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// out of the frying pan and into a field of daisys? 
// Story: Apocalypse: Worlds End or New Beginnings 
// by Blue dragon 116 
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	The chase was short it would seem my pursuers planned their attack with great detail. no matter what direction I turned or form I took they would always be right behind me. Of course im sure the glowing red eyes didn't help matters much. The ill fated chase ended as I ran past a particularly large tree a man stepped from behind it and smacked me in the face with the but of his gun. My world spun and I saw stars the last thing I remember before all went to black was the sound of many feet behind me.

When I finally came too I kept my eyes closed giving the illusion I was still out. The first thing I noticed was the sound of many footsteps and the sounds of something heavy being dragged across the ground. Next I noticed I was bound with chains out of curiosity I decided to shift a little and see how well I was bound and as soon as I did and the chains rattled the entire area went dead silent. Not even the sounds of the jungle around me could be heard until a single set if heavy footfalls signaled someone was approaching me. Then I was jarred into "consciousness" by a solid kick to the side of my head sending me sprawling onto my side. 

"We know your awake you piece of shit so quite acting like we are stupid." My assailant said while I sat up and spat out a few teeth still with my eyes closed.

"Some things never change do they Samuel" I said with a bloody smile and opened my eyes to watch him. Unsurprisingly he didn't flinch but I noticed many of the men and women around us did. Cant say that I blame them its not everyday you come across something like me but I chuckled darkly nun the less.

"Your people seem a little skittish Samuel what happened too your other men?" I said grinning knowingly at him as he visibly restrained himself and glared at me.

"You know damn well what happened to them you piece of shit their all In critical condition in various hospitals around the world." He said his ocean blue eyes burning with hatred as he stared at me with every muscle of his body taught and bulging as he fought to control himself.

"Be glad they are in the hospital Samuel" I said my voice losing its mocking tone. "I was in no way bound or required to let them live and yet I did. Why don't you tell me why that is Samuel, tell me why a hell spawn sack of shit like me let them live when I could have slaughtered them all." I said as I looked at him expectantly even though I already I knew what his answer would be.. but hey I can hope cant I.

"You let them live" Samuel said his entire body shacking with barely contained rage. "To try and play with our minds to make us think you aren't what you are." Samuels eyes narrowed dangerously as he spoke and leaned closer until we were inches apart. I sighed heavily as he got closer and said to myself loud enough for him to hear though I doubted he would answer.

"Is it so hard to believe that just because I was tainted by hell that it doesn't mean I am ruled by it?"

"But you don't fool me you demon filth." He said as movement began again behind him and ignoring my question. "But that's ok because after tonight we wont have to worry about the likes of you fowling up our world."

When he finished talking Samuel turned his back to me and went to supervise whatever it was his men were doing. Their was a large complex design traced across the glade in white paint with me at one end and Samuel and a podium on the other. I started to chuckle lightly that morphed into full blown insane laughter that halted everything in its tracks as it sounded throughout the glade. Angry and confused Samuel came up to me and struck me repeatedly doing nothing to stop my laughter. 

"Why the hell are you laughing" Samuel screamed in my face his expression not helping to quite my laughter. When I finally regained my composure I looked at Samuel and shook my head saying.

"Do you honestly think that exercising me will work Samuel how many of your men have tried to perform your. Infamous silver hand exorcism and how many of them failed and wound up the hospital."

As I spoke I watched Samuel as if he was the biggest idiot this side of the equator. But his dark grin and glinting eyes soon changed my mood and sent chills down my spine.

"We have one even better than exorcism Thomas" Samuel said spiting out my name like It was poison. As he started back towards his podium and stared at me triumphantly over it.

"We the Silver Hand have finally after all this time combating your ilk. We have discovered a way to send you back to hell where you belong." He announced triumphantly as a large ancient tome was brought to him and he opened it and began to read from it. And as he read the design on the ground began to light up and the sky grew dark and lightning lit the night. As these events unfolded I was watching in horror trying to figure out a way to stop this insane plan of action. Samuel was about ten feet from me so I would have to use range to my advantage and then it clicked. So I bit my lip and waited for the right moment. Thankfully I didn't have to wait long, a funny thing about magic was you could always feel when it reached its peak or was going to be cast. So as Samuels reached its peak I called upon magic of my own and felt it start to take hold, its always a odd feeling turning into another creature. Their was no pain as I expected at first but I could definitely feel my body change and remold itself until their was a five foot spitting cobra where I was sitting not moments ago. Taking advantage of this form and my captors ignorance I reared up spread my hood and spit at Samuel hitting him in the eyes and interrupting his spell. He howled in agony as my venom took affect but I realized I struck too late since a small black hole opened up behind me sucking me and my bag in with me. 

For a undefinable amount of time I seemed to float in a void doing my best to hold my breath. Until a blinding white light flashed before me and when I opened my eyes I was hundreds of feet in the air free falling. I looked all around as I fell looking for anything to help but all I saw was a forest going on as far as I could see so I only had one option. Once again I changed shape, where once was a cobra was now a bald eagle floating on the thermals until I found a clearing and landed in the middle of it. Only to nearly jump right out of my skin when my pack hit with a solid bang night next to me.

Ok that's one question down I thought to myself as I looked around me. well it would seem im out of the frying pan and in.... a ..... field of daisy's? Oh well beggars cant be choosers with that going through my mind I shifted once again. This time into a rather large black wolf with glowing red eyes and I slung my pack over my back and began to explore this new place and hopefully find some food. When I arrived in this strange place it was early afternoon but during my aimless wondering the sun had started to set pushing shelter to the front of my thoughts. Thankfully I didn't have look for long I stumbled across a rather large cave and ventured inside. It was rather dark and a strange black substance coated the walls and floors strangely reminding me of aliens. So thinking it better to be safe rather than sorry I shifted again, I grew about a foot my head and face elongated my fingers lengthened and sprouted claws and my entire body became black and smooth. Two large spines formed off my shoulders and a large wicked tail formed last after a quick once over I found a crevice in the wall and curled up inside and. Was just about to go to sleep when what sounded like hooves and insect wings could be heard retreating further into the cave.