Cyberknight: One Path

⁕ Sea of Broken Shards (part 4)

On the other hand, Kadyn was still deep in her dreams, unaware of the outside world. However, due to the partial exfoliation in her crystal, Mike's ghost was once again able to manifest in her mind, though not as directly as he previously could. In her head, things were in a mess as her trauma and pain haunted her.

As Kadyn strolled through a forest made of shadows, she couldn't distinguish a bush from a tree as they were all blended together in their shared darkness. Suddenly, she heard footsteps approaching her in a hurry. In a split second, Kadyn reacted violently to the shadow as she stabbed the figure in the heart with a clean strike of her wrist blade.

As the red fluid flowed onto her arm, the figure suddenly gripped Kadyn by the throat, with its blood forming an unbreakable glove around Kadyn's hand. As the figure revealed itself, Kadyn was shocked to find a fused monstrosity made of Mike and Ari's faces and bodies.

[Monster] - "You are a liar! You betrayed us all! You lied to us and killed us! "

Yelled the monster as it tightened its grip around Kadyn's neck.

[Kadyn] - "No! I didn't! I loved you both! I'm sorry, I'm sorry! "

Said Kadyn as she burst into tears.

The background quickly shifted with the sight of the burning wreck of the Imperial carrier behind Ari, while the scene of the hangar appeared behind Mike. These were the spots where each of the two died.

[Monster] - "We used to love you, but you can only kill! "

Yelled the monster as it stared into Kadyn's soul.

[Kadyn] - "Please stop! I beg of you two! I truly never had any other feeling for you two than love. Please stop! I beg of you... Please... "

Cried Kadyn while feeling knives in her heart.

[Monster] - "Stop what? Stop because of what we are? We are not the monster here, YOU ARE! From the start, you were just a monster who brought us our doom! "

Yelled the monster in an increasingly distorted voice.

The beast's head slowly separated as Ari's face morphed into the beast Kadyn had slain.

[Monster Ari] - "You stole my empathy, you left me to this fate because you never cared! All my pain, only to defend the same monster as KD-554! "

The monster's other head also morphed to reassemble Jagger's face with visible signs of rot.

[Monster Mike] - "And you tricked me to die for you! I sacrificed my humanity only to defend the very monster I would've killed on sight! I would kill you if I had the chance! "

At that moment, Kadyn could only cry as she was too overcome with guilt and grief to even care about the monster choking her to death. Meanwhile, outside of Kadyn's nightmare, the first man stepped forward following Deltazar's order and removed his clothes. As he stood ready, the light cast his shadow on the wall, revealing his massive, erect member.

Inside the nightmare, as Kadyn was still being tormented by the monster, a different figure suddenly emerged from the shadows. Suddenly, a strange shadow man cast his fist down upon the monster, knocking it off Kadyn. The ensuing beatdown was beyond savage as the shadow man brutalized the monster, pummeling it with such strength that it was reduced to nothing but a puddle of mush within five punches.

Though Kadyn was still teary-eyed on the ground, the shadow man approached her with a sense of urgency, knowing what was about to happen outside of Kadyn's dream. Without even waiting for Kadyn to calm down, the shadow man yelled at her with such power that it instantly snapped her out of her grief.