My body started to wobble as I got up to my feet. My knees buckled and crashed upon the floor. My back ached me while a strong heat stemmed in my chest. Right by my face was the shrivelled remains of the mayor, Hernado. It was almost like the bastard was smiling at me.

Did he do something to me is this some final trick? This didn't happen before. What was happening now?

"My lord, are you okay!?" I heard a loud shout that seemed to echo in the room as Brad  entered and came to my side.

He looked like a puppy wagging his tail before his master. That is when instead of one he looked like two and his face was going and coming.

What was happening to me?

On my hands, I saw things moving, crawling under my skin, ten, twenty, no thirty of them. My body refused to move as my eyes watched them in protest heading up my arm.

The colour in the room was fading the dull colours were gone even the ground, the leaves no longer held green. It was all black with hints of white.

The pain hit me in my back as a scream left my lips. Something was trying to claw its way through my back. My heart beated faster as my hands fell to the ground. The voices seemed to reverberate in my head, but I couldn't place them to a person.

"My lord, are you alright?"

Something was moving around inside of me. A hit was made on my back as if it was clawing its way out. I roared in pain.

"It seems like his body has taken on more than it can chew."

"No this is expected, he is still growing, after all, besides, didn't you, yourself experience this same thing long ago?"

"We are not the same," Samael asserted.

The voices faded, it was almost as if they weren't there. I breathe deeply, in and out, in and out as another surge of pain hit me. A hand penetrated my back, it was wiggling around. My blood tasted the floor. Was I dying?

Help me someone. Help me.

No words of mine came to my lips as another hand pierced my back.

Alice, I am sorry. I wanted to find you.

There was a loud thundering thud of footsteps as another approached. Who was it I was not able to tell.

"Master?"

Those were the last words I heard before I passed out.

***

Everything was dark.

Yet every sound that was made was perfectly heard. From the wind whistling to the crackling of fire as we passed it. Bones being crushed and harsh munching noises. Hissing and bestial growls as creatures made their mark.

"How long will he be like this?"

"It might be some time before he recovers."

"We can't wait that long, I can't wait that long."

"What do you intend to do?"

"Don't you already know?"

"Maybe, but then what would be the point of conversation. He is over there, the one who possesses lust. The question is, can you defeat him on your own?

"I am far stronger than him, you should know that I went through this already."

"You have been weakened too, and you still don't know yourself and because of that, because you are lost and because of that it makes you weak. Your memories are coming and going, yes but how much can you really recall of yourself but fragments of that life. If you go, Samael you should prepare yourself mentally for a battle that you might not be able to win."

"You, what exactly do you want?"

"I only want what was stolen from me. The position and rank that was stolen from me, and that the one who took it from me in chains, to suffer like I did."

"That should be more reason for you to help. Again, I must tell you that we all have our roles and I cannot interfere. I can only guide you."

"I hear you, again, I can't wait just send me a guide and I will leave."

"I will point into the direction of where to go. I won't leave here I suggest that you wait as well."

"I don't trust you at all, so I am binding all the monsters here to my will. He is too weak to do anything now. He has his own and you of course for protection and guidance."

My body however was being moved as it came to its final halt.

"Well, go then, I will pray for your success, but it won't end well. You both need each other."

Everything went blank for me again as all the sound ceased to exist.

***

My eyes opened again as my body jumped up. I was naked, in a bedroom. A chair was rested next to the bed, everything else in the room was dark. They were blinds in the room that were pulled around. The door was slightly cracked open enough that a small ray of light emitted and settled in front of it.

My throat burned, and as I tried to shout but no words came from my lips.

Help!

Help!

Nothing came out.

Pushing the sheet aside, I tried to stand, but as I got to my feet, my body tumbled over. My head connected first to the ground. My arms barely registered my own commands as I struggled to drag myself to the door. The great Domenic, weak, powerless, unable to do anything.

Almost there, my body slithered on the ground like a snake as my hand reached out towards the door.

It opened, bringing with it new light, and looking at me with a smile was this woman with two heads.

Enêpsigos.

"It seems you managed to get yourself up. Great job. Want some help back to bed or would you drag your naked self back?"

I protested with my lips, but nothing came.

"Oh right, you can't talk, just this once I will help you back to bed. I know you would prefer if I didn't, but I don't really want to talk to someone naked on the ground."

She lifted me off the ground with little effort as if she was cradling a newborn baby and rested me gently on the bed before taking a seat beside me.

"It seems you have finally woken up its been five days now. Samael left the moment you went into this state. She ran her hand on my body as she spoke. "The absorption was more than your body could handle so you evolved, is the best way for me to put it. At the moment you have to take your time to gather your strength again."

Evolved what did she mean as I thought back, I remember that something had burst through my body.

"You remember now, yes, it was at that point you evolved. You're almost a new person now, and your body is that of a new baby. Learning how to walk, talk, etc. Don't worry, it won't take that long a few months, maybe. Your little minions have been at work in fortifying a small perimeter around us."

She got up and pulled around the light on to me.

I gazed at my arms and hands for the first time. Wrapped around it was a leaf like substance that was covered in thick hair. My whole body was filled with a mixture of hair and leaves, causing me to shuffle.

Enêpsigos turned a mirror on me, revealing two horns on my head and my eyes were blood red. My feet looked like hooves and my hands were claws. Everything almost moved on their own.

"You had wings too, but I clipped them, you couldn't control them and kept destroying stuff in the room, it was annoying. Even though you evolved you still having trouble adapting. Your body is trying to contain the vices that are almost rioting inside you, rage, sloth, and pride. I did say earlier that you have months, but you have to be ready in a week. So your first training begins today. It's time you learn to walk."

"I have to learn to walk?"