Fascination Engraved In Bloodshed

"That was weird.." Edward commented as he was touching the walls of the lab, being disgusted, but also intrigued on how much damage was on it, with there being an alarming amount of cracks, plant life that seems to be feeding on the decaying bodies of old and new bodies. "Why are the plants here growing noticeably?" Sakonori was first to notice the occurrence as she pointed at a plant root growing slowly, but she was easily shrugged off with Isaac grabbing the root and ripping it off. 

"Ew, it's slimy!" He said as he shook his hands trying to get it off, then paused to look at his hand, until he had the bright idea to slowly and calmly approach Rayna's back but then stopped as he realized if he does indeed do it, he'll most likely suffer consequences worse than the one he went through at school. Johnathan saw the scene unfold simply staring at Isaac with a raised eyebrow. 

"Oh look, it looks like a research facility." Edward said as he pointed through an open glass door. They then walked inside, the research facility was run down, like the rest of the rooms they went into, strangely enough, this seemed more of someone's own personal research facility. The desks were stained, dirt, or blood, but it seemed to have been like that for ages, the white drawers had a large splash of blood stained over it, like someone's been murdered here. 

"It smells slightly better here than the other places.." Sakonori pointed out as she was looking around, before seeing Isaac struggle to open a drawer, with a noticeable, "Classified" Label on it. The group awkwardly stared at Isaac who was still determined to open the drawer, until he managed to break it open, folders flew everywhere onto the ground. 

Out of curiosity, Edward picked up one of the folders, then saw, "Records." And opened the folder, the first sheet of paper he saw was an old, but also well preserved sheet of paper, with crayons scribbled all over it, he then saw a name that caught his eye. "Roland Saeonius." 

"Wait, could this be?" He thought as he started reading.

Age: 9: 

I saw big man wit shiny stik pok anoder man, red stuf evirywher. Shiny stik fall, big man runned. I lev hom, loOk At man, red watr got on fiet. I pic up shiny sTik, pok poek, moer red water, got on shirt. I pok hardr in laeg. i see red, whit hard stuff in midle.

I had fun. 

On the bottom of the paper, was a cryptic drawing of stick figures, one obviously smaller, with a knife, and a longer stick figure on the ground with red crayon scribbles everywhere, with a scribble sketch of the interior of the leg. 

"Is this Roland..?" Sakonori asked to break the uncomfortable silence, before Edward crouched onto the floor, grabbing a random sheet of paper with a more neatly written record with ink. 

Age: 12

I found an old abandoned lab, very small, with a security officer patrolling it. I snuck in, but while I was investigating, I came across a few syringes, it still had liquid..I think around what? 10 minutes later? The security officer found me, and a long chase ensued, but I got caught, but then I stabbed the nearest syringe I can get my hand on. 

The officer contorted, his arms ripping open revealing his bone, his face leg then grew larger in size, before the man itself became some weird fleshy abomination, it was quite…Fascinating. 

Rayna then handed Edward several sheets of paper, this time it was when Roland was 18. Edward reluctantly read it, "this might be a key to find out who Roland really is.." Johnathan said as he was behind Edward who was reading the records from behind. 

Age: 18

Out of curiosity, I discovered my cells have the ability to turn inanimate objects into a weird, "artificial" mass of flesh and blood, even bones too….Interesting.

Age 33: 

I found a rotting corpse of an Iya, retrieved the blood of it, and upon studying it, it turned out to be level 19 Iya. Injecting Iya's blood into some brat…results were, quite promising to be honest. 

I never knew the strength of the Iya degraded, but of course, why wouldn't it? Yet I didn't realize the amount of destruction of an artificial level 18 Iya, while the destruction was happening, an odd phenomenon occurred, a weird, depressing aurora borealis in the sky, why was it purple, red, and black? Weren't aurora borealis more, weirdly colorful? Another thing, why was it still extremely visible during the day? It started condensing into a thread and pierced me in the heart, specifically where the Anterior Interventricular Artery was. 

I can tell, this aurora borealis..it granted me strength, not physically, but I felt something more powerful…Cataclysmic potentially. 

Age 1002: 

Met a strange individual today. Something about him..why was it that he looked familiar? I can't pinpoint where I've seen this man in my life, but it feels as if I've seen this man in another world..Is this even possible? Why did he stare at me as if he was looking through me? It was like he was staring at my entire life, with those oppressive black eyes of his…

Later he beat me into submission, he wasn't even fighting, he was..toying with me? All the cells in my body were resenting him from the start..why didn't I listen to it? 

This same man forced me to work on a project, and I quote. "I know you are capable, Saeonius.." This project, hidden away somewhere away from this laboratory..Why did he want me to work on a project dedicated to resurrecting the past cataclysms? I know this man wasn't from this world..but how did he know the names of most of the past cataclysms?

The group went dead silent, before screams of despair were heard. They sprinted out of the room, then the screams were louder, getting closer. In the distance through the halls that had putrid stains, they saw a single soldier running, running for his life, this soldier was unarmed, but was being chased by a slender human-if you can even call it that. "Help!" The soldier yelled before the slender "human" grabbed the soldier's head, then the neck of the thing opened, more so tore open, then clamped down onto the soldier's head, then after tugging for a second, it ripped the top of the soldier's head off. The group were too stunned to speak, and the slender thing charged toward the group. 

Isaac was first to raise his fists, attempting to at least fight for his life, but the group saw a young lady who wore a shining white armor sprint from the corner of their eye and immediately froze the slender entity in a glacier. "I thought that was Roland, but are you all alright?" She asked as she sheathed her rapier into the scabbard calmly.