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The sky was dark, stained with the blood-red glow of fear. The streets of the city, once loud with laughter and life, now echoed with screams and distant cries. The first appearance of the monstrous 12 ft tall Wormen had shattered all false peace. The world Surya knew was cracking apart like fragile glass.
Smoke slithered in the air as Surya, breath heavy, eyes wide, ran through the broken alleys with his friends. Behind him, the grotesque Wormen — a nightmare stitched together from human and beast — was devouring a man whole, tearing through his flesh with inhuman hunger.
It wasn't just one.
More of them emerged from the shadows. Each step they took left behind a trail of decay and death. Their bodies were human-like, but twisted. Their limbs were sharp and flexible. Their mouths stretched far beyond human anatomy, opening like gaping voids of hunger.
"Run...! Don't look back!" someone screamed.
But Surya glanced over his shoulder.
That moment would forever haunt him.
The Wormen's eyes glowed, soulless yet somehow... aware. It was not just hunger. It was dominance. Power.
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Hours passed. The city fell into chaos. The government declared evacuation. Entire sectors were wiped out. Surya found himself in a long line, standing amongst refugees, waiting for a single piece of bread in the outskirts of another city's abandoned warehouse.
Hunger gnawed at his ribs. His body was shaking not just from weakness, but from humiliation. Around him, people whispered about the "Black City," the city that fell first to 11-12 Wormen. The myth spread like a curse.
"Hey weakling! Move away!" A group of older boys shoved Surya out of the line.
Surya fell hard to the ground.
"I-I was here first..." he muttered.
They laughed cruelly. "First? You? A trash like you doesn't get to eat first! The weak should crawl or die!"
They rained punches and kicks upon him. Blood dripped from his nose. His fragile body curled in pain. But in the darkest moment... something snapped inside him.
A surge of raw survival instinct.
With a broken roar, Surya punched the gang leader in the jaw, sending him a few steps back. But this only earned him more brutal retaliation. They beat him down, spitting on him.
"What's the benefit of your life? You're just increasing the weight of the earth, weakling!"
Their words cut deeper than any wound.
The bystanders didn't help. They didn't care. Food was scarce. Kindness was a luxury they couldn't afford.
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Night fell.
Surya crawled away from the place, barely alive. His vision blurred. His breath shallow. The memory of the Wormen still carved in his mind like scars.
As he stumbled into the dark forest, searching for a place to die... fate twisted once again.
A cheetah, thin but wild, leapt at him from the shadows.
Surya couldn't even scream.
But before death reached him... someone faster than the beast appeared.
A shadow.
A lone figure.
A boy around 17, with wild hair, scars across his body, wearing tattered clothes like a beast raised by the forest itself.
Aditya.
With sheer force, Aditya tackled the cheetah mid-air, snapping its neck with brutal precision.
Silence fell.
Aditya looked down at Surya, his eyes deep, cold yet burning with something... familiar.
"If you want to survive," Aditya spoke in a voice rough as gravel, "you must learn the law of this world... Weak dies first. Remember this scene... Surya."
Surya's blood ran cold.
It was the same sentence he had heard before in the city.
But when he looked beside him... there was no one then.
Now there was Aditya.
The man who would break him. Mold him. Forge him into something the world had never seen.
Not for revenge.
Not for glory.
But for survival in a world where humanity was being erased.
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Final Scene:
In the distant destroyed city... 12 Wormen gathered near the ruins of a massive tower. Their flesh wriggled. Their bodies feasted on what remained of the dead.
And far beyond them, in the shadows of the forest, a figure watched.
Unrevealed.
His voice chilling.
"This is only the beginning... Soon the world will forget humanity. They will kneel before evolution. They will kneel before me..."
Fade to black.
To Be Continued...
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End of Episode 2