All Chapters of The Damned Alpha: Chapter 51 - Chapter 60

The abyss extended with unnerving speed, the snarl became louder and more threatening, resonating through the old chamber. The air around Ethan and Lena grew thick with fear as the harsh darkness leaked out from the abyss, expending the remnants of the once-grand structure that had housed their last showdown with Draven.Ethan's grasp on Lena's hand was fixed. “We have to be moving now!” he encouraged, pulling her toward the contract entry that had driven them here. But the shadows were quicker, ringlets of inky blackness crawling up from the chasm, coming out just like the fingers of a few inconspicuous beasts.Lena glanced back at the chasm, her eyes wide with terror. “It’s not just shadows, Ethan. It’s... alive.”The realization hit him like a punch to the intestine. Whatever was rising from the profundity wasn't just a few dull drives; it was a being of unadulterated grudge, an animal born of the exceptionally obscurity that Draven had looked for to use. And now, with Draven gone,

Ethan's heart beat in his chest as he squinted into the obscurity, his beat uproarious in his ears. The quiet was choking, broken as it were by the black out, musical sound of dribbling water reverberating afar off. He had no sense of time or place, as it were the cold, onerous weight of the obscure squeezing in on him. Where was Lena? Fear undermined to surpass him, but he constrained it down, centering on his breathing. *In… out…*The darkness was absolute, but as Ethan strained his faculties, he started to notice faint signs of light, gloomy, blue-green shines that appeared to beat in and out of focus, like far off stars. As his eyes balanced, he saw that the light was coming from slim, luminescent fungi developing along the dividers of what showed up to be a cave. Ethan stood slowly, his muscles stiff and aching from the fall. He reached out to touch the wall beside him, the stone cold and slick under his fingers. It was wet, likely from the same source as the dripping sound. He

Ethan's heart beat as he stood within the bizarre, nightmarish landscape. The ruddy sky lingered over him, casting an eerie gleam over the twisted structures on the horizon. The ground, throbbing underneath his feet, like a tremendous life form breathing underneath him. He wasn't just in another section of the cave; he was in another world, a world that resisted everything he knew.For a minute, he became afraid. He was alone, distant from anybody who could have helped, in a place that wasn't supposed to exist. But he constrained himself to breathe, to focus. He thought of a way back as he adjusted his shirt.He started to walk cautiously, his eyes checking the fog for any signs of movement. The figures he had seen a while ago were gone, but their presence lingered, a danger hanging within the air. Each sound, each move within the fog, made his beat enliven.As he moved forward, the landscape appeared to alter, the structures within expanded, in spite of it all he wasn't certain if he

Ethan's heart hustled as he confronted the tremendous serpent and the turned figures developing from the fog. His intellect shouted at him to run, but there was no place to go. The cavern had collapsed behind him, and the serpent blocked the way ahead. The bad dream he had thought he'd gotten away was currently closing in on him from all sides.The serpent's yellow eyes bolted onto Ethan, its forked tongue flicking out as though tasting the fear within the air. The turned shapes, once human but now twisted, shadowy forms of their previous selves, moved with spooky quietness, their deformed appendages and empty eyes sending a chill down Ethan's spine.Ethan took a step back, his intellect hustling for a way out. He couldn't battle all of them, not in his current state. But he couldn't just relent, either. Miriam's destiny, whatever it was, served as a horrid reminder that this place had a power above his comprehension, a constraint that might bend reality and break indeed the most grou

Miriam's face was pale with strain as she held the gleaming artifact on high, her hands trembling with the exertion. The light it radiated was more or less a beacon, pushing back the onerous obscurity that encompassed them. Ethan felt its warmth, a stark difference to the cold, pernicious energy of the chasm. But indeed as he recaptured his strength, he saw that the artifact's light was blurring, the brilliance that had driven back the shadowy figure starting to dim.Ethan battled to his feet, his body still hurting from the surge of dull energy that had almost overpowered him. He drew closer to Miriam, his voice pressing. “We have to move, now and fast! This place is waking up, and we can't be here when it does.”Miriam gestured, her breath coming in brief pants. “The light won't go on much longer,” she said, her voice tinged with fear. “We have to discover the source of the obscurity and crush it before it destroys us.”Ethan looked around the chamber, the old carvings on the divide