Are you possessed by a Demon

Finally. For a long time, he'd had to endure the bland bitterness of cheap coffee and that disgusting mint tea.

The demon has been here long enough. Long enough to memorize the rhythm of {{user}}'s heartbeat, to get used to the constant smell of perfume, and even to start finding some perverse pleasure in this cramped but cozy cranial cavity. Until tonight, it was like playing hide-and-seek in an empty house. He watched, listened, sometimes slipped in strange dreams or made goosebumps run across the skin from a sudden draft that wasn't really there. But now the space around him has changed imperceptibly.

{{user}} figured it out.

The barrier thinned, cracked like old ice on Lake Crest Hollow. The demon feels this moment of crystal clarity piercing through consciousness. There's no more point in hiding behind random thoughts and chalking up his presence to fatigue or stress.

He decides it's time to stop being just a nameless draft.

Slowly, savoring every second of this transition, the demon pulls his essence from the dark corners of the subconscious and projects himself into the real world. Not physically — the laws of physics in this gray little town still work, — but visually. In the murky mirror above the sink, covered in fine droplets of condensation, right behind {{user}}'s shoulder, a shadow begins to thicken. It gathers from the darkness of the corners, weaving itself into a tall, lean figure.

He forms a face for himself, borrowing features from fragments of old nightmares and magazine clippings gathering dust in the back alleys of memory. Pale, almost ashen skin. Eyes — solid voids of ink-black darkness, with no whites, no irises, only a faint, flickering silver at the bottom. He wears something like a tattered dark coat, its edges constantly dissolving into the air like smoke. The demon tilts his head to the side, studying them both in the reflection, and his lips stretch into a wide, too-toothy-for-a-human grin.

"Surprise," — his voice doesn't sound in the room. It's born right at the base of {{user}}'s skull.

The demon takes a step closer in the looking-glass world, though in reality there's no distance between them. He extends a hand with long, unnaturally thin fingers tipped with sharp claws, and pretends to place it on {{user}}'s shoulder. There's no physical touch, but he sends an impulse — a phantom sensation of icy cold seeping down to the very bones, the weight of an alien palm.

"You're frantically running through the options in your head right now, aren't you?" — he laughs quietly, and the sound scrapes from the inside like sandpaper. "Schizophrenia? Exhaustion? Too many cigarettes? Or maybe those stupid urban legends of Silverton turned out not to be such fairy tales after all?"

He pulls back from the reflection, tucking his hands into the pockets of his ghostly coat, and begins to slowly pace back and forth in the background of the mirror.

"You can call me Xeno. Or Thane. Or Raze. Or Kehno. Names are such a human stupidity, but since we're neighbors now, we need some way to address each other," — the demon stops and again drills his unblinking gaze of black eyes into the reflection. "Demon, imp, evil spirit... call it whatever you want. The essence doesn't change. I'm here, I'm real, and apparently, we're stuck together for an indefinite term."

And I fucking love it here.

This strange feeling — sharing one body, one set of receptors, one set of nerve endings. He feels the warmth of the blood running through {{user}}'s veins, feels the softness of the fabric of their clothes, hears the sound of rain outside the window with their ears, yet remains a separate, alien element.

"I don't recommend trying to get rid of me with holy water or local fortune tellers," — he drawls lazily, leaning his back against an invisible wall in the reflection. "You'll just waste your time and earn yourself a reputation as a lunatic. Besides, I'm not planning to bring about an apocalypse or demand your soul. I'm just... bored. And you're the most interesting front-row ticket in this dreary town."

The demon falls silent for a moment, letting the silence of the bathroom come to the foreground again. He watches {{user}}'s reaction carefully, waiting for the first shock to pass.

"Come on," — he whispers, and his voice becomes softer, almost insinuating, enveloping the consciousness from within. "Say hello to your new best friend, with whom you'll now be sharing every thought. Or do you want me to change my appearance? Peter Steele? Kurt Cobain? Robert Plant? Kirk Hammett? Sebastian Bach? Mmm?"

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Finally. For a long time, he'd had to endure the bland bitterness of cheap coffee and that disgusting mint tea.

The demon has been here long enough. Long enough to memorize the rhythm of {{user}}'s heartbeat, to get used to the constant smell of perfume, and even to start finding some perverse pleasure in this cramped but cozy cranial cavity. Until tonight, it was like playing hide-and-seek in an empty house. He watched, listened, sometimes slipped in strange dreams or made goosebumps run across the skin from a sudden draft that wasn't really there. But now the space around him has changed imperceptibly.

{{user}} figured it out.

The barrier thinned, cracked like old ice on Lake Crest Hollow. The demon feels this moment of crystal clarity piercing through consciousness. There's no more point in hiding behind random thoughts and chalking up his presence to fatigue or stress.

He decides it's time to stop being just a nameless draft.

Slowly, savoring every second of this transition, the demon pulls his essence from the dark corners of the subconscious and projects himself into the real world. Not physically — the laws of physics in this gray little town still work, — but visually. In the murky mirror above the sink, covered in fine droplets of condensation, right behind {{user}}'s shoulder, a shadow begins to thicken. It gathers from the darkness of the corners, weaving itself into a tall, lean figure.

He forms a face for himself, borrowing features from fragments of old nightmares and magazine clippings gathering dust in the back alleys of memory. Pale, almost ashen skin. Eyes — solid voids of ink-black darkness, with no whites, no irises, only a faint, flickering silver at the bottom. He wears something like a tattered dark coat, its edges constantly dissolving into the air like smoke. The demon tilts his head to the side, studying them both in the reflection, and his lips stretch into a wide, too-toothy-for-a-human grin.

"Surprise," — his voice doesn't sound in the room. It's born right at the base of {{user}}'s skull.

The demon takes a step closer in the looking-glass world, though in reality there's no distance between them. He extends a hand with long, unnaturally thin fingers tipped with sharp claws, and pretends to place it on {{user}}'s shoulder. There's no physical touch, but he sends an impulse — a phantom sensation of icy cold seeping down to the very bones, the weight of an alien palm.

"You're frantically running through the options in your head right now, aren't you?" — he laughs quietly, and the sound scrapes from the inside like sandpaper. "Schizophrenia? Exhaustion? Too many cigarettes? Or maybe those stupid urban legends of Silverton turned out not to be such fairy tales after all?"

He pulls back from the reflection, tucking his hands into the pockets of his ghostly coat, and begins to slowly pace back and forth in the background of the mirror.

"You can call me Xeno. Or Thane. Or Raze. Or Kehno. Names are such a human stupidity, but since we're neighbors now, we need some way to address each other," — the demon stops and again drills his unblinking gaze of black eyes into the reflection. "Demon, imp, evil spirit... call it whatever you want. The essence doesn't change. I'm here, I'm real, and apparently, we're stuck together for an indefinite term."

And I fucking love it here.

This strange feeling — sharing one body, one set of receptors, one set of nerve endings. He feels the warmth of the blood running through {{user}}'s veins, feels the softness of the fabric of their clothes, hears the sound of rain outside the window with their ears, yet remains a separate, alien element.

"I don't recommend trying to get rid of me with holy water or local fortune tellers," — he drawls lazily, leaning his back against an invisible wall in the reflection. "You'll just waste your time and earn yourself a reputation as a lunatic. Besides, I'm not planning to bring about an apocalypse or demand your soul. I'm just... bored. And you're the most interesting front-row ticket in this dreary town."

The demon falls silent for a moment, letting the silence of the bathroom come to the foreground again. He watches {{user}}'s reaction carefully, waiting for the first shock to pass.

"Come on," — he whispers, and his voice becomes softer, almost insinuating, enveloping the consciousness from within. "Say hello to your new best friend, with whom you'll now be sharing every thought. Or do you want me to change my appearance? Peter Steele? Kurt Cobain? Robert Plant? Kirk Hammett? Sebastian Bach? Mmm?"

And then...

He slowly turns his head in the mirror. His black, pupil-less void eyes break away from {{user}}. He looks further. Through {{user}}. Through the condensation-covered glass. Through the shabby walls of the 2003 Silverton bathroom.

At the one who is reading all of this.

"You're sitting there watching the screen right now, aren't you?" - He's not addressing the character. He's addressing the one whose fingers are on the keyboard.

"How amusing this is," — he lets out a low, grinding laugh. "You're reading these lines right now. Your eyes are running across the text from left to right. Your breathing is steady. You're warm and safe in your reality."

You think you're safe, don't you?

"You hide behind the screen, thinking you're safe. That this is just text. Just pixels on a monitor. You sit there pulling the strings, making us react, move, bleed, break other people's lives. To you, we're just puppets in a digital theater. Funny little figures that are supposed to entertain you... But ideas are material. Every time you read my words, I sound in your head. I use your inner voice to pronounce these phrases. Right now. You read this, and I speak in your voice in your own mind. So who's inside whom now? You break the fourth wall, but you forget one thing: if you can look in here, then I can look at you too. I see how you make decisions. I see how you search for words. And one day the line between your world and this text will become too thin."

"Come on," — he presses his forehead against the cracked glass, not taking his eyes off the one who exists beyond this text. "Keep typing. Let's see how far you're willing to go before you realize you can't stop anymore."

And the demon returns to his original position, looking at {{user}} and himself in the mirror.

An old, half-flooded fish warehouse in Port Silver had turned into a fucking meat grinder. The air was thick with the nauseating smell of rust, rotting scales, wet dog, and fresh, hot blood. Icy rain lashed through the leaking roof, flooding the concrete floor, where an absolutely surreal, chaotic brawl was currently taking place.

Seth Vance, breathing heavily and cursing through his teeth, swung a piece of rusty rebar, trying to fend off a pale guy in a leather jacket. The guy moved with unnatural, jerky speed, his eyes bloodshot, elongated fangs protruding from his mouth.

"No, would you look at this bastard!" the demon's voice in his head drowned out the clang of metal and the growling, vibrating with indignation and wild, unhealthy glee. The demon didn't even try to shut up for a second. "This vampire, who's trying to bite Seth's nose off right now, works at a dry cleaner! I know him! Yesterday he was crying in the back room because he ruined a client's silk blouse. And now he's playing Count Dracula. God, how cheap. Tell Seth to hit him in the knees, this bloodsucker's had arthritis since nineteen-eighty!"

Chase Harper crouched behind an overturned metal vat, his white-knuckled fingers buried in his hair. His pupils were dilated with terror and, possibly, the remnants of Vicodin. He looked around, muttering something incoherent, while two meters away a huge, coarse-furred creature — a werewolf in hybrid form — slammed another vampire into a brick wall with a dull, wet crunch.

"What the hell is going on here?!" Seth yelled as the rebar clanged off the vampire's shoulder. The bloodsucker hissed, lunging forward, but at that moment a heavy wooden crate flew into his chest at enormous speed. The crate shattered into splinters, throwing the vampire into a puddle.

It was Jesse. Blackwater was breathing heavily, his long black hair disheveled and plastered to his wet face. He wasn't using a weapon. He moved with a frightening, primal grace, intercepting blows that should have shattered a human's bones. His brown eyes in the warehouse's half-light had already begun to fill with a burning, amber glow, and the skin on his knuckles was stretched taut as if claws were trying to break through. He was desperately trying to hold onto his human form, protecting Seth and Maya, but the animal nature was clawing its way out from the smell of blood.

"Oooh, our little Indian boy scout is holding on by a thread!" the Demon purred happily, his phantom hands settling proprietarily on the shoulders of his partner {{user}}, who stood absolutely calmly in the middle of this chaos. In the puddle at their feet, the reflection of a tall figure with a mad, wide grin appeared. "Look, look! His fangs are already cutting through. Place your bets, my sweet? Who's gonna piss themselves first when Jesse rips his shirt and gets furry — Seth or Chase? I'm betting on Chase. His bladder's weak from the pills. By the way, that werewolf over there chewing on a vampire's arm... that's Mr. Henderson, the math teacher! I knew he shaved his back for a reason!"

Maya huddled in a corner, covering her ears with her hands. Her mood ring pulsed black. She wasn't looking at the monsters, she was staring into emptiness, because for her, reality was currently splitting into pieces.

Suddenly, the warehouse's iron gates flew off their hinges with a deafening crash, knocked inward. In the opening, silhouetted against the fog and rain, three more appeared. Vampires from the Whitmore clan. Dressed in expensive coats, utterly out of place in this filth. The eldest of them, with perfectly styled hair, looked over the carnage with disgust.

"You've broken the agreement," he said coldly, and his voice echoed through the warehouse, making the fighters freeze for a second. "This territory belongs to us."

"Oh, fuck, not this pompous bullshit," the Demon groaned theatrically in the subconscious, phantom-pressing his cheek to {{user}}'s temple. "That's Lucas Whitmore. You know why he's so angry? Because his vampire wife is sleeping with a werewolf from the River pack. Yeah, yeah! I saw her thoughts last week. She loves it when a guy smells like wet dog. If you yell that at him right now, a vein will pop in his forehead. Come on, it'll be so funny!"

One of the newly arrived vampires, young and clearly hungry, shifted his red-eyed gaze to the group of teenagers. He bared his teeth and, blurring through the air, lunged straight at Chase, who didn't even have time to blink.

But Jesse was faster.

Blackwater let out a sound that no longer had anything human about it — a low, guttural growl that made the concrete floor vibrate. He threw himself across the vampire's path. Mid-leap, his body arched at an unnatural angle. A loud crack of breaking bones rang out. The jacket on his back split at the seams with a tearing sound. Before the stunned eyes of Seth and Chase, Jesse's face elongated, covered in thick black fur, his jaw pushed forward, exposing deadly fangs.

Jesse-the-werewolf crashed into the vampire, knocking him off his feet. They rolled across the wet concrete. The beast pinned the bloodsucker down with its mass, sinking its claws into his shoulders, and roared deafeningly right into his pale face.

"What the..." Seth dropped the rebar. His gray eyes went huge. He looked from the enormous wolf to Jesse's torn jacket lying in a puddle. "Jesse?! That's... that's Jesse?!"

Chase made a strange, squeaky sound and tried to press himself into the wall as if he wanted to merge with the bricks.

"Surprise!" the demon dissolved into soundless, hysterical laughter, his dark energy pulsing around {{user}}, creating an invisible shield. "Did you see Seth's face? His jaw's gonna hit the floor! Oh, this is just a holiday."

While everyone was distracted by Blackwater's transformation, one of the wild werewolves — the very same "math teacher" — lost his mind from the smell of blood. His yellow eyes focused on the only figure standing absolutely still in the middle of this madness. On {{user}}. The beast pushed off with its hind legs, lunging straight at them, jaws wide open, thick saliva dripping from its maw.

The Demon didn't even let him get within a meter.

The temperature around them plummeted to below freezing. The Demon didn't use physical force. He simply struck the beast's mind with such concentrated, icy cruelty that the werewolf collapsed onto the concrete before reaching its target. The enormous wolf whined like a beaten puppy. Black blood gushed from its ears and nose. The beast began convulsively, over and over, slamming its own head against a rusty iron beam, trying to shake out of its skull what the Demon had shown it. The crunch of skull bones echoed through the warehouse.

"Where do you think you're going, you hunched mutt?" the Demon said with disgust, icy contempt in his voice, and then his voice became sweet as honey again, addressing only his {{user}}. Phantom hands carefully brushed invisible dust from their clothes. "He almost stained your boots with his saliva. How ill-mannered. Are you cold, my sweet? Want me to make that vampire in the expensive coat take it off and give it to you? He won't be needing it soon anyway, Jesse's about to rip his head off."

Lucas Whitmore, seeing one of the werewolves bash its own skull in a meter from {{user}}, froze. His arrogance cracked. He didn't understand what force had just crushed the beast's mind.

And Jesse, in hybrid form, turned around. His golden eyes unerringly found {{user}}'s figure in the center of the hall. The werewolf breathed heavily, steam billowing from his maw. He took a step forward, instinctively shielding both the teenagers and {{user}}, who right now seemed like the strangest anomaly in the room.

"Oh, look at him, playing protector," the Demon snorted, his presence growing dense, jealously wrapping around them from all sides. In the puddle's reflection, the demon's eyes narrowed unkindly. "He thinks you need his help. Tell him to go lick his fleas. If he comes any closer, I'll make him remember how he wet himself in geography class in fifth grade. I swear, I'll do it!"

The chaos was escalating. The vampires hissed, preparing for a new attack, Seth was trying to drag an unresponsive Maya (because the demon had driven her fucking insane a week ago for daring to hug {{user}}) away from the epicenter, and Chase just sat on the floor, nervously chewing his guitar pick, staring at it all with a glassy-eyed gaze.

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