Scorned Beast

Rain poured down from the whole above the ceiling as Edward approached the Abnormality. His arm engulfed in the crimson fiery aura wherein thorny vines symbols formed on both his arms.

It growled at Edward as it lunged at him with its jaw opened for him to enter, and Edward gladly allowed it to lunge at him as he shoved his right arm inside its mouth. With his other hand he grabbed tight of the Abnormality's jaw, and pushed his other arm deeper into its mouth as it started to burn and boil. 

The Abnormality sprouted five bony arms out of its back as it broke through skin making blood drip from its back. It used all of its arms to strike Edward towards a wall, and as it evolved more the officers started shooting at it.

It roared at the surrounding officers and tore through four of them in half with four of its five arms, it used its spikes on its back to impale the others. The whole police department was becoming a horrific bloodbath, and by accident as it approached Edward a radio nearby turned on.

The news anchor was talking about the ongoing battle between the Abnormality and Willem in the destroyed hotel that was 8 kilometers away from the police department. Both of these Abnormalities were powerful, the other was as strong as the Captain, and this one was as strong as "No One".

Edward dusted himself as he got back on his feet, and before he could even properly take a breather the Abnormality swung all of its arms at Edward with blinding speeds causing the desks, papers, and electronics to be flung into the air because of its speed.

Rolling out of the way, he shot at the Abnormality with his revolver, and managed to burn through its flesh. The Abnormality tried to grab Edward, but he countered its attack by sending out metal chains which where engulfed in flames at it.

The chains wrapped around the Abnormality's neck tightly, Edward grabbed on to the chain and spoke in a commanding tone.

"Tale of the Hanged King: Ruptured Heart." 

The chains pierced through the Abnormality's flesh going inside and morphing with its skin. Now that the chains were inside it, Edward manipulated the chains to go separate directions and latch on to every bone, muscle, and organ.

"Before you die, I have one last question. Why the fuck do you know about Khutul?" asked Edward, his eyes were cold, mad with fury even. 

The Abnormality didn't speak as it roared in pain and continue shaking around to remove the chains from its body. Edward made the chains tighter making sure the Abnormality suffers, and so it could speak once again.

Yet even after the chains got tighter, the Abnormality continued to roar out loud and annoyed with the result. Edward took his revolver and placed it inside the Abnormality's mouth.

"I know you have a sense of intelligence and that you understand me, so if I were you I'd speak right the fuck now!" Edward's eyes were now filled with the same crimson color like his fiery aura. His rage was reaching its peak, and slowly the First Act would begin once again.

All of Edward's co workers were terrified due to the aura he was emitting. A horrific, burning hot, and dark aura was surrounding Edward, and it slowly formed into the shape of a tall cloaked man with chains wrapped around his body, and a noose tied to his neck, and a broken crown with thorns over his head.

They were all seeing the same figure, a horrific, a powerful, a dark, tragic being from the Middle Era of Man. It was the silhouette of the Hanged King, the once great ruler of Kantoria, a country in Xethos that was later renamed to Khatham. 

Even the Abnormality was afraid, there were no records of any Abnormality ever showing fear only hatred, hunger, despair, and sadness. But never fear, Edward was the only being to make an Abnormality ever afraid.

And that terrifying aura of his had spread throughout Tundor even reaching the destroyed hotel which made the Wyrm Howl Cult shiver in fear including the 13 Tooth and the "Titan".

"This is the power of a Mythical Tale?" Willem thought as he felt the horrific and maddening aura of Edward.

But while all this was happening as Edward tried interrogating the Abnormality. Beside the Abnormality by its left was none other then "No One". 

"No One" stood there with their twisted, and sadistic grin as it stared at Edward. It vanished and was now beside Edward as it whispered in his ears.

"Come on, just kill the thing. After all it can't even speak." taunted "No One" as they put their cold abyssal hands on Edward's shoulders.

He knew that what he was seeing wasn't real and that "No One" is dead. But was he sure of it, and he only thought of them bring dead because they vanished.

Vanishing means nothing to a being such as "No One", even then Edward doesn't even know what "No One" really is. Everything that had happened at Manor Black really haunted him, and what he was seeing beside him was a mere hallucination.

So why did it feel real? What made Edward hesitate to kill the Abnormality? Was it because he needed information and that the Abnormality spoke of Khutul once?

Right now his hands were shivering, and he was hesitating. But before he could make a decision, the Abnormality exploded right in front of him as all of its flesh, bone, and organs splattered across the whole police department, and they slowly started to vanish into dust.

Edward didn't kill the Abnormality, but suddenly he heard "No One".

"Made the job quicker, so how about we get some drinks, partner?" right in front of him was "No One" and they were alive.

And he could tell this was no hallucination as "No One" had many burn marks around its shadowy incorporeal and corporeal body. Right now "No One" was back, and behind him the Abnormality was reforming itself by using the souls that "No One" was emitting.