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The demon who lives inside me is tiny. He looks like someone who has struggled all his life. He weighs next to nothing. The demon is back after having won a great fortune. He takes off his gloves and briefly look at his gaunt but cheerful face in the mirror. Afterwards, he paints scenery on a clean canvas. He only uses one color.
Yi Sang: Selected Poems and Stories
Don Mee Choi, Jack Jung etc.
🧛♂️Живет ли внутри вас демон, который хочет завладеть вашим телом?!...🧛♀️
I no longer fight my demons....
......we’re on the same side now.
I won't give up so don't give in
You've fallen down but you can rise again
So don't give up
When the demon that's inside you is ready to begin
And it feels like it's a battle that you will never win
When you're aching for the fire and begging for your sin
When there's nothing left inside, there's still a reason to fight
"non arrendermi mai... Questa è la mia magia!"
The Outsiders - Chapter 23
Demon Rising
I was scared. I knew what had happened, that I had been infected with the botting script. I had hoped I was still being transported out from The Net, despite what we had been told about data mingling. I felt my body slowly dissolve, which had raised my hopes for a moment, but when a new location, a darkened room filled with all manner of glass tubes and mechanical implements.
I had been stuck inside this room, inside a tube of sorts, for what felt like days. That was when I saw him, Zeffer, walk in and observe the many other tubes.
“Well well, what have we here...” spoke Zeffer, tapping on the glass in front of Iris. “I was intrigued to see some of your data pop up in my database, but this makes things all the more fun...” Zeffer giggled to himself, lightly touching over the glass surface as he stepped away. “Just you wait Iris, oooh just you wait...”
I was terrified. Zeffer was, well, you know how he had been. I didn't know what to expect from him, but the following days consisted of him, forcefully at times, extracting more and more of my data for use in... something. It hadn't been until several days later that I saw what he had been up to, as a cavalcade of red-lined clones stepped in. There had to be at least a dozen of them, of me... It had me worried that I was no longer the real me, that there could have been some moment with memory copying and the like, where the real me was converted into one of those Reds, and I was another hapless copy...
Over several months... Gods it could have been years even, the only remaining copy was the last one created, calling themselves Zericks. The others went mad, deleted themselves when it seems my personality surfaced in them. Not sure what made Zericks so special, but they seemed to be different that the others, having a personality all their own.
“Hey, Iris...” spoke Zericks, tapping on the glass. “I need you to wake up, right now!” Iris slowly opened her eyes, gazing up to the red copy of herself.
“Wha... what is it?” Iris groaned, groggily waking from her slumber.
“He... Perraux... he is coming and he has something planned for you. You won't be trapped in this tube for much longer, but I warn you that what awaits you is far worse than this!”
“P-Perraux... he's a-alive?” Iris questioned, as Zericks held a small device against the glass.
“He comes for you now, and he seeks to usurp your body. He will download his data onto yours and will take over your body, even taking it back to the real world and... doing whatever he wishes there. Please, I... I don't wish to do this, I never wanted to even consider this. But if he gets control over you... There is no telling what he might do with you!”
“What... Ruri... Please don't l-let him...” Iris started as tears dripped from her eyes. “I... don't wish to... t-to die...”
“I know, believe me I know... I don't...” Zericks spoke, pausing as she heard several noises from outside the room. “We need to move fast if we are to-” Zericks spoke quickly, interrupted by Iris as she cut in.
“No... I... I don't want to die... but...” Iris spoke, thinking over her current situation. “Please... there... m-must be something...”
“I would if I could, but there is no time! He's-” Zericks shouted as the door to the room quickly shifted to white and vanished in a flurry of pixels. Perraux stepped inside, the elezen walking tall as his eyes fixed upon Iris.
“Ah good, you woke her for me,” spoke Perraux. “Wouldn't want her to miss out on the experience.” Perraux stepped closer, softly shoving Zericks out of the way. “Remember... when we last met, at the bar. Well, looks like you should have slain the monster when you had the chance...” spoke Perraux as a wave of pixelization rippled from his hand and across the rest of his body. “Now it's your turn to become the monster...” Perraux's body fully pixelated, swirling around the glass tube and flowing inside. Iris screamed, feeling as each pixel began to overwrite her mind and senses.
“AAH! S-STOP IT!” she screamed, each additional pixel flooding inside causing her mind to haze further. “I D-DON'T... DON'T M-M-MAAA-” Iris shouted, her voice echoed and mechanical as the last of the pixels entered into her. “Mmm... I will make you mine, Iris...”
He did... things to me. I wouldn't dare wish to speak on the specifics of them, but he also... he used my system administrator access to modify his data with me to force my body into becoming stronger, made it into this power hungry abomination that would suck up aether and convert it into direct strength. Gods I was a fool, should have let Zericks end me there... With each passing into the Net, he grows in power; with each passing of an aether current, he grows in power... And, the only way to stop him... is...
“... kill me, Iris.”
The android wept, pixel tears falling from her eyes as she crawled forward and slinking over top of her former self.
“I... I don't...” Android Iris spoke, her hands trembling as they searched for the original Iris' throat. “I don't want to... I-is there any other way?” The android held out he hand, trying to ready her beam saber. Soft whirring noises moaned from her arm, leaving her weaponless as her blade refused to ready itself.
'Warning: Extreme heat levels have raised system cooling to maximum levels. Please seek a cooler climate. Warning: Extreme cooling levels may cause lowered battery efficiency. Warning: Battery levels at twelve percent. Combat protocols disabled.' The android's breathing fluttered, as her hands instead found their way to Iris' neck, firmly clasping to her.
“I-I... please don't m-make me... I-I c-can't...” the android stammered.
“I... I know...” spoke Iris, crying as well.
“Is there... t-truly no ther way?” the android questioned, her fingers quivering, almost tickling to Iris. The original let out a small laugh, looking longingly up to her android self.
“I would if I could, but there is no time...” spoke Iris, softly smiling as she touched the android on the cheek. “You are the real me. You've been through more than I could have imagined in my slumber. Please... look after Ruri, a-and Trix... Omi...” The android smiled back, her fingers clenching tightly as she began to strangle her other self. “Please... k-ki-ill me m-m...m...” The android sniffled, shutting her eyes tightly to not want to look at her other body.
“J-just... die...” Android Iris cried out softly. “Please... please sleep... I'm sorry...” The original Iris began to quake and spasm, doing what she could to keep herself steady. After a minute had passed, her body fell motionless, her pulse vanished from her neck. The android slumped over, crying hard against the original's cheek and cradling her limp body against her chest. “I'M SORRY! PLEASE!” she screamed, regret flowing over her mind as she clutched the body tightly.
Several minutes passed, and Iris softly rested her body back down to the sand. A weak smiled tried to force out across her lips, her right hand softly petting her the cheek of her old body.
“I'll... I'll not fail you... I-I won't let you down,” Iris spoke, as a jolt of pain washed through her arm. Her eyes went wide, watching as her old body had come back to life, with a blazing fast swipe of their hand, cutting through and smashing her right arm to pieces. Iris stumbled back, off the chest of her former self, and tried to scramble away.
“Yooou...” her old body growled, black smoke and flames oozing out from their mouth. Malice coated their voice as they stomped closer to Iris. “You killed her, and tried to kill me... I will make you suffer for your transgressions... I WILL MAKE YOU PAY!” Iris scrambled to her feet, holding the shattered remains of her arm dangling down from her shoulder.
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