Hunger

(Content Warning: Implied sexual assault)

𝙃𝙪𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙧.

𝙁𝙚𝙚𝙚𝙚𝙚𝙙.

𝙎𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚.

𝙆𝙞𝙡𝙡.

𝘿𝙚𝙫𝙤𝙪𝙧.

𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙪𝙢𝙚.

A creature, shrouded in darkness, muttered these words to itself as it lurked in the shadows with its black body and tendrils expelling from its back. As those words would suggest, it was hungry, it was starving, and wanted human flesh to satisfy that appetite within.

It wasn't long before the monster stumbled into an alley where four men were surrounding a young woman who looked to be either late high school or college-aged. She was terrified, fearful for her life as the men grinned grotesquely and examined her body up and down as if she were nothing more than an object to be used at their disposal.

"Look what we have here..." One of the sick bastards said as he put one arm against the wall, pinning the girl to it. "We got ourselves a young one." the man chortled as he used a finger to lift the girl's chin, taking a look at her young face up close.

𝙃𝙪𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙧

"So sexy, how many bodies you got?" One of the other thugs asked her, referring to how many men she'd slept with. She didn't answer, she just stood in one spot trembling as there was nothing she could do to stop them from doing whatever they were planning.

𝙁𝙚𝙚𝙚𝙚𝙚𝙙

"She looks pure to me... I bet she's a tight little virgin." Another thug chuckled as he said this absolutely disgusting sentence, continuing to glare at the girl with wanting eyes.

𝙎𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚

Another thug laughed, stepping closer to the girl. "I call dibs on going first."

𝙆𝙞𝙡𝙡

"You went first last time, let me pop her cherry."

𝘿𝙚𝙫𝙤𝙪𝙧

"Outta the way. I'm going first!"

𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙪𝙢𝙚

"Fuck taking turns, there's a hole for three of us!"

𝙆𝙄𝙇𝙇!

In an instant, one of the assaulters felt a black tendril wrap around his leg before he was plunged into the darkness, disappearing before anyone could react. Everyone jolted in fear upon seeing the man's body vanish into nothingness, staring into the pitch-black alley in fear.

The entire time, the man released a long, blood-curdling shout, followed by his cries for help. "HELP ME! PLEASE, GOD HELP ME!"

The audacity of this despicable, worthless trash of a man. Begging God for help as if he wasn't ready to commit one of the most heinous sins that a man could do to another human, "OH, GOD! WHAT ARE YOU? AAAAAAAAH-"

The man's voice cut out, followed by the sounds of teeth ripping through flesh and bones. It sounded like an animal devouring the corpse of its prey as tendons were being pulled apart and muscles were being torn clean off the bone.

No one moved a muscle. They were all in shock, frozen still as if they were afraid to make a sound loud enough to alert whatever mysterious animal was lurking not too far away from them. Seeing this as her opportunity to escape, the girl ran away as fast as she could. This snapped the men out of their trance, compelling them to begin running as well.

However, they immediately stopped in their tracks as webbing similar to Spider-Man's and Silk's wrapped around their ankles. The men fell on their faces, and one of them felt a tendril grab their leg and drag them into the darkness. He tried to stop himself by grabbing the concrete ground, however, there was nothing he could do to stop himself as his nails began prying themselves from his fingers and leaving drops of blood. "HELP! HEEEEEEEEEEEL-" the man screamed for help from his companions, but his voice cut out as soon as he entered the darkness.

The horrid sounds of flesh being consumed reverberated off of the darkness as the remaining two thugs tried to claw their way out of the alley using their hands.

𝘛𝘢𝘱

A single footstep was heard from the darkness, followed by the sounds of harsh breathing and yet another footstep.

𝘛𝘢𝘱

The men continued to crawl away, using everything they had to drag themselves using only their arms but they just weren't fast enough.

𝘛𝘢𝘱

Hearing the third footstep, one of the men looked back to see the monster shrouded in black goo, staring at him with a grotesque grin, licking its lips and countless pointed teeth before taking another step forward.

𝘛𝘢𝘱

The monster expanded a tendril from each hand, one for each man, before grabbing them and pulling them closer to it and holding them in front of its face. Still having that disgusting grin on its face, it looked at one of the men before unhinging its jaw so wide, the man's entire head was able to fit inside it. "WAIT WAIT WAI-"

𝘾𝙧𝙪𝙣𝙘𝙝!

The monster bit down, biting off the man's head in one single motion before chewing on the mixture of flesh, bone, and brain like a midnight snack. Still holding the headless corpse by the leg, the monster threw it out of the alley and through a parked car, mangling the headless corpse.

𝙃𝙪𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙧...

The monster spoke once more, holding up the final man as it licked its own dark lips. The monster slammed the man on the ground, using a tendril for each limb to pin the man to the ground before chowing down on his organs. "AAAAAAAAH! GOD HELP! PLEASE! HELP!" the man screamed in agony as the monster ate his insides like the starved beast it was.

Unlucky for the would-be rapist, the monster started with the nonessentials first, forcing the man to watch as he was devoured slowly, listening to the sounds of his own flesh, organs, and bones being ripped apart. Eventually, the man passed out from shock and the monster kept eating until the man's heart no longer pumped.

The monster was finally satiated, standing up on its hind legs before letting out a screech as its tendrils flared aggressively behind it.

However, just as the monster was ready to flee the scene, something stuck itself into its chest before it began to chime. The monster looked down to see one of the New Goblin's bombs sticking halfway into its chest and glowing repeatedly.

𝘽𝙊𝙊𝙈!

The bomb exploded, causing the monster's goo-like body to morph around the explosion and ripple like a hybrid between solid and liquid. The monster screeched, looking up in the air as the New Goblin swooped down toward it with the blades on his glider extended outward, pointing directly at the monster.

"Found you!" The New Goblin spoke with a voice full of hatred and anger before flipping off of his board while reaching into his utility belt. This was the moment he'd been waiting for so long, to finally tie up the one loose end that his father left behind. This was his chance to erase the final blemish on the Osborn name.

His glider impaled the monster in the lower body, forcing it to take a step back as it screamed yet again like something not of our world. Before the New Goblin even landed, he flung five of his tri-bladed throwable razers which all impaled the tar-like monster in its face and body. The monster tried to retaliate, flinging a tendril at the New Goblin. However, the New Goblin simply sliced the tendril off using his wrist blades as he stepped forward quickly.

"I finally fucking found you!" The New Goblin once again shouted with a voice of fury before clicking a button inside the palm of his glove, triggering his glider to eject his spear toward him. Harry caught the pike in mid-air before twirling it in his hands and cutting off another tendril from the beast that was heading straight for his face.

The monster shrieked again as two of its tendrils hit the ground and evaporated. Wincing beneath his mask and visor, the New Goblin used his spear to impale the monster in the chest. The monster wailed once more, using its human-like hands to grab the spear before words came from its mouth. "Harry! Get away from me!" the monster spoke the boy's name, prompting him to hesitate for a second. The voice was deep and dark, however, it was familiar to him. "Run away before I hurt you!"

As Harry wavered, a tendril smacked him in the face, sending him flying to the side and smashing into the brick wall beside him, nearly knocking him unconscious. The monster stood over Harry as if it were fighting itself on the inside. Each time it took a step, its body convulsed and the beast to a step of equal distance backward.

It wanted to consume him, to devour him whole like the rest, but at the same time, he wanted to spare him. "Not him! Not him!" something within the beast spoke with that same familiar, yet monstrous voice as if it were trying to convince itself. "Get away from him! Don't touch Harry!"

Harry was confused, glaring at the monster through his own blurry vision with furrowed eyebrows. "Eren?" Harry asked, hearing his a distorted version of his best friend's voice beneath the grotesque exterior of the monster. "This is what you're hiding?"

Before Harry could get an answer, the monster bellowed as it began pulling the New Goblin's glider from its body. Once the glider was released from its body, the monster made of dark goo shot a web from its wrist and flung himself into the night sky to make a hasty escape.

Harry got back up on his own feet and jumped on his glider to give chase to the monster. However, by the time Harry was above the buildings, the monster was gone...

Harry clenched his fist as many questions began running through his mind at a million miles per hour.

Why?

When?

How?

He felt betrayed.

He felt angry.

He felt heartbroken.

At the same time, he felt sympathetic and afraid.

If this was what Eren decided to do to himself, Harry wondered what exactly the future had in store for them if 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 was what was necessary to try and prevent it.