One

Talik stumbled down a dark and damp alley towards his home, shadows stretched into the distance as the light from streetlamps shined into the alley.

The crisp, cold, and damp night air nipped at him, the chill reaching into his soul.

"Those motherfuckers! They took everything, my family, my livelyhood, my love!"

Several steps later Talik fell to the ground, shakily, he stood as he found a hold onto some loose bricks on the alleywall.

"Fuck! This night is too damn cold! HaHa! KeKe!"

Blegh!

A mouthful of blood sprays out of Talik's mouth as he curses the night with deranged laughter, feelings of mirth, self-mocking, and rage with a cloak of dispair flooding his being.

"Damn it! All I have left is my mastiff at home! I need to get there, dead or not, I cannot let the last of my family suffer!"

"No..."

Talik stumbled out of the alley, on his right his home appeared blazing in an inferno, his breath rattling and his eyes bloodshot, he fell to the ground letting out a silent cry of despair.

His eyes gone blank as he understood his last attachment, his best in his opinion to this world has been taken from him.

Shaking, tears of blood poured down his cheeks as he blankly stared at the inferno of what was once his house.

"Interesting...."

A voice, not attached to age or any of the two genders echoed out in a cold machine like voice as the surroundings slowed down to a crawl.

"Boy!"

"..."

"BOY!"

"..."

"Get the hell up before I shred the very essence of your being in the most painful way possible!"

Hearing a voice in his empty state, a voice that pierced into his very being, his vision slowly cleared as he blinked the blood from his eyes.

"Who?...."

An empty voice, a voice void of any will to live escaped from his now deathly pale visage.

"Boy, I have seen your life, I was there from the very beginning, I have a proposition for you"

'A proposition? There from the very beginning? THE VERY BEGINNING!?'

Slowly moving his eyes across the display of power infront of him, time or movement, he couldn't care at this moment was slowed to a crawl.

His blood boiled as his eyes ignited in a blaze of hellish fury, teeth gritted, veins bulging and skin tearing from his muscles flexing in his rage.

"YOU'VE BEEN WATCHING ME FROM THE GODS BE DAMNED BEGINNING!"

Talik roared into the silence of the frozen world he was in as his eyes with veins rupturing by the second searched for the voice. He knew, that this being is a god of sorts, but that wasn't going to stop him from giving a piece of his mind, or consequences be damned attempting to make the god eat his fists.

All of this ended abruptly as he was slammed to the ground, cracks forming beneath him as the tearing of his muscles and snapping of his bones from his struggle was accompanied by a booming shout of rage, something you wouldn't expect from the voice's previous condition.

"I'LL BE DAMNED IF AN INSIGNIFICANT MORTAL SUCH AS YOURSELF BE ALLOWED TO SPEAK TO ME IN SUCH A WAY!!"

Talik shook as blood sprayed from his eardrums, half of his internal organs ruptured as his vision started to darken.

'This! Hahaha! Is this it!? IS THIS HOW I END!? IS MY EXISTANCE ONLY FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUFFERING!?'

"Stop! Hahh, I feel the insanity radiating off of you, cease your pathetic thoughts"

The pressure on Talik faded as his injuries were healed, but the pain was left behind.

"Now that I have your attention."