Vile Rabbit

Mother rabbit's right claw sliced through the now-reappearing creature. Seeing this, his aching heart was filled with joy. Then He saw the creature's claws and teeth change to purple. Then it vanished again, and just like the last time, he saw the black particles beside his mother fluctuate. He squealed, giving her a heads-up again. Mother rabbit, receiving the heads-up, effortlessly dodged the creature's attacks.

He saw the creature charge at his mother recklessly, or so it seemed.

When the creature was halfway through the distance between itself and mother rabbit, the creature did the unexpected: it changed its direction towards him...

His heart froze, and he couldn't move. His body wasn't healed enough yet to move. He could only watch in despair as the creature sped towards him.

The creature reached him in no time. It opened its mouth wide, intending to swallow him, but right then Mother appeared behind it, and her razor-like claw aimed at the creature's head...

Everything was in slow motion for him, he saw it. Right when Mother appeared behind the creature, he saw within the depths of the creature's eyes there was a hint of mockery.

"Why would there be mockery?... I see," he saw the glowing black particles start to flowed into the creature's tail. He knew what it wanted to do.

His heart raced.

'Move, move!' he screamed in his mind. He saw the muscles in the creature contracting. Suddenly his right hand moved on its own. In a swift motion, it reached out and grasped the creature's tail tightly.

A panic expression appeared on the creature's face before it could react.

SWISH, SPLAT!

A razor-like claw penetrated its skull.

THUD!

Its body fell to the ground lifelessly.

"Finally!"

After killing the creature, Mother Rabbit appeared before him, then grabbed his broken body and sped off into the forest... 

Thirty minutes later, inside a dark cave, a rabbit with fur as black as midnight stood over a brown female rabbit who was lying on the ground, barely breathing, with a purple goo-like substance spreading ominously on the right side of her body, slowly devouring her bit by bit.

The black rabbit stared at her, his eyes blank, as if he had lost his soul.

His brother's death, his sister's death, and now his mother was dying. His mind was on the verge of collapsing.

"Why, why, why?" he cried out in his mind, with tears flowing from his eyes. The more he thought about it, the more unstable his mind got, his heart racing at an

overwhelming pace.

BUMP! BUMP!

'Hate! Why couldn't I have been stronger, born stronger?'

Bump, bump, bump!

His mind flashed to the creature, its razor-like teeth and claws. Looking at his own rabbit-like body, he felt intense envy for the creature's predatory form.

'It should have been me. I should have been born with those teeth and claws.'

Bump, bump, bump, bump, bump!

As his mind teetered on the edge of collapse, a paw gently grasped his leg. He snapped back to reality. It was his mother; she stretched out her left arm, touching him.

He knew she didn't have long left to live. She was dying, all because of him. If it wasn't for him, she wouldn't have had to fight that creature. If she hadn't also had to rescue him at the last moment, she wouldn't have been touched by the purple goo... And he hated himself for that.

Mother rabbit looked at him, her eyes filled with motherly love, and she purred softly,

"My dearest little one. Do not blame yourself..."

With tears streaming down his cheeks, he purred, "I'm sorry mother... please don't leave me, please. Don't leave me alone, mother."

Mother rabbit looked deep into his eyes, "Promise me, after I'm gone you will remain strong. Promise me you will survive."

Looking into her eyes, he paused for a moment, then purred, "I promise I'll survive; I promise I'll survive no matter what."

She squeezed his leg tighter, then purred one last time before closing her eyes, "Good."

'Nooo!'

Bump!

His mind sank once more.

"It's all my fault, yes it's my fault for being weak." BANG! " No... it's not my fault, there was nothing I could have done." BANG! "It's the creature's fault!" BANG! "No, it's mother's fault for not being strong enough to protect us"... BANG! "NO, it was the snow's fault, the trees' fault, the squirrel's fault, it was brother's fault!" BANG! BANG! BANG!

Blood trickled down his forehead as he slammed against the cave wall, his mind had fallen into insanity.

Suddenly, he raised his bleeding head, with eyes closed. At that moment, something happened in the depths of his mind.

Within the depths of his subconscious, there existed a dark dimension. Inside this dark dimension, a figure identical to him stood in the center. his ego: it was raving and screaming the same words he was saying outside. When suddenly, a deep and cold voice echoed from the darkness,

"Oh, shut up."

His ego paused in shock, then spun around scanning the surroundings, but he didn't see anything.

"Who is there? Show yourself!" he shouted.

Footsteps started echoing behind him. He turned around and looked intensely. From the darkness emerged a figure almost identical to him; it had the same body, same face, except for its eyes and temperament. Within the depths of the figure was an outline of a black star that seemed to be burning.

"Who are you?" the ego asked the figure.

"You know who I am," replied the figure, its voice emotionless.

"No. I don't know you. how did you get in here?" said the ego.

"You know who I am, don't pretend," replied the figure.

The ego paused for a second then replied, "You are me."

"Yes, yes, I am you, the part you tried so desperately to hide from the moment you were born," replied the figure.

"What do you want?" said the ego.

"What do I want... I want you to stop the drama, stop pretending like their death means that much to you, to the point that you would go mad. If we're being honest, you're glad it's them and not you," said the figure.

"Lies! I love them more than anything else. They meant everything to me. How can I not be affected? How can I not go mad?" shouted the ego.

"Lie? You are the one lying here. You might be able to fool them, but you can't fool me. I am you, remember? I know all your secrets, l know all your thoughts," replied the figure as he circled the ego.

"And I never said you didn't care for them. you did care, but you also looked down on them. From the moment you were born, you felt you were superior to them." The figure continued.

The ego was silent. Deep down, he knew the figure was telling the truth. He didn't care about them to the point he would go mad, but he was truly going mad for sure.

The reason for his madness was not the death of his family but because of his weakness; the fact that another creature could put him into such a broken state was driving him insane. But he just didn't want to admit it...

"You know it's your fault, right? If you hadn't rejected this part of you,' I'. we would currently be way stronger—strong enough to rip that creature apart easily... Now accept me, let us become one again, let us become whole," said the figure in a low tone. Their face almost touching.

The ego stared at the figure for a while then answered, "Yes."

The moment the ego answered, he and the figure both transformed into a streak of light that merged, forming a black sphere. The sphere rose to the middle of the dimension and then exploded.

BOOM!

The explosion shook the whole dimension, and from it emerged a giant black glowing star that burned with black flames. The star then emitted a translucent force that spread out like a ripple in water. The force covered the whole dimension in an instant and then expanded to the outside world.

Outside:

His eyes opened wide.

BOOM!

An intangible force extended from his mind. It expanded outwards like waves in the ocean, with him at the center: one meter, five meters, ten meters, twenty-five meters, then it stopped. His gaze was different from before; now it radiated pure calmness, and there was a faint outline of a star within his pupils.

He could perceive everything in this area in a 3D fashion. He sensed that he could manipulate this force, adding a suppressive effect to the area if he wished.

He lowered his gaze to his mother, or what used to be her; now the only thing that remained was purple goo. The black star within his eyes flickered for a moment, then the purple goo lit up in black flames. A second later, it evaporated into smoke. He then blurred, appearing outside the cave.

the tears that were flowing from his eyes, rolled off his face, they froze mid-air and shattered when they reached the ground.....

Standing on his hind legs, he raised his head to the starry sky. The black stars within his eyes lit up; he could see endless glowing black particles floating everywhere. He controlled the force from his mind to envelop some of the particles.

The particles he previously couldn't interact with were now within his grasp.

The moment the force made contact with the particles, his body screamed out in extreme hunger, as if he hadn't eaten in ages. Opening his mouth wide, he controlled the particles to enter; they flowed in like smoke.

Following his instinct, he controlled the particles to move towards his heart. The moment they made contact with his heart; they awakened something that would have originally awakened when he was fully grown.

In the depths of his heart, a tiny intangible black sphere lit up then started rotating, and with that rotation came a pulling force. It sucked in the black particles like a black hole, then, as if exhaling, it spat the particles back out, spreading them throughout his body via the bloodstream.

A minute later of that continuing , a crack! sound echoed from his body, akin to a chain being snapped.

A sharp pain spread throughout his body—the pain of his body being reorganized, cleansed, and strengthened.

Not long after, the pain subsided, and he felt as if he had been reborn into something better.

Full of energy, stronger, and faster.

He used the force to scan his body. He was extremely happy with what he saw.

'GOOD! GOOD!'