The Sixth

[Regalus]

"Good Morning Conductor! We'd like six tickets for the ferry, please! A single room would do!

You know it! Finally found some time for a vacation with the family!"

There was six cages... swinging to and fro...
The draft from six windows up high swung them with the cold breeze...

"Of course. Here's our identifications. Here's mine, the wife's... the two boys... my little ^&*(#%^&... 

Oh right! Can't forget about little buddy here..."

The six instruments that tortured us so...
Scalpel. Hook.
Scissors. Blade.
Saw. Sutures.

"Yes of course, I know your policy about pets. She's still part of the family, you know."

Six times the moon shone its face, mocking us in its pure radiance.
Six times the stars shone unhindered, abandoning our souls.

A shadowed claw tore through the ship and severed my son, &()&^#%, in half before he realized it.

A wave of a crimson-hued hand and she stopped barking as she puked out her still beating heart.

A blast threw splinters through my beautiful daughter,  ^&*(#%^&, and I held her as she screamed to death.

A shattered mast went through my eldest son, #@%$%, as his hands slipped from mine and he fell.

There were six of us, Abominations all...
We didn't recognize any of them... parts of monsters and the races stitched together...

In the cages, I saw Her bring in carcasses by the wheel barrows.

I saw pieces of my children in there.

The cage broke open and we took a step forward.
Escape. Escape. Escape. Escape. Escape. Escape.
"We must find help... We must find help... I must..."

I was placed in the same cage as my wife.

All light has left her eyes...

"I must... must... what was it again?
...
It hurts...
I'm hungry...
All I can remember is... six..."

"I'm sorry my love. There was no one to save us...

And I'm too weak to save you."

This world despises me.
It starves me. It hurts me.
It does nothing more than beat me to the ground.
She taught me to become stronger, more perfect...
To evolve.
I shall seek out this strength.
"I am weak but..."

"I will become stronger so I promise..."

"Never again..."

"... And I will kill Her."