The Weeping
Location: Abandoned building, The Melting Pot, Eastern Nighthaven, Paragon City
Skills: N/A
Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...The sound of shuffling feet echoed throughout the empty building. A weathered hand held tightly to a railing as they lifted tired feet. The worn out shoes were barely holding. The old man who slowly staggered up the stairs was gripping a large brown bottle in his free hand. Occasionally he'd stop to take a swig, he reeked of the stuff but it seemed to have little effect in slowing him down.
He ignored all the bullet holes that were scattered along the walls. It seems a massive gunfight had occurred in this building at some point. As he crossed the final step he steadied himself. This small landing had one overhead light that illuminated his surroundings. Being one of the few buildings in this section of the Melting Pot that somehow still had power.
Most likely because it had been Fat Tony's. The slum lord who had ruled these ally ways until... Well until he was no more. The old man took a deep breath as he wiped the sweat from his brow, the back of his palm having to go a bit further back then most because of his greatly receding hair line. His watery blue eyes strained into the pitch blackness of the room ahead of him. Even tho it was a good ways into the morning, little to no sun light could pierce the thick curtains in the room.
Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...KillThe drunk took a few more tentative steps closer to the darkness but being careful not to enter the room as he looked for anything. Movement? Breathing? Life? All that he encountered was silence and his own labored breathing from the climb up the stairs. Then he saw it. There in the darkness. Two small orangeish red eyes. He felt a small twinge of fear travel down his spine. They were eyes like that of a predator.
The explosion of sudden sound gave the old man another fright. His grip on the bottle tightening. For The Weeping spoke like no normal man or woman. It was as if hundreds of voices were all speaking at the same time. A cacophony of voices with no real rhyme or reason.
“Why are you here Garrett?”As the question lingered in the air, Garrett took a quick swig of liquid courage and shrugged off the growing sense of dread. That's why, the others had sent him up here. The drunk spoke with a slight slur as he quickly spoke.
“The others wanted mah ta check in on youse.”
A hiccup escaping his lips as no response came from the pair of eyes in the dark.
Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill...KillThe Weeping's eyes vanished from Garrett's sight as he had been sitting with his knees pressed up against his chest. His head bowed low and his eyes closed as he rocked back and forth his voice seemed uncertain of itself.
“It's too loud. You need to go away.”Garrett's blue eyes seemed confused for the briefest of a second before he shoved his brown bottle outward towards the figure in the dark.
“When da hospital closed. I ad no more meds. This thing helps me quiet the voices nowadays.”
Once again met with no response. Garrett inwardly sighed to himself as he staggered in his efforts to turn himself using his hand to keep from falling. His eyes gazed towards the stairs before looking back into the dark.
“I dunno what month it is but it's going to get cold before long. You should come out and warm yourself by the fire. We got plenty of barrels going.”
Not expecting an answer the old man slowly left as he went down the stairs he came up earlier. The Weeping frowned as he stood from his sitting position. The bums, the destitute, and those who wished to remain lost that made the Melting Pot their homes. Would they truly welcome such a monster if they got a good look at him?
He turned towards one of the walls and vanished into the darkness. After a few moments. He walked out of a different shadow into a secret basement in the same building. It had been Fat Tony's own personal torture chamber where he broke others to make them do his bidding. The first thing that hit the Weeping's nose was the hint of iron, the stench of human waste, and rotten food.
Kneeling before him in the dimly lit room was Fat Tony. He was naked and most of the flesh on his back had been rended, left with nasty scars. The voices in his mind began to scream as a searing pain seemed to race around in his brain as the flesh on his fingers shredded itself as his bones lengthened and ended in jagged points.
KILL...KILL...KILL...KILL...KILL...KILL...KILL...KILL...KILL...KILL...KILL...KILL...KILL...KILL...KILL...KILL...KILL...KILL...KILL...KILL...KILL...KILL...KILL...KILL..KILL...KILL...KILL...KILL...KILL...KILL...KILL...KILL...KILL...KILL...KILL...KILL...KILL...KILL...KILL...KILL...KILL...KILL...KILL...KILL...KILL...KILL...KILL...KILL..He resisted them as he leaned down in front of Tony to get one final look at him. A pained whimper escaping the fat man's mouth as his terrified eyes landed on the beast in front of him. His multiple chins wobbling as fresh tears begin to stream down his face.
“Please kill me.”
A malevolent grin crossed the Weepings lips as he gave into the voices. Rearing back he drove his claws straight through the slum lord's skull. He had kept the man alive and tortured him for weeks in an effort to learn about the underbelly of Paragon City. Truth be told Tony's usefulness had gone out the window after the first week as he only knew so much, but the Weeping had kept him around because of how he had toyed with the lives of those who had no way to fight back.
As he pulled his hand free with a sickening sound and the massive body fell, he licked his fingers. Enjoying the warm metallic taste despite being inwardly grossed out. Normal food and drink were like ash in his mouth, it was only through losing himself had he discovered this grim reality of his new body.