บท 10: Never Forget
A whole month went by after Morly's encounter with the anomalous wretch, no one that couldn't defend themselves had been to the empty village, at least, it should have been so, the captain guard had been made aware that some young people had gone.
Probably out of curiosity, for an adrenaline rush perhaps, what angered him was that some of them never showed up again, especially the youngest that went.
The monster was still around, it had taken or devoured every single corpses of the villagers, it was still unknown how it had done so, how it had found a way inside all of their homes, it was shroudred in mystery and none in charge of decision making seemed interested to find out.
They just wanted to bury the event as fast as possible, so they ordered the village to be shut down as securely as possible, to prevent anyone from going there.
Still, even for guards, it was best not to drop their guards any second, the monster was vicious and honorless, it had no qualms jumping someone relieving themselves, still, no sighting of it had been caught.
Only the blood it left of its victims were proof that it was still well and alive.
Not able to do much more than try and put a price on its head as Morly was tied to the orders and his functions, he had been trying to bond with the little girl that had survived the massacre of the village.
Morly was a young, unmarried and also a single child, so conversing with a little child was far from being in his skill set but he felt like he had no choice but to look after her, the captain felt somewhat responsible for what had happened, it was true that the monster had outsmarted everyone and had a mysterious way of going unnoticed but he still felt like it could have been easily avoided.
She had a strange name, Superstes, although Morly believed that she just wasn't pronuncing it correctly.
She had a limited vocabulary to begin with, although it was heartbreaking, the fact that she kept kept on crying and asking to see her parents meant that she didn't realise they had been killed and thus, didn't see their corpses, she must have just seen the monster and nothing else.
The sight of it would definitely be enough to make any toddler cry in fear.
In any case, Superstes was staying at the city's sole orphanage, there weren't many orphans to begin with, it had been built after the last war but since then, the amount of orphans around and inside the city severely declined, leaving it quite spacious for the few orphans.
That day, Morly was called upon to check over a crime scene, a murder scene to be exact, the wording was correct but Morly wouldn't have called this a murder.
When a wolf killed its prey, no one would call it a murder after all.
The man was unrecognisable, his clothes had been torn apart and his soft bits of flesh devoured, the sight of the man's teethless gum and hollow sockets had driven the most soft-hearted of the guards away.
The man seemed to have decided to take an alley, which wasn't so uncommon, the city wasn't a nest of criminals after all, you didn't run the risk of getting robbed in every single dark alley but they remained dangerous since if it did happen, few would see you.
And even less would be willing to help.
What caught Morly's attention the most was something stuck in the man's gum, he wasn't certain what it was until he pulled it out.
A pointy, dark teeth, the wretch had found its way inside the city, somehow, it had managed to get inside and not only had it infiltrated the inside of the walls, it had left a message, a message he could only assume was to be taken as a threat.
'This monster is not normal...' thought the guard captain, such intellect wasn't common in monsters and even less in wretches, he had taken some time to look up that specific species.
They never live long and are considered the lowest of the low due to their ability that always came back and caused their demise if it wasn't their incredible weakness.
Absorbing characteristics of what they devoured, an incredibly powerful ability on paper but it always resulted in horrible mutations for wretches.
Yet, this one was somehow incredibly intelligent, having even uttered some words but without any sign of abject mutations on its body.
'Maybe... Hold on' he halted his train of thought as he noticed the corpse seemed to be slightly moving.
He made the other guards back off as he did the same, moments before a swarm of centipedes came rushing out of the body's mouth and from beneath its clothes, the swarm grew and grew, not stopping from coming even as the ground was flooded with them and they started scaling the legs of the guards, agressively biting at them without rest.
The great swarm finished tearing the cadavers clothes off, revealing a mark cut into the victim's chest.
"I REMEMBER" this was what had been carved on the man's chest, it was definitely a threat and it must have been directed toward the one that had struck the wretch, none other than Morly.
Ignoring the crawling carpet that was covering his feet, Morly instinctively looked up to his right, almost thirty meter away, way outside of the dark alley, a small, dark figure was standing on a rooftop.
It scuttered away, out of sight, seemingly crawling once Morly looked at it, the guard captain wanted to take off after the wretch, certain that it was the monster but the abhorrent amount of centipedes didn't seem to be growing any lesser, only increasing even as they were crushed and swept off.
There was a monster loose in the city, one set on revenge and the target of its hatred was Morly.
How many victims would it be able to make before it was dealt with?
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