The Mirror

Walking slowly through the endless hallway, the [Void Wall] writhed more actively as he passed by. Turning his head around constantly, it was almost as if the [Void] wanted him to continue and find out what lay at the end of the corridor.

The more he walked and the deeper he got into the corridor, the darker it became. After walking for less than 3 minutes, he glanced down and found it hard to even see the outline of his black shoes on the surface of the [Void].

His two azure eyes contracted into slits as their colour transformed into a sickly amber. His vision of the world grew darker as he could now finally see the outlines of the wall, ground and his shoes.

Sightly nodding his head he looked back up as he several steps away saw an end to the corridor and an entrance to a new room.

Walking into the completely dark, empty, vast room, which was actually more like a separate corridor which even using his primal vision, he couldn't see the wall at the other side of the room. Glancing around, he found only one thing within the room which is a single mirror attached to the [Void Wall]. Confused he reverted his vision from primal to normal as his contracted, slit-like amber eyes back into azure-blue circle eyes.

Twisting his head around to look around the room he realised one thing rapidly. He couldn't see a thing. He barely could see a few centimetres away in front of him. Clicking his tongue he decided to just walk towards where the mirror was. Glancing back, he noticed something off. He walked back the way he came, however, only a few steps back led up to him standing before a wall.

"What the hell...?" Nemesis couldn't help but blurt out baffled. He didn't turn left or right at all and simply just walked forward in a straight line so he now was stuck in a new corridor which seemed endless.

Shaking his head he decided to walk towards the mirror and within seconds he stood before it.

Staring at the blurred, distorted reflection of himself on the foggy glass, something foul was at hand. His image was not as it should've been. Blurred? Yes, it was. Distorted and hard to exactly pinpoint the exact small details? Yes, again. His height? Yes... for the third time. The left side of his face now a black, shadowy-creature whose head curved from the centre in rapid up-down motions, like a zig-zag formation which ended up with a sharp curve at the end. No, that was what was wrong with his image.

While the right side of his mouth was straight, showing no expression; the left side of his mouth, however, held a vicious, wicked, demented grin as sharp teeth were visible. His left eye just a crimson-red orb.

It wasn't only the left side of his face which was transformed into a shadowy-creature, but the entire left side of his body!

His left arm now a bone-thin in width, eerily disfigured with several gapping patches which were located all on the arm with a blurred, constantly flowing claw for a hand. His fingers now crooked and grotesque, seemingly kept together with what appeared to webs due to how distorted the image was.

Nemesis pouted his right cheek as he saw the reflection do the same. That was all he could do to react. After all, who cared if his reflection was that badly screwed up, it was just an antique mirror in the [Void Realm].

If he saw this the first time he entered the [Void Realm], he would've screamed in shock and overreacted, however, he already knew what that shadowy-creature was. To be exact, he had already taken that form in his previous life, but what he didn't understand was why THAT image was being reflected off of him here.

Thinking upon what to do he decided to wipe the glass on the mirror. Rubbing the mirror's left side where his demonic-shadowy face lay, still smiling. As he wiped the glass on the mirror, a bright luminescent light shined through the corridor. It was so bright that Nemesis immediately retracted his arm back, shut his eyes and covered them with his arm.

Once he felt the light dissipate to a more tolerable volume, he uncovered his eyes and quickly glanced around to see where the light came from and what changed due to it.

The room was still pitch-black and he could only see a few centimetres away from him, however, when he stared at the mirror, he noticed something new. The frame which it was attached to, which was attached to the wall was now visible, the words it wrote weren't complete due to the Void covering certain letters. Unfortunately, he could tell it was something he dreaded. There were two sections with two different sentences, the top was more harmless yet brought more memories than the second sentence which he despised. A blast from the past, something which made him recollect his more... unfavourable actions in the past.

["N--E--S M-S---R-"] Was what the sentence at the top wrote, he knew the first word was 'Nemesis' as for the second, he could only make an educated guess. Especially with what he knew and with the image added as a clue, he was sure the second word was 'massacre'.

As for the bottom text, it wrote ["NE--S-S T-- --id Wa---R"]. Though most of the letters were redacted, there were only a few events which came to mind when he used THAT form. He could only guess that it would be the first event. Sighing, he lowered his head in shame for his actions as he grew quiet, not even breathing.

Minutes of silence later he spoke, "[Void], I understand. I understand my crimes, my heresy. You need not remind me of them for they haunt me every day. Those actions which I did and the situations which I caused were too much for me. I shall change my ways; though, I shall do whatever I must to survive, I shan't recklessly wantonly murder about, slaughtering half all the world's population again!" Nemesis proclaims loudly, hoping to be brought out of the [Void Realm] for he was pretty sure that his previous method of escaping; waiting hours in boredom and practising, would not work this time. He also didn't wish to be stuck in this corridor, with THAT mirror which helped him remember THAT day. That would just be taunting himself in shame and regret.

Instead of a response from the [Void], a vortex opened from the glass and before he could react, he was sucked into the mirror as he screamed aloud in shock.

"AHHH!!!"