Crawling in My Skin
Anthony was still freaking out on the inside about Gab being pregnant. What was he supposed to feel?
Two years ago he was murderous lunatic hellbent on killing everything and everyone in his sight.
Now he was a lunatic in a band with one of the people he was supposed to kill.
And now he was going to be a . . . ..
He felt like he was going to throw up.
He remembered how Gab was throwing up that morning.
Now he REALLY wanted to throw up.
Henrik noticed Anthony was looking a little green, "Uh . . .. you alright zhere, Anthony?"
"Huhhhh-uuuuuuh"
Chase recognized his reaction from when Stacey first told him she was pregnant with Jack, their firstborn, "Shit. . .uh . .. breathe through your nose, man. Think about literally anything else."
Anthony tried just breathing through his nose and thought back to how Anti was acting, "We need to . . .. we need to get ahold of Dark"
Marvin nodded, "Yeah, I'd say so. . . . why don't we all just go over there? See how Anti's doing ourselves? I'd hate to bother him when he looked so upset like that with us but I don't want him to be mad at us, either"
Jameson clapped his hands and stood up, "Well then, let's not dawdle! Let's go!"
But just as they were all about to head over to Dark's universe, Marvin paused, looking over at the other room.
He squinted before realizing what it was, "Dark? Is that YOU?!"
Dark peeked into the room, "Sorry, I just got here." he sniffled a little, trying to hide his feelings.
"Thought you'd be with Anti?" Chase asked him, "He said he wasn't feeling good so he went home"
"So you guys know he's been living with me?" Dark asked, "I mean, I-"
"We've known you guys have been together for a while" Jackie stopped him, "Now what's going on?"
"Right" Dark nodded, thinking as much, "Well . . actually, I wanted to come over here to ask Anthony what happened. I knew Anti went to visit you but when I searched for your aura, I found you were all together HERE."
"Look, sorry, Dark" Marvin scratched at his head, "We might have pushed Anti a little too hard and asked him some inappropriate things. . . I guess maybe he got sick of us and left back to your place"
"But that's just the thing" Dark stopped him, "Anti was. . . different when he came back. He was erratic and talking strangely. I think he broke up with me? I don't know . .. but he kept saying he needed to go home. But that wasn't even the strangest part"
"There's MORE?" Henrik wondered.
Dark nodded, "Wilford was afraid of him"
They all paused, thinking about what that meant.
"Wait" Chase took a deep breathe, "I've never seen Wilford afraid of ANYTHING before. . . . why would he be afraid of Anti?"
"That's what I was wondering." Dark snipped, "William fucking hid BEHIND me from him! He was warning me before Anti came back to the house that something terrible was happening . . . . are you SURE nothing else happened while Anti was here?"
Jameson suddenly had an idea, "He went to the bathroom before he left! That's when he started to act weird!"
Marvin thought the worst, "Oh shit. . did the magic council do something to him thinking he was ME?!"
"Magic Council?" Dark asked.
Marvin bolted to the bathroom, everyone running behind him.
Evan was right on his tail as Marvin whipped the door open.
Suddenly Anthony's head started to hurt . . . .
His EYE started to hurt.
He covered his eye but focused on what was happening.
Marvin looked around, feeling for any traces of magic in the bathroom.
"Hmmmmm"
"What?" Dark asked, "Did something happen in here?"
"Shut up" Marvin snapped at him.
Evan scanned the area as well and looked up at the vent, "Marv. . . .the vent"
Marvin looked up and saw something. He moved his hand in a delicate motion and made the strange liquid move and appear in front of them all, "What the hell?"
"Ew, Marv, what is the nasty shit?" Chase looked sick.
"Hmmm . . I don't . .. I don't know. But whatever it is. . . it's not natural. This stuff might be what caused Anti to behave so strangely"
"Is it poison?" Jackie asked.
"No. . ." Marvin looked at the liquid closer, "It's . .. it's familiar"
Suddenly the liquid MOVED on its own and Marvin gasped, " . .uh . .. and it's alive"
Just as fast, Anthony was on his knees, "aUGH!"
He held his eye. It burned and squirmed in his socket.
"ANTHONY, WHAT'S HAPPENING?!"
Anti stared at himself in the mirror, terrified of what the creature was implicating.
'I. . . came from. . . you?'
He didn't understand. What did that mean?
The creature puppetting his body through his eye made him smirk but it wasn't actually him.
The monster, Anti could feel, it had awful intentions.
"I sent you here, Antisepticeye . . . . you were the first. I am a product of depression and destruction. There was a time a long time ago where I preyed on a man all alone in a cabin. He was supposed to be ruined by me. . . . but instead, he overcame me and I was spread across the multiverse in atoms. But I had a mission. I targeted Sean . . . . the original Sean. . . . and I made sure that my mission would be full-filled. Through you. . . . Antisepticeye."
'I don't understand. What are you saying? Sean? What are you?'
The monster laughed in the mirror at him, "I'm a demon, dear Anti. A creature of chaos. Of darkness. You were supposed to continue my wishes. . . but you had too many. . . emotions. You failed me. So I sent another. . . another version. He was a little less powerful but at least he didn't have those worthless emotions you did. . . . until your VIRUS spread to HIM!"
The demon slammed Anti's fist into the mirror, breaking it. It held together but had a multitude of cracks.
He snickered at Anti in the mirror, "So without my little minions. . . . I was finished. I should have been finished. . . . until your little magician decided to play doctor" he sneered at him.
Anti froze, 'Anthony's eye'
"YES! Yes, that's right!" the demon laughed, "Antisepticeye 2.0's eye . . . using his DNA. . . . MY DNA. . . . the doctor and the magician unknowingly brought me back from the ashes. From the miniscule atoms that were left of me. And I bred. . . . . I multiplied . . . . I waited. . . . . I watched. . . and then I caught you at your weakest. . . . . . and now you're MINE"
Anti wanted to run. He wanted to warn the others. He wanted to rip this demon apart. But he couldn't.
'What do you plan to do now?'
The demon chuckled, "Oh Antisepticeye . . . .. the fun's just begun. I plan to finish what I started.. . . where you failed me. Starting with controlling your dear little 'Anthony'. He's still with them"
'No. . . no, no! Please! Just. . . please, you don't have to-'
"You've appealed to the humanity of Anthony and Darkiplier. . . but you won't find any in me, for I am not human. I'm a demon. And you're just my puppet, that's all you ever where. But I've learned. . . if you want to get something done right . . .. you have to do it yourself. So sit back and relax, Antisepticeye . . . . you're in the front row seat of the show"
Anthony wailed, holding his eye.
"FUCK, IT HURTS! SHUT UP!"
'Kill them, kill them kill them'
"SHUT UP!"
"Anthony!?" Henrik tried to pry his hand away from the eye, "Anthony, look at me! Get your hand off your eye!"
"SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUT UP! I WON'T DO IT!"
Jackie finally grabbed Anthony's hand, yanking it away from his face and they were all terrified of what they saw.
The eye was a sickly green and moving on its own, flaring angrily.
"WHAT THE FUCK!?"
"WHAT IS THAT?! WHAT'S HAPPENING?!"
Anthony cried, "GET IT THE FUCK OUT!!"
Dark wasted no time and pushed his way through to Anthony. He grabbed the eye and ripped it out of his skull.
Anthony immediately stopped screaming and fell backwards and down against the bathroom wall.
"K. . .. kill it" he muttered.
Dark was happy to oblige and set it on fire with his aura. The creature screeched somehow and wriggled in his fingers like it had a mind of its own.
Until it was finally nothing but ash.
They all looked around at each other, wondering what the FUCK just happened.
Anthony was breathing heavily and Henrik was checking him over.
Marvin looked horrified, "That.. .. that was the eye Hen and I made for you. . . . Why did that happen?"
"I . . .. I could hear it" Anthony swallowed as Henrik was putting gauze over his bleeding socket.
"What do you mean by that?" Jameson asked, "Hear it how?"
"Marv was right" Anthony held his head, "It's alive. . . the eye. . . that liquid in the vent. . . it was the same . .. . stuff . . .. it. . told me to kill you all. . . . ordered me"
Chase held his chest, "Well thanks for holding yourself back, I guess" he tried to joke a little.
Dark looked right at Anthony, "It ordered you?"
Anthony whimpered, "I. . .. I could . . . there was a connection. . ... . . . . That stuff. . . it crawled its way into Anti, too"
"Shit" Jackie cursed, "We got to get to Anti NOW!"
When Marvin teleported them all to Anti's place, they were all confused.
Anti was just coming out of the kitchen with a cup of tea in his hands.
He looked at them all strangely, "uH . .. Hey guys? What are you all doing here? I told you I wasn't feeling good"
Dark stared at him, "You were acting weird today, Anti. . . we were . . . . we were worried about you"
Anti smiled sadly, "I know. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to make you worry. I'm sorry about our fight earlier, too. . .. I wasn't feeling good. But I made some tea and I'm starting to feel a bit better. . . . Anthony? What happened to your eye?"
Anthony just glared at him, though, "As if you don't know . . . you're not Anti"
The confusion was building.
Anti blinked at him, "Anthony. . .are you okay? Look, I'm sorry about earlier. I shouldn't have snapped like that and-"
Anthony stomped towards him and grabbed him by the front of the shirt, "WHO ARE YOU!? HUH?! WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU, YOU MONSTER?! GET OUT OF HIM!"
Jackie raced up to Anthony and grabbed him, pushing him away gently, "Easy there, Anthony. . . maybe this is all just a misunderstanding?"
Anthony shook his head, staring Anti down, "It's not. . .. I could feel it. It's in him, too."
"Maybe you're not thinking straight?" Marvin suggested, "You did just go through something traumatic, after all . . . well . . . TWO things"
Anti smiled, "That's right. . . Sorry, I forgot to congratulate you, Anthony. I was so worked up earlier, I didn't even . . I'm sorry"
Anthony snarled at him, "You're not Anti . . . Marv . . . test him"
"What?"
"TEST HIM!!"
"And how do you want me to do that?" Marvin was just confused.
Anti looked okay now. Maybe the stuff in the vent DIDN'T get to him?
Anti looked worried for Anthony, "Anthony, maybe you need to just lay down? Relax. I'll do whatever test you want me to do"
Anthony paced around a bit, his eyes not leaving Anti's.
He snapped at Dark, "Dark . . . kiss him"
Dark blinked and sighed, "Are you joking? This is just some elaborate trick of yours to just see us kiss, isn't it?"
Anthony was still serious, though. Dark swallowed. He couldn't make the same mistake he did with Wilford when he didn't trust him.
He had to remember Wilford's words, too. Why WAS he so afraid of Anti if nothing was wrong with him?
Dark finally relented and walked up to Anti. Anti gave him a nervous smile but he didn't move. It was like he was challenging Dark.
"You heard him, Anti. . .. Come here. Just one kiss"
Anti smiled and Dark's back shuddered.
"Okay, Dark"
That was a fake smile.
And Anti wouldn't let Dark kiss him in front of them all so soon.
Dark took Anti's face in his hands. His eyes LOOKED normal but there was something else wrong.
There wasn't any. . . emotion in them.
Dark leaned down to kiss him.
He thought that maybe Anti would let him do it after all.
But then Anti suddenly smirked and shoved him across the room, making him land into a wall.
Everyone looked unsure of what to do.
Anti's one eye started to turn green as did veins on that one half of his face. He snickered and grinned at them all.
"That was far enough, I suppose . . . . . Not going to let your pathetic human emotions contaminate this body any further."
Anthony snarled at him, "I fucking knew it"
"Congratulations" Anti clapped for him, "You're not as stupid as I previously thought you were, baby boy!"
"What are you?" Marvin asked him, "What are you doing inside of Anti!?"
"I guess I could give you the shortened version before I kill you all" Anti giggled, "Long story short, I'm a demon. You all exist because of me and a mistake I made a long time ago involving the original Sean. In what little atoms of me remained, I created Anti to destroy all the multiverse versions of you but he failed miserably so instead I sent Antisepticeye but GUESS WHAT!? HE FAILED, TOO! Turns out that when creating beings with human bodies, they will gradually FEEL things and THAT'S WHERE I failed! I decided FUCK IT! I'LL DO IT MY FUCKING SELF!"
He clapped his hands and lightning cracked around him, causing them all to get flung back.
Anti laughed, "HAHAHAHAHAHAAHH! OH! I'm gonna make this HURT!"
Marvin picked himself up and tried firing a spell at him but Anti just glitched out of the way, "Ooo! Nice try! And you know what? Since you were so nice and brought me back to life, Marvin, I'll give you a little treat. I'll end things quick for you. This is what you get for messing with dark magic"
Marvin felt Anti grip hold of his throat. The grip was so tight and constricting, "An . . .. Anti!" he grabbed his wrist, "Anti please. . .. I know you're . .in there. Fight it. . .please. . ." he cried for him, "Please . . . Anti. . ."
Anti just grinned down on him, "He's sleeping"
With one swift movement, Anti broke Marvin's neck and ripped it off of his body.
He flung it in front of Evan at his feet.
Anti laughed, feeling the blood on his hands, "Hey look at that. . .. it's almost just like how Antisepticeye killed HIS Evan back in the day. . . . Remember that?"
No one could say a word.
Everyone was in shock.
This monster. . .
This Demon possessing Anti's body. . . .
Murdered Marvin.
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