Apotheon [UNFINISHED]

Everyday the people of Havenstown prayed and prayed. They confessed their sins to god, they showered their baby in god's home, they celebrated god, they put their faith in god. And one day he answered.

A car drives on a road in a forest, the only light to be seen came from the car.

"Jesus, can you at least turn on the radio it's depressing enough that we had to drive all the way from Texas to a forest in Wisconsin in the buttfuck of who knows where.", Agent Matty mutters.

"A 60 year old man is driving you into 'the buttfuck of nowhere', I don't think a fine tune is gonna help us. This could be dangerous and you being snarky about everything could get you killed. Never underestimate this type of work.", Agent Brandy replies.

"Never underestimate this type of work? The only danger or 'dangerous' cans we've run in to is a time travelling mob boss from space and a blob of puppies. The rest of the boys at HQ call us the X-Files and just being associated with this is enough to make a comedy club full of other agents laugh their asses off. Let me guess, this time we're gonna into Bigfoot, aren't we?" Agent Reesce remarked.

Matty and Reesce let out a chuckle or two, I'll admit I did too, except for Sam, he's always quiet, ever since Daveed it's like Sam's been dead. At least Sam actually talked when Daveed was around, it's all been hard for us since Daveed stopped coming with us on our trips. Brandy says he was transferred to the skippers. But he won't tell us why, why would they transfer Daveed to them? Brandy doesn't tell us anything, not even about himself. Speaking of Brandy, he didn't laugh either, just gave out a dissapointed sigh.

"Brandy's right, you should be focused on this, for all we know this could be a reality worping being or a pathegon from space that can invade your nervous system and kill you from the inside. We have no idea what we're in for, and we need to be prepared for anything.", Agent Sam spoke.

"Hol-holy shit, you actually spoke, he actually spoke guys!" Agent Reesce shouted.

"Shut up!", Agent Brandy shouted back, but this time it was stern and ordering, it was always like that with Agent Brandy.

It was a long ride to the place, we finally got to this town, Havenstown. We parked right outside the road entering the town and we all got out.

"This is what we rode all that time for? A church town, is there some kind of cult here? Cause I don't see jack shit of any cart or can around here. Havenstown. I'm gonna take a piss and then I'll have my mental breakdown on how much time we wasted coming here.", Agent Reesce said.

"Reality worping being and a pathegon, oh don't go too easy on me, there could be a universe eater here or something. You're making me think we're gonna walk in to some harmless church town. Pftt.", Agent Matty joked to Agent Sam.

We all stayed at the car while we waited for Reesce to come back, so we were just waiting around for nothing. Then I noticed a paper fly by, it was a missing poster, before I could say anything another missing poster flew by, then another, then another, then all we could see were missing posters coming out of nowhere. Or more specifically coming from the direction of the town.

"Reesce get back here right now boy!", Agent Brandy called out.

Brandy and Matty raised up their guns and so did I, we had no clue what the hell was going on. Sam just looked at everything so optimistically. Then Reesce came back and we all had our guns raised at a bucnh of flying papers.

"So are we gonna go in there or not? That's what we came for right?", Agent Aaron said.

"Leave the car here, we might need it just in case, so if anything goes wrong we always know where we can run to and get as far away from here.", Agent Brandy says.

We proceeded into the town, it was absoloutely deserted. It looked like something from an apocalypse movie. It was all so trashed, just a couple shops and a roundabout with a statue of Jesus on the cross in the middle.

"What the fuck…", Agent Aaron said while looking at what was graffitied on the front of the statue.

Things like "THE SECOND COMING CAME AND IT CAME HERE" and "HE IS A FALSE GOD", appeared on the statue.

"These things, they're all contradicting each other, 'false god', 'he has come", 'we are blessed', these people knew something was wrong and others are praising this thing. Who is 'he'? Maybe there was some sort of conflict going n in this town.", Agent Sam noted.

"And what the hell would that have to do with any sort of can? Place got trashed by a couple of it's civilians, unless they had some sort of super power then the only thing off about this place is that nobody's here.", Agent Reesce replied.

"They could've have been controlled, a half of the townspeople following whatever was controlling them like puppets and the other normal half fighting against them, probably all killed each other.", Agent Brandy said.

We all heard a jingle coming from further down the road, we could only make out a vauge shape of a figure, we all held our guns up and waited for whoever walked out to us came into proper view.

"Hey, FBI! Don't try anything. If you're normal you need to tell us!", Agent Brandy shouted at the figure.

"THE APOTHEON WILL RID YOUR FEARS, THE APOTHEON WILL DRY YOUR TEARS, THE APOTHEON WILL MAKE YOUR MIND CLEAR, SUBMIT TO THE APOTHEON AND YOU WILL BE ENLIGHTENED FOR ETERNITY HERE.", the figure repeated over and over again.

This person kept getting closer, and the more closer he got the more demanding and louder he was, then we noticed he looked desheveled, his skin was so pale, his mouth was barely moving and his eyes were bloodshot red.

Then he started running, and we shot at him, but every hit just slowed him down, we hit him in the head twice and only the second time he dropped. He came at us so fast it was almost inhumn, we had no choice. I don't know he was so fast cause he practically came from the end of the road.

"If we're gonna deal with more of this we're gonna need a lot more than these pistols.I'm going to the car, stay here.", Agent Brandy said.

"Hey, hey, hey! Can you hear that?", Agent Sam told everyone.

At first we couldn't hear anything but it kept getting louder, it came closer too, at first I thought it was a roar but it wasn't, it was almost like a distorted howl, an extremely distorted howl. It was like it was coming from every direction. Matty, Reesce, and Sam were all circling around each other with their guns pointed everywhere.

"You can't go alone.", Agent Aaron shouted to Agent Brandy.

I left to go with Brandy to the car after we heard whatever the hell that was. As soon as we got to where the car was there was just more forest. And I could've sworn that was the place, the road was still leading there and some of the missing posters were there too, Brandy tried radioing in to the others but nothing was working.

"You gotta be kidding me. Aaron go back, do not wait for me, do not come back for me if I don't show up. Look, whatever happens next is gonna happen and you're gonna need to make the hard choice. There's always gonna be a hard choice in this line of work. If it comes to it, please just- it would destroy me if your whole life was taken away from you and you couldn't do anything about it.", Agent Brandy said quickly as the howls amplified and came closer.

Brandy had handed me a 9mm with 1 bullet inside of it. I already knew what it was for but I didn't want to achknowlegde it, so I ran back to the others.

I heard a large pouncing sound and that was followed up by eating-like sounds so I ran even faster. When I got finally got back to where we were Sam, Reesce, and Matty where hiding, in shops and behind a car, Sam signaled me to get down and hide somewhere. But then I saw that thing.

I didn't even know what it was, it had a spine sticking out from it's back like they were spikes. There were grey mole-like spots all over it's body, it was like a large humanoid werewolf. It was ripping this poor person apart, I could see Sam so shocked at this sight. He stepped back and hit something. I'm not sure what it was but I thought it was all the glass from the car he was hiding behind. Whatever happened when he hit whatever he hit made this werewolf abomination turn around. Brandy had come up behind me and pulled me down to hide behind the statue, he signaled me to be quiet. Then I peeked again. What I saw was it's whole mouth and face covered in blood and I could see the intestines hanging from the side of his mouth. The thing charged at where Sam was, Sam ran faster than I've ever seen him go. I watched him run, and I couldn't do anything about it. I thought about the gun Brandy had given to me, what if Sam could have the choice too, and just like how Brandy said it would destroy him, it destroyed m-

"Hey, hey, I'm sorry, he was our friend too.", Brandy had whispered to me.

Brandy had helped me up and I saw Reesce had stepped out of the shop he was hiding in. I noticed that Matty hadn't come out of the shop with Reesce, they're always together so I was so dumfounded to see only Reesce.

"Where's Matty?", Agent Aaron has asked Agent Reesce.

"I-I dunno, he bolted to another shop on the other side when that thing came over here. He's around here somewhere, he has to be. Where's Sam?", Agent Reesce had asked Agent Aaron.

I didn't reply and I saw the look on Reesce's face. I could hear Brandy gulping already, Reesce had started to shake his head and look around in shock. I knew he was already thinking about what could've happened to Matty, destroying him, like it was destroying me.

"No-..no..", Agent Reesce had started to whimper.

"Search the shops and the rest of the perimeter, he's gotta be here, somewhere. There's no way that fucking monster could've gone after him it only went after..we're gonna find him.", Agent Brandy had told Agent Reesce.

We did just that, we looked and yelled out for Matty an had our guns aiming at nothing. It was like a train of paranoia had hit us all at once. I felt like a maniac, I feel like we all did, maybe we were maniacs, going mad slowly but surely. Maybe that was our punishment, for doing this type of work for dipping our feet in to too far. I knew when I heard about an "anamolous investigative team" and "Unusual Incident Unit" back at HQ there was gonna be a rabbit hole. And I fell down it.

"Look,peek a b-…it's okay..", Aaron heard a voice said in a whisper coming from the back of the town's pharmacy.

I had started to hear a voice coming from the other end of the pharmacy I was searching. I signaled Brandy and Reesce to come, we turned our flashlights on and held our guns out. I heard a sort of whimper, it almost sounded like a child's whimper, I paused for a second and laughed at myself, there's no kids here I thought. How could there be any kids in this shithole, what parent would leave their child here? I turned around and I saw Matty, talking to a..little boy. I was so dumbfounded, I actually pointed my gun at them. It was a relief that Matty was fine, but..the kid. What was a kid doing in this trashed pharmacy in this town from hell. Brandy and Reesce had come, they both had a sigh of relief but Brandy still had his guard up.

"No, don't be scared-they're my friends, they're nice. It's okay.", Agent Matty told the little kid.

"Matty step back, we don't know if this kid is another one of those looney tunes that we saw back there. Hell, they might not even be real. Could be a ghost, could be anything."

I understood what Brandy was saying but I didn't listen. I couldn't listen. It's just a kid would they do to me? I reached into my pocket and grabbed my peanut butter and jelly samwich. I was allergic anyways, it was supposed to be a snack for the road from Matty. Deep down under his snarkyness and sense of humor he was a good guy. And I appreciated it. It was too bad i couldn't even eat it. So I stepped foward and held my hand out with the sandwich.

"Hey buddy, do you want any? It's peanut butter and jelly.", Agent Aaron had told the little boy.

The kid reached his hand out, and I knew Brandy and Reesce had pulled out their guns. and the kid grabbed the sandwich. He split it in half, and gave the other one back to me, he ate it like he hadn't eaten in days. Poor kid probably didn't.