Y/n runs through the chasm as Forgone-Travis tries to impale his old friend on his mantis like bone claws, Y/n dodged side to side narrowly evading the spikes he watched Forgone-Travis crawl across the cavern walls after him.

Like some sort of bone and mold demon centipede, this nightmarish visage of godhood he acclaims to be after him like a starved beast, the expressionless face constantly groaning and wheezing as if being alive is constant agony.

Forgone-Travis: Submit Y/n... Eve wants you to stopping existing so she can start existing...

Forgone-Travis barraged the ground with his spikes, one of them struck his lower back and back of his left calf causing him to fall over, Y/n was now prone underneath this barrage of spikes that came down again and again.

Y/n attempting to block or deflect the oncoming blows with Heisenberg's hammer but he could only evade the few, being cut and jabbed multiply times.

Forgone-Travis: Resistance is futile... The world will be hers to recreate, a paradise of mold and blood...

Y/N: Oh shut the fuck up!

Y/n charged a bolt of electricity through his leg and kicked upwards launching a bolt into Forgone-Travis' stomach cavity. The supposed god let out a pained howl and stumbled back crawling up the wall into the darkness for safety.

Y/N: OH THAT IS JUST LIKE YOU, THROW ALL THE PUNCHES BUT THE MINUTE THEY PUNCH BACK YOU RUN AWAY! ASCENDED TO GODHOOD BUT STILL THE SAME COWARD?! GODHOOD MY ASS, NEW SKIN SAME IGNORANT CUNT!

Forgone-Travis: Your so mean... Why? Why can't I be alive like everyone else?

Eve voice was breaching through the mix slightly more now, Y/n searching the shadows above him as he listen to the clatter of a thousand claws scramble across the cavern walls around him.

Y/N: Because being alive doesn't mean your allowed to un-exist those who make you sad... You can't be alive because you can't grasp the idea of existing peacefully, existing BESIDE life instead of existing over it!

Forgone-Travis: But I can make all life better, can make everyone happy if they live the way I tell them too...

Y/N: That's not living- This is why, your too immature with too much power and Travis is no better-

Forgone-Travis: ENOUGH!

Suddenly the beast bursts from the shadows, sinking his teeth into Y/n's side and driving him into the wall. Holding Y/n in his teeth he picks him up and bashes him against the wall repeatedly, Y/n tried to use electricity again but every bash against the wall interrupted his charge.

Y/n managed to instead slam the hammer down on Forgone-Travis' head but that only seems to agitate him further so he throws Y/n across the chasm like a ragdoll. Y/n rolled across the wet stone floor and the hammer bounced a few feet away, Y/n scrambled in an army crawl fashion to the hammer but just a few inches out of reach he felt something stab into the back of his right leg.

Looking back he saw Forgone-Travis' claw protruding from his leg, then begins pulling him back to him. Y/n drags his fingers across the cavern floor as he tries to find an edge to cling too, that didn't matter anymore when he felt Forgone-Travis' jaws lock around the top of his head.

Slowly lifting him off the ground, clenching his jaw around skull feeling his bones crack and hot blood run down the sides of his head. Y/n tried to channel that pain into his fist, black veins convulsing on his arm as he wedges his fist into the bones; however, it made no dent, any bones he cracked quickly molded over and reshaped as if nothing happened.

This time though, he charged the gauntlet listening to it whir to life till it beeped. A horn from the heavens for him as he combines his bio-weapon strength with mechanical strength with a little magnetic assistance as he grabbed Forgone-Travis' jaw and ripped it off.

Y/n fell to the ground clutching the jaw in his hand but as he turned around he noticed that somehow Forgone-Travis had his jaw, more accurately in the time it took him to fall fifteen-feet and stand up Forgone-Travis had already regrown the lost jaw.

This time it wasn't Travis or Eve, the deeper unknown voice was speaking over them as they all spoke at once again.

Forgone-Travis: Did you really think you could harm me? My newfound power goes beyond anything your laboratory rejected filth could understand... Your power, your infection, nothing more then a convenient mistake left unchecked... But a mistake I will make right by erasing you here and now...

Suddenly Forgone-Travis' jaw unhinged and from his gapping maw a bulbous, swollen, tongue like stinger slithered out and as slow as it looked it snapped to life. It shot out and sunk it's needle like fang into Y/n's upper thigh.

Y/N: GAH! YOU FUCKIN'-

Y/n grabbed the tongue and pulled it off his leg but now used it like a leash, pulling it he pulls Forgone-Travis forwards off the chasm wall. He managed to get the gauntlet half charged and slamming it against his face, sending the centipede creature end over end to the far side of the chasm wall.

Y/N: How's that for a labra- labroo-

Y/n began to slur his speech first, collapsed second. The feeling in his leg had gone from pain, to pins and needles, and now nothing. He couldn't feel his legs anymore and his mind was fuzzy, as if he had been disconnected from his body riding passenger in his own head watching the world through his eyes like a window to the outside.

He could feel drool escaping his lips as he was basically paralyzed, lazily and limply moving his arms as he could only watch as Forgone-Travis recovered and began crawling towards him. That odd-tongue like appendage coils around his feet and the jaw unhinges again, slowly dragging him across the floor towards his gapping maw.

Scrapping turned crunching, like stepping on potato chips as he watched the ceiling move above him. He couldn't see what was happening but only listen to the wet, crunching noise. Y/n felt helpless as he started to feel cold,

Y/N: {Thoughts} Is this how I die? This is pathetic, I can't believe it... This guy just keeps kissing the feet of whoever bothers to listen and this is how he wins... I fought and fought and fought for what? Maybe I should have just stayed home...

Y/n couldn't think of a way out, things were miserable and he couldn't move or talk. That was until he heard a shrill shriek, the crunching stopped as he could see out of the corner of his eye the large spines of Forgone-Travis crawl up the wall back into the shadows.

Then Leon came into sight, he leaned over Y/n's body ad slapped him on the cheek looking for a response.

Leon: Hey kid! talk to me, come on don't tell me you up and died on me...

He managed a gurgle of spit and an eye twitch but Leon's response wasn't one of joy, almost made him look even worse as he looked down Y/n's body and grimaced.

Leon: Look, blink twice for yes. Once for no, alright.

He blinks twice.

Leon: Good, listen to my voice okay. I'm gonna call Sheva and Miranda, they're gonna get you out of her while I set the charges Chris's wolf squad dropped in. Got it?

He blinked once for no.

Leon: I know you wanna finish what you started but...

He looks at Y/n's body again and fumbles for words.

Leon: You've done enough, you got us this far just let us carry the load from here.

Leon stepped away as he pulled up a radio in one hand and his gun in the other, Y/n could only watch as Leon walked out of his line of sight talking into the radio. Unaware that Y/n could see something shifting around above them but Leon didn't, he tried to move his hand or his lips but nothing worked as he could see Leon surveying the darkness but always facing away from the prowler.

Then like a predator hunting from the bushes, Forgone-Travis lunged from the darkness charging down the walls as Leon turns and unloads his gun on Forgone-Travis.

The two rush away from his sight as he watched bone dust, no blood, spray off of Forgone-Travis. There was the thunderous rumble of conflict behind Y/n until he saw Leon go flying, tossed through the air as Forgone-Travis can bee seen chasing after him screeching like a wild beast.

Y/n struggled to regain control, finally he was able to move a finger. Small and useless but a start none the less, slowly he fought to get the feeling back up his arms. All the while he could only listen to Leon's fight while he just lay there, then he heard her voice.

Sheva: LEON GET DOWN!

There was a loud blast followed by another loud pain filled shriek from Forgone-Travis as a ball of burning light passes over Y/n, a flaming Forgone-Travis barrels away, rolling around trying to put itself out while the chasm filled with the smell of burning bodies.

Sheva ran over to Y/n and she was speechless, a hand over her mouth in disbelief as she checked on him just as a bloody Leon shows up limping after her.

Leon: Travis paralyzed him somehow but his... fuck we need to get him out...

Sheva: But why isn't he healing?! What-

Leon: I don't know but-

Then the ground rumbled, the two of them looked around. Then it was suddenly quiet, not even the sounds of Forgone-Travis' insect like legs were heard just silent shadows surrounding them.

Y/N: Wha-wha- wha happen?

He slowly lifted his head to look at his body.

Leon: HEY! Don't look-

But it was too late, looking down he saw a lack of legs. Both legs gnawed off from the knee down soaked in a viscous milky green slime like substance with no sign of any regeneration occurring.

Y/N: Leon... where the fuck are my legs?

Leon: Kid...

Y/N: LEON. Where are my legs?!

Sheva cradled his head trying to obscure his eyes from the sight of his devoured limbs as he slowly bleeds out, Leon applying tourniquets as he struggles to keep his hands steady. The shock of his find knocked the poison out of Y/n's system, he began to shiver and squirm as Sheva tucked his head against her chest trying to calm him down.

Y/N: They ate my legs... ate my fuckin' legs Sheva...

Sheva: Sh! Sh! deep breaths, I need you stay with me, listen to my voice okay. Deep, slow breathes-

Forgone-Travis: How touching...

Sheva and Leon look above them to see Forgone-Travis use his claws to swipe both of them aside as all three voices spoke in unison.

Forgone-Travis: But Eve gave me something special, a special poison that not only paralyzes the target... but also the blood, put your blood to sleep and your strength sleeps with it... Makes you so much easier to devour, if I can remove you then all the prizes are mine to take...

Forgone-Travis impales Y/n through the chest, Sheva and Leon forced to watch as he lift Y/n up listening to Eve, Travis, and that deeper voice laugh at his suffering. The once unison voice broken up into a cacophony of unstable laughter just before it sinks it's teeth into his neck and rip the flesh off hungrily devouring it blood and all.

Satisfied with the agony it had imposed, if looked at the dying Y/n and tossed him against the wall with monstrous force. Y/n felt his spine break on impact, then he hit the floor in a gory lump of mangled flesh and bone.

Leon: ..... NOOO!

Leon grabbed his handgun and in a fit of rage after seeing his friend abused like that he gave into the rage and let loose a hail of bullets on Forgone-Travis.

Y/n lay there wheezing and gurgling blood from the gash in his throat, watching as the two of them put there lives on the line to avenge him. He could still feel the rumbles of the war up to as well, all this fighting because they believed him, because they love him.

Y/N: {Thoughts} It can't end like this...

Then he heard his heart beat, slow and weak but in rhythm with another heart beat. Using the last of his strength he looked to the source of the rhythm that called out to him.

Y/n then mindlessly began to crawl, crawled over to the source of this chaos. Regardless of the stumps that used to be his legs, the gapping wound in his neck, the throbbing pain in his lower back where his vertebra cracked. He still had his arms, scrapping his face against the cavern floor but he didn't care as he grew closer.

He crawled to the lowest hanging portion of flesh and weakly lifts his right hand, blood soaked fingers prodding the warm, bumpy, pulsating flesh. He then grabbed the meat and dragged himself upwards and ripped it open, finding veins and root like tendrils reaching out to him inviting him.

Forgone-Travis felt this attack on the Cadou, turning to see the vessel pull Y/n inside as veins linked to his skin like tree roots replanting themselves into the earth.

Forgone-Travis: NOOoOoOOoOoOo!

All the voices howl out in panic, the jaw breaking in two and flexing out like fangs as Sheva and Leon just stand there frozen in confusion, conflicted if he had a plan or just offed himself.

Forgone-Travis began writhing around angrily, thrashing off the walls in a fit as the shadow of Y/n's body was lifted to the cadou's center. Veins reaching to him as the cadou's bright red form began to grey and darken hiding his body inside till it hardened at about a third of its original size.

Then a heart beat, a single ba-dump that shook the cavern.

Even the sounds of war up top had gone quiet, the world seemed to stop as the dried, petrified cadou husk releases another ba-dump cracked the exterior.

Leon took Sheva's hand and reluctantly the two retreated from the chasm back to the surface but the Forgone-Travis could only watch as concerned whimpers of Travis and soft sobs of Evelyn slipped out the beast hanging mouth.

On the third ba-dump a crack opened up in the cadou husk, large claws slipped passed and began to pull the leathery gray exterior apart, until what had become of Y/n opened it enough to reveal the new creature inside.

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