Advent of Cataclysm.

"No," Kai shook his head. "I already know what your name is without youu having to say it, I may have you in my head, but that's because I don't know how to get you out of it." He recalled the first instance of him hearing this voice after waking in the labs. 

"I am-" 

"The shadow of the apocalypse, you are an entity that was designed for the end of days, I can't trust something like that, I'd be an idiot to listen to you when all you talk about is granting me power and me having to call your name to get it." 

"... You do not trust me, even though I have been entirely transparent with you," It retorted. "I am not malevolent, nor am I benevolent, just as the apocalypse will not differentiate between good and bad." 

"It is human nature to be untrusting of strange entities and alien beings not of earth." 

"I am of earth." 

"Fine, tell me then, how would you react to someone suddenly being inside of your consciousness trying to get you to call their name?" Kai raised his head taking a small sniff of the room and biting his lip when he felt the air before him shift; something was there.

The fact that nobody was reacting meant that they couldn't see it, meaning it was probably something that he alone would have been able to see if he wasn't blindfolded.

"I am not your enemy, my name is the conduit by which you will gain access to my power, I am the source, and you the destination need my name to use it, I promise you this." 

"Why me?" Kai asked, the room next to him had gone silent after he mentioned the shadow of the apocalypse, but it was something that he didn't care to hide which he was casually speaking. "I can always believe whatever you say, but what happens when I suddenly lose control of my limbs after I say your name?" 

"You little... I will not possess you!" The Shadow growled. 

"I'm not taking your word for it." Kai chuckled and then took another slight sniff of the room before him.

"Hey," He called. "I didn't finish eating," 

"Do you think you deserve to?" The doctor opposite of him on the glass asked without using the mic and he chuckled at her tone. "What's so funny?" 

"Do you want your precious vessel to starve?" Kai chuckled again. "You already took Ava away, I am aware that she's fine, I just want to finish eating, I'm hungry." He admitted. "Unless you want me to break your billion dollar machine again and feed myself, you need to get in here and finish what you stopped her from doing." 

"This little shit is not a prisoner," The General scoffed, dragging his hand across his beard and shaking his head. 

"Quiet old man, I am speaking to my warden." Kai clicked his tongue in annoyance. "Doctor Eve Maria Calvet," Kai spoke her full name. "I need to eat." 

"How did he...?" The general furrowed his old brows, creasing his forehead in concern. 

"I know the names of even the janitors on the ground floor, I am safe here so I don't care to do anything, I'd rather just stay than to go back outside, but that doesn't mean I'll accept any kind of treatment for myself or Ava and Andrew," Kai slowly bobbed his head to a tune he was hearing from the floor above. "I promise to behave."

"Alright, I'll send someone in to finish feeding you." 

"No way," Kai clenched his jaws. "I don't trust them, I know that Ava picks what I eat, and I also know that there are some staff who are still mad at me for what I did in the east wing, they've been discussing the many ways they can poison me, if you aren't the one who does it then I'll just break free and eat by myself." 

The doctor hesitated for a few seconds, but when the pressure on the left side of his restraints began rising and the facility began to slightly shake the woman pressed her palm against the screen. "Stop, I'll come." She turned but was faced with the general standig at the door. 

"I cannot allow you in that room, it is clear he intends you harm."

"I'm not you, General Russel, I'd never break my word over such a trivial matter, step aside." Kai demanded but the man stubbornly refused. 

"He needs to be buried in the deepest dungeon imaginable right away, there is too much we do not understand about him-"

"Move, general." Kai began seething. "I won't ask again." 

"Sir-"

"I want to hear nothing more from you, I am going to take control of his case as you have requested, and lock him down properly, he is a prisoner; not a special guest, treat him as he should be treated and stop being so lenient and permissive with this terrorist!" 

"Sir, would you rather a hostile captive or a cooperative one?" Doctor Calvet asked the man when she realised he had no intention of moving out of her way. "He has behaved himself considerably since the east wing incident, aside from what happened earlier because of the girl, there have been no other incndents since then.

(Her name is french btw, so "Calvet/Kalvey").

Adjusting her glasses, the Doctor pushed past the general and used her keycard on the door running out and to the other room excitedly using her card again and quickly entering before anyone else could stop her. 

"You might lose your job thanks to this stunt," Kai hummed listening to the doctor's footsteps as she carefully approached him, standing just at the yellow line and huffing. 

"I doubt it." She chuckled. "As far as your case goes, I might be the only person who understands just how strong you are, you can break free whenever you want, right?" 

"Pretty much," Kai answered. "There is nothing for me out there, at least here I have food and shelter, not to mention these restraints are pretty comfortable... surprisingly." 

"I have questions," Doctor Calvet spoke up, taking the dish off the trey and holding it. 

"Cross the line," Kai replied. 

"Excuse me?" 

"If you want me to answer your questions, I want you to break your first rule, cross the line, stand before me, I'll answer whatever you ask honestly if you do that." 

"Doctor, refrain from adhering any further, you are already within his reach, nobody can help you if you cross that line!" The General spoke through the mic and then went quiet again watching the situation as it escalated further out of his control when the woman chuckled with Kai and fearlessly stepped across the line. "Doctor!" 

"I mean the woman no harm, pipe down you old fart." Kai leaned his head in the General's direction and smirked. "She's understanding something that you are not, that's all." 

"I am?" The woman now standing right next to him asked surprised. "Of course..." She sighed, shaking her head when she realised what it felt like being this close to him. "I've been treating you unfairly, haven't I?" She asked, and Kai nodded with his smile still relaxed.

"Would you prefer to be freed to roam like Ava?" She asked again, reaching for the panel on the restraint. 

"Doctor!!" The General screamed into the mic. "Do not touch that thing!" 

"Don't test the general, he might have you killed if he doesn't die from a stroke first." Kai scoffed, amused at the tone the old man had used, while the Doctor next to him sighed and raised the spoon to his mouth. "Go on then, ask away." 

"We recieved an anonymous tip two years ago about you being a vessel for the devil, obviously we didn't believe the tip, but after observation we couldn't refute that something about you was off, your body temperature would rise to that of the sun every morning at sunrise, you displayed strength upwards of a thousand PSI." She spoke. 

"I don't get the question there." Kai would have raised a brow if they weren't restrained. 

"Do you know who could have tipped us?" She asked. "Even after two years this anonymous person has still evaded our every attempt to find them." 

"Then there's a chance that your mystery tipper doesn't exist," Kai replied. "Have you thougth of the possibility that they weren't even human to begin with?" He asked, and the Doctor looked at the screen to the side staring at her reflection while the general stared at her. 

"I suppose anything is possible nowadays." She admitted, okay, that is a detour, the first real question is your identity as a vessel, how did you do it?" 

"I didn't, I was chosen, I have always been chosen, I never had a choice." Kai answered accepting another spoon of food from her before she pulled the trey over and sat on it parrallel to him, raising herself to his height. 

"What was the difference that got you chosen, do you know?" She asked. 

"I was seven, that's ten years ago, all I know is that one day I became able to see things; spirits and demons, I have suffered ever since then, everyone around me dies." He admitted. "As far as I am concerned, there is no trigger, it was fucking random." 

"Hm, not much there either, surprising, so you have no Idea how we can make more people like you?" 

"That's a terrible idea, are you stupid?"