Fifth Age of Man: Project Demon

    This doesn’t make any sense to me, normally when one is summoned there is a blue sigil and one hears the voice of the summoner. All I know is one moment I am flying about in the depths of the netherworld with out a care in the world and the next I am in some human lab. It’s a tube of some kind filled with water…or something like water, there is this breathing apparatus on my face and I see men and women in lab coats all around looking at me. I can vaguely see a reflection in the glass like tube, given my pounding on it I doubt it was actually glass, its not my body, but rather that of a host; a young woman with pale complexion, long brown hair, and blue eyes, of course I don’t need to tell you that.

 

     I have no idea who this host is, all I know I am just here in this strange place; although I did note the technology was a bit more advanced than what I’d normally see on a human world. Through the liquid and the clear tube I could hear them muttering something, all I could make out was, “demon DNA” , “hope for humanity”. I guess they underestimated the strength of what they summoned into this body, I was able to summon enough power to grow wings and my oh so beautiful pointy tipped tail; in case you’ve never seen them, they are both black as shadow and gorgeous if I do say so myself. While the fools in the coats gapped in awe I broke free, busted through the walls out above a surrounding wilderness, I guess that was some sort of hospital. I flew a good distance away and landed; then I blacked out.

 

     Best I can guess after everything is that I must sense danger to the host or something as my next memory has to have occurred some time later. I came too sitting in some hall surrounded by other people and some guy talking about biblical prophesies and the end of the world and welcoming death, yeah like I said sensed danger and all that. I left the lunch room like hall, said something along the lines of needing to go the bathroom; he just gave me a weird look. I climbed up the stairs of what seemed like an old school house or large church or something like that. Up and out onto a balcony, it was dark, but being what I am I could clearly see the land around us. The compound was fenced in by rod iron, and beyond that farm fields with no crops and tilled soil. The gates were opening and a flood of grey skinned zombies rushed in. The people were standing about waiting to die, as the zombies came into the stair well I looked down, and they looked up, so naturally they started to climb. On reflex, and not really sure what I could do in this body I grew my wings and tail again (as you might guess I can normally do this at will to either hide amongst humans or reveal myself, the blacking out thing is new to me though) and took flight out into the field.

 

    I only flew a short ways, just out beyond the flood lights of the compound, but I could still hear the screams and the sound of running, guess some of them had second thoughts after the first few started to get munched on; it really isn’t a pleasant way to die. I took a breath and with a quick run was able to take to the air again, once I got going some of my old strength came back and I could stay in the air.

 

     I have no idea where I am as I fly, I see other compounds here and there below, surrounded by zombies, I see cities in ruin. I reach one massive city, most the buildings are collapsing, on fire, or filled with the writhing bodies of the undead. I eventually find one building that stands out, it’s in good condition. I land through an open window about sixty floors up, retract my wings and tail and wander about. The building is still, too still. It’s some kind of office building, and I have to laugh at myself at this part, I was actually startled by a little overweight woman janitor who came around a corner. She wasn’t startled by me though, but either way she was completely out of place given the zombie apocalypse outside; you’d expect survivors huddled on the roof or higher floors with barricades blocking off the lower levels. This building had an opening in the window showing all the lower floors and going straight down to the lobby, reminded me of a chimney stack.

 

    The woman asked as politely as though I were a guest visiting the office if I needed any assistance. I asked her where the bathroom was, and she just obliged with out explanation of what was going on with this building. She showed me to a unisex bathroom, now don’t freak out but I discovered I could also change this body into a hermaphrodite, did so to use the urinal. In its self this isn’t an unusual ability to have with or with out a host, but in this situation hardly seems important, just thought I’d give a heads up; not sure what can be done when I’m not in control.

 

    As I washed my hands I remembered the human custom of flushing the toilets, I did so on the way out. As I walked out of the restroom the janitor lady smiled and said, “you shouldn’t have done that, that calls them.”

 

    Didn’t have a moment to wander what that meant as zombies came pouring out of the office doors, they ignored her and came at me. So naturally I leapt over the rail and spread my demonic features once again as a I fell, I slowed down near the floor and then kicked off like a rocket back up, my wings can utilize a normal flight and produce a magic lift to speed me about after all. What happened next though still puzzles me as to what is actually going on with that world, as I went up something, something big came out of the floor beneath me. All I saw were massive greenish grey octopus like tentacles around me as I kept going up, I didn’t dare look back down as I smashed through the class ceiling and flew off into the night. I took one glance back after getting high into the air to see the tips of bus thick tentacles retreating back into the building.

 

     As I flew beyond the city closer to the sea I came across a walled in community, again surrounded by zombies, they must sense the presence of people or something. I landed on a roof just outside the second story windows. I peeked through the window to see an old man watching a television, it was saying something about an emergency broadcast and all citizens are to report to the ark ships immediately. I hear people on the street and peek around the corner of the house to see a family with two toddlers and an infant packing as fast as they can into a car to leave.

 

    Its at this time, while I am still clearly not human that I am spotted by two woman just below me in grey uniforms with an arrow head shaped badge, it looks familiar for some reason. They pull from their holsters what look like metal cylinders that emit energy sabers, something that really, really looks out of place in this world. I fly off as they yell out “monster”, they swung the swords and shot energy arcs at me. Now in my world such attacks would be nothing, but in this body I can’t be certain, but acting on reflex I swat the bolts. I am able to destroy the bolts, but it stings my hand, thankfully this is enough to puzzle the two on the ground as I fly away; guess it dawned on them zombies don’t fly; but then again looking back on what ever that thing in the building was I guess I can’t say for certain what else is out there on this world. As I fly away I notice a giant billboard with two women who look one green and one pink energy beings wearing matching robes with hoods, it’s a sign for something called The Unity Company, advertising this community as safe from the plague. I flew for some time away from any buildings or lights out into the woods and laid down to sleep.

 

    The next thing I remember is sitting in the back seat of a two seater plane; behind some guy flying it. Now no offense he was handsome and all, in a military grunt sort of way, or marine, not sure, but definitely some kind of military man. Not sure how long the host was in charge, but it sure seems like it was a long time this time. Can’t say for certain what brought me back this time, but somehow I could sense the presence of something nearby and even knew what it was called, a UFO or Union Flying Ordinance. I told him to land nearby, he said something about hearing rumors but figures since I’m a Ex-Unity employee I would know about one being hidden here; which I take to mean my host was a Union employee, and those would be the people in the lab, huh wander if it was voluntary or the result of being tricked that my host ended up inside a tube and me being shoved inside her.

 

    As he landed I noticed the second plane nearby with two other people, which I guess we were all traveling together. I told them it was on the small island near the cliff face that the road is on. On it all we found though was the top shell of a stealth fighter, they were willing to give up saying it was a long shot anyway; but somehow I knew it was there and using my demonic strength lifted the shell and tossed it into the sea. They were a little surprised by my strength, that they weren’t totally surprised raises and eyebrow.

 

   Underneath we found the UFO, the green saucer shaped vehicle with two tank cannons on either side of the main body, if nothing else those told me which way was forward. Inside was a tight fit, one pilot seat, and just enough room for three people to cram in the back; which given the straps I think was meant more for supplies than people. The vehicle was amazing, it flew so smooth, I can only guess it has inertia dampeners and some kind of hyper-force generators allowing it to fly. As we flew off in search of a new home I fell asleep.

 

    The next time I came too we were still in the UFO, I hope it wasn’t much of a gap, this time we were flying over a desert with ruins of villages or a city below. I asked the man where we were, he just said, “Don’t you know?”

 

     I looked around and saw a large structure shaped like a distorted pentagon, and somehow I instantly knew we were in Australia. When we got in the UFO we were on the Pacific Coast of America, I’m sure of it. As he veered away from the odd building I fell asleep again.

 

    What happened next, I have no clue what was going on, it still puzzles me. I awoke standing in a house with that man, two other guys, and the door bell ringing. When I answered it was some blond reporter girl and a camera man. Best I could guess from everything being said the group we were with helped save this area from zombies, cleaned them out, and somehow set up a barrier that keeps them out. What really bothers me is that I felt weak, weaker than anytime prior with this host, as though the connection was weak and I couldn’t access any spiritual potential, and especially none of my own powers.

 

    The reporter walked past me into a living room with a green light looking like one of those small dog gates, or kid gates, or what every you call those two foot tall door way fences, except you could walk right through it. On a chair there was a cloth covering something. The man told the reporter they have been calling it granny. I heard a click and suddenly a baby appeared on the floor and a man and woman across the room; someone behind me also let in some small dogs. The thing under the cloth reached out towards the baby, a grey skinned zombie of an old woman with the legs cut off. I went to grab the baby on reflect and it vanished, instead the small dogs ran in and it grabbed one and bit it. I yanked the dog away but it was already turning, but not into a zombie, no its eyes turned into red pin point lights and the body turned black and spiky, like it was made of pointy cloth. The dogs kept biteing each others, the man yelled for me to snap their necks, an old tried but true method for dealing with most zombies; however it did nothing and I was forced to let go as more and more turned and rushed at each other. They fused into one giant hideous cloth like puppet looking monster that spit out small doubles of its self. The man yelled for me to run out of there and I fled. I ran into the bathroom (how cliché), locked the door and set up a barricade. Some of my strength was now returning, I looked up and saw a vent and thought of an old method of mine, rip through the ceiling to escape.

 

    I tore off the vent, turned out to be fake, my claws came back and I ripped into the insanely thick and rubber like ceiling. By this time the men were outside the door asking me what was wrong and telling me everything was okay the thing was neutralized, one even chuckled. However I had no time to ponder, I had no idea what was going on, nor did I care as I quickened my pace and ripped the ceiling apart and tossed the chunks down. One of the men shouted “oh shit!” and they started to pound on the door to break through.

 

 

   By the time they got through I was squeezing through the hole into daylight and spreading my wings to fly away; I heard one yell, “tell the boss” as I broke free. My body felt oddly heavy (likely my wings only had a basic physical function at this time) as I flew over the bustling desert town filled with survivors. After I left the borders of the town I felt much stronger, in fact a lot of my power came back. Enough even to summon a rare power for me to have when in a host, the power of teleportation. But before that, I figured when I reached some rocks out in the desert that what ever happened back there had been some kind of test, but for what on what I wasn’t certain; and I certainly wasn’t going back.

 

    I felt something, like my host had hidden depths of power, something that had allowed me in the past to access enough power to fend off energy attacks, and was now enough to even contemplate long distance teleportation. I have no idea why this power is fluctuating or even where its coming from, normally hosts have very distinct physical limits, even shifting wings…and other body parts is rare let alone doing anything quantum related like teleportation. Well long short, I teleported back to that field I remembered from an earlier awakening. However this time it was cultivated and a town was near by, it had a similar heavy feeling as the desert town, but I had already opened a dimensional rift, I could now access my power even if the host’s potential was somehow being suppressed. I found a small town with a few people. I went into the market, found some money in the pockets of my host, so figured I’d eat something, hadn’t done that yet in this body and I was hungry. However inside the employees surrounded me, said something like I was a missing employee a world wide search alert had gone out for and I couldn’t leave. I spread my wings and lashed my tail, that and also climbed up a wall and hissed at them; I think I may have even grown my horns (very, very rare thing for me to do in a human body).

 

     Normally that terrifies humans, but these just kept right at it like puppets and even poked at me with long broom handles as though trying to corner a frightened animal. I grabbed one of the handles and gently bopped the lady on the head with it informing her she was being stupid; if I wanted to I could have killed them all quickly. But they just stood with glazed over expressions. At this time I decided I had enough, and with my power now at my disposal I opened a portal back into my own world, and to my castle.

 

    I am still bonded to this “Claire” woman’s body despite being in my own realm.

 

    I know this sounds weird, I know its written weird, the truth is Claire I’m falling asleep again, I am trying to write this all down before I go to sleep and you wake up in my castle in the demon world. I wanted you to know I’m not some blind rage or what ever conclusion you might have come to for these black outs where I take control, I hope you’re not conscious during these times, then again I’m not during yours so what the chance the other way around would be true. I have left this letter on the desk, I plan to fall asleep right here in the chair, so I’m hoping you will write back and fill in the gaps if you have any information as to what the HELL is going on. After all you’re in my castle surrounded by my servants, and I have sent message to my mother the Overlord of this realm to come take a look at us and solve this dilemma, so please stay calm Claire.

 

    Oh, by the way, before I nod off, my name is Rhina.

 

Be well Claire, hope its all solved next I wake.