Featuring:
Fen the Goo Crux
Ranek the Meerkat
Loosing Control
It felt like the same every day. The alarm wakes Ranek up, he feels more lazy this early morning than he does usually before he steps out and starts with his daily routine in the bathroom.
"Today everything will change to the better! I know it!"
Said the meerkat to himself as he looked into the mirror before dressing himself and stepping out of his home. The still dark morning was very foggy, he could feel the drops and moistness collect at his fur, he does not mind that as it always happens in such weather. Reaching the bus station he looked at the time, arriving several minutes before as he starts to idly roam at the treeline of the forest. Tapping his paws at a rather large looking puddle, his mind drifts off before stumbles a few steps back. Was there just a grinning face in there or did his imagination play a trick on him? Doesnt matter though the meerkat as the bus arrived the same moment. Taking him to work.
Little did he know that he sealed his fate exactly in that moment. The Crux, knowing that it already is to late for his new found prey, took his time to start absorb tissue which was rather unimportant as also elements of his hosts blood. Growing in strenght and mass.
The meerkat arrived in his work. Started up all the mashines and slurped on his coffee, his foot starting to feel strange, he can't pinpoint why as he has too much work to worry further about it.
"Mmm, looks like my foot fell asleep."
He shakes it softly as this lets the blood circulation spread down again and normaly waking it up but not this time. He started to worry slightly as the tingling numbness takes over more of his foot.
"I hope I didn't pinch a nerve or so, cant use that right now."
Moaned the meerkat bugged, as he went back to work before he could hear the laughter of a mad man somewhere in the distance. He looked around himself as this let a shiver run down his spine. No one was to be seen and the windows are closed. 'Must be like the imagination I had at the bus stop' though the meerkat and shrugged his shoulders.
Little did he know that Fen already collected enough strenght and influence on this body to play little mindgames with his meal before consuming it for eternety. His body took the place the flesh inside his foot aswell as he lower blood vessels since the meerkats body had no need to circulate blood 'outside' of his body. His gooey form almost liquified the entire inner parts of his foot as he starts to spread up his ankle and lower leg, penetrating into the bones as he gorges at the bone marrow inside of them.
Ranek did not notice too much of it, he could feel his leg getting weak. It doesnt support his weight as it did before. A spreading numbness overtakes his foot and ankle before he walks into his bosses office.
"Hey, I feel really strange. I leave earlier today, taking the time off the working-time account!"
"Okay, get home and stay healthy!"
Answered his boss before he walks out, starting to slowly hobble on his leg.
'Damn... what is just happening to me...'
Though the meerkat before he could hear another laughing, this time much ominous and menacing. On his way home he noticed someone he has never seen before, a dark blue looking creature with long ears and their tip curled inwards like a spiral with a threatening smile which showed of his sharp razor like teeth. He closed his eyes and rubbed with with his paws over them before opening again. Only to gasp in shock, the creature... it was suddenly 3 times in his field of vision. One menacingly licking his chops, another scritching down his neck as if he follows something he swallowed down with his paw as the last one lets his throat clog up. It held a blood stained knife in one paw and in the other one his could see... it cant be... he was holding his severed head at the hair. He jumped back and his his back at a lantern post, his heart races, the adrenaline overflows his body as he slightly panics, looking around before it suddenly stops again, it seems everything turned back to normal.
'What the fuck is happening here, guess I must be more tired than I think' said the meerkat to himself, trying to calm him down as he slowly resumed his way home as he could suddenly hear voices in his head.
"Did you... enjoy the show?"
Ranek slightly in panic looking around him as he were walking through the forest road home, wanted to calm himself down in the green.
"I asked you if you enjoyed the show!"
The voice getting louder and louder as the meerkat gets more and more confused.
"What... what show? Who are you?" The laughing in his head sounded amused over the ignorance or the meerkat.
"Who I am is irrelevant, but I can say who you are... You are the future me!"
The meerkat trying to sort his thoughs, what is happening right now? How did it come this far? Was he dreaming? He immediately began to check the reality.... no this is all happening right now! His mind becomes foggy as the Crux starts to manipulate more as the legs of the meerkat become weak like pudding. He sits down, leaning agaisnt a tree before it starts to turn into this creatue.
"What the fuck is happening? How...." he got cut off in the middle.
"Did you wonder why you idly played at this puddle of water? Do you know any reason for it? No?" 
A grinning face appears in his mind, the same as back in the city.
"It was me all the time manipulating you, making you step into it, taking my goo on you to infiltrate your body, to make you.... become me!"
The Crux manipulating the mind of the meerkat on an even deeper level, even implanting new ones.
"The new water purificator you got yourself, maybe I was in there. That new restaurant with the exotic meals, could have gotten you through that."
Raneks heartbeat doubled in the time as he cant distinguish the truth from the sick mind of this creature. Falling right into the layed out traps as Fen's manipulation becomes his reality.
"YOU SICK BASTARD! You sold me those purificators... you KNEW IT!"
Of course he never had one but it is too late now, the Crux has taken over too much. He simply grins as the legs of the meerkat start to melt down into a gooey substance. His whole body just tingles as he was in his nerve system. Completely in control of his prey just before it will get destroyed and more of Fen. Panic spreads through his body as he can see the same devious grinning face again in this liquid as he has seen at the beginning of his day before he grew tired of the meerkats whimpers and screams as a part of him gets dragged through the system of his blood vessels and absorb the voice chords before the next shock hits the meerkat as he suddenly heard the voice of the Crux out of his own maw.
"There we are, all silent again and nobody will come to rescue you. Not that it would be even possible. Lets see how I can use and take more of your system!"
Ranek was now completely immobile, tears start to run down his face as fear spreads through his whole body... or was it just the Crux? His breath becomes flat and fast as he can feel more of his body tingling, a burning sensation comes up as his body got more and more dominated as the notices his arm moving without his consent.
"Open up little meerkat, time to spread more of me in you!"
The voice almost sounded as if it would care about his prey before the jaws of the meerkat open up, the tried his best to move but he lost control over his own body as parts of his hand melt infront of his eyes as they drop into his maw. The sensation of this taste was almost sickening to him as he was forced to swallow it. This all was plan of Fen, using the natural path of the nutricion transport to spread himself everywhere. Ranek feeling weaker and weaker by the second as his midbody and torso start to melt down aswell as his arms. Ultimately defenseless as the creature takes him over from within. A feeling of butterflies in his belly spreads up to his throat before the only thing left is his head to become nothing more but goo. His vision fades into utter blackness before he is gone and only a puddle of goo was left behind.
Shortly after the goo forms up, it clumps together and takes the form of Fen, solidifying with a strech as he pats over his body.
"Mine... all mine now..."