They Found Me - Part 2

(originally posted on 2nd May 2011)


This is it. Whether it was the creatures that would make me their meal or they who will transform me into a higher being, I was resigned to my fate.

  And then I saw them. Thousands and thousands of them racing toward me like their lives depend on it. Their oval heads determinately pointed towards me. They had tails attached to the back of the head which were beating furiously to make them move faster. I braced myself.

  I wonder what dying feels like, I thought.

  Two of them were leading the rest of the pack, both fighting to be the winner. One moment, one would be leading. The next, the other would be ahead. It's funny how calm one can be when faced with death. I actually found amusement in this little competition.

  With sudden acceleration, the one that was beginning to lag behind overtook its competitor and sped towards me. In an instant it had reached its destination. With its head, it began boring into my skin. Before I could even begin to register the pain, its head pierced through and was inside me. To my utter surprise, the creature's tail dropped off outside my body.

  The slower creatures now began to crowd around me, trying their best to enter me too. Beyond my control or even my comprehension, my skin had harden making their efforts in vain.

  Inside me, I could feel the head making its way to the centre of my body. Oddly, it was not an unpleasant feeling. When it reached my centre, I could feel it becoming one with me. I reached a sense of heightened bliss.

  "Go on," a voice from within said to me. And I know what I had to do.

  I pushed on down the pathway. For some reason, I knew that the pathway had an end. Perhaps when the creature merged with me, its knowledge also became mind.

  It was four days before the pathway opened into a vast chamber. Throughout, I could feel my body undergoing changes, but I knew that they were good. The other creatures had began dying off one by one. By the third day, none of them were left. Only then did I realise that they were indeed racing for their lives. I felt rather sorry for them.

  I explored the chamber for a while. When fatigue finally overcame me, I rested against the chamber wall. I knew then that this journey had come to an end, but my life was just beginning. My body was still changing and growing. In nine months time, my transition into a higher being would be complete. So now I wait.

  I shouted into the chamber, "I'm okay! They found me!" Hopefully my words would travel up the pathway and back to the commune, so that my friend could hear them an be comforted.