The house was on fire, inside the house two people are lying on the floor dead their body melting and burning.
"Mama! Papa! Please wake up ,the house is set on fire. We have to run".
A small kid soaked in blood, faceless, his whole body is burning in flames but he repeats the same thing.
"Aaaaaa!!". Ken suddenly woke up shouting and sat on his bed. Breathing heavily.
"Huff~ huff~ huff~~". His whole body was wet with sweat. He took a look around the dark room.
For the past few nights, Ken has been facing the same dream repeatedly.
Ken got out of the bed, panicked , switched on the lights and went in front of the mirror. He took a look at his own reflection, he ran his hands through his Messy black hairs and touched his face he felt like his own brown eyes were staring at him. His shirt sticks to his skinny body due to sweat.
"Huff~~ huff~~" Ken exhales deeply.
" I can't take it anymore". Ken said to himself in exhaustion and fear.
The next afternoon. Birds moving in the sky. The sky was painted in blue colours, everything was peaceful.
Thud. Thud . Thud! " Move Outta my way!" Ken dash through the crowded corridors of Akiwara high school.
Some bullies are chasing him in a group
"Hahahah hahaha, where are you running Ken you can't escape from us, with beating you up our day is not going to end". The bullies said to Ken with a creepy smile while chasing him. Their eyes show some wrong intentions.
"Please leave me alone, why are you always after me". Ken said to the bullies while running. His face was completely pale and clearly shows how much he feared them.
Suddenly.Thud!!. He fell on the floor, beside him a beautiful girl named Sarah with black hairs and green eyes standing giggles at his fearing face. Her right leg was extended forward.Ken immediately came to know that she did this intentionally.
The bullies reach him. "Hahahha now you are gone buddy" The bullies said to Ken.
Ken replied to the bullies " no,no! please, leave me —atleast today" .
The bullies replied "why you freaking loser, is it your birthday today huh?" . And one of the bullies came forward, grabbed his collar and lifted him off the floor.
He got beaten up brutally. Now Ken lies on the floor, tears flow freely from his eyes but he doesn't feel anything.
Sarah came nearer to Ken and kicked his face lightly as if Ken is not a human but a trash.
"Huh loser, you deserve these". Sarah said to Ken.
The whole day passed. TRINNNNG!!. The school bell rings. The school field was filled with students gossiping heading towards the main gate.
Ken was still in his classroom, packing up his bag. He feels rage, weakness and pain but he can't do anything as the bullies were taller and stronger then him.
His vision blurs slightly, and tears flow freely from his eyes. "W–Why always me ?". His voice shakes. His body trembles , he can't bear it anymore but he had no choice.
Time skipped to midnight , when the city was in silence. Ken sat in his room , bandages himself. "Ouch". Suddenly the light started to flicker.
Ken got confused. "Huh, what's happening?" Ken said to himself.
As he was thinking and processing what was happening suddenly the lights completely turned off.
Ken's whole body now trembles in fear. Sweat came out of his forehead. He was asking for a light source but he couldn't find it. He somehow managed to find a torch in the dark.
He slowly walks on the dark hallway and the entire house is in complete silence. Ken can hear his own heartbeat. He headed towards the basement to find candles.
Suddenly the light flicked once more and came back to fill the room.
"Huff~~" Ken exhales in relief and turns back, but suddenly he gets stunned. He can't move. He feels nothing, no fear , no emotions , just completely stunned.
In front of him a six–foot–tall burning,melting and faceless humanoid figure is standing. Suddenly Ken fell to his knees and he felt like his whole body was burning,his vision getting blurred. The creature was in front of him like a statue with no movement.
"Aa aaa aa !! What is this sensation!?, I feel like I'm burning!!". Ken was so confused and consumed by intense fear, his emotions were overwhelmed.
Suddenly. "vooooshhhh" his whole body was engulfed in thick flames. "Aaaaa aaaaa!!!".
He screamed and rolled over the floor in pain, he feels like he was melting but no one was there to listen to his scream.
Suddenly, the flames vanished. Shoop!!
Ken felt no pain. The unbearable heat, the burning sensation — all of it was gone, as if it had never existed. The room was quiet. The creature had disappeared.
He staggered to his feet, still shaken. Without thinking, he ran upstairs to his room, slammed the door shut, and locked it behind him. His breathing was uneven, shallow. Panic gripped him as he grabbed a few dusty, fake spell books from his shelf — anything to protect himself, even if it was just superstition.
Then he caught a glimpse of something in the mirror... and froze.
His eyes locked onto his own reflection, but what he saw wasn't familiar. His heart skipped a beat. His mouth hung open, unable to form a sound.
His body had changed.
He was no longer the skinny, helpless boy who had collapsed moments ago. His frame was lean and athletic now — strong, toned, like someone who had trained for years. His once messy black hair had grown long and pale, now white with thin black streaks, and somehow tied itself into a messy ponytail behind his head.
His eyes — his irises — glowed with a deep, unnatural purple light. His fingernails had turned pitch black, sharper, but not claw like. He stared at himself in disbelief, slowly reaching up to touch his face.
It didn't feel like him.
Then—
Pop!
In an instant, everything vanished. His appearance reverted in the blink of an eye. No muscles, no glowing eyes, no white hair. Just Ken. Pale, thin, and s
weating.
He stood there in silence, heart still pounding.
"What… what just happened to me".