I clutched at the sheets of the bed as tight as I could, and then tightened more.
"Oh, I'm sorry," Vesania said in a taunting, babyish tone, "Did I hit a nerve? You look so sad, and your face is all red..."
Tears were falling off of my face and onto the bedsheets. I wanted to strangle him. I wanted to kill him.
"So, I guess you'll be mad to hear that I did the same for your adoptive family..."
I lost it at that point.
"YOU FU-" He quickly put his fingers back in my mouth again and put his face uncomfortably close to mine. I flailed my arms about wildly, trying to hit and claw and choke the monster, but all attacks passed right through him.
"Shhh..." he whispered, "I told you not to do that. Oh, well. I might as well give you the whole story while I've got you here.
"I entered your body when you were, about, six. I had just finished a killing spree, and needed to simmer down and let my food digest, so I just picked you at random.
By the time you were fourteen, I had worked up an appetite. I waited until you fell asleep, and possessed you to do that thing that made you so very upset...
Aha ha ha... you should've seen it. They were all begging for their lives, and it was even more fun to watch the looks on their faces realizing that they were being murdered by their own flesh and blood. Oooohhh... It felt so good. And the best part is that the taste of fear lingers in their spirit for a while after death. You can bet I savored it.
And then, when you were seventeen, I worked up another hunger. I cut your adoptive family's car brakes in the night, but unfortunately, I couldn't see the actual accident since they drove off without you to your sister's, what? Soccer game? But when you got the call and ran all the way to the site of the crash, I helped myself to their shocked and confused souls. Ha ha! They barely knew what had happened! It was so funny!
However, after you ran away and moved into an isolated area far away from people and became a loner, I thought that since I saw no forseeable feeding time for me in the near future, I might as well ditch you and find a new body. But, and this pissed me off to no end, somehow, your brain had matured beyond what I had expected, and I found myself running into the insides of your head over and over again. Escape was so close, and yet so far away.
Those 'voices' you heard were hearing was just me blowing off steam. I was so... angry with you. I hated you for a while. And if I couldn't be happy, neither could you. Petty, but it worked. Besides, messing with you eased my boredom, just a little.
All those religious practices you performed didn't really do anything; I just gave you false hope for my own amusement. False hope: it's my favorite kind.
However, Necromancy gave me some issues; headaches, nausea, you name it. You see, I have Necromancic roots with the underworld and all that. I tried to get as far away from it as I could, so I hid in the back of your head, just laying low.
Oh, and this last part made me so happy, when you did that ritual thing that landed you here, I felt so, so, so close to escaping your damned head. That transmutation circle you drew altered your mind, probably why you forgot your own name, but more importantly, it brought me that much closer to getting out.
What else was there... hmm... Ah. When you were meditating in 'Applejack's' guest room, I was so close that I could invade your conscious thoughts. I was almost to the point of possessing you again; I got your hand in the silverware drawer. But, unfortunately, you regained control again, breaking my hold.
Luckily for me, things turned around. That friend of yours, Twilight? Yes, Twilight. When she did that 'amnesia spell' thing, heh-heh-hee... All she did was unlock the door from your head. I didn't just open that door, I ripped it off its hinges! Hahahaha! I got out! I got out of your damn head! Do you know how hard it is to eat so little in twenty years? Just seven people! My breakfast alone is at least twelve! Look at me! I'm so malnourished I'm barely even matter!
Phew, I'm cool... I'm cool... But wait, there's more! When I got out, I felt a thousand times stronger than I ever have before. In fact, I'm pretty sure I don't even need a host body any more..."
Every word he said made me angrier and angrier. Eventually, I just gave up trying to struggle and sat there limply, crying silently.
"Well, it's good to see I've shut you up. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to catch a snack, and I do mean 'catch,'" he said as he turned towards the window and took his fingers out of my mouth. He then stuck them in his own mouth and slurped loudly and purred.
"Wait..." I said. The instant he looked at me, I flung the heart rate monitor at his head, and after it flew through the air for a half of a second, I remembered that he was mostly intangible.
The machine crashed through the window after phasing through Vesania's head. A few seconds later, the nurse from earlier, Nurse Redheart, burst into the room, "What's going on in here?! Who's -" She stopped the very instant she saw him.
He looked at me and a smile slowly crossed his face, and he said to me, "Why thank you so much for giving me my first taste of Earth Being..."
"No! Get out of here! Run!" I shouted at the nurse, but she was frozen with fear. She shook and stared wide-eyed as Vesania's outstretched index finger came closer and closer to her forehead. When it made contact, she shivered and whimpered.
"Stop! Stop it! Leave her alone!" I jumped out of the bed and lunged at him, but just passed through his intangible body. I hit my head on the linoleum floor and started seeing double. I looked up at the nurse, and saw Vesania's finger go straight through her forehead. Only it didn't tear through flesh and bone and send blood dribbling down her face; it merely passed through like there was nothing there. But when Vesania pulled his finger back out of her head, something blue and transparent was stuck to the end. He pulled more and more of the weird blue substance out of the nurse's body, and I noticed that it had a form. The blue thing being slowly extracted from her body was a blue, whispy image of the nurse herself. It looked exactly like her, clothes and all.
Eventually, he fully removed the blue copy of the nurse, and her hollow body dropped to the floor with a sick thud. Vesania held the nurse's soul over his gaping mouth and noticed that I was watching him disgustedly.
"I noticed you were watching... I assume that you've deducted that this is the nurse's soul? It's funny: they always wear what the physical body is wearing when they die. I never quite understood that. But you know, I think I'm gonna savor this one, just for you..."
And he stuck her feet in his mouth and let her hang loosely. Then he slowly, horribly slowly, slurped her up like a noodle and swallowed her whole. I vomited again, and remained conscious long enough to see him escape through the shattered window before security guards came into the room and saw the... the dead nurse. But just before I passed out, I managed to utter two words.
"You... bastard..."
Author commentary:
Yep. It only gets darker from here on out. To all you Nurse Redheart fans, I am deeply sorry. Truly I am. I liked her too.