Chapter Ten: ...Is Me.
We stared at each other. Blinding rage between us, I took the first move. Jumping from it's chest, damaging it's ribs, I prepared to crush it's ribs. As I came down, the creature speared me in my side with it's right blade arm. I stared into it's eyes, which I noticed for a moment, looked sad. Before I could react, I threw me to the other side of the cave and I lay there in pain. Although the nanotrites did their job, and the nerves still screamed, I felt more pain... It grew.
I screamed as meter long spines breached my back,arms, and legs. My teeth grew to an elongated point. My spine stretched and extended upon my tailbone. Making another point. My skin bleached itself before igniting. I screamed and writhed on the floor of the cave. I looked over to the creature with my now bleeding eyes to notice a dark purple liquid running along it's blades and teeth. I began to cough up the same liquid along with my blood. Soon, the blood also became the liquid.
The process ended, my flesh was scorched and torn. I shakily stood up and released a monstrous roar from my bio-mechanical/demonic maw. "What have you done to me?" I asked. 'Suffer' The voice answered. Without my control, I leaped over to the creature and jumped onto it's back, plunging my arm through it's spine. It's rear half fell, but not for long. Standing back up, it grabbed me in it's own sharp toothed maw and began to apply pressure, soon dropping me.
"I don't want this!" I screamed, and with what dwindling control I had, I plunged my arm into my own chest and ripped out my heart. Slowly watching it's beat slow and sputter, before ending. Along with myself.
---Limbo---
I awoke on a hard, dark surface. I stood up, noticing that my body was fine. Even without my bio-mechanics. In front of me floated the face I had seen during the transport to the Equestrian dimension. "Weak, useless, foolish... Dead." It actually spoke. "You have a new assignment. Finish what you started, and make the multiverse a place you see fit. I know you will do as I command." Within an instant it melted away and I was thrown back into my corpse.
---The Cave---
I awoke, gasping and choking on air. Looking over, I noticed that the monstrous creature was none but a corpse. It's mouth was moving though. I walker over and used all of my strength to open the creatures maw. Inside was a manticore cub, and the first thing it did was growl pitifully and jump on my chest, and knocking me down. But it didn't attack, instead it just stared at me curiously. I knew then, I had finally gained a friend in this new fucked up lifestyle I had been given.