Monster (Wiki Contest: March 2013)

My Entry for the Contest. A lot of good entries this month, but I'll give it a shot.

''Help me. I feel like...I'm falling apart, piece by piece. It..he..me..him...I don't know what to call it. But that thing, its eating me inside. This hunger I can't control. I have to keep away from them, it'll hurt them. I have...I have to stay away. ''

Again,  it happened. Like it always did every night. The pain, the visions, the nightmares. When would it stop?

He fought to stay conscious as his body kept moving forward without consent. Hands and feet digging into the dirt, bleeding after scraping against the stone and roots of the forest floor.

Finding no other solution, he punched trunk of the tree repeatedly. Pain exploded in his fist as the skin split open, knuckles bleeding. He cried out in pain collapsing to the forest floor. For a moment, the beast seemed to have settled, recovering from the pain however  would not allowed himself to lose the battle, not again.

The beast fought back with ferocity, trying to claim the body it thought it rightfully deserved. The boy fought against it as he did every night. However this night, the beast seemed to have found a weak spot. A chink in the armour, the beast clawed its way up straight to his mind. No doubt about it, it was going to win.

In a desperate gesture, the boy pulled out a knife from his belt and sent it straight into his hand. He cried out in pain as the cold metal penetrated his flesh. He felt the beast recoil in pain and return to the shadows it came from.

The boy sighed with a mixture with relief and pain. He had won the battle again tonight, but how long could he hold out? It seemed like self-inflicted damage was the only keep the beast away.

If that was so, how long could he hurt himself to keep it away? The presence of the beast within him brough along a new set of powers. A few being a quick healing factor as well as near immortality. It was only because of these two powers that he had any chance against the beast.

There were however, limitation to these powers. Which means if the beast didn't get him, his own self-destruction of trying to keep the beast out would.

But now...now wasn't the time for that. It was another battle won, another

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