The Imposter

"I'm sorry Goddess, she's just a friend who is helping me with my memory problems. I also forgot you too so I'm sorry." Zero said, hoping this would calm down the newly enraged goddess. 

The goddess's look and attitude changed again to a worried spouse; she grabbed Zero and started to hug him tightly, pushing him into her chest, suffocating Zero.

"Why didn't you say so dear. I wouldn't have slammed you on the floor."

Zero, still suffocating, was trying with all his strength to push out of the goddess's hold. Finally Zero was able to break away. As soon as he did he quickly started breathing in the air. Zero panting, still catching his breath, looked over at the goddess.

"So may I ask why we are engaged?" 

"Oh of course you reached out to me when you were just three, since then I decided you would be my betrothed." 

"I thought people couldn't reach out, only the gods could reach out to us." 

"Yes that's true but you were special. You were the first to reach out to and you even knew my name, when you first contacted me you said I was the fourth god you contacted and said you were looking for Demorshia ever since then I had fallen head over heels for you."

"Um, you know I'm nine years old."

"And I'm six hundred and fifty million years old. What's your point?"

"Isn't it probably frowned upon by the other gods to be betrothed to such a young age?" 

"Nonsense, the other goddesses are jealous that you chose me." 

"What do you mean I chose you?"

"You're the one who proposed the engagement, dear."

Zero shocked by this revelation could only blame his past self.

"Demorshia, do you know why I keep losing my memories?"

"Of course."

"Could you tell me?"

"No, it's strictly against the rules."

"What rules?"

"Your rules." 

"My rules? Wait, I'm the reason why you're obsessed with me but then I made rules for you to follow. I'm my worst enemy. I already hate the past me."

"You shouldn't dear you were the strongest of all. You rivaled gods and legends alike." 

"Let me guess you can't tell me who." 

"Nope actually i don't think i was supposed to say that."

Demorshia, looking worried, summoned a black leather bound book. She quickly read through the pages, till finally giving a sigh of relief.

"Ok I was able to say that." 

Zero looked at the book. It was pure black with an hourglass shaped into a cross. Demorshia looked at Zero in confusion to quickly realize her mistake. She hurriedly made the book disappear. Zero with a horrible feeling.

"Was that the rule book I left you?" 

Demorshia not knowing how to answer. 

"If it was, it doesn't matter." 

Zero was utterly devastated. Suddenly Zero's head started to ache and bang. Zero fell down to his knees in pain.

"Oh it would seem our time is up dear. I'll leave you one final piece of advice: don't trust Ms. Xander." 

With Demorshia's final warning Zero's vision was full of nothing but a bright light as his eyes adjusted he was in the arms of Ms. Xander helping him stay up from where he collapsed. Seeing Zero's eyes open Ms. Xander was revealed. 

"Zero your back are you ok?" 

Zero was relieved to see Ms. Xander was smiling and then he was hit with the last words of Demorshia: Don't trust Ms. Xander. Zero got himself up and quickly ran out of the room. Ms. Xander walked out to the hall and called after Zero. As Zero was running he was pulled to the side into an empty room by someone. Zero looked next to him and saw the kid that ran out that said he was gonna tell them about Zero's divine talk. Zero was about to gasp when the kid covered his mouth.

"Heyo, don't say anything or make a noise." 

Zero was confused until he heard a terrifying noise, a scraping noise scratching against the ground, a horrible sound. A voice called out for Zero, it was Ms. Xander's but, it sounded more aggressive and angry. Zero looked at the room he was in and noticed all the kids were hiding in the room with them. Sierrna came up to Zero and hugged him and then gave him a little device. She then had one herself and put it in her ear. She then motioned for Zero to do the same he did. After Zero put the device in his ear a video started to play in front of his eyes it was a video of Sierrna, Hello students my name is Sierrna, a couple days ago Ms. Xander went missing and she returned suddenly but something was different. She wasn't the same person we knew. I did some research on legends and discovered unfortunate information. A long time ago there was a creature that could take the form of the person it eats, the way to tell is hard as the person eating is completely absorbed there looks personality and even memories but, there's one thing that can make it be possible to figure it out the creature will be more hostile and only give attention to a single individual. Originally it was impossible to tell what kind of people, until recently during an investigation report from Leo Dynosian, the target of the creature are people who can have divine talks or are chosen by the gods. After confirming this I had enough evidence, everyday I slowly helped students transfer out of the class. The creature had no problem until I tried to move Zero. With that I knew I had to do something so with my brother and the help of the students we formed a plan we called the UDF and lured the creature to expose itself. This is where you come in Zero, you have to lure the creature outside the building. I gave you a device where we can talk through it. A robotic voice could be heard, Message over would you like to replay? After a while the voice continued, No response was received and the message will not play again thank you for using the D-Device. After the message played Zero took in all he heard and then realized what he had to do. I looked around the room terrified kids feared for their life and I braced myself to protect them. 

Wait, why do I want to protect them? 

No, I don't care about the others, just Sierrna.

I breathed in and out and prepared to burst out the door. As soon as the creature passes the door a couple of feet. I'll blast out the door and head towards the exit.

The creature started to pass the door and Zero gripped the handle to the door trebleming. Zero slowly counted down and bursted through the door. The creature hearing this immediately turned around and started chasing Zero. Zero ran straight through the hall as he ran he heard a familiar voice in his ear. 

"Zero, can you hear me?" 

"Sierrna?"

"Yup, good to know that I fixed the radius of the D-Device. Anyway, let's skip the explanation your coming up on a split path, take the left way at the intersection, don't take any other way or you'll get trapped and cornered."

Zero came to the spillway and turned left following Sierrna's directions. He ended up seeing a wall in front of him ahead.

Um, Sierrna there's a wall ahead of me. 

It's not real, just keep running. Just trust me Zero

Zero believed Sierrna and ran full speed putting his arms up his heart beating faster as he approached the wall, He ran through the wall and on the other end the entire building changed it no longer looked like a school but more like a secret facility, cameras and what looked like gun turrets were all over. The walls looked like metal as Zero ran forward he could hear the creature scream his name and then he heard the sound of the turrets firing. Sierrna was tracking Zero's movement with the building's layout.

"Zero you'll come across a chamber with a bunch of tubes and pipes with liquid coming through them. The center will have something that will shock you but I promise I'll explain later you need to break the center tube to escape."

Zero trusting Sierrna believed in her words till the end. Zero reached a huge open room like she said a weird red liquid was flowing through all the tubes, hundreds of computers and holo screens could be seen the closer Zero got to the center. As Zero approached the center he couldn't believe his eyes, three giant tubes, no pod-like things could be seen, all the tubes and pipes counted to them. In the pod-like objects were three people, one in each of them. 

What? Why are we in there? 

Zero was looking directly at himself in a comatose state next to him was Sierrna and the other boy who grabbed him and pulled him into the door.

"Zero!! I tell you later you need to break the pods now! I promise you will be fine-blargh."