Pulse of the Maggots

[Dawnika Snow]

The cave went silent. Dawn was skeptical about this voice and also felt a feeling she never thought she’d feel in the Omniverse: Fear. Being orphaned and abandoned made a person pretty emotionally unstable but, in Dawn’s case, she had been hurt too much to care for emotions other than sadness and rage. Fear was a new experience for her all together. She patted her side and looked down at Rogue.

“Don’t worry, we’ll get out of this Rogue. If I can kill demons, spirits and ghosts are just malleable.” She whispered, petting the dog’s head when she came close enough. “Just stay close to me and we’ll both walk out of this alive.”

The commando flipped the light back forward down the path to light their way. The dim illumination was hampering just about everything. Sight was minimal, as she had to look at her feet to make sure she wouldn’t trip on anything. This made hard to see what was coming up, but Rogue was keeping a watchful eye forward despite being horribly frightened by their situation.

A couple more minutes into the tunnel proved harsher and even less helpful than she had thought. It was an endless cavern of darkness. Dawn sighed and caught something in her throat. A bug flew into her mouth and into her esophagus. After some heavy yacking to free her lungs, she coughed out a huge bug, like a maggot.

“Ew, fuck. If I wasn’t a Prime I’d probably have caught a disease from that..” She whispered to herself, crushing the bug under her boot. “Fucking maggots.”

Before she could take another step, though, another one flew by her face. Then another. Then another dozen. She pointed the light forward to see an entire swarm of maggots charging in her direction and very quickly too.

“By Omni’s gigantic pale titties…” She whispered to herself both in awe and fear, taking off in the exact opposite direction with Rogue licking at her heels and the swarm just behind her.