C 48. Face Of Calamity

A strong force of gravity from the Star and the surrounding Planets formed a powerful atmosphere around the Green Planet that contained life forms!

Within the Green Planet, life forms of different body structures were in panic. Intelligent among them, some are committing suicide, some have gone mad, some are in kneeling position as if praying for salvation. 

But it smirked and raised its hand, with a swipe of its claws it grazed the back of Green Planet. 

There was a small resistance from the force field atmosphere. But it gave in and one-tenth of the Green Planet was gone leaving behind four signs of claws at the back of it.

With its other arm, it grabbed space and propelled itself out of the Star halo.

…

As the vision came to an end my file of consciousness flowed back to my body, with an unknown reason my body contained the necessary Will that mend the consciousness into one and my norm thoughts returned 

My body was solid again, in fact, it's stronger than before. The Little Pebble is a bit bigger than before but after a bit of observation, I learned that it consumes a portion of me to build itself.

How? I don't know.

The foreboding feeling is still there, the presence of the beast increases but I retain a rational thought on how should I escape my predicament?

To my estimate, I blank out for only a small moment but the carnage brought about by the vision is considerate.

My mind wired and I thought of possible ways to move, then it dawned on me that I could solidify my liquid to a certain extent. 

If space absorbs the liquid perhaps it may not absorb the solid one. I concentrated and liquid flowed out of my body and thickened to the point of solidity.

It worked!

I continue to flow out the liquid and solidify it until I end my reserve. 

At this point when I'm fully covered with the solid-liquid I feel I can stir space and appear anywhere I see fit as long as I have been there before!

But to Will it, all the solid-liquid fracture, a full view of my situation lay before my senses.

The beast that is coming is an entity that treats space as an Ocean, it breathes in it, swims in it, and hunts within it!!!

It's a predator that hunts any life forms that live in space as it's the Apex Predator of the Space Ocean.

Its vivid image appeared in my mind but through willpower and intense struggle I refused to comprehend it but its name crawled and etched itself at the back of my mind.

Chaos Beast!!!

That is the partial meaning behind its true name, but saying it, will invoke its intent of chaos and will spell doom wherever I'm.

Despair is when I realized that there is no place in this Endless Black Space that can be safe!

The distance between me and it is tremendous that equals the distance of thousands of Star systems, each Star may take eleven moments to reach.

That is why it is still moving and yet to reach me, but the despair is the distance reduced at each passing moment, yet I am hopeless to escape.

Don't even have the Will to muster things rather than think of what was going on with me.

"Woah! This place is dark, don't you have a light source here?"

"Eh???"

It was then I felt a bunch of strings feeling around my body as if inspecting me.

"You are on a giant Asteroid, aren't you? 

Oh! look at that, is this Mary. Hehe, you sure want to stay with him!" The voice said in a cute but surreal way.

"Who are you?"

"Oi, so it's true when they say you don't remember your dreams. But it seems even in dreams you don't know who you are!"

"Dream? What kind of dream? How come I can't feel you?"

"You can feel me, don't you feel some tingling on your large rocky body?"

I felt some tingling sensation on my body as the edge of strings started scratching my body.

Damn, how did this thing come here? Wait!!! The fear I was feeling was seeping away, the clarity of my thoughts returning to me.

There is still panic but it's manageable.

"Did you remember who you are?" The voice asked.

"I'm me, and always be me drifting in this Endless Black Space," I said with all intent.

But then I remember the time I used to think that I'm something called human, but I never remember anything about it, so I thought it was just my imagination.

I want to ask the voice, but the presence increases undoing whatever the voice is doing.

"Something is coming here, do you feel it? Or you were filled with so much fear because something is coming. 

Now I understand why you seem terrified.

That aside, do you want to know the secrets?"

I said nothing, as my mind is slipping toward the beast.

"Do you know the word Ba-La-Ra-Be?"

Deep within my solid body core something churn and fragments of memory surfaced. 

As if angry by the sudden development the beast roared!!!

A roar that bends space and darkness

It was the one moving toward us and still is, but now the space around us is being pulled toward the beast at the same speed and manner.

My body was already broken to pieces but the piece of memory served as a force of gravity to keep them in place, helping with the thousands of strings that surrounded me.

I heard when the voice was saying, "Mary! Wake up! Wake up! Wake up. This is not a place you should be!!"

The little Pebble became transparent and disappeared.

"No wonder you never call your dream a dream but always a Nightmare! This place is a perfect place for me to have endless fun and…."

GET OUT!

GET OUT!!

GET OUT!!!

AMINA, get out of my head, you're restricting me!

"Tell me what it looks like? 

Let me see its face!

I want to see this Chaos that terrified your soul….!"

You are INSANE!!!

 We are moving towards it, and trust me, its danger will escalate beyond me and you. 

GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY HEAD!!!

Without saying anything the strings reduce in number. And to my utter dismay the more the strings leave the more pull exhibited…

The beast's presence is vivid in my mind but my concentration is somewhere else.

Run! Run! Run! Run! Run! Run!

Wake up! Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!

When there was only a single moment between me and the beast, the last string left.

A moment is a distance between two Star, to the Chaos Beast, it is but a single step!!!

A single step for it, a giant maw capable of shattering a Planet lay before my senses!!!

But thoughts are faster!

With my shattered body, mind, a strand of Will shouted, WAKE UP!!!