Accursed Heritage
[Thou shall perish like the Tarnished…] [I Have Made The Foolish Mistake Of Trusting A Tarnished…] [Oh, Foul Tarnished…] *** An orphan by the name of June found himself swept into the wretches of the Ark, a magical world that connected its existence to the world from which he came… the Mortal Realm. Realizing he was a dead man, he accepted his fate… only, his fate turned out to be drastically different than what he had expected. In fact, it offered him an opportunity to live, something he thought wasn’t possible. But with such an opportunity, came a cost, and his… well, was a dark one.
Premonition
It all happened so fast that June struggled to process it. He watched with widened eyes and a bewildered expression as his Mimic was bitten into, ripped in half, and swallowed by a creature that had somehow emerged from within the Queen. The Mimic's translucent body left behind a vile amount of spilled cloudy blood, becoming a mere memory in seconds.
That mattered very little to June, though, who backed up quite a bit alongside Gemm.
They watched as the new creature finally grew to its natural size, resembling the…
'Shit.'
June paused in utter dismay, his heart racing. The creature resembled the Hatchlings from before, only it was greatly larger and much angrier.
'The egg…'
Suddenly, its two eyes flicked over to them — specifically toward June — which made him flinch… its gaze screaming for the urge to devour him whole as it just had the Mimic.
'It knows…'