2025-12-01 23:32:25The hallway alarms blared as Spencer followed the woman in white through a back corridor of the hospital. Red lights pulsed overhead. Every siren stabbed through his skull.
He winced. “Why is everything so loud?”
“It isn’t,” the woman said.
“Your senses are sharpening. That’s normal.”
“It doesn’t feel normal.”
“It won’t.”
They turned a corner. Two security guards blocked the exit. “Halt! Both of you!”
Spencer flinched. “I don’t want to fight”
“You won’t need to,” the woman murmured.
She stepped forward calmly, raising both hands. “Officers, we’re handling a medical transfer. The patient”
The nearest guard cut her off. “That patient assaulted staff.”
Spencer tensed. “It was an accident !”
“Get on the ground!” the guard shouted.
“No,” Spencer said instinctively.
The guard blinked. “What?”
“No,” Spencer repeated, though he didn’t understand why the word came out so cold.
The guard reached for his stun baton. Spencer felt something crash against his mind, like a pulse
His body obeyed before he could think. He grabbed the woman’s arm, yanked her back, and twisted around the guard’s swing in one fluid motion.
The baton cut empty air. Spencer shoved the guard into the wall with a force he didn’t know he had. The other guard charged. “Spencer !” the woman called.
He reacted again, too fast, too precise. He stepped into the guard’s momentum, disarmed him, and pinned him with perfect leverage. The guard gasped. “What the hell is he?!”
Spencer stepped back, horrified. “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean”
The woman touched his shoulder. “You’re adapting quicker than expected.”
“I’m not trying to!” Spencer snapped. “Someone else is.”
Her eyes narrowed. “Someone?”
He swallowed. “There’s a voice in my head.”
They slipped through the emergency exit and out into the rain-soaked alley behind the hospital. Thunder cracked overhead. Spencer hugged himself, breath shaking.
The woman pulled a key fob and a black sedan chirped nearby. “Get in,” she ordered.
“No.”
Spencer backed away. “You’re still not telling me anything.”
“I’m telling you everything you can handle without breaking.”
“That’s not enough.”
Rain hit the pavement, collecting in thin reflective pools. Spencer stared at her, jaw tight. “Start talking. Who are you?”
The woman sighed. “My name is Lira.”
“And why are you helping me?”
“Because you awakened the one thing this world fears most.”
Spencer’s stomach twisted. “What does that mean?”
Lira opened the car door slightly but didn’t get in. “You heard voices when you died. That wasn’t hallucination, Spencer. That was… contact.”
“Contact with what?”
Lira looked him dead in the eye. “With the thing inside you.”
Spencer shook his head violently. “There’s nothing inside me.”
“Yes there is,” Lira said softly. “And if you don’t learn to control it, it will take over.”
Thunder rumbled in the distance. Spencer whispered, “Take over what?”
“Your body. Your mind. Everything.”
He staggered back until he hit the wall behind him. “No, no, I’m not letting that happen.”
“You won’t have a choice if you stay here,” she said.
“People will come for you. A lot of them.”
“Why? What do they want?”
Lira hesitated… then: “They want your death, Spencer.”
Lightning lit her face. “And they want what wakes up when you die.”
A sharp pain ripped through Spencer’s chest. He gasped. Fell to his knees. Clutched his shirt as an invisible weight pressed into his lungs. Lira rushed forward. “Stay with me!”
Spencer squeezed his eyes shut. “It’s inside”
“Let me out.”
The voice struck harder this time, deeper, aged, like metal grinding beneath earth. “Spencer!” Lira shouted. “Fight it!”
He tried. But the voice unfurled like smoke, filling the cracks in his consciousness. “You are weak alone.”
“No” he whispered.
“Let me take your place.”
“Get out of my head!”
His hand slammed against the ground, cracking the concrete beneath his palm. Rainwater pooled in the fractures. Lira crouched beside him. “Listen to me, whatever you do, do not answer it.”
“I’m trying!” he cried.
“Try harder!”
The voice grew louder, angrier. “You were chosen because you are empty. I can fill you.”
Spencer screamed. The pain stopped. His breathing steadied. And the voice faded back into the dark corners of his mind, but it didn’t leave. It waited. Watching.
Lira exhaled in relief. “You’re stabilizing faster than I expected.”
“That’s not comforting,” Spencer muttered.
Spencer stood, still breathing hard. “Lira… what is that thing?”
“A remnant,” she said.
“A deity that was sealed ages ago.”
Spencer stared at her. “You’re telling me a god is inside my body?”
“Not a god,” she corrected quietly.
“A war-titan. Something ancient. Something that should have stayed buried.”
Spencer shook his head. “That’s insane.”
“Your strength,” she counted on her fingers,
“your instincts, your reflexes, your enhanced senses, those aren’t human. You felt it take control. You heard it.”
He sank against the car. “This can’t be real…”
Lira waited patiently, then said: “Spencer… what do you remember right before the accident?”
He froze. The memory hit him like a shockwave, the sigil glowing beneath him the whisper that said rise the shadowed figure standing in the street eyes watching him waiting for him to die
Spencer’s voice trembled. “There was someone there. Before the car hit me.”
Lira’s eyes widened. “Describe them.”
“I—I didn’t see their face. But they were standing in the road, like they knew the car was coming. Like they wanted me to get hit.”
Lira cursed under her breath. “They reached you first.”
“Who reached me?”
She opened the passenger door. “Get in the car. Now.”
“I’m not going anywhere until you tell me what’s happening!”
Lira leaned closer, her voice low. “If they witnessed your awakening, they will hunt you until you’re dead. And if you die again”
Spencer swallowed. “What happens?”
She didn’t blink. “The thing inside you wakes up completely.”
Spencer stared at her in horror. “And the world ends.”
Spencer’s hands trembled. He glanced back at the hospital, at the alarms the flashing red lights the shadows of security guards hunting for him.
He didn’t belong here anymore. He wasn’t safe. And neither was anyone around him. Finally, he whispered, “…fine.”
He slid into the car. Lira got into the driver’s seat and started the engine. “Where are we going?” Spencer asked.
“A safehouse,” Lira said.
“Somewhere no one can find you.”
“Why help me at all?”
She didn’t answer immediately. Instead, she adjusted the mirror and whispered, almost reluctantly: “Because you’re not the first one I’ve seen awaken. But you are the first one who didn’t lose control.”
Spencer frowned. “What happened to the others?”
She hesitated. “They died. And when they died… something ancient used their bodies.”
He felt his stomach drop. “And what happened after that?”
Lira’s knuckles tightened on the steering wheel. “Their cities burned.”
Spencer stared at her. “You’re lying.”
“I wish I were.”
Silence settled in the car. Then Spencer asked quietly, “Why do you care what happens to me?”
Lira looked straight ahead. “Because,” she said finally,
“if we don’t find out why the sigil chose you…”
She turned to him, eyes cold and sharp. “…you’ll end up just like the others.”
Spencer shuddered. “And what am I supposed to do?”
Lira met his gaze. “You’re going to learn how to survive your own awakening.”
As the car pulled out of the alley, Spencer caught a glimpse of something in the side mirror, A shape on the roof across the street. A man in dark robes. Standing perfectly still. Watching him.
Spencer’s chest tightened. “Lira…”
“I see him,” she whispered.
The robed man raised a hand, And Spencer saw the sigil glowing on his palm. Lira slammed the accelerator. “Hold on!”
The car shot forward. Lightning split the sky. And the man’s voice echoed in Spencer’s mind: “You cannot run from what you are.”
Spencer clutched his head, Because the voice wasn’t just coming from the man. It was coming from inside him too.
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CHAPTER 10 — THE BODY THAT DID NOT WAKE ALONE
Spencer slammed back into his body like someone dropped him from the stratosphere. He gasped, air stabbing into his lungs, vision spinning, Concrete above him.Moonlight. The cold loading dock. He was back. But something was wrong. “…Lira?” he croaked.Silence. He blinked hard. The world was unfocused, edges bending like heatwaves. He pushed himself up, trembling.His hands shook violently, silver light flickering under his skin like trapped lightning. “Lira… where are you?”Still nothing. His stomach dropped. She wasn’t here. “LIRA!” he shouted, louder, desperate.A faint echo responded, like his voice bounced off the wrong angles of the building. But no Lira. No shadow. No warlock. Just silence.Spencer whispered, “No. No, nononono, she wouldn’t leave me.”A cold voice answered from behind him: “You’re half-right.”Spencer spun, Lira stumbled out of the darkness. But she didn’t look like herself. Her face was pale. Eyes unfocused. Breaths shallow. Like she’d run for miles through ni
CHAPTER 9 — THE MEMORY THAT SHOULD NOT EXIST
Falling wasn’t the right word. Spencer wasn’t falling. He was dropping through himself.Blackness tore apart into shards of blinding white, flashing like broken mirrors, each reflecting pieces of him he didn’t recognize.A voice echoed, layered and ancient: “Remember.”Spencer shouted into the void, “No! I don’t want to remember anything!”Another voice, his own, whispered directly behind his ear: “You don’t have a choice.”He spun, His shadow stood inches from him in the empty void, more solid than before—bone structure forming beneath the darkness, faint muscles shaping. “Stay away from me,” Spencer breathed.The shadow stepped closer. “You called me.”“I DID NOT!”“You awakened. That is a call.”Spencer clenched his fists. “Where am I? What did you do to me?”“This is inside your remnant. Inside us.”Spencer’s heartbeat thundered. Inside them. Inside a past he didn’t want. Inside a truth he wasn’t ready for. “Let me out,” he said. “Now.”The shadow smiled slightly. “Escape requires
CHAPTER 8 — THE SHADOW THAT BREATHES
Darkness wasn’t absence. It was presence. It pressed against Spencer’s skin, cold, aware, predatory. A voice echoed in the void: “Breathe, vessel.”Spencer flinched. “Stop calling me that!”“Then stop behaving like one.”Light ripped open the darkness, He stumbled backward into a half-collapsed rooftop, heart hammering.Lira stood across from him, blade drawn, panting, eyes wild with panic. “Spencer, DON’T MOVE!”He froze. “What, what happened? Where’s the warlock?”“Forget him!” She pointed past Spencer.“Look behind you.”Slowly, dreading it, Spencer turned. His shadow was still there. Standing upright. Detached from his feet. Breathing in slow, unnatural rises. “Spencer,” Lira whispered, “it followed you through the shift.”Spencer backed away. “How?! Shadows don’t teleport!”“That’s not your shadow. That’s your remnant’s… shape.”The shadow tilted its head, perfectly matching the motion Spencer had just made. Except… slower. More deliberate. Hungrier. “Stop copying me!” Spencer sn
CHAPTER 7 — WHEN THE VESSEL OPENS ITS EYES
Spencer woke to the taste of metal. Blood? Power? Both?The world was a blur, shattered concrete, twisting fog, the faint echo of his own heartbeat returning in slow, brutal thumps. Lira’s voice cut through the haze: “Spencer, answer me. Spencer!”He groaned. “D-did I… die again?”“No. But something inside you woke up in your place.”“That’s… terrible news.”“Yes,” she said quickly. “That’s why we need to move, NOW.”But Spencer couldn’t move. His limbs trembled like electricity was still crawling through them. “What happened to the warlock?” he whispered.Lira stiffened. “I don’t know. You, your remnant, repelled him. Violently.”“Repelled him how?”She swallowed. “It screamed.”“That’s… disturbing.”“You’re telling me.”Spencer tried to sit up. “We need to check if he’s gone.”Lira grabbed his arm instantly. “No. Absolutely not.”“Why?”“Because if he’s still conscious, he’ll finish the extraction.”“And if he’s NOT conscious”“Then that’s even worse.”Spencer blinked. “…Why worse?”
CHAPTER 6 — THE WARLOCK WHO SPEAKS WITHOUT SPEAKING
The shadow at the end of the ruined road didn’t move. It didn’t breathe. It didn’t even sway in the wind. But Spencer felt it, in his bones, in the back of his skull, in the thing pulsing inside his chest.Lira whispered, “Spencer… don’t blink.”“I’m not even breathing,” Spencer whispered back.“Good. Don’t. Any movement might”The warlock’s voice suddenly slid between their thoughts: “Move. Don’t move. It makes no difference.”Spencer flinched. “Lira, he’s inside my head again”“He’s not,” she said.“Then what is he doing?”“He’s inside your remnant.”Spencer’s throat tightened. “Is… is it talking back?”Lira’s silence answered for her. The warlock lifted one hand, slowly, precisely, as if raising a curtain. All the fog around them tightened inward, spiraling like a slow-turning whirlpool.Lira stepped in front of Spencer. “Don’t respond,” she hissed.“I’m not!”“I meant the remnant.”Spencer swallowed. “Can you stop it?”“No. I can only delay it.”“How long?”“Minutes,” she said. “M
CHAPTER 5 — THE HEART THAT ISN’T HIS
The symbols on the ground glowed faintly, pulsing like a heartbeat. Spencer stumbled backward as the message dissolved into dust. “Lira… what does it mean? Awakening too fast? How fast is too fast?”Lira didn’t answer. She didn’t breathe. She stared at the dust as if it were something alive. “Lira?” Spencer whispered. “Talk to me.”Finally, she spoke, soft, strained, terrified. “It means your remnant isn’t dormant anymore. It’s… accelerating.”“Isn’t that good?” Spencer asked desperately. “Doesn’t that mean I’m getting stronger?”“No,” Lira said sharply. “Awakening doesn’t mean strength. It means instability.”“Lira”She grabbed his wrist. “Spencer, listen to me carefully. If the remnant wakes too fast, it won’t merge with you.”“Then what does it do?”“It replaces you.”Spencer’s breath froze. “You’re joking.”“I wish I were.”He stepped away from her, chest tightening. “No, no, this can’t be happening. I didn’t ask for this. I didn’t want any of this!”Lira followed him slowly. “No
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