Hunger

"Human, you have been chosen as my herald to explore the universe and conquer different worlds." A deep voice echoed mysteriously inside his mind.

Alex, who was just asleep a while ago was thoroughly shocked beyond his core of what was currently happening. He just got off from work and came home directly because he was tired. He even forgot to have dinner before sleeping as after that late at night when suddenly he felt that he was getting light as he watched himself floating then entering a small worm-hole that appeared in his bedroom.

Alex who was thinking so hard if this was all a dream realized that it was not because what he felt earlier was so real that it had to be.

"This may sound shocking but this grace that I have given would be sought out by many across different galaxies."

"Can I refuse your offer? Does it have to be me?"

"Failure to accept would result in death."

"D-Death?!" Alex stuttered as he instantly accepted this new job of his.

Alex lived his life as a coward and being suddenly thrust into this new situation that had been forced on him. He has left no choice but to accept this new reality.

"Where am I exactly?"

"This is my personal space that I have created where your body will be born anew."

As the mysterious voice finished talking, a sudden change occurred within this mysterious place as Alex began to feel pain all over his body.

"W-What is happening to me?"

"Endure it, you will be reborn as a new being. A being that would soon dominate worlds!"

The pain lasted an hour as all the cells within Alex's body were changed from head to feet.

Alex felt unprecedented strength as the pain subsided. He also began feeling very hungry.

"Your first mission is to make this place yours." The voice then disappeared and he suddenly blacked out.

9:00 AM

Alex woke up feeling energetic as he thought all of that was a dream. He washed as he readied for work. All was feeling normal except that after lunch break he was not getting tired from all the work that he got.

At lunch, he was surprised that he was still hungry with his usual meal and opted to order a few more that made him pay more than what he had imagined. The little restaurant where he was a regular was shocked as Alex was pushing all the food down inside his stomach like an animal.

"Alex, you okay there? Have you not eaten something these few days?"

"Mr. Roberts. I am also surprised with myself. I never ate this much and I think I want more but I don't have the extra money in my wallet, so, I have to stop this feast here."

Alex walked out of the restaurant with Roberts looking at him as he was some kind of monster.

His work was finished for the day as he said goodbye to his workmates. He would sometimes eat a snack while working surprising his co-workers. This was a new Alex that they were seeing.

Alex never thought anything was abnormal. Just that his appetite increased.

As he was walking, he saw two dudes pinning a woman in a dark alley as they were trying to drag her away. Alex saw the woman's eyes that pleaded for help as tears flowed out as she scratched her capturers but could not scream because they had blocked her mouth with something.

Alex sneakily approached them from behind as he suddenly punched the guy from behind. The guy's brain exploded from impact making everybody in the scene outright scared them.

"Uh, I did not mean to do that." Alex became scared as to what he had done.

"W-Who are you?!" The other guy was scared as hell and did not know why and how did he suddenly die just like that.

The woman that was watching fainted as she saw what had happened. Her heart could not take what was happening as she was being kidnapped earlier and now something much scarier occurred.

The kidnapper reached behind and grabbed his gun as Alex was just recovering from that gruesome moment earlier. He saw that the kidnapper was about to point a gun at him. Time seemingly slowed down for him and he moved faster than normal reaching the hand of the kidnapper and twisted.

"AHHHHHHH!"

The kidnapper screamed on top of his lungs as he saw that his hand was twisted with bones being broken as he saw Alex grabbed them. He could not think how did the guy suddenly appear right next to him. If he could have only fired that gun then it would have been his win.

Alex instinctively punched out as the man's head exploded from the impact.

'Another one., thought Alex.

He dropped down both his knees as this was not something he wanted to do.

"I was just trying to stop them but they forced me." He gritted his teeth, telling himself that it was an alright thing to do as they deserved it a scum of humanity. What would have happened if that woman was left with kidnappers. He also did not want such a thing to happen.

Alex did not know what to do as two bodies were lying on the floor without heads and brain matter that scattered at the scene. Blood flowed out from both of the bodies and thought of what would he do to dispose of them.

As he approached the bodies, he came in contact with the blood. The blood then shockingly moved towards him and began burrowing inside the skin that made him scared. The two dead bodies shriveled as all of the blood became nourishment of Alex.

Alex suddenly remembered that dream of his yesterday night. It was not a dream, it was real.

"What have I become?"

Am I a vampire now or what? Alex thought. Vampires need to suck blood not blood coming towards him which was weird and strange and unlike the movies.

Alex felt his hunger today suddenly go away. He did not like the thought that eating blood would be the solution to this newfound problem.

Alex felt better than ever as he did not know what to do with the bodies, so, he dumped them inside a trash container near the scene.