NOVEL NEXT Chapter 53: Anomalies
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Vlan was now a working-class citizen in the middle of Colorado. He woke up like nothing. His pale white skin was shrouded in darkness. His light red hair was a mess. His taffy yellow eyes refused to open. But he forced himself to get up. It was his day off. So, he headed to the kitchen to watch TV. When I walked out, I saw a familiar face. It was Mizo, a fox he adopted. She used to belong to two dead brothers, and Vlan felt bad for the little one, so he took her in.
She was much older. Mizo had been by Vlan side for almost a decade now, keeping him company.
She was his rock and his cornerstone. He couldn't have thanked her enough for what she'd done by just being there for me when I needed someone to talk to, even though I knew she couldn't understand me. She hopped on me and nuzzled against me, which could often cheer me up on even my darker of days.
I sat on the couch, placed her on my lap, and stroked her head as I turned on the TV. As my favorite program began, a woman came in front of the TV.
She has long burnt orange hair that was braided in the back and brown eyes. She wears a white and olive color top, a red skirt, and long dark brown boots. This was his wife, Harley.
She would often be a pest like this. It was like she only existed to annoy him. She would do many inconveniences like dumping her trash on his bed when he was tired, installing porn on his computer so she could have an excuse to get mad at him, and even hit him when she didn't get her way.
She would often get physically violent and verbally abusive. She had a very foul mouth and often tried to embarrass him in public. She forbids him from having any contact with women. She never had sexual intimacy with him, yet she would sleep around and cheat whenever and wherever she felt like it.
One day, just to get on his nerves, Harley fed oats to Mizo. The oats were poisonous to foxes and it began to slow her heartbeat. Once Vlan found out, he exploded, and the two got into a verbal fight.
But their fighting distracted Vlan from getting Mizo to a vet in time and she passed away because of it. This absolutely shattered him. He lost all emotions. All feelings of love for people from this.
This only made the abuse Harley gave him worse and more consistent. He wouldn't fight back. He would often have black eyes or wounds on him from fights with Harley, but when he told people, they just laughed at him. They thought he was making stuff up. After all, he was a buff, 6'3 man and Harley was a petite, 5'2 woman. How could she abuse someone like him?
Her forms of abuse got worse like kicking him in the nuts, hitting him with frying pans, and threatening to kill him. One day, Vlan finally decided after years of abuse and torture to call 911. They got there as soon as possible. But when they arrived, they were greeted by a woman with a black eye and scars on her body.
It was all just makeup. Harley had used makeup to make it look like Vlan abused her and she told the officers Vlan abused her. Despite Vlan having more scars and being the one who called, the officers didn't think twice and arrested him.
Vlan ended up getting taken to court and was sentenced to life in prison for the framed crime. Before Vlan was dragged off, Harley pulled him to the backrooms. She beat him bloody for almost an hour. She even took a saw and cut out one of his eyes. But even after this, Harley still made it look like Vlan did it to himself, and everyone believed her.
Vlan was taken to jail and it was hard. Not only was he still recovering from his injuries, but he also had a hard time adjusting to prison life.
Many years later, he ended up getting a visitor. It was Fabio.
"Hey, bro."
Vlan broke down crying after seeing his brother. The two had a long, eventful talk. Fabio wasn't the man he was 35 years ago. He was fully reformed and was going to college to be a lawyer. He wanted to get his brother out of jail.
Many more years had passed. Fabio had succeeded in his goal, but the court refused to believe they put an innocent man in jail. However, Fabio ended up negotiating with the court to reduce Fabio's time to 30 years in prison, like him.
At age 56, Vlan was allowed to see the light of day again. He wondered what happened to his ex, and apparently, she was sentenced to 2 years in prison for her crimes after Fabio managed to prove her guilty.
Vlan felt betrayed. Her time was minuscule compared to his. But he didn't want to cry over spilled milk. He just wanted to appreciate what little time he had left. Or at least, that is what he thought would happen. But if only to top of his horrible life, he had gotten cancer. Lung cancer. It was from prison from people smoking around him. And he was already in stage four.
As he lay on his death bed only a few days later, he looked to the sky and asked why did his life have to be so awful. But it only got worse. In his last few moments, he saw a vile creature. His ex-wife, Harley. She decided to taunt him one last time by bringing him the skull of Mizo and placing it beside his bed.
"There, now you assholes can die together, fucking pieces of shit."
Vlan was too weak to fight her. All he heard in his last moments was verbal harassment. As his wife walked away, a dark shadow began to come out of his body, and it impaled Vlan's wife. Suddenly, a portal opened beneath her, and corpse-like hands and he'll like fire rose to drag her down into the portal.
Suddenly, Vlan's body exploded and he turned into a large, bipedal, dinosaur-like creature: almost theropod-like. Its eyes were horizontal and yellow, feeling like they could cut someone's soul in half with one glance. It had red scales with white, diamond-and-triangle-shaped markings all over its body. It has a thick, large purple mane covering its arms and back. It has two small forelimbs with three white-clawed and two powerful light blue hind legs. And it had one long, thick, spiky tail behind it. Inside his mane was a fox spirit with fire around her paws and tails.
Somehow, someway, Vlan's spirit dragged Mizo's spirit back and fused with her.
The anomaly instinctively killed every single last person in that hospital and destroyed all the cameras. No one knows what happened that day, but it was something detectives are still trying to figure out today.
Several weeks later, as Vlan was traversing the wide-ranging field, he helped the corpse of a woman in his mouth. He threw it onto a pile of dozens of other women and set them all on fire by creating sparks with his claws. He admired his work. Then, suddenly, someone came up behind him. It was a furry cat girl-like anomaly wearing a Kimono. She was carrying the body of a teenage boy with her.
"I see you share a hatred for humans too." the cat girl said. However, Vlan just stared at her. "This kind human who fed me and cared for me was killed by humans. Very bad people. Why don't you join my cause? We can team up to kill all the bad humans in the world."