Nick slammed hard into the ground and felt his bones break upon impact, his mind went blank as the fear of death set in. Everything hurt, his chest pulsated with a firery pain and his bones ached in agony.
He'd have died like this, frozen in pain, if it werent for the oily grey humanoid "speaking". *Bang* *Bang* *Bang*
The thing made a noise that was exactly the same as Nicks shotgun, same sound and even volume. This loud noise was what awoke him from his near catatonic state, his blank mind immediately went into survival mode and began thinking up ways he could possibly survive this.
As the ever-shifting humanoid walked forward and retracted its hand out of Nicks chest, it's was holding a large chunk of his heart, which it began eating infront of him!
With its hand removed, large gushes of blood began to pool out of Nick chest cavity, he instinctively began using his Chi in a desperate act of survival!
Nicks eyes began to turn cloudy, his lungs stopped expanding, his heart slowed down to just one beat a minute and he went incredibly still.
He instinctively used his Chi to manually moving the blood in his body, it was bypassing his heart wound and going straight to his head. He knew he needed to transport what remaining oxygen he had in his blood to his brain, allowing him to remain alive a little longer even with such a fatal injury.
Nick was still dying, his Chi had no way of saving his life but it could buy him a few more second. He knew that if he could just make it to the mans body this Creature had been eating, he could survive!
After devouring the heart of Chiba, the creeper stepped forward once again and grasped Nick's wings. With a light tug, his right wing had been ripped off; he felt searing pain but didn't react whatsoever as the creature began eating it as well!
Nick quickly realized this creature planned on eating the rest of his body, if he didnt do something then he'd die like this! His mind was working overtime, he knew he couldn't show the creature he was still alive, so that left him with literally one choice!
Calling upon his faint telekinetic connection he had on his car, Nick immediately started blaring its horn!
Mid bite, the creature looked up from Nicks half devoured wing and tilted his head at the noise.
Focusing his dying brain to visualize the ignition switch, he turned the machine on and began driving it to where he believed was the parking lot!
Nick couldnt focus well enough to actually drive the car properly and he was probably hitting and scrapping everything, but he had to draw it's attention and thankfully, it did!
Hearing the unmistakable sound of car alarms going off, Nick knew he managed to drive the SUV into the parking lot if the store and hit the cars! The sound was loud enough that even Nick was hearing it, this Mist that had already killed off everything else making noise after all.
Giving Nick one last look, the grey-skinned abomination chomped a big chunk out of Nick's wing before throwing it to the ground and speeding off towards the noise.
As the thing disappeared from sight, the completely still Nick began to move! His entire body had been broken, making it nearly impossible to crawl but he still had his wings ability!
Deactivating the ability gained from the Creeper, the one remaining wing disappeared into Nicks back but he immediately reactivated the ability!
Feeling a major drain on his Chi for having ro regenerate a new wing, a pair of perfectly fine bat wings sprouted out from Nicks back and his limp and broken body took flight!
Like a puppet on strings, Nick limp body flew and crashed into that of the now dead man, his face smashing into his chest but he couldnt even feel it due to the pain.
'His heart....I HAVE TO EAT HIS HEART!' Feeling an all consuming desire for survival, Nick channeled all of his remaining chi into his broken right hand!
The hand was still broken from being slammed down into the ground by the creature but he forced it to move with Chi! Activating his full bear body transformation, a pair of bear claws sprouted from Nicks hands and he immediately slammed his claws into this dead mans chest with every ounce of strength he had left!
His hand broke through the ribcage and after a second of fumbling, he found what he hoped was mans heart, and ripped it out with a tug.
Even with his Chi dampening the pain somewhat, Nicks hand felt like lava but he didnt stop!
He lifted the mans fresh heart out, he was ecstatic that it was actually the organ he was looking for, and before he could process his actions... bit down into it with his half transformed bear mouth!
The raw iron taste enveloped his mouth, normally Nick would've gagged or vomited but his mind had already been taken over by the ape-like human desire for survival.
He completely disregarded the taste and the act of cannibalism, he quickly ate the mans entire heart as he felt an ability activate!
The Creepers last ability he got from absorbing him, cannibalism healing, immediately went into affects! Starting from the edges of the wound, Nicks heart quicky began to grow but he quickly realized something as he watched his heart regrow.
While eating someone heart would regenerate his heart, he was still injured around his heart! The flesh, skin, muscles and ribcage behind and infront of his heart had been ripped away!
Finally feeling a wave of disgust wash over him, Nick disregarded such feeling as he knew what he had to do! Opening his mouth, he began to bite down and eat the mans flesh!
His mouth, under the affect of the Bear Body transformation, easily crunched through the rib bones and he immediately felt his ribcage healing beneath his newfound skin.
With each bite into the man, Nicks body quickly began repairing itself and his strength quickly returned.
In his frenzy, Nick even bit into the mans hamstring and swallowed the chunk of flesh whole, the permanent limp he got from the Edward Kim drive by had also been healed!
By the time Nick awoke from this desperate frenzy for survival, his entire body was soaked in blood and half of the mans body had been ate!
Feeling his shame and disgust rise, Nick had to choke down his vomit as he unfurled his wings and he took flight.
The batlike wings soared high into the sky, he didnt stop to rest as he flew up higher and higher eventually reaching the limits of the mist and finally being free of it!
Looking to his left and right, the Mist went on for miles in both directions, so he picked one direction and began flying.
The air was very thin up here and flying was causing him to get incredibly tired, but he didnt dare re-enter the mist. Nick wasn't ashamed to say he was running away, he'd rather run away and leave everyone else behind like a coward, than to face that creature again and die!
He gritted his teeth and forced his tired wings to keep flapping, it took nearly fourty minutes of continues flying before he saw the end of the mist.
It looked like the Mist had only spread through the town of Bridgton and no further, he had no doubt this was being coverted up by his Agency if it was just to this scale.
Nicks mind was in total disarray as he flew past the mist. Cannibalism, while disgusting, was totally justifiable in Nick's mind as it related to his survival, but his mind was focused entirely on something else.
'Since I honked my SUV's horn to draw that things attention and crashed it into the parking lot... doesnt that just mean i just lured it to the store...' Nick flew to a nearby forest before landing, the feeling of incredibly guilty coursed through him knowing he doomed all those people.
Unbeknownst to Nick, something far grander was happening in the mist.
***
'This isn't how the story is supposed to play out, my human's mind showed nothing of this creature! This abomination is not from this story, or any story i added into this world. This bastard must be cheating!' The Black and Gold being, the one that gave Nick his powers, thought as he watched Nick consume the heart of another man to survive.
It felt relief seeing how resourceful his champion was but also anger at his White and Gold formless friend for cheating!
What the B&G being had done, filling the world mostly with things from Nicks memory, was definitely giving Nick an advantage but it was it wasnt technically cheating. Sure it'd be embarrassing to be caught giving his Champion a hidden advantage, but it wouldn't be cheating!
This ever shifted humanoid that nearly killed Nick, and had already killed a large majority of the creatures that resided in the mist, was far more dangerous than most of the creatures in this world and it was just was just born yesterday!
With all that being said he couldnt call his friend out on this cheating or else it might expose his hidden advantage he gave Nick, he could only play this cool.
"Wow he actually managed to survive that..." the W&G being said, trying its best not to show it's disappointment at his assasin failing.
"Say, that creature looks like something you created in that one reality... I think ill examine its origins for inspiration." The B&G being said casually.
"I thought you said interfering with this world break the rules of the bet, you try to examine him then you lose!" It tried to sound calm but was failing.
"I didnt say i was going to do it now, whenever my champion dies ill examine it. Whether its a week or couple millennia from now, ill examine the creatures origins."
As the B&G said this, the W&G being immediately activated one of its near infinite powers.
W&G knew it was gonna get caught eventually, that was not negotiable at this point, but his punishment was! If they examined the creature and realized just how strong it was, W&G would undoubtedly severely humiliated and punished.
So to lessen his punishment and humiliation, he erased all evidence of the being. Doing this would still get him caught as his power would be sense in this reality, but he'd be punished on an assumption, not a fact!
So as two formless beings watched Nick fly off to safety, the Grey humanoid had already made its way to Nicks car and smelt the humans hiding inside of the store.
It ripped through the barricade like tissue paper, its hand shifting from tentacles, to claws, before ultimately turning into human hands.
Screeching and screams came from the people, they looked at this humanoid's blood-drenched face in terror. Hearing the loud voices, the being winced in annoyance and its hand shot out quickly kill the woman screaming, only to find itself unable to move as a black chain wrapped around his wrist!
Black chains suddenly appeared out of the void, they snaked around the being and began restraining its arms, legs, and head. It tried to fight but the strength of the chains were unbreakable, soon the entire being had been wrapped into a cocoon of black chains and dragged into the void disappearing!