Chapters 1-6: PDF Version - The King of Spades

The King of Spades: Dream Or Reality
Neria nodded: "I'm going to be there every step of the way. And as for the other
requirement... That can be fixed. By giving you guys a little... Boost." Neria smiled
wickedly.
Suddenly, black serpents slithered out of the spinning blackness of nothing and
crawled down Neria's body. There were many of them. At first three, then ten, then
forty, then a hundred. But they were BLACK like the shadow so they blended easily
with the decor. The three were panicking. "GET THOSE THINGS OFF OF US!" The
guys screamed.
The snakes crawled up Nieder's body, they all gathered in the center of his body and
formed a rope of blackness circling his front and rear body, from crotch up to his
head and all the way to the back and buttocks.
The rope covered his face and he couldn't even scream anymore. But the pain he felt
was excruciating. This was no dream. This was no "trip". This was real hell.
Sieg was in even more horror. The snakes took over his head, and swamped his
entire spinal cord area. He felt an acidic sting in his back and felt the snakes trying
to melt their way INTO his body.
Claude was in frenzy. Seeing a hulk like that thrash about around the cell in total
agony is a sad sight indeed; the snakes covered his hand and it looked as if, for a
moment, he had no right hand. He slammed it against the wall. He felt no release
from the hundred or so snakes that swamped his hand. All he felt was heat that was
so painful he could swear that his nerves were about to shut down.
Neria laughed. Her laugh echoed the entire cell. The three men were suffering and
they could very well hear her laugh. But no, it was too late now. Whatever was
happening to them. It was happening.
Suddenly Nieder's body broke in two, splitting him into two identical halves. The
snakes filled the vacuum that was his internal organs and suppressed the impending
blood-gush, absorbing it instead.
The snakes on Sieg's body disappeared into his spinal cord and the rest slithered
under his skin through his cerebral cortex and into his brain. He fell to the floor in a
violent epileptic episode.
As for Claude, he stared at his hand as the shadow formed into a metal, going
through and into his hand. "WHAT" he screamed "is HAPPENING to me!"
"I introduce you to my three super villains." Neria said mysteriously.
"Niedrig..." She turned to him. Out of each half of his body, a shadow poured forth
like black vomit, and filled the void, forming two people: Each one half man, half
shadow. The Two "half" men stood up.
They looked at each other. "I'm... Two" he said, with two voices. His shadow halves
moved themselves towards each other then merged. And out of the conflagration
two opposite men emerged: One Man, one Shadow.
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