The Arrival of the Apocalypse: Part 8

Okay guys, wait a little longer for that Happy Synthesizer Sharv cover, I need to work on some stuff okie

I wrote a TWENTY-THREE PAGE STORY FOR A CLASS AND STILL HUNGER FOR WRITING YEE

So here you go! Due to a suggestion, Jhordan will mostly be called Hexa.

LOL I lied Hexa’s taking over again, mostly because it would have gotten repetitive and Sharv needs a hug already .__.

wait there’s a perspective change to Neo never mind

Recap(EDITED AGAIN, YOU CAN SKIP TO THE STORY IF YOU REMEMBER EVERYTHING FROM PREVIOUS PARTS):

Jhordan(or Hexa/Hexadust, as he will be more commonly referred to)is searching for his friends after his apocalypse. He encounters RuvStyle, only to find he was barely holding back the Darkness(aka. the Corruption, not to be confused with the actual corruption, I’m referring to it as the Darkness because I kind of wanna write an FNF Corruption storyline)back. He eventually is forced to give in and transforms into a terrifying combination of his Manifest form, himself, and a Pibbified version of who he once was. He’s in immense pain as he still attempts to fight the Darkness back. The building Hexa found Ruvenstain in(reason for this: I kind of wanted to do a Child’s Play cover, but scrapped that in favor of a Come Along With Me cover, found in Part 1.)catches fire and Hexa runs out. He later finds a black pistol and Zynux, who so far, is the only other Neogang survivor Hexa knows of. They go back to the home the gang once shared, now ravaged by the Darkness. Hexa finds an old picture of the Neogang, but Neonight’s face has been torn out. The sight is enough to bring Hexa to tears. They find the corrupted versions of Sharv and Zuih in the house, and Zuih disappears into the glitchy mass of the Darkness. Hexa can’t bring himself to shoot Sharv and manages to have a quick conversation as Sharv breaks free, for just a bit before becoming fully corrupted once more. He loses control and corrupts Hexa. Zynux bandages his wounds after they run away, hoping that maybe, just maybe, they can slow the spread of Corruption so Jhordan doesn’t get corrupted, and they can find a way to cure it…maybe… They soon encounter Sharv once more, though he disappears after a massive explosion. Sharv later wakes up, exhausted and cold, but uncorrupted. He knows he must find his friends, and that’s what sets out to do. He is successful in finding Neo and sets out to find the rest of his friends. But where shall he go?…

STORY STARTS NOW:

Hexa landed on his feet and skidded across the floor. “Agh!”

He snarled and glared into the face of a Pibbified Boyfriend. “Always said you were good…Nux?!”

Zynux looked at him. “Yeah, I got Pico to lose us. Dodged that bullet…”

“Great,” Hexa sighed. “We need to get this guy to back off. Why won’t he-?”

Boyfriend lunged for him. Hexa felt something slam into him and Zynux tackled him, bringing him to the ground. “Do you have any more bullets?”

“Yes,” he sighed, “I just can’t reload.”

Suddenly, a bullet came out of nowhere, and Boyfriend collapsed. Hexa looked at Zynux with wide eyes. “I thought you said we lost Pico!”

“We did,” Zynux muttered in disbelief, “But why would Pico shoot-?”

A boy leapt over the wall. Neon pink streaks in his hair pulsed at will. He wore a gray, tattered shirt with a turquoise N crossed out with a magenta prohibition sign with a drip effect as if it had been sprayed on. He wore black ripped jeans, and black sneakers with white soles and strings. A black leather jacket had been tied around his waist, and there were bandages on his chin, nose bridge, and forearms. His left eye was magenta and his right was turquoise.

Hexa recognized him almost immediately. “…Neo?…”

His friend nodded. “Jhordan. Come on! No time to explain.”

He darted off without another word. Zynux looked at his friend. “Do we follow him?”

Jhordan didn’t hear. He’d already darted off, following the neon streaks in Neonight’s hair. Zynux groaned, then followed Hexa into the gloom.

They ran down winding paths, down dark alleys, and across the top of buildings.

Finally, when Hexa’s lungs felt like they were going to explode, Neonight skidded to a halt, vaulting over a wall.

“Hey, Jhordan.” Neo grinned. “Sorry we didn’t get to talk before. We needed to get out of there before…you know. But…there’s someone I think you’ll want to see.”

A boy stepped out of the shadows. His slicked, black hair bounced with each step he took. He wore a tank top, revealing scarred arms that boasted severe injury. He wore jeans and blue sneakers, and he was scratched all over.

Hexa blinked, and then tears came to his eyes. “S-Sharv?…”

“Hey, Jhord.” Sharv smiled. “I’m sorry for worrying you. I know you felt guilty about leaving me and-” He was cut off as his friend tackled him in a bear hug.

“You NUMBSKULL! I THOUGHT YOU DIED!” Hexa sobbed, burying his face in Sharv’s shoulder, “I thought it was all my fault, I thought you would hate me, and I…”

“Hush.” Sharv squeezed him back. “We’re all okay now.”

“Except Zuih and Swirl,” Zynux blinked back tears. “And Fore, Blow, DragShot, Rayna…”

Sharv nodded. “RuvStyle, too.”

Neonight put a hand on Zynux’s shoulder. “We’re going to save them. I think I’ve found where the Darkness cumulates. We can defeat it there, and it’ll disappear.” He shifted his weight. “At least, that’s my guess. Doubt me if you want.”

“No.” All three boys spoke in perfect unison. “We’d never doubt you.”

Neo blinked once, then smiled. “Thanks, guys. We just need to get over there and…”

His voice trailed off as he heard footsteps. “Shh. You hear that?”

The rest of his friends looked at him. “Neo? Nothing happened.”

“No, that noise,” he repeated, turning in a full circle, “It’s…footsteps. Jhordan, your neck is leaking.”

Hexa cursed and rummaged through his bag, bringing up bandages to replace those already around his neck. “Geez, it gets worse every day…it’s like it’s creeping into my mind…Neo, what are you doing?”

Neo kept turning, irises getting smaller and eyes getting wider. “The footsteps. Don’t you hear them? They’re coming, I swear I heard-“

Suddenly, tentacles sprouted from the ground and wrapped around Neo, constricting his ribs, shoulders, wrists, ankles, and neck. He gasped and began to struggle as the appendages squeezed tighter, cutting off his airflow.

Sharv screamed and grabbed Neo’s gun shooting at the tentacles. The bullets sunk into the darkness of the tentacles, and Neo was pulled backward.

Hexa pulled out his gun and tried the same, Zynux picked up a brick and threw it at something behind Neo. Neonight heard it connect with a wall.

Suddenly, he was turned around and was face to face with Corrupted Ruvstyle. Claws of the Manifest form, one eye black with a red pupil, the other eye empty. He was covered with glitchy sludge but spoke normally when talking to Neo.

“Hello, child. Let’s go for a ride, shall we?”

The tentacles around his neck squeezed, and Neo let out a pained scream as something dug into his skin. He felt warm liquid trickle down his neck as Manifest RuvStyle laughed cruelly.

“Stop!” Hexa cried, “Ruv, this isn’t you!”

For a moment, Neo saw RuvStyle’s expression soften. His eyes became almost human, a reminder of the friend they once had.

“I…Hex?” He shook his head. “NO!”

Neo felt like his neck was going to crack. His thrashing got more intense, his irises shrinking to almost dots.

“COME ALONG, NEO! PAY FOR WHAT YOU’VE DONE TO THE REST OF THEM!”

An image flashed through Neonight’s head. All of his friends, including himself, with hands together in a circle. They all shouted, “We’ll always be here for each other!” He saw Zuih elbowing Zynux in the stomach, Rayna hugging RuvStyle, Swirl and Blow laughing together, and Fore, a small smile on their face.

He had failed them all, he realized. He had left them all to die.

Neo sobbed, tears streaming down his face from whatever emotion-pain? Sadness? Anger? Fear? He didn’t know anymore.

His vision blurred. He could hear laughing, Sharv begging “Take me instead,” Hexa yelling in agony-he must’ve gotten hurt-and Zynux’s comforting voice.

The world went dark as he was pulled into a pit of gloom.

…

The Darkness isn’t something you can get rid of, Neo.

It stays with you. That’s why it’s so easy for me to get inside your head.

You still have a bit left in your little heart.

Give in to the Darkness or die. I’ll humor you.

One last song before your death.

Sentient but RuvStyle and Neonight sing it(I genuinely hate this cover and should have done Syringe. It’s from the same mod, but I could only think of this one to fit the mood. I’ve already done Final Escape, Epiphany is too energetic, and Libitina is a one singer song. THIS COVER IS ALSO EXTREMELY LOUD, I DIDN’T KNOW THE VOLUME WAS THAT LOW, TURN IT DOWN TO LIKE, 30 AND GO UP FROM THERE.)

CREDITS:

Universo Style(GO PLAY IT RIGHT NOWWWWW): https://gamejolt.com/games/universo-style/700496

Neonight Chromatics: https://gamejolt.com/games/neonight/670078

Gacha Horror(FLPS INCLUDED): https://gamebanana.com/mods/442970

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