Adam's grip tightened around the saber, his knuckles pale and trembling. The blade's azure glow flickered like a dying flame, its hum a furious growl that sang in tune with his own madness. His chest heaved, lungs greedily sucking in the thick, blood-tinged air. His body was already healing, stitching itself back together like a monstrous parody of life. His skin was raw, bruises still blooming across his flesh, but his mind—oh, his mind was unraveling with every heartbeat.
"Didn't I beat your ass already?" Adam taunted, his voice a ragged mockery of sanity. "Or did you crawl back to Savan, crying for him to fix your stupid, blocky head?"
The intruder's yellow eyes glowed like molten gold, unblinking, locked onto him with a rage so pure it almost felt divine. Its face was an abomination—massive, blocky, like a slab of stone given life and hatred. Thick veins pulsed beneath its mottled skin, muscles rippling with every agonized, shuddering breath.
"GRRRRRAUGHH...!!"
The beast's roar tore through the mine, the force of it slamming into Adam like a physical blow. Dust and loose rocks rained from above, the ground trembling beneath the alien's wrath. It was the roar of a thing that existed only to destroy.
Adam's lips curled into a smile. "Now that's more like it," he growled, blood still dripping from his hairline, seeping into his eyes. "Come on! Give me something to hack and slash!."
The alien lunged, each step like a thunderclap. The ground quaked beneath its charge, cracks spiderwebbing across the stone floor. Adam braced himself, his body reacting before his mind even processed the movement. His saber screamed through the air, a blaze of cerulean fire, and met the alien's blocky fist with a flash of sizzling energy.
*BOOM!*
The impact rattled his bones, sent shockwaves rippling through his arm. The alien's fist was massive, like a warhammer wrapped in raw muscle. Adam's feet slid backward, his boots leaving twin trails in the dust.
"Hah! That all you got?" Adam spat, his eyes wild, gleaming with a sick thrill. Pain was just another spark to the inferno roaring within him. "You don't get it, do you? You can't kill me. You can only make me angrier."
"GRRRRUAGGGG!!...!!!"
The alien roared again, its fists descending like meteors. Adam weaved through the assault, his saber a blur of vicious cuts and relentless slashes. Blue arcs of energy seared into the beast's flesh, carving deep, molten gashes across its chest and arms.
But it didn't stop. It couldn't stop. It just kept coming.
Adam ducked under a wild swing, thrusting his saber into the alien's side. The smell of meat filled the air as the blade slashed through muscle and bone. The creature howled, staggered—but it didn't fall.
Its yellow eyes flared. Its own blood spilled like molten sludge, dripping to the ground and hissing against the stone. But the beast moved like pain was a distant, forgotten memory.
Adam's laughter erupted from him like bile. "You're just a meat puppet, aren't you? Just another mindless freak Savan threw my way." His eyes were sharp, cold. "You ever wonder why you exist? What purpose you really serve? Or are you just a stupid animal that doesn't even know it's being used?"
The alien charged again, its mouth open in a snarling, primal roar. It swung both arms down like hammers, aiming to crush Adam's skull into dust.
He dove to the side, rolling through the dirt and springing to his feet with a fluidity that bordered on the unnatural.
As the aliens fists cracked the surface some stone pieces flew to Adams head at supersonic speed and scratched him but his regenerative factor quickly healed it.
As his anger surged his saber too pulsed with energy.
His saber lashed out, cleaving through one of the alien's wrists with a burst of light.
The alien's scream was pure agony. Its stump sprayed blood like a crimson geyser, the fluid splattering across Adam's chest and face. He licked his lips, tasting copper and ash.
"That's what I thought. You feel pain, don't you? You bleed. You suffer." His voice was cruel, mocking. "And I'm going to make sure you remember every—last—second of it."
The alien's one good hand lashed out, the blow catching Adam across the chest with the force of a freight train.
CRACK.
Bones snapped. Adam was flung backward, his body slamming into the rough stone wall with enough force to send cracks splintering through the rock. His vision swam, his breath knocked from his lungs.
For a heartbeat, the pain was all there was. Pure. Overwhelming.
Then—his body knitted itself back together, bone grinding against bone, muscle fusing with muscle. He rose to his feet, a feral grin stretching his lips.
"You think that's enough to stop me? You.Can't.Kill.MEEE!!." He took a step forward, his saber's glow intensifying, the blade trembling with his madness. "But you? Oh, you're not going to be so lucky."
The alien hesitated. Just for a fraction of a second, but Adam saw it.
Fear.
"Oh, you feel that, huh?" Adam whispered, his voice a sick, venomous rasp. "It's the truth sinking in, isn't it? You're nothing. Just a pathetic dog sent to chase a wolf. And you've already lost."
The alien's roar was a broken thing, part rage, part terror. It charged again, but there was no coordination in its attack. Just fury. Desperation.
Adam stepped into the onslaught. His saber cut through the darkness, slashing through muscle, bone, and sinew with surgical precision. Each strike was an act of violence so pure it bordered on art.
"Haha...ha...MWHAHAHAHA!!"
Adam laughed with maniacal glee as the madness started to overwhelm him.
"Aww..you scared little buddy,am I bullying you...pft!,hahaha!!" Adam teased
Blood sprayed across his face, down his arms, into his eyes. But he saw everything. Every opening, every weakness.
Every way he could cut him.
"Come on, you bastard! Bleed for me! SCREAM FOR ME!" Adam howled, his own roar a twisted echo of the beast's, his words a thunderclap of deranged triumph.
The alien was faltering. Its once-relentless attacks were slowing, its movements sluggish, drunken. Its blocky head wobbled on its thick neck, yellow eyes dimming.
But Adam wasn't done. Not even close. His saber hummed with lethal intent, his own madness surging, threatening to consume him whole.
He welcomed it.
And the blood continued to fall.
"GURAHHHH..!!!" The alien roared. It's veins bulged and glowed green.
It eyes surged with energy as it muscles grew bigger and bigger.
It's bones cracked and reformed.
"What the hell is going on?,I think I saw this in an old comic book..." Adam stated looking at the bulging monster ahead of him,looming over him.
"All it would take is w-" Adam was slammed by the now even more massive hand of the monster before he finished his sentence.
"B...bastard..!!" Adam cursed as he got up.
He let go of his saber controling it with the telekinesis to let the monster be busy for a while.
Meanwhile,Adam coughed some blood inside the giant crater on the wall he was in right now.
His mind swirled and his emotions were figting to gain dominance and control.
"What...is going on?" he asked himself. He wasn't like this..right?.
He was usually a calm and reasonable guy but now...all he wants to do now is hack and slash until all that remains is the blood on the cold,dead floor.
He held his own head in a tight grasp and he fell on his knees.
"Calm yourself...calm yourself
...calm..calm yourself...calm yourself" over and over he repeated those same two words.
They were words that Maria had taught him to say everytime he felt too angry.
"Is it that syndrome that she talked about...the one most bio-engineered lifeforms have?"
[H.S.D
Hybrid Strain Disorder:Can invoke hysteria and madness on the patient,found in bio-engineered and cloned lifeforms with altered and spliced D.N.A. The degree of effect depends on the difference and quantity of altered and or foreign D.N.A]
[Rapid emotional changes]
[Madness]
[Temporary loss of control of motor functions]
[Burnout]
[Especially common during a fight]
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