied Yewail've, "and like any trauma its easy for them to block it out, he may not want to talk about it now, but be patient and when the time comes perhaps he will feel more confident or perhaps not, I do not know what things are like on your planet, but I see you are a caring man that wants to help him. And that is good, as you have trusted me with him, I too, will trust that you will know what you think is best to ease his pain by your earth customs."
Linkara nodded and sent the alien back to his home planet thanking him for all his help today.
Inside the bedroom, Chaos tried to forget about everything, the shock and mental pain of being controlled, having no willpower of his own being at the mercy of a unknown monster that wanted to give him nothing but death and misery...
Would anything ever be the same after this?
He absentmindedly moved his foot and felt something soft and furry brush against his toes, in a panicky reaction he sat up and was about to backhand whatever creature wanted to gnaw its sharp teeth on him and make him-!
"Oh, its just you Bear." He sighed heavily as he lowered his arm down.
He wondered why it was there, was it always there, at this point he didn't care right now he was too tired and upset to do so. Chaos did what came natural to him, something that after all these grueling hours, came naturally to him - that it was his own conscious choice. He picked up the teddy bear and hugged it.
It felt weird at first, a grown man hugging a teddy bear, but after a while that silliness wore off and it felt right...safe...like everything was slowly coming back to normal in his world again. Or so he hoped.
Bear in his own way, snuggled up against Linkara's friend, the events of the past couple of hours were a mass of ugliness and confusion and it wouldn't fully understand what had happened, but he did know in its own mind, that whatever this poor man had gone through, it was Bear's job to be his comforter and console for the night.
<Don't worry Linkara's friend, you're safe now, I'm here and so is Linkara...nothing will hurt you here anymore.>
Butterflyslinky for beta-reading this. I wanted this to be kinda funny and light-hearted since the months that I started this fic I was hit with some heavy depressing stuff in my life and so I thought for my own sake to write this as a comedic, funny story. I hope you all like it. From aunt zelda's TGWTG+Avengers RBB fanmix, please comment and enjoy. :)
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