The Faceless Martyr

Hello Readers!
You wouldn't believe the genre this one belongs to...Horror! Yup! My very first shot @ a genre I had thought I'd never try..Hope you enjoy it :)
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Now…

He is having an OBE. He could see himself on the floor! It was a third person’s view of oneself! He can’t think straight. The things that are in his head now…it’s revolting …but he can’t help it. He keeps thinking about the same nauseating things..The sane part of him..the human part is trying to get him under control before he can do further damage..but its failing miserably.  The other part…the supernatural one is taking over…and in a matter of minutes..he would be completely different yet exactly the same.  Different being, same in appearance. Can anyone be scared of his own self?! He’s feeling this utterly strange emotion right now! At least he’ll feel it till he’s transformed completely… then, the part that fears, the part that’s human, the weak link will be subdued and locked away for all eternity…not life! But eternity. That’s because this being is immortal.

17 Years Ago

He is a teenager unlike any other. His hearing is extremely sensitive, more like a canine’s…. He can lift amazingly heavy objects like say…a car! His vision is like an eagle’s! and above all…his regeneration capacity is limitless ..his endurance for pain is profoundly high. So, with this paranormal  abilities, the abandoned one survived. He also did some unthinkable things to others. He used his powers carelessly.

Knowing that he was abandoned by choice left him with a deep scar. Imagine a Very hot headed and dangerous teenager with a lot of power…Nightmare

2 Hrs Ago….

He was walking down a deserted road humming to himself oblivious to the imminent danger he would be in.  He thought no one would be out in this unearthly hour, so he was being..well..himself. He was picking a random pebble off the road and hurling it away…sounds pretty normal. But if anyone would see the trajectory of the pebble, they would be astonished! He was no ordinary guy. He was a ‘jump’ in the evolution process. He had extraordinary abilities. These ‘gifts’ were the main …no..the only reason he was in danger right now.

28 years ago

He was a Five year old abandoned boy. Abandoned, because his family did not know how to cope with him and his abilities. So, they just decided to move without him..  Don’t judge his family. Nobody would have had the strength to go through what they did..day after day.  How do explain to your boy it’s wrong to break his mother’s arms just because she screamed at you for breaking the glass vase? How do you tell him not to crush the dog’s head just because he chewed your shoes? The injuries started getting serious  and one tragic day, their first born daughter who was 16 at that time, met her untimely death at the hands of her kid brother whom she was babysitting. She had insisted he finish his greens on his plate before he’d be given dessert. When they came back and found her the way they did, that was enough for them to leave him.

10 Years Ago

He is stronger than ever. His body looks like he seriously works out and is on a very rigid diet to keep it that way but the truth is, he has never hit a gym in his life and he eats like a ….well…lets just say more than a couple ‘all you can eat for $XX’ closed their shop thanks to him! He has a better sense of right and wrong comparatively when he was a teen. He is playing the faceless superhero for the time being. Stopping a thief, rescuing a damsel in distress, preventing a murder from happening and stuff like that…He had foiled a couple of suicide attempts as well. He thought he had figured out his purpose, to be the unsung hero of  the people. But he had a greater calling …a far greater calling..but it would be quite a few years before he realizes it.

2 Years Ago

It’s during this time he realizes his life means more than playing God to the woes of mankind. He decides to dedicate himself to another being. Not a species but a singular being. The Earth. He feels this wonderful planet is reeling under the acts of man. We are killing this planet without realizing when she dies, we die. So He decides he is the lone crusader of his home planet. What brought about this change? It all started a DVD he had rented out. It was a documentary that gave a very stark picture on how the earth’s natural resources were being overused and abused. It really stuck a cord with him. He had a moment of glorious self realization. He considered himself the messiah of mother earth. That’s what he’d call himself from now on.
       He would target anyone who he deemed was harmful to the planet. He took on timber companies by messing with their tree felling equipment. He would also scare the laborers witless. soon, the news of the haunted forests spread like wild fire. 

But this Turing point will lead him to an unbelievable horror in the future. This path he chose will end with him being tortured with a pain that was alien to him

Now…

He cannot take it any longer… He is unable to tolerate the pain. He is on fire….yet there is no fire. He is choking…on what he has no idea, His lungs are burning like he has inhaled a gulp of water, but he is no where near water. But a above all this virtually physical pain, is the one he cannot tolerate! His mind! What it’s projecting is of the most ghastly stuff.  It is this mental torture he is not able to tolerate. His mind is not his own. He is not the master anymore.

He is withering on the floor. He is trying to shake the pain away. It is now that he experiences an OBE. He had read that OBE’s usually  grant the observer a clarity which was elusive till that moment. Once he sees himself on the floor and his tormentor, things suddenly fall into place!

He is just seconds away from death and his last thoughts are pure panic. He thinks the humans are just pawns in a much bigger universe . the eminent death of his planet is being eagerly awaited by an impatient extraterrestrial race who thrive on dead heavenly bodies! Why don’t they just attack and take over? No! They cannot! The interplanetary federation forbids it. So they wait! They would ensure that no one comes in the way of the self destructive phase of the planet and if any one does, they would transfigure any being into one among them …including me.